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Transportation Systems
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Program Overview
The Transportation Engineering specialty area within Louisiana State University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering was developed to train students in the discipline required to improve the infrastructure systems serving the State of Louisiana and the nation. This program is designed to produce graduates who are well educated in fundamental disciplines, have a sound knowledge of relevant basic engineering practices, can adapt to change, and have the vision and insight needed to implement creative and cost effective solutions to growing demands. Graduate studies in Transportation Engineering provide the framework for a new generation of professionals who are well prepared to plan, design, build, and maintain our vital infrastructure systems far into the 21st century.Graduate students enrolled in the program come from around the country and abroad, and also from the large population of practicing engineers in the public and private sectors of Baton Rouge and the surrounding areas. These students bring with them a variety of training and work-related backgrounds, a diversity that enriches the educational environment. In addition, the seminar series coordinated by the faculty will regularly bring visiting researchers and professionals to LSU, exposing students to a variety of intellectual perspectives.Fields of Study and ResearchThe Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers a M.S. and Ph.D. degrees with specialization in Transportation. The Departments offerings are enhanced by access to the facilities and resources of the Louisiana Transportation Research Center (LTRC).
The Master's degree is designed as a broad-based curriculum that covers all aspects of transportation engineering. The Doctoral degree is designed as an in-depth specialty degree that permits students to choose specific areas of concentration to pursue at significantly greater depth.Basic Degree RequirementsThe Civil and Environmental Engineering program offers both a thesis and non-thesis option for the Master's degree. Under the thesis option, the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department requires a minimum of 31 hours of approved graduate credit, where the thesis counts for a maximum of 6 hours. Under the non-thesis option, the Department requires a minimum of 37 hours of approved graduate credit, which includes 3 hours for the Master's Project. For both options, at least 12 credit hours must be taken at or above the 7000 level, and at least 12 credit hours must be in civil engineering. For the Doctor of Philosophy degree, a minimum of 54 credit hours of course work, exclusive of thesis and dissertation, beyond the B.S. degree, or 30 hours beyond the Master's degree, must be completed. Not less than 24 of the 54 credit hours of course work should be in civil engineering subjects, and at least 9 credit hours should be taken in a complementary area. At least one-half of the minimum required graduate course work must be at or above the 7000 level. In addition, the graduate student must pass a Qualifying Examination during the first semester following registration for the Ph.D. program, pass the General Examination after completion of all course work, submit an acceptable dissertation covering a significant program of original research, and pass a comprehensive Final Examination.Core Course RequirementsMS and Ph.D core course requirements in Transportation Engineering are:EXST 7002 or EXST 7003 plus at least one course from three of the following four group of courses:
Planning: CE4620, CE7640, CE7641, CE7600
Traffic: CE4600, CE7610, CE7612
Pavements: CE4670, CE7650, CE7672
Materials: CE4650, CE7652, CE7655 Major Field CoursesCE 3600 -- Principles of Highway and Traffic Engineering
CE 4600 -- Geometric Design of Highways and Airports
CE 4620 -- Transportation Engineering
CE 4651 -- Concrete Materials and Mixtures
CE 4670 -- Fundamentals of Pavement Design
CE 4781 -- Introduction to Asphalt Mixture Design
CE 7600 -- Transportation Engineering Data Collection
CE 7605 -- Transportation and Environment
CE 7610 -- Traffic Engineering Operations and Control
CE 7612 -- Traffic Operation and Analysis
CE 7615 -- Advanced Highway Design and Safety
CE 7621 -- Mass Transit Systems
CE 7640 -- Urban Transportation Policy and Planning
CE 7641 -- Urban Transportation Planning Models
CE 7650 -- Bituminous Materials and Mixtures
CE 7652 -- Pavement Foundations
CE 7670 -- Advanced Pavement Design
CE 7672 -- Pavement Management Systems
Related Field CoursesThe following are related field courses that may be included in a course of study for a graduate degree in Transportation Engineering. CE 4440 -- Advanced Mechanics of Materials
CE 4450 -- Finite Element Methods
CE 7300 -- Advanced Geotechnical Engineering I
CE 7310 -- Advanced Geotechnical Engineering II
CE 7440 -- Applied Elasticity
CE 7455 -- Finite Element Method in Engineering
CE 7480 -- Plasticity and Viscoelasticity
CE 7580 -- Expert Systems in Civil Engineering
ARCH 4131 -- Urban Planning and Design
ARCH 4353 -- Principles and Practice of Land Development
CHEM 7760 -- Asphalt Chemistry
ECON 4710 -- Aggregate Economic Analysis
ECON 5600 -- Microeconomic Theory for Policy Analysis
ECON 7470 -- Economics of Regulated Enterprise
ECON 7630 -- Economics Methods
ECON 7631 -- Economics Methods II
EXST 4055 -- Probability and Statistics
EXST 7003 -- Statistical Inference I
EXST 7004 -- Experimental Statistics I
EXST 7005 -- Statistical Techniques I
EXST 7011 -- Nonparametric Statistics
EXST 7012 -- Fundamental Sampling Techniques
EXST 7032 -- Survey and Design
EXST 7037 -- Multivariate Statistics
GEOG 4047 -- Geographic Information Systems
GEOG 4073 -- Urban Geography
GEOG 4077 -- Economic Geography
GEOL 4001 -- Advanced Physical Geology
GEOL 7134 -- Clay Mineralogy
IE 4470 -- Knowledge-Based Systems in Engineering
ISDS 4011 -- Sample Survey Methods
ISDS 7020 -- Theory of Stochastic Processes
ISDS 7021 -- Sample Design and Analysis
ISDS 7022 -- Multivariate Data Analysis
ISDS 7027 -- Advanced Forecasting Models
ISDS 7101 -- Introduction to Operations Research MethodsArticulation CoursesMath 1550 -- Analytic Geometry and Calculus I
Math 1552 -- Analytic Geometry and Calculus II
Math 2057 -- Multidimensional Calculus
Math 2065 -- Elementary Differential Equations
CE 2200 -- Fluid Mechanics
CE 2450 -- Statics
CE 2710 -- Introduction to Civil Engineering
CE 2720 -- Computational Methods in Civil Engineering
CE 3300 -- Geotechnical Engineering I
CE 3400 -- Mechanics of Materials
CE 3700 -- Engineering Materials Laboratory |
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