Master's Courses
CE 5302 - Groundwater Hydrology & Pollution
A general course in groundwater hydrology, emphasizing fundamental principles and their applications to practical problems. Topics included are hydrologic cycles, geologic environments and controls, unsaturated (Vadose) and saturated zones, Darcy's law, continuity and energy principles, Navier-Stokes equations, flow equations, steady and unsteady hydraulics, aquifer tests, pollutant transport, analytical and numerical models, and computer codes.
Prerequisite: Instructor approval.
CE 5303 - Engineering Analysis
Advanced engineering mathematics dealing with linear algebra, vector calculus, and the formulation and solution of initial and boundary value problems arising in engineering.
Prerequisites: Departmental approval.
CE 5304 - Advanced Design of Structural Systems
Behavior and design concepts for concrete, steel, and composite structural systems. Topics include a detailed review of design specifications, detailing of frames, floor systems, and bracing components. 海角社区s will also be exposed to computational design tools.
Prerequisite: CE 4335 and CE 4361.
CE 5305 - Advanced Structural Analysis
Linear and nonlinear analysis of structural systems; plastic analysis; introduction to structural stability; and computational aspects of linear and nonlinear structural analysis.
Prerequisite: CE 3343
CE 5307 - Finite Element Method (3-0)
Theory of the Finite Elements Method and its application to the solution of engineering problems. Topics include the strong and weak formulation, boundary conditions, basis functions and error estimates. Concepts will be applied to the solution of one, two and three-dimensional boundary-value steady-state problems in linear elasticity, heat conduction, and flow. 海角社区s will also be exposed to the use of commercial FE software.
Prerequisites: CE 3343 or equivalent and instructor approval.
CE 5310 - Risk/Reliability Analysis of Engineering Systems
Quantitative risk and reliability analyses in engineering. Reliability methods applicable to design, component reliability, system reliability, parallel systems, series system, extreme value theory, fault tree and decision analysis, approximate methods for risk and reliability, selected applications to civil engineering.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
CE 5312 - Environmental Processes
Environmental Processes (3-0) Critical study of fundamental theories and modeling approaches for physical, chemical and biological processes that affect the fate of chemicals in the environment. Mass flow and diffusion, kinetics and equilibrium, solubility and precipitation, volatilization, oxidation-reduction, types of sorption, complexation, radiodecay and biotransformation. Applications focus on waste disposal, soil and groundwater reclamation, and advanced water and wastewater treatment operations.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
CE 5317 - Statistical Methods for Civil Engineering
Applications of statistical analysis to civil engineering problems. Topics covers include point and interval estimations, confident intervals, non-parametric test, linear and non-linear regressions and analysis of variance.
CE 5318 - Bridge Engineering
General considerations for design and load capacity evaluation of highway bridges. Introduction to load and resistance factor design (LRFD) philosophy. Bridge loads. Influence lines. Grillage analysis of bridges. Reinforced and prestressed concrete bridges. Composite steel bridges. Bridge substructures. Load rating. Introduction to seismic analysis and design.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
CE 5319 - Civil & Environmental Systems Engineering
Introduction to the fundamental concepts associated with civil engineering systems design from needs assessments to implementation. Topics covered will include basic design principles, system analysis and modeling, evaluation (on basis of benefit-cost, environmental impacts, etc.), resource allocation, optimization, and decision analysis. The course applies the concepts to problems in the various areas of civil engineering disciplines, such as transportation networks, queuing systems, environmental systems, and structures.
CE 5320 - Advanced Geotechnical Engineering
Advanced treatment of topics in geotechnical engineering, including the engineering response to loading, shear strength of sands and clays, consolidation and settlement analysis, and dynamic soil properties including liquefaction.
CE 5322 - Wastes Management
A study of waste management from cradle to grave; generation, storage, transportation, treatment, disposal, exchanges and minimization. The program emphasizes legislative and technical aspects with focus on treatment and disposal technologies. Analysis and design covers physical, chemical, thermal or biological processes with general applications in the industrial and energy-producing sectors. Special wastes, such as high-technology, infectious and radioactive, are addressed as case studies.
Prerequisites: A BS degree in Engineering or Chemistry, graduate standing in engineering or chemistry or department approval.
CE 5323 - Prestressed Concrete
Theory, advantages, and limitations; various systems of prestressing; composite construction; continuous span theory.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
CE 5324 - Construction Management
Planning and management of construction or engineering organizations, including formation, organization, legal factors, marketing, financing, and human resource management.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
CE 5325 - Design for Dynamic Loads
Vibration theory, behavior of structures and foundation members under dynamic loads. Design of structures and foundations for dynamic loads, wind loads, earthquakes and machine vibration.
CE 5326 - Air Pollution Control
Effect of air pollution, classification of wastes, meteorological factors, sampling and analysis, abatement, and statistical analysis.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
CE 5329 - Air Pollution Modeling
Atmospheric boundary layer, atmospheric turbulence, air pollution meteorology, turbulent diffusion in the atmosphere, Eulerian diffusion equations, Gaussian models, USEPA regulatory air polution models, modeling considerations, urban air polllution, and recent developments in air pollution modeling.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
CE 5332 - Methods Engineering Computation
Methods of iterations, approximations, and numerical procedures used in solution of complex problems and optimizations such as occur in Engineering Design and Scientific Analysis.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
CE 5333 - Plates and Shells
The theory and designs of plates and shell structures by the membrane and bending stess theories.
Prerequisite: Department approval
CE 5344 – Biological Unit Operations/Processes
Design course for biological waste treatment systems. Both anaerobic and aerobic processes such as activated sludge and its variants, bio-towers, RBC's, sequencing batch reactors, fluidized bed reactors and anaerobic digestion. The course will also address the biological removal and control of nitrogen and phosphorous for nutrient and ammonia toxicity control.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
CE 5345 - Advanced Water Treatment Process
Design course focusing on the development of treatment trains for the removal of contaminants from water. Advanced design process development for filtration, adsorption, disinfection, ion exchange, membrane processes and inorganic residuals disposal. Class includes relevant field trips to advanced treatment facilities and a process design project.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
CE 5349 – Design of Filtration and Membrane Processes
Fundamentals of particulate and ion removal/rejection are reviewed and then applied to engineered systems. The design of multi-media filtration systems, ultra and nano-filtration processes, reverse osmosis (RO), electrodialysis, are covered in depth. Brine concentrate disposal methods such as deep well injection, irrigation, and enhanced evaporation are examined. Products such as membranes and brine concentration systems and availability from manufacturers are reviewed. Site visits to industrial application sites, an engineering design office, and an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) may be included.
Prerequisite: Department approval
5342-Groundwater Contamination and Reclamation (3-0)
Groundwater pollution sources and typical cases in hazardous and radioactive waste management. Fundamentals of flow and transport of chemicals in porous media. Modeling phase distribution of chemicals in subsurface environments. Use of state-of-the-art computer codes (mainframe and microcomputers). Applications to either planning, case evaluation, remedial action or clean-up technologies.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
CE 5351 - Mechanistic Pavement Design and Analysis
Stresses and deformations in flexible and rigid pavements. Traffic loading and volume. Material characterization. Drainage design. Definition of pavement performance. Application of reliability to pavement design. Flexible and rigid pavement design. Design of overlays.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
CE 5352 - Foundation Design II
Determination of lateral earth pressure. Design of traditional retaining structures, mechanically stabilized retaining walls and cofferdams. Stability of slopes, and dewatering.
Prerequisite: CE 4348 or department approval.
CE 5353 - Geotechnical Site Investigation
Scope of site investigation. Subsurface data requirements. Conduct of investigation. Field Mapping. Engineering Geophysics. Laboratory and field investigation. Compilation and Presentation of Geotechnical Information.
Prerequisites: CE 4348 and instructor approval.
CE 5355 - Advanced Civil Engineering Materials
Advanced topics in civil engineering materials, design characterization and construction of Portland cement including high performance concrete, design, characterization, and construction of asphalt concrete mixtures; and design, characterization, and construction of base and subgrade materials.
CE 5356 - Sustainable Engineering Design
Fundamentals from engineering and science to develop an in-depth understanding of sustainable design principles. 海角社区s will be exposed to emerging concepts such as zero energy and net positive energy engineering systems. The course will focus on the areas of sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, indoor environmental quality and innovation and design processes.
CE 5357 - Structural Loads Models
Comprehensive review of the most common models and modeling processes for the loads affecting buildings, bridges, and other civil engineering structures including dead and live loads, wind and earthquake loads, and snow and temperature loads.
Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
CE 5358 - Traffic Engineering
Human, vehicular, and traffic characteristics as they relate to driver-vehicle roadway operational systems, traffic studies, and methods of analysis and evaluation. Traffic flow theory and application of traffic control, signalization, and freeway operations. Intelligent transportation systems.
Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
CE 5359 - Foundation Design I
Subsurface exploration, spread footings, mat foundations, pile foundations, drilled shaft, mechanics of laterally and axially loaded piles.
CE 5360 - Highway Geometric Design
This course will provide students with an understanding of the basic principles and techniques of highway design. This will include laying out potential routes, detailed design of the alignment, and evaluation of drainage, earthwork, and intersection requirements. The student should be able to understand and apply these principles to highway design problems. The student will use existing computer tools to generate and analyze designs. Upon completion, students should be prepared to work in the field of highway design and to study advanced topics in roadway design.
Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of CE 4340 or equivalent and department approval.
CE 5361 - Traffic Flow and Simulation Modeling
This is a comprehensive introductory course to traffic flow and simulation modeling. Topics include: basic microscopic; meso-scopic and macroscopic traffic flow theories; advanced traffic flow theories such as high-order traffic flow theories; analytical and simulation based traffic flow modeling; traffic simulation models and their applications.
CE 5362 - Urban Transportation Planning
This course introduces the student to transportation planning and provides the student with an understanding of transportation planning models, including travel demand models of trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice, and traffic assignment. The course also provides instruction in econometric model estimation methods and use of behavioral models in service design, marketing and prediction. Practical problems are assigned to provide familiarity with models used and experience in data handling and estimation.
Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of CE 4340 or equivalent and department approval.
CE 5363 - Advance Travel Demand Analysis
This course addresses new developments in the econometric and behavioral aspects of demand analysis and forecasting, supply-demand interaction in transport systems, and dynamic models. Applications include passenger travel, urban activity decisions, user responses to information, intelligent transportation systems, freight transportation as well as the demand for other types of infrastructure facilities and services.
Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of CE 4340 or equivalent and department approval.
CE 5364 - Infrastructure Network Flow Analysis and Optimization
The primary focus of this course is on the use of quantitative techniques of operations 海角社区 to model system performance, design transportation services, and analyze transportation network problems through the design, analysis and implementation of algorithms. Topics include introductions to data structures, memory management and complexity analysis; queuing systems; application of graph theory and network analysis to transportation problems (including shortest path, vehicle routing and other problems arising in connection with scheduled and unscheduled systems); analytical approaches to the formulation of network equilibrium assignment problems and solution algorithms; and introduction to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).
Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of CE 4340 or equivalent and department approval.
CE 5365 - Infrastructure Systems Design and Evaluation
This course is aimed at providing students with methodologies and applications for complex decision making in infrastructure system design and evaluation in the presence of multiple criteria/objectives, multiple actors and uncertainty. In addition to the conceptual, mathematical and algorithmic aspects of the various approaches, limitations, implementation issues and case studies are addressed.
Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of CE 3373 or equivalent and department approval.
CE 5382 - Construction Cost Analysis & Bidding
海角社区s will learn advanced methods and software tools for developing detailed estimates of construction costs, preparing bid packages, preparing budgets, and monitoring and controlling costs for construction projects.
Prerequisites: Departmental approval and CE 5324. Restricted to Graduate students.
CE 5383 - English-Spanish for Construction Managers I
Introductory course for learning to communicate in both English and Spanish on construction jobsites.
Prerequisite: Departmental approval. Restricted to Graduate students.
CE 5384 - English-Span for Construction Managers II
Intermediate course for learning how to communicate in both English and Spanish on construction job sites.
Prerequisite: Departmental approval and CE 5383. Restricted to Graduate students.
CE 5385 - Construction Internship
An internship consisting of a minimum of 12 weeks (480 hours) of work in a construction company or government agency that is involved in construction management and engineering, and is approved by 海角社区.
Prerequisites: Departmental approval and CE 5324, CE 5382, and CE 5383 or CE 5384. Restricted to Graduate students.
CE 5390 - Special Topics Civil Engineering
Advanced topics of contemporary interest in civil engineering. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
CE 5391 - Individual Studies
Individual variable-credit 海角社区 design analysis on advanced phases of Civil Engineering problems conducted under the direct supervision of a faculty member. A maximum of six credit hours may be applied towards the M.S. degree.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
CE 5191 - Individual Studies
Individual variable-credit 海角社区 design analysis on advanced phases of Civil Engineering problems conducted under the direct supervision of a faculty member. A maximum of six credit hours may be applied towards the M.S. degree.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
CE 5291 - Individual Studies
Individual variable-credit 海角社区 design or analysis on advanced phases of Civil Engineering problems conducted under the direct supervision of a faculty member. A maximum of six credit hours may be applied towards to M.S. Degree.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
CE 5194 - Graduate Research
Individual variable-credit 海角社区 of contemporary topics in Civil Engineering. Cannot be used to satisfy minimum degree requirements. Based on a pass/fail grading mode.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
CE 5294 - Graduate Research
Individual variable-credit 海角社区 of contemporary topics in Civil Engineering. Cannot be used to satisfy minimum degree requirements. Based on a pass/fail grading mode.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
CE 5394 - Graduate Research
Individual variable-credit 海角社区 of contemporary topics in civil engineering. Cannot be used to satisfy minimum degree requirements. Grade P or F.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
CE 5396 - Graduate Projects
Individual 海角社区, design or analysis on advanced phases of civil engineering problems conducted under the direct supervision of a faculty member. The courses, including a written report, are required of all students in the non-thesis option.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
CE 5397 - Graduate Projects
Individual 海角社区, design, or analysis on advanced phases of civil engineering problems conducted under the direct supervision of a faculty member. The courses, including a written report, are required of all students in the non-thesis option.
Prerequisite: CE 5396 and department approval.
CE 5398 - Thesis
CE 5399 - Thesis
Prerequisite: CE 5398
CE 5409 - Environmental Engineering Chemistry
Study and evaluation of the chemical characteristics of ground water, surface water, municipal wastewaters, and industrial effluents. Acid base reactions, oxidation reduction reactions, gas solubility, absorption, precipitation, and dissolution. Laboratory covers analysis of physical, chemical, and biological properties of water. Work with AA, GC, IC, TOC and other instrumentation for water analysis.
Prerequisite: Department approval Laboratory fee required.