Courses
Civil Engineering
0500-Construction Administration 3 s.h.
The engineering and construction industry; basis of construction contracting; organizational structure and its functions; management structure and its functions; office administration, employment practices, and labor relations; organizational financing and accounting; safety practices, risk management, and industrial insurance.
0510-Transportation Systems Management 3 s.h.
Cost effective techniques for the rebuilding of deteriorated transportation systems; pavement management and traffic systems management; extensive use of advanced computer software packages.
0513-Analytical Instrumentation 3 s.h.
Sampling and analysis of environmental contaminants. Real-time monitoring. Sample collection and proper handling. Analytical applications of absorption spectroscopy in the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared; atomic absorption; emission spectroscopy; mass spectrometry; separation methods including liquid chromatography.
0515-Hazardous Waste Management 2 s.h.
An introductory course on the problems and solutions of hazardous waste management, including the federal Superfund waste clean-up program. The course is designed to familiarize the students with applicable federal and state laws. The technology, abatement, control practices, and siting of waste facilities considering community relations will be used.
0516-Air Pollution Control 3 s.h.
Theory and principles of the design and operation of the major categories of air pollution control equipment. Introduction to dispersion modeling. An extensive design problem is a major course component.
0530-Physical Principals of Environmental Systems 3 s.h.
Basic principles of process engineering as they relate to pollution control. Includes heat and mass transfer, mixing, chemical, and biological reactions and reaction and kinetics.
0535-Mathematical Principles of Environmental Systems 3 s.h.
Concepts of dynamic systems, with applications that illustrate their relevance to environmental engineering and sciences: population (predator/prey) models, algae blooms, river dissolved oxygen depletion, percolation, chemical reaction kinetics, biological growth dynamics, and market dynamics. Analysis of linear and non-linear models. Graphical (visual) analysis and computer simulation.
0540-Fate of Pollutants in Subsurface Envionments 3 s.h.
Integrated chemical, physical, and microbiological principles of contaminant fate and transport processes necessary in the use of engineered approaches towards selecting and implementing subsurface cleanup options. Abiotic processes, biotic processes, empirical models and vulnerability mapping.
0550-Near-Surface Environmental Systems 3 s.h.
Contaminants in various media (soils, water), characterization of contaminants transport, fate of contaminants; precipitation areal coverage, science and modeling aspects of water flow and solute transport in unsaturated media and computer applications.
0555-Chemical Principles of Environmental Systems 3 s.h.
Essential chemical principles necessary to understand the nature of commonly occurring pollution problems and engineering approaches to their solutions. Thermodynamics, chemical equilibria, acid-base chemistry, carbonate system, Redox chemistry and adsorption/desorption phenomena.
0570-Engineering Project Management 3 s.h.
Overview of the basic principles underlying all methods of project management, including project estimating, planning and scheduling, budgeting, cost accounting and cost control, project documentation, tracking and resource levelling; utilization of project management software packages for selected civil engineering projects; different types of projects, organizing the project management functions, setting up the project team, starting up and managing engineering projects and ensuring the effective completion of the project on time, within budget and meeting specifications.
0571-Environmental Engineering 3 s.h.
Generation, transport, effects, and control of environmental pollution within and across media. Problem analysis and control design. The theoretical development will be augmented with applications of state-of-the-art software packages. Students will complete a term project.
0572-Structural Mechanics 3 s.h.
Principles of mechanics and stress and strain at a point; analysis of statically determinate and indeterminate structures with static and moving loads using energy methods and force and deformation methods; beam theory, shear center, unsymmetrical bending, introduction to numerical methods and computer techniques; introduction to the use of the GT-STRUDAL and ANSYS computer programs.
0573-Construction Financial Management 3 s.h.
Project development in construction, project budgeting and job costing approaches, cost management and financing alternatives, evaluation of financial and accounting objectives required with each project, forecasting ash needs and profit, financial reporting procedures.
0574-Transportation Engineering 3 s.h.
The principal modes of transportation including highway, rail, and air; analysis of elements of transport technology; transportation system development, planning, design, construction, and maintenance.
0575-Construction Industry Business 3 s.h.
Aspects of the construction industry. Trends and forecasting techniques. Factors affecting construction industry trends. Major players in the construction industry. Information banks for the construction industry. Information banks for the construction industry, including Internet sources. Ranking of companies in various aspects of the construction industry.
0576-Rebuilding America 3 s.h.
An introductory course which covers system behaviour, deterioration, assessment and renewal of infrastructure. Research results will be transferred to the practice of infrastructure science and engineering. This knowledge/technology transfer will be reinforced by multidisciplinary teams of students (from the social sciences, business and management, scientific and engineering disciplines, etc.) making in-depth analyses of selected infrastructure systems, which will include examining social, economic, political, financial, and international components, as well as the scientific and technical aspects of the problem.
0598- Independent Study 1-3 s.h.
Special study in a particular aspect of civil and environmental engineering under the direct supervision of a graduate faculty member.
0599-Independent Study 1-3 s.h.
Special study in a particular aspect of civil and environmental engineering under the direct supervision of a graduate faculty member.
0610-Behavior and Design of Concrete Structures 3 s.h.
Behavior and design of concrete structures and structural systems including beams, columns, tension members. design of reinforced concrete members subjected to axial loads, flexural, combined axial and flexural loads, combined shear and flexural loads; design of reinforced concrete slabs and footings; application to design of determinate and indeterminate reinforced concrete structures; introduction to Portland Cement Association computer analysis and design of concrete structures
0620-Transportation Engineering Materials 3 s.h.
The physical properties of asphalt, aggregates, portland cement, portland cement concrete, and their combinations. Advanced techniques in material characterization in the lab and the field. Material variability, sampling, and statistical techniques; impact of these properties on their characterization of the design, construction, rehabilitation and management oftransportation facilities including portland cement concrete pavements with steel reinforcement; construction methodologies, recycling, and energy consideration; application of the state-of-the-art computer software packages.
0635-Computer Modeling of Environmental Transport 3 s.h.
Theory and computer modeling of transport and diffusion within and across media; application of models to problems of air, water and soil pollution with case studies.
0641-Water and Wastewater Systems Design 3 s.h.
The design of water distribution and sewage handling facilities including sewers, pumping stations, seepage beds, septic tanks, spray irrigation and natural treatment systems such as overload and swamp treatment.
0646-Solid and Hazardous Wastes Engineering 3 s.h.
The design of solid waste collection, separation and Processing facilities, and disposal operations such as incinerators and landfills.
0656-Bridge Design 3 s.h.
Bridge design in structural steel and reinforced concrete. Application of AASHTO bridge design specifications. Analysis techniques for complex structures. Preliminary designs include investigating alternative structural systems and materials. Final designs include preparation of design calculations and sketches.
0670-Value Engineering 3 s.h.
Systematic evaluation of a project to obtain the most value. Fundamentals of value generating value engineering proposals. Major characteristics of value engineering. Hands-on practice with a real project.
0676-Construction Equipment Management 3 s.h.
Concepts and theories of construction equipment operation and ownership costs and their relationship to production systems. Analysis of depreciation and fixed costs for equipment pricing on construction projects. Selection and use of construction equipment. Equipment economics and financing.
0677-Construction Productivity 3 s.h.
Productivity rating and analysis in the construction industry. Review of work improvement techniques in the construction industry, construction safety, and construction work sequence. Application of engineering fundamentals to construction methods.
0679-Strategic Corporate Management in Engineering Construction 3 s.h.
Identification of management knowledge gap. Company missions, goals and visions. Strategic management principles. Specific market niches, business focal points, and market opportunities. Internal strategic issues and challenges of external forces on the strategic management process.
0706-Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Resistant Design 3 s.h.
Behavior and analysis of simple and complex structures subjected to dynamic loads, using exact and approximate analytical techniques. Determination of free response and force response using modal superposition and numerical integration. Review of the characteristics of earthquakes with consideration of site and structural parameters on the response of buildings. Application of analysis and design procedures required to achieve earthquake resistant structures in accordance with building code specifications.
0776-Advanced Engineering Project Management 3 s.h.
Analysis of project control, job budgeting and costing, safety and risk management, bidding strategies and management, construction information management. Case studies of construction projects and company profiles.
Prerequisite: CE 500, CE570
0790-Special Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering 3 s.h.
Selected advanced topics in various major research areas in civil and environmental engineering.
0795-Research Project 3 s.h.
Under the guidance of a faculty member, students will select a topic in civil and environmental engineering to be researched using at least five references. An extensive research paper will be written which will be reviewed by two faculty members. Projects related to industrial applications are encouraged. For non-thesis students only.
0796- Research I 1-6 s.h.
Under the guidanceof a faculty member, the student will conduct an independent research on a selected topic in civil and environmental engineering. The research results will be presented in the form of a paper.
0797- Research II 1-6 s.h.
Under the guidanceof a faculty member, the student will conduct an independent research on a selected topic in civil and environmental engineering. The research results will be presented in the form of a paper.
0798-Thesis I. 3 s.h.
Formulation of the thesis topic. Literature review and research of the proposed topic. Written submission of the thesis proposal.
0799-Thesis II. 3 s.h.
Completion and oral presentation of the thesis work. Submission of the written thesis.
Prerequisite: CE 798