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Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering

Already enrolled in a degree program at the UCF Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering? You’ll find important documents and information under the tabs below. 

Undergraduate

Students Enrolled 2021-Present

Students Enrolled 2016-2020

All civil, environmental and construction engineering majors must take the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam prior to graduation. This exam is offered by the Florida Board of Professional Engineers, which regulates the practice of engineering in the State of Florida. The FBPE is responsible for reviewing applications, administering examinations, licensing qualified applicants and regulating the practice of engineering throughout the state. Passing the FE Exam is one of the requirements to obtain a professional engineering license. Please Note: This exam is overseen and administrated by the FBPE and not by UCF or the College of Engineering and Computer Science. 

FE Exam Registration

The exam is conducted eight months out of the year in four testing exam windows (January-February, April-May, July-August, and October-November) at Pearson Vue Testing Centers. Exams are not administered during March, June, September and December. Visit the FBPE website for complete exam information or the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying website for registration information. Please note: Once the exam is completed, you must provide a verifiable link with the exam results to Mary Rush prior to graduation to clear your degree audit. 

Department FE Exam Review Course

Each year, the CECE department hosts its semi-annual FE Exam Review in the fall and spring. The review sessions are taught by UCF faculty over the course of four Saturdays. Fall dates are released in July, and spring dates are released in November. Courses are offered on the UCF Main Campus. Please Note: UCF offers the review course only — the exams are not offered at this university.

To register for the review session, please fill out the online registration form. The deadline for the Spring 2024 session is TBD. The cost is $60 for current UCF students, $120 for non-UCF students, and $250 for UCF alumni and non-UCF alumni. To pay for the session, please fill out the UCF Research Foundation Form as follows:

  • In the UCF Research Foundation, Inc. Invoice # 1/Description box, enter “Fall 2023 FE Review Course.”
  • Fill in your email, name and address.
  • Click Continue.
  • Under Payment Method, select “New Card Amount.”
  • Fill in all required fields and click Confirm.
  • Leave Enter Additional Payment Details blank.
  • Please email your payment confirmation to Mary Rush.

Students transferring into UCF’s civil engineering, environmental engineering and construction engineering bachelor’s degree programs generally do so with some or all of the following courses completed at a community college or state college:

  • An associate degree
  • Calculus I, II and III (MAC 2311, 2312, 2313)
  • Differential Equations (MAP 2302)
  • Physics with Calculus I and II (PHY 2048C and 2049C) with labs
  • College Chemistry I CHM 1045C with lab for the civil or construction engineering degrees and both CHM 1045C and CHM 1046C with labs for the environmental engineering degree

All courses that are prerequisites for other courses within the civil, environmental and construction engineering programs must have an earned grade of “C” (2.0) or better.

Students transferring from a community college or state college with a pre-engineering program
may also be able to transfer the following courses:

  • EGS 2310: Statics
  • EGS 2321: Dynamics
  • EGS 2025: Probability and Statistics for Engineers
  • EGS 1006: Introduction to Engineering
  • EGS 1007: Engineering Concepts and Methods

The courses you will be allowed to enroll in during your first term at UCF will be determined by the courses that you have completed and are transferring with. You may not be eligible for a full-time load of courses in your major during your first term. Schedules will be individually determined during your transfer orientation session. If you have not completed MAC 2311, MAC 2312, PHY 2048C and CHM 1045C, you will be admitted on a pending status, which may also impact your ability to obtain a full-time load during your first semester. For more information, visit the Knights Major Exploration and Transition site. 

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Academic Advising

Need to speak with an advisor? Contact graduate advisor Sadia Afrin to schedule an appointment. If you have a more complex issue, please contact Andrew Randall. 

Career Advising

Looking for career advice? Visit the website of UCF Career Services to schedule a career advising appointment, prep for the job search or to set up a Handshake account. 

Graduate students completing the M.S. in Civil Engineering non-thesis option must submit a  portfolio of activities by the course withdrawal date of the semester of intended graduation. Students pursuing the M.S. in Environmental Engineering non-thesis option must sit for an exit exam, scheduled once per semester by the graduate coordinator. A maximum of one submission per semester and two total submissions will be allowed. Requirements by degree program are listed below.

M.S. in Civil Engineering, Transportation Systems and Smart Cities Engineering

The portfolio must be submitted as a single PDF file with 12 point Times New Roman font, single-line spacing with one-inch margins. It must contain:

  • An updated resume that includes your education, skills, projects completed, work experience if any, publications if any.
  • A one-page summary of how the degree and the course projects contributed to your skills and knowledge, and to your overall understanding of the field.
  • Choose two course projects and include a one-page summary for each project. The summaries will consist of four particular sections:
    • Project description and problem identification
    • Data collection, results, interpretations
    • Conclusions
    • Engineering knowledge gained and application areas
  • The portfolio assessment by the coordinator is a rating of either acceptable or not acceptable. 

M.S. in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering

The portfolio must be submitted as a single PDF file in 12-point Times New Roman font with single-line spacing and one-inch margins.  The maximum length is five pages summarizing the reasons for collapse of any structural or geotechnical system published in the technical literature. It must contain:

  • A short, descriptive title and your name
  • The paper can include a maximum of five figures or tables that can be used to demonstrate the main points of the paper. The figures and tables must be properly referenced in the text, otherwise they will be considered plagiarism. The faculty will pass the paper through plagiarism detection analyses, pairing the document with online research databases to verify the ideas proposed by the student are original and not a direct copy from any source. At the end of the document (not included in the five-page limit), the student must provide a list of references used to explain the main engineering reasons and concepts that triggered failures of the structural, geotechnical or geo-structural system.
  • This portfolio should prove the student’s ability to state theoretical concepts and to connect concepts systematically in the area of study. The student must be able to apply theories learned during their classwork in structural and geotechnical engineering to explain the main reasons of collapse or failure of the selected case history. This portfolio is designed so that the student demonstrates their ability to formulate a specific research question or formulate hypotheses on how the selected structural, geotechnical or geo-structural system failed. The student must be able to describe, in technically sound English, the experiments, surveys, field or laboratory investigations developed during the analysis.
  • The portfolio assessment by the coordinator should successfully meet the following five goals, each rated on a scale of one to five with one equaling poor and five equaling excellent:
    • Goal 1: Does the portfolio provide evidence of familiarity with structural or geotechnical engineering fields?
    • Goal 2: Does the portfolio show the ability to summarize and apply basic theoretical concepts learned during the master’s program with emphasis in geotechnical or structural engineering?
    • Goal 3: Does the portfolio demonstrate the student’s understanding of the ways in which structural or geotechnical engineers gather, interpret, and evaluate data?
    • Goal 4: Does the portfolio demonstrate a broad use of engineering concepts to explain the conditions that triggered failure? Goal 5: Does the portfolio demonstrate an ability to think critically, analytically and logically about engineering issues and problems associated to the case history, using technically sound English? 

M.S. Water Resources Engineering

The portfolio must be submitted as single PDF file in 12-point Times New Roman font with single-line spacing and one-inch margins. It must contain:

  • An updated resume that includes your education, skills, projects completed, work experience if any, publications if any.
  • A one-page summary of how the degree and the course projects contributed to your skills and knowledge, and to your overall understanding of the field.
  • Choose two course projects and include a one-page summary for each project. The summaries will consist of four particular sections:
    • Project description and problem identification
    • Data collection, results, interpretations
    • Conclusions
    • Engineering knowledge gained and application areas
  • The portfolio assessment by the coordinator must meet four goals, each with a rating of one to five, one equaling poor and five equaling excellent.
    • Goal 1: Does the portfolio provide evidence of familiarity with the water resources engineering field?
    • Goal 2: Does the portfolio demonstrate the student’s understanding of fundamental principles in water resources engineering?
    • Goal 3: Does the portfolio demonstrate an ability to think critically and solve water resources engineering problems analytically and numerically?
    • Goal 4: Does the portfolio demonstrate the student’s ability to write a sound technical report? 

M.S. in Environmental Engineering and Environmental Engineering Sciences

Graduate students must complete a comprehensive take-home exit exam within a one-week timeframe. Students are also required to turn in a two-page CV and an exit survey with their exam. A passing score is at least 70%.