University Bulletin
Undergraduate Degree Programs
C E 097
Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject which may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Summer 1998
C E 100S
Topics and Contemporary Issues in Civil and Environmental Engineering: First-Year Seminar (1) First-Year Seminar exploring a specific topic or contemporary issue in civil and environmental engineering.
Effective: Fall 1999
C E 197
Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject which may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Summer 1994
C E 199
(IL)
Foreign Studies (1-12) Courses offered in foreign countries by individual or group instruction.
Effective: Summer 2007
C E 209
Fundamentals of Surveying (2) Fundamental surveying measurements, traverse computations, coordinate geometry, mapping, CAD applications. Intended for architectural engineering students. (The lecture will be taught concurrently with C E 211.)
Effective: Summer 1996
Prerequisite:
E G 130, MATH 141
C E 254
(GHA;US)
Personal & Occupational Safety (3) Students will learn about principles of safety in work and personal settings.
Effective: Spring 2008
C E 296
Independent Studies (1-18) Creative projects, including research and design, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
Effective: Fall 1992
C E 297
Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject which may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Fall 1992
C E 299
(IL)
Foreign Studies (1-12) Courses offered in foreign countries by individual or group instruction.
Effective: Summer 2007
C E 310
Surveying (3) Fundamental surveying measurements, traverse computations, coordinate geometry, mapping, GPS and GIS, circular and parabolic curves, earthwork, boundary surveys, CAD applications.
Effective: Fall 2001
Prerequisite:
ED&G 100, MATH 141
C E 321
Highway Engineering (3) Highway engineering principles, vehicle and driver characteristics; geometric and pavement design; highway drainage; traffic engineering, capacity analysis, and signal timing.
Effective: Fall 2001
Prerequisite:
C E 310
C E 332
Professionalism, Economics & Construction Project Delivery (3) Introduction to engineering management process; economic analysis; pricing; contract documents; estimating; ethics; professional practice and engineering economy.
Effective: Fall 2007
C E 333W
Construction Management I (3) Components of a construction organization, managerial terminology and documents, labor laws and relations, insurance and safety.
Effective: Spring 2008
C E 335
Engineering Mechanics of Soils (3) Soil compositions, classification, subsurface exploration, ground water flow, stress analysis, compaction, soil behavior, bearing capacity, lateral earth pressure, slope stability.
Effective: Spring 2008
Prerequisite:
E MCH 213;A E 221 orGEOSC 001
C E 336
Materials Science for Civil Engineers (3) Introduction to civil engineering materials; their structure and behavior: relationship between structure and behavior.
Effective: Spring 2008
Prerequisite:
E MCH 213 Stat 401
C E 337
Civil Engineering Materials Laboratory (1) Laboratory investigating the physical and mechanical properties of civil engineering materials; soils, aggregates, concrete; steel; wood; and polymers.
Effective: Spring 2007
Prerequisite:
C E 335 orC E 336 or concurrent
C E 340
Structural Analysis (3) Analysis of statically determinate and indeterminate trusses, beams, and frames; reactions, axial forces, shears, moments, deflections. Introduction to influence lines.
Effective: Spring 2008
Prerequisite:
E MCH 213 . Prerequisite or concurrent:CMPSC 201 orCMPSC 202
C E 341
Design of Concrete Structures (3) Design of reinforced concrete beams, slabs, and columns, with emphasis on ultimate-strength methods; prestressed concrete; building and bridge applications.
Effective: Fall 2001
Prerequisite:
C E 340 . Prerequisite or concurrent:C E 336
C E 342
Design of Steel Structures (3) Design of steel tension members, beams, columns, beam-columns, and connections; elastic and plastic methods; design applications.
Effective: Fall 2001
Prerequisite:
C E 336, C E 340
C E 360
Fluid Mechanics (3) Mechanics of fluids; flow in conduits and around bodies, friction and energy loss, fluid measurements.
Effective: Spring 2008
Prerequisite:
E MCH 212
C E 361
Engineering Hydrology (3) Water sources and losses, evaporation, and infiltration effects on streamflows, hydrographs, flood frequency, reservoir uses in flood protection and water conservation.
Effective: Fall 2001 Ending: Fall 2009
Prerequisite:
C E 360
C E 370
Introduction to Environmental Engineering (3) Nature and scope of environmental issues; air, water, land impacts; fundamentals and processes of pollution control.
Effective: Summer 2007
Prerequisite:
CHEM 110;MATH 111 orMATH 141
C E 371
Water and Wastewater Treatment (3) Water treatment; water storage; design of water distribution and wastewater systems; pumping stations.
Effective: Spring 2002
Prerequisite:
C E 360, C E 370
C E 396
Independent Studies (1-18) Creative projects, including research and design, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
Effective: Summer 1993
C E 397
Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject that may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Spring 2004
C E 397A
Geotechnical Engineering for A E Majors (4) Soils, soils stresses, consolidation and settlement, strength and groudwater flow.
Effective: Fall 2009 Ending: Fall 2009
C E 397A
Geotechnical Engineering for A E Majors (4) Soils, soils stresses, consolidation and settlement, strength and groundwater flow.
Effective: Fall 2010 Ending: Fall 2010 Future: Fall 2010
C E 399
(IL)
Foreign Studies (1-12) Courses offered in foreign countries by individual or group instruction.
Effective: Summer 2007
C E 400
Seminar (1-3) No description.
Effective: Fall 1992
C E 410W
Sustainable Residential Subdivision Design (3) Residential subdivision process; site selection; conservation and neo- traditional design; utility design and layout; best management practices for erosion and stormwater.
Effective: Fall 2001
Prerequisite:
A E 372 orC E 332 ; seventh-semester standing in Architectural or Civil Engineering
C E 421W
Transportation Design (3) Design of streets and highway facilities; emphasis on geometric elements, intersections and interchanges, roadway drainage, and pavement design.
Effective: Spring 2002
Prerequisite:
C E 321
C E 422
Transportation Planning (3) Transportation systems planning, programming, and management; modeling and simulation, data collection, analysis, and forecasting.
Effective: Spring 2002
Prerequisite:
3 credits in probability or statistics
C E 423
Traffic Operations (3) The highway capacity manual, concepts and analyses, freeway operations, signalized and unsignalized intersections, signal coordination, traffic impact studies.
Effective: Spring 1997
Prerequisite:
C E 321
C E 424
Optimization in Civil Engineering Systems (3) Mathematical modeling; linear programming; dynamic programming; network optimization, including network flows, shortest paths, scheduling; decision-making; civil engineering systems applications.
Effective: Spring 2008
Prerequisite:
CMPSC 201 orCMPSC 202
C E 432
Construction Project Management (3) Fundamentals of project management, construction scheduling using the CPM technique, construction project preplanning, and control of quality, safety, and costs.
Effective: Fall 2007
Prerequisite:
C E 332
C E 435
Foundation Engineering (3) Bearing capacity, settlement, and structural design of shallow foundations; lateral earth pressure; retaining and sheet-pile walls; introduction to deep foundations
Effective: Fall 2001
Prerequisite:
C E 335 . Prerequiste or concurrent:C E 341
C E 436
Construction Engineering Materials (3) Design, production, application, specification, and quality control of construction materials unique to civil engineering.
Effective: Fall 2001
Prerequisite:
C E 336, STAT 401
C E 438W
Construction Engineering Capstone Design (3) Construction project integrating geotechnical reports; materials specifications; quality control; equipment; estimation; scheduling; design details: excavations, foundations, retaining walls, formwork, pavements.
Effective: Fall 2007
Prerequisite:
C E 432 andC E 435 orC E 436
C E 441
Structural Design of Foundations (3) Design of concentrically and eccentrically loaded square, rectangular, and combined footings; analysis and design of mat foundations; retaining walls; piles caps; flexible retaining design, and caissons.
Effective: Summer 2009
Prerequisite:
C E 335, C E 341
Concurrent:
C E 342
C E 445
Advanced Structural Analysis (3) Analysis of trusses and frame stiffness matrix method of analysis. Analysis of indeterminate beams, trusses, and frames using classical methods.
Effective: Spring 2008
Prerequisite:
CET 430
C E 447
Structural Analysis by Matrix Methods (3) Analysis of truss and frame structures using flexibility and stiffness methods of matrix analysis. Computer applications.
Effective: Fall 1992
Prerequisite:
C E 340
C E 448W
Advanced Structural Design (3) Wind, snow, seismic, bridge loads; building design using steel, concrete, and prestressed concrete; advanced steel connections; capstone project; computer applications.
Effective: Spring 2002
Prerequisite:
C E 341, C E 342, C E 435
C E 449
Advanced Structural Design (3) Special systems, frames and bracing in steel, wood and reinforced or precast concrete. Introduction to composite construction.
Effective: Spring 2008
Prerequisite:
CET 430, CET 431, CET 432
C E 450
Law and Technology (3) Introduction to legal aspects of engineering and technology, including intellectual property (patents, copyrights) and products liability.
Effective: Spring 2008
C E 454
Safety (3) This course will focus on safety issues as they relate to OSHA.
Effective: Spring 2008
Prerequisite:
permission of program
C E 456
Planning and Scheduling (3) Theory and practice used in planning and scheduling projects; defining task and resources, creating logic diagrams, and monitoring the projects.
Effective: Spring 2008
Prerequisite:
C E 333W, CET 435, I E 303
C E 458
Construction Management II (3) Procedures in construction organization including procurement, ethics, field supervision, legal and managerial problems, personnel, cost accounting, and construction business practices.
Effective: Spring 2008
Prerequisite:
C E 333W, C E 456
C E 461
Water-resource Engineering (3) Qualitative and quantitative description of the hydrologic cycle, flood and drought frequency analysis, climate and land use change impacts, risk analysis and uncertainty, water resource management at regional, national and global scale.
Effective: Spring 2010 Future: Spring 2010
Prerequisite:
C E 360
C E 462
Open Channel Hydraulics (3) Free surface flow in rivers, canals, steep chutes, stilling basins, and transitions.
Effective: Spring 2002
Prerequisite:
C E 360
C E 465W
Water Resources Capstone Course (3) Hydraulic design of river structures and open channels including supercritical and spatially varied flow; hydrologic/hydraulic computer modeling; design project.
Effective: Fall 2007
Prerequisite:
C E 361 . Prerequisite or concurrent:C E 462
C E 471
Environmental Sanitation (3) Public health engineering applications related to communicable diseases, water supply, wastewater disposal, solid wastes, air pollution, food, vectors, and radiation.
Effective: Fall 1992
Prerequisite:
seventh-semester standing 3 credits in biology 3 credits in chemistry
C E 472W
Environmental Engineering Capstone Design (3) Principles and design of unit operations for water; domestic and industrial wastewater treatment; equipment selection and application.
Effective: Spring 2002
Prerequisite:
C E 370, C E 371
C E 473
Water Quality Management (3) Water quality criteria and standards; fate and impact of pollutants in aquatic systems; technology available for wastewater renovation.
Effective: Fall 1992
Prerequisite:
seventh-semester standing
C E 475
Water Quality Chemistry (3) Chemistry applicable to the understanding and analysis of water quality, pollution, and treatment.
Effective: Summer 2007
Prerequisite:
C E 370, CHEM 110, CHEM 111
C E 476
Solid and Hazardous Wastes (3) Characteristics and treatment of solid wastes and hazardous wastes.
Effective: Spring 2002
Prerequisite:
C E 370, C E 371
C E 479
Environmental Microbiology Laboratory (1) Introductory microbiology course; application of diagnostic microbiological techniques to the characterization of wastewater enrichment cultures and pure cultures.
Effective: Fall 1992
Prerequisite:
MICRB 400 seventh-semester standing
C E 488C
Capstone Project - Construction (4) This course consists of a project either selected by the students with approval or assigned by the instructor.
Effective: Spring 2008
Prerequisite:
eighth-semester Structural Design and Construction Engineering Technology student. Previous or concurrent:CET 430, CET 431, CET 432, CET 435, C E 456
C E 488D
Capstone Project - Structural Design (4) This course consists of a structural design project either selected by the students with approval or assigned by the instructor.
Effective: Spring 2008
Prerequisite:
eighth-semester Structural Design and Construction Engineering Technology student. Previous or concurrent:CET 430, CET 431, CET 432 andCET 435
C E 494
Senior Thesis (1-9) Students must have approval of a thesis adviser before scheduling this course.
Effective: Fall 1992
C E 494H
Honors Senior Thesis (1-6) Investigation of an original project in the area of Civil Engineering.
Effective: Summer 2006
C E 496
Independent Studies (1-18) Creative projects, including research and design, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
Effective: Fall 1992
C E 496A
(A E 496A)
Housing Competition Project (1) Student teams will work on a project for the Housing Competition. Travel involved. Contact Instructor.
Effective: Fall 2009 Ending: Fall 2009
C E 496A
Infiltration Systems for Stormwater Runoff (3) Evaluation of the effectiveness and risks of infiltration strategies for treatment of urban runoff.
Effective: Spring 2010 Ending: Spring 2010 Future: Spring 2010
C E 496B
Anchor N in Activated Carbon for Perchlorate Removal (6) Laboratory techniques for anchoring nitrogen functionality onto activated carbons derived from lignocellulosics. Prepare samples, build high temp containment vessel.
Effective: Fall 2009 Ending: Fall 2009
C E 496C
Green Rating Systems in Residential Construction (1) An examination of the three most commonly used green building certification programs for residential construction: LEED for homes, NAHB Green and Green Globes.
Effective: Fall 2009 Ending: Fall 2009
C E 497
Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject which may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Fall 1992
C E 497A
Environmental Microbiology (2) Introductory microbiology course for engineers comprised of the fundamentals of microbiology, and application of these fundamental principles to environmental systems.
Effective: Fall 2009 Ending: Fall 2009
C E 497A
Geotechnical and Materials Capstone (3) Integrated site evaluation/improvement, layout, retaining walls, foundations, pavements, and materials design. Port, airport, highway or building facilities.
Effective: Spring 2010 Ending: Spring 2010 Future: Spring 2010
C E 497A
Enviornmental Microbiology (2) Introductory microbiology course for engineers comprised of the fundamentals of microbiology, and application of these fundamental principles to environmental systems.
Effective: Fall 2010 Ending: Fall 2010 Future: Fall 2010
C E 497B
Field Methods for Remediation Design (3) Field assessment of streams and groundwater in the local area with application to the design of acid mine drainage treatment systems.
Effective: Fall 2009 Ending: Fall 2009
C E 497B
Design and Construction of Bridges in Europe (3) Design and construction of bridges in Europe provides a basic understanding of the bridges in Europe including the history, the process, and impact on the society.
Effective: Spring 2010 Ending: Spring 2010 Future: Spring 2010
Prerequisite:
C E 332, C E 340, C E 341, C E 342, C E 436 or equivalent as approved by the program
C E 497C
Ecological Engineering (3) Course will explore the use of engineering design criteria and approaches to restore natural systems.
Effective: Fall 2009 Ending: Fall 2009
C E 497C
Ecological Engineering (3) Course will explore the use of engineering design criteria and approaches to restore natural systems.
Effective: Spring 2010 Ending: Spring 2010 Future: Spring 2010
C E 499
(IL)
Foreign Studies (1-12) Courses offered in foreign countries by individual or group instruction.
Effective: Summer 2007
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