Professional Master's in Global Resilience and Sustainability Engineering

MS in Global Resilience & Sustainability Engineering

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“The practicum changed my life. It gave me an opportunity to go experience something that pushed me out of my comfort zone and exposed me to a whole different world.”

- G. Colgan, MS 2023

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Earn a Professional Master's degree in Global Engineering & Resilience and gain abreadth of knowledge in these relevant areas:

  • Global climate change
  • Remote sensing & geospatial data analytics
  • Analysis and design of hazard-resilient infrastructure
  • Global health
  • Environmental and development economics
  • Impact evaluation

Buildtechnical skills and study a specific area of interest within global civil engineering.

Participate in hands-on learning during your field or team-project practicumwhere you will put classroom knowledge into practice in a community in need.Our practicum placements have taken place in over 50 countries, partnering with over 80 country programs.

This degree is a track of the Professional MS in Civil Engineering.

Ready to start your career as a Global Engineer? Apply today!

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Global Resilience & Sustainability Courses

1. Core Courses

All Global Engineering PMP students start their program with Hazard, Resilience, and Sustainability for the Natural and Built Environments or Global Development for Engineers, each of which introduces students to the complexities of global climate change and its hazards, inequalities, and opportunities, providing a survey approach to understanding major historical causes, theories, institutions, policies and emerging solutions.

The Global Engineering and Hazard ResiliencePracticum provides students with a field-based and/or team project-based opportunity to synthesize and integrate knowledge acquired in Mortenson Center courses and other learning experiences and to apply theory and principles in a situation that approximates professional practice in global engineering and hazard resilience. Students typically fulfill the practicum requirement the summer after the first academic year in the program. These two core courses fulfill six of the required 30 credits for the PMP:

2. Global Sustainability Option Area
(12 - 15 credits)

Students work with their advisor to tailor a set of courses to provide breadth in skills and subject matter in areas such as geospatial data analytics, environmental change, and socially responsible enterprise.

For example:

  • ENVS 5100: Special Topics in Environmental Studies: AI for Good(3 credits)
  • ENVM 5018: The Scientific Basis of Environmental Change(3 credits)
  • MBAX 6000 Socially Responsible Enterprise(3 credits)
  • Electives (3-6 credits)

3. Global Engineering & Resilience Series(9-12 credits)

The Mortenson Center offers courses as a series of 5-week modules, witheach module worth one credit-hour.For the Professional Master's in Global Resilience and Sustainability Engineering, students are required to complete 9-12 credit-hours from the following series:

A. Principles

B. Project Management

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What our students are saying:

“What I treasure most about the Mortenson Center is the community—both faculty and students foster an environment ripe for meaningful discussions on pressing global issues. The conversational approach to learning in the program encourages us to apply our knowledge to real-world problems, especially the integrative approach to climate change across all courses.” —D.Valdivieso, PhDCivEng'24