CE 412-3 Groundwater Hydrology — (Same as ENVS 412 and GEOG 412)
Study of groundwater: occurrence, physical and chemical properties, flow and flow system modeling, relation to rock structure and lithology, contamination of ground water resources. Prerequisites: 310, CHEM 113 or equivalents or consent of instructor.
CE 435-3 Pavement Design
Analysis and design for highway and airport pavements; factors affecting pavement performance and code requirements. Prerequisites: 330, 343, 354, or consent of instructor.
CE 441-3 Design of Timber Structures
Analysis and design of timber structures. Introduction to timber design codes. Prerequisites: CE 343 or concurrent enrollment, or consent of instructor.
CE 443-3 Design of Masonry Structures
Design and analysis of masonry buildings. Introduction to masonry design codes. Prerequisites: CE 343 or concurrent enrollment, or consent of instructor.
CE 445-3 Advanced Structural Analysis)
Analysis of indeterminate two- and three-dimensional structures using the force and displacement method. Introduction to matrix structural analysis. Prerequisite: CE 343 or concurrent enrollment, or consent of instructor.
CE 446-3 Advanced Concrete Design
Advanced topics in reinforced concrete design. Design of prestressed concrete beams. Code design requirements. Prerequisites: CE 343, 445 or concurrent enrollment, or consent of instructor.
CE 449-3 Advanced Steel Design
Plastic analysis of steel structures. LRFD design. Stability theory applied to structural design. Composite beams and columns. Introduction to seismic design. Code requirements. Prerequisites: 342, 445 or concurrent enrollment, or consent of instructor.
CE 455-3 Foundation Design
Design of foundations, retaining walls, cofferdams, and earth embankments. Estimates of bearing capacity; settlements; slope stability values. Prerequisite: CE 354 or consent of instructor.
CE 460-3 Municipal Infrastructure Design
Municipal infrastructure analysis and design; water distribution networks; wastewater collection; street systems; engineering processes of municipal designs. Prerequisites: CE 315, 376, or consent of instructor.
CE 473-3 Transportation Site Selection
Engineering techniques for transportation site selection, traffic facility capacity, geometric design criteria, traffic engineering controls and constraints. Prerequisites: CE 376 or consent of instructor.
CE 475-3 Urban Transportation
Urban design and provision of transportation systems and services, including their social, environmental, architectural, historical, and racial effects on urban areas. Prerequisite: CE 376 or consent of instructor.
CE 476-3 Traffic Studies
Acquisition, evaluation, statistical analysis and reporting of traffic engineering data used to design, evaluate and operate transportation systems. Prerequisite: CE 376 or consent of instructor.
CE 480-3 Environmental Analysis
Analytical methods for examining water and wastewater. Source of parameters, laboratory methods and limitations, data analysis, correlation of parameters with environmental effects. Prerequisite: CE 380 or consent of instructor.
CE 486-3 Wastewater Treatment Design
Design of wastewater treatment systems, including preliminary, primary, secondary, and advanced treatment processes and biosolids treatment and disposal. Prerequisite: CE 380 or consent of instructor.
CE 487-3 Water Treatment Design
Design of potable water treatment processes with emphasis on chemical and physical unit operations. Prerequisite: CE 380 or consent of instructor.
CE 488-3 Hazardous Waste Management
Major aspects of managing hazardous waste, including regulations, pollution prevention, treatment, disposal, spill clean-up, and site remediation. Prerequisite: CE 380 or consent of instructor.
CE 501-3 Project Management
(Same as CNST 501) Application of technical principles to modern methods of construction, construction planning, scheduling by critical path method, contract documents, estimating and bidding, and construction materials.
CE 541-3 Bridge Engineering
Major aspects of practice of bridge engineering, including bridge design, analysis, construction, history, and current research. AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications. Prerequisite: CE 342, 343, and 445, or consent of instructor.
CE 545-3 Structural Dynamics
Dynamic response of single and multi-degree of freedom structural systems. Mode superposition. Structural damping. Prerequisites: 342, 343, 445, or consent of instructor.
CE 546-3 Plates and Shells
(Same as ME 546) Membrane theory of shells. Bending of shells and circular and rectangular plates. Indeterminate shell problems. Prerequisite: CE 445 or consent of instructor.
CE 548-3 Finite Elements
Rayleigh-Ritz method; piecewise approximation; nodal load calculations; derivation of two- and three-dimensional elements; bending elements. Finite element computer programs. Prerequisite: CE 445.
CE 549-3 Earthquake Engineering
Structural design and detailing for earthquake loads. Lateral load resistant systems; building and bridge code requirements. Prerequisite: CE 342, 343, 445, 545 or consent of instructor.
CE 570-3 Environmental Technology and Assessment
(Same as ENVS 570). Techniques used to conceptualize, simulate, and analyze the dynamic nature of environmental systems. Theory and application of environmental modeling. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
CE 573-3 Transportation Alternatives I
Planning and design techniques, engineering measures, practical considerations and urban design procedures to safely and efficiently accommodate pedestrian and bicycle transportation. Prerequisite: CE 473 or consent of instructor.
CE 579-3 Transportation Safety Systems
Implementation, operation and evaluation of transportation safety systems for highway and non-highway modes, crash analysis, remediation strategies, case studies. Prerequisite: CE 473 or consent of instructor.
CE 581-3 Advanced Wastewater Treatment
Theory and design of advanced wastewater treatment systems, including nutrient removal and other tertiary treatment processes. Prerequisite: CE 486 or consent of instructor.
CE 587-3 Air Pollution Control (currently not being offered)
Study of sources, effects, regulation, monitoring, and control of air pollution. Prerequisite: CE 380 or consent of instructor.
CE 588-3 Solid Waste Management
Perspectives, engineering principles, and management issues governing solid waste management. Prerequisite: CE 380 or consent of instructor.
CE 589-3 Industrial Materials and Waste
Management of hazardous industrial materials and hazardous industrial wastes, including regulations, handling, minimization and prevention of waste generation, recycling/reuse, treatment, and disposal. Prerequisite: CE 380 or consent of instructor.
CE 591-1 to 4 Independent Study
Individual investigation of a topic in civil engineering to be agreed upon with the instructor and approved by the Advisory Committee. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 hours provided no topic is repeated. Prerequisite: consent of instructor and Advisory Committee.
CE 592-1 to 5 Topics in Civil Engineering
Topic of special interest; course schedule will include name of topic. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours provided no topic is repeated. Prerequisite: consent of instructor and Advisory Committee.
CE 593-1 Research Paper
Independent research for the non-thesis option final research paper. Prerequisite: consent of Advisory Committee.
CE 595-3 Managing Engineering & Technology
Emphasis on management functions of planning, organizing, motivating and controlling, and analysis of the application of these functions in engineering research, design, production, technical marketing, and project management.
CE 599-1 to 6 Research
Independent research at master's level. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours. Prerequisite: consent of Advisory Committee.