Graduate Courses
542 Traffic Systems Operations (3)
Signalized and unsignalized intersection treatments;
coordination concepts; arterial and freeway management,
operating strategies, and design issues; simulation
and optimization; performance evaluation.
(Lec. 3) Pre: 442 or permission of instructor.
545 Pavement Design (3)
Pavement types; pavement system components;
stresses in the pavement structure. Design factors
and criteria, pavement stabilization, structural design
of flexible and rigid pavements for highways and
airports, pavement maintenance and overlay design.
(Lec. 3) Pre: 347 or equivalent.
546 Urban and Rural Transportation
See Community Planning 546.
547 Geometric Design of Highways (3)
Evaluation of alternative designs. Criteria and practices
of geometric design; at grade intersections,
interchanges, channelization, weaving parking facilities,
and road appurtenances; safety considerations,
lane balancing, ramps, and terminals. (Lec. 3) Pre:
347 or equivalent.
548 Bituminous Transportation Materials and Mix-Design
Mix-Design (3)
Asphalt binder, bituminous mixtures, conventional
and SuperPave mix-design methods, material characterization
and testing, fracture, fatigue, and permanent
deformation, novel pavement materials and
additives, and pavement recyling. (Lec. 2, Lab. 3)
Pre: 347 or equivalent.
549 Transportation Soils and Materials
Surficial and subgrade soils, mineral aggregates,
Portland Cement Concretes, mix-design methods,
material characterization and testing, fracture, fatigue,
and modern transportation materials. (Lec. 2,
Lab. 3) Pre: 347 or equivalent.
551 Finite Element Analysis in Civil Engineering
I (3)
Direct stiffness method. Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin
methods. Isoparametric elements. Frames, trusses,
plane stress and strain. Bending of thin plates.
(Lec. 3) Pre: 453 or permission of instructor.
552 Structural Timber Design (3)
Study of wood properties and design considerations.
Design and behavior of beams, columns, beamcolumns,
and wood fasteners. Analysis and design of
structural diaphragms, shear walls, and box beams.
(Lec. 3) Pre: 354 or equivalent.
561 Advanced Steel Design (3)
Selected topics in structural steel design following
the LRFD specification, including plate buckling and
postbuckling, torsion, plate girders, plastic design,
frame stability, tall buildings, composite design, and
earthquake-resistant design. (Lec. 3) Pre: 460 or permission
of instructor.
562 Management of Highway Bridges (3)
Comprehensive systems approach to management
of highway bridges. Needs assessment, in-service
monitoring and evaluation of bridges. Condition
forecasting models and failure analysis. Life-cycle
cost and benefit analysis, prioritization and optimization.
(Lec. 3) Pre: permission of instructor.
563 Prestressed Concrete (3)
Theory of prestressed concrete including partial losses
of prestress and long-term effects due to creep,
shrinkage, and steel relaxation. Service and ultimate
load evaluation of pre-tensioned and post-tensioned
beam elements in flexure, shear, and torsion. Deflection,
camber, and crack control evaluation. (Lec. 3)
Pre: 465 or equivalent.
564 Advanced Reinforced Concrete (3)
Elastic and ultimate strength theory in flexure, shear,
torsion, compression, and serviceability. Behavior
and analysis of deep beams, corbels, slender and
non-slender columns, biaxial bending, two-way slabs
and plates. (Lec. 3) Pre: 465 or equivalent.
565 Structural Dynamics (3)
Simplified models and their equations of motion;
analytical solution methods; Fourier analysis; Duhamel
integral; nonlinearities; computer-oriented
solution algorithms and their implementation. Applications.
(Lec. 3) Pre: 453.
568 (or MCE 568) Theory of Plates (3)
Development of basic plate equations. Classical solution
examples of rectangular and circular plates. Additional
topics selected from orthotropic plates, large
deflections, finite element, and numerical solutions.
(Lec. 3) Pre: 220 and MTH 244.
570 Water Chemistry for Engineers (3)
Chemical principles applied to problems in environmental
engineering, including water and wastewater
treatment, contaminant hydrology, and hazardous
waste management. Pre: permission of instructor.
572 Biosystems in Sanitary Engineering (3)
Microorganisms that constitute the biological
systems in water pollution, water purification, and
wastewater treatment. Application of principles
of microbiology and biochemistry to analysis and
design in fields of sanitary engineering and water
resources. (Lec. 3) Pre: permission of instructor.
573 Theory of Water Purification and Treatment
(3)
Principles of modern water purification and engineering
practices. Aeration, deodorization, sterilization,
coagulation, filtration, water softening, iron
removal, disinfection, and corrosion control. (Lec. 3)
Pre: permission of instructor.
575 Open-Channel Hydraulics (3)
Analysis of uniform, critical, varied, and unsteady
flow in open channels. Principles will be applied to
open-channel design. (Lec. 3) Pre: 370.
577 Environmental Sustainability and Green Engineering (3)
Provides the conceptual, methodological, and scientific basis to understand and reduce the impact of engineering decisions on the environment. Designed for an interdisciplinary audience of engineering graduate students and will provide students with the background and tools necessary to reduce the impacts of design. Pre: permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit in 477.
579 Advanced Soil Mechanics (3)
Physico-chemical properties of soils, hydraulic conductivity, consolidation, and shear strength. (Lec. 3) Pre: 381 or equivalent.
580 Consolidation, Seepage, and Clay
Mineralogy (3)
Consolidation of soils, permeability; steady state and
transient seepage; stress distributions; clay mineralogy.
(Lec. 3) Pre: 381 or equivalent.
581 (or OCE 581) Experimental Geomechanics (3)
Advanced methods and techniques of geotechnical
testing. Behavior of granular and cohesive soils with
determination of engineering properties. Interpretation,
evaluation, and engineering applications of test
data. Emphasis on shearing strength, consolidation,
bearing capacity, earth pressures, seepage, and slope
stability. (Lec. 3) Pre: 381 or equivalent.
582 Seabed Geotechnics
See Ocean Engineering 582.
583 (or OCE 583) Deep Foundations (3)
Applications of soil mechanics principles to analysis and design of piles and drilling shafts under vertical and lateral loading. Static and dynamic load testing. Introduction to ground improvement technologies. (Lec. 3) Pre: 381 or equivalent.
584 Designing with Geosynthetics (3)
Overview of geosynthetic materials, properties, test
methods, and current standards. Design methods
involving geotextiles, geogrids, geonets, geomembranes,
and geocomposites. Applications to problems
in geomechanics, geo-environmental engineering,
and transportation-related fields. (Lec. 3) Pre:
381 or equivalent.
585 Soil Dynamics (3)
Vibration characteristics, wave propagation in soils,
foundation vibration theory, foundation design for
vibrating loads, vibration isolation, blast vibrations,
dynamic soil properties, liquefaction potential, vibratory
and dynamic compaction, computer applications.
(Lec. 3) Pre: credit or concurrent enrollment in
483 or equivalent.
587 Groundwater Flow and Seepage Pressures (3)
Hydrodynamics of fluid flow through porous media.
Analytical methods for steady and unsteady seepage
in aquifers; theoretical analysis with practical modification
of seepage problems involving foundations,
drainage structures, earth dams, and dewatering.
(Lec. 3) Pre: 381 or equivalent.
588 Groundwater Hydrology (3)
Quantitative methods of groundwater hydrology
including determination of aquifer properties and
yield. Modeling of groundwater systems for management
quantity of water, movement of contaminants,
and well design. Field and laboratory measurements.
(Lec. 3) Pre: 370 and 381 or equivalent.
591, 592 Special Problems (16 each)
Advanced work under supervision of a faculty member
arranged to suit individual requirements of the
student. (Independent Study) Pre: permission of
chairperson.
594 Special Topics in Civil and Environmental
Engineering (13)
Intensive inquiry into a certain important field of current
interest in civil and environmental engineering.
(Lec. 13) Pre: permission of instructor.
596 Numerical Methods in Structural Engineering
(3)
Methods of successive approximations and numerical
procedures in the solution of stress, vibration,
and stability problems in structural members. Nonuniform
members, elastic supports, plates, torsion.
(Lec. 3) Pre: permission of instructor.
599 Masters Thesis Research (19)
Number of credits is determined each semester in
consultation with the major professor or program
committee. (Independent Study) S/U credit.
601, 602 Graduate Seminar (1 each)
Presentations by researchers and practicing professionals
covering topics in various areas of civil
engineering and related fields. Presentations and discussions
of research by graduate students. (Seminar)
Required of all full-time graduate students. May be
repeated for a maximum of 2 credits. Fall semester:
601; spring semester: 602. Pre: graduate standing.
S/U credit.
641 Pavement Evaluation and Rehabilitation (3)
Pavement performance concepts. Criteria for pavement
evaluation. Measurement of pavement distress
and structural capacity. Analysis and interpretation of
pavement evaluation data. Correlation of data with
performance ratings. Formulation and evaluation of
maintenance and rehabilitation alternatives. (Lec. 3)
Pre: 545 or equivalent.
651 Design of Highway Bridges (3)
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Design specifications and analysis methods for highway
bridges. Loads. Design of steel I-beam bridges,
reinforced concrete bridges, and plate girders. Orthotropic
analysis. Bridge details and substructure.
(Lec. 3) Pre: 561, 465, and 453.
652 Advanced Topics in Bridge Engineering (3)
Load and resistance factor design of prestressed
concrete bridges. Analysis and design of segmental
concrete bridges using the span-by-span and the
cantilever methods of construction. Time dependent
effects. Long span bridges. Bridge condition assessment
and rating. (Lec. 3) Pre: 651 or permission of
instructor.
657 Structural Stability (3)
Introduction; principal forms of equilibrium paths
and their stability; conservative elastic systems; buckling
of prismatic members; imperfections; plastic
deformations; postbuckling of frames and reticulated
structures; numerical methods; catastrophe theory.
(Lec. 3) Pre: permission of instructor.
667 Structural Reliability (3)
Probabilistic applications in structural analysis and
design. Statistical models for forces and material
strengths. Component and system structural reliability.
Random vibration applications in structural
engineering. (Lec. 3) Pre: permission of instructor.
672 Water Pollution Control and Treatment of
Wastewater (3)
Wastewater characteristics, effects, and purification
in natural water, government control strategies and
impacts, cost of control, theory and mathematical
concepts of secondary and tertiary treatment
process, their limitations, and late developments.
(Lec. 3) Pre: one year of chemistry and biology, MTH
243 and CVE 572 or their equivalents, and permission
of instructor.
677 Stream and Estuarine Analysis (3)
Fundamentals and mathematical concepts of physical
and biological factors applied to the evaluation
of the pollution capacity of streams and estuaries.
(Lec. 3) Pre: MTH 244.
687 Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (3)
Seismology and seismicity; surface faulting and
ground motion characteristics; response spectra;
dynamic soil properties; dynamic response of soil
layers, embankments, and slopes; influence of local
soil conditions on site response; evaluation of
design earthquakes; response analysis. (Lec. 3) Pre:
credit or concurrent enrollment in 483 and graduate
standing.
688 Marine Geomechanics
See Ocean Engineering 688.
691, 692 Special Problems (16 each)
Advanced work under the supervision of a faculty
member arranged to suit the individual requirements
of the student. (Independent Study) Pre: permission
of chairperson. May be repeated for a maximum of
12 credits.
694 Advanced Special Topics in Civil and Environmental
Engineering (13)
Intensive inquiry into a certain important field of
current interest in civil and environmental engineering,
requiring advanced sophistication of a 600-level
course. (Lec. 13) Pre: permission of instructor.
699 Doctoral Dissertation Research
Number of credits is determined each semester in
consultation with the major professor or program
committee. (Independent Study) S/U credit.
