University of Texas Arlington Courses

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Mechanical and Aerospace

The Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington offers BS, M.Eng., MS, and Ph.D. programs. UTA is one of the few colleges that offers MS and M.Eng. degrees in both Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. MS in Aerospace Engineering requires a six-hour thesis completion, while M.Eng. is a purely practice-oriented program. Both require thirty credit hours. Both MS and M.Eng. share a requirement of the Math/Engineering Analysis course.

The MS program in Aerospace Engineering has four credit hours assigned to elective courses at the student’s discretion and nine-hour credit work, while M.Engr. has five credit hours for electives and twelve-hour credit work. MS in Mechanical Engineering consists of application learning as much as theoretical, for the lessons are supplemented with laboratory work. M.Eng. is a thirty-hour credit course which entails three core courses and five open elective courses (excluding special project or research courses) offering options related to engineering, mathematics, science.

Areas of Expertise:

  • list items Design
  • list items Manufacturing and Multidisciplinary Optimization
  • list items Structural Mechanics and Structural Optimization
  • list items Thermal Science and Energy Systems
  • list items Fluid Mechanics
  • list items Aerodynamics and Propulsion
  • list items Systems and Control.
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Civil

The Department of Civil Engineering received over 1200 enrolments and secured the first place in regards to research expenditures per faculty throughout the college.

The department offers programs such as: 

  • list items Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering
  • list items Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering
  • list items Bachelor of Science in Construction Management
  • list items Master of Science and Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering
  • list items Master of Construction Management and Ph.D

The MS program through the faculty advisor guides the students to pursue their area of interest and conduct research in it by completing a thesis and defending it in a practical examination. The program requires a minimum of twenty-four hours of credit work.

The MS program covers a variety of areas for research which include:

  • list items Construction Engineering and Management
  • list items Environmental Engineering
  • list items Geotechnical Engineering
  • list items Infrastructure Engineering and Management
  • list items Structures and Applied Mechanics Engineering
  • list items Transportation Engineering
  • list items Water Resources Engineering.

The M.Eng. program is a practice-oriented program with a minimum requirement of thirty hours out of which six hours are to be applied to a special project. It shares its area of expertise with MS. MCM or Master of Construction Management is an interdisciplinary program that trains the students both academically as well as practices to attend to the challenges in the construction management of organizational structures and business models and implement new technologies.

The prerequisites of the course include thirty credit hours though the hours may exceed depending upon the courses and a GPA of 3.0.

The program offers three courses, namely:

  • list items  Construction Core Courses
  • list items Commercial and Residential Option 
  • list items Infrastructure and Heavy/Highway Option

Under General Construction Management, students are given the chance to select courses from other departments such as:

  • list items Architecture
  • list items Business
  • list items City and Regional Planning
  • list items Management with the approval of the program director.

Areas of Expertise:

  • list items Geotechnical Engineering
  • list items Architectural Engineering
  • list items Structural Engineering and Applied Mechanics
  • list items Water Resources Engineering
  • list items Construction Engineering and Management
  • list items Transportation Engineering
  • list items Environmental Engineering
  • list items Infrastructure System Engineering
  • list items Management.

List of Labs:

  • list items Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability
  • list items Sustainable And Resilient Civil Infrastructure (SARCI)
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Computer Science 

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the College of Engineering (fourth-largest college in engineering in Texas) at The University of Texas offers :

  • list items BS (Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering)
  • list items MS (Computer Engineering, Computer Science)
  • list items Master of Software Engineering and Ph.D. programs. 

The MS programs are divided into Thesis and non-Thesis tracks. MS in Computer Science and Computer Engineering consists of thirty credit hours inclusive of six hours for the thesis. Non-thesis options for MS in Computer Science and Computer Engineering are for thirty-six hours, while Masters in Software Engineering also requires a two-course arrangement towards the application of a software project along with thirty-six credit hours. 

Areas of Expertise:

  • list items Intelligent systems:
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    Robotics
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    Vision
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    Visualization
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    Artificial intelligence
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    Assisted living
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    Visualization
  • list items Software engineering:
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    Analysis
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    Design & testing of software
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    Information security
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    Cybersecurity
  • list items Data science:
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    Big data
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    Machine learning
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    Data mining
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    Databases
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    Data storage and management
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    Bio- and health-analytics
  • list items Computer engineering:
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    Embedded systems
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    Network systems
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    Cyber-physical systems
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    Real-time systems
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    Cloud computing systems
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    High-performance computing
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Electrical

The Department of Electrical Engineering offers :

  • list items Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electrical Engineering
  • list items Master of Engineering (M.Eng) in Electrical Engineering
  • list items Master's of Science (MS) in Electrical Engineering and PhD degrees

MSEE (Master of Science in Electrical Engineering) program offers thesis, thesis substitute, and non-thesis options. The thesis option is a twenty-four semester hour course along with a thesis which is of six semester hours. The thesis substitute option is a thirty semester hour course out of which the thesis substitute project takes up three semester hours. The non-thesis option is thirty semester hours course.

It is mandatory for MSEE students to undertake courses from three technical areas, while non-thesis students must take up one technical proficiency course from each of the three areas of research and earn a minimum of 3.0 GPA in the courses. M.Eng. program is a thirty-six semester hour course along with Technical Proficiency Courses and follows the same distribution and pattern as that of the MSEE program.

  
Areas of Expertise:

  • list items Digital Signal and Image Processing
  • list items Communications and Information Systems
  • list items Electromagnetic Fields and Applications
  • list items Optical Devices and Systems
  • list items Digital and Microprocessor/ Embedded Controller Systems
  • list items Solid-State Devices
  • list items Nanotechnology and MEMS
  • list items Power Systems
  • list items Industrial Power Electronics
  • list items Renewable Energy & Vehicular Technology and Systems
  • list items Controls and Automated Manufacturing
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Industrial

The Department of Industrial Engineering at UTA is built on the spirit of community wherein students, faculty, alumni, and staff are committed to the larger goal of facilitating industrial and societal productivity. It offers Industrial Engineering degrees at all three levels and master’s in Systems Engineering, Logistics, Management, and Engineering.

MS in Industrial Engineering provides three tracks, namely, Logistics, Industry Applications, and Decision Analytics out of which the students have to choose one. The program aims at improving the student’s technical knowledge for both industrial and research applications. The curriculum also includes a set of open electives which requires a minimum of thirty credit hours and gives students the freedom of choosing courses from business and engineering programs outside of the Industrial Engineering course. In such cases, the student will require the approval of the advisor. In order to be eligible for the capstone option, students must work with the faculty sponsor.

The program is for twenty-seven hours with elective coursework and three credit hours of capstone project. Students who wish to avail the thesis option must complete twenty-four credit hours with elective courses along with six credit hours of thesis. They may select courses in other engineering and business disciplines which should not be more than six credit hours with the advisor’s approval. MS in Systems Engineering requires thirty hours of coursework and constitutes a wide approach towards the fundamentals in system engineering.

The core subjects include Introduction to :

  • list items Systems Engineering
  • list items Requirements Engineering
  • list items Systems Architecture and Design
  • list items Management of Complex Systems
  • list items Introduction to Statistics

Students must choose two electives to complete thirty credit hours and are allowed to take a maximum of two courses from engineering, science, or business discourse upon the approval of the advisor.

MS in Engineering Management is a thirty credit hour joint course offered by the College of Science and that of Business Administration seeking to incorporate engineering studies into the realm of business studies. MS in Logistics is also a conflation of Engineering and Business skills into a form of coursework comprising of thirty hours. It caters to the students interested in the profession of maintenance of logistics and supply chain.

Areas of Expertise:

  • list items Engineering Management
  • list items Manufacturing
  • list items Statistics
  • list items Systems Engineering
  • list items Human Factors
  • list items Operations Research
  • list items Logistics

List of Labs:

  • list items Center for Renewable Energy
  • list items Science & Technology (CREST)
  • list items Security Advances in Applied Nanotechnology (SAVANT)
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Material Science

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is a dynamic department which is also one of the oldest in North Texas. It houses an extensive variety of courses and twenty-five affiliated faculty from different disciplines. It offers MS, M.Engr, Ph.D., and a certificate program.

MS in Materials Science provides an insight into the intricacies of materials and their fundamental properties. It is an interdisciplinary program involving both the colleges of science and engineering. It has a thesis and thesis-substitute options. The thesis option is a twenty-four-hour course which is research-oriented, and therefore the completion of a thesis is mandatory which forms six credit hours in the coursework. The thesis-substitute option is of thirty hours in total out of which twenty-seven hours are for coursework and three credit hours for a special project.

On the other hand, M.Engr. has a minimum of thirty-credit hour requirement out of which twenty-four hours should be devoted to MSE courses.

The core subjects include:

  • list items Analysis of Materials
  • list items Solid State Physics
  • list items Thermodynamics of Material
  • list items Mechanical Behavior of Materials
  • list items Phase Transformations of Materials.

Areas of Expertise:

  • list items Electronic Materials and Sensors
  • list items Biomaterials
  • list items Ceramic Materials
  • list items Nano Science and Nano Technology
  • list items Mechanical Properties of Materials
  • list items Fatigue and Fracture
  • list items Computational Materials / Materials Modeling
  • list items Energy Materials
  • list items Surface Engineering
  • list items Thin Films and Coatings (corrosion, wear, lubrication)
What is the maximum number of hours a student can work each week?
 
Student employees should work no more than 19 hours per week on average in order to focus on their academic studies and to allow more students to take advantage of the limited student job opportunities available. Students should not work during the class hours. Remember that student employees are first and foremost students. International students who are permitted to work under a visa must adhere to the restrictions imposed by their visa in terms of working hours.
What is the definition of student employment?
 
Student Employment at UTA is the process where the hiring and management is done for the temporary part-time jobs. Here students are paid on an hourly basis and the University of Texas at Arlington acts as an employer. This includes all Student Assistant and Student Associate positions with on-campus departments, including work-study opportunities. As a form of pay or labor accomplished, student employee positions are not eligible for tuition benefits or stipends. During a student's time at UTA, he or she may have the opportunity to work as a student.
 
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