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Water Resources
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Program Overview
The water resources 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 water resources 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 Water Resources. The Department's 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 water resources 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 RequirementsNone. Major Field CoursesCE 4200 -- Hydrology
CE 4250 -- Ground Water
CE 7200 -- Free Surface Water
CE 7255 -- Advanced Hydraulics
CE 7260 -- Advanced Hydrology
CE 7265 -- Advanced Subsurface Hydrology and Hydraulics
CE 7270 -- Hydrologic Systems
CE 7275 -- Modeling for Management of Groundwater*
CE 7280 -- Modeling in Physical Hydrology
Related Field CoursesThe following are related field courses that may be included in a course of study for a graduate degree in Water Resources Engineering. CE 7455 -- Finite Element Method in Engineering
CE 7500 -- Remote Sensing in Engineering Research
GEOG 4013 -- Meteorology
GEOG 4014 -- Climatology
GEOG 4015 -- Microclimatology
GEOG 4021 -- Alluvial Morphology
GEOG 4022 -- Geomorphology
GEOL 4051 -- Hydrogeology
GEOL 4131 -- Basin Analysis
GEOL 4051 -- Hydrogeology
MRSC 7120 -- Introduction to Coastal Models
ECON 4020 -- Comparative Economic Systems
ECON 4110 -- Public Finance
ECON 4130 -- Urban Economics
ECON 4320 -- Economics of Population and Environment
EE 7350 -- Boundary Value Problems in Engineering
EE 7520 -- Optimum Control Theory
EE 7540 -- Optimization of Stochastic Dynamic Systems
EE 7570 -- Nonlinear Systems Analysis
EXT 7005 -- Statistical Techniques I
MATH 4056 -- Mathematical Statistics
MATH 4024 -- Mathematical Models
MATH 4025 -- Optimization Theory and Applications
MATH 4055 -- Introduction to Probability
MATH 7320 -- Ordinary Differential Equations
MATH 7350 -- Complex Analysis
ME 4553 -- Mathematical Methods in Engineering
ME 4563 -- Mathematical Methods in Engineering
QBA 4000 -- Introduction to Statistical Theory
QBA 7000 -- Statistical Theory
QM 4031 -- Applied Linear Models
QM 7003 -- Theory of Linear Programming
QM 7008 -- Mathematical Programming
WILD 4021 -- LimnologyArticulation 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 2250 -- Hydraulic Laboratory
CE 2450 -- Statics
CE 3200 -- Hydraulics
CE 4200 -- Hydrology
CE 4260 -- Design of Hydrologic Systems |
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