Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course
Descriptions
Students must refer to the Registrar's
web site or the Graduate
School of Engineering's web site to determine the courses
that are offered in any given semester. All courses are four
semester hours (4SH) unless otherwise stated.
CIV
G220 Construction Management
Presents all aspects of construction management, with emphasis
on cost and schedule. Provides conceptual and detailed cost
estimates and network-based scheduling techniques (CPM and PERT).
Covers project cash flow and finances.
CIV G221 Construction Project
Control and Organization (2SH)
Overviews the organization of construction firms at the general
corporate level and the project level. Covers cost, schedule,
budget, and financial control of projects. Also examines the
flow of information between parties to the project.
CIV G230
Legal Aspects of Civil Engineering
Overviews the U.S. legal system and the theories necessary for
the comprehension of business and contractual liabilities. Discusses
various types of contracts, forms of business ownership, claims
and disputes, and environmental law.
CIV G231 Alternative Project
Delivery Systems in Construction (2SH)
A comprehensive overview of alternative construction project
delivery systems in the public and private sectors; project
lifecycle including project development, schedule, cost and
risk management, quality assurance/quality control, project
management, and project close-out; innovative financing strategies
including contractor financing, franchises, and super turnkey.
The focus will be on the analysis of design/bid/build execution
compared to Design/Build and Construction Management systems
of delivery. This course will examine international projects,
contracts and partnering options, for example JV`s and alliances,
as vehicles to ensure the meeting of project objectives. Case
studies will be used to identify and practice the management
skills required for successful D/B project execution including
effective communication, negotiations, and team building. Prerequisite:
CIV G220
CIV
G240 Construction Equipment and Modeling
Focuses on the selection and application of earthmoving equipment.
Topics include equipment production systems and cost analysis,
simulation modeling of equipment operations, statistical aspects
of computer simulation, and risk analysis fundamentals.
CIV G250 Environmental
Chemistry
Applications of chemistry to environmental engineering. Topics
include properties of water and pollutants, acid-base reactions,
pH, alkalinity, equilibrium chemistry, chemical kinetics, chemical
thermodynamics, coordination chemistry, precipitation-dissolution
reactions, surface chemistry, adsorption-desorption, redox reactions,
and organic chemistry as it relates to the environment. Includes
relevant laboratory exercises such as colorimetry, gravimetric,
and electrochemical methods, atomic absorption spectrophotometry,
and ion and gas chromatography.
CIV G251 Environmental
Biological Processes
Examines microbiology with emphasis on biological processes
in environmental engineering applications. Topics include cell
structure, morphology, cell nutrition and growth, energy transfer
and utilization, aerobic and anaerobic microbial metabolism,
biological wastewater process theory and modeling, biological
nutrients removal, and disinfection of relevant microorganisms.
Includes relevant laboratory exercises of treatment parameters
used to monitor the biological processes, such as BOD, TOC,
COD, gravimetric methods, and dissolved oxygen. Also covers
enzyme kinetics and evaluation of kinetic coefficients for biotreatment.
Prerequisite: CIV G310.
CIV G252 Water
and Wastewater Treatment Processes
Covers design principles and theory of removal of impurities
from water. Treatment unit operations and processes typically
include aeration, screening, coagulation and flocculation, sedimentation,
filtration, ion exchange, activated carbon adsorption, and disinfection.
Covers wastewater treatment with emphasis on secondary municipal
treatment processes including preliminary treatment, primary
clarification, activated sludge systems, aerated lagoons, aeration
and mixing theory, fixed film biological treatment systems,
anaerobic treatment systems, residue utilization, and disposal.
Prerequisite: CIV G251.
CIV G253 Advanced Municipal
and Industrial Wastewater Treatment Processes
Examines industrial wastewater problems with design considerations
for industrial solids and liquid wastes combined with unit operations
and processes used for advanced municipal wastewater treatment
systems design. Topics include nutrients removal, advanced chemical
treatment technologies, land treatment, membrane technologies,
industrial waste characterization, industrial waste survey techniques,
residuals management, and recycle or reuse of liquid and solid
streams. Offers case studies of major industries. Prerequisite:
CIV G252.
CIV G260 Hydrology
Covers evaluation of surface and ground water as an integrated
resource using hydrologic principles. Topics include the hydrologic
cycle (precipitation, interception and surface storage, infiltration,
evapotranspiration, lakes and stream flow, and ground water
discharge to oceans), hydrologic measurements and monitoring,
surface water hydrology (rainfall/runoff modeling, hydrographs,
hydrograph routing, and snow hydrology), and ground water hydrology
(basic ground water hydraulics and porous media properties,
aquifers, regional flow, and basin development and yield). Additional
topics include hydrologic design, stochastic hydrology, and
simulation modeling. Prerequisite: Knowledge of differential
equations and introduction to probability and statistics.
CIV G261 Surface Water
Hydraulics and Quality Modeling
Examines mechanisms through which environmental water quality
becomes degraded, control strategies for mitigating degradation,
and resource management strategies for preventing degradation.
Topics include contaminant sources, eutrophication processes,
environmental transport and transformation processes, water
quality measurements and monitoring, contaminant fate and transport
modeling in lakes, rivers, estuaries, and ground water, water
quality control methods and strategies, and water resource protection
regulations and strategies. Prerequisite: CIV G250 and CIV G260.
CIV G262 Watershed Management
Focuses on methods of water resources and water quality planning
and management. Topics include the Clean Water Act and EU Water
Framework; water body integration; linkage of watershed stresses
(pollution, development, and stream modification) to ecological
endpoints; optimization of water resource development and environmental
protection, recognizing stresses and constraints imposed on
the development; total maximum daily load process; attainability
of standards and environmental goals; economic and equity issues;
and watershed restoration.
CIV G263 Groundwater Hydraulics
and Quality Modeling
Examines methods and models used to evaluate flow and contaminant
transport in ground water, focusing on practical applications.
Topics in ground water flow include one-dimensional flow, well
hydraulics, aquifer parameter tests, unsaturated zone flow,
seepage from canals and ditches, seepage through earth structures,
and an introduction to aquifer modeling. Topics in ground water
quality include chemical transport and transformation processes,
chemical fate and transport modeling in ground water, and ground
water quality measurement and monitoring. Studies solution methods
that focus on analytical solutions and flow nets, with an introduction
to numerical methods. Also discusses ground water quality control
and resource protection methods, strategies, and regulations.
Prerequisite: CIV G260.
CIV G270 Environmental
Protection and Management
Examines public and private environmental quality management
and resource protection systems. Considers regulatory issues,
risk management approaches, local vs. regional impacts, long-term
sustainability, and economic/financial issues. Covers selected
current topics and a broad range of specific environmental issues.
CIV G271 Solid and Hazardous
Waste Management
Introduce various aspects of integrated solid waste management
system and hazardous waste management practices. Includes both
engineering principles as well as socioeconomic and regulatory
issues surrounding solid and hazardous waste management. Provides
sufficient background to enable the student to understand, evaluate,
and critique the design of and the decisions in various waste
management alternatives.
CIV G272 Air Quality Management
Explores engineering theory and practice related to air resources
management. Focuses on modeling dispersion and reactions for
atmospheric pollutants and on analysis of systems for controlling
gaseous and particulate emissions including dry collection,
wet collection, absorption, and catalytic processes. Also addresses
biological and chemical aspects of air pollution including toxicological
issues, physiological effects of aerosols, analysis of organic
and inorganic constituents of the atmosphere, and rationale
for establishing air quality criteria and standards.
CIV G301 Advanced Soil
Mechanics
Studies characterization of soils, soil mineralogy and chemistry,
stresses within a soil mass, basic porous media flow principles,
effective stress principle, compaction, drained and undrained
stress-strain-strength concepts, and consolidation theory and
its application.
CIV G302 Advanced Foundation
Engineering
Focuses on bearing-capacity and settlement analysis of conventional
shallow foundations and combined footings; mat design; lateral
earth pressure theory and application to retaining wall design,
braced excavations, sheet pile wall design, and slurry trench
walls; bearing-capacity design and analysis for deep foundations;
and laterally loaded piles, friction piles, and pile-driven
analysis.
CIV G303 Geotechnical Instrumentation
(2SH)
Comprises field applications including drilling and sampling
methods, subsurface exploration tools, in situ measurements
for construction monitoring, and geophysical methods. Laboratory
applications include measurement devices, data acquisition and
processing, and laboratory devices for evaluating shear strength,
consolidation properties, hydraulic conductivity, and geochemical
measurements.
CIV G311 Soil and Foundation
Dynamics
Considers dynamic loads, blast vibrations and monitoring, dynamic
response of single-mass, multi degree-of-freedom systems, design
of machine foundations, dynamic soil properties, ground response
analysis, liquefaction, and seismic analysis of slopes and dams.
.
CIV G312 Earthquake Engineering
Plate tectonics, seismology, faults and characteristics,
ground motions, seismic hazard analysis, dynamic response of
single degree-of-freedom system, response spectrum, site effects,
and seismic design considerations for buildings, bridges, and
earth-retaining structures.
CIV G321 Geoenvironmental
Engineering
Covers definitions and regulations, soil formation and mineralogy,
hydraulic conductivity measurements, reactive contaminant transport
through fine-grained soils, landfill and liners design, and
seepage barriers and cutoff walls. Introduces site characterization
and remediation.
CIV G322 Engineering Geology
Focuses on selected topics in historical and structural geology
related to engineering geology; origin and occurrence of various
rock types, geologic structures, faulting, and joint systems;
weathering of rock and weathering products, glaciation, geologic
mapping, and environmental aspects; and case studies.
CIV G330 Advanced Structural
Analysis
Explores modern methods of structural analysis, matrix formulation
of flexibility and stiffness methods, and analysis of structures
with material and geometric nonlinearities. Also introduces
energy methods.
CIV G331 Structural Dynamics
Examines single and multi degree-of-freedom systems subjected
to arbitrary dynamic loads. Topics include convolution and frequency
domain solutions, introduction to analytical dynamics, damping
models, modal analysis of classically damped systems, and state-space
formulation.
CIV G340 Seismic Analysis
and Design
Considers the response of linear systems to coherent and incoherent
support motion, nonlinear response, the concept of ductility,
inelastic response spectra, soil-structure interaction, random
vibration theory, development of seismic codes, and characterizations
of earthquakes for design.
CIV G341 Structural Reliability
Applications of probability theory and random variables for
determining the reliability of structures. Topics include the
formulation of reliability for structural components and systems;
first-order second-moment method, first- and second-order reliability
methods, and simulation methods; analysis of model uncertainty
and Bayesian parameter estimation technique; load and resistance
models and bases for probabilistic structural codes; and time-dependent
reliability methods. No prior knowledge of probability theory
assumed.
CIV G342 System Identification
Methods for identifying the fundamental characteristics of structures.
Includes topics in linear algebra (singular value and QR decomposition,
pseudo inversion, and so on); input-output relationships for
linear time-invariant systems; frequency response functions;
signal processing fundamentals; realization theory; the eigensystem
realization algorithm; use of observers in identification; and
introduction to out-only system identification.
CIV G350 Behavior of Concrete
Structures
Considers flexural mechanics of reinforced concrete cross sections
and members; combined bending, axial, and shear loads; advanced
topics in shear, torsion, and connection design; and application
of plastic analysis to reinforced concrete frames, their behavior
under cyclic loading, and response of structures under seismic
actions.
CIV G351 Behavior of Steel
Structures
Behavior of steel structures and its relation to design. Includes
flexural mechanics of steel cross sections and members; instability;
combined bending, axial, and shear loads; torsion of open and
closed thin-walled sections; advanced topics in shear and connection
design; and plate girders.
CIV G352 Bridge Design
(2SH)
Covers design and analysis of bridge structures, construction
methods, and load conditions. Considers special problems in
analysis such as box girders, curved and skewed bridges, and
environmental and seismic loads. Also explores bearings and
expansion joints.
CIV G353 Prestressed Concrete
(2SH)
Studies the behavior and design of statically determinate prestressed
concrete structures under bending moment, shear, torsion, and
axial load effects. Covers the design of statically indeterminate
prestressed concrete beams, frames, slabs, and shells. Considers
time-dependent effects and deflections of prestressed concrete
structures. Offers applications to the design and construction
of bridges and buildings.
CIV G354 Wind Engineering
Atmospheric circulation, atmospheric boundary layer winds, bluff-body
aerodynamics, introduction to random vibration theory, response
of structures to fluctuating wind loads, aeroelastic phenomena,
wind-tunnel and full-scale testing, non-synoptic winds (hurricanes,
tornadoes, etc.), wind-load standards and design applications.
CIV G373 Transportation
Planning and Engineering
Discusses urban transportation planning and engineering for
modes other than highway. Covers travel demand forecasting for
both the short and long term including impact analysis methods,
simple elasticity models, and the four-step model system of
trip generation, trip distribution, modal split, and network
assignment. Introduces transit service analysis and design.
Other topics include capacity, service, and engineering design
basics for different travel modes, such as bus, airport, rail,
and bicycle. Considers the environmental impact, economic evaluation,
and financial impact of different modes of transportation.
CIV G376 Traffic Engineering
and Control
Explores traffic flow theory and measurement, capacity and level
of service analysis for intersections and urban arterials, intersection
layout design, intersection signal plan design for both isolated
intersections and arterials, parking analysis and design, and
congestion mitigation and traffic management. Students practice
with standard software.
CIV G380 Transportation
Performance Models
Examines methods and models used to predict transportation system
performance and network equilibrium. Performance models cover
congestion on freeways and at intersections, and the basis of
traffic simulation. Equilibrium analysis and network analysis
for network assignment. Includes an introduction to supporting
nonlinear optimization methods. Prerequisite: CIV G373 and
IEM G280.
CIV G381 Transportation
Demand Models
Examines methods and models used to predict urban travel demand.
Introduces supporting statistical methods including linear regression,
maximum likelihood estimation, and statistical tests. Also studies
the effect of variable demand on project evaluation. Prerequisite:
CIV G373.
CIV G385 Public Transportation
Studies the analysis, planning, and operational design of urban
public transportation systems. Topics include service design
and scheduling, such as route and system-level design and optimization,
passenger flow modeling, rail operations, and bus operational
control including automatic vehicle location and priority at
signalized intersections. Also covers passenger sampling, ridership
estimation, demand forecasting, data collection design, and
service quality monitoring, with an emphasis on intelligent
systems. Discusses policy issues including pricing, subsidy,
and priority. Introduces supporting mathematical methods in
optimization and statistical sampling.
CIV G388 Special Topics
in Civil Engineering (2SH)
Offered when the need for a special topic is evident to faculty
and students. The course is initiated by the appropriate faculty
members and discipline committee and approved by the department.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor/faculty.
CIV G389 Special Topics
in Civil Engineering
Offered when the need for a special topic is evident to faculty
and students. The course is initiated by the appropriate faculty
members and discipline committee and approved by the department.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor/faculty.
CIV G390 Special Topics
in Construction Management Engineering (2SH)
Offered when the need for a special topic is evident to faculty
and students. The course is initiated by the appropriate faculty
members and discipline committee and approved by the department.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor/faculty
CIV
G391 Special Topics in Construction Management Engineering
Offered when the need for a special topic is evident to faculty
and students. The course is initiated by the appropriate faculty
members and discipline committee and approved by the department.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor/faculty.
CIV G392 Special Topics
in Environmental Engineering (2SH)
Offered when the need for a special topic is evident to faculty
and students. The course is initiated by the appropriate faculty
members and discipline committee and approved by the department.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor/faculty.
CIV G393 Special Topics
in Environmental Engineering
Offered when the need for a special topic is evident to faculty
and students. The course is initiated by the appropriate faculty
members and discipline committee and approved by the department.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor/faculty.
CIV G394 Special Topics
in Geotechnical Engineering (2SH)
Offered when the need for a special topic is evident to faculty
and students. The course is initiated by the appropriate faculty
members and discipline committee and approved by the department.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor/faculty.
CIV G395 Special Topics
in Geotechnical Engineering
Offered when the need for a special topic is evident to faculty
and students. The course is initiated by the appropriate faculty
members and discipline committee and approved by the department.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor/faculty.
CIV G396 Special Topics
in Structural Engineering (2SH)
Offered when the need for a special topic is evident to faculty
and students. The course is initiated by the appropriate faculty
members and discipline committee and approved by the department.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor/faculty.
CIV G397 Special Topics
in Structural Engineering
Offered when the need for a special topic is evident to faculty
and students. The course is initiated by the appropriate faculty
members and discipline committee and approved by the department.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor/faculty.
CIV G398 Special Topics
in Transportation Engineering (2SH)
Offered when the need for a special topic is evident to faculty
and students. The course is initiated by the appropriate faculty
members and discipline committee and approved by the department.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor/faculty
CIV G399 Special Topics
in Transportation Engineering
Offered when the need for a special topic is evident to faculty
and students. The course is initiated by the appropriate faculty
members and discipline committee and approved by the department.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor/faculty.
CIV G401 Independent Study
(1SH)
Offers an individual effort in an area selected by student and
adviser and approved by the Department Discipline Committee
resulting in a definitive report. Prerequisite: Permission
of the department.
CIV G402 Independent Study
(2SH)
Offers an individual effort in an area selected by student and
adviser and approved by the Department Discipline Committee
resulting in a definitive report. Prerequisite: Permission
of the department.
CIV G403 Independent Study
(3SH)
Offers an individual effort in an area selected by student and
adviser and approved by the Department Discipline Committee
resulting in a definitive report. Prerequisite: Permission of
the department.
CIV G404 Independent Study
(4SH)
Offers an individual effort in an area selected by student and
adviser and approved by the Department Discipline Committee
resulting in a definitive report. Prerequisite: Permission
of the department.
CIV G672 Master's Report
(2SH)
Offers an individual effort consisting of laboratory and/or
literature investigation and analysis of advanced design of
a project in an area of civil engineering selected by student
and adviser resulting in a definitive report. The report must
be completed seven years from the start of the master's program.
Prerequisite: Permission of the department.
CIV G674 Master's Report
(4SH)
Offers an individual effort consisting of laboratory and/or
literature investigation and analysis of advanced design of
a project in an area of civil engineering selected by student
and adviser resulting in a definitive report. The report must
be completed seven years from the start of the master's program.
Prerequisite: Permission of the department.
CIV G682 Thesis (2SH)
Offers analytical and/or experimental research conducted by
arrangement with and under the supervision of the department.
Prerequisite: Permission of the department
CIV G684 Thesis (4SH)
Offers analytical and/or experimental research conducted by
arrangement with and under the supervision of the department.
Prerequisite: Permission of the department
CIV G688 Thesis (8SH)
Offers analytical and/or experimental research conducted by
arrangement with and under the supervision of the department.
Prerequisite: Permission of the department
CIV G699 Thesis Continuation
(0SH)
Offers continued thesis work conducted under the supervision
of a departmental faculty member. Prerequisite: Permission
of the department
CIV G890 Dissertation (0SH)
Offers analytical and/or experimental research conducted by
arrangement with and under the supervision of the department.
Open to full-time students only. Prerequisite: Admission
to doctoral program in CIV.
CIV G899 Dissertation Continuation
(0SH)
Offers continued thesis work conducted under the supervision
of a departmental faculty member.
