城市人口正在增加。地方政府，公共服务机构和城市公用事业面临对日益老化的城市基础设施系统更高的可靠性，安全性，可负担性和弹性的需求。必须不断调整和升级这些系统（通常使用技术驱动的解决方案），以有效地支持基本的公共服务，城市发展和经济增长。基础设施系统支持各种城市部门，包括运输，能源和供水，卫生和废水管理以及其他基本服务。下面概述了所有程序元素。该计划还要求您在所有研究生课程和指导性学习（阅读，项目，论文，学位论文）中拥有3.0 GPA或更高的成绩。
Urban populations are on the rise. Local governments, public service agencies, and urban utilities face increasing demand for greater reliability, safety, affordability and resiliency of aging urban infrastructure systems. These systems must be continuously adapted and upgraded (often with technology-driven solutions) to efficiently support the essential public services, urban development, and economic growth.The infrastructure systems support a variety of urban sectors, including transportation, energy & water supply, sanitation & wastewater management, and other essential services. Their sustainable development engages a wide variety of public and private sector stakeholders and greatly depends on a broad range of factors, such as public policy objectives, land use and geo-physical system characteristics, regulatory requirements, and other variables. Both Government and Industry presently face increasing needs for innovative capabilities of dynamic monitoring and 'smart system control to effectively meet the challenge of upgrading the aging urban infrastructure systems.With specialized faculty members from Government, Industry and Academia, the program is designed for professionals, with both engineering and non-engineering backgrounds, who are involved and/or interested in the fast growing inter-disciplinary field of urban systems management and career opportunities with government agencies, public and private sector utilities, and service industries across the wide array of the metropolitan sectors.