CIVE - Graduate Students

There are five academic areas for graduate study in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Oklahoma State University. Applicants who have not completed a B.S. degree in civil engineering may be required to take additional prerequisite courses. Applicants must apply for acceptance into one of these areas of study:

Students are not restricted to taking courses in one area, but with the approval of the student's faculty advisory committee, the student may select courses from any of the six areas of graduate study. Each of the six programs is flexible, and plans of study are developed to meet individual students’ needs. The proper choice of a study program depends on the aptitude, preferences, and interests of the individual student. The faculty listed in the academic areas are those whose major interests fit that particular area, but faculty often teach courses in related areas.

Criteria for admission to the Graduate College to pursue the Master of Science or Master of Civil Engineering included:

Receive a B.S. degree from an accredited institution (the Bachelor of Science degree or certification in an accredited engineering program is required for the Master of Civil Engineering degree).
Academic performance in undergraduate work at a level that indicates a high probability of success in a graduate program requiring a 3.0/4.0 minimum grad point average.
Recommended for admission to the Graduate College by a Professional School in the College of Engineering.
Statement of Purpose: Discuss your reasons for your desire to attain a graduate degree, your goals whil in the program and in the future, and how the degree will help you achieve these goals. Please indiocate your field of interest within civil engineering.
Three letters of reference: No special form is required; letters may be written on letterhead and submitted in a sealed envelope.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ADMISSION
As a condition of admission to regular graduate study at Oklahoma State University, all persons for whom English is a second language are required to present a score of 550 (Civil Engineering) or 575 (Environmental Engineering) or above on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) regardless of the number of semesters or terms completed in other institutions of higher education or prior enrollment in English language programs. This requirement cannot be waived. The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is required for all applicants and can be a deciding factor on admission to the program. As a rule, international students will not be given teaching or research assistantships until they have completed one semester of study. In order to qualify as a Teaching Assistant, international studnets must take the International Teaching Assistants' Teaching and Evaluation Program, a five-day session given prior to the beginning of each semester.

FACULTY/STUDENT BODY
The strength of the School is its faculty. There are 16 graduate faculty members who are actively engaged in teaching, research, and consulting. They are responsible for the approximately 60 graduate courses taught by the School. There are about 70 resident graduate students in any given semester, of whom about 7 are Ph.D. candidates. There are approximately 30 additional graduate students in off-campus programs, primarily in Tulsa where the School offers MS programs in both Civil and Environmental Engineering through Oklahoma State University at Tulsa.

COMPUTER FACILITIES
Computing and Information Services (CIS) is the central provider of computing, data networking, and telephone services for Oklahoma State University. OSU’s extensive data communications network provides interfaces to OneNet, MIDnet, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. CIS supports six computing facilities in various locations around campus with more than 400 microcomputers. A SUN workstation cluster is located in 113 Engineering South. The central mainframe computer at OSU is an IBM 9672-R32 Enterprise Server operating MVS/ESA and VM/ESA. Two time-sharing systems, TSO and CMS, are available on the mainframe. CIS also has a DEC System 3000-600 VMS and a DEC 2100A-4/275 RISC DIGITAL UNIX MACHINE.

COLLEGE/DEPARTMENT FACILITIES
The College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology provides its undergraduates and graduate students with Windows-based PCs and UNIX-based high end work stations. The College supports computer labs in Architecture, Cordell Hall, Engineering North, Engineering South and in one dormitory, one Sun Enterprise 4000 with 30 X-terminals. This equipment and software are supported by several full-time employees and numerous student employees, depending upon the school term.

LABORATORY FACILITIES

General Structures. Over 4000 square feet of floor space in the Civil Engineering Laboratory building is devoted to structural engineering research and instruction. This laboratory features a wide range of experimental equipment including: (1) a structural test floor with three channels of servo-control and fatigue rated actuators to 220 kips; (2) three universal testing machines with capacities of 60,000 to 400,000 lbs.; (3) axial closed-loop material testing machines with capacities of 22-kip and 600-kip and an axial/torsional machine with capacities of 75-kip/420 in.-kip; (4) acoustic emission instrumentation; and (5) computer-based data acquisition/reduction equipment which supports a wide variety of measurement devices.

Concrete Testing. Approximately 1000 square feet of floor space is devoted to facilities for testing plain concrete. Included in these facilities are multiple freeze-thaw cabinets, a 1000 cubic feet walk-in curing room, a 500-kip compression testing machine, and an 11-kip flexure-testing machine.

Environmental. The environmental engineering program has about 5100 square feet of laboratory space in which to conduct research and carry out its teaching functions. Included in this space allotment are a 1200 square feet teaching laboratory, five graduate research laboratories totaling 2500 square feet, a 900 square feet pilot plant laboratory and a 480 square feet research instrument laboratory. An additional 4000 square feet of research space in the new Advanced Technology Research Center (ATRC) is devoted to environmental research. The research and teaching laboratories are equipped to perform routine water and wastewater analyses. Instrumentation available for research includes a microwave digestor, three gas chromatographs (with FID, TCD and ECD detectors), a gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer, an atomic absorption spectrophotometer with a graphite furnace, a total organic carbon analyzer, a liquid scintillation counter, two high pressure liquid chromatographs, including a photo-diode array detector, and two ion chromatographs. The pilot plant laboratory contains equipment for conducting large-scale experiments, including a rotating biological contactor, biological tower, settling column and air stripping tower.

Asphalt Materials. The asphalt materials laboratory has equipment for characterizing asphalt cement, aggregates and asphalt concrete. Standard tests performed in the laboratory include Hveem stability, resilient modulus, kinematic and absolute viscosity, penetration, gradation, soundness, and other tests. Recent upgrades incorporate the methods for SUPERPAVE mix design.

Soil Mechanics Laboratories. The soil mechanics laboratories encompass approximately 2400 square feet of space in the Civil Engineering laboratory building, provide space for both undergraduate instruction and graduate research in the areas of soil properties, behavior of partially saturated soils, and construction quality control and field behavior of soils. The undergraduate laboratory facilities provide space and equipment to conduct the basic soil mechanics tests, including grain size distribution, plasticity, compaction, consolidation, and shear strength. The research facilities generally reflect ongoing research topics, which include characterization of the properties of expansive soils, physical and chemical modification of soils, and measurement of field performance of soils.

For further information, contact CIVE or the Office of the Dean of Engineering.

A flexible study plan is designed to meet each student's individual goals.