COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
CIVIL ENGINEERING
(CE)

5113 Advanced Structural Analysis
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: CE 3113 or an equivalent.
Moment distribution, force-deformation relations, stiffness matrix method, prismatic and nonprismatic members, flexibility method, beam column, frame stability, and inelastic effects.

5123 Advanced Structural Design
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: CE 3113, 3213, 3233, or an equivalent.
Structural behavior, design of trusses, funicular structures; cables and arches; members in bending and compression; continuous structures; plate and grid structures; membrane and pneumatic structures; structural systems; and constructional approaches.

5213 Industrial Waste Treatment
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: CE 3633 or consent of instructor.
Survey of industrial wastewater characteristics, biological, chemical and physical treatment processes, selection of appropriate processes, and design principles.

5223 Solid Waste Engineering
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: CE 3633 or consent of instructor.
Basic concepts in planning, designing, and operating solid waste systems, with emphasis placed on state-of-the-art technology and the interrelationship of economic, environmental, and institutional aspects.

5233 Topics in Water Quality Control
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: CE 3633 or an equivalent.
Topic 1: Physical and Chemical Treatment Operations. Physical and chemical unit operations for water and wastewater treatment, with emphasis on treatment process combinations for drinking water supply.
Topic 2: Biological Treatment Operations. Application of principles of biological processes, fluid dynamics, and process engineering to define and solve water and wastewater treatment problems.
Topic 3: Stream Sanitation. Biological impact of pollution on the ecosystems of rivers and streams.
Topic 4: Groundwater Pollution Control. Control approach and transport mechanisms of pollutants in different types of aquifers.
May be repeated for credit as topics vary.

5243 Topics in Environmental Monitoring and Analysis
(2-3) 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: CHE 1303 and CE 3633.
Topic 1: Methods of Environmental Monitoring and Measurement. Functions, terminology, method development, and QA/QC for drinking, ground, and wastewater analysis; soil analysis; and air sampling and analysis, including EPA methods and industrial application.
Topic 2: Unit Process for Water Quality Control. Laboratory and pilot plant studies of physical, chemical, and biological processes for the treatment of astewaters and sludges.
May be repeated for credit as topics vary.

5273 Hazardous Material Control
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: CE 3663 or consent of instructor.
Analysis of advanced or specialized hazardous waste treatment methods. Emphasis on physical, chemical, and biological processes in treatment of hazardous wastes and processing of treatment residuals. Definitions of problems and objectives and evaluation of alternatives for special cases. Development of concepts for preliminary process design. Design-oriented class project and field trips.

5313 Topics in Water Resource Engineering
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: CE 3713 or an equivalent.
Topic 1: Water Resources Systems Engineering. Applications of engineering systems and analysis techniques to the design of water systems.
Topic 2: Application of water quantity and water quality modeling in water resources planning.
Topic 3: Advanced Surface Water Hydrology. Statistical analysis of hydrologic data, frequency analysis of extreme events, maximum probable precipitation and floods, watershed hydrology, and hydrologic time series.
Topic 4: Advanced Hydraulic Engineering. Open-channel flow, sediment transport, and hydraulics for special structures.
Topic 5: Special Topics in Water Resources. Irrigation engineering, coastal engineering, conjunctive use, regime theories, universal soil loss equation, and other elected topics.
May be repeated for credit as topics vary.

5323 Topics in Construction Management
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Topic 1: Large Project Management. Large engineering project implementation and optimization of manpower, schedule, and material.
Topic 2: Urban Project Management. Application of engineering fundamentals and analysis to urban construction activities.
Topic 3: Site Cleanup and Remediation. Methods of cleanup and remediation of industrial and hazardous waste sites.
Topic 4: Forensic Engineering. Construction responsibilities, risks, and quality control.
May be repeated for credit as topics vary.

5333 Topics in Dynamics of Structures
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
Topic 1: Dynamics of Structures. Fundamentals of structural dynamics; single- and multiple-degrees-of-freedom structural systems; lumped and distributed parameters systems; undamped and damped motions; and response to general dynamic loading.
Topic 2: Advanced Dynamics of Structures. Finite element formulation of dynamics of structural system, reduction of dynamic matrices, numerical methods, response spectrum and time-history analysis, seismic response analysis, and base isolation.
Topic 3: Design of Structures for Dynamic Loads. Static equivalent load design vs. dynamic load design, design of structures for general dynamic loading, seismic design of reinforced concrete and masonry buildings, and base isolation design.
Topic 4: Stability of Structures. Concepts of stability of structures; buckling of columns, beams, beam-columns, rigid frames, and plates; flexural-torsional buckling of columns and beams; design for buckling; and energy and numerical methods.
May be repeated for credit as topics vary.

5343 Topics in Structures
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
Topic 1: Earthquake Engineering. Earthquake characteristics, seismic loads, elastic and inelastic response, analysis and design of buildings for earthquakes.
Topic 2: Advanced Reinforced Concrete Structures. Behavior of reinforced concrete structures and detailing for seismic loads.
Topic 3: Prestressed Concrete. Theory, advantages, and limitations; various systems of prestressing.
Topic 4: Advanced Steel Design. Analysis and design of bolted and welded connections under eccentric and combined loads, stiffened and unstiffened connections, continuous beam-to-column connections, and design of steel buildings.
Topic 5: Design of Shell Structures. Analysis and design of cables, arches, plates, folded plates, domes, shell roofs, and shell walls.
Topic 6: Masonry Design. Material properties; masonry block properties; design of masonry beams, columns, walls, joints, retaining walls, and highrise buildings; construction techniques.
Topic 7: Ductile Behavior of Structures: Ductile behavior of reinforced concrete and steel structures, strength theories of concrete and steel under combined stresses, limit analysis of concrete structures, plastic analysis of steel structures, and yield-line analysis of concrete slabs.
Topic 8: Bridge Engineering. Design loads and load distribution. Design of superstructures and substructures. Deck drainage. Inspection of existing bridges and bridge management.
May be repeated for credit as topics vary.

5353 Topics in Geotechnical Engineering
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: CE 3413, graduate standing, and consent of instructor.
Topic 1: Advanced Soil Mechanics. A study of soil constitutive behavior and testing, including nonlinear elastic hyperbolic models, incremental plasticity, soil chemistry, shear strength, and consolidation theory. Soil testing includes triaxial tests, the direct shear test, and consolidation tests.
Topic 2: Advanced Foundation Engineering. A study of foundation engineering design, including excavation slopes and retaining walls, cofferdams, sheetpile walls, caissons, drilled shafts, piles, settlement control methods, engineered fills, and foundations on expansive soils.
Topic 3: Soil and Site Improvement. A study of techniques available to improve poor soils and marginal construction sites, including lime stabilization, stone columns, deep dynamic compaction, geogrid reinforcement, geotextiles, slurry walls, grouting, construction dewatering, wick drains, and HDPE liners.
Topic 4: Soil Dynamics and Foundation Vibrations. A study of single- and multiple-degree-of-freedom systems, foundation analogs, dynamic soil testing and field measurements, vibration isolation, foundation design, and liquefaction site assessment.
May be repeated for credit as topics vary.

5413 Topics in Civil Engineering
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
Topic 1: Civil Engineering Project Analysis. Planning, implementation, control, and evaluation methods for special civil engineering projects.
Topic 2: Advanced Civil Engineering Technology Transfer. Civil engineering technology development and transfer for real-world problems.
Topic 3: Advanced Civil Engineering Design. Project-oriented design course involving advanced civil engineering knowledge and other engineering expertise.
Topic 4: Topics in Geotechnical Engineering. Advanced soil mechanics, advanced geotechnical engineering, soil mechanics theory, advanced soil testing, soil dynamics, and earthquake engineering.
May be repeated for credit as topics vary.

5513 Topics in Transportation Engineering
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Topic 1: Transportation Systems Design. Multimode transportation networks and systems design methods.
Topic 2: Urban Transit. Planning and implementation of mass transit systems, airports, streets, and highways to satisfy the needs of urban residents and urban-based businesses.
Topic 3: Urban Transportation Engineering. Traffic studies, scheduling and routing, design and construction; economic and environmental impacts.
Topic 4: Pavement Management Systems. Methodologies to evaluate and summarize pavement network conditions and priorities for rehabilitation and replacement.
Topic 5: Pavement Design. Design and analysis of pavement structural systems.
Topic 6: Advanced Geometric Design. Application of geometric design to street and highway projects.
May be repeated for credit as topics vary.

5813 Risk and Decision Analysis in Civil Engineering
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: EGR 3713 or equivalent.
Perspective of risk assessments, risk estimation, event tree analysis, fault tree analysis, risk classifications, risk acceptability, probabilistic modeling, anatomy of risks with revealed preference method, decisions under uncertainties, utility theory, multiattribute utility functions, and case studies.

5923 Topics in Air Pollution Control
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Topic 1: Air Quality Monitoring and Analysis. Measurement and monitoring methods, including various laboratory and process development procedures.
Topic 2: Air Pollution Control Design. Design principles for pollution control equipment for both gaseous and particulate emissions.
Topic 3: Air Resources. Various types and characteristics of industrial air emissions; survey and control approach.
May be repeated for credit as topics vary.

5973 Special Project
3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Permission in writing (form available) from the instructor and the student’s Graduate Advisor of Record.
The directed research course may involve either a laboratory or a theoretical problem. May be repeated for credit, but not more than 6 hours, regardless of discipline, will apply to the Master’s degree.

5991 Graduate Seminar
(1-0) 1 hour credit. Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
May be repeated for credit up to a limit of 2 credit hours.

6951-3 Independent Study
1 to 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: Graduate standing and permission in writing (form available) of the instructor and the student’s Graduate Advisor of Record.
Independent reading, research, discussion, and/or writing under the direction of a faculty member. For students needing specialized work not normally or not often available as part of the regular course offerings. May be repeated for credit, but not more than 6 hours, regardless of discipline, will apply to the Master’s degree.

6961 Comprehensive Examination
1 hour credit. Prerequisite: Approval of the Civil Engineering Graduate Program Committee to take the Comprehensive Examination.
Independent study course for the purpose of taking the Comprehensive Examination. May be repeated for credit as many times as approved by the Civil Engineering Graduate Program Committee. Enrollment is required each term in which the Comprehensive Examination is taken if no other courses are being taken that term. The grade report for the course is either “CR” (satisfactory performance on the Comprehensive Examination) or “NC” (unsatisfactory performance on the Comprehensive Examination).

6971-3 Special Problems
(1-0, 2-0, 3-0) 1 to 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
An organized course offering the opportunity for specialized study not normally or not often available as part of the regular course offerings. Special Problems courses may be repeated for credit when topics vary, but not more than 6 hours, regardless of discipline, may be applied to the Master’s degree.

6983 Master’s Thesis
3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of the Graduate Advisor of Record and thesis director.
Thesis research and preparation. May be repeated for credit, but not more than 6 hours will apply to the Master’s degree. Credit will be awarded upon completion of the thesis. Enrollment is required each term in which the thesis is in progress.