The CEES Transportation Engineering program has two core missions: to deliver high-quality education at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and to advance impactful research of regional and national importance in transportation and infrastructure systems engineering. These programs are designed to provide students with fundamental understanding of the systems, technologies, and analytical methods that support resilient, autonomous, durable, safe, and efficiently managed transportation infrastructure.
The program strongly encourages interaction between the various disciplines of systems engineering, mechanical engineering, environmental science, computer science, and public policy among others. The program emphasizes both analytical and experimental methods that aid in the advancement of transportation infrastructure modeling, analysis and design.
Graduate Program (Master of Science Degree)
Both thesis and course-work only options are available for obtaining the MS degree. The course-work only option requires 32 semester credit hours. The thesis option requires completion of 30 semester credit hours, with five hours devoted to thesis research and one hour to a course on technical communications. The thesis option includes a final defense.
Graduate Program (Doctor of Philosophy Degree)
The doctoral program, which is tailored to the specific interests of the student, focuses on expanding professional knowledge in the fundamental concepts of transportation engineering. The student is expected to produce a research dissertation of professional significance that could be the basis of two or more papers published in refereed journals. The doctoral degree requires a minimum of 48 hours of post-graduate coursework and 41 hours of dissertation research. Thirty hours of CEES courses and 12 hours outside of CEES are required. One hour must be devoted to technical communications.
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Research Requirements
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Faculty research interests cover a broad spectrum of transportation and infrastructure systems engineering. Current research areas include transportation infrastructure resilience and durability; artificial intelligence (AI) methods to improve multimodal transportation safety and operations including connected, autonomous, and electric vehicles; advanced transportation infrastructure material characterization and mechanistic design of pavements; and transportation infrastructure lifecycle and asset management.
Current and Recent Research Projects
The University of Oklahoma's Transportation Engineering Program currently has three faculty who teach and perform research in various avenues of transportation infrastructure resilience and durability, artificial intelligence (AI) methods to improve multimodal transportation safety and operations including connected, autonomous, and electric vehicles, advanced transportation infrastructure material characterization and mechanistic design of pavements, and transportation infrastructure lifecycle and asset management.
