BRAE Department

California Polytechnic State University

Masters of Science Engineering

Specialization in Water Engineering

Coordinator: Dr. Charles Burt

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A description of paperwork and other requirements for the BRAE MS in Engineering can be found here. For advisor information and other forms, please click here.

General Characteristics

The Master of Science degree program in Engineering has the following objectives:

• Provide preparation for further study in engineering, leading to the Doctor of Engineering or Ph.D. degree.

• Provide an empowering terminal professional degree for students who intend to become practicing engineers, a degree that not only retains the strong laboratory emphasis and industrial interaction found in the BS curriculum, but which also provides an attractive, efficient educational option to undergraduate students.

• Provide job-entry education for the more complex and evolving interdisciplinary areas of engineering, such as research and development, innovative design, systems analysis and design, bio-engineering, biomedical engineering, manufacturing, mechatronics, and engineering management.

• Update and upgrade opportunities for practicing engineers.

• Allows graduates to maintain currency in their fields.

Prerequisites

For admission as a classified graduate student, an applicant should hold a bachelor's degree in engineering or a closely related physical science with a minimum grade point average of 2.5 in the last 90 quarter units (60 semester units) attempted. Applicants for graduate engineering programs are required to submit scores for the General Test of the Graduate Record Examination. An applicant who meets these standards but lacks prerequisite coursework may be admitted as a conditionally classified student and must make up any deficiencies before advancement to classified graduate standing.

Program of Study

Graduate students must file formal study plans with their advisor, department, college, and university graduate studies office no later than the end of the quarter in which the 12th unit of approved courses is completed.

The formal program of study must include a minimum of 45 units (at least 23 of which must be at the 500 level) with a specialization in one of the following areas: Biochemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Integrated Technology Management, Materials Engineering, or Water Engineering.

Requirements

The broad curriculum requirements for the Master of Science degree in Engineering are:

• a minimum of 24 units in the field of specialization, with at least 18 units at the 500 level;

• a minimum of 9 units from an approved list of mathematics, statistics, computer science, or analytic engineering courses, with at least 3 units at the 500 level;

• remaining units taken from a list of approved electives;

• at least 23 units of the 45 unit program at the 500 level.

In some specializations, two program options are available: a thesis program which requires coursework, a thesis and oral defense of thesis; or a non-thesis option which involves additional coursework and a comprehensive examination. The non-thesis option is normally allowed only for those students who have completed a senior project or have had significant engineering project experience.

BRAE Department, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407  phone: 805.756.2378  fax: 805.756.2626 

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