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CIVE 3400 Civil Engineering Technology
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Theory of plane surveying, care and use of surveying instruments. Distance measurements; bearing calculations; differential and profile leveling; angular measurements; stadia, simple curves; area and traverse computations. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 3410 Surveying Lab I
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Care and use of surveying instruments. Performing a transit, using a level, total station, and a global positioning system. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 3420 Structural Theory
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Stresses in truss members (including 3-dimensional trusses). Shear and bending movement in beams and frames; deflections; influence lines; analysis of statically indeterminate structures; introduction to matrix analysis of structure. | 4 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 3450 Construction Materials
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Physical and mechanical, properties of concrete and asphalt. Manufacturing and quality control of concrete, concrete mix and asphalt mix design. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 3460 Intro Systems Engr
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Design of complex systems, decomposing large projects into stages, coordinating large multidisciplinary teams, and project management. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 3480 Geotechnical Engineering
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Origin of soils, composition, soil characteristics and soil classification. Principles of effective stress; permeability and seepage. Shear strength of soils. Introduction to consolidation theory, compaction. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 3490 Geotechnical Engineering Lab
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Laboratory to accompany CIVE 3480. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4100 Transportation Eng
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Historical development of road transportation, design of roadways related engineering studies, level of service, economic evaluation and safety. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4300 Forensic Engineer
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Study of the relationship among the design, construction, and performance of civil engineering structures. Methods for evaluation of existing structures, including buildings and pavements, engineering analysis of the failure of civil engineering structures. Non-destructive testing and health monitoring. Design of repairs or upgrades to existing structures, including cost estimating, scheduling, plans, and specifications. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4320 Cost Estimating
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Conceptual Estimating, Hard Dollar Estimating, Unit Cost Estimating, Proposal Preparation, Qualifications & Clarifications Writing and Review. Overview of Bid Day (Organized Chaos), Contractual Issues (AIA 201), Ethics/Legality of Bid Shopping, and Bid-rigging and Collusion. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4360 Timber Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Structural proportioning of timber, allowable stress design methods; design of timber beams, framing systems, columns, floors and roofs. Behavior and design of structural timber elements. Design of connections. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4390 Design Build
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Role of design-builder or design-build contractor in construction, methods of construction, project delivery, accountability, single source contractor, value based feedback system, contracts, and submittals. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4400 Struct Dynamics
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 4500 Water and Waste Water Engr
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 4510 Water and Waste-Water Lab
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Laboratory to accompany CIVE 4500. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4520 Water Resources
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Management of fresh water sources for residential, agricultural, industrial, recreational, and environmental use. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4530 Hydraulics/Hydrology
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 4580 Design of Concrete Structures
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Structural proportioning of reinforced concrete; ultimate strength design methods; transformed area; design of reinforced concrete: rectangular and T-beams, slabs, columns and footings. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4600 Design of Steel Structures
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Introduction to safety factor design. Design of steel tension members, bolts and welds, columns, beams, and advanced connections. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4630 Risk Analysis and Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Understand and mitigate risk associated with handling chemicals; characteristics of risk analysis; hazard identification; fault tree analysis; exposure assessment; dose response; risk management and regulations. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4660 Bridge Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Use of ASSHTO Design Codes, Design Techniques for Beam, Curbed, Box Girder, Segmental, Cable-Stayed, and Suspension Bridge. Consideration of Deck Systems. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4680 Steel & Concrete
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Structural proportioning of reinforced concrete members such as: beams, floors, columns and footings. Students will be able to design structural steel tension members, columns, beams, beam-columns and simple connections. Students will develop an understanding of the how and when design methods are applicable and how to make good design assumptions based on controlling theories. | 4 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4700 Special Topics Civil Engin
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Special topics in engineering to be determined by faculty member and student, approved by the department. Students conduct directed readings in an area of engineering, and produce a design or a report. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4740 Adv Steel Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 4742 Advanced Pavement Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 4750 Prestressed Concrete
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Pre-stress loss, deflection. Shear and torsion. Section design and proportioning. Load balancing and application to two-way slabs and continuous beams. Segmental bridges. Pre-cast buildings. Design of pre-stressed concrete structures. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4760 Adv Concrete Des
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 4780 Foundation Engr
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 4800 Earth Retention
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 4810 Masonry Structures
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Construction applications of masonry structures. Specifying masonry designs. Designing structural and non-structural masonry in buildings. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4820 CE Design Project
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Supervised design projects applying the fundamentals of engineering science and the concepts of planning and systems analysis in the design of practical engineering works. The scope includes needs analysis, formulation of the design problem statement and evaluative criteria; analysis of alternative solutions and the generation of specifications. Economic, social, environmental, aesthetic and safety constraints are considered. Practicing professional engineers are invited to serve as consultants. Written and oral reports are required. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4830 Hazardous Waste
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Methods used for disposal or detoxification of hazardous wastes, including landfill, thermal, chemical and biological processes. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4840 Environmental Chem and Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 4850 Project Management & Costing
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
General project management concepts including bidding, scheduling, progress monitoring, and closeout. Organizational structures within the engineering discipline including corporate or government and teams within corporations or governmental agencies. Economic analysis or projects including initial cost estimates and life-cycle cost analysis. Project networks including resource scheduling. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4860 Environmental Microbio Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 4880 Solid Waste
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 4900 Municipal Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
An introduction to geographical information system (GIS) and its application in construction management, geo-technical engineering, transportation engineering, structural engineering and environmental engineering. Standard GIS software will be used as a part of this course. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4910 Geographical Information Sys
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Design projects in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Students will be able to acquire GIS data, process the data geographically, assess the reliability of the data, and customize the graphic user interface and software function. Students will be able to compare functionality of several GIS packages. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5100 Transportation Eng
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Historical development of road transportation, design of roadways related engineering studies, level of service, economic evaluation and safety. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5300 Forensic Engr
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Study of the relationship among the design, construction, and performance of civil engineering structures. Methods for evaluation of existing structures, including buildings and pavements, engineering analysis of the failure of civil engineering structures. Non-destructive testing and health monitoring. Design of repairs or upgrades to existing structures, including cost estimating, scheduling, plans, and specifications. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5320 Cost Estimating
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Conceptual Estimating, Hard Dollar Estimating, Unit Cost Estimating, Proposal Preparation, Qualifications & Clarifications Writing and Review, Overview of Bid Day (Organized Chaos), Contractual Issues (AIA 201), Ethics,/Legality of Bid Shopping, and Bid-rigging and Collusion. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5360 Timber Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Structural proportioning of timber, allowable stress design methods; design of timber beams, framing systems, columns, floors and roofs. Behavior and design of structural timber elements. Design of connections. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5390 Design Build
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Role of design-builder or design-build contractor in construction, methods of construction, project delivery, accountability, single source contractor, value based feedback system, contracts, and submittals. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5400 Advanced Structural Dynamics
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Modeling structures as single and multiple degrees of freedom. Iterative time and series analysis. Design considerations for buildings subject to earthquake loading. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5420 Dynamics of Foundations/Soils
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 5480 Adv Soil Mechanics
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 5500 Water & Waste-Water Engineerin
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 5510 Water & Waste-Water Engr Lab
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Laboratory to accompany CIVE 5500. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5530 Hydraulics & Hydrology
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 5540 Earth Dams
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 5580 Soft Ground Tunnel
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 5600 Adv Structural Analysis & Des
| 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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CIVE 5630 Risk Analysis & Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Understand and mitigate risk associated with handling chemicals; characteristics of risk analysis; hazard identification; fault tree analysis; exposure assessment; dose response; risk management and regulations. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5640 Thin Shells & Plates
| 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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CIVE 5660 Bridge Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 5700 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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CIVE 5710 Special Topics Civil Eng
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Special topics in engineering to be determined by faculty member and student with department approval. Students conduct directed readings in an area of engineering, and produce a design or a report. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5740 Advanced Pavement Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 5742 Advanced Steel Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 5750 Pavement Des & Mgt
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Pavement types: inflexible and rigid pavements, bases, subgrades, shoulders, bituminous surfaces, design of flexible airport pavements and highway pavements, design of ridig airport highwaypavements. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5760 Prestress Concrete
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 5762 Advanced Concrete Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 5770 Pre-Stress Cncrte
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Pre-stress loss, deflection. Shear and torsion. Section design and proportioning. Load balancing and application to two-way slabs and continuous beams. Segmental bridges. Pre-cast buildings. Design of pre-stressed concrete structures. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5780 Physicochemical Unit Ops
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 5800 Biological Unit Operations
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 5810 Masonry Structure
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Construction applications of masonry structures. Specifying masonry designs. Designing structural and non-structural masonry in buildings. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5820 Hazardous Waste
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Methods used for disposal or detoxification of hazardous wastes, including landfill, thermal, chemical and biological processes. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5840 Environmental Chem and Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Chemistry of transformation processes in natural and engineered environmental systems. Applications of reactor concepts to system modeling, thermodynamics and rate 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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CIVE 5850 Project Management & Costing
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
General project management concepts including bidding, scheduling, progress monitoring, and closeout. Organizational structures within the engineering discipline including corporate or government and teams within corporations or governmental agencies. Economic analysis or projects including initial cost estimates and life-cycle cost analysis. Project networks including resource scheduling. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5860 Environmental Michobio Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 5870 Foundation Engineering
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Exploration, sampling and in-situ soil measurements. Bearing capacity of foundations. Foundation settlements. Design of footings and mat foiundation. Retaining walls. Sheetpiles and coffer-dams. Pile foundations. Caissons. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5880 Solid Waste
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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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CIVE 5890 Earth Retention
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Types of excavations and shoring systems. Engineering properties of soil. Ground water control. Earth retaining systems. OSHA requirements. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5900 Municipal Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
An introduction to geographical information system (GIS) and its application in construction management, geo-technical engineering, transportation engineering, structural engineering and environmental engineering. Standard GIS software will be used as a part of this course. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5910 Geographical Information Sys
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Design projects in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Students will be able to acquire GIS data, process the data geographically, assess the reliability of the data, and customize the graphic user interface, and software function. Students will be able to compare functionality of several GIS packages. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5920 Capstone Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
The graduate capstone design project is a major design experience as it draws upon topics covered in several courses. The project gives the students the opportunity to follow a project from conceptualization to design completion. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5990 Master's Thesis
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Research, study and other activity appropriate to the master's thesis. Students should consult the graduate program advisor for format requirements. A total of six credits of research credit are required for the master's thesis. The credits are taken as two CE 599 sections. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 7990 Dissertation
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Research, study and other activity appropriate to the doctoral dissertation. Students should consult the Civil Engineering Department for format requirements. | 0 | 0 | 0 | | |
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