A Career-Focused Option with an Internship Experience
Duke's Master of Engineering (MEng) in Civil Engineering is career-focused degree option that will deepen your understanding of technology and help you develop the business leadership and management expertise you need to succeed in your career.
We offer significant support for competitive applicants—typical scholarships range from $20,000-$30,000.
"Duke's core business courses provided me with valuable skills."
Rachel Flemming, PE | Senior Engineer
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Driven by the ever-expanding breadth and depth of technical knowledge relevant to a practicing civil engineer, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) believes the master’s degree to be the basic preparation for professional practice.
Research interests of our world-class faculty including studying ways to assess risks posed by natural hazards and to protect critical infrastructure components such as power substations and telecommunication centers from such hazards.
Areas of technical concentration include:
- Computational Engineering
- Systems Engineering and Optimization
- Geo-Systems
Application deadlines:
- For fall entry, visit the Duke Engineering MEng website »
Scholarships
We offer significant support for competitive applicants—typical scholarships range from
$20,000-$30,000
Degree Program Details
- Degree Requirements
Master of Engineering students complete the Core Industry Preparatory Courses and Internship, Departmental Requirements, and will choose specialization requirements of four courses from our areas of concentration.
Summary
The curriculum, detailed below, includes:
- 30 course credits
- 1 Seminar
- Internship
30 Course Credits
The Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering is a 30-credit degree distributed as follows:
- Core Industry Preparation Courses (6 credits)
- Departmental Requirements (12 credits)
- Degree Concentration Area Requirements (6 credits)
- Technical Electives (6 credits)
- Internship, Applied Research Experience, or Project (0 credits)
CE Curriculum Notes
- At the beginning of their program, each student will be required to propose and gain approval from the Director of Master's Studies (DMS) for a specific curriculum that satisfies the requirements for the MEng degree in Civil Engineering as specified below.
- At least fifteen credits must be taken from the Pratt School of Engineering.
Overview
Core Industry Preparation Course Requirements (6 credits)
- MENG 540: Management of High Tech Industries
- MENG 570: Business Fundamentals for Engineers
Departmental Requirements (12 credits)
All students are required to take four courses from the following list of departmental requirements:
- CEE 520: Continuum Mechanics
- ME 541/CE 625: Intermediate Dynamics
- CEE 647: Buckling of Engineering Structures
- CEE 530: Introduction to Finite Elements
- CEE 643: Environmental and Engineering Geophysics
Concentration Areas
All students must take two courses from one of the following three concentration areas:
Computational Engineering
- CEE 621: Plasticity
- CEE 630: Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis
- CEE 635: Computational Methods for Evolving Discontinuities
- Math 563: Scientific Computing II
- Math 661: Numerical Solution of Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations
- Math 663: Numerical Solution of Elliptic and Parabolic Partial Differential Equations
- ME 639: Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
- CS 530: Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- CS 520: Numerical Analysis
Systems Engineering and Optimization
- CEE 690: Uncertainty Quantification
- CEE 690: Numerical Optimization
- MATH 541: Applied Stochastic Processes
- MATH 577: Mathematical Modeling
Geo-Systems
- CEE 621: Plasticity
- CEE 641: Advanced Soil Mechanics
- CEE 642: Environmental Geomechanics
- CEE 630: Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis
- CEE 644: Inverse Problems in Geosciences and Engineering
- CEE 252: Wave Propagation in Elastic and Poroelastic Media
- ME 537: Mechanics of Viscous Fluids
- ME 543: Energy Flow and Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids
- EOS 540: Introduction to Modeling in the Earth Sciences
- EOS 543S: Landscape Dynamics
- EOS 575S: Mineral Resources
Technical Electives (6 credits)
Technical Electives provide flexibility to the program while developing additional depth in a direction of student interest.
A Technical Elective can be any graduate level course, consistent with the plan of study and approved by the DMS. The order of preference in approving technical electives is:
- Other courses from departmental requirements or degree concentration areas
- Courses in mathematics or statistics, such as:
- Math 551: Applied Partial Differential Equations and Complex Variables
- Math 561: Scientific Computing I
- Stat 611: Introduction to Statistical Methods
- Other CEE courses
- Other engineering courses
Internship, Project or Equivalent Requirements
- MENG 550: Internship or Applied Research Project
- MENG 551: Internship/Project Assessment