Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group III

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRO-ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS ***** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 3 ***** The chemical, physical, and biological components of the natural environment as resources and thier utilizaiton and interaction in environmental control engineering and technology. Lecture and Laboratory is required. ***** Also offered as HEAL 201.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ENGINEERING MECHANICS **** Also offered as MECH 211.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MECHANICS OF SOLID I ***** Analysis of stress and deformation of solids with applications to beans, circular shafts, and columns. Study of engineering properties of materials. Applying equilibrium, compatibility, and force-deformation relationships to sturctural elements. ***** Prerequites: CEVE 211 or MECH 211

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 1

Description: STRENGTH OF MATERIALS LAB ***** Instruction in standard tension, compression, and torsion tests of ferrous and nonferrous metals. Includes experimental techniques and the behavior of structural elements. Required for B.S.C.E.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS I ***** Analysis of statically deteminate structures; stability and determinacy; influence lines and moving loads. Calculation of deflections. Introduction to analysis of indeterminate structures.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS II ***** Study of force and displacement methods used in the analysis of indeterminate structures. Includes influence lines, energy methods. Introduction to stiffness method of analysis of structures. Required for B.S.C.E. (not required for environmental engineering option).

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: STEEL DESIGN ***** Design of steel members, connections, and assemblies. Behavior of a memeber as related to design.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group III

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & SUSTANIBALE DEVELOPMENT ***** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 3 ***** Examination of emerging trends toward sustainable development and global environmental protection. Includes international treaties on management of the oceans, global warming, ozone depletion, biodiversity and development pattern; impact of treaties such as NAFTA and GATT.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ENGINEERING ECONOMICS FOR ENGINEERING ***** Introduction to the evaluation of alternative investment opportunities with emphasis on engineering projects and capital infrastructure. Time value of money concepts are developed in the context of detailed project evaluation and presentations. In addition, concepts and applications of risk analysis and investment under uncertaintly are developed. Requires oral and written presentations by students. ***** Also offered as ENGI 303.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: APPLIED FLUID MECHANICS ***** Study of fluid properties, fluid statics, and incompressible fluid steady flow. Includes energy and momentum equations with many applications, similitude and dimensional analysis, and viscous fluid flow in pipe networks. Required for B.S.C.E.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MECHANICS OF SOLIDS II ***** Analysis of stress and strain in two and three dimensions. Stress-strain relations for elastic, elastic/plastic, and viscoelastic materials. Material failure criteria. Analysis of bending and tosrion of cylinders, plane problems, large deflection of beams, curved beams, beams of elastic foundations, and plates. Solutions by analytical, numerical, energy methods, including an introduction to the finte element method. Does not count toward graduate degree requirements in civil engineering.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY ***** Principles and significance of measurments used to assess environmentally quality. Hands-on measurments of both classical titration, and modern instrumental methods of measuring both bulk and trace level pollutant concentrations. Lecture and lab.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ***** Water quality engineering, air pollution control, and solid and hazardous waste management.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ***** Legal techniques by societies to plan and regulate the use of environmental resources.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EINFORCED CONCRETE DESIGN ***** Instruction in tests of materials and reinforced concrete members. Corequisite: CIVI 408.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: CONCRETE LABORATORY ***** Instruction in tests of materials and reinforced concrete members. Corequisite: CIVI 407. *****

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AIR RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ***** Introductory principles necessary for understanding air quality and the sources and control of air pollution.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HYDROLOGY & WATERSHED ANALYSIS ***** Fundamentals of the hydrolic cycle, hydrograph techniques, flood routings, and open channel flow. Includes hydrologic design and local watershed application.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): MATH 212 AND CAAM 210 OR CAAM 211

Description: FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS ***** An inrtroduction to finite element analysis by Galerkin's method and the method of least squares as applied to both ordinary and partial differential equations common in engineering applications. Element interpolations, numerical integration, computatinal consideratins for efficient solution and post-processing methods. Application of educational and commercial codes to heat transfer and stress analysis. ***** Also offered as MECH 417. ***** Prerequisite(s): MATH 212, CAAM 210 or 211.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CHEMICAL TRANSPORT AND FATE IN THE ENVIRONMENT ***** Principles of mass balance, chemical partitioning, tranport, and transformation in surface waters, ground waters, and the atmosphere. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE ***** This course emphasizes the science of the atmosphere. Subjects studied inlcude: radiation; climate dynamics; energy balance models; structure and stability; water cloud, and precipitation physics; atmosphere dynamics; storms and special systems; and atmospheric electricity.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO TRANSPORTATION ***** Survey of the operational characteristics of transport modes the elements of transportation planning, and the design of stationary elements. Required for B.S.C.E. Not required for environmental engineering option.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FINITE ELEMENT METHODS IN FLUID MECHANICS ***** Fundamental concept of finite element methods in fluid mechanics, including spatial discretization and numerical stabilization techniques designed for fluid mechanics problems. Strategies for solution of complex, real-world problems. Topics in large-scale computing, parallel processing, and visualization. ***** Also offered as BIOE 454.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BASIC SOIL MECHANICS ***** Introduction to geotechnical engineering, formation of soil, properties and behavior, soil classifications, water flow through soil, consolidation and settlement, strength characteristics, soil stabilization, lateral earth pressure, slope stability, design of retaining walls and shallow foundations. Required for B.S.C.E.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT DEVELOPMENT ***** Introduces students to the design issues and practices in civil and environmental engineering. Includes the methods, references and computer tools used in engineering design practice. Emphasis on topics that influence the design of civil enginerring facilities, including existing built environment, natural environment, economic and social factors, and long expected lifespan. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SENIOR DESIGN ***** Synthesis and application of engineering knowledge of the design of projects.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 12

Description: SPECIAL STUDY AND RESEARCH ***** Open to environmental science or engineering majors with permission of instructor. Written thesis required.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: SPECIAL PROBLEMS ***** Study of selected topics including individual investigations special lectures, and semianrs. Offered upon mutual agreement of faculty and student.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GLOBAL ENVIRON LAW & SUSTAINABLE DEV ***** Graduate version of CEVE 308 (one additional paper required).

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS ***** Study of the principal chemical and physical processes affecting gases and particles in the atmosphere. Overview of the atmospheric tranport, transformaiton and dispersion of air pollutants on the urban, regional and global scale; atmospheric photochemistry and tropospheric ozone formation; influence of meteorology on air pollution; stratospheric chemistry and global climate change; interactions between gases and particles; characterization; chemical composition and size distributions of atmospheric particles.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HYDROLOGIC DESIGN LAB ***** Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and design of GIS-developed hydrologic models commonly applied in the water resources field. The course will have three main areas of emphasis including: principles and operation of the ArcView/ArcGIS programs, design and implementation of standard hydrologic and hydraulic models, and the linkage of these models to engineering analysis of current water resources problems including flooding, water quality and water supply. ***** Enrollment is limited to 16.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THEORY OF ELASTICITY ***** Advanced topics in the linear and nonlinear theory of elasticity. Not offered every year. ***** Also offered as MECH 513.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PLATES AND SHELLS ***** Introduction to theories of plates and cylindrical shells with an applications to practical problems. Not offered every year.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GROUNDWATER HYDROLOGY AND CONTAMINATION ***** Groundwater hydrology, hydrogeology, well mechanics, hydraulics. Contaminant transport in aquifer systems, biodegradation, reaction, numerical models, and groundwater remediation systems.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS I ***** Dynamics of force-excited discrete linear systems with applications to design.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS II ***** Dynamics of force-excited continous linear systems and ground-excited linear and yielding structures. Fundamentals of earthquake engineering.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS III ***** Study of speical topics in structural dynamics. Includes problems of wave propagation, the response of structures to waves, the dynamics of foundations, and soil-structure and fluid-structure interaction.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: STRUCTURAL STABILITY ***** General analysis of stress and strain, linear elastic, thermo-elastic stress-strain relations. Approximate solutions by energy methods and finite element method.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN STRUCTURAL MECHANICS ***** Introduction to differential and integral formulations, variational principles, weighted residuals, and principle of virtual work. Simple boundary, initial, and eigenvalue problems. Finite element, boundary element, and finite diffirence methods for structural mechanics. Study of nonlinearities. Computational methods for geometric and material nonlinear analysis. Applications to static and dynamic problems. Programming and use of computer software. ***** Also offered as MECH 527.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGIES ***** Study of current remediation technologies for soil, water and air. Includes selection criteria, costs, operating strategies and engineering design.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CONCRETE BUILDING DESIGN ***** Design of reinforced concrete building structures and floor slab systems. Case histories will be discussed.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BEHAVIOR OF REINFORCED CONCRETE MEMBERS ***** Study of moment-curvature relationship for beams and columns biaxally loaded columns, slenderness effects, interaction diagrams, shear and torsion in members, shear wall-frame interaction, and behavior under large load reversals. Includes extensive use of microcomputers.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL PROCESSES IN ENVIRON ***** Introduction to colloid and surface chemistry, precipiation, settling, packed bed filtration, membrane separations and other operations used in environmental pollution control and portable water treatment.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TRANSPORT PHENOMENA & ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING ***** Principles of fluid flow, mass transport and transformation processes in natural and engineered systems. Applications of reactor engineering, chemical and bilogical reaction kinetics to environmental systems modeling including streams, lakes, estuaries and the atmosphere. Previous course work in fludi mechanics and calculus through differential equations is strongly suggested.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLGOY ***** Theory and application of biochemical processes in environmental engineering.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): CEVE 305 AND CEVE 306 AND CEVE 407

Description: STEEL BUILDING DESIGN ***** Exploration of practical design form conceptual stage to final analysis. Includes design parameters and serviceability limitations. ***** Prerequisite: CEVE 305, 306, and 403

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY ***** A course covering parameter estimation methods, thermodynamics, and kinetic needed to predict the fate, tranports, and reactivity of organic compounds in air, water, and soils. Topics: volatization, solubility, sorption, partitioning, diffusion, aquatic reactivity, photochemistry, and transport modeling.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FINITE ELEMENT METHODS IN FLUID MECHANICS ***** Graduate version of CEVE 454. Addidtional work required. ***** Also offered as BIOE 554.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: INTERNET-BASED ENGINEERING ***** Introduction to the Internet and the Internet's impact on engineering activities. This course will concentrate on issues involved in creating World Wide Web sites that support engineering activities of a single designer or a designer team.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS IN COMPUTER-AIDIED ENGINEERING ***** Provides an inroduction to fundamental issues in computer-aided engineering (CAE); control of the complexity of developing large-scale CAE software; decompositions and abstraction strategies used to produce modular programs; data structures and associated algorithms used to build CAE systems; engineering information management and computer graphics.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): CEVE 470

Description: FOUNDATION ENGINEERING ***** Soil exploration, bearing capacity, and settlements of foundations; soil improvement; geotechnical analysis and design of spread and special footings; beam foundations, mats, soil-structure interaction, floating foundations, pile groups, pier and caissons, earth pressures, gravity and sheet-pile walls; braced and tie-back excavations. ***** Prerequist: CEVE 470

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SOLID DYNAMICS ***** Introductuion to vibrations, wave propagation in elastic media, in situ soil properties, the behavior of soil subject to dynamic and cyclic loading, and engineering applications, including ground motion amplification by the soil, liquefaction of sands, seismic response of dams and retaining structures, and vibrations of machine foundations. ***** Prerequisites: CEVE 521.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: M.E.E. AND M.E.S. SPECIAL STUDY AND RESEARCH ***** Independent investigation of a specific topic or problem in environmental engineering under the direction of a selected faculty member. Preparation of a formal report and oral presentation of results are required. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SEMINAR ***** Continuing seminar on environmental research. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SEMINAR ***** See CEVE 601. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: STRUCTURAL DYNAMIC SYSTEMS AND CONTROL ***** Elements of linen systems and control theory, transform methods, stat spac methods, feedback control, and Lypanov's method. Analytical modeling of structures, control algorithms, and response to dynamic loading. Base isolation, smut materials and devices, sensors, structural control applications, monitoring, and case studies. ***** Also offered as MECH 610. ***** Prerequisite: CEVE 521 or MECH 502, CEVE 527

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEMBRANE PROCESSES AND SPECIAL TOPICS IN COLLOID AND NANOCHEMISTRY ***** Fundamentals of membrane processes, theory and methods for characterizing aquasols, particle transport in porous media and simple flows, particle aggregation, aggregate and deposit morphology, and other special topics.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS ***** Formulation of optimization models for environmental decision weekly. (Offered in alternate years.)

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED TOPICS: WATER CHEMISTRY ***** Formal lecture and assigned reading in topics such as redox kinectics and thermodynamics, absorption and desorption, and the associated mathematics. An advanced topics course. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED TOPICS IN WATER CHEMISTRY ***** See CEVE 635. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED TOPICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES ***** Special topics in Graduate Study.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED TOPICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ***** Advanced topics in Graduate Study.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3 TO 12

Description: M.S. RESEARCH AND THESIS Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: M.S. RESEARCH AND THESIS ***** Thesis. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED STOCHASTIC MECHANICS ***** Nonlinear random vibrations, Statistical Linearizaitn, ARMA filters modeling, Monte Carlo Simulaiton, Wiener-Volterra series, time-variant structural reliability, and Stochastic Finite Elements are presented from a perspective of usefulness to aerospace, civil, marine, and mechanical applications. ***** Also offered as MECH 678.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: APPLIED MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS ***** Probability density and power spectrum based simulaiton concepts and procedures are discussed. Scalar and vectorial simulation are addressed. Spectral decomposition and digital filter algorithms are presented. Applications from aerospace, earthquake, marine, and wind engineering, and from other applied science disciplines are included. ***** Also offered as MECH 679.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SPEICAL PROBLEMS ***** Study of selected topics including individual investigations under the direciton of a member of the civil engineering faculty. Offered upon mutual agreement of faculty and student. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 9 TO 15

Description: PH.D. RESEARCH AND THESIS Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Civil & Environmental Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.