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CHME 4160 - Chemical Engineering Laboratory II
A two-term laboratory course on experimental analysis of the operations and processes of chemical engineering. Emphasis is placed on planning of experiments, data evaluation, and report writing.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CHME 4150 , CHME 4040 , and CHME 4500 .
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 4170 - Bioprocessing Laboratory Course
A one-term laboratory course covering the fundamentals of biotechnology and bioprocessing including molecular biology, fermentation, and protein purification.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: senior standing in chemical and biological engineering. CHME 4430 strongly recommended.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 4400 - Chromatographic Separation Processes
Theory and practice of chromatographic separation processes. Topics include chromatographic dispersion, adsorption isotherms, solute movement analysis, chromatographic techniques (reversed-phase, HIC, ion exchange, affinity, and size exclusion), modes of operation (gradient, elution, displacement, and continuous systems), novel morphologies and chromatographic applications in biotechnology. Includes critical reviews of the current literature and computer simulations. Suitable for graduate students in chemical engineering, chemistry, biology, and biomedical engineering. Students cannot receive credit for both CHME 4400 and CHME 6440 .
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: senior or graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 4430 - Introduction to Biochemical Engineering
Description, fundamentals, and engineering features of processes using microbial, plant or animal cells or their enzymes. Topics include review of biochemistry, review of microbiology, computer simulation, growth, death, aseptic techniques, continuous culture, fermenter design, sterilization, mixed cultures, process scale up, immobilized cells and enzymes, recovery of products, and process economics. Weekly exercises requiring personal computers.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: background in chemical engineering or microbiology. Biochemistry strongly recommended.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 4460 - Biomolecular Engineering
This course will focus on 1) designing, engineering, and selecting proteins and other biomolecules with desired functional and biophysical properties (high thermal stability, high solubility, low propensity to aggregate), and 2) characterizing thermodynamic and kinetic properties (folding, oligomerization, and self-association) of these biomolecules. (Students may not receive credit for both this course and CHME 6460 .)
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: BIOL 1010 or BIOL 2120 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 4480 - Single Molecules Complex Fluid
This course will focus on the connections between the behavior of single molecules and their interactions and macroscopic non-Newtonian behavior. It will discuss microscopic models of these systems, techniques for measuring and manipulating the microstructure, and the impact on macroscopic behavior. Students may not receive credit for both this course and CHME 6480 .
Prerequisites/Corequisites: CHME 4020 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 4500 - Chemical Reactor Design
Principles of kinetics, reactor design, and analysis for both homogeneous and heterogeneous (catalytic) systems. Topics include design for multiple reaction networks (optimum selectivity), analysis of simple reactor combinations, and design of isothermal, adiabatic, and optimum temperature profile reactor.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CHME 2010 , CHME 2020 , CHME 4010 , and CHME 4020 .
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 4600 - Introduction to Semiconductor Processing
The basic processes of fabrication of silicon-based semiconductor devices with emphasis on the chemical principles and systems involved. Topics include materials preparation, oxide growth, lithography, diffusion, ion implantation, epitaxial growth, chemical-vapor deposition, vacuum deposition, reactive ion etching, and packaging technologies. Fabrication of both bipolar and FET devices is discussed with emphasis on manufacturing process flow and control. Process design methodology.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: senior standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 4940 - Readings in Chemical Engineering
Credit Hours: 1 to 3
Credit Hours: 1 to 3 |
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CHME 4960 - Topics in Chemical Engineering
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 6410 - Advanced Membrane Concepts
An in-depth and comprehensive treatment of membrane technology. Membrane preparation and morphology. Models for transport through membranes. Fluid-dynamic phenomena across membrane systems. Particle dynamics, membrane fouling, and concentration polarization. Applications to chemical and biochemical separations. Critical reviews of the current literature.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: a general knowledge of transport phenomena.
When Offered: Fall term even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 6420 - Separation and Recovery Processes
The application of theoretical and fundamental principles and pilot plant data to the design and operation of biochemical separation processes and advanced waste treatment systems. Topics covered include characterization and dispersion, coagulation and flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, adsorption, ion exchange, membrane processes, aeration and gas transfer, centrifugation, and related subjects.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 6430 - Biochemical Engineering
Engineering aspects of microbial processes and of conversions with immobilized enzymes. Topics are mixed-culture processes, sterilization, aseptic techniques, mass transfer, bioprocess control, product isolation, enzyme technology, bioprocess development. There are heavy emphases on continuous fermentation and on chemicals from biomass.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: microbiology or assigned reading.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 6440 - Chromatographic Separations
Theory and practice of chromatographic separation processes. Topics include chromatographic dispersion, adsorption isotherms, solute movement analysis, chromatographic techniques (reversed-phase, HIC, ion exchange, affinity, and size exclusion), modes of operation (gradient, elution, displacement, and continuous systems), novel morphologies and chromatographic applications in biotechnology. Includes critical reviews of the current literature and computer simulations. Suitable for graduate students in chemical engineering, chemistry, biology, and biomedical engineering. Students cannot receive credit for both CHME 4400 and CHME 6440.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 6450 - Advanced Biochemical Engineering
Selected topics beyond the scope of CHME 6430 . Particular emphasis on the current literature and the applications of computers and graphics. Extensive coverage is given to purification and separation technology, kinetic analysis, design of bioreactors, exploitation of genetic engineering, and bioprocess development. An individual project is required.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CHME 6430 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Summer term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 6460 - Biomolecular Engineering
This course will focus on 1) designing, engineering, and selecting proteins and other biomolecules with desired functional and biophysical properties (high thermal stability, high solubility, low propensity to aggregate), and 2) characterizing thermodynamic and kinetic properties (folding, oligomerization, and self-association) of these biomolecules. (Students may not receive credit for both this course and CHME 4460 .)
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: BIOL 1010 or BIOL 2120 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 6470 - Downstream Processing in Biochemical Engineering
The course focuses on the concentration, recovery, and isolation of biological molecules relevant in biotechnology. The characteristics of biological molecules such as proteins and biological fluids such as blood, fermentation, and cell culture broth, are discussed. The principles, advantages, and limitations of centrifugation, membranes, cell-disruption, two-phase extraction, precipitation crystallization, and electrical processes are discussed. Integrated bioseparation schemes are presented and many specific applications are discussed in detail.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: a course in biochemical engineering or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 6480 - Single Molecules Complex Fluid
This course will focus on the connections between the behavior of single molecules and their interactions and macroscopic non-Newtonian behavior. Among the topics discussed are microscopic models of these systems, techniques for measuring and manipulating the microsctructure, and the impact on macroscopic behavior. Students may not receive credit for both this course and CHME 4480 .
Prerequisites/Corequisites: CHME 4020 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 6510 - Advanced Transport Phenomena I
Continuity, momentum, and energy equations for continuous fluids; constitutive relations. Kinematics of fluid motion; vorticity and circulation. Potential flow. Navier-Stokes equations. Boundary layer theory. Turbulence. Multicomponent reacting systems. Selected applications.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CHME 4010 or equivalent and CHME 4020 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 6520 - Advanced Transport Phenomena II
A continuation of CHME 6510 . Treats irrotational flow, flow around bubbles, and other free surface problems, turbulent flow, jets, and wakes. Presumes an understanding of continuum mechanics, viscous flow, and boundary layer flow.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CHME 6510 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 6540 - Convective Heat Transfer
A review of basic concepts of mass, momentum, and energy conservation as related to convective heat transfer. The analysis of laminar and turbulent forces and free convection problems in both internal and external flows. Also a study of the current state of the art in boiling and condensation heat transfer.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 6570 - Chemical and Phase Equilibrium
Classical solution thermodynamics, equations of state, and topics in chemical reaction and phase equilibria. Emphasis is on the rigorous formulation of equilibrium problems, and on the measurement, reduction, correlation, and interpretation of experimental data.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CHME 2020 or equivalent and MATH 2400 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 6610 - Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering I
Development and application of mathematical methods for the solution of chemical engineering problems. Classical solution methods for ordinary and partial differential equations. Major emphasis is given to the mathematical implications of describing and solving representation of chemical reactors and other systems. Case studies relevant to other departmental graduate courses and ongoing research activities are discussed. The mathematical methods include series solutions, special function representations, boundary-value problems, and operational calculus.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MATH 2400 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 6620 - Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering II
Modern solution techniques including semi-analytical, approximation, and numerical methods are introduced and applied to linear and nonlinear transport phenomena problems and chemical engineering systems. Similarity theory and integral methods, perturbation techniques, and orthogonal collocation, indispensable to chemical engineering, are discussed.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CHME 6610 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 6640 - Advanced Chemical Reactor Design
Analysis of ideal and nonideal chemical reactor operation with simple and multiple homogeneous, heterogeneous, and catalytic reactions. Interplay of chemical and mass and energy and momentum transport processes in model reactors and catalytic particles. Topics include transient and steady-state operation, residence time distribution, multiplicity, stability, selectivity control, and catalyst deactivation.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CHME 4500 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 6650 - Advanced Process Control
Application of modern control theory to chemical processes. Introduction to on-line data acquisition and computer control. Real-time process optimization and optimal control theory. Estimation theory and adaptive control. Introduction to stochastic control and to the control of large-scale distribution systems. Case studies via computer-aided design programs.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CHME 4030 or equivalent.
When Offered: Upon sufficient demand.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 6670 - Advanced Process Design
Process synthesis with applications to heat exchange networks, energy-integrated separation sequences, and reactor networks. Analysis, design, and optimization of large-scale systems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: chemical engineering degree or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Upon sufficient demand.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 6840 - An Introduction to Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer I
This course is intended to give students a state-of-the-art understanding about single and multicomponent boiling and condensation heat transfer phenomena. Applications include the analysis of nuclear reactors, oil wells, and chemical process equipment. Students satisfactorily completing this course are expected to be able to thoroughly understand the current thermal-hydraulics literature on multiphase heat and mass transfer and be able to conduct independent research in this field.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: a working knowledge of fluid mechanics and heat transfer.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: MANE 6840 . Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and MANE 6840 .
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 6850 - An Introduction to Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer II
This course is intended to give students a state-of-the-art understanding in multicomponent flow phenomena. Applications in the chemical process, petroleum recovery, and fossil/nuclear power industries will be given. Specific areas of coverage include two-phase: fluid mechanics, pressure drop, modeling and analysis, stability analysis, critical flow and dynamic waves, flow regime analysis, and phase separation and distribution phenomena.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CHME 6840 or MANE 6840 .
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: MANE 6850 . Students cannot obtain credit for this course and MANE 6850 .
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CHME 6900 - Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar
This seminar-based graduate level course provides a broad exposure to the chemical and biological engineering discipline. Attending and participating in seminars from recognized experts will form the core of the course. Topics include energy and the environment, nano and biotechnologies, computational molecular science, polymers and advanced materials, synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, and the future of our discipline. The course is required for chemical engineering Ph.D. students.
When Offered: Fall and spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 1
Credit Hours: 1 |
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CHME 6940 - Readings in Chemical Engineering
Credit Hours: 1 to 3
Credit Hours: 1 to 3 |
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CHME 6960 - Topics in Chemical Engineering
State-of the-art formal courses in specialized areas suitable for master’s and doctoral programs. Usually two topics offered per term. Typical topics include colloidal dynamics, dispersion and mixing, fluidation, heterogeneous catalysis, polymer reaction engineering, stochastic processes, and statistical mechanics.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 1 to 3
Credit Hours: 1 to 3 |
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CHME 6970 - Professional Project
Active participation in a semester-long project, under the supervision of a faculty adviser. A Professional Project often serves as a culminating experience for a Professional Master’s program but, with departmental or school approval, can be used to fulfill other program requirements. With approval, students may register for more than one Professional Project. Professional Projects must result in documentation established by each department or school, but are not submitted to the Office of Graduate Education and are not archived in the library. Grades of A, B, C, or F are assigned by the faculty adviser at the end of the semester. If not completed on time, a formal Incomplete grade may be assigned by the faculty adviser, listing the work remaining to be completed and the time limit for completing this work.
Credit Hours: Variable
Credit Hours: Variable |
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CHME 6990 - Master’s Thesis
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a master’s thesis. Grades of S or U are assigned by the adviser each term to reflect the student’s research progress for the given semester. Once the thesis has been presented, approved by the adviser, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education, it will be archived in a standard format in the library.
Credit Hours: 1 to 9
Credit Hours: 1 to 9 |
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CHME 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of S or U are assigned by the adviser each term to reflect the student’s research progress for the given semester. Once the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education, it will be archived in a standard format in the library.
Credit Hours: 1 to 16
Credit Hours: 1 to 16 |
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CIVL 1100 - Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering
Deals with the practice of civil and environmental engineering. Not a highly analytical course, as the course is primarily intended for first year students. Some topics include: history of civil engineering; present practice; typical employers; typical projects; design philosophy; professional topics including organizations, registrations, ethics. Discuss case histories, bring in outside speakers. Students attend CE Capstone presentations.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 1
Credit Hours: 1 |
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CIVL 1200 - Engineering Graphics for Civil Engineers
An introduction to the elements of computer aided design for civil and environmental engineers using AutoCAD Civil 3D. Students will be introduced to basic AutoCAD drafting techniques as well as learn the key features of Civil 3D that aid site development design and analysis. Topics covered will include general AutoCAD techniques, existing conditions development and analysis using field collected survey data and GIS information, pipe network design, grading design, and roadway corridor layout.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 1
Credit Hours: 1 |
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CIVL 1300 - Beginning Programming in Civil and Environmental Engineering
This course teaches elementary programming concepts using the Python environment. Students are expected to have little or no prior programming experience. Topics include Python language syntax, variables, looping, function calls, manipulating arrays, performing statistical calculations, and plotting results.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: None
When Offered: Spring terms annually
Credit Hours: 1
Credit Hours: 1 |
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CIVL 2030 - Introduction to Transportation Engineering
Introduction to basic concepts in transportation engineering including planning, design, and operations. Introduces the challenges and issues in modeling transportation problems. Studies of various concepts related to the design of highway facilities, level of service, and demand for transportation services. Concepts related to signal optimization. Policy implications. Basics of transportation planning.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
Credit Hours: 4 |
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CIVL 2040 - Professional Practice
Contract essentials; types of contracts for construction and for engineering services. Bidding procedure, surety bonds, insurance, litigation. Standard contract documents, the compilation of specifications. Engineering ethical principles and codes.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 2050 - Fluid Mechanics for Civil and Environmental Engineering
Hydrostatics; Pressure Measurement; Fluid Properties; Application of Control Volume Analysis to Conservation of Mass, Energy and Momentum Principles; Bernoulli Equation for Ideal Flow; Dimensional Analysis; Pipe Flow and Pipe Networks; Pump Performance; Pipes in Pipelines. A laboratory component will illustrate the topics studied.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENGR 1100 and PHYS 1100
When Offered: Fall and Spring Terms Annually
Credit Hours: 4
Credit Hours: 4 |
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CIVL 2060 - Introduction to Water Resources Engineering
This course provides a foundational treatment of water resources engineering through theory, analysis and design. Hydrologic cycle, water resources sustainability, and water resources planning. Pipe flow and pipe networks, with application to distribution systems. Hydraulics of open-channel flow and control structures such as culverts, gates, weirs, spillways and stilling basins. Reservoir routing and design of storage. Contemporary issues including green infrastructure, storm surge and climate change. Experimental laboratory sessions reinforce lectures and provide hands‐on learning opportunities.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CIVL 2050 or other fluid mechanics course approved by the instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually
Credit Hours: 4
Credit Hours: 4 |
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CIVL 2630 - Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering
The application of the basic laws and phenomena of science to particulate matter, specifically soils. Basic physical and mechanical structural characteristics of soil. Equilibrium and movement of water. Flow through porous media. Effective stress. Stress-strain-time relations. Basic laboratory work as related to practice.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENGR 2530 .
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
Contact, Lecture or Lab Hours: 6 contact hours
Credit Hours: 4 |
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CIVL 2670 - Introduction to Structural Engineering
Introduction to the elastic behavior of structural components. Analysis of statically determinate systems. Deflection calculations by virtual work and elastic load methods. Analysis of simple statically indeterminate structures. Influence lines. Interaction of structural components. Typical structural engineering loads.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENGR 2530 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
Credit Hours: 4 |
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CIVL 2940 - Readings in Civil Engineering
Credit Hours: 1 to 3
Credit Hours: 1 to 3 |
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CIVL 4010 - Foundation Engineering
Subsurface investigation. The application of the principles of soil mechanics to the design of footings, retaining walls, pile foundations, bulkheads, cofferdams, bridge piers and abutments, and underpinnings.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CIVL 2630 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 4020 - Bedford Seminar
The seminar will be interdisciplinary with students from both architecture and civil engineering departments. The content of the lectures bears direct relation to practical experience and is considered to be supplementary to the other courses in the respective engineering and architecture schools. Specific types of structures will be examined with the help of suitable existing project examples clarifying and critically analyzing the basic engineering principles behind them. Students will be exposed to the collaborative methods inherent within the architect/engineer relationship.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 4070 - Steel Design
Analysis and design of metal structures. Structural materials and loads. Design of beams, columns, bolted and welded connections. Composite construction.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2670 .
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 4080 - Concrete Design
Analysis and design of reinforced concrete structures using ultimate strength methods. Design of beams, columns, slabs, and footings. Development and anchorage of reinforcing bars. Laboratory testing of hardened concrete mechanical properties.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2670 .
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
Contact, Lecture or Lab Hours: 6 Contact hours
Credit Hours: 4 |
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CIVL 4140 - Geoenvironmental Engineering
The application of geotechnical engineering to the environmental area. Deals with waste disposal, waste containment systems, waste stabilization, and landfills. Emphasis on design of such facilities. Includes related topics necessary for design, e.g., geosynthetics, groundwater, contaminant transport, and slurry walls. Some field trips are possible. (Students cannot receive credit for both this course and CIVL 6550 .)
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 4150 - Geotechnical Design
Second course in geotechnical engineering, emphasizing the use of Laboratory obtained soil properties (consolidation, compressibility, and shear strength) in the design of geotechnical systems such as slope stability, soil structure systems, foundation settlement, etc.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2630 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
Credit Hours: 4 |
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CIVL 4240 - Introduction to Finite Elements
An introductory course in use of the Finite Element Method (FEM) to solve one-and two-dimensional problems in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and elasticity. The methods are developed using weighted residuals. Algorithms for the construction and solution of the governing equations are also covered. Students will be exposed to the use of commercial finite element software.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ENGR 2250 or ENGR 2530 or ECSE 4160 and senior standing.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Cross Listed: Cross listed as MANE 4240 . Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and MANE 4240 .
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 4270 - Construction Management
Application of engineering principles to planning construction operations. Network scheduling (CPM, PERT), resource allocation. Cost engineering and control.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Senior standing.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 4280 - Design for Constructability
Design of systems to consider foundations, structures, and constructability; foundation alternatives; structural design to simplify erection; prefabrication, modulation of structures; material handling on a construction site; crane selection and placement; temporary works.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CIVL 4070 or CIVL 4080 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 4440 - Matrix Structural Analysis
Principles of displacement-based structural analysis; development of element and structure stiffness matrices; direct stiffness method for matrix structural analysis of trusses, beams, and frames; computer analysis of structures; introduction to finite element method.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2670 .
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 4450 - Conceptual Structural Systems
This course covers concepts of structural systems. The course is aimed at understanding behavior of different structural systems and how they respond to various loading conditions. The concept of load transfer, shaping, and form finding is of particular interest. This concept is reinforced through analytical, digital, and physical modeling intended to foster intuitive thinking. The course includes the following: approximate analyses of statically indeterminate beams, rigid frames, and vierendeel frames; cable suspended structures, arch supported structures; masonry structures, space frame, and folded plate structures; spherical, cylindrical, and hyperbolic shells; net and tent structures; air-supported and air-inflated structures, and hybrid structural systems. The course includes guest lectures, project, computer simulation, and testing physical models.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2670 .
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 4570 - System Modeling for Civil and Environmental Engineering
This course is an applications-oriented course covering basic analytical tools for modeling and optimization of large-scale civil and environmental engineering systems. Application domains that will be discussed include: scheduling in large systems, construction management, multi-purpose reservoir operation, transportation and logistics planning, as well as other civil and environmental engineering systems. An overview of different optimization techniques, with a particular focus on network flow problems and introductory stochastic analysis will be provided. Software to solve these problems will be used throughout the course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 4620 - Mass Transit Systems
The basic concepts of planning, design, and operation of urban mass transit systems. Topics include travel demand, network configurations, communication and control systems, power systems, vehicle technology, guideway and vehicle support, and guidance technology, routing, and scheduling, operating practice, marketing and financing of transit service, interface design, and implementation. These topics are discussed with relation to bus transit systems, guided transit systems, and several new systems. Several case studies examined.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2030 .
When Offered: Spring term annually
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 4640 - Transportation System Planning
Introduction to the analysis and planning of transportation systems. Study of the basic interaction between transportation supply and demand. Role of transportation systems analysis in the social, environmental, and policy making. Trip generation. Trip distribution. Mode split. Traffic Assignment. Computer applications (meets with CIVL 6250 Transportation System Planning). Students cannot obtain credit for this course and CIVL 6250 .
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2030 .
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 4660 - Traffic Engineering
Basic characteristics of traffic flow, including driver, vehicle, volume, speed, delay, capacity, and accidents; traffic regulation and control, signs, markings, signals, and signal systems; basic traffic flow theory; study methods and analysis procedures to solve traffic engineering and control problems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2030 .
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 4670 - Highway Engineering
Principles of geometric design of highways, intersections, interchanges, and terminals. Practical issues of vertical and horizontal curvature, highway evaluation, driver and vehicle dynamics, and traffic safety are also addressed. Computer-aided design and modeling.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2030 .
When Offered: Upon availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 4920 - Civil Engineering Capstone Design
Open-ended design project in which students work in teams. Oral presentations and written reports cover alternates considered, design assumptions, cost, safety, and feasibility. This is a communication-intensive course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: senior status and 6 credit hours of civil engineering design electives in one focus area. Concentrations and associated design electives are: 1) Structural: CIVL 4070 and CIVL 4080 ; or 2) Geotechnical: CIVL 4010 and either CIVL 4140 or CIVL 4150 ; or 3) Transportation: two of the following courses: CIVL 4620 or CIVL 4640 or CIVL 4660 or CIVL 4670 ; or 4) Environmental: two of the following courses: ENVE 4200 or ENVE 4330 or ENVE 4340 or ENVE 4350 . Core course - ENGR 2050 .
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 4940 - Readings in Civil Engineering
Credit Hours: 1 to 3
Credit Hours: 1 to 3 |
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CIVL 4960 - Topics in Civil Engineering
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6170 - Mechanics of Solids
This course provides an introduction to the mechanics of solids from a continuum perspective. Topics covered in this course include: vector and tensor analysis, coordinate systems and calculus in curvilinear coordinate systems, kinematics (motion, deformation and strain), stress and momentum balance, energy principles and balance laws, linear isotropic and anisotropic elasticity, thermoelasticity, method of solutions for 2-D and 3-D linear elastic boundary value problems, applications to simple structures.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: MANE 6170 . Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and MANE 6170 .
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6180 - Mechanics of Composite Materials
Micromechanics of elastic heterogeneous solids. Plasticity of composite materials. Thermoelastic and thermoplastic behavior. Mechanics of distributed damage. Mechanical behavior.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: One graduate course in mechanics of solids.
When Offered: Upon availability of instructor
Cross Listed: MANE 6180 . Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and the cross-listed course.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6190 - Advanced Transportation Models
This graduate level course will introduce two types of advanced models related to travel demand forecasting: the land use models and the activity-based models. This project-based course will allow students to obtain sound knowledge of advanced modeling techniques, and to have some preliminary experience with building, estimating, and applying advanced transportation models.
When Offered: Fall term even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6210 - Structural Stability
Concepts of stability pertaining to structural and mechanical systems. Static and dynamic theories of stability. Configurations include bars, plates, shells, and structural complexes.
When Offered: Upon availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6220 - Critical Issues in Transportation
To provide the students with a broad understanding of cutting edge methodologies in transportation modeling and economics not thoroughly covered in other courses and emerging issues pertaining to transportation research and practice.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2030 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term odd years
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6230 - Transportation Economics
Review of economic concepts and their application to transportation. Economic basis of transportation demand. Estimation of aggregate and disaggregate demand functions. Value of time. Supply functions. Cost functions, production functions. Transportation externalities. Valuation techniques. Cost/benefit analysis and multi-criteria approaches.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2030 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6240 - Intelligent Transportation Systems
The course discusses Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies and their application areas. ITS technologies. ITS Architecture. ITS applications. A number of outside speakers will complement the lectures. The students are expected to give at least two technical presentations and write a final paper on an ITS topic of their choosing.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2030 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6250 - Transportation Systems Planning
The analysis and planning of transportation systems. Study of the basic interaction between transportation supply and demand. Role of transportation systems analysis in social, environmental, and policy making. Trip generation. Trip distribution. Mode split. Traffic assignment. Computer applications. Students cannot obtain credit for this course and CIVL 4640 .
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2030 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6260 - Transportation Network Analysis
Fundamentals of transportation network analysis, including graph representations of transportation networks, shortest path search algorithms, static traffic assignment and user equilibrium, and dynamic traffic assignment. Focus on how basic mathematical analysis tools such as linear and nonlinear programming can be used to analyze transportation network problems. The objective of this course is to introduce students to transportation network analysis fundamentals so that they are equipped with basic skills to analyze related problems in this area.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CIVL 2030 ; MATH 2400 .
When Offered: Upon availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6270 - Traffic Control and Simulation
Topics on traffic control systems such as signals and ramp metering; sensor-aided and data-oriented traffic modeling; fundamentals and applications of microscopic traffic simulation. State of the art signal design and traffic simulation tools will be used throughout the class.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2030 , CIVL 4660 or their equivalents.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6280 - Dynamic Traffic Models
The fundamentals of dynamic equilibrium with applications to planning and real-time operations in transportation systems. A network optimization approach to dynamic models including time dependent shortest path algorithms, analytical and simulation models for dynamic traffic assignment. Applications of these approaches to network wide real-time control. Emphasis on implementation of algorithms using programming languages.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 6260 .
When Offered: Fall term even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6290 - Freight Transportation Systems
Background and socio-economic aspects of freight transportation. Freight policy and planning objectives. Distribution system and participating agents. Behavior of freight agents. Short-medium term operational improvements: Land use and traffic related. Short-medium term operational improvements: System level strategies. System perspective of freight activity. Strategic freight transportation planning and freight demand modeling.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 6250 .
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6300 - Transportation Statistical Modeling
This graduate level course will introduce a number of econometric models to analyze transportation data, ranging from count of crash occurrence to household trip frequency. Students will learn to specify, estimate, and interpret models to study various transportation issues.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6310 - Advanced Concrete Structures
Advanced analysis and design of reinforced concrete structures. Design of deep beams, slender columns, two-way floor systems. Deflection computations. Design for torsion. Prestressed concrete fundamentals.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 4080 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6320 - Advanced Steel Design
Advanced analysis and design of complex metal structures. Flexible, semi-rigid, and rigid connections. Plate girders, torsional design. Effects of semi-rigid connections on structural stability.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 4070 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6340 - Bedford Design Studio
Open-ended design project in which students work in teams of four (two engineers and two architects) to replicate the Architecture/Structural Engineering integrated design of buildings. Oral presentations and written reports and studio critics cover alternatives considered, design assumptions, and cost estimates. This is a communication-intensive course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CIVL 4020 Bedford Seminar, CIVL 6310 Advanced Concrete, CIVL 6320 Advanced Steel.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6350 - Masonry Design
The goal of this course is to develop a general familiarity with the structural design of masonry elements and structures. This includes exposure to the historical development of design specifications as well as specific design procedures unique to this material.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 4080 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6360 - Timber Design
The goal of this course is to develop a general familiarity with the structural design of wood elements and structures. This includes exposure to the historical development of design specifications as well as specific design procedures unique to this material.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 4070 or CIVL 4080 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6390 - Wind Engineering
This course will develop understanding and integrate skills across the fields of fluid mechanics, meteorology, climatology, bluff-body aerodynamics, structural dynamics, code provisions for design, wind tunnel testing, and damage documentation.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENVE 4310 .
When Offered: Fall term even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6440 - Nonlinear Structural Analysis
Matrix formulation of nonlinear structural analysis problems; analysis of structures with geometric and material nonlinearities; elastic and inelastic buckling; plastic analysis of beams and frames; computer analysis of nonlinear structure.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 4440 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6450 - Structural Dynamics
Analysis of elastic and inelastic single and multiple degree-of-freedom structural systems under time-dependent loads including harmonic, impulse, earthquake, and other general dynamic loads. Development of equations of motion. Analytical and numerical evaluation of free and forced vibration response. Identification of dynamic system properties. Modal analysis. Vibration isolation and force transmissibility. Dynamic measurement sensors. Shock loading spectrum. Frequency-domain analysis.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 4440 .
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6460 - Advanced Structural Dynamics
Stochastic response of lumped parameter and continuous systems to random excitation, wave propagation, power spectral densities, covariance and cross covariance functions, transfer functions, application of procedure to wind and earthquake engineering. Review of current literature.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 6450 .
When Offered: Upon availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6480 - Designing with Geosynthetics
Civil Engineering applications of geosynthetics including geotextiles, geogrids, geonets, geomembranes, geosynthetic clay liners, geopipe, and geocomposites. Designing by function, including separation, reinforcement, filtration, drainage, liquid barrier, and combined functions. Applications in the areas of landfills, groundwater drains, geotextile reinforced walls and slopes, roadways, and other civil engineered type structures.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2630 or equivalent.
When Offered: Upon availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6490 - Earthquake Engineering
Measurement and characterization of earthquake ground motion and structural response in time and frequency domains. Linear and nonlinear response history and response spectrum analysis of structures subject to earthquake loading. Seismic analysis and design of structural systems using building codes and design specifications.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 6450 .
When Offered: Spring term even-numbered years
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6510 - Advanced Geotechnical Engineering
An intensive study of the fundamentals of soil mechanics at the graduate level. Transmission of stresses between particles. Soils in which the pore water is either stationary or flowing under steady conditions. Soils in which pore pressures are influenced by applied loads, and hence the pore water is flowing under transient conditions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 4150 .
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6520 - Advanced Foundations and Earth Structures
The applications of the principles of soil mechanics to the design of foundations, at the graduate level. Subsurface investigation. Design of footings, retaining walls, pile foundations, flexible retaining structures, anchor tie-backs, bridge piers, abutments, embankments, and natural slopes. Slope stability analysis and landslide prevention. Earthquake effects. Case studies.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CIVL 4010 and CIVL 4150 .
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6530 - Seepage, Drainage, and Groundwater
Introduction to groundwater hydrology, well hydraulics, permeability, seepage, flow nets, filter criteria, dewatering, slope stabilization, practical applications.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2630 or equivalent.
When Offered: Upon availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6540 - Dynamics of Soil and Soil-Foundation Systems
Basics of dynamic response of soil and soil-foundation systems, including applications to earthquake engineering and machine foundations. Systems studies include shallow and deep foundations, buried structures, earth structures, slopes, and earthquake site response.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6550 - Advanced Geoenvironmental Engineering
An intensive study of the application of geotechnical engineering to the environmental area. Deals with waste disposal, waste containment systems, waste stabilization, and landfills. Emphasis on design of such facilities. Includes related topics necessary for design, e.g., geosynthetics, groundwater, contaminant transport, and slurry walls. Some field trips are possible. This course meets concurrently with CIVL 4140 . CIVL 6550 students are required to do a term paper and/or project, read additional professional papers and publications, and do additional laboratory experiments. (Students cannot receive credit for both this course and CIVL 4140 .)
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6660 - Fundamentals of Finite Elements
Graduate-level course on the fundamental concepts and technologies underlying finite element methods for the numerical solution of continuum problems. The course emphasizes the construction of integral weak forms for elliptic partial differential equations and the construction of the elemental level matrices using multi-dimensional shape functions, element level mappings, and numerical integration. The basic convergence properties of the finite element method will be given. This course serves as preparation for students working on finite element methods.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: differential equations.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: MANE 6660 . Students cannot receive credit for both this course and MANE 6660 .
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6680 - Finite Element Programming
Examines the implementation of finite element methods. Consideration is first given to the techniques used in classic finite element programs. Attention then focuses on development of a general geometry-based code which effectively supports higher order adaptive technique. Technical areas covered include: effective construction of element matrices for p-version finite elements, ordering of unknowns, automatic mesh generation, adaptive mesh improvement, program and database structures. Implementation of automated adaptive techniques on parallel computers is also covered.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CIVL 6660 , MANE 6660 , CSCI 6860 , or MATH 6860 .
When Offered: Spring term odd-numbered years.
Cross Listed: MANE 6680 . Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and MANE 6680 .
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6690 - Advanced Finite Element Formulations
This course focuses on generalized weighted residual methods and multifield variational principles for constructing approximate solutions to sets of governing differential equations and associated boundary conditions. Topics include hybrid and mixed methods, boundary element formulations, p-version finite elements, global/local procedures, and penalty methods. Problem areas include solid mechanics (nearly incompressible solids, plates, and shells), fluid mechanics including compressible flows, and heat transfer.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 6660 or MANE 6660 .
When Offered: Spring term even-numbered years.
Cross Listed: MANE 6690 . Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and MANE 6690 .
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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CIVL 6700 - Finite Element Methods in Structural Dynamics
Solutions to the free vibration and transient dynamic responses of two-and three-dimensional structures by the finite element method are considered. The governing finite element matrix equations are derived and numerical aspects of solving these time-dependent equations considered. Topics include the formulation of the eigenvalue problem, algorithms for eigenvalue extraction, time integration methods including stability and accuracy analysis, and finite elements in time. Modal analysis and direct time integration techniques are compared for a variety of two-and three-dimensional problems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 6660 or MANE 6660 .
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Cross Listed: MANE 6700 . Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and MANE 6700 .
Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 |
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