The Master of Sustainable Transportation allows you to focus on a different broad topic during each year of the three-year program. All courses are completed online except for the five-day summer capstone project, which takes place on the UW Seattle campus between the second and third years of the program. The Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering requires a minimum of 42 credits for the degree.
Year One
Sustainable Transportation: Planning and Livable Communities
- The planning process
- How land use affects transportation
- Transportation issues planners and other transportation professionals have to address
Year Two
Sustainable Transportation: Environmental Issues and Impacts
- Climate change and energy
- Tools used to estimate impacts of various transportation options
- An analysis of the entire life cycle costs of transportation implementation, systems analysis and resiliency
Year Three
Sustainable Transportation: Policy Development, Health and Economics
- Sustainable transportation as an important policy topic with health effects and economics driving many decisions
- How sustainable transportation can be addressed politically, financially and administratively at the local, state and federal levels
You will begin your capstone project after the second year and are required to participate in a five-day, three-credit residency on the University of Washington Seattle campus in the summer. You will consult with an adviser during your residency and throughout the third year, earning one credit per quarter. A presentation on the capstone project will be included in a special online event at the end of the third year.
