Six credit hours of civil engineering design electives are required. These must be selected from the following list. Any pair of courses can be selected providing that prerequisites are met, but students most often select a combination focused on a specific area of concentration. The terms in which courses are offered are listed in parentheses.

Construction Engineering
CIVL-4070	Steel Design (Fall)
CIVL-4080	Concrete Design (Spring)
CIVL-4010	Foundation Engineering (Fall)
CIVL-4150	Experimental Soil Mechanics (Spring)
Structural Engineering
CIVL-4070	Steel Design (Fall)
CIVL-4080	Concrete Design (Spring)
CIVL-4010	Foundation Engineering (Fall)
Environmental Engineering
ENVE-4200	Solid and Hazardous Waste Engineering (Spring)
ENVE-4350	Biological Processes in Environmental Engineering (Fall)
ENVE-4310	Applied Hydrology and Hydraulics (Spring)
ENVE-4340	Physicochemical Processes in Environmental Engineering (Spring)
Geotechnical Engineering
CIVL-4010	Foundation Engineering (Fall)
CIVL-4140	Geoenvironmental Engineering (Fall)
CIVL-4150	Experimental Soil Mechanics (Spring)
Transportation Engineering
CIVL-4620	Mass Transit Systems (Spring)
CIVL-4640	Transportation Facility Design and Planning (Spring)
CIVL-4660	Traffic Engineering (Fall)
CIVL-4670	Highway Engineering (Spring)

Any of the design electives listed above can be taken as a CE technical elective, provided the necessary prerequisites are met. The following other civil engineering courses can also be selected:

CIVL-2040	Professional Practice
CIVL-2130	Surveying
CIVL-4240	Intro. to Finite Elements
CIVL-4270	Construction Management
CIVL-4440	Structural Analysis

With adviser approval, courses from related disciplines can also be taken. These include architecture, environmental engineering, earth and environmental sciences, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, industrial engineering, and operations research. Graduate level courses (6000-level) are allowable under certain circumstances. A representative list of such courses is as follows:

ARCH-4510	Construction Industry Seminar
ARCH-4530	Systems Building Seminar
ARCH-4550	Building Economics
ENGR-4750	Eng. Economics and Project Management
ENVE-4110	Aqueous Geochemistry
ERTH-4710	Ground Water Hydrology
ENVE-4200	Solid & Hazardous Waste Engineering
ENVE-4310	Appl. Hydrology & Hydraulics
MATH-4800	Numerical Computing
ERTH-2120	Structural Geology
ERTH-2330	Earth Materials

In this area, the electives are based on the Institute and School of Engineering requirements. Students are urged to elect humanities and social science sequences through which they will obtain adequate breadth and depth in subject areas. Students desiring minors in Humanities and Social Sciences must consult the school or department in which the courses are offered to obtain further information and specific requirements.