- CE251 - Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineering
An introduction to probability and statistics, with emphasis on engineering applications. Univariate and bivariate statistics, simple linear regression, examination of regression residuals, measurement errors, uncertainty propagation, axioms of probability, independence of events, conditional probability and Bayes' rule. Prerequisite: MATH 150 or MATH 151 with a grade of C or better.
Credit Hours: 1
- CE263 - 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: completion of or concurrent enrollment in MATH 150 or MATH 151.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE301 - Introduction to Resource Sustainability in Civil and Environmental Engineering
An introduction to sustainable use of resources, economics of sustainable design, life cycle assessment, consideration of sustainability in various civil engineering applications, case studies on resource sustainability. Prerequisite: ECON 240.
Credit Hours: 2
- CE310 - 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. Prerequisites: MATH 250 with a grade of C or better; CHEM 210; completion of or concurrent enrollment in CE 251; and concurrent enrollment in CE 310L.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE310L - Environmental Engineering Laboratory Experiments
Prerequisite: MATH 250 with a grade of C or better; CHEM 210; completion of or concurrent enrollment in CE 251; concurrent enrollment in CE 310. If CE 310 is dropped CE 310L must also be dropped. Lab fee: $30.
Credit Hours: 1
- CE311 - Environmental Chemistry
This course introduces the students to the basic concepts in chemistry essential to the practice of environmental engineering. The course provides students with a comprehensive view of key environmental issues in the five closely interacting environmental spheres-the hydrosphere, atmosphere, geosphere, anthrosphere, and biosphere. The course focuses on the relationship of environmental chemistry to the key concepts of sustainability and environmental engineering. Prerequisite: CHEM 200/201, CHEM 210, CE 310/310L with a grade of C or better.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE312 - Environmental Microbiology
This course explores the role that microorganisms play in the engineered protection and improvement of the environment. It provides a practical understanding of microorganisms in environmental engineering processes and their functions in environmental engineering systems. Students will learn knowledge in microbiology, environmental biotechnology principles, applied microbiological processes and their engineering designs. Prerequisite: BIOL 202, CE 310/310L with a grade of C or better.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE320 - Soil Mechanics
Physical and mechanical properties of soils, soil classification, flow through soils, effective stresses, geostatic stress and stresses due to applied loads, one-dimensional consolidation, introduction to shear strength, and soil compaction. Prerequisite: ENGR 350A or ENGR 350C; completion of or concurrent enrollment in CE 251; concurrent enrollment in CE 320L.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE320L - Soil Mechanics Laboratory Experiments
Prerequisites: ENGR 350A or ENGR 350C; completion of or concurrent enrollment in CE 251; concurrent enrollment in CE 320. If CE 320 is dropped CE 320L must also be dropped. Lab fee: $30.
Credit Hours: 1
- CE330 - 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. Prerequisite: CE 251, ENGR 350A or ENGR 350C. Lab fee: $30.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE331 - 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 CE 330.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE340 - 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: ENGR 350A or ENGR 350C.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE392 - Civil Engineering Cooperative Education
Supervised work experience in industry, government or professional organization. Students work with on-site supervisor and faculty adviser. Reports are required from the student and the employer. Hours do not count toward degree requirements. Mandatory Pass/Fail. Restricted to sophomore standing.
Credit Hours: 1-6
- CE410 - Hazardous Waste Engineering
Analysis of hazardous waste generation, storage, shipping, treatment, and disposal. Source reduction methods. Government regulations. Remedial action. Prerequisite: CE 310.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE412 - Contaminant Fate, Transport and Remediation in Groundwater
Mathematics of flow and mass transport in the saturated and vadose zones; retardation and attenuation of dissolved solutes; flow of nonaqueous phase liquids; review of groundwater remediation technologies; review of flow and transport models. Prerequisite: CE 310 and CE 320, or consent of instructor for non CE majors.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE413 - 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: CE 310 and ENGR 370A or ENGR 370C.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE416 - Surface Water Quality Modeling
Quantification of physical, biological, and chemical processes occurring in natural freshwater ecosystems. Mathematical analysis of the effects due to conservative and non-conservative pollutant loadings to lakes and rivers. Detailed study of dissolved oxygen mass balance modeling and eutrophication. Prerequisite: CE 310; completion of or concurrent enrollment in CE 418 or GEOL 416 or GEOL 418.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE418 - 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: CE 310, ENGR 370A or ENGR 370C, and completion of or concurrent enrollment in ENGR 351.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE419 - 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: CE 418 and ENGR 351.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE421 - Foundation Design
Application of soil mechanics to the design of the foundations of structures; subsurface exploration; bearing capacity and settlement analysis of shallow foundations; lateral earth pressures and design of retaining walls; capacity and settlement of pile foundations for vertical axial loads. Prerequisite: CE 320.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE422 - 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: CE 310 and CE 320.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE423 - 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: CE 320, completion of or concurrent enrollment in CE 421 or consent of instructor for graduate students.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE426 - Seepage and Slope Stability Analysis
Seepage through soils; numerical and physical modeling of two-dimensional flow; basic mechanism of slope stability analysis; analytical methods in analyzing slopes; slope stabilization. Prerequisite: CE 320.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE431 - Pavement Design
Design of highway pavements including 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: CE 320 and CE 330.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE432 - Computer Aided Design and Drawing (CADD) for Civil Engineers
A study of civil engineering drawings and their relationship to engineering design in the CADD environment. Emphasis is on the skills associated with developing and understanding technical drawings, including construction plans and related documents, for engineering design. Computer based design and drawing techniques and related software. Includes 3 hours lab per week. Prerequisite: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in CE 263.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE440 - 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: CE 340.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE441 - Matrix Methods of Structural Analysis
Flexibility method and stiffness method applied to framed structures. Introduction to finite elements. Prerequisite: CE 340.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE442 - Structural Steel Design
An introduction to structural steel design with an emphasis on buildings. Design of structural members and typical welded and bolted connections in accordance with the specifications of the Steel Construction Manual of the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC). Design project and report required. Prerequisite: CE 340.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE444 - Reinforced Concrete Design
Behavior and strength design of reinforced concrete beams, slabs, compression members, and footings. Prerequisite: CE 340.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE445 - 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: CE 320 and CE 340, or consent of instructor for graduate students.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE446 - Prestressed Concrete Design
Fundamental concepts of analysis and design. Materials. Flexure, shear, and torsions. Deflections. Prestress losses. Composite beams. Indeterminate structures. Slabs. Bridges. Prerequisite: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in CE 444 or consent of the instructor for graduate students.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE447 - Seismic Design of Structures
Basic seismology, earthquake characteristics and effects of earthquakes on structures, vibration and diaphragm theories, seismic provisions of the International Building Code, general structural design and seismic resistant concrete and steel structures. Prerequisite: CE 442 or CE 444, or consent of instructor for graduate students.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE448 - 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, prestressed and post-tensioned concrete girders; substructure includes abutments, wingwalls, piers, and footings. Prerequisite: CE 442 or CE 444, or consent of instructor for graduate students.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE451 - Introduction to Finite Elements in Engineering Applications
An introduction to finite element techniques and computer methods in finite element applications. Theory and structure of algorithms for one-dimensional and multi-dimensional problems. Applications in solid mechanics, structural analysis, groundwater and fluid flow, and heat transfer. Prerequisite: ENGR 351.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE466 - GIS in Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering
An introduction to fundamental principles of geographic information systems (GIS) as they apply to Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering. Spatial data acquisition, mapping of civil and land features, terrain analysis, map projections, and visualization of spatial data. Application of a leading GIS software in the creation of GIS spatial data bases to address problems in hydrology, environmental control, landfill site selection, land development and transportation with an emphasis on engineering design. Methods of spatial interpolation, develop spatial patterns for environmental data and estimate the values at an unsampled location. Prerequisites: CE 251, completion of or concurrent enrollment in ENGR 351.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE471 - 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: ENGR 370A or ENGR 370C or consent of instructor for graduate students.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE472 - 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: CE 474 or consent of instructor for graduate students.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE473 - 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: ENGR 370A or ENGR 370C or consent of instructor for graduate students.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE474 - Water Resources Engineering
Hydrological Cycle, Flow Estimation, Study of pipe flow, network systems, pump selection, open channel flow, uniform flow, critical flow, gradually varied flow, rapidly varied flow, Introduction to HEC-RAS, design of transitions, water surface profiles. Prerequisite: ENGR 370A or ENGR 370C or consent of instructor for graduate students.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE486 - Nondestructive Evaluation of Engineering Materials
(Same as ME 486) Overview of common nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques, such as visual inspection, eddy current, X-ray, and ultrasonics, to measure physical characteristics of and to detect defects in engineering materials. Laboratory experiments include contact ultrasonic, magnetic particle, liquid penetrant, and infrared thermography methods of testing. Prerequisites: CE 320 and CE 330 with grades of C or better.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE492A - Special Problems in Civil Engineering
Selected engineering topics or problems in structural engineering. Four hours maximum credit. Not for graduate credit. Special approval needed from the instructor and school director.
Credit Hours: 1-4
- CE492B - Special Problems in Civil Engineering
Selected engineering topics or problems in hydraulic engineering. Four hours maximum credit. Not for graduate credit. Special approval needed from the instructor and the school director.
Credit Hours: 1-4
- CE492C - Special Problems in Civil Engineering
Selected engineering topics or problems in environmental engineering. Four hours maximum credit. Not for graduate credit. Special approval needed from the instructor and the school director.
Credit Hours: 1-4
- CE492D - Special Problems in Civil Engineering
Selected engineering topics or problems in applied mechanics. Four hours maximum credit. Not for graduate credit. Special approval needed from the instructor and the school director.
Credit Hours: 1-4
- CE492E - Special Problems in Civil Engineering
Selected engineering topics or problems in geotechnical engineering. Four hours maximum credit. Not for graduate credit. Special approval needed from the instructor and the school director.
Credit Hours: 1-4
- CE492F - Special Problems in Civil Engineering
Selected engineering topics or problems in computational mechanics. Four hours maximum credit. Not for graduate credit. Special approval needed from the instructor and the school director.
Credit Hours: 1-4
- CE492G - Special Problems in Civil Engineering
Selected engineering topics or problems in surveying engineering. Four hours maximum credit. Not for graduate credit. Special approval needed from the instructor and the school director.
Credit Hours: 1-4
- CE495A - Civil Engineering Design
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. Not for graduate credit. Prerequisite: PHYS 205B and PHYS 255B, completion of or concurrent enrollment in CE 301, CE 320, CE 330, CE 442 or CE 444, and CE 474.
Credit Hours: 3
- CE495B - Civil Engineering Design
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: CE 495A with a grade of C or better, CE 301, CE 320, CE 330, CE 442 or CE 444, CE 474, completion of or concurrent enrollment in CE 418, CE 421 and CE 442 or 444.
Credit Hours: 3
