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CIV_ENG 302 Engineering Law (1): The American legal system from an engineer's perspective. Socratic-method analysis of statutory and case law. Contract, patent, corporation, antitrust, property, and environmental law. Torts, product liability, and arbitration.
CIV_ENG 304 Civil and Environmental Engineering Systems Analysis (1): Quantitative techniques to develop descriptive and prescriptive models used to support efficient planning and management of civil and environmental engineering systems.
CIV_ENG 306 Uncertainty Analysis (1): Probability, statistics, and decision theory. Discrete and continuous random variables, marginal and conditional distributions, moments, statistical model selection and significance tests, hypothesis testing, and elementary Bayesian decision theory. Application to problems in soil mechanics, water resources, transportation, and structures.
CIV_ENG 307 Microstructure of Cement-Based Materials (1): Chemistry of the principal silicate and aluminate cements used in building and civil engineering. Emphasis on underlying science rather than on practical applications. Experimental and theoretical aspects of cement chemistry. Relationships among processing, microstructure, and properties.
CIV_ENG 314 Mechanics of Crustal Processes (1): Application of elementary mechanics to geological processes of crustal deformation, including faulting, earthquake generation and deformation, folding and coupling of fluid flow with deformation. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
CIV_ENG 318 Mechanics of Fracture (1): Stress concentration, analysis of the stress field near a crack tip, fracture modes, brittle and ductile fracture, fracture toughness, fracture criteria, fracture mechanics design, fatigue, and dynamic effects.
CIV_ENG 319 Theory of Structures II (1): Shear center, nonprismatic members, nonlinear materials, influence lines, Muller-Breslau Principle, approximate methods of analysis, energy methods, stiffness matrix, and computer methods of analysis.
CIV_ENG 320 Structural Analysis - Dynamics (1): Single and multiple degree of freedom systems subjected to periodic, seismic, and general loadings. Time history analysis of linear and nonlinear systems. Design methods for earthquakes.
CIV_ENG 321 Properties of Concrete (1): Concrete as a composite material; relationship between constitutive laws and microstructure; failure theories, fracture, fatigue, and strain rate effects; destructive and nondestructive testing; creep and shrinkage; chemistry of cement hydration; admixtures, aggregates, proportioning, and new materials.
CIV_ENG 322 Structural Design (1): Design criteria; planning and design aspects of structural systems for gravity and lateral loads. Total design project involving analysis and design of a steel structure.
CIV_ENG 325 Reinforced Concrete (1): Fundamentals of reinforced concrete theory and design. Analysis and design of beams, slabs, and columns. Concurrent familiarization with current building codes, specifications, and practices.
CIV_ENG 327 Finite Element Methods in Mechanics (1): Development of elements from variational principles and application to static stress and analysis. Introduction to techniques for transient and generalized field problems. Computer implementation.
CIV_ENG 330 Construction Management (1): Techniques for coordinating decisions and actions of various parties in the design and construction of civil engineering projects. Delivery systems; pre-construction services; project planning; cost control and value engineering; bidding.
CIV_ENG 332 Building Construction Estimating (1): Estimation of cost at different stages of design, such as conceptual estimating, quantity take-off of various elements, such as materials, labor, equipment. Prerequisites: CIV_ENG 330 or permission of instructor.
CIV_ENG 336 Project Scheduling (1): Project planning, scheduling, and control using CPM arrow and precedence networks; minimum-cost scheduling; basic resource allocation and leveling; overlapping networks; PERT; hands-on experience using computer tools.
CIV_ENG 338 Public Infrastructure Management (1): Explores the complexity of managing public infrastructure facilities by means of a five-part interactive model of infrastructure management. Aims to impart a realistic appreciation of contemporary public infrastructure management policies and practices.
CIV_ENG 340 Fluid Mechanics II (1): Civil engineering applications of fluid mechanics. Turbulent flow in pipes, pipe networks, and open channels. Water waves and coastal engineering. Prerequisites: CHEM_ENG 321 or permission of instructor.
CIV_ENG 346 Meteorology and Hydrology (1): Mechanics of the atmosphere. Precipitation, runoff, and groundwater flow. Methods of analyzing rainfall and stream-flow records for power generation, flood control, and water supply.
CIV_ENG 349 Environmental Management (1): Roles and responsibilities of project managers who deal with environmental issues. Addresses how managers deal with previously created environmental problems, respond to current requirements, and anticipate future needs. A technical background is required.
CIV_ENG 352 Foundation Engineering (1): Application of the principles of soil mechanics to the analysis and design of foundations and embankments. Settlement of structures, bearing capacities of shallow and deep foundations, earth pressures on retaining structures, and slope stability.
CIV_ENG 355 Engineering Aspects of Groundwater Flow (1): Applied aspects of groundwater flow and seepage, including Darcy's law, parameter determination, aquifer test analysis, flow-net construction and application, modeling techniques, slope-stability analysis, drainage, and filter design.
CIV_ENG 356 Transport Processes in Porous Media (1): Transport processes in porous media including unsaturated flow, flow in deformable porous media, convective transport of solutes with hydrodynamic dispersion effects, and coupled flow phenomena with particular emphasis on electrokinetics.
CIV_ENG 358 Air Photo Interpretation (1): Principles and practice of using aerial photographs to obtain information about natural features of the earth's surface, with emphasis on the distribution of earth materials. Landforms, geological processes, rocks, and soil. Stereoscopic photographs and elements of photogrammetry.
CIV_ENG 359 Hazardous Waste Management (1): Definition and regulation of wastes. Pollutant transport, fate, and toxicology. Management via audits and prevention. Treatment and control. Risk and site assessment and site remediation.
CIV_ENG 360 Environmental Impact Evaluation (1): Environmental legislation and quality indices. Methods for evaluating impact of engineering projects on environmental quality. Impact statements, projects, and summary impact reports.
CIV_ENG 361 Environmental Microbiology and Public Health (1): Basic principles of microbiology; etiology of infectious and noninfectious diseases; control of environmentally based health hazards.
CIV_ENG 362 Ethics, Engineering and Environment (1): A broad introduction to ethics for scientists and engineers required to make both personal and professional ethical decisions that include complexity and issues of environment.
CIV_ENG 363 Environmental Engineering Applications I: Air & Land (1): The nature and control of air pollution. Sources, physical and chemical properties, and effects of major air pollutants; analytical measurements and monitoring of air pollutants; engineering and legislative control.
CIV_ENG 364 Sanitary Engineering (1): Engineering elements of water supply and pollution abatement. Water quality standards, water and wastewater treatment processes, and the management of receiving waters to control pollution.
CIV_ENG 365 Radiation Health (1): Principles of health physics: sources of radiation, physics of radioactivity and ionizing radiation, and interaction of radiation and matter. Radiation dosimetry, biological effects, and safety standards; principles of radiation protection.
CIV_ENG 366 Ecosystems and Ecotoxicology (1): Terrestrial, freshwater, marine, and estuarine ecosystems. Fundamentals of toxicology, and application to natural environments and biotic components; tolerance limits and adaptation of organisms to environmental change brought on naturally or by human technology and activity.
CIV_ENG 367 Aquatic Chemistry (1): Chemical equilibria in natural waters. Development of the theoretical basis for the chemical behavior of aquatic systems emphasizing a problem-solving approach. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
CIV_ENG 368 Industrial Hygiene and Environmental Control (1): Application of industrial hygiene principles and practice; measurement and control of atmospheric contaminants. Design and evaluation of industrial ventilation systems.
CIV_ENG 370 Environmental Engineering Design (1): Culminating student team design experience in Environmental Engineering: decision making in selection and implementation of environmental control measures, including evaluation of economic, social and environmental impacts of alternative proposed projects. Prerequisites: Senior standing in the Environmental Engineering program or permission of the instructor.
CIV_ENG 371 Introduction to Transportation Planning and Analysis (1): Analysis and design of solutions to transportation problems; introduction to selected operations research and statistical analysis techniques; use of case studies in urban transportation, intercity passenger transport, and freight movements.
CIV_ENG 376 Transportation System Operations (1): Traffic flow theory; vehicle and human factors; intersection performance and control; management and control of arterial streets and networks; neighborhood traffic restraint; urban transit operations. Operations concepts and theories applied to actual problems through laboratory practice.
CIV_ENG 382 Infrastructure Facilities and Systems (1): Culminating student team design experience in Civil and Environmental Engineering, with overview of function, design, and operation of modern infrastructure systems, through lecture-discussions and weekly field trips to working systems. Prerequisites: Senior standing in Civil and Environmental Engineering, or permission of the instructor.
CIV_ENG 395 Special Topics in Civil Engineering (1): Topics suggested by students or faculty, with approval of the department.
CIV_ENG 398-1,2 Community-Based Design I, II (1)(1): Yearlong participation in two- or three-person team projects involving research, analysis and/or design in the solution of environmental problems affecting primarily lower income communities. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
CIV_ENG 411 Micromechanics I (1): Mechanics of microstructures of materials, such as continuum theory of dislocations, inclusions, inhomogeneities, cracks, and composite materials. Unified eigenstrain method employed.
CIV_ENG 413 Experimental Stress Analysis (1): Experimental techniques in measuring stress and strain. Strain gauge, photoelastic, brittle coating, and Moire techniques studied and applied with selected laboratory experiments.
CIV_ENG 414-1,2 Mechanics of Composite Materials I, II (1)(1): Introduction to basic concepts: fabrication of composite materials, micromechanics, macromechanics of unidirectional lamina, failure theories, mechanics of multidirectional laminate, lamination theory, hydrothermal effects, interlaminar stresses, stress concentrations, structural design and optimization, and nondestructive evaluation.
CIV_ENG 415 Theory of Elasticity (1): Notions of stress and strain. Basic equations of the linear theory of elastic media. Stress function and displacement potentials. Applications to specific classes of problems such as plane strain, contact stresses, and axisymmetric problems. Stress concentration. Singular states of stress. Dislocations and residual stresses.
CIV_ENG 417-1 Mechanics of Contnua I (1): Introduction to mechanics of continuous media. Cartesian tensors; kinematics of deformable media; stress; balance laws; constitutive relations for selected solids and fluids.
CIV_ENG 417-2 Mechanics of Contnua II (1): Kinematics of deformable media, thermodynamics and balance laws of continua, general theory of constitutive equations. Emphasis on large deformation theories; objective stress and deformation measures with applications in finite strain elasticity. Introduction to nonlinear and inelastic material behavior including applications in plasticity and viscoelasticity. Prerequisites: CIV_ENG 417-1 or equivalent.
CIV_ENG 420 Advanced Structural Analysis (1): Solution of nonlinear equations for structures, shear center and center of twist of open and multicell cross sections, shear stresses in multicell closed cross sections, restrained warping torsion stresses.
CIV_ENG 421 Prestressed Concrete (1): Principles of prestressed concrete. Prestressing systems, end anchorage, and loss of prestress. Analysis and design of sections for flexure, shear, bond, bearing, and deflection. Continuous beams, slab, tension, and compression members. Circular prestressing.
CIV_ENG 422 Inelastic Analysis of Structures (1): Inelastic analysis of frames, plates, and shells. Plastic behavior and limit analysis theorems. Static and kinematic methods for calculating collapse loads. Yield surfaces for plates and shells, plastic potential flow law, and load capacity. Viscoelastic behavior and rheologic models. Creep of concrete and its effects in structures.
CIV_ENG 423 Matrix Analysis of Structures (1): Use of matrix methods for analysis of articulated structural systems, geometric matrices, stability, analysis of geometrically nonlinear systems, introduction to the finite element method.
CIV_ENG 424 Stability of Structures (1): Buckling of perfect and imperfect columns, mathematical treatment of various types of stability problems and stability criteria, dynamic and static instability, and energy methods. Buckling of frames, trusses, and beams. Snap-through, elastic-plastic columns, creep buckling, and basic approach to buckling of two- and three-dimensional bodies.
CIV_ENG 425 Behavior of Reinforced Concrete (1): Nonlinear behavior of reinforced concrete structural members, assumptions underlying serviceability criteria and ultimate strength design, ductility for earthquake design, concept of limit design, bond and cracking, and theoretical predictions of moment curvature relationship.
CIV_ENG 426-1,2 Advanced Finite Element Methods I, II (1)(1): Methods for treating material and geometric nonlinearities by finite elements; transient analysis: explicit and implicit time integration, partitioned methods, and stability; hybrid and mixed elements; finite elements for plates and shells; convergence, efficiency, and computer implementation.
CIV_ENG 427 Earthquake and Wind Engineering (1): Application of structural theory, approximate methods, and computers to design of buildings. Engineering aspects of wind and earthquakes and their interaction with building systems. Exact and approximate methods of analysis of structures subjected to wind, earthquake, and blast loading.
CIV_ENG 428 Material Modeling Principles (1): Basic principles. Nonlinear elasticity, plasticity, visco- plasticity, and creep. Fracturing solids. Continuum damage mechanics. Micromechanics-based models. Fracture strain localization and nonlocal concepts. Thermal and pore water effects. Uncertainty. Emphasis on concrete, rock, and soil; metals, polymers, wood, ice, and composites also included.
CIV_ENG 430 Cohesive Fracture and Scaling (1): Fracture mechanics fundamentals. Concrete, composites, ice, rocks, soils, ceramics. Cohesive crack model. Crack band model. Damage. Localization. Nonlocality. Size effect laws. Statistical aspects. Discrete micro-modeling. Fracture stability. Environmental effects, loading rate and fatigue.
CIV_ENG 434 Total Quality Management (1): How to achieve quality through continuous improvement of processes, customer satisfaction, and creating a team environment; includes data collection and analysis for process improvement.
CIV_ENG 435 Cost Engineering and Control (1): Application of cost engineering for construction companies and projects; time and cost integration; estimating process and bid preparation; labor estimates; accounting for equipment; cost-control concepts; changes and extras; claims. Prerequisites: IEMS 425 or permission of instructor.
CIV_ENG 436 Construction Contracts and Dispute Resolution (1): Contracts as part of the project delivery system. Components of a construction contract. Intended and unintended contract changes. Payment process. Trade union influences. Negotiations. Alternative dispute resolution. Mechanics liens. Risk management through insurance. Prerequisites: CIV_ENG 330 or permission of instructor.
CIV_ENG 440 Environmental Transport Processes (1): Processes controlling transport and fate of dissolved and suspended substances in natural and engineered environmental systems. Mass balances, hydrodynamic transport, phase and mass transfers; the fate of reactive species in complex environmental systems..
CIV_ENG 441 Methods in Microbial Complexity (1): Applications of classical microbiology and molecular biology methods to study complex microbial communities. Includes a laboratory component. Prerequisites: CIV_ENG 361.
CIV_ENG 442 Processes in Environmental Biotechnology (1): Theory and practice of microbiological processes used in pollution control: kinetics of suspended-growth and fixed-film processes, activated sludge, biofilm processes, nitrogen and phosphorus removal, methanogenesis. Prerequisites: CIV_ENG 440, CIV_ENG 441, and CIV_ENG 467.
CIV_ENG 443 Microbial Ecology (1): Prokaryotic diversity, habitats and related activities. The role of microorganisms in nutrient cycles and their interactions with plants and animals. Prerequisites: CIV_ENG 361.
CIV_ENG 444 Physical/Chemical Processes in Environmental Control (1): Theory and practice of separations and conversions in water quality and residuals management, coagulation, adsorption, ion exchange, oxidation, sedimentation, flocculation, filtration. Prerequisites: CIV_ENG 367, CIV_ENG 440 or equivalent.
CIV_ENG 445 Environmental Systems Laboratory (1): Use of a variety of experimental methods to probe processes occuring in water treatment operations and complex natural systems. Emphasis on bringing multiple tools to bear in order to evaluate overall system behavior.
CIV_ENG 446 Environmental Analytical Chemistry (1): Theory and the applications of analytical chemistry as applied to complex, multiphase environmental systems. Prerequisites: CIV_ENG 367.
CIV_ENG 448 Biophysicochemical Processes in Environmental Systems (1): A team-taught course encompassing the synthesis and applications of knowledge gained in previous courses to environmental and biotechnological processes. Discussions of case studies and publications.
CIV_ENG 449-1,2,3 Environmental Laboratory Experience (0)(0)(1): Introduction to research methods used in environmental engineering and science, including both experimental methods and data analysis. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
CIV_ENG 450-1,2,3 Soil Mechanics I, II, III (1)(1)(1): First Quarter: Shear strength of soils. Theory of consolidation. Problems of rate-independent and rate-dependent settlement. Second Quarter: Foundation engineering. Bearing capacity of shallow and deep foundations. Deformation of foundations. Effects of construction on performance. Case studies. Third Quarter: Earth and earth-supported structures. Earth pressures on walls. Design of retaining structures and supported excavations. Effects of construction on performance. Stability of slopes. Design of earth dams and embankments. Case studies.
CIV_ENG 451 Engineering Properties of Soils (1): Determination and interpretation of engineering properties of soils. Laboratory testing procedures and methods of evaluation and control. Report writing.
CIV_ENG 453 Rock Mechanics (1): Engineering properties and behavior of rock masses. Shear strength of rock, in situ and laboratory tests of strength, rock fracture, three-dimensional geometry of joint systems, stability of rock masses, in situ stress determination, and deformability of rock masses.
CIV_ENG 454 Constitutive Models for Soil (1): Numerical models of effective and total stress-strain response of soils; non-linear pseudo-elastic, elasto-plastic and bounding surface models; parameter identification and applications. Prerequisites: CIV_ENG 450-1 or permission of instructor.
CIV_ENG 457 Environmental Geotechnics (1): Site characterization, geotechnical aspects of waste containment, and remediation. Geological setting and the heterogeneous nature of soils. Design, testing, and quality control for geosynthetics.
CIV_ENG 458 Soil Dynamics (1): Dynamics of soils and soil-foundation systems; nuclear weapon effects, earthquake response, vibrations of machine foundations, reactions due to impact equipment, industrial noise and blast effects, fatigue concepts, wave propagation and attenuation, blast-resistant construction, and linear and nonlinear systems.
CIV_ENG 461 Soil Science for Environmental Engineering (1): Fundamental properties and behavior of soil systems, with emphasis on soil physics, soil chemistry, and soil microbiological and biochemical reactions applied to contiminant transport and fate. Includes laboratory experience with soil.
CIV_ENG 467 Advanced Environmental Chemistry (1): Principles and applications needed to develop advanced problem-solving techniques in environmental chemistry. Major topics include applied thermodynamics, environmental organic chemistry, and problem solving for acid/base, complexation, precipitation/dissolution, and redox.
CIV_ENG 468 Chemical Speciation in Aquatic Systems (1): Advanced theories, computerized methods, and chemical tools for investigating the chemical speciation of natural waters.
CIV_ENG 471-1,2 Transportation Systems Analysis I, II (1)(1): Applications of optimization methods to analysis, design, and operation of transportation and logistics networks. Network equilibrium; flow prediction in congested multicommodity networks; vehicle routing and fleet management; dynamic and stochastic transportation network modeling. Prerequisites: IEMS 310 or equivalent background.
CIV_ENG 479 Transportation Systems Planning and Management (1): Functional and structural description of transportation systems; characteristics of major US transportation modes; transportation analysis, planning, problem-solving, and decision-making methods illustrated through urban, freight, and intercity case studies.
CIV_ENG 480-1,2 Travel Demand Analysis and Forecasting I, II (1)(1): Introduction and application of statistical, econometric, and marketing research techniques to study and forecast travel behavior. First Quarter: Introduction to theory, analysis, and model development. Second Quarter: Advanced theory, disaggregate choice models, and prediction methods.
CIV_ENG 482 Evaluation and Decision Making for Infrastructure Systems (1): Theories and methods of evaluation and choice from alternatives for transportation and other infrastructure projects and systems. Economic, quantitative, and judgmental methods for both a priori and before-and-after evaluation. Measurement, modeling, analysis, and presentation problems. Prerequisites: CIV_ENG 306.
CIV_ENG 483 Infrastructure Systems Analysis (1): Quantitative techniques for developing prescriptive models that can be used to support efficient planning and management of civil infrastructure systems.
CIV_ENG 495 Selected Topics in Civil Engineering (1): Special topics under faculty direction.
CIV_ENG 497 Special Topics in Civil Engineering (0.5) : Topics selected from work of current interest in civil or environmental engineering
CIV_ENG 499 Projects (1-3) : Special projects under faculty direction. Permission of instructor and department required.
CIV_ENG 512-1,2,3 Structural Engineering and Mechanics Seminar (0)) (0)(0): Selected topics in structural engineering and materials and mechanics of materials and solids.
CIV_ENG 515-1,2 Geotechnics Seminar (0)(0): Discussion of classical and current literature in the field.
CIV_ENG 516-1,2,3 Seminar in Environmental Health Engineering (0)(0)(0): Topics vary. Examples: environmental microbiology; innovation technologies for recycling, recovery, treatment of chemical residuals; environmental policy; public health; water and waste treatment processes; contaminant fate and impact in nature.
CIV_ENG 517 Seminar in Transportation Engineering (0): Selected topics in transportation engineering.
CIV_ENG 533-1,2,3 Project Management Seminar (0): Selected topics in project management and engineering.
CIV_ENG 574 Seminar in Transportation Systems (1): Problems, issues, and methods in one area of transportation systems analysis and planning. Establishing and understanding the state of the art, identifying research areas, and stimulating student interest. May be repeated for credit with faculty approval.
CIV_ENG 590 Research (1-3) : Independent investigation of selected problems pertaining to thesis or dissertation. May be repeated for credit.
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