Architectural Engineering

Master of Science in Engineering

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Campus address: Ernest Cockrell Jr. Hall (ECJ) 5.200, phone (512) 471-4921, fax (512) 471-0592; campus mail code: C1752

Mailing address: The University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Program in Architectural Engineering, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, 301 East Dean Keeton C1752, Austin TX 78712

E-mail: caee.grad@engr.utexas.edu

URL: http://www.caee.utexas.edu/

Objectives

The objectives of the graduate program in architectural engineering are excellence in engineering education, research, and professional service. The program seeks to educate students to assume leadership positions in engineering practice, research, and education. The program also seeks to advance the state of the art and of the practice of architectural engineering at both fundamental and applied levels through extensive research programs, and to disseminate this research through professional and scholarly activities. The architectural engineering program encompasses construction engineering and project management, construction materials, building energy and environments, indoor air quality, building performance, and structural engineering. Students may also take courses in other disciplines, such as environmental and water resources engineering, geotechnical engineering, ocean engineering, mechanical engineering, and transportation engineering, and in interdisciplinary areas.

Facilities for Graduate Work

The Architecture and Planning Library and the McKinney Engineering Library offer excellent reference facilities. Well-equipped laboratories, including the Phil M. Ferguson Structural Engineering Laboratory, are available in the areas of static and dynamic structural testing of building systems and structural elements of steel, reinforced and prestressed concrete, masonry, timber, and polymers. The structures laboratories, which include both architectural and civil engineering facilities, contain a wide range of loading machines and equipment, environmental chambers, and facilities for model testing. The virtual design laboratory provides state-of-the-art computer workstations. The construction laboratories include a well-equipped computer cluster on the main campus and a high-bay laboratory for construction automation research at the J. J. Pickle Research Campus. The automation laboratory includes a large-scale hydraulic robot test bed, a large rectilinear manipulator, and many computer workstations; at any one time, several full-scale prototyping projects are under way. The Construction Materials Research Group laboratory is equipped with facilities for proportioning and batching; for chemical, mechanical, and microstructural testing; and for durability evaluation of concrete and polymer concrete. The Building Energy and Environments research resources consist of five laboratories totaling 6,000 square feet of space devoted to building-related research. These laboratories are used for experiments using physical simulation systems, preparation for field studies, instrumentation calibration and maintenance, and analysis of samples collected in the field or laboratory. The laboratories contain a wide range of instruments and facilities for building energy analyses and indoor air quality research. Among the physical simulation systems are a 1,200-square-foot test house, three full scale test rooms with state-of-the-art environment control systems, a variety of small chambers for testing emission from building materials, human simulators such as thermal manikins with breathing systems, and a family of wind tunnels for testing various components of heating ventilation and air conditioning systems (HVAC). Also available are the latest computer facilities.

Areas of Study

Graduate study and research is offered in construction engineering and project management, construction materials, building energy and environments, building performance, indoor air quality, and structural engineering.

Graduate Studies Committee

The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee in the spring semester 2013.

Oguzhan Bayrak Michael F Blackhurst Carlos H Caldas David W Fowler Todd A Helwig James O Jirsa Richard E Klingner Howard M Liljestrand

Atila Novoselac William J O'Brien James T O'Connor Jeffrey A Siegel Michael Webber Dan L Wheat Ying Xu