Civil Engineering (CIVE)

Pre/Corequisite: MATH 149, MATH 154 or higher math, or placement. Introduction to Civil Engineering. Basic concepts of civil engineering practice including communication skills, problem solving skills, professional ethics/goals, and teamwork. Introduction to professional level software including spreadsheets, database, and mathematical computation.

Prerequisite: CIVE 101. Building on concepts of engineering practices learned in Tools I further developing communication skills, problem solving skills, professional ethics/goals, statistics and model-building, and teamwork. Advanced use of professional level software including CAD, MATLAB and Excel.

Pre/Corequisites: MATH 222 and PHYS 291. Forces, resultants, couples; equilibrium of force systems; distributed forces; centers of gravity, analysis of simple structures; moments of inertia; kinematics.

Prerequisite: CIVE 201. Axial force, bending moment diagrams, axial stress and deformation; stress-strain diagrams; torsion; flexural stress; flexural shearing stress; compound stresses; indeterminate beams; columns.

Prerequisite: CIVE 202. Stability and determinacy; statically determinate trusses and frames; approximate frame analysis influence lines; moving loads; virtual work analysis; moment area theorem; theorem of three moments; moment distribution for continuous beams and frames.

Prerequisites: CIVE 202 and admission to an engineering major within the College of Engineering and Polymer Science or permission. Physical properties of soils. Soil water and groundwater flow. Stresses, displacements, volume changes, consolidation within a soil mass. Soil strength. Compaction.

Prerequisites: CIVE 313 and full admission to an engineering major in the College of Engineering and Polymer Science. Subsurface exploration, shallow foundations, earth retaining structures, deep foundations.

Prerequisites: CHEM 153 and MATH 222. Basic principles of ecosystems, microbiology, chemical reactions, and material flow that environmental engineers use to protect our water, air and soil.

Prerequisite: CIVE 321 and admission to an engineering major within the College of Engineering and Polymer Science. Pre/Corequisite: MATH 335. Water and wastewater characteristics, criteria, quantities and distribution. Water and wastewater treatment process flowsheets, design and operation. Wastewater and residue disposal.

Prerequisites: MECE 310 and admission to an engineering major within the College of Engineering and Polymer Science. This course will focus on presentation and application of fundamental hydraulic principles in both the classroom and laboratory. Examination of flow in pipelines and pipe networks, pumps and pumping stations, hydrology, flow in open channels, groundwater hydraulics, and design of hydraulic structures will be studied. Emphasis will be placed on proper application of principles, data interpretation and analysis, problem solving, and report writing.

Prerequisites: Junior standing and admission to an engineering major within the College of Engineering and Polymer Science. Introductory survey of transportation topics including transportation planning requirements and techniques, introduction to design of highways, airports and railroads and introduction to traffic engineering.

Prerequisites: CIVE 202 and admission to an engineering major within the College of Engineering and Polymer Science. Fundamentals and applications of materials science, mechanics of solids and study of laboratory instrumentation and standard techniques in testing of engineering materials.

Prerequisites: CIVE 306 and admission to an engineering major within the College of Engineering and Polymer Science. Tension, compression members; open web joists; beams; bearing plates; beam-columns; bolted, welded connections.

Prerequisites: CIVE 306 and admission to an engineering major within the College of Engineering and Polymer Science. Ultimate strength analysis and design; compression steel; diagonal tension; stirrups; development length; one-way slab; T-beams; two-way slabs; columns; isolated and combined footings.

Prerequisites: CIVE 401 and CIVE 403. Composite design; plate girders; plastic design; cantilever retaining walls; torsion in R/C members; deflection of R/C members; continuous girder bridge design.

Prerequisite: CIVE 306. Energy methods for beams and frames. Stiffness and flexibility formulations for framed structures using classical and matrix methods. Introduction to stability and plastic analysis. Warping-Torsion behavior of beams. Analysis of axisymmetric circular plates and membrane shells.

Prerequisite: CIVE 314 or permission. Design of earth structures: dams, highway fills, cofferdams, etc. Embankment construction techniques, quality control, embankment analysis, instrumentation, foundation soil stabilization, seepage analysis and control. Design problem. Graduate students will perform more advanced analysis and design.

Prerequisite: CIVE 314 or permission. Site exploration criteria and planning. Conventional boring, sampling and in situ testing methods. Theory and application of geophysics and geophysical methods including seismic, electrical resistivity, gravity, magnetic and radioactive measurements. Air photo interpretation.

Prerequisite: One year of college chemistry. General, physical, organic biochemistry, equilibrium, and colloid chemistry concepts applied to Environmental Engineering. Concepts are used in water and wastewater laboratory.

Pre/Corequisite: CIVE 323. Analysis of water and wastewater.

Prerequisite: CIVE 323. An introduction to the physical, chemical and biological processes utilized in the treatment of water and wastewater, with design parameters emphasized.

Prerequisite: CIVE 323. Analysis and simulation of the physical, chemical and biochemical processes affecting stream quality. Development of management strategies based upon the application of water quality modeling techniques to environmental systems.

Prerequisite: Senior standing or permission of instructor. Hazardous and solid waste quantities, properties and sources are presented. Handling, processing, storage and disposal methods are discussed with non-technical constraints outlined.

Prerequisite: CIVE 341. Collection and critical evaluation of hydraulic data related to actual design problem selected by instructor. Development and analysis of design alternatives. Preparation of reports.

Prerequisites: CIVE 341 and admission to an engineering major within the College of Engineering and Polymer Science. Review of design principles: urban hydraulics, stream channel mechanics, sedimentation, coastal engineering.

Prerequisite: CIVE 341. Surface water hydrology, water cycle, precipitation, evaporation, stream flow. Principles of hydrologic systems and their analysis. Hydrologic simulation, reservoir planning and water supply studies. Analysis of rainfall and floods.

Prerequisite: CIVE 341. Introduction to laboratory and field devices for hydraulic measurements. Reduction and presentation of hydraulic data. Individual assignments of model studies of hydraulic structures.

Historical developments in urban planning; urban planning techniques and patterns; comprehensive master planning studies; planning regulations; design problems; class projects; class project presentation.

Prerequisite: CIVE 306. Computer methods of structural analysis. Finite element software and interactive graphics. Stiffness concepts and matrix formulation of beams; modeling of simple and complex structural systems; vibration analysis using microcomputers.

Prerequisite: CIVE 306. Vibration and dynamic analysis of structural systems with one, two, or more degrees of freedom; beams, frames, buildings and bridges. Numerical methods of analysis. Elastic-plastic systems. Earthquake analysis of design. Earthquake codes.

Prerequisite: CIVE 306. Basic concepts in structural optimization. Mathematical programming methods including unconstrained minimization, multidimensional minimization and constrained minimization.

Prerequisite: CIVE 202 or equivalent. Three-dimensional state of stress and strain analysis. Unsymmetric bending of straight and curved members with shear deformation. Beams on elastic foundations. Saint Venant's torsional problems. Inelastic analysis of bending and torsional members. Introduction to energy method. Instability behavior of prismatic members.

Prerequisite: CIVE 361. Theory and techniques for development, analysis and evaluation of transportation system plans. Emphasis on understanding and using tools and professional methods available to solve transportation planning problems, especially in urban areas.

Prerequisite: CIVE 361. Study of modern design of geometrical and pavement features of highways. Design problem and computer use. Graduate students will produce a more complete design.

Prerequisite: CIVE 361. Theories of elasticity, of viscoelasticity and of layered systems as applied to pavements. Pavement materials characterization; pavement design, pavement restoration for rigid and flexible pavements.

Prerequisite: CIVE 361. Vehicle and urban travel characteristics, traffic flow theory, traffic studies, accidents and safety, traffic signs and marking, traffic signal planning, traffic control and transportation administration.

Prerequisites: CIVE 464, autoCAD capability, or permission. Computer-aided geometrical design of highways including survey data input, digital terrain modeling, cross-section templates, horizontal and vertical roadway design, earthwork computations, and advanced topics.

Prerequisites: CIVE 361 and CIVE 380 or permission. Properties of aggregates, manufacture and properties of portland cement concrete, properties of asphaltic materials, design and testing of hot mix asphalt pavement mixes and of surface treatments. Laboratory preparation of specimens and determination of properties. Graduate student requirement: Graduate students will be required to perform an additional eight-hour asphalt laboratory (Abson recovery of asphalt from solution) and to prepare a paper on a highway materials topic.

Prerequisites: Junior standing and full admission to an engineering major in the College of Engineering and Polymer Science. Construction management functions, scheduling techniques for construction projects, scheduling PERT networks and linear operations, estimating building projects, construction contracts and legal structure, construction finance, engineering economics, equipment productivity, machine power, equipment selection and utilization, equipment cost, construction safety, construction trends, LEED construction.

Prerequisite: Senior standing or permission. Construction equipment selection and management. Techniques of various engineering construction operations including blasting, tunneling, concrete framework and dewatering.

Prerequisites: CIVE 380 and CHEE 305. Composition, structure and mechanical behavior of structural materials such as concrete, wood, masonry, plastics and composite materials. Discussion of applications and principles of evaluating material properties.

Prerequisite: CIVE 314. Description of practices and techniques of underground construction. Selection of proper method for individual job. Design of underground openings, support systems and linings.

Prerequisite: STAT 261 and senior standing. Probability concepts in civil engineering. Risk analysis and reliability based design.

Prerequisites: Senior standing and permission. Directed individual or group research or study in student's field of interest. Topic subject to approval by adviser.

Prerequisite: Senior standing. This course is intended to prepare civil engineering students for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam, which is to be taken prior to graduation.

Prerequisites: CIVE 323, CIVE 341, CIVE 361, CIVE 403, senior standing and admission to an engineering major within the College of Engineering and Polymer Science. Pre/Corequisites: CIVE 314 and CIVE 401. A civil engineering design project that emphasizes interdisciplinary teamwork to solve a substantial, currently relevant problem.

(May be repeated for a total of six credits) Prerequisite: Senior standing in Honors Program. Individual creative project or design relevant to civil engineering, supervised by faculty member of the department.