Advanced Mechanics of Materials

Prerequisite: undergraduate mechanics and mathematics

Reviews basic stress-strain concepts; constitutive relations. Studies unsymmetrical bending, shear center, and shear flow. Analyzes curved flexural members, beams on elastic foundation, torsion, bending, and twisting of thin walled sections. Cross-listed as AM 601.

Continuum Mechanics With Applications

Prerequisite: instructor permission. Introduces continuum mechanics and mechanics of deformable solids. Vectors and cartesian tensors, stress, strain, deformation, equations of motion, constitutive laws, introduction to elasticity, thermal elasticity, viscoelasticity, plasticity, and fluids. Cross-listed as APMA 602, AM 602, MAE 602.

Computational Solid Mechanics

Corequisite: CE 602. Analyzes the variational and computational mechanics of solids, potential energy, complementary energy, virtual work, Reissner's principle, Ritz and Galerkin methods; displacement, force and mixed methods of analysis; finite element analysis, including shape functions, convergence and integration; and applications in solid mechanics. Cross-listed as AM 603, MAE 603.

Plates and Shells

Prerequisite: APMA 641 and CE 601 or 602

Includes the classical analysis of plates and shells of various shapes; closed-form numerical and approximate methods of solution of governing partial differential equations; and advanced topics (large deflection theory, thermal stresses, orthotropic plates). Cross-listed as AM 604, MAE 604.

Theory of Elasticity

Prerequisite: AM/CE/MAE 602 or instructor permission. Review of the concepts of stress, strain, equilibrium, compatibility; Hooke's law (isotropic materials); displacement and stress formulations of elasticity problems; plane stress and strain problems in rectangular coordinates (Airy's stress function approach); plane stress and strain problems in polar coordinates, axisymmetric problems; torsion of prismatic bars (semi-inverse method using real function approach); thermal stress;and energy methods. Cross-listed as AM 607 and MAE 607.

Infrastructure Management

Prerequisite: CE 444 or instructor permission. Studies the tools required to formulate a prioritization procedure that leads to a realistic and rational way of establishing candidate projects for priority programming at both the network and project level pavement management systems. Topics include methods for obtaining distress measurements and pavement condition ratings for flexible and rigid pavements; prioritizing procedures for establishing priority listings for rehabilitation and maintenance activities.

Advanced Soil Mechanics

Prerequisite: CE 316. Analyzes the chemistry and physics of soils, strength and deformation characteristics of soils, time rate of consolidation, earth pressures, bearing capacity, seepage, and slope stability.

Advanced Foundations

Prerequisite: CE 316 and 326.

Topics include subsurface investigation, control of groundwater, analysis of sheeting and bracing systems, shallow foundations, pile foundations, retaining walls, bridge abutments, caissons and cofferdams.

Energy Principles in Mechanics

Prerequisite: instructor permission. Derivation, interpretation, and application to engineering problems of the principles of virtual work and complementary virtual work. Related theorems such as the principles of the stationary value of the total potential and complementary energy, Castigiliano's Theorems, theorem of least work, and unit force and displacement theorems. Introduction to generalized, extended, mixed, and hybrid principles. Variational methods of approximation, Hamilton's principle, and Lagrange's equations of motion. Approximate solutions to problems in structural mechanics by use of variational theorems. Cross-listed as AM 620, MAE 620.

Vibrations

Prerequisite: instructor permission. Topics include free and forced vibration of undamped and damped single-degree-of-freedom systems and undamped
multi-degree-of-freedom systems; use of Lagrange's equations, Laplace transform, matrix formulation, and other solution methods; normal mode theory; introduction to vibration of continuous systems. Cross- listed as AM 623, MAE 623.

Project Management

Prerequisite: CE 441. Analyzes the contractual, legal, and financial considerations in construction management of transportation projects; the planning and scheduling of projects with the aid of the Critical Path Methods networks including the arrow-on-line and precedence of diagramming, the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) and Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT); simulation methods to determine probable project duration time and cost distributions; cash flow analyses of early start schedules and resource leveling techniques; a method of resource leveling is given. A number of transportation case studies and a review of recent research papers.

Transportation Systems Planning and Analysis I

Prerequisite: graduate standing or instructor permission. Introduces the legal requirements, framework, and principles of urban and statewide planning. Focuses on describing and applying the methodology of the forecasting system of the transportation planning process, including inventory (data collection and information systems), forecasts of population and economic activity, network analysis, and travel demand analysis. Also introduces computerized models for transportation planning.

Geographic Information Systems

Prerequisite: graduate standing

Introduces gographic information systems (GIS) through reading, lecture, discussion, research, and hands-on experience gained through laboratory work using the ArcView GIS package. The primary objective of this course is to investigate the GIS application process.

Intermodal Transportation

Prerequisite: CE 633. Studies the structure of domestic freight and passenger transportation in the United States. Focuses on the integration of modes, economic impacts, national transportation policy and advanced technology. Case studies of contemporary examples of intermodal integration are explored.

Traffic Operations

Prerequisite: graduate standing or instructor permission. Covers the methods for evaluating the impact on the quality of traffic operations due to the interaction of the three main components of the highway mode: the driver, the vehicles, and the road. Includes the collection and analysis of traffic operations data, fundamentals of traffic flow theory, analysis of capacity and level of service and accident analysis.

Traffic Systems Management

Prerequisite: CE 344 and 444 or instructor permission. A study of different transportation systems management strategies, including their long-range impact on efficient use of the systems and on safety. Focuses on traffic signals, isolated intersections, arterials and networks, geometrics, HOV lanes, and safety. A case study will also be conducted of a system in operation.

Public Transportation

Prerequisite: graduate standing

Study of the application of transportation systems and technologies in an urban context. Focuses on the management and operation of public transit systems, and comparative costs and capabilities of transit modes.

Wastewater Treatment

Prerequisite: CE 430 or instructor permission. Presents a concise summary of wastewater treatment processes, with emphasis on applications to municipal and industrial wastewaters. Physical, chemical, and biological treatment processes are discussed. Also covers practices of removing conventional and toxic pollutants in wastewaters.

Water Quality Modeling

Prerequisite: CE 430 or instructor permission. A first course in surface water quality modeling. Emphasizes the basic understanding of the mechanisms and interactions to various types of water quality behavior. Designed to meet a very simple need--dissemination of the fundamentals and principles underlying the mathematical modeling techniques used to analyze the quality of surface waters. Students practice wasteload allocations using a variety of water quality models on microcomputer systems.

Water Chemistry for Environmental Engineering

Prerequisite: CHEM 151 and 151L, and graduate standing

Teaches the basic principles of inorganic and organic chemistry as applied to problems in environmental engineering, including water and wastewater treatment, contaminant hydrology, and hazardous-waste management. Specific topics include analytical instrumentation, acid-base chemistry, reaction kinetics, precipitation and dissolution, organic and surface chemistry, and chlorine chemistry for water disinfection.

Hydrology

Prerequisite: CE 336 or instructor permission. Stresses the quantitative description and the physical basis of hydrology. Both deterministic and stochastic methodology are applied to the analysis of the hydrologic cycle, namely, precipitation, evaporation, overland flow and stream flow, infiltration, and groundwater flow. The use of computer simulation models, especially microcomputer based models, is emphasized.

Ground-Water Hydrology

Prerequisite: CS 101, CE 315, CE 336, or equivalent. Topics include Darcy's Law, fluid potential, hydraulic conductivity, heterogeneity and anisotropy, the unsaturated zone, compressibility, transmissivity and storativity, the 3-D equation of ground-water flow, steady-state and transient regional ground-water flow, and well hydraulics, including discussions involving Theis' Inverse Method, Jacob's Method, slug test analyses, and the principle of superposition. Students solve transient, one-dimensional and steady-state, two-dimensional ground-water flow problems by solving the governing partial differential equations by the finite-difference technique. Also includes numerical solution of tridiagonal systems of linear equations, truncation errors, and stability analysis. Requires writing computer programs using Fortran, C++, or an equivalent.

Environmental Systems Management

Prerequisite: graduate standing or instructor permission. Emphasizes the formulation of environmental management issues as optimization problems. Simulation models are presented and then combined with optimization algorithms. Environmental systems to be addressed include stream quality, air quality, water supply, waste management, groundwater remediation, and reservoir operations. Optimization techniques presented include linear, integer, and separable programming, dynamic programming and nonlinear programming.

Mechanics of Composite Materials

Prerequisite: knowledge of strength of materials and a computer language

Analyzes the properties and mechanics of fibrous, laminated composites; stress, strain, equilibrium, and tensor notation; micromechanics, lamina, laminates, anisotropic materials, classical lamination theory, stiffness and strength, interlaminar stresses, fabrication, and test methods; thermal stresses, analysis, design and computerized implementation. Cross- listed as AM 665.

Stress Analysis of Composites

Prerequisite: CE 665 (AM 665)

Focuses on 3-D anisotropic constitutive theory, edge effects and interlaminar stresses, failure criteria, fracture, anisotropic elasticity, micromechanics, laminated plates, hygro-thermal effects, conduction and diffusion. Cross-listed as AM 666.

Introduction to Finite Element Methods

Prerequisite: CE 471 or equivalent

Focuses on the fundamentals and basic concepts of the finite element method; modeling and discretization; application to one-dimensional problems; direct stiffness method; element characteristics; interpolation functions; extension to plane stress problems.

Numerical Methods in Structural Mechanics

Prerequisite: CE 471

Focuses on solutions to the static, dynamic, and buckling behavior of determinate and indeterminate structures by numerical procedures, including finite difference and numerical integration techniques.

Theory of Structural Stability

Prerequisite: instructor permission. Introduces the elastic stability of structural and mechanical systems. Studies classical stability theory and buckling of beams, trusses, frames, arches, rings and thin plates and shells. Also covers the derivation of design formulas, computational formulation and implementation. Cross-listed as AM 675.

Risk and Reliability in Structural Engineering

Prerequisite: background in probability and statistics. Studies the fundamental concepts of structural reliability; definitions of performance and safety, uncertainty in loadings, materials and modeling. Analysis of loadings and resistance. Evaluation of existing design codes. Development of member design criteria, including stability, fatigue and fracture criteria; and the reliability of structural systems.

Advanced Design of Metal Structures

Prerequisite: CE 401 or equivalent

Analyzes the behavior and design of structural elements and systems, including continuous beams, plate girders, composite steel-concrete members, members in combined bending and compression. Structural frames, framing systems, eccentric connections, and torsion and torsional stability are also studied.

Prestressed Concrete Design

Prerequisite: CE 326 or equivalent

Analyzes prestressing materials and concepts, working stress analysis and design for flexure, strength analysis and design for flexure, prestress losses, design for shear, composite prestressed beams, continuous prestressed beams, prestressed concrete systems concepts, load balancing, slab design.

Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design

Prerequisite: CE 326

Study of advanced topics in reinforced concrete design, including design of slender columns, deflections, torsion in reinforced concrete, design of continuous frames, and two-way floor systems. Introduction to design of tall structures in reinforced concrete, and design of shear walls.

Experimental Mechanics

Prerequisite: CE 323

Analyzes the theories and techniques for the determination of static and dynamic stresses, strains, and deformations. Studies include photoelastic, electrical, mechanical, and optical methods and instruments. Both models and full-scale specimens will be used in experimental testing.

Special Topics in Civil Engineering

Detailed study of special topics in civil engineering. Master's-level graduate students.

Independent Study

Detailed study of graduate course material on an independent basis under the guidance of a faculty member. Master's-level graduate students.

Supervised Project Research

Formal record of student commitment to project research under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Registration may be repeated as necessary. Master's-level graduate students.

Graduate Seminar

Weekly meeting of master's-level graduate students and faculty for presentation and discussion of contemporary research and practice in civil engineering. This seminar is offered for credit every spring semester and should be taken by all students in the master's program.

Graduate Seminar

Prerequisite: for students who have established resident credit

Weekly meeting of graduate students and faculty for presentation and discussion of contemporary research and practice in civil engineering. This seminar is offered every spring semester.

Dynamics of Structures

Prerequisite: concrete and metal structure design and CE 623

Study of the dynamic behavior of such structures as beams, rigid frames, floors, bridges, and multi-story buildings under the action of various disturbing forces such as wind, blasts, earthquakes, vehicles, machinery, etc.

Random Vibrations

Prerequisite: a background in probability theory and vibration analysis

Topics include a review of probability theory; stochastic processes, with an emphasis on continuous, continuously parametered processes; mean square calculus, Markov processes, diffusion equations, Gaussian processes, and Poisson processes; response of SDOF, MDOF, and continuous linear and nonlinear models to random excitation; upcrossings, first passage problems, fatigue and stability considerations; Monte Carlo simulation, analysis of digital time series data, and filtered excitation models. Cross-listed as AM 725.

Project Planning

Prerequisite: CE 632 and 633

Analyzes the planning of public facilities in contemporary society; review of common social, economic, and environmental impact considerations in the location and design of corridor or point facilities; cost parameters; comprehensive methods of evaluating and combining tangible and intangible factors including cost benefit, cost effectiveness, goals, achievement, planning balance sheet, risk profiles, preference theories, mapping, and factor analysis methods; case studies.

Transportation Systems Planning and Analysis II

Prerequisite: CE 633, 634, and 636

Introduces the non-travel impacts of transportation systems and the methodologies used to capture them for project evaluation; to develop and illustrate methodologies used for evaluating the effectiveness of transportation systems/projects including benefit-cost analysis and multi-objective decision models, and; to illustrate the analysis of different alternatives.

Transportation Systems Planning and Analysis III

Prerequisite: CE 633 and 732

Advanced transportation systems analysis concepts; integrated model systems and applications; real time computer-aided tools; IVHS software; expert systems applications; neural networks; applications: incident management; real time network analysis.

Traffic Flow Theory

Prerequisite: CE 636

Analyzes theoretical and computer applications of mathematical models of traffic flow; deterministic and stochastic traffic flow models; queuing theory and its application including cases where arrival rates exceed service rates; acceleration noise and traffic simulation.

Financing Transportation Infrastructure

Prerequisite: CE 635

The financing of transportation systems and services is an important element in the process of developing new or renovated facilities. This course develops familiarity with financing techniques that have been proposed or used by localities and state agencies. Consideration is given to advantages and disadvantages and the conditions appropriate to their application.

Intelligent Transportation Systems

Prerequisite: CE 633, 635, and 636 or 638

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) can best be defined as the application of information technology to the surface transportation system. This technology, which includes communications, sensors, and computer hardware and software, supports both travelers and transportation providers in making effective decisions. Provides an introduction to the concepts of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) through a systems engineering case study approach. Students work in teams on ITS case studies through the course of the semester. The cases are actual problems for state and federal departments of transportation. Provides students with experience applying systems engineering, exposure to ITS concepts, and opportunities to examine advanced ITS technology.

Integrated Transportation Systems Models

Prerequisite: CE 636

Introduces the current and advanced optimization and simulation computer models used in traffic operations. Increased familiarity with the concepts and methodologies associated with selecting an appropriate model for a given situation. Covers the advantages and disadvantages of the models considered and is project-oriented, with students spending a significant amount of time in selecting and using these models to solve "real world" problems.

Advanced Topics in Transportation

Prerequisite: CE 635

Focuses on selected contemporary problems in transportation that are of interest to the students and faculty. Seminars, guest lecturers, projects.

Modeling Environmental Fate and Effects of Contaminants

Prerequisite: CE 641 or instructor permission. Designed as a follow-up course for Water Quality Modeling, this course covers a number of modeling applications. Designed to apply water quality models to regulatory oriented water quality problems. Emphasis on reading water quality data using models, the results of which serve as a rational basis for making water quality control decisions. Each student conducts an individual water quality modeling study using actual data.

Theory of Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport

Prerequisite: CE 655 or equivalent

Provides a theoretical framework for understanding fluid flow and contaminant transport in porous media. Topics include the properties of a porous medium, including types of phases, soil and clay mineralogy, surface tension and capillarity, soil surface area, and soil organic-matter composition; the derivation of the general equations for multi-phase fluid flow and multi-species solute transport; and the fundamentals of the fate and transport processes of organic pollutants in ground-water systems, including advection, dispersion, diffusion, sorption, hydrolysis, and volatilization.

Groundwater Modeling

Prerequisite: CE 655 or instructor permission. Introduces the fundamentals of modeling groundwater systems. Emphasizes the evaluation, development, and application of computer models. Modeling techniques include analytical solutions, finite difference and finite element methods, particle tracking, and inverse modeling. Models are applied to flow and transport in saturated and unsaturated groundwater systems.

Design of Waste Containment Facilities

Corequisite: CE 644 and 655

Covers concepts important to the design and construction of new waste disposal facilities, and to the closure of existing disposal facilities. Emphasizes the fundamentals of contaminant behavior in a porous media, engineering designs to reduce contaminant migration, and issues related to the operation, monitoring, and closure of waste disposal facilities.

Hazardous Waste Site Characterization and Remediation

Corequisite: CE 644 and 655

Covers concepts important to the characterization and remediation of hazardous contamination of soil and groundwater. Theoretical concepts of contaminant behavior in the subsurface, methods of contaminant detection, and remedial systems are combined with issues of practical implementation at the field scale.

Stormwater Management and Nonpoint Source Pollution Control

Prerequisite: CE 653 or instructor permission. Discusses nonpoint source pollution in general, and stormwater-induced pollution in particular. Emphasizes stormwater management planning and design in an urban setting. An integrated watershed management approach in nonpoint source pollution control is described. Topics include sources and impact of nonpoint pollution; stormwater regulations; combined sewer overflow problems; best management practices; such as detention ponds and constructed wetlands; design methodologies; and institutional considerations.

Micromechanics of Heterogeneous Media

Prerequisite: CE 602

Analyzes averaging principles, equivalent homogeneity, effective moduli, bounding principles, self-consistent schemes, composite spheres, concentric cylinders, three phase model, repeating cell models, inelastic and nonlinear effects, thermal effects, isotropic and anisotropic media, strength and fracture. Cross-listed as APMA 767, AM 767.

Advanced Finite Element Applications in Structural Engineering

Prerequisite: CE 671 or equivalent

Development and application of two- and three-dimensional finite elements; plate bending; isoparametric formulation; solid elements; nonlinear element formulation with application to material and geometric nonlinearities; stability problems; formulation and solution of problems in structural dynamics; use of commercial computer codes.

Non-Linear Structural Systems

Prerequisite: CE 671, 672, or instructor permission. Discussion of deflection theory. Analysis of arches, suspension bridges, cable supported roof systems, guyed towers, lattice domes and space trusses. Focuses on wind-induced vibration, creep effects, and the visco-elastic behavior of structures.

Optimum Structural Design

Prerequisite: instructor permission. Introduces the basic concepts, numerical methods, and applications of optimum design to civil engineering structures; formulation of the optimum design problems; development of analysis techniques including linear and nonlinear programming and optimality criteria; examples illustrating application to steel and concrete structures.

Design of Slab and Shell Structures

Prerequisite: CE 683 or 684

Using both exact and simplified methods of thin shell theory, such structures as domes, cylindrical roofs, tanks, hyperbolic paraboloids, folder plate roofs, and suspension forms are analyzed and designed. Effects of stiffening beams and edge stress are studied. Considers erection, economy and aesthetics.

Special Topics in Civil Engineering

Detailed study of special topics in civil engineering. Doctoral-level graduate students.

Independent Study

Detailed independent study of graduate course material under the guidance of a faculty member. Doctoral-level graduate students.

Supervised Project Research

Formal record of student commitment to project research under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Registration may be repeated as necessary. Doctoral-level graduate student.

Graduate Seminar

Weekly meeting of doctoral-level graduate students and faculty for presentation and discussion of contemporary research and practice in civil engineering. This seminar is offered for credit every spring semester and should be taken by all students in the Ph.D. program.

Graduate Teaching Instruction

For master's students.

Thesis

Formal record of student commitment to master's thesis research under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Registration may be repeated as necessary.

Graduate Teaching Instruction

For doctoral students.

Dissertation
Formal record of student commitment to doctoral research under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Registration may be repeated as necessary.