Clemson's transportation students have a wide variety of courses available to them through offerings in City and Regional Planning, Civil Engineering, and Industrial Engineering. Based on individual students backgrounds and interests, they can design their graduate specializations.Directed study courses offer further opportunity for independent research into desired topics. Students interested in doctoral study in transportation planning will find courses available for specialized advanced graduate study in areas of interest.
Undergraduate Course Offerings
CE 311 Transportation Engineering 3 creditsPlanning, design, and operation of transportation facilities including highways and airports. Coverage includes economic, safety, and environmental considerations. Public transit systems are covered. Prequisites: CE 255, EX ST 301. Graduate students without a civil engineering background can audit this course. Instructors: Mashrur Chowdhury, Jennifer Ogle, or Wayne Sarasua
IE 386 Production Planning and Control - 3 credits
Fundamentals of forecasting demand, scheduling production, and controlling the movement and storage of material associated with production are studied. State-of-the-art manufacturing techniques are discussed.
Prequisites: IE 280; CP SC 161 or IE 220.
CE 410 TraffiCEngineering 3 credits
Basic characteristics of motor-vehicle traffic, highway capacity, applications of traffic control devices, traffic design of parking facilities, engineering studies, traffic safety, traffic laws and ordinances, public relations.
Prerequisite: CE 311 or consent of instructor
Instructors: Mashrur Chowdhury, Jennifer Ogle, or Wayne Sarasua
CE 411 Roadway Geometric Design 3 credits
Geometric design of roadways, at-grade intersections, and interchanges in accordance with conditions imposed by driver ability, vehicle performance, safety, and economics.
Prequisite: CE 311 or consent of instructor
Instructor: Jennifer Ogle
CRP/CE 412 Transportation Planning - 3 credits
Travel characteristics, characteristics of transportation systems, transportation and land-use studies, trip distribution and trip assignment models, city patterns and subdivision layout.
Prequisite: CE 311 or consent of instructor.
Instructor: Anne Dunning
IE 456 Supply Chain Design and Control - 3 credits
Industrial engineering aspects of supply chains including design and control of material and information systems.
Prequisite: IE 386
Instructor: William Ferrell
IE 457 Transportation and Logistics Engineering - 3 credits also online in Summer
This course provides an introduction to transportation and logistics systems analysis from both analytical and practical perspectives. Methods for identifying level-of-service metrics and measuring system performance are covered. Key aspects of modeling, simulation, and other techniques for economic and quantitative analysis of transportation and logistics planning issues are discussed.
Prerequisite: Open to engineering, science, and management majors
Instructor: Kevin Taaffe
IE 482 Systems Modeling - 4 credits
Modeling of discrete industrial systems using a digital computer. The purpose, theory, and techniques of system modeling are presented.
Prequisite: IE 381
Instructor: Kevin Taaffe
CEH 488 Honors Research Topic
Honors undergraduate students can select a transportation topic of particular interest and a faculty mentor.
Instructor: Various
Graduate Course Offerings for Fall Term
CE 610 TraffiCEngineering 3 creditsBasic characteristics of motor-vehicle traffic, highway capacity, applications of traffic control devices, traffic design of parking facilities, engineering studies, traffic safety, traffic laws and ordinances, public relations.
Prerequisite: CE 311 or consent of instructor
Instructors: Mashrur Chowdhury, Jennifer Ogle, or Wayne Sarasua
IE 656 Supply Chain Design and Control - 3 credits
Industrial engineering aspects of supply chains including design and control of material and information systems.
Prequisite: IE 386
Instructor: Kevin Taaffe
IE 682 Systems Modeling - 4 credits
Modeling of discrete industrial systems using a digital computer. The purpose, theory, and techniques of system modeling are presented.
Prequisite: IE 381
Instructor: Kevin Taaffe
CE 815 Traffic Safety Engineering 3 credits
Prerequisite: CE 311
Instructor: Jennifer Ogle
CRP 854 Travel Demand Forecasting 3 credits
In-depth coverage of travel-demand forecasting theory and the four-step process; site impact analysis; disaggregate demand models. Students work in groups to develop a computer-based travel forecasting model for a small city.
Prerequisite: CE 412 or consent of instructor
Instructor: Wayne Sarasua
CE 855 Transportation Systems Seminar 1 credit (offered every other year)
Practical discussion of the transportation profession featuring faculty and off-campus experts. Course is highlighted by a retreat where students present their transportation research.
Instructors: Mashrur Chowdhury, Jennifer Ogle, or Wayne Sarasua
IE 880 Advanced Methods of Operations Research - 3 credits (not offered every year)
Methods and applications of advanced operations research techniques; discrete optimization, integer, and mixed integer programming, Boolean minimization, network optimization, permutization methods on implicit enumeration.
Prequisites: IE 803 or consent of instructor.
Instructor: Kevin Taaffe
IE 886 Operations Research in Production Control - 3 credits (not offered every year)
Latest techniques in scientific inventory management, scheduling, and forecasting; operations research; statistics; computer methods; case studies.
Prequisite: IE 803.
Instructor: Kevin Taaffe
CRP 889 Public Transit 3 credits
This course familiarizes students with core concepts and practices in public transit. Students learn about transit modes and design, planning issues, and technical operations. The course concludes with an examination of comprehensive transit systems. The course considers transit systems from major metropolitan heavy rail to demand response in rural areas.
Instructor: Anne Dunning
CE 8xx Intelligent Transportation Systems 3 credits (not offered every year)
Instructor: Mashrur Chowdhury
CE 8xx Transportation Systems Management 3 credits (not offered every year)
Instructors: Mashrur Chowdhury, Jennifer Ogle, or Wayne Sarasua
Graduate Course Offerings for Spring Term
CE 610 Traffic Engineering 3 creditsBasic characteristics of motor-vehicle traffic, highway capacity, applications of traffic control devices, traffic design of parking facilities, engineering studies, traffic safety, traffic laws and ordinances, public relations.
Prerequisite: CE 311 or consent of instructor
Instructors: Mashrur Chowdhury, Jennifer Ogle, or Wayne Sarasua
CE 611 Roadway Geometric Design 3 credits
Geometric design of roadways, at-grade intersections, and interchanges in accordance with conditions imposed by driver ability, vehicle performance, safety, and economics.
Prequisite: CE 311 or consent of instructor
Instructor: Jennifer Ogle
CRP/CE 612 Transportation Planning - 3 credits
Travel characteristics, characteristics of transportation systems, transportation and land-use studies, trip distribution and trip assignment models, city patterns and subdivision layout.
Instructor: Anne Dunning
IE 657 Transportation and Logistics Engineering - 3 credits also online in Summer
This course provides an introduction to transportation and logistics systems analysis from both analytical and practical perspectives. Methods for identifying level-of-service metrics and measuring system performance are covered. Key aspects of modeling, simulation, and other techniques for economic and quantitative analysis of transportation and logistics planning issues are discussed.
Prerequisite: Open to graduate students
Instructor: Kevin Taaffe
CE 815 Transportation Safety Engineering - 3 credits
Methodology for conducting transportation accident studies; accident characteristics as related to operator, facility, and mode; statistical applications to accident data; current trends and problems in transportation safety.
Prerequisite: CE 311 or consent of instructor.
Instructor: Jennifer Ogle
CE 853 Applications in TraffiCEngineering - 3 credits (not offered every year)
Highway capacity analysis; design of unsignalized intersections; intelligent transportation systems; parking; traffic signal coordination; microscopic and macroscopic traffic simulation.
Prerequisite: CE 410 or consent of instructor
Instructors: Mashrur Chowdhury, Jennifer Ogle, or Wayne Sarasua
CRP 889 Transportation Innovation - 3 credits
Through lectures, seminar discussions, and collaborative-learning activities, course interaction will develop based on students' transportation knowledge, research, and ideas. Rather than building basic knowledge for entry-level professional employment, this course encourages students to use information already obtained to create visionary thinking and interaction skills needed to become transportation leaders.
Prerequisite: CE612 Transportation Planning or permission of instructor
Instructor: Anne Dunning
CRP 889 Scapes of Motion: Blending Transportation and Landscape Architecture 3 credits
Proposed course not yet offered
CRP 889 Airport Planning and Design 3 credits (not offered every year)
Instructors: Anne Dunning and Wayne Sarasua
CE 889 Transportation Economics and Finance 3 credits
Proposed course not yet offered.
CE 8xx Survey Methods 3 credits
Instructor: Jennifer Ogle