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CEGR 685 - Advanced Algorithms in Transportation II
3 hours.
3 Credits
This is an advanced level transportation engineering course focusing on development and applications of various algorithms in transportation problem solving. It involves modeling and analysis of transportation network problems through the design, analysis, and implementation of algorithms. Emphasis is placed on the use of quantitative techniques of operations research to model system performance.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 686 - Demand Analysis and Forecasting
3 hours.
3 Credits
Analysis and forecasting of demand for facilities and services, for use in the planning, design, and operations of transportation systems. Emphasis on the collection and analysis of survey data for demand model development. Covers alternative sample designs, individual choice theories, probabilistic discrete choice models, estimation of desegregate and aggregate models, aggregate forecasting methods and simulation. Illustrated with applications from the field of transportation planning. Hands on exercises in the use of PC statistical analysis software.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 687 - Ground Water Hydrology
3 hours.
3 Credits
Theory of ground water movement, storage exploration, and pumping tests. Design of ground water recovery and recharge systems.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 688 - Advanced Mechanics of Solids
3 hours.
3 Credits
Mechanical response of materials, including elastic, plastic and viscoelastic components. Continuum mechanics; kinematics of deformation, analysis of states of stress and strain, conservation of mass, balance of momentum and energy, constitutive equations. Discussion of applications including stress concentrations at defects, metal processing, and composite materials.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 690 - Adaptive Structures
3 hours.
3 Credits
Behavior of engineering structures subject to induced internal deformations. Transduction devices and adaptive physical systems. Excitation and response of adaptive structures. Actuator placement and static control. Extension to the dynamic case and active vibration control.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 691 - Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
3 hours.
3 Credits
Altitude dynamics and control of spacecraft. Overview of spacecraft systems and orbit determination. Rigid body kinematics and dynamics, and linear control concepts. Active and passive stabilization of spacecraft. Altitude control subsystems and hardware components, and design technology. Illustrations with available real examples and applications.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 692 - Theory of Elastics
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course presents the continuum concepts of stress, stress boundary conditions, principal stresses and the equations of equilibrium; Generalized Hook’s law; Small strain theory and principal strains; Plane problems; Stress functions; Saint Venant torsion and flexure; Introduction to three-dimensional problems; Thermoelasticity; Anisotropic solutions.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 695 - Discrete-Time Control Engineering
3 hours.
3 Credits
Design of controllers for discrete-time systems, with emphasis on linear sampled-data control. Single- loop digital controllers. Discrete-time state space design. Discrete-time optimal control. Realization of microcomputer real-time control systems. Design problems and applications with hands-on experience.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 697 - Geographic Information Systems Applications in Transportation
3 hours.
3 Credits
Course explores Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications in transportation (GIS-T). The underlying concepts in GIS applications as well as advantages of GIS over non-GIS methods will be covered extensively. Students will be introduced to GIS softwares including ArcView GIS, MapObjects, and other relevant GIS tools. Finally, a number of GIS applications in real-world problem solving will be reviewed.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 702 - Seismic Design
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides for the seismic design of buildings. Dynamic analysis of single and multidegree-of-freedom elastic systems subjected to earthquake motions. Earthquake Design Spectra Analysis. Inelastic dynamic response analysis. Consideration of new building code requirements.
Prerequisite(s) CEGR 629 and CEGR 631
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 703 - Geometrically Nonlinear Structural Analysis
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides a basic background in the theory of geometrically nonlinear structural analysis. Formation of geometric stiffness matrices. Nonlinear analysis of trusses, plane frames, space frames, membrane, and cable net structures. Development of three-dimensional beam-column theory.
Prerequisite(s) EEGR 505
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 704 - Innovations in Structural Steel Design
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides for the study of innovations in structural steel design. Ductile design concepts of steel structures and the systematic methods and applications of plastic analysis concepts required to describe the structural behavior associated with ductile design are presented. Design procedures and detailing requirements for ductile braced frames and ductile moment-resisting frames. Consideration of new building code requirements.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 705 - Mechanics of Composite Materials
3 hours.
3 Credits
Basic mechanics of composite materials. Stress Strain relationship of orthotropic materials. Introduction to micromechanics. Classical lamination theory. Mechanical behavior of fiber reinforced composite materials. Damage and failure criteria.
Prerequisite(s) CEGR 692
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 709 - Wave Propagation in Elastic Media
3 hours.
3 Credits
Mechanical wave propagation in bounded and unbounded media. Wave reflection and transmission at interfaces and boundaries; stress waves. Additional topics of mutual interest to students and instructor.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 723 - Advanced Consolidation Theory
3 hours.
3 Credits
The fundamentals of soil consolidation theory are addressed in detail. Based on principles of continuum mechanics and constitutive relations, governing equations are derived for the deformation of the saturated skeletal frame. These in turn are tested against laboratory measurements. Unsolved problems in consolidation theory are emphasized.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 725 - Aquifer Mechanics
3 hours.
3 Credits
Emphasis on mechanical characteristics of pore flow and skeleton matrix within an aquifer system; motion of pore flow and aquifers, including vertical and horizontal movement of aquifers; interaction between pore flow and skeleton matrix of sedimentary material. Solving Environmental problems related to land subsidence and fissures due to ground fluid (gas, oil and water).
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 726 - Geosynthetics
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides graduate students and engineering professionals with knowledge of geosynthetic materials and methods for application procedures in geotechnical and foundation engineering. Geotextiles, geogrids, geosynthetic clay liners, and geocomposites are among the geosynthetic topics of application and procedures. Designing with geosynthetics, application procedures, and specifications are topics of this course.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 730 - Constitutive Laws in Geomechanics
3 hours.
3 Credits
Fundamental concepts of stress and strain tensors, criterion of failures for geomaterials. Theory of elasticity, viscosity, and plasticity, and their combinations such as elasto-viscous, elasto-plastic models in geomechanics for clay and sand soils. Discussion of classic models in geomechanics and their applications to engineering.
Prerequisite(s) Advanced Soil Mechanics and Continuum Mechanics and MATH (PDE).
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 731 - Advanced Soil Mechanics I
3 hours.
3 Credits
Mechanics of seepage and groundwater flow. Effect of seepage on stability, uplift, and foundation design. Basic lateral earth pressure relationships. Stability analysis. Design of breakheads, cofferdams, retaining walls and slopes.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 737 - Continuum Mechanics
3 hours.
3 Credits
Emphasis on theoretical study of continuum mechanics including introduction to tensor analysis; analysis of stress and strain tensors; motion and deformation; conservation laws; constitutive laws. Applications to porous material or sedimentary material in geomechanics and geotechnical engineering.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 738 - Boundary Element Method in Geomechanics
3 hours.
3 Credits
Theoretical concepts and principles of the Boundary Element Method (BEM) and applications to Geo- mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Establishment of conceptual, mathematical, numerical, and mechanical models. Time and spatial discretization. Solution of matrix equations and programming in FORTRAN and C. Applications of BEM to geomaterials which exhibit linear and nonlinear elastic, viscous, and elasto-plastic behavior. Applications of BEM to solve 2D and 3D problems in Geotechnical Engineering.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 739 - Discrete Element Method in Geomechanics
3 hours.
3 Credits
Advanced concepts, principles, programming, and applications of the Discrete Element Method (DEM) in Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Parameter and determination. Contacting laws and constitutive models. Modeling of rigid block and granular materials. Modeling of deformable block and granular materials. Establishment of conceptual, physical, numerical, and mathematical models. Discretization in space and time. Programming for computation and user friendly interfaces in Visual Basic. Applications of the DEM in solving engineering problems.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 740 - Special Topics in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
3 hours.
3 Credits
Advanced concepts, principles, and applications of GIS are presented and illustrated. Project design, data acquisition, management, analyses, and display/product generation will be emphasized. Applications of GIS methodologies in real world problems from various disciplines will also be presented. Student will be required to complete a GIS project as the final examination grade for the course. ESRI’s ARCINFO and ArcView will form the basic GIS software for the course
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 741 - Special Course in Remote Sensing (RS)
3 hours.
3 Credits
Advanced concepts, principles, and applications of RS are presented and illustrated. Project design, data acquisition, management, analyses, and display/product generation will be emphasized. Applications of RS methodologies in real world problems from various disciplines will also be presented. Student will be required to compete a RS project as a final examination grade for the course. ENVI and ERDAS will form the basic GIS software for the course.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 742 - Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Modeling in Raster
3 hours.
3 Credits
Advanced geographic information system (GIS) modeling concepts, principles, methodology, and applications are presented and illustrated. Map algebra, pattern recognition, model formulation, implementation and verification, and advanced raster data structures for dynamic modeling will be emphasized. Cross-disciplinary approaches of GIS modeling of real world problems will also be presented. Student will be required to complete a GIS modeling project, make an oral presentation, and submit a written report of their findings as part of the final grade for this course.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 743 - Finite Element Method in Geomechanics
3 hours.
3 Credits
Theoretical concepts and principles of the Finite Element Method (FEM) as well as applications to Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Establishment of conceptual, mathematical, numerical, and mechanical models. Time and spatial discretization. Solution of matrix equations and programming in FORTRAN and C. Applications of FEM to geomaterials which exhibit linear and nonlinear elastic, viscous, elasto-plastic behavior. Applications of FEM to solve 2D and 3D problems in Geotechnical Engineering.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 744 - Tensor Analysis in Geomechanics
3 hours.
3 Credits
Concepts, principles of tensors and their applications in Geomechanics. Coordinates and transformation of coordinates. Vectors and tensors, stress and strain tensors in elasticity. Gradient, divergence and rotations, derivatives of tensors and applications to Geomechanics.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 745 - Advanced Analysis of Slope Stability
3 hours.
3 Credits
Study advanced concepts and principles in limit equilibrium theory. Analyze soil and rock slope stability with theoretical approaches as well as numerical methods (e.g., FEM and FDM). Apply the limit equilibrium theory to slope stability. Back analysis and its applications to prediction of potential failure of slope. Slope design and problem solving in Geotechnical and Geological Engineering.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 746 - Advanced Soil Dynamics
3 hours.
3 Credits
Emphasis on theoretical and applied study in soil dynamics including soil stress-strain relations, strength and failure under dynamic loading, loading rate effect, small and larger deformation under repeated loading , propagation of stress wave in soils. Investigation of soil dynamic parameters through lab and field. Solving problems in engineering such as sand liquefaction due to earthquake, foundation stability analysis under vibration, wave propagation because of pile driving or earthquake, etc.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 747 - Well Hydraulics
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course emphasizes theoretical and applied well hydraulics including steady and unsteady flow toward a well within confined, semi-confined or unconfined aquifers. Analytical solutions of well drawdown, analysis of aquifer parameters through aquifer testing, and applications to water resources exploitation are discussed.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 748 - Design of Pile Foundations
3 hours.
3 Credits
Study of theories and principles such as structure characteristics, load transfer mechanics, pile load tests, consolidation settlement of group piles, negative skin friction laterally loaded piles. Design of different types of pile foundations, estimate pile length and installation of piles.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 749 - Earthquake Engineering
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course covers seismic wave and its propagation in porous media, analytical and numerical analysis for elastic, plastic and viscous waves, analysis of ground motion and field responses due to an earthquake, soil-structure interaction induced by earthquakes, soil liquefaction and site characterization, geotechnical designs with consideration of seismic forces.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 750 - Advanced Geotechnical Experiments
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course emphasizes advanced geotechnical experiments conducted in laboratories and fields, including designing and planning geotechnical tests, introduction to conventional and advanced laboratory and field equipment, data acquisition experiments, and stress analysis for experimental investigation.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 755 - Construction Cost Management
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course will teach the students cost estimating concepts as it relates to owner and contractor in the construction industry. Students will acquire the skills to manage and control project costs that would benefit the owner, the contractor and the public at large.
Prerequisite(s) CEGR 645 or CEGR 646 .
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 756 - Advanced Construction Cost Management
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course will introduce the student to the advanced construction cost management concepts. It will enhance the student’s knowledge of financial analysis and develop competence in advanced construction cost estimation and management.
Prerequisite(s) CEGR 645 or CEGR 646 .
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 760 - Dissertation Research & Writing for Construction Students
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course will teach the students topic selection, research planning, data collection and methodology, including the structuring and writing the dissertation.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 765 - Law for Architects, Business, Engineers and Construction Managers
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course explores legal concepts related to architects, business, engineers and construction managers. It will encourage students to become conscious of the legal implications of their actions as professionals and how to adapt the legal concepts to the day-to-day practice.
Co-Requisite(s) (AS NEEDED)
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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CEGR 780 - MSU/JHU Engineering Education Study
2 hours.
2-6 Credits
This course will facilitate educational exchange between students at Morgan State University and Johns Hopkins University.
Prerequisite(s) Department permission
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 787 - Graduate Seminar
3 Credits
This is an advanced seminar course taken during the first two semesters of the Ph.D. program in which students from different engineering disciplines (Civil, Electrical, and Industrial Engineering) learn current and contemporary research topics, and work together to identify and solve engineering problems in practice.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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CEGR 788 - Seminar I
1 hours.
1 Credits
This is the first part of an advanced seminar course taken during the first two semesters of the Master of Engineering Program in which students from different engineering disciplines (Civil, Electrical, and Industrial Engineering) work together to identify and solve problems.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 789 - Seminar II
1 hours.
1 Credits
This is the second part of an advanced seminar course taken during the first two semesters of the Master of Engineering Program in which students from different engineering disciplines (Civil, Electrical, and Industrial Engineering) work together to identify and solve problems.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 790 - Research in Civil Engineering
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides for independent inquiry into a civil engineering related topic. Through research of appropriate literature, the student will gain depth in a particular subject area or breadth in other fields related to civil engineering. At the commencement of the semester, a student must submit an outline of the proposed work for approval. A written report is required.
Prerequisite(s) Department permission
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 791 - Research in Civil Engineering II
3 hours.
3 Credits
This is the second part of a CEGR 790 course and continues research related to the civil engineering related topic. At the end of the semester, a student must submit the final report for the proposed work by CEGR 791 to the supervising faculty member. A final report is required.
Prerequisite(s) CEGR 790
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 793 - Master’s Pre-Candidacy
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course conveys full-time status to a master’s graduate student engaged in study prior to the achievement of master’s candidacy. Students preparing for comprehensive examinations or for a thesis proposal defense enroll in this course. Additionally, students needing additional time to complete a Master’s Project enroll in this course after initial enrollment in the appropriate Master’s Project course. This course is a non-curricular course and cannot be used as a program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
Contact Hours Three
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CEGR 795 - Project Report
3 hours.
3 Credits
Project Report provides a student with an opportunity to formulate and develop a proposal for a professional engineering project. The student may work as a project at the University or off-site, under the supervision of a faculty advisor. The student then works on the approved project under the supervision of a faculty advisor. The student must address advanced professional engineering issues, which may include analysis, design, synthesis, feasibility, development of alternatives, standards and codes, and other relevant issues as defined in the proposal. This professional engineering experience culminates in a final report.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 797 - Thesis Guidance
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course enables a master’s student to develop and execute an approved scholarly research agenda in consultation with the student’s thesis chairperson and committee. Students register for this course continuously to maintain enrollment until the student has completed the thesis. This course is a non-curricular course and cannot be used as a program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
Contact Hours Three
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CEGR 799 - Thesis Defense
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course allows master’s students the opportunity to defend their thesis for approval by the student’s thesis chairperson and committee after the thesis has been completed. After gaining approval of the thesis chairperson and committee, the thesis is submitted to the School of Graduate Studies for final processing and approval. This course is a curricular course and is counted as 3 credit hours of the overall program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
Contact Hours Three
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CEGR 805 - Pre-Candidacy Research I
3 Credits
This course is intended as a rotational research opportunity for students. Students will conduct research driven by the instructor/PI to advance a research objective. The course will work through research issues and solutions utilizing current research projects being undertaken by the faculty. In addition, this course will enable a PhD student to develop a scholarly research plan of his/her own in consultation with the student’s dissertation committee chairperson. This course aims for the student to experience various research methods/techniques while developing their plan of action for completion of the dissertation
Offered (FALL/SPRING/SUMMER)
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CEGR 810 - Pre-Candidacy Research II
3 Credits
This course is intended as a rotational research opportunity for students. Students will conduct research driven by the instructor/PI to advance a research objective. The course will work through research issues and solutions utilizing current research projects being undertaken by the faculty. In addition, this course will enable a PhD student to develop a scholarly research plan of his/her own in consultation with the student’s dissertation committee chairperson. This course aims for the student to experience various research methods/techniques while developing their plan of action for completion of the dissertation.
Offered (FALL/SPRING/SUMMER)
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CEGR 815 - Pre-Candidacy Research III
3 Credits
This course is intended as a rotational research opportunity for students. Students will conduct research driven by the instructor/PI to advance a research objective. The course will work through research issues and solutions utilizing current research projects being undertaken by the faculty. In addition, this course will enable a PhD student to develop a scholarly research plan in consultation with the student’s dissertation committee chairperson. This course aims for the student to experience various research methods/techniques while developing their plan of action for completion of the dissertation.
Offered (FALL/SPRING/SUMMER)
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CEGR 820 - Pre-Candidacy Research IV
3 Credits
This course is intended as a rotational research opportunity for students. Students will conduct research driven by the instructor/PI to advance a research objective. The course will work through research issues and solutions utilizing current research projects being undertaken by the faculty. In addition, this course will enable a PhD student to develop a scholarly research plan of his/her own in consultation with the student’s dissertation committee chairperson. This course aims for the student to experience various research methods/techniques while developing their plan of action for completion of the dissertation.
Offered (FALL/SPRING/SUMMER)
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CEGR 825 - Pre-Candidacy Research V
3 Credits
This course is intended as a rotational research opportunity for students. Students will conduct research driven by the instructor/PI to advance a research objective. The course will work through research issues and solutions utilizing current research projects being undertaken by the faculty. In addition, this course will enable a PhD student to develop a scholarly research plan of his/her own in consultation with the student’s dissertation committee chairperson. This course aims for the student to experience various research methods/techniques while developing their plan of action for completion of the dissertation.
Offered (FALL/SPRING/SUMMER)
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CEGR 905 - Dissertation Research I
3 Credits
This course enables a PhD candidate to execute the scholarly research plan (previously developed in the pre-candidacy phase) in consultation with the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee. A student can only take this dissertation course after passing the A-Exam and being advanced to candidacy.
Offered (FALL/SPRING/SUMMER)
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CEGR 910 - Dissertation Research II
3 Credits
This course enables a Ph.D. candidate to execute the scholarly research plan (previously developed in the pre-candidacy phase) in consultation with the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee. A student can only take this dissertation course after passing the A-Exam and being advanced to candidacy.
Offered (FALL/SPRING/SUMMER)
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CEGR 915 - Dissertation Research III
3 Credits
This course enables a Ph.D. candidate to execute the scholarly research plan (previously developed in the pre-candidacy phase) in consultation with the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee. A student can only take this dissertation course after passing the A-Exam and being advanced to candidacy.
Offered (FALL/SPRING/SUMMER)
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CEGR 920 - Dissertation Research IV
3 Credits
This course enables a PhD candidate to execute the scholarly research plan (previously developed in the pre-candidacy phase) in consultation with the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee. A student can only take this dissertation course after passing the A-Exam and being advanced to candidacy.
Offered (FALL/SPRING/SUMMER)
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CEGR 925 - Dissertation Research V
3 Credits
This course enables a PhD candidate to execute the scholarly research plan (previously developed in the pre-candidacy phase) in consultation with the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee. A student can only take this dissertation course after passing the A-Exam and being advanced to candidacy.
Offered (FALL/SPRING/SUMMER)
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CEGR 993 - Doctoral Pre-Candidacy
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course conveys full-time status to a doctoral student as a full-time student engages in study prior to the achievement of doctoral candidacy. Students preparing for comprehensive examinations or preparing for a proposal defense enroll in this course. This course is a non-curricular course and cannot be used as a program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 997 - Dissertation Guidance
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course enables a doctoral student to develop and execute an approved scholarly research agenda in consultation with the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee. Students register for this course continuously to maintain enrollment until the student has completed the dissertation. This course is a non-curricular course and is not considered a program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 998 - Dissertation Defense
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course allows doctoral students the opportunity to defend their doctoral dissertation for approval by the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee after the dissertation has been completed. After gaining approval of the dissertation chairperson and committee, the dissertation is submitted to the School of Graduate Studies for final processing and approval. This course is a curricular course and is counted as 3 credit hours of the overall program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
Contact Hours Three
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CREP 501 - Principles and Practices of City & Regional Planning
3 hours.
3 Credits
This core course provides an introduction to the practices and principles of city and regional planning in the United States and beyond. It explores theory and practice from historic and contemporary perspectives and includes discourse on planning ethics and diversity.
Offered (FALL)
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CREP 502 - Geographic Information Systems for Planners
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course introduces Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their applications. It includes content to facilitate spatial thinking, representation and problem solving, and training to develop basic proficiency in using GIS software.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CREP 506 - Urban Land Use for Planners
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course surveys and examines urban land use planning practices across North America and the world at district, city and regional scales. Employing several critical lenses, its focus is oriented towards exploration and critique of planning and development processes and consideration of plan outcomes to serve public interests.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CREP 510 - City & Regional Planning Studio I
3 hours.
3 Credits
This core course introduces students to professional planning practice. Working with a client and multiple stakeholders, students create a plan for a neighborhood or city. Students engage with all aspects of the planning process including defining problems and opportunities, creating goals and objectives, designing and executing field study, gathering and analyzing data; soliciting and mediating among diverse interests; and developing recommendations and implementation strategies.
Offered (SPRING)
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CREP 512 - Urban Economics for Planning
3 hours.
3 Credits
This core course exposes students to urban economics and enables them to observe, understand, analyze and communicate urban planning and policy issues and phenomena through an economic lens. The curriculum includes economic theory and its relationship to cities and regions, and how economics shapes the patterns of urban development within and beyond cities.
Offered (SPRING)
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CREP 513 - History of City & Regional Planning
3 hours.
3 Credits
This core course surveys the principal concepts that have guided the growth of cities and the development of the practice and profession of urban planning, from its earliest inceptions through the present day. Through lecture, discussion, projects and field study, students examine the history of the American city and determine how it has been impacted by various plans, movements and development initiatives.
Offered (FALL)
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CREP 514 - Seminar in Urban Design I
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course explores the physical form of cities and how it evolves over time. Introducing students to urban design theories and practices, it includes strategies for interpreting and engaging city form and generating meaningful critique of urban development.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CREP 515 - Seminar in Urban Design II
3 hours.
3 Credits
The course takes a comparative approach to exploring contemporary and historic issues and theories of city and urban design. It examines the socio-political dimensions of urban design in public as well as private sector projects in the U.S. and internationally from colonial to modern times, and considers how these projects have influenced the quality of the built environment.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CREP 520 - City & Regional Planning Studio II
3 hours.
3 Credits
Building upon Planning Studio I, this core course asks students to undertake a complex planning project working with a client in team or individual formats. Typically, students develop a detailed comprehensive plan for an urban neighborhood, district or region.
Prerequisite(s) CREP 510
Offered (FALL)
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CREP 521 - Computer and Data Applications for Planners
3 hours.
3 Credits
This core course introduces computer and data analysis practices such as data management, interpretation and visualization. It includes several quantitative analysis techniques and students develop competencies working with standard planning computer applications and data sets, and creating population and economic projections.
Offered (FALL)
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CREP 522 - Land Development Law
3 hours.
3 Credits
This core course provides students with knowledge about the legal context of planning and land development. The curriculum is focused on major legal doctrines and cases, which apply to public and private uses of the built environment and impact the urban development practices. Students also become acquainted with the legal framework, legislative and administrative processes regarding public response, review, and input on development rules and regulations.
Offered (SPRING)
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CREP 523 - Quantitative Analysis and Methods for Planners
3 hours.
3 Credits
This core intermediate level quantitative course covers methods commonly used in planning practice. It includes statistics, projection methods, housing analysis, cohort survival models, impacts analysis, economic analysis and financial modeling. The emphasis is how to integrate quantitative analysis results, graphics, and narratives to prepare a strong professional planning report.
Prerequisite(s) CREP 521
Offered (SPRING)
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CREP 524 - Public Facilities Planning
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course will investigate the factors contributing to alternative locations for activities/facilities as determined by transportation, land use patterns, performance standards, etc. The economics, spatial context, and patterns of location of public facilities will be considered.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CREP 526 - Urban Transportation Planning
3 hours.
3 Credits
The course introduces students to theories and practices of urban transportation planning and policy in city, regional, state and national contexts. Students discuss historic, contemporary and future directions of federal transportation policies, and examine topics including transportation finance, public transit, mobility, transportation demand management, pedestrian and bicycle network planning, and other sustainable and/or equitable transportation strategies.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CREP 532 - Municipal Finance and Budgeting
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines government financial issues and various financing programs that support planning efforts. It discusses local public service provision and its funding, theories of taxation, the budgetary process of local government, fiscal impacts of development, tax base and school funding. Students will analyze fiscal distress and urban decline and examine the various programs to stimulate local development.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CREP 533 - Planning Administration and Management
3 hours.
3 Credits
Theories of planning process are compared with concepts of organizational structures, functions, and processes. National, state, regional, city neighborhood, and corporate structures are examined.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CREP 534 - Public Policy Analysis
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course focuses on understanding and interpreting public policy and developing techniques of policy analysis that are relevant to city and regional planning practices. Course topics include identifying information sources useful to policy assessments, project monitoring and evaluation, and the formal and informal politics of policy development.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CREP 537 - Program Development and Implementation
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course focuses on urban program design and implementation, including grant application preparation, studies of marketing feasibility, needs assessment, project management and budget control. Students also learn ex post evaluation (monitoring) skills so as to assess program performance.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CREP 538 - Neighborhood and Community Development
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides an overview of neighborhood and community development practices. It is designed to stimulate student thinking about the elements that comprise equitable, healthy, sustainable and prosperous neighborhoods. Topics discussed include community development, economic development, local engagement strategies, equity planning, transportation, food systems, commercial corridor revitalization and Main Street programs, and heritage planning.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CREP 539 - Housing and Land Development
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course exposes students to practices of housing and land development. It includes exploration of housing economics, markets and finance, and strategies for developing affordable housing. Students also learn from creating a housing development plan for a local site and build knowledge in vital aspects of the development process including community profile, site inventory, acquisition/feasibility study, and development proposals with pro forma.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CREP 542 - Environmental Planning
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course focuses on understanding environmental issues and their impact on cities and urban development while creating sustainable and resilient planning strategies. Topics include topography, soil structure and land-based hazards, brownfields remediation and redevelopment, natural resource characteristics, pollution control and mitigation, assessing the impacts of land use and development, land conservation strategies, environmental disclosure practices and compliance with city, state and federal legislation and policy.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CREP 546 - Environmental Evaluation Techniques for Land Planning
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course exposes the student to the use of various physical maps, aerial photographs, including a range of other geographic information systems to undertake land suitability analysis for land use planning.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CREP 550 - Regional Scale Planning-Land Planning Studio
6 hours.
6 Credits
This studio will deal with large-scale regional development in the Baltimore metropolitan region. The course will address the many facets of city and regional development including financial, social, and environmental concerns. Proposals of criteria for development, land use programming and physical built form will be dealt with on an area-wide basis.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CREP 552 - Site Planning for Planners
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course will address how the attributes of nature can be incorporated into the urban fabric through the design of open space. The concern for literal and figurative connections with nature, sustainable landscape design, and environmental health will be emphasized. These elements are studied in relation to land use patterns, site context, and social, economic and cultural issues.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CREP 553 - Landscape Resources for Planners
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course explores basic principles governing ecosystems and examines natural factors as determinants of land use. It examines strategies for resource protection, conservation, management and development, and explores ethical frameworks for evaluating the use and exploitation of natural resources.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CREP 560 - City & Regional Planning: Land Planning Workshop
6 hours.
6 Credits
This workshop will introduce students to land planning and community design. Projects undertaken will be those having impacts reaching far beyond site boundaries. The student will develop programming, planning and design for large or complex sites taking into account natural and cultural features, market and economic conditions, user needs, and public policy. Strategies for project implementation, phasing, and maintenance will be addressed.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CREP 601 - Planning and Designing the New Urban Waterfront
3 hours.
3 Credits
This seminar surveys and examines contemporary waterfront planning, design and development practices. It draws upon a mix of national and international best practices and exploits Baltimore’s great and varied number of waterfronts for local field studies and student projects.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CREP 714 - BES Internship for Planners
3 hours.
3 Credits
The course provides credit for internships, work experiences or community engagement projects related to professional planning. Prior to registering, students must first discuss their proposed project with the instructor and have the standard Morgan State University Field Experience Agreement signed by their internship or work sponsor. Requirements include meeting regularly with the instructor and writing a reflective paper documenting the internship or work experience.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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CREP 788 - Supervised Research for Planners
3 hours.
3 Credits
These courses are designed to enable students to participate in research areas of their competence under the supervision of faculty. Students are required to submit research findings in a term paper and to submit a written research proposal at the beginning of the semester.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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CREP 789 - Supervised Research for Planners
3 hours.
3 Credits
These courses are designed to enable students to participate in research areas of their competence under the supervision of faculty. Students are required to submit research findings in a term paper and to submit a written research proposal at the beginning of the semester.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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CREP 792 - Thesis, Dissertation Research and Professional Report Preparation
3 hours.
3 Credits
This core course prepares students to write a thesis, a professional capstone project or a dissertation. The curriculum includes immersion into research methods and design strategies.
City and Regional Planning students should enroll in this course in the semester prior to the one in which they intend to graduate. For Ph.D. students in the 36-credit path, they should enroll in the course in the Fall semester of their third year. For Ph.D. students in the 60-credit path, they should enroll in the course in the Fall semester of their fourth year.
Offered (FALL)
Contact Hours 3
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CREP 793 - Master’s Pre-Candidacy
Three hours.
9 Credits
This course conveys full-time status to a master’s graduate student engaged in study prior to the achievement of master’s candidacy. Students preparing for comprehensive examinations or for a thesis proposal defense enroll in this course. Additionally, students needing additional time to complete a Master’s Project enroll in this course after initial enrollment in the appropriate Master’s Project course. This course is a non-curricular course and cannot be used as a program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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CREP 794 - Professional Project in City and Regional Planners
3 hours.
3 Credits
Building on the experience of CREP 792, this core course provides students with the skills and knowledge to conduct an applied planning project, write an individual professional report, and make a presentation to a professional or academic audience. Each student executes a detailed study of a project typical of planning practice.
Prerequisite(s) CREP 792
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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CREP 797 - Thesis Guidance
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course enables a student to develop and execute an approved scholarly research agenda in consultation with the student’s thesis chairperson and committee. Students register for this course continuously to maintain enrollment until the student has completed the thesis. This course is a non-curricular course and is not considered as part of the overall program credit requirement. However, this course maintains the student status as a matriculated, full-time student (student registers for 3 credit hours each semester, but is acknowledged as having a 9 credit hour load).
Prerequisite(s) Department permission
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
Contact Hours Three
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CREP 799 - Thesis Defense
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course allows students the opportunity to defend their thesis for approval by the student’s thesis chairperson and committee after the thesis has been completed. After gaining approval of the thesis chairperson and committee, the thesis is submitted to the School of Graduate Studies for final processing and approval. This course is a curricular course and may be considered as 3 credit hours of the overall program credit requirement. This course maintains the student status as a matriculated, full-time student (student is registered for 3 credit hours, but is acknowledged as having a 9 credit hour load).
Prerequisite(s) Department permission
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
Contact Hours Three
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COSC 502 - Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course presents how Data Science and Artificial Intelligence together can be sued: (1) to solve Classification, Regression, and Recognition; (2) to conduct Supervised, Unsupervised, and Reinforced Learning; (3) to build Neural Network, Convolutional Neural Network, and Recurrent Neural Network.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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COSC 504 - Secure Cloud Computing
3 Credits
This course introduces security issues and practices in cloud computing. Topics include: cloud architecture, security in remote access, end-to-end security within a corporate infrastructure, DevSecOps, and configure security for cloud platforms.
Offered AS NEEDED
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COSC 511 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course presents advanced concepts of algorithm design and methods of algorithm analysis. Algorithm design focuses on solving complex computational and real-world problems while the Algorithm analysis focuses on determining algorithm complexities (both time and space), completeness and correctness proof, comparisons among available solutions, and efficient decision making.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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COSC 512 - Software Engineering & Formal Methods
Three hours.
3 Credits
State-of-the-art software engineering is a well-planned blend of agile development with plan-driven development. Software projects success depend not only on technical expertise but also require determine what clients want/need, collaborating in a team, complexity management, mitigating risks, meeting time and budget constraints, post deployment services, compete with potential competitors in the market, and several other human components. This course introduces these components broadly covering the fundamentals of modern software engineering according to software development life cycle (SDLC) and formal methods with learning by doing.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
Contact Hours 3
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COSC 513 - Cloud Computing Applications
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course presents basic terminology, cloud application model, main cloud-based application tasks, email, file storage and sharing, order entry, word processing, data collection; main benefits of cloud apps: fast response to business needs, simplified operation, instant scalability, Cloud Application Programming Interface (Cloud API), gradual adoption, reduced costs, improved data sharing and security.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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