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2015-2016 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses

The University Catalog lists all courses that pertain to the West Lafayette campus. In order to view courses that are available at a given time, and the details of such courses, please visit the myPurdue Schedule of Classes.

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Chemistry
  

  • CHM 64700 - Transition Metal And Organometallic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the chemistry and physical properties of compounds of the transition metals. Halides, oxides, and oxy-salts; transition metal carbonyls and derivatives; pi-bonded organometallic compounds; catalysis; spectral and magnetic properties of compounds. Prerequisite:CHM 64100 . Typically offered Spring.
  

  • CHM 64800 - Bioinorganic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Provides a detailed perspective on the roles of metals in biology. Emphasis is placed upon principles guiding the field. The basics of biochemistry and inorganic chemistry are provided such that students from diverse backgrounds may participate. Readings are from the research literature. Offered in alternate years. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • CHM 65100 - Advanced Organic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Modern structural organic chemistry, including introductions to molecular orbital theory and reaction mechanisms. Prerequisite: a year’s course in organic chemistry. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CHM 65200 - Synthetic Organic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3.00. An advanced treatment of methods for preparing major types of organic functionalities and bonds, stressing stereochemical control and involving mechanisms for understanding the reactions employed. Prerequisite: CHM 65100 . Typically offered Spring.
  

  • CHM 66800 - Physical Organic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3.00. The theoretical and mechanistic bases for structure and reactivity in organic chemistry is discussed. Individual topics include kinetics and thermodynamics, molecular orbital theory, stereochemistry and reactive intermediates as applied to the mechanisms of organic reactions. Prerequisite: CHM 56300  or CHM 65100 . Typically offered Fall.
  

  • CHM 67100 - Advanced Physical Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Selected topics, including atomic and molecular structure and modern theories underlying thermodynamics and chemical kinetics. Prerequisite: CHM 57800. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • CHM 67200 - Quantum Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Basic principles of classical and quantum mechanics, exact solutions for simple systems, approximation methods, atomic structure, spectroscopy, application of group theory, theory of molecular binding. Prerequisite: CHM 67100 . Typically offered Fall.
  

  • CHM 67300 - Computational Quantum Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Semiempirical and molecular-mechanics treatments of large molecules, ab initio methods, modern density functional theory, Green’s functions, multichannel quantum defect theory, global optimization methods. Prerequisite: CHM 67100 . Typically offered Spring.
  

  • CHM 67500 - Chemical Kinetics

    Credit Hours: 2.00 or 3.00. Experimental and theoretical consideration of chemical reaction rates and mechanisms. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • CHM 67605 - Molecular Spectroscopy

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Theoretical and experimental fundamentals of the interactions between molecules and electromagnetic waves. Topics include electronic, vibrational, and rotational spectroscopies, and laser-based methods. Prerequisites: CHM 67100 . Typically offered Spring.
  

  • CHM 67900 - Chemical Thermodynamics

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Advanced thermodynamics of chemical and phase equilibria, of electrolytic and nonelectrolytic solutions, and of imperfect gases. Prerequisite: CHM 57800. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • CHM 68200 - Statistical Thermodynamics

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Application of statistical mechanics to the description of imperfect gases, liquids, and solutions; to order-disorder phenomena in solids and surfaces; and to absolute reaction rate theory. Prerequisite: CHM 67100 , CHM 67900 . Typically offered Fall.
  

  • CHM 69500 - Seminar

    Credit Hours: 0.00 or 1.00. Groups meeting for review and discussion of important current literature in analytical, biological, inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry. Each graduate student is required to attend the seminar of his or her major subject. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • CHM 69600 - Special Topics In Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Lectures on selected topics of current interest. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • CHM 69800 - Research MS Thesis

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research MS Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • CHM 69900 - Research PhD Thesis

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research PhD Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

Chinese
  

  • CHNS 10100 - Chinese Level I

    Credit Hours: 4.00. A comprehensive course in elementary Mandarin, designed to develop basic proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Systematic coverage of syntactical patterns. After oral foundation work, 20 characters are introduced each lesson in unsimplified and simplified forms. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 10200 - Chinese Level II

    Credit Hours: 4.00. A continuation of the study of elementary Mandarin. Students will complete study of basic syntactical patterns. Character recognition will be built to 500. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 10700 - Chinese For Heritage Students

    Credit Hours: 4.00. A Chinese language course designed for students who have acquired some oral Chinese from home or other sources. It capitalizes on students’ heritage background to develop communication and comprehension skills, maintaining and vitalizing the linguistic and cultural proficiency already acquired. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 20100 - Chinese Level III

    Credit Hours: 4.00. A course in intermediate Mandarin, with integrated spoken and written tracks emphasizing the cultural contexts of usage. Mastery of more advanced syntactic patterns, with enriched vocabulary. Character recognition built to 800. Introduction to Chinese dictionaries. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 20200 - Chinese Level IV

    Credit Hours: 4.00. A continuation of the study of intermediate Mandarin. Development of enhanced oral narrative skills and listening comprehension skills through audio-visual supplements. Short exercises in expository composition. Character recognition built to 1,100-plus. Introduction to Chinese newspaper. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 20700 - Intermediate Chinese For Heritage Students

    Credit Hours: 4.00. An intermediate level Chinese language course which capitalizes on students’ heritage background for further development of communication and comprehension skills. It maintains and further vitalizes the linguistic and cultural proficiency that has already been acquired. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 22400 - Chinese Level IV Business Chinese

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Practical reading, writing, speaking, and listening comprehension skills directed towards use of Chinese for business purposes. Course materials cover daily business dealings as well as national and international trade, living conditions, environmental, cultural, and social problems. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 23000 - Chinese Literature In Translation

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Reading and discussion of selected texts from major writers and genres. The course provides a broad survey of the Chinese literacy tradition and its cultural and historical background. Emphasis may vary from year to year. Knowledge of Chinese not required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 24100 - Introduction To The Study Of Chinese Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Class reading and discussion of selected Chinese poetry, prose, and drama; introduction to the methods of literary criticism, applied to the reading of Chinese literary discourse. Texts, discussion, and written assignments primarily in Chinese. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 28000 - Topics in Chinese Civilization and Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Selected topics on Chinese civilization and culture including history and geography, Confucianism, contemporary China, education, family, international cultural and economic cooperation. Course materials also cover most current issues on and in Chinese-speaking communities. Lectures in English. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 28100 - Introduction To Chinese Food Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Selected topics on Chinese food history, production, preparation, festivals, as well as food in lierature, film, business and folk beliefs. Discussion will also include civilization and food as cultural diplomacy. Lectures in English. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • CHNS 28500 - Chinese Calligraphy

    Credit Hours: 1.00. Principles and techniques of writing Chinese characters. The aesthetics of Chinese calligraphy, its function as an art form, and its role in Chinese culture. Emphasis on training and practice in calligraphic writing. Conducted in English. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 30100 - Chinese Level V

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Continued development of Chinese speaking, listening, reading, and writing abilities, using materials dealing primarily with everyday life and civilization from a variety of sources, e.g., newspapers, magazines, television, recent literature, etc. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 30200 - Chinese Level VI

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Continued development of Chinese speaking, listening, reading, and writing abilities, using materials dealing primarily with everyday life and civilization from a variety of sources with stronger emphasis on authentic texts, e.g., newspapers, magazines, television, recent literature, etc. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 30500 - Introduction To Classical Chinese

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to the grammar of Classical Chinese. Reading will include selections from pre-Ch’in texts as well as later classical prose and verse. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 31300 - Reading And Writing Practice

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Concentration on further development of reading and writing abilities for students with conversational proficiency, using materials primarily from modern social and cultural studies, including annotated literary texts. Conducted in Chinese. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 33000 - Introduction To Chinese Cinema

    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course surveys the development of the Chinese cinema from its beginning to the present. Films from the mainland as well as Taiwan and Hong Kong will be examined in-depth for their aesthetic quality and techniques, and equally important, against their socio-historical, political, economic and cultural contexts. The class is conducted in English. Films are all in Chinese with English subtitles. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • CHNS 34100 - Chinese Literature I: Traditional Chinese Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Reading and discussion of selected classical Chinese texts from major writers and genres. Introduction to methods of literary criticism as applied to Chinese literature. Texts, discussion, and written assignments are largely in Chinese. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 34200 - Chinese Literature II: Modern Chinese Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of selected poetry, drama, and fiction from the twentieth century. Students will read and discuss major authors and texts and will write critical essays on literary topics. Texts, discussion, and written assignments are largely in Chinese. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 39900 - Special Study Abroad Credit In Chinese

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. This course number is for assignment after the fact of credits in Chinese earned while enrolled at a foreign university on a Study Abroad program which cannot be appropriately accommodated under an established Purdue course number. It is not for use for courses offered at or conducted by Purdue. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 40100 - Chinese Level VII

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Continued development of Mandarin Chinese speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. Emphasis will be upon modern, everyday language and culture (with some introduction to traditional culture) using various sources such as textbooks, newspapers, and literary works. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 40200 - Chinese Level VIII

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Further development of Mandarin Chinese speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. Materials will include advanced textbooks and original texts such as newspapers and literary works. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 49000 - Special Topics In Chinese Language

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Topics vary. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 49300 - Special Topics In Chinese Literature

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Study of a selected topic in Chinese literature. The topic will be announced in advance. Conducted in English; readings in English. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CHNS 59400 - Special Topics In Chinese Literature

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Special topics in Chinese Literature. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Spring Fall Summer.

Civil Engineering
  

  • CE 19100 - Civil Engineering Practice I

    Credit Hours: 0.00. Practice in industry and written reports of this practice. For cooperative program students only. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • CE 20300 - Principles And Practice Of Geomatics

    Credit Hours: 4.00. Basic surveying measurements and computations for engineering project control, mapping, and construction layout; theory of observational errors and error propagation; fundamental concepts of horizontal and vertical control systems; use of topographic maps and plan-profile sheets; computation of horizontal and vertical curves; introduction to computer tools used in Civil Engineering. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 22200 - Life Cycle Engineering And Management Of Constructed Facilities

    Credit Hours: 3.00. The objective of this course is to introduce concepts relating to the engineering and construction of facilities throughout their life cycle. Topics that will be explored include the nature of the construction industry, construction contracts, legal and management organization of construction companies, basics of the design and construction process, as well as an introduction to the role estimating and project scheduling. Cost, time, safety and quality concepts of construction management relationships will also be discussed. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 23100 - Engineering Materials I

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Nature and performance of materials under load. Structure of materials. Elastic, inelastic, and time-dependent behavior. Influences of composition and processing upon material properties. Composite materials particulate systems. Chemical effects on materials. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 27000 - Introductory Structural Mechanics

    Credit Hours: 4.00. Loads; structural forms; analysis of axially loaded members, flexural members, torsional members; combined loading conditions; buckling. Basic behavioral characteristics of structural elements and systems illustrated by laboratory experiments. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 29000 - Civil Engineering Seminar

    Credit Hours: 0.00. An orientation course to provide counsel to the student on the major areas of civil engineering, including information on typical activity of civil engineers, integrated course sequences and content, and an introduction of the faculty. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 29100 - Civil Engineering Practice II

    Credit Hours: 0.00. Practice in industry and written reports of this practice. For cooperative program students only. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • CE 29199 - Professional Practice Extensive Co-Op I

    Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional experience in civil engineering. Program coordinated by school with cooperation of participating employers. Students submit summary report and company evaluation. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • CE 29202 - Contemporary Issues In Civil Engineering

    Credit Hours: 2.00. This course provides a forum on issues in the civil engineering profession in a contemporary context. Topics include professionalism and ethics, entrepreneurship, cultural differences, and collaborating globally. Students have interactions with engineering faculty and professionals outside the University. Guidance on the preparation of individual plans of study and information on civil engineering career options are provided. Students learn and apply fundamental aspects of written communication in professional settings. Emphasis is placed on delivery of technical and managerial content. Students will compile a professional portfolio of communication assignments, including lab reports prepared in other CE courses. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 29299 - Professional Practice Extensive Co-Op II

    Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional experience in civil engineering. Program coordinated by school with cooperation of participating employers. Students submit summary report and company evaluation. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • CE 29700 - Basic Mechanics I (Statics)

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Statics of particles. Rigid bodies: equivalent systems of forces, equilibrium. Centroids and centers of gravity. Static analysis of trusses, frames, and machines. Friction. Area moments of inertia. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 29800 - Basic Mechanics II Dynamics

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Kinematics of particles. Kinetics of particles and systems of particles. Kinematics of rigid bodies. Mass moments of inertia. Kinetics of rigid bodies. Mechanical vibrations. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 30300 - Engineering Surveying

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Horizontal and vertical control surveys on site and route projects for engineering design and construction layout. Geometric design of horizontal circular curves, spiral easement curves, and vertical parabolic curves. Earthwork volume computation and balancing. Use of coordinate geometry (COGO) design software including terrain and design surface modeling. Methods and tools used for construction layout, as-built surveys, and industrial measurements. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • CE 30600 - Analysis Of Survey Observations

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of survey measurement systems and methods for observing distances, directions, angles, elevations, and positions. Introduction to instrument calibration, error propagation methods, and control survey design. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • CE 31100 - Architectural Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course introduces energy efficiency, thermal comfort, indoor environmental quality and green building design concepts. The course covers engineering fundamentals required for the design and analysis of building systems such as thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, light and sound transmission. The course presents engineering principles and selected applications related to hygrothermal analysis of building enclosures, air conditioning processes in heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems, building illumination, and building acoustics. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 32201 - Project Control And Life Cycle Execution Of Constructed Facilities

    Credit Hours: 3.00. The objective of this course is to continue an introduction to construction management and engineering concepts for future engineers, contractors and owner representatives involved at different stages in the life-cycle of constructed faculties. Building on the broad framework introduced in the prerequisite course, this course develops further ability with analytical tools and extends the basic foundation for advanced topics in construction engineering and management. Specifically, this course focuses on the principles, tools, and procedures used in the construction industry for project selection and financing, advanced planning and scheduling techniques, resource management, and project monitoring. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 33100 - Engineering Materials II

    Credit Hours: 3.00. A continuation of CE 23100 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 33300 - Civil Engineering Materials

    Credit Hours: 3.00. The nature and performance of materials under load. Important engineering materials for evaluation of physical and mechanical properties, including ferrous and nonferrous metals, plastics, bituminous materials, Portland cement, aggregates, concrete, timber, and particulate systems. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • CE 34000 - Hydraulics

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Fluid properties; hydrostatics; kinematics and dynamics of fluid flows; conservation of mass, energy, and momentum; flows in pipes and open channels. Formal laboratory experiments. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 34100 - Hydraulics, Hydrology, And Drainage

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Basic hydraulic theory, including properties, kinematics, and dynamics of liquid flow in open channels and closed conduits. Principles of hydrology with emphasis on rainfall and runoff. Application of the above principles to the analysis and design of storm sewers, sanitary sewers, drainage courses, and culverts. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • CE 34300 - Elementary Hydraulics Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 1.00. The laboratory covers basic concepts in analysis of experimental data and methods in hydraulic measurements. A variety of simple laboratory experiments illustrating the principles of hydraulics are performed. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 34400 - Drainage Design Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 1.00. This laboratory for land surveying engineering and construction engineering and management students covers basic concepts in the hydrological design of drainage systems. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • CE 35000 - Introduction To Environmental And Ecological Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to water pollution, air pollution, noise, hazardous and solid wastes, and their control. Environmental impact statements and global pollution issues. Field trips required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • CE 35200 - Biological Principles Of Environmental Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction and application of environmental microbiological concepts to the solution of problems of water pollution and its control. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 35300 - Physico-Chemical Principles Of Environmental Engineering

    Credit Hours: 4.00. This course presents basic physico-chemical aspects of air, water, and wastewater pollution, and pollution control methods. Topics covered in the course include acid/base chemistry, solubility, colloidal chemistry, sorption processes, and oxidation-reduction. Selected physico-chemical processes and analytical procedures are discussed, demonstrated, and applied in the laboratory. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • CE 35500 - Engineering Environmental Sustainability

    Credit Hours: 3.00. (EEE 35500 ) An introduction to the examination of global-scale resource utilization, food, energy and commodity production, population dynamics, and their ecosystem impacts. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • CE 36100 - Transportation Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Transportation functions; transportation systems, including land, air, and marine modes; transportation system elements, including traveled way, vehicle, controls, and terminals; techniques of transportation system planning, design, and operation. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 37100 - Structural Analysis I

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Stress resultants (reactions, axial forces, shear forces, and bending moments) for beams and framed structures. Deflections of beams and frames by geometric methods (moment-area theorems and applications; conjugate beam analogy). Analysis of statically indeterminate beams and frames by classical stiffness methods; slope deflection and moment distribution. Influence functions and their applications. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 38199 - Professional Practice Co-Op I

    Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional experience in civil engineering. Program coordinated by school with cooperation of participating employers. Students submit summary report and company evaluation. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • CE 38299 - Professional Practice Co-Op II

    Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional experience in civil engineering. Program coordinated by school with cooperation of participating employers. Students submit summary report and company evaluation. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • CE 38300 - Geotechnical Engineering I

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to the nature and origin of soils and rocks; engineering significance of geologic landforms and soil deposits; identification and engineering classification of soils; engineering behavior and properties of soils; permeability, compressibility, shearing resistance; soil compaction. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 38399 - Professional Practice Co-Op III

    Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional experience in civil engineering. Program coordinated by school with cooperation of participating employers. Students submit summary report and company evaluation. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • CE 39100 - Civil Engineering Practice III

    Credit Hours: 0.00. Practice in industry and written reports of this practice. For cooperative program students only. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • CE 39201 - Technical Communication In Civil Engineering

    Credit Hours: 2.00. This course will build upon the technical communication components of CE 29202 , adding instruction in oral communication, projects, and working in teams. This course involves both individual and team assignments intended to offer students the opportunity to practice preparing and delivering written correspondence and reports, as well as oral presentations. These activities may be coordinated with other CE courses being taken by students in CE 39201. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 39399 - Professional Practice Extensive Co-Op III

    Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional experience in civil engineering. Program coordinated by school with cooperation of participating employers. Students submit summary report and company evaluation. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • CE 39499 - Professional Practice Extensive Co-Op IV

    Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional experience in civil engineering. Program coordinated by school with cooperation of participating employers. Students submit summary report and company evaluation. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • CE 39599 - Professional Practice Extensive Co-Op V

    Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional experience in civil engineering. Program coordinated by school with cooperation of participating employers. Students submit summary report and company evaluation. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • CE 39699 - Professional Practice Internship

    Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional experience in civil engineering. Program coordinated by school with cooperation of participating employers. Students submit summary report and company evaluation. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • CE 39700 - Undergraduate Professional Internship

    Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional experience in Civil Engineering. This internship experience is intended to complement the student’s academic coursework and help prepare the student for a career as a practicing engineer. Program coordinated by school with cooperating employers. A written report is required. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • CE 39800 - Introduction To Civil Engineering Systems Design

    Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to engineering economy and systems analysis. A systematic approach to the engineering method of design and problem solving. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 40300 - Principles Of Photogrammetry And Remote Sensing

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to photogrammetry and remote sensing methods used to produce maps and capture spatial information for solving civil engineering problems. Topics include: terrestrial, airborne, and satellite-based imaging systems; photogrammetric measurement, and mapping methods; photographic and digital image interpretation; digital image processing techniques. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • CE 40800 - Geographic Information Systems In Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course provides an introduction to the application of geographic information systems (GIS) to civil engineering problems. GIS is a tool for analysis, modeling, and evaluation of civil engineering problems. The design of spatial databases, assembly of requisite data, and the development of analysis tools within GIS are presented. This course will address: definition of spatial data, data types, spatial relationships, computer operation on spatial data, topology in spatial data, representation of features in a GIS, data models, data dictionaries, data capture techniques; database types, composition of spatial queries, analysis of engineering data using a GIS, complex analysis of polygon and linear features, presentation of results, use of a GIS as an engineering model test bed. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • CE 41300 - Building Envelope Design And Thermal Loads

    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course discusses the basic thermal processes in buildings and presents comprehensive methods for thermal design of envelope assemblies in commercial and residential buildings. The first part of the course includes steady-state transient conduction through envelope assemblies, convection and radiation heat transfer in buildings, solar radiation and solar gains, thermal performance of windows, internal gains, ventilation and infiltration. The second part of the course considers surface and room energy balance equations and presents analytical and computational models for calculation of hourly heating and cooling loads throughout the year. Climate-based standards, passive solar design, advanced energy guides, and innovative technologies for high performance buildings are discussed. The course also includes a design project on analytical heating/cooling load calculations for a commercial building. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 41400 - Building Mechanical And Electrical System Design

    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course covers the design of building mechanical and electrical systems. In the first part of the course students learn principles of designing and integrating heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems into building air delivery systems, mechanical cooling and heating technologies, duct design and layout, blower and pump selection, and hydronic systems. They also learn to design heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems within the constraint of achieving satisfactory occupant thermal comfort in buildings. The second part of the course covers design concepts related to building electrical systems; including, single and three-phase power systems, motors, transformers, switching, and relays. The course includes a design project related to mechanical and electrical systems for a commercial building. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 42400 - Human Resource Management In Construction

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Survey of the fundamental legislation affecting planning and administration of the labor resources employed in the construction industry, and introduction to the principles of labor productivity improvement and worker motivation. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 42600 - Construction Cost Control Concepts

    Credit Hours: 3.00. An investigation of the principles of cost control and financial concepts required at the project and company level. The course addresses the development of control estimates and budgets as well as various methods of cost control. Sources of construction costs as well as work breakdown structure and work packaging will be presented and discussed. In addition, the interface between field costs and company financial documents will be developed in detail. A project designed to illustrate both company- and project-level management will be required. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • CE 44000 - Urban Hydraulics

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Sources and distribution of water in urban environment, including surface reservoir requirements, utilization of groundwater, and distribution systems. Analysis of sewer systems and drainage courses for the disposal of both wastewater and storm water. Pumps and lift stations. Urban planning and storm drainage practice. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • CE 44200 - Introduction To Hydrology

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Description, measurement, and analysis of hydrologic processes: precipitation, evapotranspiration, infiltration, and runoff. Hydrograph analysis: unit and synthetic unit hydrographs and flood routing. Statistical analysis of hydrologic data. Fundamentals, budget, and yield analysis of groundwater flows; well hydraulics. Case studies illustrating the application of principles in both surface and groundwater flows. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 44300 - Introductory Environmental Fluid Mechanics

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Kinematics of fluid flow. Differential equations for environmental fluid flows, including effects of variable density and rotation. Ideal fluid flow; boundary layer approximation; turbulence; water waves. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • CE 45600 - Water And Wastewater Treatment

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamental concepts and design procedures for the treatment of municipal and industrial water and wastewaters. Problem assessment; determination of water and wastewater characteristics, biological, physical, and chemical treatment methods, process design, and disposal of residues. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • CE 45700 - Air Pollution Control And Design

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamental concepts and design procedures for the removal of particulates, gases, and toxic air pollutants from waste gas streams. Problem assessment; characterization of exhaust gas streams; fan characteristics. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • CE 46100 - Roadway And Pavement Design

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Design of highway and airport pavement systems, subgrades, subbases and bases, soil stabilization, flexible and rigid pavements; cost analysis and pavement selection; quality control; drainage; earthwork; pavement evaluation and maintenance. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • CE 46300 - Highway Transportation Characteristics

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of basic characteristics of highway transportation systems and the elements influencing these characteristics: drivers, vehicles, pedestrians, flow, density, speed, travel time, delay, stream flow, intersection performance, capacity, accidents, traffic demand, and parking. Techniques used include experimental observation, deterministic and probabilistic queueing theory, probability and statistics, and graphical analysis. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • CE 47000 - Structural Steel Design

    Credit Hours: 3.00. The elements of structural steel design, including tension members and their connections; structural connections, including welding, and high-strength bolts; compression members; rolled and built-up flexural members; and combined axial and flexural loading effects. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 47300 - Reinforced Concrete Design

    Credit Hours: 4.00. Design and behavior of reinforced concrete beams, one-way slabs, and columns. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 47400 - Structural Analysis II

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Determination of deflections by the method of virtual work; analysis of trusses, continuous beams, and frames by direct stiffness method; approximate methods of analysis. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 47900 - Design Of Building Components And Systems

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Design of simple floor and roof systems and load bearing walls; uses of building materials; fundamentals of design of metal form decking, steel joists, masonry (beams, columns and load bearing walls), and timber (beams, trusses, and mechanical connections). Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 48300 - Geotechnical Engineering II

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Subsurface investigations and techniques for sampling soils, lateral earth pressures, and stability of retaining structures; stability of earth slopes; shallow and deep foundations design. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • CE 49100 - Civil Engineering Practice IV

    Credit Hours: 0.00. Practice in industry and written reports of this practice. For cooperative program students only. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
 

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