Safety Engineering Program

Get your M.S. in Safety Engineering

Objective

The MS in Safety Engineering is administered by the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center (MKOPSC) at Texas A&M University. The objective of this program with thesis is to teach the principles and practices of safety engineering for leadership careers in industry. The prerequisite for the MS in Safety Engineering program is a Bachelor Degree in Engineering.

Description

As with all Master of Science degrees requiring a thesis, a minimum of 32 semester credit hours of approved courses and research is required. This program consists of 24 hours of required courses, 8 hours of elective courses, and a thesis. This program includes extensive engineering applications with integration of safety principles, safety practices, and case studies.

Interested students must apply online at www.applytexas.org. On the application, the department should be listed as Chemical Engineering and the major indicated should be SENG. The applications are then reviewed by the Director of the MKOPSC. Admission is offered based on meeting admission requirements and the agreement of a faculty advisor, which can be from any engineering department. A degree plan is then approved in joint consultation between the faculty advisor and the Director of the Center.

For additional information, please contact Ms. Valerie Green, Assistant Director in the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at val-green@tamu.edu.

Get a Safety Engineering Certificate

The Safety Engineering Certificate requirements are achievable and relevant to all engineering disciplines. Undergraduate students in any engineering discipline can choose this option as part of their curriculum. Through this option, students are exposed to principles and case histories from a wide variety of engineering disciplines. The curriculum emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of safety, health, and environmental engineering. It also emphasizes the knowledge and skills most likely to be needed by any engineer, as well as those who specialize in safety engineering.

This program, which is administered by the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, seeks to serve all engineering disciplines equally well. The certificate requires 15 hours of coursework. These hours are applicable to the hours necessary for graduation, not an additional load. Nine hours are dedicated to Basic Topics and are required for everyone in the program. An additional six hours address more specific or advanced topics. If the discipline has a specific course in safety (such as does Chemical Engineering), that course counts towards the hours for advanced topics. The advanced topics are cross-listed with numerous departments and developed in cooperation with various TEES research centers and TTI. Finally, a three-hour discipline-specific capstone course that includes a safety component can complete the 15-hour Safety Certificate requirements.

Scholarships are now available for students pursuing a Safety Engineering Certificate! The new $2,500 scholarship award is divided into installments of $500 for courses taken that qualify toward earning the certificate. To be eligible for the scholarship students must maintain an overall minimum GPR of 3.0. In addition, students must earn at least a B in each qualifying course for the scholarship to continue.

Students interested in applying for the scholarship for the 2009 academic year are required to submit their completed applications.