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CE 440 Structural Dynamics
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Prerequisites:
E 313
CE 442
Rigorous analysis of one-degree systems. Lumped-mass multi-degree systems. Numerical methods including Newmark's and Dumhamel's integral methods. Matrix presentation of M.D.O.F. systems. Nuclear power plant analysis. Earthquake effects and general dynamic analysis. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 450 Water and Waste-Water Engineering
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
E 314
Collection, treatment and distribution of water for domestic, fire and industrial uses. Collection, treatment and disposal of domestic, industrial and storm wastes. Analysis and design of water and waste-water treatment systems. Field trips and environmental experiments are included. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 451 Water and Waste-Water Engineering Lab
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Laboratory to accompany CE 450. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 453 Applied Hydraulics and Hydrology
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
E 314
Precipitation and run-off studies. Probability applications to hydrological data. Open channel flow, network theory, hydraulic structures and reservoir design. Computer applications. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 474 Advanced Steel Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CE 442
CE 458
Brief review of AISC Code. Fatigue. Design of built-up members, including straight and curved beams. Torsion. Box girders. Steel Tanks. Composite construction and other topics of interest. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 476 Advanced Concrete Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CE 442
CE 460
Design of combined footings, beam-column, retaining walls, two-way reinforced floor slabs. Flat slab systems. Continuous slab bridges. Shear wall designs. Design for shear, torsion and bending. Shear friction. Multi- storied buildings. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 478 Foundation Engineering
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CE 348
and consent of instructor.
Exploration, sampling and in-situ soil measurements. Bearing capacity of foundations. Foundation settlements. Design of footings and mat foundation. Retaining walls. Sheetpiles and coffer-dams. Pile foundations. Caissons. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 480 Design of Earth Retention
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CE 478
CE 348
Classical and modern earth pressure theories and their experimental justification. Pressures and basis for design of retaining walls. Reinforced earth walls, braced open cuts, anchored bulk heads, cofferdams. Prediction of ground movement and damage to existing structures. Case histories dealing with actual projects. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 484 Environmental Chemistry and Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CHM 107
MTH 372
Chemistry of transformation processes in natural and engineered environmental systems. Applications of reactor concepts to system modeling, thermodynamics and rates of mass transport and reaction processes in natural waters, treatment operations and other systems of concern in environmental engineering. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 486 Environmental Microbiology and Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CHM 107
MTH 372
Identification, description and activities of bacteria, algae, protozoa and fungi in water and soil that are principally responsible for the cycling of chemical elements and pollutant transformation. Water-borne pathogens and disinfection processes. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 542 Dynamics of Foundations and Soils
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CE 478
Elements of vibration. Wave propagation in an elastic medium. Dynamic properties and dynamic testing of soils. Dynamic earth pressure and bearing capacity. Liquefaction of soils. Machine foundations. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 548 Advanced Soil Mechanics
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CE 348
Flow through porous media. Flow net. Theory of consolidation. Computation of settlement. Secondary consolidation. Shearing strength. Theory of failure. Slope stability. Bearing capacity. Frost penetration analysis. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 554 Earth Dams
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CE 348
Fundamentals of problems in slope stability, seepage in composite sections and anisotropic materials. Compaction and field observations. Control of piping. Cracking of earth dams. Construction and case histories. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 558 Soft Ground Tunneling
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CE 348
Construction techniques, primary and secondary lining, control of ground movement, shaft construction and design, instrumentation and monitoring, case histories. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 560 Advanced Structural Analysis and Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Review of Maxwell-Mohr superposition and generalized stiffness method. Advanced concepts in slope deflection and moment distribution including symmetry, anti-symmetry, anticipation and variable EL sections. Design of multi-storied structures | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 564 Design of Thin Shell and Folded Plate Structures
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Membrane theory. Design of shells of revolution and hyperbolic paraboloidal shells. Edge effects. Supporting structures. Design of structures composed of thin plates at angles to each other. Diaphragms. Buckling of thin elements. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 566 Bridge Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
Co-requisite: CE 474.
Use of ASSHTO Design Codes, Design techniques for Beam, Curved, Box Girder, Segmental, Cable-Stayed, and Suspension Bridge. Consideration of Deck Systems. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 570 Elasticity I
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Concepts of displacement, strain, stress and elasticity. Equations of equilibrium and compatibility. Several elementary problems. Torsion of prismatic bars. Flexure of cantilever beams. Plane stress and plane strain. Two-dimensional problems in polar coordinates. Transformations of coordinates. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 574 Advanced Pavement Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CE 348
Pavement types: inflexible and rigid pavements, bases, subgrades, shoulders, bituminous surfaces, design of flexible airport pavements and highway pavements, design of rigid airport highway pavements. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 576 Pre-stressed Concrete
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CE 442
CE 460
Pre-stress loss, deflection. Shear and torsion. Section design and proportioning. Load balancing and application to two-way slabs and continuous beams. Segmental bridges. Precast buildings. Design of prestressed concrete structures. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 578 Physicochemical Unit Operations
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CE 484
Physical and chemical separation and transformation processes in natural and engineered environmental systems. Process modeling. Design of operations including chemical oxidation, reduction, sorption, stripping, ion exchange processes, membrane separations, particle aggregation and coagulation, sedimentation and filtration. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 580 Biological Unit Operations
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CE 486
Principles and design of suspended growth and biofilm processes for renovating wastewater and detoxifying hazardous materials including activated sludge, lagoons, rotating biological contractors and trickling filters. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 582 Hazardous Waste
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CE 484
Methods used for disposal or detoxification of hazardous wastes, including landfill, thermal, chemical and biological processes. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CE 588 Solid Waste
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
Graduate Standing.
Engineering and design of methods for collection and disposal of solid wastes in urban communities and related effects of such processes on the environment. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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