The graduate curriculum is flexible and aims to provide students with a program balanced between design, theoretical, and analytical coursework. The structural engineering faculty are involved in research areas that include earthquake-resistant design of structures development of new structural systems use of high performance materials durability of materials and structures structural repair and rehabilitation fatigue and fracture of metals bridge, highway, and airfield design and advances in computational and structural mechanics. The graduate program in structural engineering places a strong emphasis on analyzing and solving structural engineering problems through a combination of experimental, computational, and analytical techniques.
