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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.

5143 Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Mathematical equation root finding and optimization methods, matrix equations solution methods, eigenvector and eigenvalue solution methods, finite difference methods, curve-fitting methods, numerical integration and differentiation techniques, and introduction to finite element formulations.

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

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, or consent of instructor.
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, or consent of instructor.
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 wastewaters and sludges. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.

5273 Hazardous Material Control
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: CE 3633 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.

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5313 Topics in Water Resource Engineering
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: CE 3713 or an equivalent, and consent of instructor.
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 selected topics.
May be repeated for credit as topics vary.

5323 Topics in Construction Management
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
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: 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: Earthquake Engineering. Earthquake characteristics, strong ground motion, seismic loads, elastic and inelastic response, analysis and design of buildings for earthquakes.
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: 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.
Topic 2: Advanced Reinforced Concrete Structures. Torsion design, biaxal loads on columns, slenderness effects, joint design, yield line theory, strut-and-tie methods, seismic detailing, relationship between research and building code.
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. Load rating capacity of bridges.
Topic 9: Long Span Structures. Behavior of cables. Space trusses suspension and cable stayed bridges. Dynamics of long span structures.
May be repeated for credit as topics vary.

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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. Slope stability and seismic stability of earth embankments. 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. Fundamentals of soil vibration, stress waves in elastic medium, dynamic soil testing and field measurements, foundation vibration, vibration isolation, foundation design, and liquefaction site assessment.
Topic 5: Soil Plasticity. Modern concepts of soils plasticity. Yield criteria, and associated and non-associated flow rules, and strain softening rules. Cam-clay, strain dilatancy, and endocronic models.
Topic 6: Computational Geotechnical Engineering. Analysis of stress and strains in soils in two and three dimensions. Soil properties as random variables, probabilistic approach to geotechnical design.
Topic 7: Offshore Geotechnical Engineering. Site investigation and testing for offshores structures. Wave dynamics. Modeling of soil and structural elements.
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, and 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.
Topic 7: Multi-Modal Transportation. Principles of multi-modal transportation applied to the movement of people and goods. Other topics include principles of transportation economics and transportation planning, Rail, Highway, Air and Sea; Multi-modal yards, containerization and Inland Ports; Airport design, Transit facilities design, Port Design.
Topic 8: Principles of Traffic Engineering. Course covers vehicular stream models, interrupted flow and uninterrupted flow; Capacity analysis, Highway capacity Manual; Vehicular emissions for uninterrupted flow and interrupted flow.
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, or consent of instructor. 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.

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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.

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 semester credit hours.

6033 Multivariate Analysis in Environmental Science and Engineering
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: EES 5023 and EES 5233 or their equivalents, or consent of instructor. Fundamental concepts of Multivariate Analysis in Environmental Science and Engineering will be presented. Students will examine principle components, factor analysis, cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling, discriminate analysis, factor analysis, multivariate normal distributions, mean vectors and covariance matrix and tests of covariance matrices. (Same as EES 6033. Credit cannot be earned for both CE 6033 and EES 6033.)

6053 Topics in Geo-Environmental Engineering
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: CE 2633, CHE 1303, or consent of instructor.
Topic 1: Fate and Transport of Contaminants in Environmental System: Principles of thermodynamics, fluid flow, flow in porous media, mass transport, reactive flow, bioremediation, and chemical reactions in natural environments.
Topic 2: Remediation Geotechnics: Site characterization; geo-environmental sampling and monitoring; clean-up geotechnics including pump and treat, soil vapor extraction, and air sparging; containment geotechnics including cut off walls and permeable reactive barriers (PRBs).
Topic 3: Waste Geotechnics: Containment systems; clay mineralogy; landfill design; geosynthetic liners; chemical compatibility of liners; leachate collection system; landfill covers and caps.
Topic 4: Modeling for Fate and Transport of Contaminants: Analytical, numerical, and geochemical modeling for fate and transport of reactive/non-reactive and degradable contaminants.
May be repeated for credit as topics vary. (Same as EES 6053. Credit cannot be earned for both CE 6053 and EES 6053.)

6113 Global Change
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the program or consent of instructor. Changes in the global distribution of plants and animals and the causes of the changes will be examined. Factors that are apparently coupled to changes in the atmosphere and environmental temperature will be examined. (Same as EES 5043. Credit cannot be earned for both CE 6133 and EES 5043.)

6221 Graduate Seminar in Environmental Science and Engineering
(1-0) 1 hour credit. Will include presentations of current research by faculty and invited guests who are experts in various aspects of research in the environmental sciences and engineering, and advanced graduate students who are about to complete their dissertation research. May be repeated for credit.

6273 Analyses of Environmental Problems
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the program or consent of instructor. Problems will be presented and potential solutions will be explored from a variety of areas including soil, air, water, coastal and marine systems. Also examined will be potential impact on biotic and abiotic resources in terrestrial, aquatic, and marine systems. (Same as EES 6273. Credit cannot be earned for both CE 6273 and EES 6273.)

6723 Advanced Environmental Regulations
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: EES 5503 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. A study of the environmental regulatory apparatus, and rules and regulations implemented to achieve those objectives of the environmental laws. (Same as EES 6723. Credit cannot be earned for both CE 6723 and EES 6723.)

6813 Applied Statistics and Decision Analysis in Civil Engineering
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Statistical analysis methods include Descriptive Statistics, Interval Estimation and Hypothesis Testing, Analysis of Variance, Design of Experiments, Regression Analysis, and Time Series Analysis. Decision analysis methods include Reliability Analysis applied to Civil Engineering Systems, and Probabilistic methods in Civil Engineering problems.

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.

7211-3 Doctoral Research
1 to 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: Admission to candidacy for the Doctoral degree, consent of the Graduate Advisor of Record and the Dissertation Director. A research class designed specifically for the student to include the research work necessary to complete the Doctoral dissertation. May be repeated as necessary, but no more than 15 hours may be applied to the Doctoral degree.

7311-3 Doctoral Dissertation
1 to 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: Admission to candidacy for the Doctoral degree, consent of the Graduate Advisor of Record and the Dissertation Director. Consists of the specific work required to prepare the dissertation document. May be repeated as necessary but no more than 15 hours may be counted toward the Doctoral degree.

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