Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Columbia University

Overview

Overview

An applicant for the Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics program at Columbia University who lacks essential undergraduate training in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics will be required to strengthen or supplement her/his undergraduate work by taking certain undergraduate courses before proceeding to graduate study. 

Some of the best companies in the world in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics are directly involved with our MS program by teaching a number of highly specialized design-oriented and management courses, providing internships to our students, and offering opportunities for independent research.

Concentrations

• Construction Engineering and Management - prepares students to effectively deliver and manage the capital facilities and infrastructure that provide the setting for human activity and support economic development
• Construction Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, and Leadership - prepares students to effectively lead the identification and implementation of strategic directions for entrepreneurial engineering and construction organizations
• Real Estate Development, Construction, and Finance - prepares students to effectively engineer, construct and finance real estate developments
• Engineering Mechanics - is intended for those students who wish to acquire a strong theoretical mechanics foundation and also those who wish to consider pursuing a PhD degree later on. 
• Environmental Engineering and Water Resources - is focused on training civil engineers who are interested in engaging in solving the world’s environmental problems and contributing to the sustainable management of global water resources.
• Forensic (Structural) Engineering - is designed to acquaint graduate students, as well as other young practicing professionals, with various aspects of the forensic engineering field, to provide them with the basics for the investigation of failures and understanding some of the pertinent legal aspects, and to prepare them for the eventual practice of forensic structural engineering
• Geotechnical Engineering - focuses on a branch of civil engineering that deals with the behavior of soils, and the design and analysis of natural and man-made soil structures

• Structural Engineering concentration is designed to provide a solid educational background on the theoretical fundamentals of structural engineering, which is strong with respect to the latest and most advanced methods of analysis and design, well informed on real-life applications and, above all, open to new technology and practices

• Smart and Sustainable Cities - is intended for students who are interested in the development and monitoring of sustainable urban infrastructure and buildings

• Advanced Infrastructure Materials - focuses on the properties, design, analysis and testing of material systems used in civil engineering

• Transportation Engineering

• Infrastructure Engineering - is for students interested in managing complex infrastructure systems
• Computational and Data-Driven Engineering Mechanics - is intended for students who wish to enrich their knowledge and learn the state-of-the-art in computational and data-driven methods and algorithms used to solve challenging problems in science and engineering