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.
CIVE
5270 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.
Prereq. Junior, senior, or graduate standing.
CIVE 5271 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. Prereq. Junior, senior, or graduate
standing.
CIVE 5321 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. Prereq. Junior, senior, or graduate standing.
CIVE
5373 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. Prereq.
Junior, senior, or graduate standing; engineering students only.
CIVE 5376 Traffic Engineering
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. Offers students
an opportunity to practice with standard software. Prereq.
Junior, senior, or graduate standing; engineering students only.
CIVE
5978 Independent Study (1-4 SH)
Offers theoretical or experimental work under individual faculty
supervision. Prereq. Junior, senior, or graduate standing
and permission of advisor.
CIVE
6964 Co-op Work Experience (0 SH)
Provides eligible students with an opportunity for work experience.
Prereq. Permission of advisor.
CIVE
7220 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. Prereq. Engineering
students only.
CIVE 7221 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. Prereq.
Engineering students only.
CIVE 7230
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. Prereq. Engineering
students only.
CIVE 7231 Alternative Project
Delivery Systems in Construction (2SH)
Offers a comprehensive overview of alternative construction
project delivery systems in the public and private sectors;
project life cycle including project development, schedule,
cost and risk management, quality assurance/quality control,
project management, and project closeout; innovative financing
strategies including contractor financing, franchises, and super
turnkey. Focuses on the analysis of design/bid/build execution
compared to design/build and construction management systems
of delivery. Examines international projects, contracts, and
partnering options—for example JVs and alliances—as
vehicles to ensure the meeting of project objectives. Uses case
studies to identify and practice the management skills required
for successful D/B project execution including effective communication,
negotiations, and team building. Prereq. CIVE 7220; engineering
students only.
CIVE
7240 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.
CIVE
7250 Environmental Chemistry
Examines applications of chemistry to environmental engineering.
Covers 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. Prereq. Two semesters of
undergraduate chemistry; engineering students only.
CIVE
7251 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.
Prereq. Engineering students only.
CIVE 7252 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.
Prereq. CIVE 7251 and permission of instructor.
CIVE 7253 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. Prereq.
CIVE 7252; engineering students only.
CIVE 7260 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. Prereq. Knowledge of differential equations
and introduction to probability and statistics; engineering
students only.
CIVE 7261 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. Prereq. CIVE 7250 and CIVE 7260.
CIVE 7262 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.
CIVE 7263 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.
Prereq. CIVE 7260; engineering students only.
CIVE 7272 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.
CIVE 7301 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. Prereq. Engineering students only.
CIVE 7302 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.
CIVE 7303 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.
CIVE 7311 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.
.
CIVE 7312 Earthquake Engineering
Studies 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. Prereq. Engineering students
only.
CIVE
7322 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.
CIVE 7330 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.
CIVE
7331 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.
CIVE 7340 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.
CIVE 7341 Structural Reliability
Examines applications of probability theory and random variables
for determining the reliability of structures. Includes the
following topics: 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. Assumes
no prior knowledge of probability theory.
CIVE 7342 System Identification
Studies methods for identifying the fundamental characteristics
of structures. Includes topics in linear algebra (singular value
and QR decomposition, pseudoinversion, 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.
CIVE 7350 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.
CIVE 7351 Behavior of Steel
Structures
Studies the 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.
CIVE 7352 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. Prereq. Engineering students only.
CIVE 7353 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. Prereq. Engineering students only.
CIVE 7354 Wind Engineering
Covers 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, nonsynoptic winds
(hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.), wind-load standards, and design
applications.
CIVE 7380 Transportation
Performance Models
Examines methods and models used to predict transportation system
performance and network equilibrium. Uses performance models
to cover congestion on freeways and at intersections and the
basis of traffic simulation. Discusses equilibrium analysis
and network analysis for network assignment. Includes an introduction
to supporting nonlinear optimization methods. Prereq. CIVE
5373 and IE 7280.
CIVE 7381 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. Prereq.
CIVE 5373 and knowledge of multivariate calculus; engineering
students only.
CIVE 7385 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. Prereq. Knowledge
of probability theory.
CIVE 7388 Special Topics
in Civil Engineering (2 or 4 SH)
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.
CIVE 7390 Special Topics
in Construction Management Engineering (2 or 4 SH)
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.
CIVE
7392 Special Topics in Environmental Engineering (2 or 4 SH)
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.
CIVE 7394 Special Topics
in Geotechnical Engineering (2 or 4 SH)
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.
CIVE 7396 Special Topics
in Structural Engineering (2 or 4 SH)
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.
CIVE 7398 Special Topics
in Transportation Engineering (2 or 4 SH)
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.
CIVE 7978 Independent Study (1-4 SH)
Offers an individual effort in an area selected by student and
adviser and approved by the Department Discipline Committee
resulting in a definitive report. Prereq. Permission of
instructor; engineering students only.
CIVE 7990 Thesis (1-4 SH)
Offers analytical and/or experimental research conducted by
arrangement with and under the supervision of the department.
Prereq. Engineering students only.
CIVE 7996 Thesis Continuation
(0SH)
Offers continued thesis work conducted under the supervision
of a departmental faculty. Prereq. CIVE 7990; engineering
students only.
CIVE
8674 Master's Report (2 or 4 SH)
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. Requires a completed
report seven years from the start of the master’s program.
Prereq. Permission of department; engineering students only.
CIVE 9990 Dissertation
(0 SH)
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.
CIVE 9996 Dissertation
Continuation (0 SH)
Offers continued thesis work conducted under the supervision
of a departmental faculty. Prereq. CIVE 9990; engineering
students only.
