Undergraduate Courses in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Required Courses

ENGR 101-3 Introduction to Engineering Introduction to the engineering profession and the engineering programs in the College of Engineering. Lectures and hands-on laboratory projects aimed at stimulating interest in engineering and at guiding students in choosing an engineering curriculum.  Seminars presented by distinguished speakers on engineering careers, ethics and employment trends.

CE 102-1 Computer-Aided Civil Engineering Drawing and Design  Introduction to Civil Engineering based computer-aided drawing/design software, in particular the methodologies and process of creating quality civil engineering drawings and utilizing them for design purposes

CE 250-3 Statics. Principles of Statics; force systems; equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies; trusses; frames; 2-D centroids; friction; moments of inertia; distributed loads; 3-D centroids; internal forces; shear and bending moment diagrams. Mass moment of inertia. Prerequisite: CE 102 and MATH 150.

CE 263-3 Basic Surveying. An introductory course designed to introduce the principles, theory, and equipment of surveying. Development of survey field practices on the earth's surface and subsurface and related computations. Prerequisite: CE 102 and MATH 111.

CE 310-3 Introduction to Environmental Engineering. Basic engineering aspects of water, land and air pollution and control. Problems, sources and effects of pollution. Major state and federal regulations relating to environmental issues. Laboratory supply fee: $30. Prerequisite: CHEM 210, MATH 250, and concurrent enrollment in or completion of CE 102.

CE 320-3 Soil Mechanics. Physical and mechanical properties of soils, flow through soils, effective stresses, consolidation, shear strength, soil improvement, lateral earth pressures. Laboratory. Prerequisite: 101, 250, 350.

CE 330-3 Civil Engineering Materials. Introduction of cements and aggregates; production and evaluation of concrete structures; mechanical properties of steels and timber; mixing and evaluation of pavement materials; testing of asphalt and masonry. Laboratory supply fee: $30. Prerequisite: 101 or concurrent enrollment and 350.

CE 340-3 Structures. Loads. Types of structures. Structural materials. Safety. Analysis of statically determinate beams, trusses, and frames under static loads. Influence lines, Moving loads, Cables, Arches, Space trusses, Deflection of beams, trusses, and frames. Moment distribution for beams. Prerequisite: 101 or concurrent enrollment and 350.

CE 350-3 Engineering Mechanics of Deformable Bodies. Introduction to the mechanics of deformable bodies. Stress and Strain. Torsion. Stresses and deflections in beams and columns. Influence lines. Statically indeterminate beams. Laboratory supply fee: $30. Prerequisite: 250, MATH 250.

CE 370-3 Engineering Mechanics of Fluids. Fluid properties; Fluid statics. Fluid flow; governing equations. Dimensional analysis and model-prototype relationships. Closed conduit flow. Open-channel flow. Introduction to numerical modeling. Laboratory supply fee: $30. Prerequisites: ME 261

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 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 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 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 495-6 (3,3) Civil Engineering Design. (a) Engineering ethics and professionalism. Project development skills, feasibility and cost estimation, project management, auto-cad applications in civil engineering. Selection of projects, formation of design teams, development of a design proposal. Written and oral presentations of the design proposal. Prerequisite: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in 320, 418, 442 or 444, and 474. (b) A capstone design experience using a team approach for the preliminary and final design of a civil engineering project. Documentation of all stages of the design project. Written and oral presentation of the final design. Not for graduate credit. Prerequisite: 495a.

CE 492-1-4 Special Problems in Civil Engineering. Selected engineering topics or problems in (a) structural engineering, (b) hydraulic engineering, (c) environmental engineering, (d) applied mechanics, (e) geotechnical engineering, (f) computational mechanics, (g) surveying engineering. Four hours maximum credit. Not for graduate credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

ME 261-3 Mechanical Engineering Dynamics. Fundamentals of particle and rigid body dynamics.  Kinematics and kinetics of a single particle and system of particles.  Application of Newton's laws and energy and moment principles in solving problems involving particles or rigid bodies in planar motion.  Introduction to kinetics of rigid bodies in three dimensions. Prerequisite: 250.

ENGR 351-3 Numerical Methods in Engineering. Overview of numerical procedures such as root finding, curve fitting, integration, solutions of simultaneous equations, and solutions of ordinary differential equations. Emphasis will be on applications of these techniques to problems in engineering mechanics, and civil and mechanical engineering. Prerequisite: CE 102 or ENGR 102 and concurrent enrollment in or completion of MATH 305.

ENGR 361-2 Engineering Economics in Design. Procedures for evaluating the relative economics merits of engineering projects and designs. Use of these procedures permits comparing alternate engineering estimates, evaluating engineering effectiveness, and proceeding toward decision-making based on economic and engineering optimization. Professional engineering examinations include these course materials. Prerequisite: MATH 111 or equivalent.


Technical Electives

CE 331-3 Transportation Engineering. Introduction to geometric design, earth work, drainage and traffic. Basic design principles for each area and their application to typical problems. Prerequisite: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in 330.

CE 361-3 Civil Engineering Surveying. Surveying process and theory for Civil Engineering projects, topographic surveys, precise surveys, easements, and related computations. Laboratory. Prerequisite: 263.

CE 362-3 Land Surveying. Survey process and theory of land surveying including development of the United States Rectangular System, boundary and retracement surveys, basic survey law, legal descriptions, title search, field monument search and related computations. Laboratory. Prerequisite: 263.

CE 363-3 Control/Construction Surveying. The surveying processes and theory of control surveying, geodesy, global positioning systems, geographic information systems, all types of construction surveying and related computations. Laboratory. Prerequisite 263.

CE 392-1 to 6 Civil Engineering Cooperative Education. Supervised work experience in industry, government, or professional organization. Students work with on-site supervisor and faculty advisor. Reports are required from the student and the employer. Hours do not count toward degree requirements. Mandatory Pass/Fail. Prerequisite: sophomore standing.

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 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 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 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 Pre-stressed Concrete Design. Fundamental concepts of analysis and design. Materials. Flexure, shear, and torsions. Deflections. Pre-stress 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 461-3 Legal Aspects of Surveying. Topics covered include common and statute law; unwritten rights in land and their relationship to land surveys; survey standards; restoration of lost corners; multiple corners, rules of evidence and rights, duties, and liability of the surveyor. Not for graduate credit. Prerequisite: 362.

CE 462-3 Survey Design and Land Development. Subdivision and land development principles, theory, methods and procedures including laws relating to subdivision and land development. Scope will include rural and urban subdivisions, industrial parks and major recreational developments. Laboratory. Not for graduate credit. Prerequisite: 362.

CE 463-3 Field Survey Problems. Perform extensive field projects in the areas of engineering, hydrographic, topographic, land and control surveying utilizing state-of-the-art equipment. To be held at Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge. Must be taken concurrently with CE 464. Enrollment limited to 12 students. Not for graduate credit. Prerequisite: 361, or 362, or 363.

CE 464-3Field Survey Planning and Computation. Planning, organization, computations and drafting of field survey projects including the needed mapping utilizing calculators, computers, COGO and CAD. This course must be taken concurrently with CE 463. Enrollment limited to 12 students. Not for graduate credit. Prerequisite: 361, or 362, or 363.

CE 465-3Photogrammetry. Process and theory of applications of photogrammetry with respect to engineering and surveying including flight planning, mathematical principles of aerial photographs, ground control methods, control extensions, stereoscopy and parallax, basic instrumentation and remote sensing with related computations. Laboratory. Not for graduate credit. Prerequisite: 263.

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.