Graduate Courses in Civil & Environmental Engr (CE)

CE 220 - Intro to Finite Element Anyl

Introduction to finite element analysis: applications in solid mechanics, hydrodynamics, and transport: analysis of model behavior: Fourier analysis. Computer project required. Prerequisites: computer programming, linear algebra, or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

CE 226 - Civil Engineering Systems Anyl

Linear programming, dynamic programming, network analysis, simulation; applications to scheduling, resource allocation, routing, and a variety of civil engineering problems. Prerequisite: Senior or graduate standing in CEE or instructor permission. Cross-listing: CSYS 226.

Credits: 3

CE 241 - Traffic Operations & Design

Advanced concepts of traffic engineering and capacity analysis; highway and intersection capacity; traffic analysis and simulation software; design and application of controls. Prerequisite: CE 133.

Credits: 3

CE 245 - Intelligent Transportation Sys

Introduction to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), ITS user services, ITS applications, the National ITS architecture, ITS evaluation, and ITS standards. Pre/co-requisites: CE 140 or equivalent, instructor permission. Cross-listing: CSYS 245.

Credits: 3

CE 248 - Hazardous Waste Mgmt Engr

Management of hazardous and industrial waste from generation to disposal; emphasis on pollution prevention within industry; waste minimization, recovery, reuse, treatment technologies; environmental regulations, risk assessment, costs and public policy; group projects. Prerequisites: Senior standing in engineering or sciences.

Credits: 3

CE 251 - Envr Facility Dsgn/Wastewater

Design of wastewater conveyance and treatment facilities; sewage treatment plant design; equipment selection. Prerequisite: 151.

Credits: 3

CE 252 - Industrial Hygiene

Industrial hygiene problems; effects of pollutants on health; threshold limit values; emphasis on the engineering evaluation of hazard and control techniques. Prerequisites: Chemistry 31 or 25, Physics 31.

Credits: 3

CE 253 - Transportation & Air Quality

Air pollution sources, measurement methods, legislation, vehicle emissions formation, control and transport processes. Emphasis on emission factor and dispersion multi-scale modeing using latest modeling tools. Co-requisites: CE 133, 134 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

CE 254 - Environmental Quantitive Anyl

Course focuses on chemical, biochemical and physical processes; diffusion, equilibria, reaction kinetics, acids/bases, colloids, air/water exchange; laboratories demonstrate standard environmental engineering techniques. Prerequisites: CHEM 032, CE 132, STAT 141 or STAT 143.

Credits: 0 or 4

CE 255 - Phys/Chem Proc Water/Wstwater

Theory of physical/chemical processes for treating waters and wastewaters; reactor dynamics, mass transfer, adsorption, ion exchange, precipitation. Pre/co-requisites: CE 151, 154, or permission of instructor.

Credits: 0 or 3

CE 256 - Biol Proc Water/Wastewater Tr

Theory and application of biological processes for treating industrial and domestic wastewaters and contaminated ground water; microbiological considerations; aerobic and anaerobic processes; reactor design, in-situ bioremediation; bench-scale and pilot-scale experimentation. Prerequisites: CE 151, MATH 271.

Credits: 0 or 3

CE 259 - Msmt of Airborne Contaminants

Quantifying airborne contaminants from processes and ambient levels. Laboratories demonstrate calibration and measurement, stack sampling and ambient air monitoring, and specific contaminant generation and measurement. Prerequisite: 252 or 253.

Credits: 3

CE 260 - Hydrology

Theory of precipitation, run-off, infiltration, and ground water; precipitation and run-off data; and application of data for use in development of water resources. Prerequisite: CE 160.

Credits: 3

CE 261 - Open Channel Flow

Application of the laws of fluid mechanics to flow in open channels; design of channels and transition structures; modeling; uniform and gradually-varied flows. Prerequisite: CE 160.

Credits: 3

CE 265 - Ground Water Hydrology

Principles of ground water hydraulics, well characteristics, aquifers, and use of numerical methods to solve ground water flow problems. Prerequisite: CE 160.

Credits: 3

CE 271 - Advanced Structural Analysis

Virtual work, energy theorems, analysis of structures by the displacement method, finite element analysis of structural systems, non-linear structural analysis, structural optimization, probalistic structural analysis. Prerequisite: CE 170.

Credits: 3

CE 272 - Structural Dynamics

Vibrations, matrices, earthquake engineering, stability and wave propagation. Prerequisites: Senior or graduate standing in Engineering or physical sciences, or instructor permission. (Cross listed with ME 270).

Credits: 3

CE 280 - Applied Soil Mechanics

Use of soil mechanics in evaluation of building foundations, braced excavations, earth structures; lateral earth pressures, pile foundations, caisson foundations, slope stability, and construction problems. Prerequisite: 180.

Credits: 3

CE 281 - Geotechnical Design

Subsurface explorations; bearing capacity, lateral earth pressures, slope stability; analysis and design of shallow and deep foundations, retaining structures, and slopes. Pre/co-requisites: CE 180.

Credits: 3

CE 282 - Engr Properties of Soils

Study of soil properties influencing engineering behavior of soils: soil mineralogy, physiochemical concepts, plasticity properties, permeability, and compaction: laboratory study of soil index properties, permeability, compaction tests. Prerequisites: 180 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

CE 283 - Designing with Geosynthetics

Geotextiles, geogrids, geonets, geomembranes, geocomposites, geopipes. Design for separation, reinforcement, filtration, drainage, erosion, control, liners. Applications in transportation, drainage, solid waste containment. Material testing, behavior. Prerequisite: 180.

Credits: 3

CE 290 - Engineering Investigation

Independent investigation of a special topic under the guidance of a staff member. Preparation of an engineering report is required.

Credits: 3

CE 295 - Special Topics

Content is dictated by expanding professional interest in newly developing, or recently developed, technical areas in which there is particular need or opportunity. Prerequisite: Senior or graduate standing.

Credits: 1 to 18

CE 304 - Adv Engineering Analysis I

Analytical methods for the solution of partial differential equations in engineering mechanics and physics, including: eigenfunction expansions; Fourier series; Sturm-Liouville theory and special functions. Prerequisites: Graduate standing in engineering, mathematics, or physical sciences or permission. Cross-listed with ME 304 and MATH 275.

Credits: 3

CE 305 - Adv Engineering Analysis II

Advanced analytical techniques for problems in engineering mechanics and physics, including: integral transform methods, Green's functions, perturbation methods, and variational calculus. Prerequisites: ME 304 or equivalent. Cross-listed with ME 305 and MATH 276.

Credits: 3

CE 321 - Engr Computations on Adv Arch

Engineering computations using multiprocessing computers, concurrent processing, algorithms for numerical approximation of differential equations, linear systems. Programming projects required.

Credits: 3

CE 359 - Appld Artificial Neural Ntwrks

Introduction to artificial neural networks. A broad range of example algorithms are implemented in MATLAB. Research applications to real data are emphasized. Pre/co-requisites: STAT 223, CS 016/CE 011, or permission. Cross-listed: CSYS 359.

Credits: 1 to 3

CE 360 - Advanced Hydrology

Application of statistics to engineering hydrology; concept, use of instantaneous unit hydrograph; study of runoff models; flow through porous media; design techniques for water resources projects. Prerequisites: 260, Math. 271 or permission. Offered as occasion warrants.

Credits: 3

CE 361 - Fluvial Forms & Processes

Advanced topics in fluvial forms and processes; focus on river and stream restoration and design; includes journal readings, discussion, field trips and group design project. Pre/co-requisites: CE160 or permission.

Credits: 3

CE 365 - Contaminant Hydrogeol&Remediat

Practical, theoretical aspects of contaminant hydrogeology, advances in technologies, mass transport and transformation in saturated and vadose zones; movement, distribution, and remediation of nonaqueous-phase liquids. Prerequisites: 265 or with instructors permission.

Credits: 3

CE 366 - Numerical Method/Surface Water

Development of the governing equations for geophysical hydrodynamics/transport, shallow water equations, analysis and implementation of finite element/finite difference computational algorithms. Prerequisites: 220.

Credits: 3

CE 367 - Phys Flow&Trs thru Porous Mdia

The fundamental equations describing fluid flow and mass transport in subsurface systems are developed from first principles. Pre/co-requisites: CE 265 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

CE 368 - Groundwater Modeling

The fundamental theory of groundwater hydrology is combined with concepts in numerical methods to provide the technology needed to study a real-world groundwater problem. Pre/co-requisites: CE 265 and CE 220 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

CE 369 - Applied Geostatistics

Introduction to the theory of regionalized variables, geostatistics (kriging techniques): special topics in multivariate analysis; Applications to real data subject to spatial variation are emphasized. Pre/co-requisites: STAT 223 or STAT 225; CS 016/CE 011 or permission. Cross-listings: CSYS 369/CSYS 369.

Credits: 3

CE 390 - Adv Topics in Civil & Envr Eng

Special topics to intensify the programs of graduate students in civil and environmental engineering. Hours and credits to be arranged.

Credits: 1 to 6

CE 391 - Master Thesis Rsch

Credits: 1 to 12

CE 393 - CEE Graduate Seminar

Presentation and discussion of advanced problems, research, and current topics in Civil & Environmental Engineering by faculty, graduate students, and outside guest speakers. Prerequisite: Graduate student in CEE Program.

Credits: 0

CE 395 - Advanced Special Topics

Advanced topics in recently developed technical areas. Hours and credits as arranged.

Credits: 1 to 6

CE 491 - Doctoral Dissertation Research

Credits: 1 to 18