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CIVE 2100 Introduction to Environmental Engineering
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CHM 1050 (Minimum Grade of D, May be taken concurrently)
Foundational concepts of biology and ecology. Introduction to the science and engineering principles that are applied in improving air, land and water resources. Historical development of environmental engineering. Types and sources of pollutants, and the process used for reducing the impact of those pollutants. Social and political considerations in Environmental Impact Statements. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 3400 Civil Engineering Techniques: Surveying Cad Gis
| 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 Laboratory I
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 3400 (Minimum Grade of D, May be taken concurrently)
Corequisites: CIVE 3400
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 |
Prerequisites:
ENGR 3260 (Minimum Grade of C, May not be taken concurrently)
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 |
Prerequisites:
ENGR 3260 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
OR
ARCH 2430 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 Introduction to Systems Engineering
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
MTH 2410 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 |
Prerequisites:
ENGR 3260 (Minimum Grade of D, May be taken concurrently)
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 Laboratory
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 3480 (Minimum Grade of D, May be taken concurrently)
Corequisites: CIVE 3480
Laboratory to accompany CIVE 3480. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4100 Transportation Engineering
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 3400 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 Engineering
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 4680 (Minimum Grade of D, May be taken concurrently)
OR
ARCH 2430 (Minimum Grade of D, May be taken concurrently)
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 |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 3450 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 4680 (Minimum Grade of D, May be taken concurrently)
Corequisites: CIVE 4680
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 |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 3450 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 Structural Dynamics
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
ENGR 3130 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
CIVE 3420 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 Engineering
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 4530 (Minimum Grade of D, May be taken concurrently)
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 Engineering Laboratory
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 4500 (Minimum Grade of D, May be taken concurrently)
Corequisites: CIVE 4500
Laboratory to accompany CIVE 4500. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4520 Water Resources Engineering
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
ENGR 3140 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
Management of fresh water sources for residential, agricultural, industrial, recreational, and environmental use. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4530 Applied Hydraulics and Hydrology
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
ENGR 3140 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 3420 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 3420 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 Environmental Risk Analysis & Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CHM 1070 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 4680 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 Design Steel and Concrete Structures
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 3420 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 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, 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 4722 Engineering Geology and Soil Science
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CHM 1070 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 4740 Advanced Steel Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 4680 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 3450 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
CIVE 4100 (Minimum Grade of D, 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 4750 Prestressed Concrete
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 4680 (Minimum Grade of D, 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 4760 Advanced Concrete Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 4680 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 Engineering
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 3480 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 Design of Earth Retention
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 3480 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 Design of Masonry Structure
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 3420 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently) AND
CIVE 3450 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
OR
CIVE 4680 (May not be taken concurrently)
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 Civil Engineering Senior 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 |
Prerequisites:
CHM 1070 (Minimum Grade of D, 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 4840 Environmental Chemistry and Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CHM 1070 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 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 4860 Environmental Microbiology and Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 2100 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
OR
BIO 1030 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
OR
BIO 1080 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
OR
BIO 1200 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 4862 Soil Remediation
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CHM 1070 (Minimum Grade of D, May be taken concurrently)
OR
BIO 1080 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
Remediation and reclamation of damaged lands. Mine reclamation, contamination. Enhancing soil microbial capabilities in degrading components. Life cycle assessment. Aerobic and anaerobic processes. Phytoremediation. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4864 Landfill Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 3480 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 4866 Groundwater
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 4722 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently) AND
ENGR 3140 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently) AND
CHM 1070 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
Nature of ground water and where it can be found. Well water design and construction. Transport processes of groundwater, groundwater contamination, well hydraulics, well field operation and aquifer yield. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4868 Environmental Modeling
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 4866 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
Creation of analog and digital models of physical processes in groundwater, surface water, watersheds, and environmental processes. Site characterization, model development, visualization. Using bore hole data. Finite differences and finite element methods. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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CIVE 4880 Solid Waste
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CHM 1070 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 Using Geographical Information Systems
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 3400 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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 Systems
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Prerequisites:
CIVE 3400 (Minimum Grade of D, May not be taken concurrently)
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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