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Civil Engineering

MSCE Planned Course Offerings

Offerings may change. Last updated September 2026.

For course descriptions and prerequisites, please visit the Cal Poly Pomona University Catalog. For questions about a specific course, contact the course coordinator listed under each option.

"Fall" or "Spring" means the course is offered in that term every year. "Fall / Spring" means every semester. Courses offered every two years show the next planned term.

Common Required Course

  • CE 5020 Applied Probability - Fall / Spring (Dr. Andrei). Required for the Construction Engineering and Management, Environmental, Geotechnical, and Transportation options.

Construction Engineering and Management

Course coordinators: Drs. Babikian, Cho, Gad, and Woo.

  • CE 5111 Construction Productivity - Fall, every two years (next Fall 2028)
  • CE 5121 Construction Financial Management - Spring, every two years (next Spring 2027)
  • CE 5131 Construction Risk Management - Fall
  • CE 5141 Advanced Construction Project Management - Fall, every two years (next Fall 2027)
  • CE 5151 Total Quality Management - Fall, every two years (next Fall 2028)
  • CE 5161 Underground Construction and Trenchless Technology - Fall, every two years (next Fall 2027)
  • CE 5171 Temporary Construction Structure - Spring, every two years (next Spring 2028)
  • CE 5181 Construction Leadership and Ethics - Fall 2028 only
  • CE 5191 Construction Project Delivery Methods - Spring

Environmental Engineering

  • CE 5200 Environmental and Water Resources Research Methods - Fall, every two years (next Fall 2028)
  • CE 5201 Environmental and Water Resources Seminar - Fall 2028, Spring 2030
  • CE 5210 Municipal Hydraulic Systems - Fall, every two years (next Fall 2027)
  • CE 5211 Applied Hydrology - Spring
  • CE 5220 Solid and Hazardous Waste Engineering - Spring, every two years (next Spring 2027)
  • CE 5230 Bioresources and Bioenergy Recovery - Spring, every two years (next Spring 2027)
  • CE 5241 Environmental Remediation - Not currently scheduled
  • CE 5250 Advanced Water Treatment - Fall, every two years (next Fall 2028)
  • CE 5260 Advanced Wastewater Treatment - Spring, every two years (next Spring 2028)
  • CE 5261 Air Quality Engineering - Spring
  • CE 5271 Unit Operation and Processes for Environmental Engineering - Spring, every two years (next Spring 2027)
  • CE 5280 River Mechanics - Spring, every two years (next Spring 2028)
  • CE 5283 Low Impact Development for Water Resources - Fall, every two years (next Fall 2027)
  • CE 5290 Global Climate and Water Supply - Fall, every two years (next Fall 2027)
  • CE 5310 GIS Applications in Civil Engineering - Spring
  • CE 5990 Applications of Geospatial Technologies for Practitioners - Not currently scheduled
  • CE 5990 Water Reclamation and Desalination - Fall, every two years (next Fall 2027)
  • CE 5201 Environmental Chemistry - Not currently scheduled
  • CE 4248 Sustainable Operations for Green Stormwater - Fall, every two years (next Fall 2028)

Geotechnical Engineering

Course coordinators: Drs. Andrei, Kamalzare, and Shafiee.

  • CE 5400 Advanced Soil Mechanics - Fall
  • CE 5401 Numerical Methods in Geomechanics - Spring
  • CE 5430 Advanced Foundation Engineering - Spring
  • CE 5431 Subsurface Investigation and Characterization - Spring
  • CE 5431L Subsurface Investigation and Characterization Lab - Spring
  • CE 5440 Earth Retaining Structures - Fall, every two years (next Fall 2028)
  • CE 5451 Pavement Design and Construction - Spring, every two years (next Spring 2028)
  • CE 5470 Slope Stability and Earth Dams - Fall, every two years (next Fall 2027)
  • CE 5480 Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering - Fall
  • CE 5491 Street Maintenance, Rehabilitation and Management - Spring, every two years (next Spring 2027)
  • EGR 5110 Numerical Methods - Fall / Spring

Structural Engineering

Course coordinators: Drs. Kim, Lomiento, Perez, Salem, and Wang.

  • CE 5502 Structural Dynamics - Fall
  • CE 5503 Finite Element Analysis - Fall
  • CE 5504 Advanced Steel Design - Spring
  • CE 5505 Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design - Fall
  • CE 5506 Seismic Design of Structures - Spring
  • CE 5515 Probability Analysis, Structures and Infrastructure System Reliability - Fall
  • CE 5520 Prestressed Concrete Design - Spring, every two years (next Spring 2028)
  • CE 5530 Advanced Timber Design - Not currently scheduled
  • CE 5541 Advanced Structural Analysis - Spring
  • CE 5990 Base Isolation and Energy Dissipation - Spring, every two years (next Spring 2027)
  • ME 5400 Advanced Mechanics of Materials - See ME Department course offerings
  • ME 5431 Advanced Finite Element Modeling - See ME Department course offerings
  • EGR 5110 Numerical Methods - Fall / Spring

Transportation Engineering

Course coordinators: Drs. Cheng, Gu, and Zhang

  • CE 5610 Design of Transportation Facilities - Fall / Spring
  • CE 5640 Transportation Planning and Management - Spring
  • CE 5670 Intelligent Transportation Systems - Fall
  • CE 5671 Traffic Safety Analysis - Fall, every two years (next Fall 2028)
  • CE 5681 Multimodal Traffic Analysis - Spring, every two years (next Spring 2027)
  • CE 5691 Traffic Engineering - Fall / Spring
  • CE 5990 GIS Applications in Transportation - Fall
  • CE 5990 Computational Design in Civil Engineering - Spring, every two years (next Spring 2028)