Graduate courses

Build your degree around the problems you want to solve. Choose from CEE courses in four focus areas, plus graduate courses across Carnegie Mellon in AI, energy, policy, and business.

*Courses offered in 2026–2027. Each program sets its own requirements: see master's programs and Ph.D. programs.

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CEE courses by focus area

Students frequently customize their degree path by selecting courses across multiple concentration areas to suit their individual goals.

*For semester-by-semester course offerings, please consult CMU's Schedule of Classes.

• Climate-resilient environmental systems and technology (CREST)
  

  Air, water, climate adaptation, and the chemistry of the environment

  Courses

  Course	Title	Units
  12-707	Special Topics: AI Engineering and Policy for Climate Mitigation and Resilience	12
  12-714	Environmental Life Cycle Assessment	12
  12-722	Advanced Chemistry and Thermodynamics for Environmental Systems	12
  12-724	Biotechnology and Wastewater Bioprocess Modeling	12
  12-726	Mathematical Modeling of Environmental Quality Systems	12
  12-728	Remediation Engineering	12
  12-749	Climate Change Adaptation	6
  12-757	Water Systems: Engineering, Analytics, and Decision Making	12

• Intelligent engineered systems and society (IESS)
  

  Smart cities, sensing, digital models, and managing infrastructure

  Courses

  Course	Title	Units
  12-645	Smart Cities: Growth and Intelligent Transportation Systems	6
  12-705	Designing Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure	12
  12-711	Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Engineering, Construction, and Facility Management	12
  12-735	Urban System Modeling	12
  12-750	Infrastructure Management	12
  12-768	Decision Analytics for Business and Policy	12
  12-770	Autonomous Sustainable Buildings	12
  12-774	Foundations of Intelligent Infrastructure Systems	12
  12-778	Special Topics: Sensors, Data, and Models in Engineering Systems	12
  12-780	Advanced Python for Infrastructure Systems	12

• Mechanics, chemistry, and materials (MCM)
  

  Structures, geotechnics, and how materials behave, from molecules up

  Courses

  Course	Title	Units
  12-623	Molecular Simulation of Materials	12
  12-631	Structural Design	12
  12-635	Structural Analysis	12
  12-636	Geotechnical Engineering	9
  12-755	Finite Element Methods for Engineering	12
  12-757	Water Systems: Engineering, Analytics, and Decision Making	12
  12-758	Elements of Continuum Mechanics, Controls, and Data Science	12
  12-775	Solid Mechanics and Elasticity	12

• Sustainable energy and transportation systems (SETS)
  

  Transportation, energy, sustainable design, and how systems are paid for

  Courses

  Course	Title	Units
  12-644	Special Topics: Intro to Transportation Systems Analysis	6
  12-705	Designing Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure	12
  12-706	Civil Systems Investment Planning and Pricing	12
  12-707	AI Engineering and Policy for Climate Mitigation and Resilience	12
  12-712	Sustainable Engineering Principles	12
  12-770	Autonomous Sustainable Buildings	12
  12-783	Geographic Information Systems	12

• Methods, data, and computing
  

  Tools you'll use in every focus area: modeling, statistics, data, GIS, and code

  Courses

  Course	Title	Units
  12-703	Numerical Methods in Engineering	12
  12-704	Probability and Estimation Methods for Engineering Systems	12
  12-746	Introduction to Python Prototyping for Infrastructure Systems	6
  12-768	Decision Analytics for Business and Policy	12
  12-771	Applied Data Analytics for Civil and Environmental Systems	12
  12-780	Advanced Python for Infrastructure Systems	6
  12-783	Geographic Information Systems	12
  12-787	Physics-Informed Machine Learning	12

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Courses across Carnegie Mellon

Take approved graduate courses in machine learning, energy, policy, and entrepreneurship from some of CMU's top-ranked departments.

*For semester-by-semester course offerings, please consult CMU's Schedule of Classes.

• AI, machine learning, and computing
  

  Machine Learning · Electrical and Computer Engineering · Software and Societal Systems

  Courses

  Course	Title	Units
  10-701	Introduction to Machine Learning	12
  17-514	Principles of Software Construction: Objects, Design, and Concurrency	12
  18-645	How to Write Fast Code I	12
  18-647	Computational Problem Solving for Engineers	12
  18-661	Introduction to Machine Learning for Engineers	12
  18-662	Principles and Engineering Applications of AI	12
  18-780	Introduction to Deep Learning for Engineers	6
  18-785	Data, Inference, and Applied Machine Learning	12
  18-786	Introduction to Deep Learning	12
  24-678	Computer Vision for Engineers	12
  24-784	Special Topics: Trustworthy AI	12
  24-787	Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Engineers	12

• Engineering science and design

  Mechanical · Chemical · Chemistry · Electrical and Computer Engineering

  Courses

  Course	Title	Units
  09-611	Chemical Thermodynamics	12
  09-724	Environmental Chemistry	12
  18-660	Optimization	12
  18-751	Applied Stochastic Processes	12
  24-618	Computational Analysis of Transport Phenomena	12
  24-628	Energy Transport and Conversion at the Nanoscale	12
  24-632	Special Topics: Additive Manufacturing Processing and Product Development	6
  24-677	Modern Control Theory	12
  24-718	Computational Fluid Dynamics	12
  24-771	Linear Systems Theory	12
  24-785	Engineering Optimization	6

• Energy, buildings, and policy
  

  Engineering and Public Policy · Architecture · College of Engineering

  Courses

  Course	Title	Units
  39-611	Energy Demand and Utilization	6
  48-721	Building Controls and Diagnostics	12
  48-722	Building Performance Modeling	9
  48-752	Zero Energy Housing	9
  48-781	Spatial Analysis in Infrastructure Planning	Variable

• Business, entrepreneurship, and management
  

  Heinz College · Information Systems

  Courses

  Course	Title	Units
  67-382	Digital Transformation, Strategy and Management	9
  94-807	Entrepreneurship: A New Venture	12
  94-702	Distributed Systems for Information Systems Management	12
  95-760	Decision Making Under Uncertainty	6

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