school of sustainable
engineering and the built
environment
civil, environmental and sustainable
engineering
The ASU Transportation Engineering program has two general
themes: Transportation Systems, and Pavements and Materials. First,
the Transportation Systems program addresses a broad range of
education and research focus areas. Faculty in transportation systems
focus on traffic operations and simulation, intelligent transportation
technologies, traveler safety and risk, travel behavior, transportation
systems simulation, and transportation planning applications. Second,
the Pavements and Materials program addresses pavement analysis and
design, pavement performance and management, material testing and
characterization, and consideration of developing new and more
efficient construction materials, such as asphalt and concrete that are
transportation applicable to transportation needs.
Recent graduates have been employed in a variety of different
engineering organizations and companies both in the private and the public sector.
Job opportunities include academia (tenure track and research faculty
positions), small and large consulting firms that deal with
transportation systems and pavements, federal agencies such as Federal
Highway Administration (FHWA), state agencies such as the Arizona
Department of Transportation (ADOT), county and city engineering
offices etc., and large companies such as Tetra Tech. Students typically
confront employment and career opportunities that span the spectrum
and fulfill the needs and desires of our graduates.
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS FACULTY
Ram Pendyala, Professor
Soyoung Ahn, Assistant Professor
Mikhail Chester, Assistant Professor
PAVEMENTS AND MATERIALS FACULTY
Matthew Witczak, Professor Emeritus
Michael Mamlouk, Professor
Shane Underwood, Assistant Professor
Kamil Kaloush, Associate Professor (Specialty Area
Coordinator)
M.S. PROGRAM—Thesis Option
The advisor, in consultation with the student, will establish a Graduate Supervisory Committee (GSC). The GSC shall be composed of
a minimum of three members from the CEE tenure-track faculty with at least two being from the Transportation Faculty.
Participation of individuals from institutions external to the ASU is encouraged but these shall be non-voting members. The advisor
shall serve as the chair of the GSC.
The Plan of Study (POS) must be in accordance with Graduate College and Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering (CESE)
Program requirements. The candidate must complete at least 30 semester hours of approved course and research work distributed as
follows:
1) at least twelve (12) hours of Graduate Transportation courses,
2) at least six (6) hours of CEE Graduate (non-Transportation) courses,
3) at least three (3) hours of Statistics or Math course (see course list at bottom of page),
4) not more than three (3) hours of CEE590, and
5) 6 hours of thesis (CEE599)
M.S. PROGRAM—Non-thesis Option
The Graduate Supervisory Committee (GSC) shall consist of all tenure-track Transportation faculty. The advisor shall serve as the
chair of the GSC.
The Plan of Study (POS) must be in accordance with Graduate College and Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering (CESE)
Program requirements. The candidate must complete at least 30 semester hours of approved course and research work distributed as
follows:
1)at least fifteen (15) hours of Graduate Transportation courses,
2) at least six (6) hours of CEE Graduate (non-Transportation) courses,
3) at least three (3) hours of Statistics or Math course (see course list at bottom of page), and
4) not more than three (3) hours of CEE590.
5) three (3) hours of Applied Project (CEE 593) work that will be completed during the last semester. A technical paper
documenting the project activities and a final presentation defending the work are required.
OR
pass a written comprehensive exam from three faculty members
A final written comprehensive exam will be administered by the Transportation Group twice per year, usually
the last week of classes during the regular fall and spring semesters. The exam is intended to demonstrate
proficiency in at least 4 of the 8 core class subjects depending on the courses covered by the student. The core
subject areas are Pavement Analysis and Design, Highway Materials and Construction, Pavement Performance
and Management, Highway Geometric Design, Transportation Systems Planning, Transportation Operations,
Transportation System Design and Evaluation, Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Transportation, traffic
flow theory, and intelligent transportation systems. The exam will be 4 hours and students are expected to spend
roughly one hour per core subject area. The exam is open book. The exam will be graded by the GSC and a pass/
fail decision made as a collective group. A student who fails the comprehensive exam the first time may
petition to retake the exam once more no sooner than 90 days after the first exam and no later than one
year. A student must be registered for at least one credit every fall and spring until they are officially
completed with their degree and pass the comprehensive exam.
It is important for all doctoral students to read the Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering
Ph.D. program manual.
LIST OF COURSES
Undergraduate
CEE 372 Transportation Engineering
CEE 412 Pavement Analysis and Design
CEE 475 Highway Geometric Design
CEE 483 Highway Materials,
Construction, and Quality
CEE 498 Sustainable Transportation
Systems
Graduate TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS PROGRAM
CEE 511 Pavement Analysis and Design
CEE 512 Pavement Performance and
The Transportation Systems program in CEE at ASU is a multi-disciplinary
Management
program with a core set of courses offered in CEE and many complementary
CEE 573 Transportation Operations
courses offered in other departments across campus, including Planning,
CEE 574 Transportation Systems Planning
Business, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mathematics, Computer
CEE 576 Highway Geometric Design
Science, and Psychology. There are numerous faculty members across the
CEE 598 Activity-Travel Behavior
ASU campus involved in transportation-related research, leading to
Analysis
numerous opportunities to explore and pursue a wide range of research
CEE 598 Computer Applications for
topics and interests across departments. The core Transportation Systems
Travel Demand Modeling
faculty conduct research in travel behavior, traffic operations, traffic safety,
CEE 598 Transportation Systems Planning
statistical and econometric methods, traffic simulation, sustainable
CEE 598 Intelligent Transportation
transportation, transportation planning, intelligent transportation systems,
Systems
and transportation, land-use, and health.
CEE 598 Statistical and Econometric
Methods in Civil Engineering
CEE 598 Sustainable Transportation In addition to the undergraduate and graduate courses offered in CEE, a
Systems number of complementary courses are offered in various departments around
CEE 598 Traffic Flow Theory campus. Students in Transportation Systems often pursue minors in
CEE 598 Transportation Safety Analysis economics, business, industrial engineering, mathematics, statistics,
computer science, geography, psychology, sociology, and planning. There
The following courses qualify as courses satisfying
the mathematics/statistics course requirement. are at least 50 additional graduate level courses at ASU that may serve to
Students may petition their graduate advisory com- fulfill the graduate coursework requirements (upon approval of GSC),
mittee to take (graduate) courses outside this list. reflecting a wide-range of minors and complementary skills. The courses
listed above and courses satisfying minor requirements-representing a
IEE572 Design of Engineering Experiments student's Plan of Study (POS), are selected by the student with help and
IEE578 Regression Analysis approval of the student's GSC.
IEE582 Response Surfaces and Process Optimiza-
tion
MAE501 Linear Algebra in Engineering
MAE502 Partial Differential Equations in Engineer-
ing
MAT521 Iterative Methods
MAT523 Numerical Optimization
MAT524 Parallel Numerical Algorithms
MAT530 Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differen-
tial Equations
MAT533 Computational Elliptic and Parabolic Dif-
ferential Equations
MAT576 Theory of Partial Differential Equations
LIST OF COURSES
Undergraduate
CEE 372 Transportation Engineering
CEE 412 Pavement Analysis and Design
CEE 475 Highway Geometric Design
CEE 481 Civil Engineering Project
Management
CEE 483 Highway Materials,
Construction, and Quality
CEE 494 Sustainable Urban Engineering PAVEMENTS AND MATERIALS PROGRAM
CEE 494 Sustainable Transportation
The Pavements and Materials Program at Arizona State University
Systems
encompasses a multitude of areas such as analysis and design of flexible and
Graduate
rigid pavements, pavement performance and evaluation, pavement
CEE 511 Pavement Analysis and Design
maintenance and rehabilitation, characterization of base, subbase and
CEE 512 Pavement Performance and
subgrade materials, finite elements methods, asphalt mix design, properties
Management
of Portland cement concrete, life-cycle cost analysis, probabilistic methods,
CEE 515 Properties of Concrete
viscoelastic and nonlinear behavior of materials, statistical and computer
CEE 526 Finite Elements for Engineers
applications in pavement engineering, etc.
CEE 550 Soil Behavior
CEE 554 Shear Strength and Slope
Stability Pavements and Materials Engineering is an interdisciplinary field that
CEE 576 Highway Geometric Design synthesizes knowledge from a wide range of subjects. People who have
CEE 583 Highway Materials, careers in transportation engineering often study, provide solutions, and
Construction, and Quality implement strategies for the design of roads, highways, airport runways, and
CEE 598 Advanced Pavement Systems continually develop better and more efficient transportation facilities.
CEE 598 Civil Engineering Project
Management The pavements and materials faculty is engaged in statewide, national, and
CEE 598 Statistical Applications in international research in these areas, and graduate students typically become
Pavement Engineering involved in these exciting and cutting-edge research projects. The graduate
CEE 598 Pavement Evaluation, course offerings at ASU reflect these pavements and materials specialty areas,
Maintenance and Rehabilitation and provide a broad-based yet rigorous graduate student education. The
CEE 598 Statistical and Econometric graduate curriculum is designed to provide a strong foundation in pavements
Methods in Civil Engineering and materials, but remains flexible to meet changing needs within the field.
CEE 598 Sustainable Urban Engineering The pavements and materials students enjoy a thriving Arizona economy,
CEE 598 Sustainable Transportation highly competitive job market, and typically secure jobs in state or federal
Systems government agencies, consulting firms, and academe.
The following courses qualify as courses satisfying
the mathematics/statistics course requirement.
Students may petition their graduate advisory
committee to take (graduate) courses outside this
list.
IEE572 Design of Engineering Experiments
IEE578 Regression Analysis
IEE582 Response Surfaces and Process Optimization
MAE501 Linear Algebra in Engineering
MAE502 Partial Differential Equations in
Engineering
MAT521 Iterative Methods
MAT523 Numerical Optimization
MAT524 Parallel Numerical Algorithms
MAT530 Numerical Solution of Ordinary
Differential Equations
MAT533 Computational Elliptic and Parabolic
Differential Equations
MAT576 Theory of Partial Differential Equations
