Civil Engineering (CIVE)

Description: Introduction to the academic, research, and professional expectations of graduate study in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Topics include research communication, graduate program milestones, ethics, mental health and well-being, professional development, and community building within the department.

Description: Introduction to infrastructure sustainability. Overview of the Envision framework for evaluating infrastructure sustainability. Use of the Envision framework for evaluation of real-world projects to improve their sustainability.

Description: Preparation to successfully plot out timeline, student habits, study resources and strategies to successfully pass the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam (FE Exam) in Civil or Environmental Engineering. Development of metacognitive study habits, planning timelines toward the FE Exam and practice with problems and topics that will be on the FE Exam. Provides the necessary information to pass the FE Exam; not a comprehensive review of all possible topics. Emphasis on building study habits and taking ownership of becoming a Professional Engineer.

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

Description: Concepts from inorganic and organic chemistry. Thermodynamics and kinetics of acid and base reactions, carbonate chemistry, air-water exchange, precipitation, dissolution, complexation, oxidation-reduction, and sorption. Chemical speciation in aquatic systems.

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.

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

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

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

Description: Analysis of systems for wastewater treatment and disposal.

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

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

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.

Description: Introduction to various mechanisms of rock deformation and fracture with application to geomechanical problems. Basic principles of Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, which include theories of elasticity, finite deformations, viscoelasticity, failure mechanics, and borehole stresses. Fundamentals of the theory of Poroelasticity.

Description: Design and analysis of earth retaining and slope stability systems.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Description: Applications, properties, production technologies, and characterization of various types of advanced construction materials, including aggregate, cement and concrete, asphalt concrete, metals, and recycled and byproducts. Scientific concepts of nano-materials and nanotechnology, rheology, particle packing, smart materials, advanced testing methods, sustainability, and recent advances in construction materials.

Description: Introduces methods to identify, analyze, strategize, justify and develop planning approaches to protect water quality from nonpoint source contamination. Focuses on identifying present water quality issues and situations, investigating adverse impacts on whole systems and subsystems over time, developing effective planning strategies, and assessing strategy effectiveness.

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.

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

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.

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.

Description: Introduction to graduate research methodology in civil and environmental engineering. The course focuses on developing the skills needed to design, conduct, evaluate, and communicate rigorous and ethical engineering research, with emphasis on problem formulation, research design, data collection and analysis, and scholarly communication.

Description: Discipline-specific training in research writing for civil and environmental engineering. Topics include proposal and journal manuscript development, peer review, and revision. Students will work intensively to produce a complete draft journal manuscript while engaging in structured peer and instructor feedback.

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

Description: Fundamentals of microbiology, molecular techniques for engineering applications, engineering processes relying on microbes.

Description: Introduction to the applications and implications of nanomaterials in the context of environmental management including key principles governing nano-scale physics, chemistry, and biology.

Description: Various analytical and numerical methods to investigate multi-physically coupled phenomena that pertain to energy-geotechnology, reservoir engineering, petroleum engineering, and a broad sub-discipline of civil engineering

Description: Principles and applications of instrumentation to monitor and measure the behavior of geo-structures using modern instrumentation.

Description: Elastic and non-elastic behavior of engineering materials, including soils, concrete, asphalt, and polymers. Topics include challenges associated with modeling non-elastic behavior, incremental calculation schemes, associated and non-associated flow rules, Lagrangian and Eulerian coordinate descriptions, and particle packing.

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.

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.

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.

Description: Application of statistics and probability to uncertainty in the description, measurement, and analysis of hydrologic variables and processes, including extreme events, error models, simulation, and sampling.

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

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.

Description: Theory of flow and contaminant transport in porous media including groundwater flow, multiphase flow, equilibrium contaminant distribution, reactive transport of contaminants, and colloid transport in porous media.

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.

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.

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

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

Description: Main engineering problems in infrastructural materials. Mechanisms include faulty design, use of unsuitable materials, improper workmanship, exposure to an abnormally aggressive environment, and excessive structural loading. The main approaches to diagnosing and evaluating the types and extent of damage. Progress of selecting materials and methods to return the infrastructural material to a desirable condition, and the application of repair.

Description: Frontiers of an area of civil engineering.

Description: Frontiers of an area of environmental engineering.

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

Description: Frontiers of an area of structural engineering.

Description: Frontiers of an area of transportation engineering.

Description: Frontiers of an area of water resources engineering.

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.

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.

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.