home | mission | programs | faculty & staff | facilities | student groups | advisory board

Graduate Course Descriptions

422(G). ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING II. (3, 0, 3). Survey of mass and energy transfer, environmental chemistry, mathematics of growth, water pollution, hazardous substances and risk analysis, treatment of water and wastes, air pollution, global atmospheric change. Prereq: CIVE 322.

429(G). HYDROLOGY. (3, 0, 3). Principles of hydrologic science and their application to hydraulic, hydrologic, environmental, and water resources engineering problems; environmental restoration and protection techniques. Prereq: ENGR 304 or consent of instructor.

430(G). STRUCTURAL MECHANICS II. (3, 0, 3). Formulation and calculation of structural stiffness matrix, nodal displacements, reactions, and internal loadings. Includes tapered members and influence lines. Software applications. Prereq: ENGR 310; CIVE 332.

436(G). CIVIL ENGINEERING SYSTEMS DESIGN. (3, 0, 3). The development of a system methodology and its application to the design and operation of civil engineering systems including transportation design, traffic control, water resource design and operation, structural design, and construction management. Prereq: ENGR 310, MATH 302. RESTR: Senior standing.

450(G). HIGHWAY ENGINEERING. (2, 2, 3). Analysis and design of transportation systems; geometric and pavement design; human factors; environmental impact assessment; and economic analyses of transportation alternatives. Applications to large-scale problems. Prereq: CIVE 225, 328.

460(G). WASTEWATER TREATMENT. (3, 0, 3). Pollutants of importance; design approach; pretreatment; primary, secondary, tertiary treatment alternatives; biological process design; sludge characterization and treatment. Wastewater treatment and collection system technical management. Fa. Prereq: CIVE 321.

470(G). ADVANCED REINFORCED CONCRETE DESIGN. (3, 0, 3). Continuity of reinforced concrete structures. Continuous floor beams and girders. Retaining walls. Length effects on columns. Design of flat slabs. Approximate design of cylindrical shells and spherical domes. Footings. Sp. Prereq: CIVE 427 or equivalent.

474(G). BRIDGE DESIGN. (3, 0, 3). Highway loadings and design methods currently used for short and medium span bridges constructed of concrete and/or steel. Prereq: CIVE 426, 427.

504. MECHANICS OF SEDIMENT TRANSPORT. (3, 0, 3). Theory and application of sediment fate and transport in water bodies; environmental impact of morphological changes in natural waterways; laws governing fall velocity, incipient motion, and bed forms.

508. MATRIX ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES. (3, 0, 3). Energy theorems. Flexibility and stiffness methods. Effects of shear deformations, axial force - bending interruption and elastic medium. Includes tapered members, substructuring redesign; material and geometrical nonlinearities, software for practical applications. Prereq: CIVE 430.

516. DYNAMICS OF STRUCTURES. (3, 0, 3). One degree and multi-degree freedom systems, free and forced vibrations. Numerical and mathematical analyses of elastic, elastoplastic, damped and undamped systems. Support motion, model analysis, earthquake and blast effects. Prereq: CIVE 426, 430.

517. PLATES AND SHELLS. (3, 0, 3). Definition of plates, assumptions, plate equations. Boundary conditions for rectangular, circular, elliptic thin plates. Continuous plates. Finite cell analysis of plates. Deformation of shells. Membrane and bending theories. Rotational thin shells under rotational loads. Spherical and cylindrical shells. Prereq: CIVE 426, 430.

521. STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS DESIGN. (3, 0, 3). Types of structural systems. Loads: dead loads, live loads, loads induced by wind, sea waves, rotating machines, earthquake. Preliminary design: plates, shafts, frames, shells. Final design: static analysis, dynamic analysis. Rigorous analysis by several approaches. Su. Prereq: CIVE 508 or 516 or permission of instructor.

522. ADVANCED DESIGN OF STEEL STRUCTURES. (3, 0, 3). Elastic and plastic behavior of steel members including bending, torsion, stability, local buckling. Design topics include beams, columns, plate girders, multistory frames, tubular structures, bridges, special structures. Prereq: CIVE 426 or permission of instructor.

524. PRESTRESSED CONCRETE. (3, 0, 3). Basic concepts of prestressed concrete; flexural analysis; moment-curvature relationship; shear, bond and bearing; elastic and ultimate strength design; simple and continuous beams; slabs; composite design; deflections. Prereq: CIVE 427 or equivalent.

526. FOUNDATION DESIGN. (3, 0, 3). Shallow foundations including spread footings, combined footing, and mat foundations; deep foundations including piles and drilled shafts; caissons and retaining structures. Structural design and foundation stability will be emphasized. Prereq: CIVE 438 or equivalent.

544. COMPUTATIONAL HYDRAULICS. (3, 0, 3). General review of numerical methods; unsteady free-surface flows; unsteady dispersion in rivers; calibration and validation of numerical models.

551. TRANSPORTATION PLANNING (3, 0, 3). Theory of travel demand modeling; conventional four-step transportation modeling procedures including trip generation, trip distribution, modal choice, and traffic assignment; transportation modeling using GIS software.

553. TRAFFIC FLOW THEORY AND CONTROL. (3, 0, 3). Vehicle motion and traffic flow models. Urban traffic control methods, highway capacity analysis, traffic data collection, and impact studies. Traffic control devices and signal analysis using real-world data. Congestion management using Intelligent Transportation Systems. Prereq: CIVE 435, STAT 325.

555. PAVEMENT DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT. (3, 0, 3). Analysis and design of flexible and rigid pavements for highways and airfields. Pavement materials, distress analysis, and pavement condition surveys. Pavement management, maintenance, and rehabilitation. Pavement system evaluation and life-cycle cost analysis. Sp. Prereq: CIVE 450 or permission of instructor.

559. URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS. (3, 0, 3). Urban infrastructure systems emphasizing life cycle utility. Economic and social factors affecting the planning, design, operation and maintenance of transportation, utility, and public works systems. Issues of capital budgeting in the public arena and policies mandated by the ISTEA management systems.

561. WATER TREATMENT. (3, 0, 3). Design of domestic and industrial water treatment facilities with emphasis on the basic scientific principles underlying the design procedures. Fa. Prereq: CIVE 321 or permission of instructor.

563. SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT. (3, 0, 3). Current issues and legislation. Collection, storage and disposal. Treatment technologies including incineration and sanitary and hazardous waste landfills. Prereq: CIVE 321 or permission of instructor.

565. WATER QUALITY MODELING. (3, 0, 3). The study of hydraulic, chemical and biological concepts used in formulating numerical models of water quality. Investigation of computer modeling applied to analysis and control of water pollution. Students must have taken CIVE 321 or equivalent course or permission of instructor.

567. EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERS. (0, 6, 3). Examination of laboratory techniques for assessing water quality and sludge contamination. Optical, electrical, gas chromatography, and x-ray methods are included. Students must have taken CIVE 321, equivalent course, or have instructor consent.

591. SEMINAR. (1, 0, 1). Contemporary research literature in Civil Engineering. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credit hours.

594. PROJECT RESEARCH. (3). Non-thesis option master's students only. Grades: S, U, W.

596. SPECIAL TOPICS. (1-3).

599. THESIS RESEARCH AND THESIS. (1-6). Grades: S, U, W.

899. EXAMINATIONS ONLY. (3). Required of all graduate students taking examinations, oral and/or written, who are not registered for any other course. Fa, Sp, Su. Grades: S, U, W.