Architectural Engineering

Degree Offered

Master of Science in Engineering

Facilities for Graduate Work

The Architecture and Planning Library and the McKinney Engineering Library offer excellent reference facilities. Well-equipped laboratories, including the Phil M. Ferguson Structural Engineering Laboratory, are available in the areas of static and dynamic structural testing of building systems and concrete, polymer concrete, and wood structural elements. The structures laboratories, which include both architectural and civil engineering facilities, contain a wide range of loading machines and equipment, environmental chambers, and facilities for model testing. The construction laboratories include a well-equipped computer cluster on the main campus and a high-bay laboratory for construction automation research at the J. J. Pickle Research Campus. The automation laboratory includes a large-scale hydraulic robot test bed, a large rectilinear manipulator, and many computer workstations; at any one time, several full-scale prototyping projects are underway. The concrete-polymer materials laboratory is equipped with facilities for evacuating and pressuring concrete for polymer impregnation and evaluating durability and strength properties of polymer concrete. Also available are the latest computer facilities.

Areas of Study

Graduate study and research is offered in construction management and structural engineering.

Graduate Studies Committee

The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee in the spring semester 1998-1999.

Ned H. Burns	James T. O'Connor
David W. Fowler	Calin M. Popescu
G. Edward Gibson Jr.	Richard L. Tucker
Carl T. M. Haas	Dan L. Wheat
Katherine A. Liapi

Degree Requirements

The following requirements for the Master of Science in Engineering degree with a major in architectural engineering are in addition to the general requirements for the master's degree. The thirty-semester-hour plan, with thesis, requires twenty-four hours in organized courses and six hours in the thesis course. Of the twenty-four hours of organized coursework, six to twelve hours may be in a minor area of concentration; the remaining twelve to eighteen hours must be in the major. The courses must be logically related and the program must be approved by the graduate adviser.

A thirty-three-hour and a thirty-six-hour degree plan are also available. The thirty-three-hour plan includes a report prepared in Architectural Engineering 398R according to procedures set by the Graduate School; the thirty-six-hour plan includes a report prepared in Architectural Engineering 398D according to procedures set by the Graduate Studies Committee. Both plans provide for more coursework in both the major and the minor. Coursework in architectural and civil engineering may be used to fulfill major area course requirements.

For More Information

Campus address: Ernest Cockrell Jr. Hall (ECJ) 5.200, phone (512) 471-4921, fax (512) 471-0592

Mailing address: Graduate Program in Architectural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1076

E-mail: grad@mail.ce.utexas.edu

URL: http://www.ce.utexas.edu/

Architectural engineering courses: ARE

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