Civil Engineering Courses
Civil Engineering Classes
CE 101
Civil Engineering Seminar
1 credit
1 class hour
Brief overview of civil engineering topics, including structures, water resources, geotechnical and transportation engineering in the form of seminars by faculty, and guest speakers from industry, consulting, and government.
CE 201
Construction Materials, Properties, and Testing
3 credits
3 class hours
Prerequisite: CHEM 122
Mechanical behavior of engineering materials, including metals, ceramics, polymers, concrete, wood, bitumens, and asphaltic concretes; explanations of macroscopic behavior in terms of phenomena at the microscopic level.
CE 301, 301D
Introduction to Construction Engineering
3 credits
3 class hours
Topics covered include: contracting and bonding, planning and scheduling, estimating, project control, and productivity models.
CE 302, 302D
Introduction to Structural Engineering
3 credits
3 class hours
Prerequisites: ES 201, 302 or consent of instructor
Basic topics in the analysis, behavior, and design of trusses and framed structures under static loads; analysis topics include member forces in trusses, shear and moment diagrams, deflections, simple applications of the force method and slope–deflection; and an introduction to computer applications by means of a general purpose structural analysis program.
CE 401
Finite Element Analysis for Civil Engineers
3 credits
3 class hours
Prerequisite: CE 302 or consent of instructor
Introduction to finite element analysis (FEA) for Civil Engineering students. Students will learn the fundamentals of FEA, and they will learn to use software packages to analyze complex structures. Topics include: 1‐D systems, trusses, 2‐D problems, axis‐symmetric solids, beams, frames, and some types of 3‐D problems.
CE 402
Introduction to Transportation Engineering
3 credits
3 class hours
Overview of the field of Transportation Engineering. Topics covered include: description of transportation systems; traffic engineering studies; highway safety studies; traffic flow characteristics; transportation planning; travel demand; geometric design of highways; characteristics of drivers, pedestrians, vehicles, and roads and their applications to the determination of braking distance, stopping sight distance, passing sight distance, sign placement, and timing of change and clearance intervals.
CE 406
Design of Steel Structures
3 credits
3 class hours
Prerequisite: CE 302 or consent of instructor
Behavior and design of steel members subjected to tension, compression and flexural loads, according to AISC specifications. Topics covered include: elastic and inelastic design, buckling of beams and columns, and structural connections.
CE 407
Design of Concrete Structures
3 credits
3 class hours
Prerequisite: CE 302 or consent of instructor
Study of the strength, behavior and design of reinforced concrete members, including beams, columns and slabs. Topics covered will include serviceability of beams and slabs, control of deflections and cracking, shear design, and bonding.
CE 410
Reinforced Masonry and Timber Design
3 credits
3 class hours
Prerequisite: CE 302 or consent of instructor
Reinforced masonry design topics covered include: the properties and performance of masonry materials; design criteria and methods in reinforced masonry; and design examples including reinforced masonry walls, masonry columns and pilasters, and rectangular beams. Timber topics covered include: design of beams, columns, trusses, and diaphragms in wood; design of gluelaminated beams; design of wood connections; use of timber design codes and the International Building Code (IBC).
CE 412
Advanced Design of Steel Structures
3 credits
3 class hours
Prerequisite: CE 406 or consent of instructor
Behavior and design of structural steel beams, columns, frames, and connections. Topics include: elastic and inelastic design, composite beam design, stability of beams and columns, behavior of steel frame structures, design of bolted and welded connections, metallurgical and mechanical properties of welds, braced frame and moment frame design for lateral loads. Extensive use of the current AISC‐LRFD design code.
CE 413
Foundation Design and Analysis
3 credits
3 class hours
Prerequisite: ME 420
Principles of soil mechanics and foundation engineering. Immediate and time dependent settlements, service loads, lateral loads, loading, approximate analysis methods, performance requirements, shallow foundations, lateral earth pressure, design of retaining walls, deep foundations, special footings, slope stability, and computer modeling of foundations. (Same as ME 413).
CE 414
Advanced Design of Concrete Structures
3 credits
3 class hours
Prerequisite: CE 407 or consent of instructor
Topics covered include: strut and tie models, footings, retaining walls, principles of prestressed concrete, materials and techniques used in these systems, advantages and disadvantages of prestressing methods over regular reinforced concrete, and the design of prestressed concrete structures, such as axially loaded members, beams (for flexure and shear), and slabs.
CE 418
Structural Dynamics
3 credits
3 class hours
Prerequisites: Math 335 and CE 302 or consent of instructor
Fundamentals of structural dynamics. Analysis of single and multi‐degree‐of‐freedom structures subjected to various types of vibrations. Topics covered will include structural responses to free, harmonic and periodic excitations, step and pulse excitations, and earthquake loads.
CE 420
Pavement Materials and Design
3 credits
3 class hours
Prerequisites: CE 201 or ES 302
Analysis, behavior, performance, and structural design of pavements for highways, bridges and airfields. Topics include: climatic factors, maintenance strategies and life cycle design economics, traffic loadings, recycled pavement materials, evaluation by nondestructive testing (roughness, skid resistance, structural capacity), destructive testing, and rehabilitation of pavement systems.
CE 422
Geotechnical Waste Containment Design
3 credits
3 class hours
Prerequisites: ME 420; MATH 335
Design procedures consisting of waste disposal methods, various containment systems, and associated remediation techniques. Waste characterization and soil‐waste interactions, contaminant transport in low permeability soils, geosynthetics and soil materials use in waste containment, remedial issues of solidification and stabilization and barrier design, and landfill‐ and surface impoundment‐related design, including liners, leachate and gas collection and removal, final covers, static and seismic slope stability, and se lement analysis. Geotechnical problem definition, application of field and laboratory test data, use of computer models for analysis and design.
CE 423
Open Channel Hydraulics
3 credits
3 class hours
Prerequisites: ES 216
Analysis and characteristics of flow in natural and artificial open channel systems using energy, continuity, and momentum equations as applied to steady‐state uniform, gradually varied, and rapidly varied flow profiles with emphasis on design of hydraulic structures. The students will use their knowledge of fluid mechanics, calculus, numerical analysis, and computer science to solve practical open channel flow problems. A variety of hydraulic conveyance and structures are covered, including rigid and flexible boundary channels, culverts, sluice gates, fumes, weirs, spillways, stilling basins, and bridges.
CE 481
Senior Engineering Design
3 credits
3 class hours
Prerequisite: Senior standing
A semester‐long civil engineering design project organized and directed by a faculty member.
CE 491
Special Topics in Civil Engineering
2‐3 credits
Prerequisite: Senior standing or consent of instructor
New and developing areas of knowledge in civil engineering offered to augment the formal course offerings.
CEE 502 Introduction to Transportation Engineering ( cross listed with CE 402)
3 credits
3 class hours
Graduate students complete an additional project and a classroom presentation. Graduate work is graded seperately.
CEE 506 Design of Steel Structures ( cross listed with CE 406)
3 credits
3 class hours
Graduate students complete an additional project and a classroom presentation. Graduate work is graded seperately.
CEE 507 Design of Concrete Structures ( cross listed with CE 406)
3 credits
3 class hours
Graduate students complete an additional project and a classroom presentation. Graduate work is graded seperately.
CE 518 Structural Dynamics ( cross listed with CE 418)
3 credits
3 class hours
Graduate students complete an additional project and a classroom presentation. Graduate work is graded seperately.
CEE 520 Hazardous Waste Site Remediation
3 credit
3 class hours
Prerequisites: ENVE 411, CEE 501; or consent of instructor
Design and specification of various physical, chemical, thermal, and biological technologies commonly used in the cleanup of hazardous waste sites. Special emphasis on innovative and emerging technologies for site remediation. Proper sampling and monitoring procedures. Emergency technology in hazardous waste management.
CEE 522 Geotechnical Waste Containment Design
3 credits
3 class hours
Prerequisite: ME 420 or consent of instructor
Design procedures consisting of waste disposal methods, various containment systems, and associated remediation techniques. Waste characterization and soil‐waste interactions, contaminant transport in low permeability soils, geosynthetics and soil materials use in waste containment, remedial issues of solidification and stabilization and barrier design, and landfill‐ and surface impoundment‐related design, including liners, leachate and gas collection and removal, final covers, static and seismic slope stability, and settlement analysis. Geotechnical problem definition, application of field and laboratory test data, use of computer models for analysis and design.
CEE 523 Open Channel Hydraulics (cross listed with CE 423)
3 credits
3 class hours
Graduate students complete an additional project and a classroom presentation. Graduate work is graded seperately.
CEE 531 Finite Element Analysis (cross listed with CE 401)
3 credits
3 class hours
Graduate students complete an additional project and a classroom presentation. Graduate work is graded seperately.
CEE 541 Minimum Design Loads for Buildings ( cross listed with CE 411)
3 credits
3 class hours
Graduate students complete an additional project and a classroom presentation. Graduate work is graded seperately.
CEE 543 Foundation Design and Analysis ( cross listed with CE 413)
3 credits
3 class hours
Graduate students complete an additional project and a classroom presentation. Graduate work is graded seperately.
CEE 540 Reinforced Masonary and Timber Design ( cross listed with CE 410)
3 credits
3 class hours
Graduate students complete an additional project and a classroom presentation. Graduate work is graded seperately.
CEE 542 Advanced Design of Steel Structures ( cross listed with CE 412)
3 credits
3 class hours
Graduate students complete an additional project and a classroom presentation. Graduate work is graded seperately.
CE 544 Advanced Design of Concrete Structures ( cross listed with CE 414)
3 credits
3 class hours
Graduate students complete an additional project and a classroom presentation. Graduate work is graded seperately.
CEE 551 Graduate Seminar
1 credit each semester
Seminar presentations by faculty, graduate students, and guest speakers on their interests and current research topics. Graded on S/U basis.
CEE 571 Special Topics in Civil Engineering
2–4 credits
2–4 class hours
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor Offered on sufficient demand
Special topics in Civil engineering.
CEE 581 Directed Study
Credits to be arranged
Independent design project conducted by the student under the direction of the student’s advisor. A written final report and oral presentation are required.
CEE 590 Independent Study
Credit to be arranged
Independent research organized and conducted by the student under the direction of the student’s advisor. A written final report is required.
CEE 591 Thesis (Master’s Program)
Credits to be arranged