Spring 2027 VEO Classes
VEO Degree Students
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Spring 2027 Class Search Options
The spring 2027 UVA graduate engineering online classes have been compiled below. This listing is a snapshot-in-time and will be updated periodically. To ensure that you are viewing the most current class information, follow the class search options described below:
Visit Hoos List. Ensure the correct term is displayed at the top left. Scroll down to the Engineering and Applied Sciences Departments and click to open the program options. Select a program (Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Materials, Mechanical, or Systems) and review the courses that show. Generally, those listed with a 600 number section are available online.
Visit the Student Information System (SIS). Select ‘Search Classes by Semester’. Ensure the correct term is displayed at the top left. Enter an appropriate program of study in the ‘Subject’ field (CHE, CE, ECE, MSE, MAE, or SYS). Click the navy ‘Search’ button and review the courses that show. Generally, those listed with a 600 number section are available online.
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VEO Spring 2027 Courses
CHE 6442-600 (16378) Applied Surface Chemistry
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: David Green
Factors underlying interfacial phenomena, with emphasis on thermodynamics of surfaces, structural aspects, and electrical phenomena; applications such as emulsification, foaming, detergency, sedimentation, flow through porous media, fluidization, nucleation, wetting, adhesion, flotation, electrocapillarity.
CHE 6445-600 (16542) Fundamentals of Process Safety
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Ronald Unnerstall
This course will cover the fundamentals of Process Safety. We will apply chemical engineering fundamentals to identify various hazards within chemical processes and will assess the risks associated with these hazards. This course will also cover the process design approaches and other commonly adopted industry practices used to mitigate, control and/or manage risks associated with chemical processes.
CHE 6618-600 (15613) Chemical Reaction Engineering
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Jason Bates
Fundamentals of chemical reaction kinetics and mechanisms; experimental methods of determining reaction rates; introduction to heterogeneous catalysis; application of chemical kinetics, along with mass-transfer theory, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics, to the design and operation of chemical reactors. Prerequisite: CHE 6625 and 6665.
CHE 6630-600 (16062) Mass Transfer
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Roseanne Ford
Fundamental principles common to mass transfer phenomena, with emphasis on mass transfer in diverse chemical engineering situations. Detailed consideration of fluxes, diffusion with and without convection, interphase mass transfer with chemical reaction, and applications. Prerequisite: CHE 6625 and 6665.
CE 5300-600 (15459) Advanced Design of Metal Structures
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Jose Gomez
Behavior and design of structural elements and systems, including continuous beams, plate girders, composite steel-concrete members, and members in combined bending and compression. Structural frames, framing systems, eccentric connections, and torsion and torsional stability are also studied. (Y) Prerequisites: CE 3330 or equivalent.
CE 5410-600 (15460) Introduction to Transportation Planning
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: John Miller
Introduces the legal requirements, framework, and principles of urban and statewide planning. Focuses on describing and applying the methodology of the forecasting system of the transportation planning process, including inventory, forecasts of population and economic activity, network analysis, and travel demand analysis.
CE 5500-600 (20411) Special Topics: Intro to Bridge Engineering
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Jose Gomez
Applies basic engineering principles, analytical procedures and design methodology to special problems of current interest in civil engineering. Topic for each semester are announced at the time of course enrollment.
CE 5750-600 (16342) Civil Eng Design & Practice
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Lindsay Burden
This class surveys the breadth of Civil Engineering as a discipline and is customized for graduate students without previous education in civil engineering. Students will learn the basics of a wide variety of design and practice topics within the field of civil engineering. Restricted to Civil Engineering Graduate Students with Instructor's Permission.
CE 6015-600 (15610) Project Management
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Cody Pennetti
Project management skills are just as crucial to success as engineering skills. Therefore, it is essential to understand how projects are planned, executed, and managed. The purpose of this course is to introduce the principles of project management. The course will equip students with the concepts, tools, and language of project management that can be applied to any project size and type.
CE 6025-600 (17606) Virtual Design & Construction (VDC) Coordination & Control
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Somayeh ASADI
In this course, students will learn how to use Building Information Modeling to 1) support decision-making over a project life cycle and 2) improve coordination between stakeholders throughout the design and construction stages. With this hands-on course, students will learn how to integrate all project models to visualize the construction process and better predict, manage, and communicate project outcomes.
CE 6230-600 (20407) Hydrology
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Jonathan Goodall
Stresses the quantitative description and the physical basis of hydrology. Both deterministic and stochastic methodology are applied to the analysis of the hydrologic cycle, namely, precipitation, evaporation, overland flow and stream flow, infiltration, and groundwater flow. The use of compute simulation models, especially microcomputer based models, is emphasized.
CE 6500-600 (20409) Special Topics: AI for Engineers
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Leo Liu
Detailed study of special topics in civil engineering. Master's-level graduate students. Prerequisites: to be listed for each section as needed.
ECE 6430-600 (21123) Real-time Embedded Systems
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Homa Alemzadeh
This course explores advanced embedded systems topics such as design and validation of embedded computing systems, embedded C programming, real-time operating systems for microcontrollers, safety and security, cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things, and robotics. The course includes hands-on experience, paper presentations, and discussions.
ECE 6501-600 (20166) Special Topics: Geometry of Data
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Tom Fletcher
A first-level graduate course covering a topic not normally covered in the graduate course offerings. The topic will usually reflect new developments in the electrical and computer engineering field. Offering is based on student and faculty interests. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
ECE 6502-600 (15873) Special Topics: Photovoltaics
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Mool Gupta
A first-level graduate course covering a topic not normally covered in the graduate course offerings. The topic will usually reflect new developments in the electrical and computer engineering field. Offering is based on student and faculty interests. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
ECE 6502-601 (16035) Special Topics: Hardware for Modern Computing
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Nikhil Shukla
A first-level graduate course covering a topic not normally covered in the graduate course offerings. The topic will usually reflect new developments in the electrical and computer engineering field. Offering is based on student and faculty interests. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
ECE 6502-602 (16087) Special Topics: Network Security & Privacy
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Yixin Sun
This course investigates security and privacy issues that stem from the Internet infrastructure. We will cover topics such as BGP security, DNS security, DDoS attacks, and anonymous communications. We will also look at various mechanisms to secure the Internet infrastructure, as well as privacy-enhancing technologies. Note that this course will involve literature review and paper presentation/discussion.
MSE 6020-600 (15587) Defects & Microstructure in Materials
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Leonid Zhigilei
Basic course designed to provide a foundation for correlating defect structure and microstructure with physical, mechanical, and chemical properties of engineering materials. The fundamental properties of point, line, and surface defects in ordered media will be formulated. The thermodynamics of point defects in various types of solids will be discussed as well as the geometry and mechanics of crystal dislocations and their role in crystal plasticity elucidated. The essential elements of microstructure will be characterized, emphasizing the concepts of phase constitution, microconstituent, polycrystalline aggregate, and multiphase materials. The concept of real materials embodying a hierarchy of structures is emphasized. The principles governing the genesis and stability of material structure at various levels will be discussed. Prerequisite: MSE 6010.
MSE 6080-600 (16322) Chemical & Electrochemical Properties
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: John Scully
Introduces the concepts of electrode potential, double layer theory, surface charge, and electrode thermodynamics and kinetics. These concepts are applied to subjects that include corrosion and hydrogen embrittlement, energy conversion, batteries and fuel cells, electro-catalysis, electroanalysis, electrochemical industrial processes, and sustainability. Prerequisite: Physical chemistry course or instructor permission
MSE 6140-600 (16377) Magnetism & Magnetic Materials
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Liqin Ke
This course introduces the fundamentals of magnetism and magnetic materials, covering fundamental theory, modeling and computation, characterization, and applications. Magnetic interactions and spin excitations—including magnetization, exchange coupling, magnetic anisotropy, and spin waves—are explained from the perspective of electronic structure, providing understanding at the atomic and electronic levels. The course explores analytical, computational, and experimental methods for investigating intrinsic and extrinsic magnetic properties and discusses modern materials that are critical to advanced technologies, such as rare-earth permanent magnets, 2D magnets, and quantum information devices. Students will gain the foundational knowledge and skills needed to understand, analyze, and design magnetic materials.
MSE 6240-600 (15588) Kinetics of Transport & Transformations in Materials
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Elizabeth Opila
An introduction to basic kinetic processes in materials and develops basic mathematical skills necessary for materials research. Students learn to formulate the partial differential equations and boundary conditions used to describe basic materials phenomena in the solid state, including mass and heat diffusion in single- and two-phase systems, the motion of planar phase boundaries, and interfacial reactions. Students develop analytical and numerical techniques for solving these equations and apply them to understanding microstructural evolution. Prerequisite: MSE 6230.
MSE 6320-600 (16324) Deformation & Fracture of Structural Materials
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: James Burns
Deformation and fracture are considered through integration of materials science microstructure and solid mechanics principles over a range of length scales, emphasizing the mechanical behavior of metallic-structural alloys and electronic materials. Metal deformation is understood based on elasticity theory and dislocation concepts. Fracture is understood based on continuum fracture mechanics and microstructural damage mechanisms. Additional topics include fatigue, elevated temperature behavior, material embrittlement, time-dependency, experimental design, damage-tolerant life prognosis, small-volume behavior, and material property modeling. Prerequisite: MSE 4320, or BS in MSE, or MSE 6050, or permission of instructor for graduate students outside of MSE.
MSE 7340-600 (20214) Phase Transformations
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Jerrold Floro
Includes the fundamental theory of diffusional phase transformations in solid metals and alloys; applications of thermodynamics to calculation of phase boundaries and driving forces for transformations; theory of solid-solid nucleation, theory of diffusional growth, comparison of both theories with experiment; applications of thermodynamics and of nucleation and growth theory to the principal experimental systematics of precipitation from solid solution, the massive transformations, the cellular and the pearlite reactions, martensitic transformations, and the questions of the role of shear in diffusional phase transformations. Prerequisite: MSE 6230 or comparable thermodynamics.
MAE 6070-600 (20396) Theory of Elasticity
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Baoxing Xu
Concepts of stress, strain, equilibrium, compatibility; Hooke's law (isotropic materials); displacement and stress formulations of elasticity problems; plane stress and strain problems in rectangular coordinates (Airy's stress function approach); plane stress and strain problems in polar coordinates, axisymmetric problems; thermal stress; and energy methods.
MAE 6250-600 (15363) Multibody Mechanical Systems
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Shawn Russell
Analytical and computational treatment for modeling and simulation of 3-Dimensional multibody mechanical systems. Provide a systematic and consistent basis for analyzing the interactions between motion constraints, kinematics, static, dynamic, and control behavior of multibody mechanical systems. Applications to machinery, robotic devices and mobile robots, biomechanical models for gait analysis and human motions, and motion control. Matrix modeling procedures with symbolic and numerical computational tools will be utilized for demonstrating the methods developed in this course. Focus on the current research and computational tools and examine a broad spectrum of physical systems where multibody behavior is fundamental to their design and control. Prerequisite: Engineering degree and familiarity with a programming language.
MAE 6310 (16106) Fluid Mechanics
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Daniel Quinn
The topics covered are: dimensional analysis; physical properties of fluids; kinematic descriptions of flow; streamlines, path lines and streak lines; stream functions and vorticity; hydrostatics and thermodynamics; Euler and Bernoulli equations; irrotational potential flow; exact solutions to the Navier-Stokes equation; effects of viscosity - high and low Reynolds numbers; waves in incompressible flow; hydrodynamic stability. Prerequisite: Graduate Standing
MAE 6430-600 (15738) Statistics for Engineers & Scientists
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Meiqin Li
Role of statistics in science, hypothesis tests of significance, confidence intervals, design of experiments, regression, correlation analysis, analysis of variance, and introduction to statistical computing with statistical software libraries. Cross-listed as APMA 6430. Prerequisite: Admission to graduate studies or instructor permission.
MAE 6710-600 (15293) Finite Element Analysis
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Chen Cui
The topics covered are: review of vectors, matrices, and numerical solution techniques; discrete systems; variational formulation and approximation for continuous systems; linear finite element method in solid mechanics; formulation of isoparametric finite elements; finite element method for field problems, heat transfer, and fluid dynamics. Prerequisite: MAE 6020 or equivalent
MAE 8100-600 (16382) Research Seminar
Online Asynchronous
Instructors: David Brown, Chen Cui, Toni Tang
Required one-hour weekly seminar for graduate students in mechanical and aerospace engineering. Students enrolled may make formal presentations of their research work.
SYS 5581-600 (15895) Special Topics: AI & ML: Security & Privacy
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Hunter Moore
Detailed study of a selected topic, determined by the current interest of faculty and students. Offered as required.
SYS 6005-600 (16375) Stochastic Modeling I
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Henning Mortveit
Covers basic stochastic processes with emphasis on model building and probabilistic reasoning. The approach is non-measure theoretic but otherwise rigorous. Topics include a review of elementary probability theory with particular attention to conditional expectations; Markov chains; optimal stopping; renewal theory and the Poisson process; and martingales. Applications are considered in reliability theory, inventory theory, and queuing systems. Prerequisite: APMA 3100, 3120, or equivalent background in applied probability and statistics.
SYS 6007-600 (15484) Human Factors I
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Matthew Bolton
An introduction to the analysis, design, and evaluation of human-centered systems. User interaction can be designed to leverage the strengths of people in controlling automation and analyzing data. Topics include Task, User and Work Domain Analysis, User Interface Design Principles, Human Cognition and Information Processing, Human Perception, and Usability Testing. Graduate version includes separate project review sessions.
SYS 6034-600 (15660) Discrete-Event Stochastic Simulation
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Brian Park
A first graduate course covering the theory and practice of discrete-event stochastic simulation. Coverage includes Monte Carlo methods and spreadsheet applications, generating random numbers and variates, specifying input probability distributions, discrete-event simulation logic and computational issues, review of basic queueing theory, analysis of correlated output sequences, model verification and validation, experiment design and comparison of simulated systems, and simulation optimization. Emphasis includes state-of-the-art simulation programming languages with animation on personal computers. Applications address operations in manufacturing, distribution, transportation, communication, computer, health care, and service systems. Prerequisite: SYS 6005 or equivalent background in probability, statistics, and stochastic processes.
SYS 6050-600 (15354) Risk Analysis
Online Asynchronous
Instructor: James Lambert
A study of technological systems, where decisions are made under conditions of risk and uncertainty. Topics include conceptualization (the nature, perception, and epistemology of risk, and the process of risk assessment and management) systems engineering tools for risk analysis (basic concepts in probability and decision analysis, event trees, decision trees, and multiobjective analysis), and methodologies for risk analysis. Prerequisite: APMA 3100, SYS 3021, or equivalent.