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CIVE 5100 Transportation Engineering
| 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 Engineering
| 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 |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 4400 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 and Soils
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 4780 (Minimum Grade of C, May not be taken concurrently)
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 Advanced Soil Mechanics
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 3480 (Minimum Grade of C, May not be taken concurrently)
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 and Waste-Water Engineering
| 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 and Waste-Water Engineering Laboratory
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
Corequisites: CIVE 5500
Laboratory to accompany CIVE 5500. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5530 Applied Hydraulics and 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 |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 3480 (Minimum Grade of C, May not be taken concurrently)
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 Tunneling
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 3480 (Minimum Grade of C, May not be taken concurrently)
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 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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CIVE 5630 Environmental 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 5640 Design of Thin Shell/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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CIVE 5660 Bridge Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 4680 (Minimum Grade of C, May not be taken concurrently)
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 in Civil Engineering
| 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 5722 Engineering Geology and Soil Science
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Geological process that form, move and change earth materials. Understanding how earth process effect engineered projects. Determining sub-surface conditions. Formation of soil. Classification and mapping of soil. Properties of soil such as physical, chemical and biological. Issues in use of land such as fertility, adaption of soil, and use for treatment of wastes. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 5740 Advanced Pavement Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 3480 (Minimum Grade of C, May not be taken concurrently)
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 Design and Management
| 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 Pre-Stressed Concrete
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 4680 (Minimum Grade of C, May not be taken concurrently)
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-Stressed Concrete
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 4680 (Minimum Grade of C, May not be taken concurrently)
ENGR 4420 (Minimum Grade of C, May not be taken concurrently)
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 Operations
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 4840 (Minimum Grade of C, May not be taken concurrently)
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 |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 4860 (Minimum Grade of C, May not be taken concurrently)
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 Design of 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 5820 Hazardous Waste
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 4840 (Minimum Grade of C, May not be taken concurrently)
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 Enviromental Chemistry 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 and 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 Microbiology and 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 5864 Landfill Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Dealing with potential problems of storage of waste material in landfills. Preventing leachate from moving to surrounding areas in ground or surface water. Design of liners, leak detection, drainage layers, capping. | 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 Design of 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 Using Geographical Information Systems
| 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 Systems
| 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 Civil Engineering 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 Civil Engineering Doctoral 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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