C E 601 Indeterminate and Matrix Structural Analysis 3(3,0) Analysis of indeterminate structures using moment distribution, energy methods such as virtual work and Castigliano's Theorem, and the matrix formulation of the direct siffness method. Preq: C E 301 or consent of instructor.
C E 604 Masonry Structural Design 3(3,0) Introduction to design of structural elements for masonry buildings. Lintels, walls, shear walls, columns, pilasters, and retaining walls are included. Reinforced and unreinforced elements of concrete or clay masonry are designed by allowable stress and strength design methods. Introduction to construction techniques, materials, and terminology used in masonry. Preq: C E 402 or consent of instructor.
C E 607 Wood Design 3(3,0) Introduction to wood design and engineering; properties of wood and wood-based materials; design of beams, columns, walls, roofs, panel systems, and connections. Preq: C E 402 or 406, or consent of instructor.
C E 610 Traffic Engineering Operations 3(3,0) Basic characteristics of motor-vehicle traffic, highway capacity, applications of traffic control devices, traffic design of parking facilities, engineering studies, traffic safety, traffic laws and ordinances, public relations. Preq: C E 311 or consent of instructor.
C E 611 Roadway Geometric Design 3(2,3) Geometric design of roadways, at-grade intersections, and interchanges in accordance with conditions imposed by driver ability, vehicle performance, safety, and economics. Preq: C E 311 or consent of instructor.
C E (C R P) 612 Urban Transportation Planning 3(3,0) Urban travel characteristics, characteristics of transportation systems, transportation and land-use studies, trip distribution and trip assignment models, city patterns, and subdivision layout. Preq: C E 311 or consent of instructor.
C E 621 Geotechnical Engineering Design 3(3,0) Relationship of local geology to soil formations, groundwater, planning of site investigation, sampling procedures, determination of design parameters, foundation design, and settlement analysis. Preq: C E 321 or consent of instructor.
C E 624 Earth Slopes and Retaining Structures 3(3,0) Principles of geology, groundwater and seepage, soil strength, slope stability, and lateral earth pressure and their application to the design of excavations, earth fills, dams, and earth-retaining structures. Preq: C E 321 or GEOL 320 or consent of instructor.
C E 633 Construction Planning and Scheduling 3(3,0) Principles and applications of the Critical Path Method (CPM) and Project Evaluation and Review Techniques (PERT). Project breakdown and network graphics. Identification of the critical path and resulting floats. Definition and allocation of materials, equipment, and manpower resources. Resource leveling, compression, and other network adjustments. Computer applications using packaged routines. Preq: C E 331 or consent of instructor.
C E 634 Construction Estimating and Project Control 3(3,0) Specifications, contracts, and bidding strategies; purchasing and subcontracting policies; accounting for materials, supplies, subcontracts, and labor; procedural details for estimating earthwork, reinforced concrete, steel, and masonry; overhead and profit items. Preq: C E 331 or consent of instructor.
C E 638 Construction Support Operations 3(3,0) Describes activities necessary for the completion of a construction job although not specifically recognized as direct construction activities: general conditions, safety, security, quality assurance, value engineering; organizational support features, and typical implementation procedures. Preq: C E 331 and EX ST 301, or consent of instructor.
C E 646 Flood Hazards and Protective Design 3(3,0) Study of flood hazards and methods of protective design of the built environment. Floodplain mapping and delineation. Methods for determining base flood elevations. Flood-resistant construction, flood proofing, and governmental regulations are discussed. Includes case studies and design projects. Coreq: C E 342 or consent of instructor.
C E 647 Stormwater Management 3(3,0) Evaluation of peak discharges for urban and rural basins, design of highway drainage structures such as inlets and culverts; stormwater and receiving water quality; best management practices; detention and retention ponds; and erosion and sediment control. Preq: C E 342. Coreq: EE&S 401 or consent of instructor.
C E 648 Physical Models in Hydraulics 3(2,3) Tools and techniques of physical modeling to aid in design of complex hydraulic systems. Students participate in construction, operation, and testing of physical models to solve hydraulic engineering design problems. Experimental design and operation are covered. Preq: C E 342 or consent of instructor.
C E 649 Hydraulic Structures 3(3,0) Design methods and procedures are taught for a variety of hydraulic structures including intake structures, complex open-channel and closed conduit control structures, transitions, spillways, small dam, and pond design. Field trips to actual hydraulic structures may be included. Preq: C E 342 or consent of instructor.
C E 655 Properties of Concrete and Asphalt 3(2,3) Properties of aggregate, concrete, and asphalt; concrete and asphalt mix designs are conducted in the laboratory. Preq: C E 351 and EX ST 301, or consent of instructor.
C E 662 Coastal Engineering I 3(3,0) Introduction to coastal and oceanographic engineering principles including wave mechanics, wave-structure interaction, coastal water-level fluctuations, coastal-zone processes, and design considerations for coastal structures and beach nourishment projects. Preq: C E 341 or consent of instructor.
C E 682 Groundwater and Contaminant Transport 3(3,0) Basic principles of groundwater hydrology and transport of contaminants in groundwater systems; groundwater system characteristics; steady and transient flow; well hydraulics, design and testing; contaminant sources, movement and transformations. Preq: C E 341. Coreq: EE&S 401.
C E 691 Selected Topics in Civil Engineering 1-6(1-6,0) Structured
study of civil engineering topics not found in other courses. May be repeated
for a maximum of six credits, but only if different topics are covered.
Preq: Consent of instructor.
C E 801 Matrix and Finite Element Analysis 3(3,0) Matrix and finite element methods in solution of engineering problems; stiffness matrices for triangular, rectangular, and quadrilateral elements in planer systems; plate bending, shell, and 3-D elements; applications to solutions of structural and soil mechanics problems using special and general purpose programs. Preq: C E 401 or consent of instructor.
C E 802 Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design 3(3,0) Second course in design of reinforced concrete structures; advanced concepts in analysis and design of beams, columns, and slabs; introduction to prestressed concrete. Preq: C E 402 or consent of instructor.
C E 803 Advanced Steel Design 3(3,0) Advanced design of structural steel buildings emphasizing the relationship between design and response of the structural system; theoretical basis of building code provisions; limit state and plastic design; beam-columns; plate girders and composite sections and connections. Preq: C E 406 or consent of instructor.
C E 804 Prestressed Concrete 3(3,0) Introduction to the analysis, behavior, and design of prestressed concrete members and structures. Allowable stress design and strength design of P/C members, shear design, loss of prestress force, design of continuous structures. Preq: C E 401and 402, or consent of instructor.
C E 805 Advanced Structural Mechanics 3(3,0) Development and utilization of mechanics principles in solution of structural problems; unsymmetrical bending and curved beams; beams on elastic foundations; plastic structure analysis of beams and frames; eigenvalue problems; plastic stress-strain relations; strain energy; series and finite element solutions to plate and shell structures. Preq: C E 401 or consent of instructor.
C E 806 Dynamic Analysis of Structures 3(3,0) Analysis and design of structures subjected to dynamic loading; response of lumped and distributed parameter systems of one or many degrees of freedom; approximate design methods; introduction to earthquake analysis and design. Preq: C E 801 or consent of instructor.
C E 807 Wind Engineering 3(2,2) Effects of wind on buildings, bridges, and other structures; meteorological aspects of wind generation; types and characteristics of various wind events; aerodynamics of flow around structures; wind-induced loads; structural responses; design basis safety and serviceability criteria.
C E 808 Earthquake Engineering 3(3,0) Effects of earthquake-induced forces on buildings, bridges, and other structures; development of design codes and their application to the design of structures to resist seismic forces; fundamental structural dynamics and analysis techniques used to compute the response of structures or obtain design forces. Preq: C E 806 or consent of instructor.
C E 809 Forensic Engineering 3(3,0) Study of civil engineering failures including analyses of conditions just prior to the failure, load or event causing failure; methods of investigation and design of remedial measures; case histories of failures illustrating common errors and failures. Student projects involve design of remedial measures and alternatives.
C E 813 Highway and Airport Pavement Design 3(3,0) Structural design of rigid and flexible pavements; design of bases and subbases; theory of stresses and application of plate bearing, triaxial and California Bearing Ratio design methods to flexible pavements; Westergaard analysis for rigid pavements; pavement evaluation methods. Preq: C E 311and 321, or consent of instructor.
C E 815 Transportation Safety Engineering 3(3,0) Methodology for conducting transportation accident studies; accident characteristics as related to operator, facility, and mode; statistical applications to accident data; current trends and problems in transportation safety. Preq: C E 311 or consent of instructor.
C E 821 Advanced Soil Mechanics 3(3,0) Stresses in soils; plastic equilibrium of soil masses; failure conditions; earth pressures; analysis of flexible retaining wall bulkheads; solution of problem by elastic theory. Preq: C E 321 or consent of instructor.
C E 822 Foundation Engineering 3(3,0) Requirements for satisfactory foundations; theory and design of shallow foundations; pressure distribution beneath rigid and flexible shallow foundations; bearing capacity and settlement of deep foundations; foundation failures. Preq: C E 821 or consent of instructor.
C E 823 Asphalt Concrete Properties 3(3,0) Identification and suitability of aggregates for construction; characteristics and properties of bituminous materials; materials behavior, construction, and design problems; use of microcomputers and the mainframe. Preq: C E 351 or consent of instructor.
C E 825 Soil Dynamics and Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering 3(3,0) Fundamentals of soil dynamics, plate tectonics, and earthquakes; application of the concepts to seismic ground response, design ground motions, soil liquefaction, seismic slope stability, dynamic lateral earth pressures, and soil improvement. Preq: C E 421, 424, or consent of instructor.
C E 826 Properties of Portland Cement Concrete 3(3,0) Material science and engineering of Portland cement concrete. Topics include physical and chemical properties of cements; mixture proportioning; mixing; placement; curing techniques; specifications, tests, and evaluation of fresh and hardened concrete; durability issues; and considerations in specialized applications. Preq: C E 351 or consent of instructor.
C E 835 Construction Project Modeling 3(3,0) Mathematical and computer models to simulate construction operations; linear models and optimization applications to construction materials, scheduling, and equipment allocation; typical computer models used in construction; simple modeling examples. Preq: C E 331 or consent of instructor.
C E 836 Civil Engineering Quality Management 3(3,0) Principles
of total quality management (TQM) and their applications in the engineering
and construction industry; TQM implementation techniques emphasizing the
construction
environment; concepts of quality assurance (QA) and quality control
(QC) in construction.
C E 837 Construction Specifications and Contracts 3(3,0) Elements of specifications delineating responsibilities of all involved parties and identifying courses of action during abnormal circumstances; necessary parts of a contract dealing with governmental regulations and institutional preferences, licenses, bonds, insurance, and taxes. Preq: C E 331 or consent of instructor.
C E 838 Materials Management 3(3,0) Functions of construction materials management including design interface, purchasing, expediting, transportation, field control, and warehousing; design and application of integrated materials management computer systems; new technology that impacts materials management including bar coding, electronic data interchange, and voice recognition. Preq: Consent of instructor.
C E 839 Expert Systems Applications in Civil Engineering 3(3,0) Applications of expert systems in civil engineering design, construction, and facility management; use of expert systems shells for expert systems development; linking expert systems to external programs; knowledge acquisition and system validation.
C E 840 Project Management Applications 3(3,0) Quantitative tools for effective management and control of engineered projects from design through construction; cost coding and control, advanced schedule management techniques and quality management principles; extensive hands-on use of the microcomputer. Preq: C E 433 and 434, or consent of instructor.
C E 846 Flow in Open Channels 3(3,0) Free surface flow problems; applications of digital computer; concepts of boundary layer theory; uniform and varied flow; hydraulic jump; design criteria for prismatic channels and transitions; applications of unsteady flow. Preq: C E 342 or consent of instructor.
C E 851 Reliability 3(3,0) Elements of probabilistic methods; classical theory of structural reliability and reliability-based design methods. Term project required on reliability design in a relevant field of civil engineering.
C E 853 Applications in Traffic Engineering 3(2,3) Highway capacity analysis; design of unsignalized intersections; intelligent transportation systems; parking; traffic signal coordination; microscopic and macroscopic traffic simulation. Preq: C E 410 or consent of instructor.
C E 854 Travel Demand Forecastng 3(2,3) In-depth coverage of travel-demand forecasting theory and the four-step process; site impact analysis; disaggregate demand models. Students work in groups to develop a computer-based travel forecasting model for a small city. Preq: C E 412 or consent of instructor.
C E 855 Transportation Seminar 1(1,0) Practical discussion of the transportation profession featuring faculty and off-campus experts. Course is highlighted by a retreat where students present their transportation research.
C E 860 Advanced Fluid Mechanics 3(3,0) Laminar and turbulent
flows; boundary layer and free shear flows (jets, wakes, etc.); descriptions
of velocity, shear stress and pressure measurements, and
aerodynamic drag.
C E 861 Mechanics of Sediment Transport 3(3,0) Characterization of sediments; physical principles governing fluvial, estuarial, and coastal transport of cohesionless and cohesive sediments, including incipient motion, stable channel design, bedforms, and bedload and suspended transport. Preq: C E 342 or consent of instructor.
C E 865 Hydrologic Systems Analysis 3(3,0) Hydrologic cycle as a hydrologic system; deterministic hydrology; aspects of physical hydrology emphasizing balanced approach to groundwater hydrology and surface water hydrology; infiltration; soil moisture and evapotranspiration; probability analysis and system synthesis by convolution. Preq: C E 342 or consent of instructor.
C E 867 Pipeline Hydraulics 3(3,0) Pressurized pipeline design including economic analysis, pipe sizing and selection; applications in civil engineering; prediction and control of cavitation; transient analysis; and methods of suppression. Students participate in a team-oriented design project. Preq: C E 341 or consent of instructor.
C E 868 Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics 3(3,0) Study of turbulence and basic flow equations as they impact the environment. Includes slender flows including circular and plane turbulent jets, jets in crossflows, wall, suface jets, and plumes; near-field and far-field analysis of discharge in rivers including continuous momentum discharges, non-bouyant plumes, and passive slugs; mixing in lakes and reservoirs; and stratified flows.
C E 875 Numerical Models in Hydraulics 3(3,0) Students learn applications of numerical modeling, finite difference, finite volume, and finite element, as tools for solving complex problems in the areas of hydraulics/fluid mechanics. Students learn techniques of developing and analyzing computational models for parabolic, elliptic, and hyperbolic equations used in the area of hydraulics. Preq: C E 342 or consent of instructor.
C E 889 Special Problems I 1-3 Research design problems from field of structures, construction, soil mechanics, transportation, ocean and coastal engineering, or materials engineering. Subject matter varies with interest and experience of student and instructor.
C E 890 Special Problems II 1-3 Research design problems from field of structures, construction, soil mechanics, transportation, ocean and coastal engineering, or materials engineering. Subject matter varies with interest and experience of student and instructor.
C E 891 Master's Thesis Research 1-12
C E 893 Selected Topics in Civil Engineering 1-6(1-6,1-6) Topics not covered in other courses. May be repeated for credit.
C E 895 Civil Engineering Seminar 1(0,2) Current and historic topics in various areas of civil engineering. Speakers may include off-campus experts, faculty, and graduate students. Presentation of at least one seminar is required.
C E 991 Doctoral Dissertation Research 1-12