Electives

Any elective not listed below will need to be discussed with and approved by the Graduate Program Coordinator.

Mechanical Engineering

MECE 6331 Advanced Thermodynamics 1-Classical
MECE 6333 Conduction and Radiation
MECE 6334 Convection Heat Transfer
MECE 6335 Heat Transfer with Phase-Change
MECE 6341 Viscous Flow Theory
MECE 6343 Boundary Layers
MECE 6344 Turbulent Flows
MECE 6345 Hydrodynamic Stability
MECE 6346 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
MECE 6353 Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics
MECE 6361 Mechanical Behavior of Materials
MECE 6362 Advanced Dynamics
MECE 6363 Physical Metallurgy
MECE 6364 Solidification and Heat Treatment
MECE 6365 Stress Waves in Continuous Media
MECE 6377 Continuum Mechanics I

Petroleum Engineering

PETR 6351 Introduction to Petroleum Engineering
PETR 6362 Reservoir Engineering I
PETR 6302 Reservoir Engineering II
PETR 6368 Well Drilling & Completion I
PETR 6316 Well Drilling & Completion II: Well Logging
PETR 6328 Petroleum Fluid Properties and Phase Equilibria
PETR 6312 Well Logging: Evaluation of Petroleum Formations
PETR 6372 Petroleum Production Operations
PETR 6304 Core Analysis: Evaluation of Petroleum Formations
PETR 6314 Pressure Transient Testing
PETR 6320 Enhanced Oil Recovery
PETR 6325 Integrated Reservoir Characterization
PETR 6326 Applied Reservoir Simulation
PETR 6330 Fundamentals of Hydraulic Fracturing
PETR 6332 Reserves Estimation I: Deterministic
PETR 6334 Reserves Estimation II: Probabilistic
PETR 6350 Natural Gas Engineering

Civil Engineering

CIVE 6319 High Performance Materials
CIVE 6320 Constitutive Modeling of Materials
CIVE 6321 Experimental Soil Mechanics
CIVE 6322 Storm Water Management
CIVE 6323 Advanced Foundation Design
CIVE 6330 Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites for Structures
CIVE 6331 Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow
CIVE 6335 Advanced Concrete Design
CIVE 6337 Matrix Analysis of Structures
CIVE 6338 Advanced Steel Design
CIVE 6341 Bridge Design
CIVE 6349 Structural Reliability
CIVE 6350 Advanced Mechanics of Materials
CIVE 6353 Behavior and Design of Prestressed Concrete
CIVE 6355 Introduction to Dynamics of Structures
CIVE 6361 Engineering Hydrology
CIVE 6362 Water Quality Engineering
CIVE 6363 Evaluation of Water Quality in Natural Waters
CIVE 6370 Environmental Fluid Mechanics
CIVE 6371 River Mechanics and Sediment Transport
CIVE 6372 Hydrodynamics of Offshore Structures
CIVE 6377 Environmental Chemistry
CIVE 6378 Principles of Environmental Modeling
CIVE 6379 Stochastic Hydrology
CIVE 6380 Introduction to Geomatics and Geosensing
CIVE 6381 Biological Processes for Wastewater Treatment
CIVE 6382 LiDAR Systems and Applications
CIVE 6383 Advanced Planning and Design of Water Resource Systems
CIVE 6384 Satellite Altimetry and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
CIVE 6385 Stability of Structures
CIVE 6386 Survey Measurements and Analysis
CIVE 6387 Physicochemical Treatment Processes
CIVE 6388 Solid and Hazardous Waste Treatment Processes
CIVE 6390 Municipal Drinking Water Treatment
CIVE 6391 Environmental Engineering Microbiology
CIVE 6392 Mass Transfer in Environmental Systems
CIVE 6393 Geostatistics

Chemical Engineering

CHEE 6300 Physics and Chemistry of Engineering Materials
CHEE 6319 Introduction to Nanotechnology
CHEE 6320 Introduction Nanomaterials Engineering
CHEE 6321 Nano Design & Fabrication
CHEE 6322 Topics in Colloid and Interfacial Science
CHEE 6323 Fundamentals of Tissue Engineering
CHEE 6327 Experimental Methods in Chemical Engineering
CHEE 6333 Transport Processes
CHEE 6335 Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics
CHEE 6337 Advanced Reactor Engineering
CHEE 6360 Biomolecular Engr. Fundamentals
CHEE 6365 Fundamentals of Catalysis
CHEE 6367 Advanced Process Control
CHEE 6371 Pollution Control Engineering
CHEE 6373 Environmental Remediation
CHEE 6375 Chemical Processing for Microelectronics
CHEE 6377 Introduction to Polymer Science
CHEE 6384 Petrochemical Processes
CHEE 6386 Air-Pollution Problems and Control
CHEE 6388 Catalytic Processes
CHEE 6390 Energy and the Environment
CHEE 6391 Transport Phenomena in Physiological Systems
CHEE 6393 Cellular and Biological Transport Phenomena

Industrial Engineering

INDE 6321 System Safety Engineering
INDE 6370 Digital Simulation
INDE 6383 Engineering Design and Prototyping

Biomedical Engineering

BIOE 6341 Advanced Biofluid Dynamics
BIOE 6342 Biomedical Signal Processing
BIOE 6397 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
BIOE 6397 Mass Transport for Bio Systems

Mathematics

MATH 6308 Advanced Linear Algebra I
MATH 6376 Numerical Linear Algebra
MATH 6326 Partial Differential Equations
MATH 6374 Numerical Partial Differential Equations
MATH 6352 Complex Analysis and Geometry
MATH 6366 Optimization and Variational Methods
MATH 6382 Probability Models and Mathematical Statistics
MATH 6386 Computational Statistics

Physics

PHYS 6309 - Advanced Mechanics I
PHYS 6315 - Quantum Mechanics I
PHYS 6350 - Computational Physics

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

GEOL 6337 Atmospheric Physics
GEOL 6336 Boundary Layer & Turbulence
GEOL 6330 Dynamic Meteorology
GEOL 6397 Mesoscale Meteorology
GEOL 6332 Air Pollution Meteorology
GEOL 6325 Remote Sensing
GEOL 6335 Atmospheric Numerical Modeling
GEOL 6329 Atmospheric Instrumentation & Measurements
GEOL 6328 Atmospheric Data Analysis & Statistics
GEOL 6339 Igneous Petrology
GEOL 6340 Metamorphic Petrology
GEOL 6341 Geochemistry I
GEOL 6374 Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry
GEOL 6386 Igneous Petrogenesis and Plate Tectonic
GEOL 6366 Hydrogeology
GEOL 6376 Adv Tect and Sedimentation
GEOL 6349 Geodynamics
GEOL 6350 Advanced Structural Geology
GEOL 6378 Basin Analysis for Petroleum Exploration
GEOL 6347 Sandstone Petrography
GEOL 6372 Intro to Petroleum Geochemistry
GEOL 6381 Petroleum Geology
GEOL 6388 Geospatial Analysis and Applications

Chemistry

CHEM 6322 Statistical Thermodynamics
CHEM 6377 Solid State Chemistry

Please consider when choosing electives:

Students are responsible for ensuring that they meet all course pre-requisites prior to enrollment. Failure to meet course requirements may result in students being dropped from courses without a refund.
Courses taken outside the Technology Division at the Cullen College of Engineering may require assistance registering. Please contact the department offering the course for permission to enroll.
Please contact your Graduate Advisor if you have additional questions.