Civil Engineering (CIVE)

CIVE819
Flow Systems DesignCrosslisted with CIVE 419

Prerequisites: CIVE 321; parallel CIVE 351.

Description: Application of hydraulic principles to the design of water distribution systems, wastewater and stormwater collection systems, channelized flow systems, and treatment facilities.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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CIVE822
Pollution Prevention: Principles and PracticesCrosslisted with BSEN 422, BSEN 822, CIVE 422

Prerequisites: Permission.

Description: Introduction to pollution prevention (P2) and waste minimization methods. Practical applications to small businesses and industries. Legislative and historical development of P2 systems analysis, waste estimation, P2 methods, P2 economics, and sources of P2 information.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE823
Physical and Chemical Treatment Processes in Environmental Engineering

Prerequisites: CIVE 420

Description: Evaluation and analysis of physical and chemical unit operations and processes applied to the treatment of water, wastewater, and hazardous wastes.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE824
Solid and Hazardous Waste ManagementCrosslisted with CIVE 424

Prerequisites: CIVE 321

Description: Planning, design and operation of solid and waste collection processing, treatment, and disposal systems including materials, resources and energy recovery systems.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE826
Design of Water Treatment FacilitiesCrosslisted with CIVE 425

Prerequisites: CIVE 420

Description: Analysis of water supplies and design of treatment and distribution systems.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE827
Design of Wastewater Treatment and Disposal FacilitiesCrosslisted with CIVE 427

Prerequisites: CIVE 420

Description: Analysis of systems for wastewater treatment and disposal.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE828
Environmental Engineering Chemistry

Prerequisites: CIVE 326

Description: Basic concepts from general chemistry. Thermodynamic and kinetic basis for the composition of aquatic systems. Equilibrium chemistry, including acid-base reactions, reduction-oxidation reactions, metal speciation and precipitation, and gas/liquid partitioning.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option
Offered:FALL

Credit Hours:3

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CIVE829
Biological Waste Treatment

Prerequisites: CIVE 326

Description: Principles of biological processes and their application in the design of waste treatment systems.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE830
Fundamentals of Water Quality ModelingCrosslisted with CIVE 430

Prerequisites: CIVE 321

Description: Comprehensive study of water quality and the effects of various water pollutants on the aquatic environment; modeling of water quality variables.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE831
Advanced Soil Mechanics

Prerequisites: CIVE 334.

Description: Application of the effective stress principle to shear strength of cohesive soil; analysis of stability of slopes. Development of continuum relationships for soil; solutions for stresses and displacements for an elastic continuum. Solution of the consolidation equation for various initial and boundary conditions.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE836
Foundation EngineeringCrosslisted with CIVE 436

Prerequisites: CIVE 331

Description: Subsoil exploration and interpretation; selection of foundation systems; determination of allowable bearing capacity and settlement; design of deep foundations; pile driving analysis; control of groundwater.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE839
Introduction to Bridge Engineering

Prerequisites: CIVE 440/840, CIVE 441, CIVE 443/843; CIVE 850 or parallel

CIVE 850 co-requisite.

Description: Types of Bridges, Site Design Overview, Highway Bridge Loading, Bridge Analysis, Bridge Deck Slabs, Prestressed Concrete Bridge Design, Steel Bridge Design, Substructure Design, Fatigue and Bridge Rating.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option
Offered:FALL/SPR

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE842
Structural Dynamics

Prerequisites: CIVE 443

Description: Concepts of Newtonian and Lagrangian mechanics for dynamical systems. Free and forced vibration of linear single-degree-of-freedom systems and multiple degree-of-freedom systems. Harmonic, periodic, pulse, arbitrary, and earthquake response. Numerical evaluation of dynamic response and linear response spectrum concepts. Introduction to non-linear system response. Dynamic response of continuous beams.

This course is a prerequisite for: CIVE 945; CIVE 948

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE843
Advanced Structural AnalysisCrosslisted with CIVE 443

Prerequisites: CIVE 341.

Description: Matrix analysis methods and computer solutions for indeterminate structures. Additional topics: static condensation, shear deformations, and non-prismatic members in matrix-based analyses, moment distribution method, load cases and load combinations for buildings and bridges, and influence lines and analysis for moving loads.

This course is a prerequisite for: CIVE 839; CIVE 849

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE844
Structural Design and PlanningCrosslisted with CIVE 444

Prerequisites: CIVE 440 and CIVE 441.

CIVE 444/844 is not available for graduate credit for civil engineering students.

Description: Principles of design of steel and reinforced concrete structural building systems, planning of building vertical and horizontal load resisting systems, and bridge systems. Several design projects involve indeterminate analysis and design concepts for both steel and reinforced concrete.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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CIVE846
Steel Design IICrosslisted with CIVE 446

Prerequisites: CIVE 441

A continuation of the topics covered in CIVE 441.

Description: The principles and procedures used in design of steel buildings, design of plate girders, design and analysis of building systems, design and analysis of composite steel-concrete building systems, innovative building systems, introduction to seismic design of steel buildings. Plate buckling, beam, column and beam-column design, and frame stability. Introduction to connection design.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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CIVE847
Reinforced Concrete Design IICrosslisted with CIVE 447

Prerequisites: CIVE 440/840

A continuation of topics covered in CIVE 440/840.

Description: Shear friction theory, strut-and-tie modeling, anchorage, deflection, slender and bi-axially loaded members, torsion, two-way action and punching shear, and footing design. Excel spreadsheets are developed and used for various design tasks.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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CIVE848
Reliability of StructuresCrosslisted with CIVE 448

Prerequisites: CIVE 341.

Description: Fundamental concepts related to structural reliability, safety measures, load models, resistance models, system reliability, optimum safety levels, and optimization of design codes.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE849
Introductory Finite Element Analysis in Solid Mechanics

Prerequisites: CIVE 443/843

Description: Matrix methods of analysis. The finite element stiffness method with a focus on solid mechanics. Isoparametric elements formulation based on energy principles. Perform finite element analyses using commercial software.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:FALL/SPR
Course and Laboratory Fee:$25

Credit Hours:3

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CIVE850
Prestressed Concrete

Prerequisites: CIVE 341 and CIVE 440

Description: Analysis and design of prestressed concrete members. Axial force, bending, shear, torsion, prestress losses, initial and long-term deflection, partial prestressing, statically indeterminate structures.

This course is a prerequisite for: CIVE 839

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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CIVE852
Water Resources DevelopmentCrosslisted with CIVE 452

Prerequisites: CIVE 351

Description: Theory and application of systems engineering with emphasis on optimization and simulation techniques for evaluating alternatives in water resources developments related to water supply, flood control, hydroelectric power, drainage, water quality, water distribution, irrigation, and water measurement.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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CIVE853
GIS in Water Resources

Prerequisites: Graduate standing in Engineering or a related discipline in Natural Resources or Earth Science

Description: Familiarization with a wide range of spatial information and used in hydrologic and water resources analysis. Development of expertise in GIS systems, especially ArcGIS. Digital mapping and analysis of water resources information. Hydrologic terrain analysis using digital elevation models. Integration of time series and geospatial data. Hydrologic Information Systems. River and watershed networks. Evapotranspiration, Precipitation (PRISM), Soil, and Landuse maps, and databases. Use of Remote Sensing tools.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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CIVE854
Hydraulic EngineeringCrosslisted with CIVE 454

Prerequisites: CIVE 352.

Description: Fundamentals of hydraulics with applications of mechanics of solids, mechanics of fluids, and engineering economics to the design of hydraulic structures. Continuity, momentum, and energy principles are applied to special problems from various branches of hydraulic engineering.

This course is a prerequisite for: CIVE 954

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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CIVE855
Nonpoint Source Pollution Control EngineeringCrosslisted with BSEN 455, BSEN 855, CIVE 455

Prerequisites: BSEN 321/CIVE 321 or BSEN 355; AGEN/BSEN 350 or CIVE 352 as prerequisite or parallel.

Description: Identification, characterization, and assessment of nonpoint source pollutants; transport mechanisms and remediation technologies; design methodologies and case studies.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option
Offered:FALL

Credit Hours:3

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CIVE856
Surface Water HydrologyCrosslisted with CIVE 456

Prerequisites: CIVE 352

Description: Stochastic analysis of hydrological data and processes including rainfall, runoff, infiltration, temperature, solar radiation, wind, and non-point pollution. Space-time hydrologic modeling with emphasis on the application of techniques in the design of engineering projects.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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CIVE857
Applied Structural Analysis

Prerequisites: CIVE 851

Description: Review of basic concepts. Mesh generation using a preprocessor. 2D and 3D Model generation. Boundary conditions. Implicit and explicit solution algorithms. Interpretation of analysis results using a post-processor. Solution of problems using existing FE software.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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CIVE858
Groundwater EngineeringCrosslisted with BSEN 458, BSEN 858, CIVE 458

Prerequisites: CIVE 352 or AGEN 350 or BSEN 350

Description: Application of engineering principles to the movement of groundwater. Analysis and design of wells, well fields, and artificial recharge. Analysis of pollutant movement..

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE861
Urban Transportation PlanningCrosslisted with CIVE 461

Prerequisites: CIVE 361.

Description: Development of urban transportation planning objectives and goals. Data collection procedures, land use and travel forecasting techniques, trip generation, trip distribution, modal choice analyses, and traffic assignment. Site development and traffic impact analysis.

This course is a prerequisite for: CIVE 864

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE862
Highway DesignCrosslisted with CIVE 462

Prerequisites: CIVE 361

Has an emphasis on design projects.

Description: Design of roadways, intersections, interchanges, parking facilities, and land development site access and circulation. Emphasis on design projects.

This course is a prerequisite for: CIVE 865

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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CIVE863
Traffic EngineeringCrosslisted with CIVE 463

Prerequisites: CIVE 361

Emphasizes design projects.

Description: Design of signalized intersections, arterial street and network signal systems, and freeway control systems.

This course is a prerequisite for: CIVE 866

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE864
Analysis and Estimation of Transportation Demand

Prerequisites: CIVE 461/861

Description: Introduction to conceptual, methodological, and mathematical foundations of analysis and design of transportation services. Review of probabilistic modeling. Application of discrete choice models to demand analysis.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE865
Highway Geometrics

Prerequisites: CIVE 462/862

Description: Principles of highway geometrics. Sight distance, design vehicles, vehicle characteristics, horizontal and vertical alignment, cross section elements, and at-grade intersections and interchanges.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE866
Transportation Characteristics

Prerequisites: CIVE 463/863 and MATH/STAT 380

Description: Use of the concepts of volume, speed, density, and capacity to describe the characteristics and performance of surface, air, and water transportation systems.

This course is a prerequisite for: CIVE 964

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE867
Transportation Safety Engineering

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: Safety criteria in the planning, design, and operation phases of highway, rail, airport, mass transit, pipeline, and waterway transportation systems. Background of safety legislation and funding requirements. Identification of high accident locations and methods to determine cost/effectiveness of improvements.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE868
Airport Planning and DesignCrosslisted with CIVE 468

Prerequisites: CIVE 361.

Description: Planning and design of general aviation and air carrier airports. Land-side components include vehicle ground-access systems, vehicle circulation parking, and terminal buildings. Air-side components include aircraft apron-gate area, taxi-way systems, runway system, and air traffic control facilities and airspace. Emphasis on design projects.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE871
Bituminous Materials and MixturesCrosslisted with CIVE 471

Prerequisites: CIVE 378

Description: Understanding of the physical, chemical, geometrical, and mechanical characteristics and practical applications of bituminous materials and mixtures. Fundamental mechanics for elastic and inelastic materials and basic theories associated with mechanical data analyses and designs. Recent advances and significant research outcomes for further discussions. Applications of theories to laboratory and field testing.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$15

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE872
Pavement Design and EvaluationCrosslisted with CIVE 472

Prerequisites: CIVE 334.

Description: Thickness design of flexible and rigid pavement systems for highways and airports; design of paving materials; evaluation and strengthening of existing pavements.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$30

Credit Hours:3

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Prerequisites: Senior standing.

Capstone course.

Description: Holistic approach to the selection and analysis of planning strategies for protecting water quality from nonpoint sources of contamination. Introduction to the use of methods of analyzing the impact of strategies on whole systems and subsystems; for selecting strategies; and for evaluating present strategies.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE881
Computational Problem Solving In Civil EngineeringCrosslisted with CIVE 481

Prerequisites: MATH 221 and CSCE 155A or 155E or 155H or 155N

Description: Introduction of numerical methods to solve problems in civil engineering, including finding roots of equations, solving linear algebra equations, optimization, curve fitting, numerical differentiation and integration, and finite difference method. Computational methods in numerical integration, matrix operations and ordinary differential equations as they apply to civil engineering problems.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE891
Special Topics in Civil Engineering

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: Special topics in emerging areas of civil engineering which may not be covered in other courses in the civil engineering curriculum.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:12
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:1-6

ACE:

CIVE894
Independent Study in Civil Engineering

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: Individual study at the masters level in a selected area of civil engineering under the supervision and guidance of a Civil & Environmental Engineering faculty member.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:9
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-3

ACE:

CIVE898
Independent Research in Civil Engineering

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: Independent research work and written findings, other than thesis or dissertation work, in a selected area of civil and environmental engineering under the supervision and guidance of a Civil & Environmental Engineering faculty member.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:1-6

ACE:

CIVE899
Masters Thesis

Prerequisites: Admission to masters degree program and permission of major adviser

Course details
Credit Hours:1-10
Max credits per semester:10
Max credits per degree:99
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-10

ACE:

CIVE910
Research Writing in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Prerequisites: Instructor permission

Description: Discipline-specific training in proposal and manuscript writing and the opportunity to complete a full journal manuscript draft with peer and instructor feedback. Students enrolling in this class are expected to have already completed the research they wish to use for manuscript development.

Course details
Credit Hours:1
Max credits per semester:1
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option
Offered:SPRING

Credit Hours:1

ACE:

CIVE916
Environmental Law and Water Resource Management SeminarCrosslisted with NRES 916

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: An interdisciplinary seminar with the Department of Civil Engineering. Contemporary environmental issues and water resource management.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE935
Geoenvironmental Engineering

Prerequisites: CIVE 331

Description: Design and analysis of the geotechnical systems with a focus on waste containment systems. Contaminant transport theory and application, design of drainage layers, landfill stability, and waste settlement.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE945
Structural Analysis and Design for Dynamic Loads

Prerequisites: CIVE 443/843 and CIVE 842

Description: Behavior of structural materials and systems under dynamic loads. Analysis and design for dynamic loads. Computational and analytical techniques. Selected laboratory demonstrations of the dynamic behavior of structural systems.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE948
Blast-resistant Structural Design

Prerequisites: CIVE 842

Description: Introduction to explosion effects. Air-blast. Fragmentation. Single-Degree-of-Freedom (SDOF) analysis. Equivalent SDOF systems. Pressure-impulse diagrams. Energy solutions. Steel design. Reinforced concrete design. Masonry design. Progressive collapse. Windows and doors.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE954
Advanced Hydraulics

Prerequisites: CIVE 854 and permission

Description: Advanced studies involving pipe and culvert hydraulics, rapidly-varied flow in open channels, sediment transport, river mechanics, control, and design.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE957
Modeling Vadose Zone HydrologyCrosslisted with AGEN 957, BSEN 957, GEOL 957

Prerequisites: MATH 221/821 or equivalent. AGEN/BSEN 350 or NRES 453/853 or equivalent.

Typically offered spring semester in even years.

Description: Principles and modeling of fluid flow and solute transport in the vadose zone. Topics include hydraulic properties of variably saturated media, application of Darcy's Law in variably saturated media, hydrologic and transport processes in the vadose zone, and solution of steady and unsteady flow problems using numerical techniques including finite element methods. Contemporary vadose zone models will be applied to engineering flow and transport problems. Review and synthesis of classic and contemporary research literature on vadose zone hydrology will be embedded in the course.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option
Offered:SPRING

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE961
Mass Transit Systems

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: The place of mass transit in solving urban transportation problems: transit system and terminal characteristics and planning criteria. Speed, capacity, accessibility, and operation of mass transit systems. Future prospects in transit technology and case studies of existing systems.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE962
Application of Geographic Information Systems GIS to Transportation

Prerequisites: Permission.

Description: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) structure, functions, and concepts such as spatial data models, relational databases, and spatial analyses. GIS project planning, management, and applications to transportation-related issues.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE963
Highway Safety Data Analysis

Prerequisites: STAT 801A and permission

Description: Highway safety issues and appropriate accident data analyses. Quantify changes in safety when modifications are made to highways in an effort to enhance safety. Judge reported safety improvements and carry out appropriate analyses for assessing the effectiveness of safety improvements.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE964
Theory of Traffic Flow

Prerequisites: STAT 801A and CIVE 866

Description: Analysis of traffic characteristics as applied to traffic engineering facility design and flow optimization. Capacity of expressways, ramps, weaving sections, and intersections. Analytical approaches to flow analysis, queueing theory, flow density relationships, and traffic simulation.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE965
Traffic Control Systems

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: Principles of traffic control. Design an analysis of intersection, arterial street, network, and freeway control systems. Traffic surveillance and driver information systems.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE966
Transportation Planning and Economics

Prerequisites: Permission.

Description: Community growth and development based on planning decisions regarding land use whereby transportation facilities are fitted to land use. Economic studies that consider the consequences to transportation agencies, users, and nonusers. Agency expenditures, capital outlay and annual expenses for maintenance and operations. User consequences such as vehicle operating costs; commercial time costs; accident costs; discomfort and inconvenience costs; and assignment of money valuations to pleasure, recreation, and culture. Nonusers consequences such as cost reductions or increases in public services; increases in value of crops and natural resources where areas become more readily accessible; changes in business and industrial activities; and increase or decrease of residential property values.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE967
Analysis and Design of Transportation Supply Systems

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: Operations research techniques for modeling system performance and design of transportation services. Routing and scheduling problems. Network equilibration and partially distributed queuing systems.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

CIVE990
Civil Engineering Seminar

Description: Frontiers of an area of civil engineering.

Course details
Credit Hours:1
Max credits per semester:1
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1

ACE:

CIVE990E
Civil Engineering Seminar in Environmental Engineering

Description: Frontiers of an area of environmental engineering.

Course details
Credit Hours:1
Max credits per semester:1
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:1

ACE:

CIVE990M
Civil Engineering Seminar in Geotechnical and Materials Engineering

Description: Frontiers of an area of geotechnical and materials engineering.

Course details
Credit Hours:1
Max credits per semester:1
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1

ACE:

CIVE990R
Civil Engineering Seminar in Structural Engineering

Description: Frontiers of an area of structural engineering.

Course details
Credit Hours:1
Max credits per semester:1
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1

ACE:

CIVE990T
Civil Engineering Seminar in Transportation Engineering

Description: Frontiers of an area of transportation engineering.

Course details
Credit Hours:1
Max credits per semester:1
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1

ACE:

CIVE990W
Civil Engineering Seminar in Water Resources Engineering

Description: Frontiers of an area of water resources engineering.

Course details
Credit Hours:1
Max credits per semester:1
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1

ACE:

CIVE991
Advanced Special Topics in Civil Engineering

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: Advanced special topics in emerging areas of civil and environmental engineering which may not be covered in other courses in the civil engineering curriculum.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:12
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:1-6

ACE:

CIVE994
Advanced Independent Study in Civil Engineering

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: Advanced individual study at the doctoral level in a selected area of civil engineering under the supervision and guidance of a Civil & Environmental Engineering faculty member.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-3

ACE:

CIVE998
Advanced Independent Research in Civil Engineering

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: Advanced independent research work and written findings, other than thesis or dissertation work, in a selected area of civil engineering under the supervision and guidance of a Civil & Environmental Engineering faculty member.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-6

ACE:

CIVE999
Doctoral Dissertation

Prerequisites: Admission to doctoral degree program and permission of supervisory committee chair

Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:99
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

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