Civil Engineering, BSCE (Boston)
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Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified and complete any additional courses needed beyond specific college and major requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.
Universitywide Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the Universitywide Requirements.
NUpath Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.
NUpath requirements: Interpreting Culture (IC), Engaging Differences and Diversity (DD), and Integrating Knowledge and Skills Through Experience (EX) are not explicitly satisfied by required engineering coursework. Successful completion of a cooperative education experience fulfills the EX requirement. Students are responsible for satisfying unfulfilled NUpath requirements with general elective coursework.
Engineering Requirements
Course List
| Code | Title | Hours |
| --- | --- | --- | | Required Engineering | | | | CIVE 2221 and CIVE 2222 | Statics and Solid Mechanics and Recitation for CIVE 2221 | 4 | | CIVE 2260 and CIVE 2261 | Materials for the Built Environment and Lab for CIVE 2260 | 5 | | CIVE 2320 and CIVE 2321 | Structural Analysis and Recitation for CIVE 2320 | 4 | | CIVE 2324 | Concrete Structure Design | 4 | | or CIVE 3425 | Steel Structure Design | | | CIVE 2331 | Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics | 4 | | CIVE 2334 | Environmental Engineering: Principles, Technology, and Sustainability | 4 | | CIVE 2340 and CIVE 2341 | Geotechnical Engineering and Lab for CIVE 2340 | 5 | | GE 3300 | Energy Systems: Science, Technology, and Sustainability | 4 | | Civil Engineering Project Elective | | | | Complete one of the following: | | 4 | | CIVE 4534 and CIVE 4535 | Water Treatment Systems Design and Lab for CIVE 4534 | | | CIVE 4542 | Foundation Engineering and Design | | | CIVE 4554 | Highway Design | | | CIVE 5536 | Hydrologic and Hydraulic Design | | | Senior Design Project | | | | Complete one of the following: | | 5 | | CIVE 4765 | Senior Design Project—Environmental | | | CIVE 4767 | Senior Design Project—Structural | | | CIVE 4768 | Senior Design Project—Transportation | | | Civil Engineering Technical Electives | | | | Complete three of the following: | | 11-12 | | CIVE 2324 | Concrete Structure Design | | | CIVE 3425 | Steel Structure Design | | | CIVE 3435 | Environmental Pollution: Fate and Transport | | | CIVE 4540 | Resource Recovery and Waste Treatment Technologies Abroad | | | CIVE 4542 | Foundation Engineering and Design | | | CIVE 4554 | Highway Design | | | CIVE 4566 | Design for Sustainable Transportation: Netherlands | | | CIVE 4575 | Construction Management | | | CIVE 4777 | Climate Hazards and Resilient Cities Abroad | | | CIVE 5221 | Construction Project Control and Organization | | | CIVE 5231 | Alternative Project Delivery Systems in Construction | | | CIVE 5250 | Organic Pollutants in the Environment | | | CIVE 5260 | Environmental Fluid Mechanics | | | CIVE 5261 | Dynamic Modeling for Environmental Investment and Policymaking | | | CIVE 5271 | Solid and Hazardous Waste Management | | | CIVE 5275 | Life Cycle Assessment of Materials, Products, and Infrastructure | | | CIVE 5280 | Remote Sensing of the Environment | | | CIVE 5281 | Coastal Dynamics and Design | | | CIVE 5300 and CIVE 5301 | Environmental Sampling and Analysis and Lab for CIVE 5300 | | | CIVE 5363 | Climate Science, Engineering Adaptation, and Policy | | | CIVE 5365 | Climate Technologies for Decarbonization, Mitigation, and Adaptation | | | CIVE 5373 | Transportation Systems: Analysis and Planning | | | CIVE 5376 | Traffic Engineering and Sustainable Urban Street Design | | | CIVE 5520 | Structural Systems | | | CIVE 5522 | Structural Systems Modeling | | | CIVE 5524 | Vibration-Based Structural Health Monitoring | | | CIVE 5525 | Prestressed Concrete Design | | | CIVE 5527 | Sustainable Rehabilitation of Structures | | | CIVE 5528 | Resilient Structural Infrastructure | | | CIVE 5536 | Hydrologic and Hydraulic Design | | | CIVE 5699 | Special Topics in Civil Engineering | | | SBSY 5100 | Sustainable Design and Technologies in Construction | | | SBSY 5200 | Sustainable Engineering Systems for Buildings | | | SBSY 5250 | Building Performance Simulation | | | SBSY 5300 | Information Systems for Integrated Project Delivery | | | Supplemental Credit | | | | 2 semester hours from the following course count toward the engineering requirement: | | 2 | | GE 1501 | Cornerstone of Engineering 1 1 | | | 3 semester hours from the following course count toward the engineering requirement: | | 3 | | GE 1502 | Cornerstone of Engineering 2 1 | | | 1 semester hour from the following course counts toward the engineering requirement: | | 1 | | CIVE 3464 | Probability and Engineering Economy for Civil Engineering | |
Supporting Courses: Mathematics/Science
Complete all Mathematics/Science courses with a minimum of 30 semester hours.
Course List
| Code | Title | Hours |
| --- | --- | --- | | Required Mathematics/Science | | | | CHEM 1151 and CHEM 1153 | General Chemistry for Engineers and Recitation for CHEM 1151 | 4 | | MATH 1341 | Calculus 1 for Science and Engineering | 4 | | MATH 1342 | Calculus 2 for Science and Engineering | 4 | | MATH 2321 | Calculus 3 for Science and Engineering | 4 | | MATH 2341 | Differential Equations and Linear Algebra for Engineering | 4 | | Complete one of the following: | | 5 | | PHYS 1151 and PHYS 1152 and PHYS 1153 | Physics for Engineering 1 and Lab for PHYS 1151 and Interactive Learning Seminar for PHYS 1151 | | | PHYS 1161 and PHYS 1162 and PHYS 1163 | Physics 1 and Lab for PHYS 1161 and Recitation for PHYS 1161 | | | Science Elective | | | | Complete one of the following: | | 4-5 | | BIOL 1111 and BIOL 1112 | General Biology 1 and Lab for BIOL 1111 | | | BIOL 1141 | Microbes and Society | | | BIOL 1143 | Biology and Society | | | CHEM 2311 and CHEM 2312 | Organic Chemistry 1 and Lab for CHEM 2311 | | | CHEM 3410 | Environmental Geochemistry | | | EEMB 1101 and EEMB 1102 | Foundations in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Lab for EEMB 1101 | | | EEMB 2302 and EEMB 2303 | Ecology and Lab for EEMB 2302 | | | ENVR 1200 | Dynamic Earth | | | ENVR 2200 | Earth's Changing Cycles | | | ENVR 2515 | Sustainable Development | | | ENVR 3125 | Global Oceanic Change | | | ENVR 3200 | Water Resources | | | ENVR 3600 | Oceanography | | | ENVR 5201 | Geologic Field Seminar | | | ENVR 5350 | Sustainable Energy and Climate Solutions | | | PHYS 1111 | Introduction to Astronomy | | | PHYS 1125 | Introduction to Network Science: From the Human Cell to Facebook | | | PHYS 1132 | Energy, Environment, and Society | | | PHYS 1155 and PHYS 1156 and PHYS 1157 | Physics for Engineering 2 and Lab for PHYS 1155 and Interactive Learning Seminar for PHYS 1155 | | | PHYS 4623 | Medical Physics | | | Supplemental Credit | | | | 3 semester hours from the following course count toward the mathematics/science requirement: | | 3 | | CIVE 3464 | Probability and Engineering Economy for Civil Engineering | | | 1 semester hour from the following course counts toward the mathematics/science requirement: | | 1 | | GE 1501 | Cornerstone of Engineering 1 1 | |
Supporting Course
Course List
| Code | Title | Hours |
| --- | --- | --- | | Economics | | | | ECON 1115 | Principles of Macroeconomics | 4 | | or ECON 1116 | Principles of Microeconomics | |
Professional Development
Course List
| Code | Title | Hours |
| --- | --- | --- | | Professional Development | | | | GE 1000 | First-Year Seminar | 1 | | ENCP 2000 | Introduction to Engineering Co-op Education | 1 | | ENCP 3000 | Professional Issues in Engineering | 1 | | Additional Required Courses | | | | 1 semester hour from the following course counts toward the professional development requirement: | | 1 | | GE 1501 | Cornerstone of Engineering 1 1 | | | 1 semester hour from the following course counts toward the professional development requirement: | | 1 | | GE 1502 | Cornerstone of Engineering 2 1 | |
1 : Students can substitute Engineering Design (GE 1110) and Engineering Problem Solving and Computation (GE 1111) for Cornerstone of Engineering 1 (GE 1501) and Cornerstone of Engineering 2 (GE 1502) .
Writing Requirements
Course List
| Code | Title | Hours |
| --- | --- | --- | | A grade of C or higher is required: | | | | ENGW 1111 | First-Year Writing | 4 | | ENGW 3302 | Advanced Writing in the Technical Professions | 4 | | or ENGW 3315 | Interdisciplinary Advanced Writing in the Disciplines | |
Required General Electives
Course List
| Code | Title | Hours |
| --- | --- | --- | | Complete 24 SH of academic, nonremedial, nonrepetitive courses. | | 24 |
Major GPA Requirement
2.000 minimum GPA required in CIVE coursework
Program Requirement
134 total semester hours required
Sample Plan of Study
Four Years, Two Co-ops in Summer Second Half/Fall
| Year 1 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| CHEM 1151 (ND) | 4 | GE 1502 (ER) | 4 | CIVE 2221 | 4 | General Elective | 4 |
| CHEM 1153 | 0 | MATH 1342 (FQ) | 4 | CIVE 2222 | 0 | General Elective | 4 |
| ENGW 1111 (WF) | 4 | PHYS 1151 (ND) | 3 | MATH 2321 (FQ) | 4 | ||
| GE 1000 | 1 | PHYS 1152 (AD) | 1 | ||||
| GE 1501 | 4 | PHYS 1153 | 1 | ||||
| MATH 1341 (FQ) | 4 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| 17 | 17 | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Year 2 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| CIVE 2260 | 4 | CIVE 2320 | 4 | CIVE 2324 | 4 | Co-op | 0 |
| CIVE 2261 (AD) | 1 | CIVE 2321 | 0 | General Elective | 4 | ||
| CIVE 2334 | 4 | CIVE 2331 | 4 | ||||
| ECON 1115 or 1116 (SI, AD) | 4 | CIVE 2340 and CIVE 2341 | 5 | ||||
| MATH 2341 | 4 | ENCP 2000 | 1 | ||||
| General Elective | 4 | ||||||
| 17 | 18 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Year 3 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| Co-op | 0 | CIVE 3464 | 4 | ENGW 3302 or 3315 (WD) | 4 | Co-op | 0 |
| GE 3300 | 4 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| Civil Project Elective (WI) | 4 | ||||||
| Civil Tech. Elective | 3 | ||||||
| ENCP 3000 | 1 | ||||||
| 0 | 16 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
| Co-op | 0 | CIVE 4765, 4767, or 4768 (EI, CE, WI) | 5 | ||||
| Civil Tech. Elective | 4 | ||||||
| Civil Tech. Elective | 4 | ||||||
| Science Elective | 4 | ||||||
| 0 | 17 | ||||||
| Total Hours: 134 |
Four Years, Two Co-ops in Spring/Summer First Half
| Year 1 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| CHEM 1151 (ND) | 4 | GE 1502 (ER) | 4 | CIVE 2221 | 4 | General Elective | 4 |
| CHEM 1153 | 0 | MATH 1342 (FQ) | 4 | CIVE 2222 | 0 | General Elective | 4 |
| ENGW 1111 (WF) | 4 | PHYS 1151 (ND) | 3 | MATH 2321 (FQ) | 4 | ||
| GE 1000 | 1 | PHYS 1152 (AD) | 1 | ||||
| GE 1501 | 4 | PHYS 1153 | 1 | ||||
| MATH 1341 (FQ) | 4 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| 17 | 17 | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Year 2 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| CIVE 2260 | 4 | Co-op | 0 | Co-op | 0 | General Elective | 4 |
| CIVE 2261 (AD) | 1 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| CIVE 2320 | 4 | ||||||
| CIVE 2321 | 0 | ||||||
| CIVE 2334 | 4 | ||||||
| ENCP 2000 | 1 | ||||||
| MATH 2341 | 4 | ||||||
| 18 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||||
| Year 3 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| CIVE 2324 | 4 | Co-op | 0 | Co-op | 0 | CIVE 3464 | 4 |
| CIVE 2331 | 4 | ENGW 3302 or 3315 (WD) | 4 | ||||
| ECON 1115 or 1116 (SI, AD) | 4 | ||||||
| CIVE 2340 | 4 | ||||||
| CIVE 2341 | 1 | ||||||
| 17 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
| ENCP 3000 | 1 | CIVE 4765, 4767, or 4768 (EI, CE, WI) | 5 | ||||
| Civil Project Elective (WI) | 4 | Civil Tech. Elective | 4 | ||||
| Civil Tech. Elective | 3 | Civil Tech. Elective | 4 | ||||
| Science Elective | 4 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| GE 3300 | 4 | ||||||
| 16 | 17 | ||||||
| Total Hours: 134 |
Five Years, Three Co-ops in Summer Second Half/Fall
| Year 1 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| CHEM 1151 (ND) | 4 | GE 1502 (ER) | 4 | Vacation | Vacation | ||
| CHEM 1153 | 0 | MATH 1342 (FQ) | 4 | ||||
| ENGW 1111 (WF) | 4 | PHYS 1151 (ND) | 3 | ||||
| GE 1000 | 1 | PHYS 1152 (AD) | 1 | ||||
| GE 1501 | 4 | PHYS 1153 | 1 | ||||
| MATH 1341 (FQ) | 4 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| 17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Year 2 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| CIVE 2221 | 4 | CIVE 2260 | 4 | Vacation | Co-op | 0 | |
| CIVE 2222 | 0 | CIVE 2261 (AD) | 1 | ||||
| CIVE 2334 | 4 | CIVE 2320 | 4 | ||||
| ECON 1115 or 1116 (AD, SI) | 4 | CIVE 2321 | 0 | ||||
| MATH 2321 (FQ) | 4 | ENCP 2000 | 1 | ||||
| GE 3300 | 4 | ||||||
| MATH 2341 | 4 | ||||||
| 16 | 18 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Year 3 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| Co-op | 0 | CIVE 2331 | 4 | CIVE 2324 | 4 | Co-op | 0 |
| CIVE 2340 | 4 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| CIVE 2341 | 1 | ||||||
| Civil Tech. Elective | 4 | ||||||
| Science Elective | 4 | ||||||
| 0 | 17 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| Co-op | 0 | CIVE 3464 | 4 | General Elective | 4 | Co-op | 0 |
| ENCP 3000 | 1 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| ENGW 3302 or 3315 (WD) | 4 | ||||||
| Civil Project Elective (WI) | 4 | ||||||
| Civil Tech. Elective | 3 | ||||||
| 0 | 16 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Year 5 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
| Co-op | 0 | CIVE 4765, 4767, or 4768 (EI, CE, WI) | 5 | ||||
| Civil Tech. Elective | 4 | ||||||
| General Elective | 4 | ||||||
| General Elective | 4 | ||||||
| 0 | 17 | ||||||
| Total Hours: 134 |
Five Years, Three Co-ops in Spring/Summer First Half
| Year 1 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| CHEM 1151 (ND) | 4 | GE 1502 (ER) | 4 | Vacation | Vacation | ||
| CHEM 1153 | 0 | MATH 1342 (FQ) | 4 | ||||
| ENGW 1111 (WF) | 4 | PHYS 1151 (ND) | 3 | ||||
| GE 1000 | 1 | PHYS 1152 (AD) | 1 | ||||
| GE 1501 | 4 | PHYS 1153 | 1 | ||||
| MATH 1341 (FQ) | 4 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| 17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Year 2 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| CIVE 2221 | 4 | Co-op | 0 | Co-op | 0 | Vacation | |
| CIVE 2222 | 0 | ||||||
| CIVE 2260 | 4 | ||||||
| CIVE 2261 (AD) | 1 | ||||||
| CIVE 2334 | 4 | ||||||
| ENCP 2000 | 1 | ||||||
| MATH 2321 (FQ) | 4 | ||||||
| 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Year 3 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| CIVE 2320 | 4 | Co-op | 0 | Co-op | 0 | CIVE 3464 | 4 |
| CIVE 2321 | 0 | MATH 2341 | 4 | ||||
| CIVE 2331 | 4 | ||||||
| ECON 1115 or 1116 (AD, SI) | 4 | ||||||
| CIVE 2340 | 4 | ||||||
| CIVE 2341 | 1 | ||||||
| 17 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| CIVE 2324 | 4 | Co-op | 0 | Co-op | 0 | General Elective | 4 |
| ENGW 3302 or 3315 (WD) | 4 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| Civil Tech. Elective | 3 | ||||||
| Science Elective | 4 | ||||||
| 15 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||||
| Year 5 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
| Civil Project Elective (WI) | 4 | CIVE 4765, 4767, or 4768 (EI, CE, WI) | 5 | ||||
| Civil Tech. Elective | 4 | Civil Tech. Elective | 4 | ||||
| General Elective | 4 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| ENCP 3000 | 1 | General Elective | 4 | ||||
| GE 3300 | 4 | ||||||
| 17 | 17 | ||||||
| Total Hours: 134 |