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TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING (TREG)

Robert P. Elliott, Department Head of Civil Engineering and, Chair of Transportation Engineering Studies, 4190 Bell Engineering Center, (479) 575-4954

Professor Elliott • Research Professor Buffington • Associate Professors Dennis, Gattis, Hall, Wang • Assistant Professors Cassady, Cole, Kutanoglu, Rossetti, Tooley

Degree Conferred:

M.S.T.E. (TREG)

The Master of Science in Transportation Engineering program is designed to prepare graduates for careers with governmental transportation and planning agencies, transportation engineering consulting firms, and industrial transportation groups. The program is broad-based, built upon courses offered in the Departments of Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Marketing and Transportation. Students can focus their studies in one of four areas: transportation planning, facility design and construction, system operation, or industry logistics and operations.

The objective of the program is to develop transportation engineers with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. To this end, both engineering graduates and graduates of non-engineering programs are accepted into the MSTE program. The non-engineering graduates are required to complete a series of basic engineering courses to prepare them for graduate-level engineering studies and to assure that they are adequately prepared for entry-level positions in the transportation engineering field.

Areas of Concentration: Transportation planning, facility design and construction, system operation, or industry logistics and operations.

Prerequisites to Degree Program: In addition to the general Graduate School requirements, applicants must meet the following specific requirements to be accepted into the MSTE program.

Applicants Possessing an ABET Engineering Degree: Applicants possessing a degree from a program accredited by the Engi
neering Accreditation Commissions of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) may be accepted unconditionally without prerequisite undergraduate course requirements. However, the student's major adviser and graduate study committee may identify areas of weakness that will require remedial study.

Applicants Not Possessing an ABET Engineering Degree: Applicants not possessing a degree accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commissions of ABET will be accepted into the program on the condition that they satisfactorily complete or demonstrate satisfactory completion of the following prerequisites:

Mathematics and Basic Science (32 hours minimum)

• At least 15 hours of mathematics beyond trigonometry, including differential and integral calculus and differential equations.

• General chemistry and calculus-based physics with a 2-semester sequence in at least one.

Humanities and Social Studies (16 hours minimum)

Engineering Topics (48 hours minimum)

• Complete at least 48 hours of under- graduate level engineering topics. Specific topics that must be completed include:

Statics - 3 hours
Mechanics of Materials - 3 hours
Engineering Economics - 2 hours
Engineering Computer Applications - 3 hours
Basic Transportation Engineering - 3 hours

• At least 16 hours of the engineering topics must qualify as engineering design. Up to 4 hours of the engineering design may come from courses taken to satisfy graduate requirements.

Note: The design hour content of a class may be less than the total credit hours. For example, approximately 1/3 of a 3-hour class may be devoted to design concepts or problems, with the remainder of the class devoted to engineering science topics. For this example, the 3-hour class would provide 1 hour of engineering design.

Credit for prerequisite courses taken at another institution is subject to the approval of the Chair of Transportation Engineering Studies. In particular, advanced (3000- and 4000-level at the University of Arkansas) engineering courses will normally not be accepted from institutions or degree programs that are not accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET.

Requirements for the Master of Science in Transportation Engineering Degree: In addition to the requirements of the Graduate School and the graduate faculty in Engineering, candidates for the MSTE degree must complete a course of study as prescribed below and as approved by the student graduate study committee. They must also demonstrate, to the satisfaction of their graduate study committee, that they possess those abilities and characteristics required of graduates from ABET accredited engineering programs. In consultation with the graduate study committee, the student may select either the thesis option or the non-thesis option.

Thesis Option: (30 hours)

24 hours of graduate-level courseworkincluding:

12 hours of transportation engineering topics
3 hours of an approved course from Marketing and Transportation
3 hours of an approved course in statistics or quality management
6 hours of thesis research

Non-Thesis Option: (33 hours)

30 hours of graduate-level coursework including:

15 hours of transportation engineering topics
3 hours of an approved course from Marketing and Transportation
3 hours of an approved course in statistics or quality management
3 hours of independent study resulting in a written Master' Report

The following is a listing of courses that are acceptable transportation engineering topics for the MSTE degree (course descriptions are listed under Civil Engineering and Industrial Engineering):

CVEG 4003, CAD and Visualization for Civil Structures
CVEG 4403, Public Transportation
CVEG 4413, Pavement Evaluation and Rehabilitation
CVEG 4423, Geometric Design
CVEG 4433, Transportation Pavements and Materials
CVEG 5143, Transportation Soils Engineering
CVEG 5343, Highway Bridges
CVEG 5413, Transportation and Land Development
CVEG 5423, Structural Design of Pavement Systems
CVEG 5433, Traffic Engineering
CVEG 5443, Transportation Planning Methods
CVEG 5453, Asphalt Mix Design and Construction
CVEG 5463, Transportation Network Modeling
CVEG 5473, Transportation Systems Characteristics
CVEG 5483, Transportation Management Systems
CVEG 5493, Infrastructure Management with GIS and DB
INEG 4323, Quality Engineering and Management
INEG 4333, Industrial Statistics
INEG 4723, Ergonomics
INEG 5333, Design of Industrial Experiments
INEG 5343, Advanced Quality Control Methods
INEG 5613, Optimization Theory I
INEG 5673, Graphs and Network Theory
INEG 5823, Systems Simulation

Graduates must present a cumulative grade-point average of no less than 3.00 on all graduate courses and a cumulative grade-point average of no less than 2.70 on all courses that are prerequisites to acceptance into the program. They also must pass a final examination administered and graded by the candidate's major adviser and graduate study committee. The examination is to be comprehensive and will include either a defense of the candidate's thesis or a presentation and discussion of the candidate's Master's Report. The examination may be oral, written or a combination of both.