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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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CE 45600 - Wastewater Treatment Processes
Credit Hours: 3.00. (EEE 45600) Fundamental design principles and practice of wastewater treatment to prepare students for designing wastewater treatment systems. The major topics include design and construction process, preliminary treatment of wastewater, primary treatment, wastewater microbiology, secondary treatment, nitrogen removal, phosphorus removal, attached microbial growth, secondary settling, disinfection and post-aeration, tertiary treatment, and wastewater plant residuals management. Typically offered Fall.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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CE 49200 - Civil Engineering Practice V
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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CE 49700 - Civil Engineering Projects
Arrange Hours and Credit. Topics vary. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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CE 49800 - Civil Engineering Design Project
Credit Hours: 3.00. Planning, design, and analysis of a civil project; an integrated and realistic group project involves as much as possible all major aspects of the civil engineering profession. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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CE 49900 - Research In Civil Engineering
Arrange Hours and Credit. Credit arranged. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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CE 51200 - The Comprehensive Urban Planning Process
Credit Hours: 3.00. An introductory course that provides a framework for better understanding of the current urban planning process. Concepts and emerging trends are covered as well as an elementary description of planning methods and techniques. For planning majors and those in related design, development, and socioeconomic disciplines. Typically offered Spring.
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CE 51300 - Lighting In Buildings
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course focuses on the design of illumination systems in buildings (electric and natural lighting) in order to achieve energy efficiency and visual comfort. The first part of the course includes analytical lighting calculation techniques, visual perception, radiative transfer, lamp characteristics, electric lighting system design and control for calculation of required indoor illuminance levels. The second part of the course covers daylighting (natural lighting) systems, including state-of-the-art daylighting prediction models as well as design and control of such devices and advanced metrics. The course also has a lab section, in which the students learn how to work with lighting and daylighting tools and build their own computational transient lighting models in open programming languages, in order to design illumination systems and predict electricity consumption and potential energy savings. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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CE 51401 - Building Controls
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge of fundamentals, design, and analysis for building control systems. It primarily consists of three parts. The first part covers basic concepts, terminology, procedures and computations of control systems including block diagrams & transfer functions, open-loop & closed-loop control, control system modeling, time response, root locus techniques, design via root locus, and digital control systems. The second part focuses on issues surrounding the building controls: interfacing components such as sensors and actuators, problems encountered, and state-of-the-art solutions for building energy efficiency and thermal comfort. The third part aims to develop students’ ability to convert control system concepts into real building control systems. The course provides a hands-on opportunity for students to complete three projects associated with the three primary components during the semester: indoor environmental quality assessment, building HVAC system commissioning and its control analysis, and new control algorithm development for building energy efficiency, occupant health, and individual productivity. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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CE 51501 - Building Energy Audits
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to provide students with the necessary skills to perform an energy audit on commercial and residential buildings. Energy accounting procedures for all major building subsystems are covered in detail, along with operational cost analysis of these systems. Students learn fundamental techniques for auditing the building envelope; electrical and lighting systems; heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems; internal thermal loads; and building maintenance and operation procedures. Students also learn to analyze electric and natural gas utility tariffs and rate structures and apply their findings to the energy auditing process. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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CE 52000 - Construction Project Control Systems
Credit Hours: 3.00. Techniques used for planning and scheduling, estimating, and cost control for construction projects. The interface of cost control with the financial management at the company level will be considered. Work breakdown structure as a method of control will be developed. Typically offered Fall.
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CE 52100 - Construction Business Management
Credit Hours: 3.00. Develops students’ understanding of the fundamental theories and applied principles of management of U.S. construction companies. Exposes students to the present and future practice of business management at the construction company level. Provides insight into basic construction business operations including strategic planning, organizational structure, marketing, accounting, financing, risk analysis, quality, and international construction business practice. Typically offered Fall.
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CE 52200 - Computer Applications In Construction
Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of current computer usage in the construction industry; basic computer hardware and software concepts; computer applications in construction; commercially available software applications. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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CE 52300 - Selection And Utilization Of Construction Equipment
Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of economics and functional applications for major categories of construction equipment. Operational characteristics are identified for selected equipment items and are applied to typical construction situations. Typically offered Spring.
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CE 52400 - Legal Aspects In Engineering Practice
Credit Hours: 3.00. Legal principles and landmark cases relevant to engineering. Subjects covered include contracts, torts, agency, real property, environmental and labor laws, expert testimony, arbitration, patents and copyrights, sureties and ethics. Three evenings may be required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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CE 52600 - Construction Of Temporary Facilities
Credit Hours: 3.00. Temporary facilities employed by the construction industry for various projects. Design and construction of temporary structures such as formwork, falsework, scaffolding, cofferdams, and cableways. An investigation of recent examples described in the literature. Typically offered Fall.
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CE 52700 - Analytical Methods For The Design Of Construction Operations Sem. 1
Credit Hours: 3.00. Provides an investigation of quantitative methods used for the design and analysis of construction operations to maximize productivity and minimize resource idleness. Includes discussions on queuing theory, line of balance techniques, linear programming, and simulation. Comprehensive group projects involve modeling and analyzing actual construction operations. Typically offered Fall.
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CE 53000 - Properties And Production Of Concrete
Credit Hours: 3.00. Basic properties of hydraulic cements and mineral aggregates and their interactions in concrete. Properties of plastic and hardened concrete. Modifications through admixtures. Production, handling, and placement problems. Specifications; quality control and acceptance testing; lightweight, heavyweight, and other special concretes. A one-day field trip is required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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CE 53500 - Bituminous Materials And Mixtures
Credit Hours: 3.00. Consideration of major types of bituminous materials-asphalt cements, cutback asphalts, asphalt emulsions, and tars. Influence of chemical composition upon physical properties. Desirable aggregate characteristics for bituminous mixtures. Construction techniques. Current practices for determining optimum asphalt contents. Two one-day field trips are required. Typically offered Spring.
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CE 53800 - Experimental Methods In Construction Materials Research
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course will introduce the student to the fundamental aspects of the computer control of experimental equipment. Emphasis is placed on the difficulties of interfacing computers and instruments. Experimental techniques for measuring important properties of construction materials are discussed. For example, techniques involving the use of strain gages, optical measurements, and measurement of properties such as pore structure and surface area are considered. Emphasis is placed on the effects of experimental techniques on the resulting measurements. Typically offered Spring.
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CE 54000 - Open Channel Hydraulics
Credit Hours: 3.00. Energy and momentum principles, design of open channels for uniform and nonuniform flow, boundary layer and roughness effects, flow over spillways, energy dissipation, flow in channels of nonlinear alignment and nonprismatic section. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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CE 54200 - Hydrology
Credit Hours: 3.00. Meteorology; precipitation; stream flow, evaporation, and transpiration; subsurface flows, well hydraulics; runoff relations and hydrographs; elements of stream flow routing, frequency and duration studies; extreme values statistics applied to flood and drought forecasting; application of hydrologic techniques. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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CE 54300 - Coastal Engineering
Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to coastal engineering with emphasis on the interaction between oceanic dynamic processes (waves, currents, and tides) and coastal regions (beaches, harbors, structures, and estuaries) and on the engineering approaches necessary to prevent adverse effects caused by this interaction. Typically offered Fall.
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CE 54400 - Subsurface Hydrology
Credit Hours: 3.00. Basic principles of fluid flow in saturated and unsaturated materials. Darcy’s law, well hydraulics, determination of hydraulic properties of aquifers. Infiltration theory. Discussions of artificial recharge, land subsidence, saltwater intrusion, ground water quality and contamination. Typically offered Spring.
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CE 54500 - Sediment Transport Engineering
Credit Hours: 3.00. Sediment properties and the mechanics of sediment transport. Threshold of movement. Riverbed load and suspended load theories. Regime theory and stable channel design. River diversion problems. Erosion. Geomorphologic and water quality aspects. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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CE 54700 - Transport Processes In Surface Waters
Credit Hours: 3.00. Four main topics are covered: (1) density-stratified two-layer systems in lakes and channels, with applications to mixed-layer growth, oil-spill containment, salinity intrusions, (2) advection-diffusion modeling in channels, including analytical solutions to steady and unsteady, one- and two-dimensional problems, (3) mechanisms of diffusional transport, including turbulence in channels and longitudinal shear dispersion, and (4) near-field analysis of discharges, including similarity analyses of jets and plumes. Typically offered Spring.
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CE 54900 - Computational Watershed Hydrology
Credit Hours: 3.00. Use of professional computer programs for the calculation of the runoff from complex basins. Generation of unit hydrographs. Calculation of losses, channel and reservoir routing, parameter optimization, and application of Kinematic wave technique to urban catchments. Offered in alternate years. Typically offered Fall.
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CE 55000 - Physico-Chemical Processes In Environmental Engineering I
Credit Hours: 3.00. This is the first of a two-course sequence and covers physico-chemical processes as applied in water and wastewater treatment. Topics include: reactor theory, mixing, gravity separation, centrifugation, adsorption, ion exchange, disinfection kinetics, acid/base chemistry, neutralization, precipitation, and corrosion. Typically offered Fall.
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CE 55700 - Air Quality Management
Credit Hours: 3.00. Discussion of fugitive, mobile, and point sources of air pollution with attendant effects on materials, plants, and humans. Development and status of state and federal regulations with emphasis on the development and use of mathematical dispersion models including meteorological fundamentals and atmospheric transport. Discussion of concepts for ambient air quality control strategies including urban planning and transportation considerations. Typically offered Fall.
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CE 55900 - Water Quality Modeling
Credit Hours: 3.00. Mathematical modeling of chemical and biological processes occurring in natural aquatic systems. Classical oxygen demand and nutrient processes are modeled, as well as chemical specific transport and fate processes. Emphasis is placed on deterministic models, mass balance approaches, and chemical specific coefficients or parameters. Typically offered Spring.
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CE 56000 - Public Mass Transportation
Credit Hours: 3.00. Public mass transportation system technologies, design, operation, and planning including vehicle characteristics, bus transit, light rail and rail rapid transit, schedules and networks, capacity, passenger characteristics, and paratransit. Typically offered Spring.
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CE 56100 - Transportation Systems Evaluation
Credit Hours: 3.00. Concepts and principles of transportation economic analysis, transportation costs and benefits, user and nonuser consequences, needs studies, finance and taxation, methods of evaluation of plans and projects, cost-effectiveness, environmental impact assessment. Typically offered Fall.
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CE 56200 - Geometric Design Of Highways
Credit Hours: 3.00. Development and applications of concepts of geometric design for rural and urban highways. Design controls and criteria, elements of design including sight distance and horizontal and vertical alignment, cross-section elements, highway types, intersection design elements, types of interchanges and interchange design elements, grade separations and clearance. Typically offered Spring.
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CE 56300 - Airport Design
Credit Hours: 3.00. Airport design requirements derived from using aircraft design parameters and operational characteristics; airport configuration; runway length and orientation; geometric design of taxiways, exits, and runways; apron design; airspace obstacles; effects of air traffic control; lighting and marking; asphalt pavement and rigid concrete pavement design; pavement overlays; evaluation of runway pavement; drainage; earthwork; and project management. A field trip is required. Typically offered Spring.
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CE 56500 - Traffic Engineering: Operations And Controls
Credit Hours: 3.00. Traffic laws and ordinances; design and application of signs, markings, and signals; timing of isolated and interconnected signals; speed regulation; one-way streets; pedestrian, bicycle, and mass transit considerations; traffic engineering administration. Typically offered Spring.
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CE 56600 - Transportation Planning
Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamentals of transportation planning. Historical development and current status of techniques used in travel demand forecasting: trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice, traffic assignment. Data collection and use of surveys. Applications to passenger and freight movement in urban and statewide contexts. Implications for policy formulation and analysis. Typically offered Fall.
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CE 56700 - Highway Traffic And Safety Analysis
Credit Hours: 3.00. Traffic and safety studies including: traffic and safety impact studies, control and geometry improvements, hazard and countermeasures identification, predicting safety benefits, before-and-after studies; data collection and computer tools for highway traffic and safety evaluation. Typically offered Spring.
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CE 56800 - Highway Infrastructure Management Systems
Credit Hours: 3.00. Processes and techniques of managing rehabilitation and maintenance of highway infrastructure facilities including roads and bridges. Three management systems are examined: pavement, bridge, and roadway maintenance. The primary emphasis is on data collection, life cycle cost analysis, priority setting and optimization, program development strategies, and institutional issues. Typically offered Spring.
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CE 57000 - Advanced Structural Mechanics
Credit Hours: 3.00. Studies of stress and strain, failure theories, and yield criteria; flexure and torsion theories for solid and thin-walled members; and energy methods. Typically offered Fall.
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CE 57100 - Earthquake Engineering
Credit Hours: 3.00. The objectives of the course are to: (1) expose the fundamentals of structural design in earthquake regions; (2) explain the functions of linear, nonlinear, and limit analyses with respect to design; (3) describe the complex relationships between ground motion models and structural response models in the linear and nonlinear response ranges; and (4) provide the students perspectives about the behavior of building structures in the earthquake environment. Typically offered Spring.
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CE 57200 - Prestressed Concrete Design
Credit Hours: 3.00. Behavior and design of prestressed concrete structures, prestress losses, composite construction, flexure and shear design, deflections, and special topics. Typically offered Spring.
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CE 57300 - Structural Dynamics
Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of structural members and systems subject to dynamic loads such as wind and earthquake loads; basic theory for single-degree-of-freedom and multi-degree-of-freedom analytical models of civil engineering structures; free vibration, harmonic and transient excitation, foundation motion, resonance spectrum, Lagrange’s equation, modal analysis, lumped parameter methods, computer methods. Typically offered Fall.
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CE 57500 - Experimental Methods In Structural Engineering
Credit Hours: 3.00. Theory, methods, and techniques for experimental studies of structural members and systems. Measurements fundamentals; transducers for measuring strain, displacements, force and torque, pressure, and temperature. Physical modeling principles: similitude, materials and their properties, and loading systems for application to studies of elastic and inelastic models. Case studies. Individual project required of each student. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall.
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CE 57600 - Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design
Credit Hours: 3.00. Design and behavior of columns, two-way slab and slab-beam floor systems, and beam-column joints; strut-and-tie models. Typically offered Fall.
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CE 57900 - Structural Stability
Credit Hours: 3.00. Bending of structural members subjected to axial and lateral loads; buckling of compression members and frames in elastic and inelastic ranges, local buckling, lateral buckling of beams, design criteria. Typically offered Spring.
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CE 58000 - Advanced Geotechnical Engineering
Credit Hours: 3.00. Advanced treatment of topics in geotechnical engineering, including the engineering response to loading, soil properties, earth pressures, shear strength, soil compaction and fabric, permeability, and consolidation and settlement analysis. Typically offered Fall.
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CE 58300 - Slopes And Retaining Structures
Credit Hours: 3.00. Selected topics in soil response and technology needed in conventional geotechnical analysis and design; shearing behavior in clays; subsurface investigation; lateral earth pressures, retaining walls, and sheet pile walls; stability of slopes. Typically offered Fall.
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CE 58400 - Foundation Analysis And Design
Credit Hours: 3.00. Design of shallow foundations (isolated, combined, and strip footings), with specific attention to issues of mutual concern and interest to geotechnical and structural engineers. Review of factors that serve as the basis for selection of foundation type. Interpretation of subsurface exploration results. Settlement analyses and limit bearing capacity analyses. Communications and interaction between geotechnical and structural engineers. Structure and contents of a geotechnical report. Detailed treatment of geotechnical/structural design criteria and methodologies for various types of shallow and deep foundations. Typically offered Fall.
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CE 58700 - Soil Dynamics
Credit Hours: 3.00. Vibration of elementary systems, foundation vibratory theory, foundation design for vibratory loads, foundation isolation, wave propagation theory, response of soils to dynamic loading, dynamic soil properties, dynamic behavior of waste materials, field and laboratory methods for evaluation of dynamic soil properties, liquefaction of sands, vibratory compaction of granular materials. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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CE 59100 - Advanced Structural Steel Design
Credit Hours: 3.00. Design and behavior of plate girders; design of composite beam and column members; behavior and design of bolted and welded connections, including moment-resistant connections, seated connections, and gusset-plate connections. Typically offered Fall.
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CE 59200 - Plastic Design Of Steel Structures
Credit Hours: 3.00. Ultimate load capacity of steel structures; methods of analysis for structures in the plastic range; plastic design of continuous beams, frames, and connections. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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CE 59300 - Environmental Geotechnology
Credit Hours: 3.00. Review of regulations related to hazardous and solid waste disposal, including hazardous waste characterization. Discussion of contaminant transport in porous media and relationship with remediation technologies for hazardous waste sites. Discussions of soil properties relative to waste containment systems, soil stability, and permeability. Typically offered Spring.
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CE 59400 - Transportation Systems Analysis
Credit Hours: 3.00. Identifies concepts fundamental to the planning, design, operation, and management of transportation systems. Aims to impart a systems perspective to transportation problems. Incorporates concepts from economics, engineering, operations research, management, psychology, and public policy analysis. Topics include supply-demand microeconomic framework, analysis of transportation demand, system performance, network equilibrium, and associated case studies. Typically offered Fall.
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CE 59500 - Finite Elements In Elasticity
Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamentals of theory of elasticity; variational principles; one-, two-, and three-dimensional elasticity finite elements; interpolation methods; numerical integration; convergence criteria; stress interpretation. Typically offered Spring.
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CE 59700 - Civil Engineering Projects
Arrange Hours and Credit. Hours and credits to be arranged. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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CE 59800 - Graduate 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. Must complete one academic year in Civil Engineering. A written report is required. (May be repeated but may not be taken in successive semesters.). Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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CE 61200 - Physical Geodesy
Credit Hours: 3.00. Gravity field modeling. Spherical harmonics. Gravimetry and gravity reduction methods. Discrete/continuous estimation. Gravity prediction, collocation. Local and world height datums. Earth rotation, differential equations of Euler and Liouville. Basics of inertial surveying. Prerequisite: CE 61100. Typically offered Spring.
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CE 61400 - Statistical And Econometric Methods I
Credit Hours: 3.00. Basic and advanced statistical and econometric methods as applied to engineering-related problems. Introduction to ordinary least squares regression, count-data models including Poisson and Negative binomial regressions and their extensions, simultaneous equations models, multinomial logit models, ordered probability models, joint discrete/continuous models, and hazard-based duration models. Prerequisites: STAT 51100 . Typically offered Fall.
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CE 61500 - Statistical And Econometric Methods II
Credit Hours: 3.00. Advanced statistical and econometric methods as applied to engineering-related problems extending the techniques covered in CE 61400 . Topics include: seemingly unrelated regression, three-stage least squares, generalized extreme value models, nested logit models estimated by full information maximum likelihood, random parameters (mixed) logit models, models with fixed and random effects, and zero-inflated count-data models. Prerequisites: CE 61400 . Typically offered Spring.
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CE 63100 - Advanced Concrete And Aggregates
Credit Hours: 3.00. Microstructure of concrete. Physicochemical properties of cements and their hydration. Nature of hardened cement paste. Properties of aggregates. Workability, strength, shrinkage, creep, and fracture of concrete. Durability, freezing and thawing, air-entertainment, reactions of aggregates, chemical attack. Influence of microstructure on engineering properties of concrete. Prerequisite: CE 53000 . Typically offered Spring.
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CE 66100 - Algorithms In Transportation
Credit Hours: 3.00. Modeling and analysis of transportation network problems through the design, analysis, and implementation of algorithms. Emphasis on the use of quantitative techniques of operations research to model system performance. Covers fundamental data structures, complexity analysis, memory management, recursive programs, application of graph theory and network analysis to transportation problems, analytical formulations and solution algorithms for traffic assignment problems, and dynamic traffic assignment. Prerequisite: CE 59600 or IE 50100. Typically offered Fall.
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CE 67100 - Behavior Of Metal Structures
Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of the behavior of metal structural components and metal structural systems. The performance of civil engineering type metal structures in various loading environments is examined, and correlations between behavioral characteristics and various design specification requirements are reviewed. Primary emphasis is placed on the behavior of steel structures, although other metal systems also are discussed. Specific topics include material behavior, manufacturing processes, fatigue and fracture, bolting and welding procedures, and repair and retrofit techniques. Course material is augmented with a number of case studies. Prerequisite: CE 59100 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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CE 67200 - Advanced Topics In Structural Engineering
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. A series of minicourses on special topics offered as CE 67000, CE 67200, etc. These special topic minicourses provide an opportunity for introducing students to topics of contemporary importance or special interest which fall outside the scope of the regular structural courses. Information about current offerings may be obtained from the schedule of classes or the structural engineering. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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CE 67401 - Bridge Engineering
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course reviews a number of fundamental topics related to the structural design of highway bridges. Some of the key features include bridge types, aesthetics, structural analysis methods, vehicle load distribution, deck design and detailing, steel girder design, concrete girder design, integral abutment design, bearings, and construction. Concurrent prerequisites: CE 57200 and CE 59100 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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CE 67500 - Finite Element Analysis
Credit Hours: 3.00. Theoretical basis of the finite element method; elements for use in the solution of two- and three-dimensional stress problems, plate-bending problems and shell problems; static and dynamic loadings; vibration and stability problems; geometrical or material nonlinearities; flow problems. Prerequisite: CE 57700 or 57800. Typically offered Spring.
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CE 67600 - Behavior Of Reinforced Concrete Members
Credit Hours: 3.00. Studies of the behavior and strength of reinforced concrete members, behavior of beam-columns, deflections, shear, bond, and cracking. Review of research and pertinent literature. Emphasis is placed on the background, use, and limitations of present design specifications. Prerequisite: CE 57600 . Typically offered Spring.
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CE 68100 - Engineering Properties Of Soils
Credit Hours: 3.00. Engineering properties of soils, including compaction phenomena, with emphasis on strength and compressibility. Experiments to examine the nature and validity of strength and compressibility theories and their application to stability and settlement analysis. Measures of soil fabric; behavior of waste/marginal materials. Prerequisite: CE 48300 . Typically offered Fall.
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CE 68200 - Ground Water And Seepage
Credit Hours: 3.00. Hydromechanics of confined and unconfined flow of water through soils, potential theory, conformal mapping transient flow. Applications to design of earth dams. Prerequisite: CE 483000. Typically offered Summer Spring.
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