Distance Education
The UT College of Engineering offers both graduate degree programs and graduate certificates via Distance Education (DE), allowing motivated individuals an opportunity to further their engineering education without attending classes on campus. These online courses are taught by the same faculty and governed by the same high academic standards and regulations as traditional classes. For more details about DE and its requirements, visit the Department of Distance Education and Independent Study website.
Masters Degrees
M.S. in Civil Engineering, Public Works Option
The Public Works graduate program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville is tailored to students in a traditional academic setting as well as to practicing professionals interested in continuing education. Some opportunities will be provided to permit you to integrate your academic studies with an internship program with local municipalities and consulting companies. Practicing engineers may have access to academic courses via internet delivery to your desktop computer, wherever you are.
M.S. in Environmental Engineering,
General Environmental Engineering
The Environmental Engineering graduate program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, focuses on environmental pollution control, management, and protection of resources, including air, water and land. Through Distance Education and Independent Study the student can specialize in a program in general environmental engineering resulting in a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering.
M.S. in Industrial and Information Engineering (Engineering Management concentration)
The engineering management concentration has an additional admission requirement of two years of industrial experience as a practicing engineer or scientist in a company in the United States, or current full-time employment in an appropriate engineering or applied science position. The program is non-thesis and requires 33 semester hours of coursework plus a 3-hour design (capstone) project. This concentration is fully supported off-campus utilizing electronic media for video taping and interactive distance teaching methods, and is made available through the cooperative efforts of the Department of Industrial and Information Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and the UT Space Institute in Tullahoma, Tennessee.
M.S. in Reliability and Maintainability Engineering (RME)
The RME academic program was developed to meet the needs of industry and government by providing formal education in the RME area. The M.S. program is an interdisciplinary program in the College of Engineering. Students choose a concentration in Chemical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Nuclear Engineering. RME focuses on the use of management systems, analysis techniques and advanced condition-based and preventive technologies to identify, manage and eliminate failures leading to losses in system function. Once perceived as a practitioner or manufacturing issue, reliability and maintainability engineering is now considered a business issue of urgent priority.
M.S. in Nuclear Engineering
Distance students can complete the entire coursework requirements for the Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering program by taking primarily interactive web courses that are basically the same as graduate nuclear engineering courses taught on campus at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. The MS program requires eight 3-hour graduate courses: four Nuclear Engineering (NE) courses, two courses in a related technical discipline (or two more NE courses), and two courses in mathematics, statistics or computer science. In addition, at least six hours of research or engineering practice are required for a total MS requirement of at least 30 hours. Up to one-third of the credit hours for the MS degree can be transfer credit from another accredited institution.
Graduate Certificates
Graduate Certificate in Nuclear Criticality Safety
The Graduate School and The Department of Nuclear Engineering have approved a program of courses which leads to formal recognition of graduate level training in nuclear criticality safety, via a Graduate Certificate. The program consists of four graduate nuclear engineering courses (three required courses and one elective course) related to nuclear criticality safety and is intended to complement practical on-the-job training that is required of most nuclear criticality safety specialists.
Graduate Certificate in Reliability and Maintainability Engineering (RME)
The RME Graduate Certificate program is an interdepartmental program designed for students who wish to learn about advanced reliability, maintainability and asset management practices. It is also suitable for professionals and managers currently working in the field who wish to improve their knowledge and skills. The program consists of four graduate engineering courses, two required courses and two elective courses. The two required courses introduce the student to the fundamentals of maintenance engineering and reliability engineering. The two elective courses are selected from a list of RME-related courses that currently include courses in five traditional engineering disciplines.
Graduate Certificate in Computational Fluid Dynamics
Newly organized, completely Internet-based graduate course sequence constituted of ES 551, ES 552, ES 645 plus an elective. A hands-on CFD Laboratory course (ES 652) for code applications in 3-dimensional validation-scale CFD problem statements will be available shortly. Requires admittance to the University of Tennessee Graduate School and counts as first 12 hours towards ES MSc in the computational engineering sciences.
Graduate Certificate in Engineering Management
The Industrial and Information Engineering Department offers a graduate certificate in engineering management. The program, designed for professionals who work in an engineering organization, consists of four graduate courses, Engineering Management 533, 534, 536 and 539. The hours may be utilized toward a graduate degree later if the student meets all other degree requirements. Applicants must be admitted to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Graduate School. The only academic prerequisite for the certificate program is a bachelor's degree from a recognized university or college.