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Accelerated Civil Engineering Degree

B.S. and M.S./M.Eng.

Advance your technical skills and field knowledge on your way to impacting today’s evolving infrastructure needs.

A combined degree program in civil engineering gives you the opportunity to fast-track your graduate education, while gaining valuable technical skills. With today’s pressing infrastructure challenges, both industry and government seek qualified civil engineers that can help solve problems. Whether you’re aiming for public or private sector work, or considering a doctoral degree, UND offers the combined program you need.

Program type:
Accelerated (Bachelor’s and Master’s)
Format:
On Campus or Online
Est. time to complete:
5.5 - 6 years
Credit hours:
M.S. 152-158 (thesis option), 154-160 (non-thesis option) | M.Eng. 152-158

Why earn an accelerated civil engineering degree?

Application Deadlines
Fall:
Aug. 15
Spring:
Dec. 15
Summer:
May 1

 

If you're an international student, refer to the international application process for deadlines.

Graduate Application Deadlines
Fall:
Aug. 15
Spring:
Dec. 15
Summer:
May 15

A combined degree in civil engineering offers you a unique opportunity to earn a graduate degree in quick time. You'll gain the valuable skills to plan, design, construct, maintain and operate infrastructures — abilities that are in high demand with today's aging infrastructures.

This combined UND graduate program offers a unique opportunity to advance your education in civil engineering with opportunities to:

  • Fully prepare for a career in research with studies in a specialty area in civil engineering.
  • Fast-track your career, with a focus on your main occupational interest in the civil engineering field.
  • Participate in job-related training activities, technical research and other skills needed to get a professional engineering license
  • Gain the technical skills to conduct independent research in your chosen area of interest.
  • Apply your broad-based knowledge for success in a wide range of opportunities at consulting firms, government agencies and industries.

Focus in your civil engineering curriculum on one of these options:

  • Environmental
  • Structural
  • Transportation
  • Water resources
  • General civil engineering

Acclerated Civil Engineering Program

  • A combined degree program offers a unique opportunity to expedite your graduate career goals.

  • Work with a committed faculty team to discover the area of most interest, and explore research and opportunities.

  • The UND combined degrees program offers the chance to double six credit hours (so they count as twelve).

What can you do with an accelerated civil engineering degree?

88K

Median salary for a civil engineer

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

7%

Expected growth for the civil engineering profession to 2031

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Students in the combined degree program gain knowledge and skills for problem analysis and solving. This includes preparation for careers in a wide range of professional settings, such as consulting firms, government agencies and industries.

There is no shortage of job opportunities in the civil engineering field, given our aging infrastructure. Surges in population and global environmental changes make qualified civil engineers extremely valuable in the public and private sector. Civil Engineering alumni have gone on to a variety of successful careers with:

  • AE2S
  • Kadrmas, Lee & Jackson, Inc.
  • WSB & Associates, Inc.
  • Bolton & Menk, Inc.
  • Burns & McDonnell, Inc.

A Civil Engineering degree gives you the strategic skills you need, including:

  • AutoCAD
  • Java (Programming Language)
  • Project Planning
  • Construction Management
  • Project Management

Accelerated Civil Engineering Degree Courses

CE 503. Structural Dynamics. 3 Credits.

Single-degree and multi-degree of freedom systems; continuous systems; free and forced vibrations; harmonic and periodic excitations; viscous and non-viscous damping; pulse excitations; numerical methods for dynamic response; earthquake response of linear elastic buildings; structural dynamics in building codes. Prerequisites: ENGR 202 and ENGR 203. On demand.

CE 517. Transportation Asset Management. 3 Credits.

Course focused on the principles of transportation asset management with an emphasis on pavement management system (PMS). Network- and project-level pavement management processes will be discussed, but the emphasis will be on network-level. Bridge management system will also be covered. Prerequisites: ENGR 203 and a statistics course (MATH 321, CHE 315, ECON 210 or approved substitute). F, even years.

CE 518. Pavement Engineering. 3 Credits.

Structural pavement design concepts for flexible and rigid pavements; traffic and environmental loading factors; material characterization; hot mix asphalt design and analysis concepts, SuperPave mix design method, stresses and strains in flexible and rigid pavements, joints and load transfer of rigid pavements, fast track concrete, and construction issues. Prerequisite: CE 412; consent of instructor for undergraduate students. F.

CE 519. Sustainable Pavements. 3 Credits.

Sustainability concepts; overview of mix design, structural design, and construction methods of pavements; warm mix asphalts; recycling of asphalt and concrete pavements, perpetual pavement concepts, specialty pavements, environmental, economic, and social impacts of highway pavements. Prerequisite: CE 412; consent of instructor for undergraduate students. S.

CE 524. Open Channel Hydraulics. 3 Credits.

Study of advanced topics in open channel hydraulics. Computer applications. Prerequisite: CE 423.

CE 536. Environmental Engineering III. 3 Credits.

Water chemistry in unit Operation and process design for water and wastewater treatment; physical, chemical, and biological systems; plant design project, computer-assigned design analysis. Prerequisite: CE 431. F.

Leaders in Civil Engineering

Brendan Blades began taking classes at UND to further his career as a civil engineer.

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Department Contact
Yeo Howe Lim
Graduate Director
P 701.777.3998
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