Graduate Courses in Civil and Environmental Engineering

CE 410-3 Solid Waste Engineering. Engineering aspects of solid waste prevention, treatment, recycling, and disposal. Design of recycling programs, solid waste treatment and disposal facilities. State and federal regulations. Problems, sources, and effects of solid waste. Design projects required.

CE 412-3 Contaminant Flow, Transport and Remediation in Porous Media. Theory of mass transport and flow in the saturated and vadose zones; stochastic transport theory; retardation and attenuation of dissolved solutes; flow of nonaqueous phase liquids; groundwater remediation. Prerequisite: 310 and 320.

CE 413-3 Collection Systems Design. Design of waste water and storm water collection systems including installation of buried pipes. Determination of design loads and flows, system layout, and pipe size. Prerequisite: 310 and 370.

CE 418-3 Water and Wastewater Treatment. A study of the theory and design of water and wastewater treatment systems, including physical, chemical, and biological processes. Topics include sedimentation, biological treatment, hardness removal, filtration, chlorination, and residuals management. Prerequisite: 310, 370, and ENGR 351.

CE 419-3 Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment. Advanced concepts in the analysis and design of water and wastewater treatment plants. Topics include advanced physical, chemical and biological processes. Emphasis is on the treatment and disposal of sludges, design of facilities, advanced treatment principles, and toxics removal. Prerequisite: 370 and 418.

CE 421-3 Foundation Design. Application of soil mechanics to the design of the foundations of structures; bearing capacity and settlement analysis; design of shallow footings; stability of earth slopes; design of retaining walls, design of pile foundations, coffer dams. Prerequisite: 320.

CE 422-3 Environmental Geotechnology. Geotechnical aspects of land disposal of solid waste and remediation, solute transport in saturated soils, waste characterization and soil-waste interaction, engineering properties of municipal wastes, construction quality control of liners, slope stability and settlement considerations, use of geosynthetics and geotextiles, cap design, gas generation, migration and management.. Prerequisite: 310 and 320.

CE 423-3 Geotechnical Engineering in Professional Practice. Application of principles of geotechnical engineering in a real-world setting; planning, managing and executing geotechnical projects; developing proposals and geotechnical project reports; interpreting and using recommendations developed by geotechnical engineers; total quality management, professional liability and risk management. Prerequisite: 320, 421, or concurrent enrollment or consent of instructor.

CE 431-3 Pavement Design. Design of highway and airport systems: subgrades, subbases, and bases; soil stabilization; stresses in pavements; design of flexible and rigid pavements; cost analysis and pavement selection; and pavement evaluation and rehabilitation. Prerequisite: 320 and 330.

CE 440-3 Statically Indeterminate Structures. Analysis of trusses, beams, and frames. Approximate methods. Method of consistent deformations. Three-moment theorem. Slope deflection. Moment distribution. Column analogy. Plastic analysis. Matrix methods. Prerequisite: 340.

CE 441-3 Matrix Methods of Structural Analysis. Flexibility method and stiffness method applied to framed structures. Introduction to finite elements. Prerequisite: 340.

CE 442-3 Structural Steel Design. An introduction to structural steel design with an emphasis on buildings. Design of structural members and typical welded and bolted connections using Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) methods. Design project and report required. Prerequisite: 340.

CE 444-3 Reinforced Concrete Design. Behavior and strength design of reinforced concrete beams, slabs, compression members, and footings. Prerequisite: 340.

CE 445-3 Fundamental Theory of Earthquake Engineering. The nature and mechanics of earthquakes. Plate tectonics, types of faulting, recording and measuring ground motion. Analysis of free and forced vibration of a single degree of freedom system.  Steady state and transient response. Impulse response function. Dynamic amplification and resonance. Response to ground motion. Response spectrum analysis. Prerequisite: 340 and  320 or consent of instructor.

CE 446-3 Prestressed Concrete Design. Fundamental concepts of analysis and design. Materials. Flexure, shear, and torsions. Deflections. Prestress losses. Composite beams. Indeterminate structures. Slabs. Bridges. Prerequisite: 444.

CE 447-3 Seismic Design of Structures. Basic seismology, earthquake characteristics and effects of earthquakes on structures, vibration and diaphragm theories, seismic provisions of the Uniform Building Code, general structural design, and seismic-resistant concrete and steel structures. Prerequisite: 442 and 444 or consent of instructor.

CE 448-3 Structural Design of Highway Bridges. Structural design of highway bridges in accordance with the specifications of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO); superstructure includes concrete decks, steel girders, pre-stressed and post-tensioned concrete girders; substructure includes abutments, wingwalls, piers, and footings.  CE 442 or 444 or concurrent enrollment or consent of instructor.

CE 471-3 Groundwater Hydrology. Analysis of groundwater flow and the transport of pollution by subsurface flow; applications to the design of production wells and remediation of polluted areas; finite difference methods for subsurface analyses. Prerequisite: 370 or consent of instructor.

CE 472-3 Open Channel Hydraulics. Open channel flow, energy and momentum, design of channels, gradually varied flow computations, practical problems, spatially varied flow, rapidly varied flow, unsteady flow, flood routing, method of characteristics. Prerequisite: 474 or consent of instructor.

CE 473-3 Hydrologic Analysis and Design. Hydrological cycle, stream-flow analysis, hydrograph generation, frequency analysis, flood routing, watershed analysis, urban hydrology, flood plain analysis. Application of hydrology to the design of small dams, spillways, drainage systems. Prerequisite: 370.

CE 474-3 Hydraulic Engineering Design. Hydrostatics, flow in pipes, open channels and porous media metering devices. Includes two- to three-week projects involving identification, modeling, analysis and design of hydraulic engineering systems. Prerequisite: 370 and ENGR 351.

CE 500-1 to 4 Seminar. Collective and/or individual study of selected issues and problems relating to various areas of civil engineering.  Prerequisite: graduate standing.

CE 510-3 Hazardous Waste Engineering. Analysis of hazardous waste generation, storage, shipping, treatment, and disposal. Source reduction methods. Government regulations. Remedial action. Prerequisite: 418 and ENGR 300.

CE 512-3 Aqueous Systems Analysis. Applied environmental chemistry as it relates to the natural environment and engineered treatment systems. Topics include thermodynamics and kinetics, acid-base equilibria, computer modeling of aqueous systems, the carbonate system, precipitation and dissolution, coordination chemistry and oxidation-reduction reactions. Prerequisite: 310, 418.

CE 516-3 Water Quality Modeling. Water quality factors and control methods. Technical, economic, social and legal aspects concerned with implementation of various engineered systems for water quality management. Case studies. Prerequisite: 418.

CE 517-3 Industrial Waste Treatment. Theories and methods of treating industrial wastes. Case studies of major industrial waste problems and their solutions. Prerequisite: 418.

CE 518-3 Advanced Biological Treatment Processes. The biochemical and microbial aspects of converting substrate to bacterial cell mass or products and its use in various phases of industry (both fermentation and wastewater treatment). Design of activated sludge and trickling filter plants from lab data obtained on explicit wastes from both industry and municipalities. Prerequisite: 418.

CE 520-3 Advanced Soil Mechanics. Advanced theories of soil mechanics, stress distribution in soils, seepage, consolidation, shear strength, settlement analysis and stability of slopes. Prerequisite: 320, 350, 421 or concurrent enrollment.

CE 521-3 Soil Improvement. Methods of soil stabilization, compaction, dynamic compaction, chemical treatment, compaction piling, stone columns, dewatering, soil reinforcement with stirrups, geomembranes and geogrids, ground freezing, stabilization of industrial wastes. Prerequisite: 320, 421.

CE 522-3 Advanced Foundation Engineering. Case histories of foundation failure, bearing capacity theories, shallow foundations, deep foundations, piles under vertical and horizontal loads, pier foundations, foundations for difficult soil conditions, soil improvement. Prerequisite: 421.

CE 523-3 Soil Dynamics. Problems in dynamic loading of soils, dynamic soil properties, liquefaction, dynamic earth pressure, foundations for earthquake and other dynamic loads. Prerequisite: 320 and 421.

CE 540-3 Structural Dynamics. Analysis of the dynamic response of multidegree-of-freedom framed structures. Structural idealizations. Matrix formulation. Lagrange's equations. Response calculation by mode-superposition and direct integration methods. Analysis for earthquakes. Prerequisite: 340 or consent of instructor.

CE 542-3 Nonlinear Structural Analysis. Analysis of the nonlinear response of framed structures subjected to static and dynamic loads. Structural idealizations. Response calculation by incremental and iterative techniques. Instability phenomena of snap-through and bifurcation. Post-buckling behavior. Approximate formulations. Detection of instability under dynamic loads. Prerequisite: 441 or 551 or consent of instructor.

CE 544-3 Advanced Design of Reinforced Concrete. Deep beams, shear friction. Slab, beam, girder systems. Monolithic joints. Retaining walls. Deflections. Length effects on columns. Two-way floor systems. Yield line theory. Torsion. Seismic design. Prerequisite: 444.

CE 545-3 Advanced Steel Design. Economical use of high strength steel; behavior and design of bolted and welded building connections, plate girders and composite steel-concrete beams; brittle fracture and fatigue; and low-rise and industrial-type buildings. Prerequisite: 442.

CE 551-3 Finite Element Analysis. (Same as Mechanical Engineering 565). Finite element analysis as a stress analysis or structural analysis tool. Derivation of element stiffness matrices by various means. Application to trusses, plane stress/strain and 3-D problems. Dynamic and material nonlinearity problems. Prerequisite: CE 350 and MATH 305.

CE 554-3 Experimental Mechanics. An introduction of various experimental techniques that are commonly used to determine properties such as deformation, straining, surface contour, etc. The topics to be covered include the principles of strain gage technology, theory of photoelasticity, piezoelectric accelerometer, laser-based interferometry, image processing and analysis, and reverse mechanics. The specific areas of practical application of each experiment will be discussed. Prerequisite: 350.

CE 556-3 Theory of Laminate Composite Structures. Orthotropic and Anisotropic Materials, Laminated Plate Theory, Ritz Method, Galerkin's Method, bending, buckling and vibration of laminated structures. Prerequisite: Engineering 350.

CE 557-3 Advanced Mechanics of Materials. (Same as Mechanical Engineering 566). Advanced topics in mechanics of materials including: elasticity equations; torsion of non-circular sections; generalized bending including curved beams and elastic foundations; shear centers; failure criteria including yielding, fracture and fatigue; axisymmetric problems including both thick and thin walled bodies; contact stresses; and stress concentration. Prerequisite: CE 350.

CE 570-3 Sedimentation Engineering. Introduction to the transport of granular sediment by moving fluids; analysis of regional degradation, aggradation and local scour in alluvial channels; investigation of sediment sources, yield and control. Prerequisite: 474 or consent of instructor.

CE 571-3 Water Resources Systems Engineering and Management. Philosophy of water resources planning; economic, social and engineering interactions related to water quantity; quantitative optimal planning methodologies for the design and operation of hydrosystems; guest lecturers; projects/case studies. Prerequisite: 474 or consent of instructor.

CE 572-3 Advanced Hydraulic Design. Design and analysis of stormwater control and conveyance systems, dams, spillways, outlet works, stilling basins, culverts and other complex hydraulic systems. Prerequisite: 474 or consent of instructor.

CE 573-3 Modeling of Hydrosystems. Hydraulic and hydrologic modeling; theory and application of common surface and subsurface flow models such as HEC-RAS, HEC-6, FLDWAV, DAMBRK, MODFLOW and MODPATH. Prerequisite: 474 or consent of instructor.

CE 592-1 to 5 Special Investigations in Civil Engineering. Advanced Civil Engineering Topics and/or problems in (a) Structural Engineering, (b) Hydraulic Engineering, (c) Environmental Engineering, (d) Geotechnical Engineering, (e) Fluid Flow Analysis, (f) Computational Mechanics, (g) Composite Materials, and (h) Stress Analysis. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.

CE 599-1 to 6 Thesis.

CE 601-1 per semester of Continuing Enrollment. For those graduate students who have not finished their degree programs and who are in the process of working on their dissertation, thesis, or research paper.  The student must have completed a minimum of 24 hours of dissertation research, or the minimum thesis , or research hours before being eligible to register for this course.  Concurrent enrollment in any other course is not permitted.  Graded S/U or DEF only.