COURSES OFFERED IN CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
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Please use the Registrar's Schedule of Courses for a list of C E courses offered for a specific semester.
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Course/Title/Credits |
| C E 209 FUNDAMENTALS OF SURVEYING (2) Fundamental surveying measurements, traverse computations, coordinate geometry, mapping, CAD applications. Intended for architectural engineering students only. The lecture will be taught concurrently with C E 310. Lab. Prerequisites: E G 130, MATH 141. Offered: Fall, Spring |
| C E 310 SURVEYING(3) Fundamental surveying measurements, traverse computations, coordinate geometry, mapping, GPS and GIS, circular and parabolic curves, earthwork, boundary surveys, CAD applications. Prerequisites: EDSGN 100, MATH 141. Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer. |
| C E 321 HIGHWAY ENGINEERING (3) Highway engineering principles, vehicle and driver characteristics; geometric and pavement design; highway drainage; traffic engineering, capacity analysis, and signal timing. Lab. Prerequisite: C E 310. Offered: Fall, Spring |
| C E 332 PROJECT DEVELOPMENT (3) Introduction to engineering management process; economic analysis; pricing; contract documents; estimating; ethics; professional practice and engineering economy. Prerequisite: None. Offered: Fall, Spring [effective: FA2007] |
| C E 335 ENGINEERING MECHANICS OF SOILS (3) Soil compositions, classification, subsurface exploration, ground water flow, stress analysis, compaction, soil behavior, bearing capacity, lateral earth pressure, slope stability. Prerequisites: E MCH 013; A E 221 or GEOSC 001. Offered: Fall, Spring [effective: FA2007] |
| C E 336 MATERIALS SCIENCE FOR CIVIL ENGINEERS (3) Introduction to civil engineering materials; their structure and behavior: relationship between structure and behavior. Prerequisites: E MCH 013, STAT 401. Offered: Fall, Spring [effective: FA2007] |
| C E 337 CIVIL ENGINEERING MATERIALS LABORATORY (1) Laboratory investigating the physical and mechanical properties of civil engineering materials: soils, aggregates, concrete, steel; wood; and polymers. Prerequisites: C E 335 or C E 336 or concurrent. Offered: Fall, Spring [effective: SP2007] |
| C E 340 STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS (3) Analysis of statically determinate and indeterminate trusses, beams, and frames; reactions, axial forces, shears, moments, deflections. Introduction to influence lines. Prerequisite: E MCH 013. Prerequisite or concurrent: CMPSC 201C or 201F. Offered: Fall, Spring |
| C E 341 DESIGN OF CONCRETE STRUCTURES (3) Design of reinforced concrete beams, slabs, and columns, with emphasis on ultimate-strength methods; prestressed concrete; building and bridge applications. Prerequisite: C E 340. Prerequisite or concurrent: C E 336. Offered: Fall, Spring |
| C E 342 DESIGN OF STEEL STRUCTURES (3) Design of steel tension members, beams, columns, beam- columns, and connections; elastic and plastic methods; design applications. Prerequisites: C E 336, 340. Offered: Fall, Spring |
| C E 360 FLUID MECHANICS (3) Mechanics of fluids, flow in conduits and around bodies, friction and energy loss, fluid measurements. Prerequisite: E MCH 012. Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer |
| C E 361 ENGINEERING HYDROLOGY (3) Water sources and losses, evaporation, and infiltration effects on stream-flows, hydrographs, flood frequency, reservoir uses in flood protection and water conservation. Lab. Prerequisite or concurrent: C E 360. Offered: Fall, Spring |
| C E 370 INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING (3) Nature and scope of environmental issues; air, water, land impacts; fundamentals and processes of pollution control. Prerequisites: CHEM 012; MATH 111 or 141. Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer |
| C E 371 WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT (3) Water treatment; water storage; design of water distribution and wastewater systems; pumping stations. Prerequisites: C E 360, 370. Offered: Fall, Spring |
| C E 410W SUSTAINABLE RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION DESIGN (3) Residential subdivision process; site selection; conservation and neo-traditional design; utility design and layout; Best Management Practices for erosion and stormwater. Prerequisites: A E 372 or C E 332; 7th semester-standing in Architectural or Civil Engineering. Offered: Fall |
| C E 421W TRANSPORTATION DESIGN (3) Design of streets and highway facilities; emphasis on geometric elements, intersections and interchanges, roadway drainage, and pavement design. Prerequisite: C E 321. Offered: Spring |
| C E 422 TRANSPORTATION PLANNING (3) Transportation systems planning, programming, and management; modeling and simulation, data collection, analysis, and forecasting. Prerequisite: 3 credits in probability or statistics. Offered: Fall |
| C E 423 TRAFFIC OPERATIONS (3) The highway capacity manual, concepts and analyses, freeway operations, signalized and unsignalized intersections, signal coordination, traffic impact studies. Prerequisite: C E 321. Offered: Fall |
| C E 424 OPTIMIZATION IN CIVIL ENGINEERING SYSTEMS (3) Mathematical modeling; linear programming; dynamic programming; network optimization, including network flows, shortest paths, scheduling; decision-making; civil engineering systems applications. Prerequisite: CMPSC 201 C or F. Offered: Spring |
| C E 432 CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT (3) Fundamentals of project management, construction scheduling using the CPM technique, construction project preplanning and control of quality, safety, and costs. Prerequisite: C E 332. Offered: Fall [effective: FA2007] |
| C E 435 FOUNDATION ENGINEERING (3) Bearing capacity, settlement, and structural design of shallow foundations; lateral earth pressure; retaining and sheet-pile walls; introduction to deep foundations. Prerequisite: C E 335. Prerequisite or concurrent: C E 341. Offered: Fall |
| C E 436 CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING MATERIALS (3) Design, production, application, specification, and quality control of construction materials unique to civil engineering. Prerequisites: C E 336, STAT 401. Offered: Fall, Spring |
| C E 438W CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING CAPSTONE DESIGN (3) Construction project integrating geotechnical reports; materials specifications; quality control; equipment; estimation; scheduling; design details: excavations, foundations, retaining walls, formwork, pavements. Prerequisites: C E 432 and 435 or 436. Offered: Spring [effective: FA2007] |
| C E 441 STRUCTURAL DESIGN OF FOUNDATIONS (3) Design of concentrically and eccentrically loaded square, rectangular, and combined footings; analysis and design of mat foundations; retaining walls; piles caps; flexible retaining design, and caissons. Prerequisite: C E 335, C E 341. Concurrent: C E 342. Offered: Fall |
| C E 447 STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS BY MATRIX METHODS (3) Analysis of truss and frame structures using flexibility and stiffness methods of matrix analysis. Computer applications. Prerequisite: C E 340. Offered: Fall |
| C E 448W ADVANCED STRUCTURAL DESIGN (3) Wind, snow, seismic, bridge loads, building design using steel, concrete, and prestressed concrete; advanced steel connections; capstone project; computer applications. Prerequisites: C E 341, 342, 435. Offered: Spring |
| C E 462 OPEN CHANNEL HYDRAULICS (3) Free surface flow in rivers, canals, steep chutes, stilling basins, and transitions. Prerequisite: C E 360. Offered: Fall |
| C E 465W WATER RESOURCES CAPSTONE COURSE (3) Hydraulic design of river structures and open channels including supercritical and spatially varied flow; hydrologic/hydraulic computer modeling, design project. Prerequisite: C E 361. Prerequisite or concurrent: C E 462 Offered: Spring [effective: FA2007] |
| C E 472W ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING CAPSTONE DESIGN (3) Principles and design of unit operations for water; domestic and industrial wastewater treatment; equipment selection and application. Prerequisites: C E 370, 371. Offered: Fall |
| C E 475 WATER QUALITY CHEMISTRY (3) Chemistry applicable to the understanding and analysis of water quality, pollution, and treatment. Prerequisites: C E 370, CHEM 012, CHEM 014. Offered: Spring |
| C E 476 SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTES (3) Characteristics and treatment of solid wastes and hazardous wastes. Prerequisites: C E 370. Offered: Spring |
| C E 479 ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY LABORATORY (1) Introductory microbiology course; application of diagnostic microbiological techniques to the charaterization of wastewater enrichment cultures and pure cultures. Prerequisite: MICRB 400, seventh-semester standing. Offered: Fall |
| C E 494 SENIOR THESIS (1-9) Students must have approval of a thesis adviser before scheduling this course. Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer |
| C E 494H HONORS SENIOR THESIS (1-6) Investigation of an original project in the area of Civil Engineering. Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer |
| C E 511 ENGINEERING SOIL CHARACTERISTICS (3) Applications of physico-chemical principles in soils engineering; soil composition; factors influencing engineering soil properties. Offered every 3rd semester. |
| C E 512 SOIL MECHANICS II (3) Evaluation of strength parameters and compressibility of soils; elastic analysis of stress and strain; techniques of forecasting foundation settlement; slope stability analysis. Offered: every 3rd semester. |
| C E 513 ADVANCED FOUNDATION ENGINEERING (3) Practical applications of soil every mechanics principles to geotechnical engineering problems; dewatering techniques; design of deep foundations and retaining structures. Offered: every 3rd semester. |
| C E 521 TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS ANALYSIS (3) Techniques of transportation network, user, stochastic user, and variable demand equilibrium; transportation activity system; computer simulation techniques and forecasting methods. Offered: every 3rd semester. |
| C E 522 TRAFFIC SIMULATION AND CONTROL (3) Simulation theory, traffic modeling using GPSS, traffic signal optimization using TEXAS, EVIPAS, PASSERII, TRANSYT-7F, TRAF-NETSIM, FRESIM and CORFLO. Offered: Fall |
| C E 523 ANALYSIS OF TRANSPORTATION DEMAND (3) Theories of travel behavior, least squares and maximum likelihood, estimation methods, continuous dependent variable models, utility maximization, discrete econometric techniques. Offered: irregularly |
| C E 525 TRAFFIC FLOW THEORY (3) Microscopic and macroscopic characteristics of traffic, fundamental equations, traffic stream models, shock waves, queuing theory. Offered: Spring |
| C E 526 HIGHWAY AND STREET DESIGN (3) Technical analysis of the design elements of roadways, alinement, cross-section features, and intersection and interchange design considerations. Offered: Fall of odd years. |
| C E 527 ROADSIDE DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT (3) Roadside safety and design, safety management, pavement management, lighting, signs, signals, and markings, clear zone, guiderail, impact attenuators. Offered: every 3rd semester. |
| C E 528 TRANSPORTATION SAFETY ANALYSIS (3) Issues and methods in transportation safety analysis; factors contributing to crashes; crash causation; modeling accident occurence; identifying sites for treatment. Offered: |
| C E 531 LEGAL ASPECTS OF ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION (3) Basis legal doctrines, contractual relationships between parties, analysis of construction contract clauses, contract performance, and professional practice problems. Offered: Fall |
| C E 533 CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION (3) Construction productivity concepts and models; productivity measurement, control, and forecasting; analysis of factors affecting productivity; methods improvement techniques. Offered: Spring |
| C E 539 APPROXIMATE METHODS OF STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS (3) Structural analysis through the application of initial-value methods, Newmark's method, Fourier series, finite difference techniques, and work and energy procedures. |
| C E 540 STATICALLY INDETERMINATE STRUCTURES (3) Analysis of statically indeterminate straight/curved beams, grids, 2D/3D frames, arches, cables, and shells using classical and modern techniques. |
| C E 541 STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS (3) Theory of various finite elements as applied to civil engineering structures. Term paper required. |
| C E (A E) 542 BUILDING ENCLOSURE SCIENCE AND DESIGN (3) The building enclosure: nature,importance, loadings; building science: control of heat, moisture, air, hygrothermal analysis; design: walls, windows, roofs, joints. |
| C E 543 PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BEHAVIOR AND DESIGN (3) Design and behavior of prestressed concrete structures: materials and systems losses, flexure, shear, bond, deflections, partial prestressing, continuous beams. |
| C E 544 DESIGN OF REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES (3) Advanced topics in design of reinforced concrete structures. Torsion and shear; beam moment-curvature; two-way slab systems; slender columns; strut-and-tie methodology. |
| C E 545 METAL STRUCTURE BEHAVIOR AND DESIGN (3) Design philosophies and basis; seismic loading; fatigue; bending, column, plate, and beam-column stability; tapered members; torsion; connections; bracing; frame stability. |
| C E 546 REINFORCED CONCRETE SLABS (3) Behavior, analysis, and design of floor systems; elastic, ACI Code method, yield line theory; two-way, flat slab, flat plate. |
| C E 548 STRUCTURAL DESIGN FOR DYNAMIC LOADS (3) Dynamic behavior of structural systems of one or more degrees of freedom; earthquake, blast-resistant analysis, and design of structures. |
| C E 549 BRIDGE ENGINEERING I (3) Design and engineering of modern steel and concrete bridge structures; loading; analysis; design. |
| C E 550 ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT (3) Management fundamentals for construction contracting; organization, project planning, scheduling and control, bonding and insurance, labor legislation and regulation, cost and control. Offered: Fall |
| C E 551 RANDOM PROCESSES IN HYDROLOGIC SYSTEMS (3) Application of statistics, probability theory, stochastic modeling, and decision theory in the analysis, design, and management of water resource systems. Offered: Spring of odd years. |
| C E 552 COASTAL AND NEARSHORE PROCESSES (3) Hydrodynamics of the near-shore environment, including waves, currents, and storm surges. Coastal response, sediment transport, engineering structures. Offered: Spring of even years. |
| C E 555 GROUNDWATER HYDROLOGY: ANALYSIS AND MODELING (3) Introduction to groundwater resource analysis, model formulation, simulation, and design of water resource systems using symbolic and numerical methods. Offered: Fall of odd years. |
| C E 556 TRACER AND CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT IN GROUNDWATER (3) Introduction to the processes and mathematical models for tracer and contaminant transport in groundwater systems. Offered: Spring of even years. |
| C E 561 SURFACE HYDROLOGY (3) Quantification of the processes that govern the movement and storage of water near the land-surface including precipitation, evapotranspiration, and runoff. Offered: Fall |
| C E 563 SYSTEMS OPTIMIZATION USING EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS (3) Comprehensive introduction to genetic and evolutionary computation: genetic algorithms, evolutionary strategies, multi-opjective optimization, parallelization approaches, and fitness approximation. Offered: Spring |
| C E 564 SEDIMENT TRANSPORT IN ALLUVIAL STREAMS (3) River flow, river channel formation, the physical characteristics of rivers, responses of rivers to natural and human-made changes. Offered: Spring of odd years |
| C E 566 UNCERTAINTY AND RELIABILITY IN CIVIL ENGINEERING(3) Introduction to probabilistic modeling, simulation, uncertainty analysis, and reliability estimates applied to civil engineering. Offered: Spring of odd years |
| C E 567 RIVER ENGINEERING (3) Introduction to river mechanics and fluvial geomorphology applied to problems of sediment transport and channel morphology. Offered: Fall |
| C E 570 ENVIRONMENTAL AQUATIC CHEMISTRY (3) Speciation, reactivity, and distribution of contaminants in water, with emphasis in inorganic chemicals. Offered: Fall |
| C E 571 PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL TREATMENT PROCESSES (3) The theory of physical-chemical processes used in the treatment of potable water and municipal and industrial wastewaters. Offered: Spring |
| C E 572 BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT PROCESSES (3) The theory of biological processes used in the treatment of municipal and industrial wastewaters. Offered: Fall |
| C E 573 FATE AND TRANSPORT OF HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS (3) Theory, measurement, and estimation of the transformations of hazardous materials in ambient environments. Offered: Spring |
| C E 574 LABORATORY ANALYSES IN WATER QUALITY CONTROL (3) Experiments illustrating current chemical and biochemical methods of water and waste treatment and analytical methods used in research and control. Offered: irregularly |
| C E 575 INDUSTRIAL WASTE MANAGEMENT (3) Surveys and analysis, pollution prevention, regulatory requirements, treatment and disposal of liquid, gaseous and solid residues. Offered: irregularly |
| C E 576 ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT PROCESSES (3) Fundamentals of chemical transport in engineered environments, such as biofilm reactors, and natural systems, including aquifers and rivers. Offered: Fall |
| C E 577 TREATMENT PLANT DESIGN (3) Design of works for the treatment of water and wastewater for municipalities and industries. Offered: |
| C E 578 GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION (3) Application of fundamental physical/chemical/biological processes in natural and engineered systems for remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater. Offered: every 3rd semester |
| C E 579 ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION MICROBIOLOGY (3) Fundamentals of microorganisms in water and wastewater treatment; indicators of pollution; activities of microorganisms in polluted waters, including biogeochemical cycles. Offered: Spring |
| C E 580 HYDRODYNAMIC MIXING PROCESSES (3) Physical mixing proceses in rivers, estuaries, lakes, and oceans. Analytic methods and computational modeling. Offered: Spring |
| C E 581 PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT AND REHABILITATION (3) Techniques of network and project level pavement management, field evaluation methods and equipment, maintenance and rehabilitation strategies, overlay design procedures. Offered: every 3rd semester. |
| C E 582 PAVEMENT DESIGN AND ANALYSIS (3) Viscoelastic analysis; non-linear analysis; fatigue and permanent deformation; back-calculation of layer moduli; mechanistic-empirical design methods. Offered: every 3rd semester. |
| C E 583 BITUMINOUS MATERIALS AND MIXTURES (3) Composition, physical behavior, production and performance of bituminous materials and mixtures. Offered: every 3rd semester. |
| C E 584 CONCRETE MATERIALS AND PROPERTIES (3) Study of concrete properties and associated variables, prediction models, testing, preventative measures, pozzolans, admixtures. Offered: every 3rd semester. |
| C E 590 COLLOQUIUM (1) |
| C E 591 ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR (1) Seminar topics selected by faculty and students based on research interests on topics related to environmental engineering and science. Offered: Fall, Spring |
| C E 592 ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING & SCIENCE TOPICS (1) Current topics in environmental engineering and science. Offered: Fall, Spring |
| C E X96 INDEPENDENT STUDIES (1-18) Students must have the consent and approval of the instructor before scheduling this course. |
| C E X97 SPECIAL TOPICS (1-9) Students must have the consent and approval of the instructor before scheduling this course. |