Course Offerings | Structural Engineering

Proposed Undergraduate Course Offerings for 2025-2026

Course offerings and instructors are subject to change*.
Course descriptions and requirements are available in the course catalog.

*Updated as of April 23rd, 2025.

COURSE		Fall 2025	Winter 2026	Spring 2026
Core Required Courses
SE 1	Intro. to Structures and Design	Van Den Einde
SE 3	Graphical Communication for Engr. Design			Van Den Einde
SE 9	Algorithms and Programming for Struct. Engr.		Kuester	Kuester
SE 101A	Mechanics I: Statics	Morrison	Staff
SE 101B	Mechanics II: Dynamics		Kosmatka	Staff
SE 101C	Mechanics III: Vibrations	Zhu
SE 102	Introduction to Computing for Engineers		Semnani
SE 105	Structural Materials	Qiao		Qiao
SE 110A	Solid Mechanics I		Lanza di Scalea	Tehrani
SE 110B	Solid Mechanics II			Zhu
SE 115	Fluid Mechanics for Structural Engineering		Zhu
SE 125	Statistics, Probability, and Reliability	Conte
SE 130A	Structural Analysis I	Loh	Loh
SE 130B	Structural Analysis II			Chadha
SE 131A	Finite Element Analysis			Krysl
SE 131B	Computing Projects in Structural Engr.	Krysl
Civil Structures Focus Sequence
SE 103	Conceptual Structural Design		Van Den Einde
SE 150A	Design of Steel Structures I			Uang
SE 151A	Design of Reinforced Concrete		Tsampras
SE 181	Geotechnical Engineering	McCartney
Civil Structures/Geotech. Capstone
SE 140A	Prof. Issues and Design for Civil Struct. I		Uang
SE 140B	Prof. Issues and Design for Civil Struct. II			Palermo
Aerospace Focus Sequence
SE 142/253A	Mechanics & Design of Composite Structures	H. Kim
SE 160A/260A	Aerospace Structural Mechanics I		Kosmatka
SE 160B/260B	Aerospace Structural Mechanics II			A. Kim
SE 171/262	Aerospace Structures Renewal		H. Kim
Aerospace Structures Capstone
SE 143A	Aerospace Structural Design I		Kosmatka
SE 143B	Aerospace Structural Design II			Kosmatka
Geotechnical Focus Sequence
*Note: Since SE 151A has SE 103 as a prereq and SE 140A has SE 150A as a prereq. Students should plan to take SE 103 and SE 150A as TE classes their junior year.
SE 151A	Design of Reinforced Concrete		Tsampras
SE 181	Geotechnical Engineering	McCartney
SE 182	Foundation Engineering		Hutchinson
SE 184/247	Ground Improvement			Hutchinson
SHM/NDE Focus Sequence
*Note: SE 165 is the capstone class for this sequence and students are required to take an additional TE.
SE 163/263	Nondestructive Evaluation	Lanza Di Scalea
SE 164/264	Sensors/Data Acquisition for SE		Loh
SE 165/265	Structural Health Monitoring			Todd
SE 167/267	Signal Processing		Chadha
SE 168/268	Structural System Testing and Model Correlation			Todd
Technical Electives
SE 132	Machine Learning for Structural Engineering			Chen
SE 150B	Design of Steel Structures II			Morrison
SE 151B	Design of Prestressed Concrete			Tsampras
SE 154	Timber Design
SE 175	Intro to Additive Manufacturing		Tehrani
SE 180	Earthquake Engineering	Elgamal
SE 183 (sub for SE 250) Note: Graduate students will have priority enrollment as SE 183 is being used to satisfy graduate requirements. Undergraduate students will be able to enroll/waitlist during 2nd pass.	Stability of Slopes and Walls			Tomac

Summer 2025 Course Offerings

Course offerings and instructors are subject to change.

"Summer Session welcomes visiting students with Open Enrollment into summer courses. These courses are for UC-credit, but can be transferred to other universities with approval from the home institution. Visiting students can apply and enroll after the application process opens in April. Information on the next steps can be found on: https://summersession.ucsd.edu/enroll/application.html

Other useful links for prospective visiting students:

Preview of Classes: https://summersession.ucsd.edu/courses/preview.aspx
Tuition Guidelines: https://summersession.ucsd.edu/tuition/tuition.html
Schedule of Classes (posted online on March 23): https://act.ucsd.edu/scheduleOfClasses/scheduleOfClassesStudent.htm
- Courses with the building listed as "RCLAS", means remote instruction. All other building locations mean the class is held in-person on campus.
Course Syllabus: Visiting students are directed to academic departments for syllabi inquiries as some campuses require course syllabi for credit articulation

Questions can be directed to summer@ucsd.edu."

COURSE		Summer Session 1	Summer Session 2
Core Required Courses
SE 1	Intro. to Structures & Design	Chamorro
SE 9	Algorithms and Programming for Struct. Engr.		Jafari
SE 101A	Mechanics I: Statics	Chadha
SE 101B	Mechanics II: Dynamics		Chadha
SE 101C	Mechanics III: Vibrations	Chen
SE 110A	Solid Mechanics I	Zare
SE 110B	Solid Mechanics II		Zhu
SE 125	Statistics, Probability and Reliability		Sun
SE 130A	Structural Analysis I	Morrison
SE 130B	Structural Analysis II		Raman
SE 131A	Finite Element Analysis		Krysl
Civil Structures Focus Sequence
SE 150A	Design of Steel Structures I	Lee
Technical Electives
SE 153	Design of Structures for Fire Resistance	Mostafaei
SE 154	Timber Design		Adams