Graduate Courses

Courses and Course Descriptions updated for the 2006-2007 Catalog

500 Land Development Engineering (3:3:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing in CEIE. Credit is not given for both CEIE 400 and 500. Quantitative and qualitative analysis in planning, design, construction, and management of engineering systems and facilities. Introduces policies, programs, and regulations that influence land development, history-enabling legislation, governing and regulating bodies, control of site-plan development, and approval process. Examines structure, function, and purpose of infrastructure systems, and ways in which infrastructure systems design can be achieved. f

510 Geographic Information Systems in Engineering (3:2:3) Prerequisite: CS 112, CEIE 360; corequisite: CEIE 455. Credit is not given for both CEIE 410 and 510. Introduces geographic information systems (GIS) and their application in environmental, transportation, land use planning, and other engineering-related decision situations. Introduces methods and technologies for spatial data acquisition, specification, storage, manipulation, query, thematic analysis, presentation, and application in the design process. Introduces relationships, integration of GIS with computer aided design and global positioning system. Hands-on projects. f

511 Introduction to Design and Inventive Engineering (3:3:0) Covers design theories; engineering method and design paradigms; knowledge-based systems in design; collaborative and Internet-based design; evaluation in design; human problem solving; and inventive design methods such as constraint search, morphological analysis, brainstorming, Synectics, and TRIZ. Requires group projects using problems provided by industry.

516 Engineering Law and Ethics (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CEIE 400. Overview of body of law surrounding design, construction, and facilities maintenance and operations. Introduces tort law and its relationship to design and construction contracting. Uses case studies of contract form, general and special conditions, ethics, contract administration, claims, dispute resolution, arbitration, and appeals process.

530 Water Resource Systems Analysis (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CEIE 601 or equivalent. Introduces concepts, applications, and tools of systems analysis for water resources planning, management, and design. Problems including river basin planning, real-time hydrosystem operations, water quality management, capacity expansion, urban drainage network design, and sanitary sewer design used to illustrate applications of systems analysis. Tools include optimization and simulation modeling, and knowledgebased systems. f, odd years

550 Environmental Engineering Systems (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CEIE 455. Credit is not given for both CEIE 450 and 550. Introduces systems analysis in environmental engineering. Applies linear and dynamic programming, computer modeling, and other systems analysis methodologies to solve environmental engineering problems related to air, soil, and water pollution. Reviews experimental design approaches for the characterization of environmental sites. s, odd years

552 Wastewater Engineering (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CEIE 455 or 555. Credit is not given for both CEIE 452 and 552. Explores design fundamentals to treat wastewater. Topics include environmental regulations; wastewater characterization; pretreatment systems; biological, physical, and chemical treatment; treatment and disposal of wastewater sludge; and financing and management. Includes consequences of environmental policies; environmental impact assessments; and federal, state, and local government laws and regulations related to wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal. s, even years

555 Introduction to Environmental Engineering (3:3:0) Credit is not given for both CEIE 455 and 555. Introduces principles of environmental engineering management and design pertaining to water supply and treatment, wastewater treatment, solid waste management, air pollution control, noise pollution measurement and control, and environmental impact assessment. f

556 Environmental Law (3:3:0) Credit is not given for both CEIE 456 and 556. Introductory course in the study of environmental laws as they pertain to urban systems infrastructure management. Reviews the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, and other environmentally related legislation. Also reviews laws for allocation of surface and groundwater supplies, and reviews environmental law databases. s

560 Public Transportation Systems (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CEIE 360. Credit is not given for both CEIE 460 and 560. Analyzes public transportation systems in terms of their role in urban transportation. Topics include history of public transportation in the United States, quantitative performance attributes of different modes, analytical techniques for planning and operation, and management and administrative concepts. f

561 Traffic Engineering (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CEIE 360 or 365 or equivalent. Credit is not given for both CEIE 461 and 561. Covers elements of traffic engineering analysis; system components of traffic operations: driver, vehicle, and roadway; traffic flow design elements including volume, density, and speed; intersection design elements including traffic control device warrants, signal timing, delay, capacity, and accident countermeasures; and terminal design elements including inflow, outflow, and circulation. f

562 Urban Transportation Planning (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CEIE 360 or 365 or equivalent. Credit is not given for both CEIE 462 and 562. Covers technical and qualitative aspects of urban transportation planning process. Topics include urban travel characteristics and data collection methods; urban transportation modeling system, including land use, trip generation and distribution, mode choice, and trip assignment models; site traffic impact studies; environmental impacts; project and plan evaluation; and technology options for urban transport. s

565 Design of Transport Systems (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CEIE 360. Covers street and highway facilities design emphasizing interaction among driver, vehicle, and geometric design elements. Design of interchanges and intersections; highway roadside safety and tort liability; pavement design, maintenance and safety; edge dropoff; clear zone concept; roadside barriers; guiderail treatments; traffic calming; pedestrian and bicycle and transit design challenges; and work-zone traffic control. Provides skills to understand interaction among driver, vehicle, and environment, and how to incorporate better design practices. Also introduces concepts of forgiving highway design and highway tort liability.

600 Civil Engineering Infrastructure Planning and Management (3:3:0) Study of planning and management practices applicable to the life cycle of the physical urban infrastructure including roads, sewers, water distribution and other pipelines, telecommunications, and energy distribution systems. Includes study of relationship of urban growth and infrastructure reinvestment; mechanisms of deterioration; direct and indirect methods of assessment and degradation models; capital finance, budgeting, and programming; planning integration and coordination; quantitative applications in planning; uncertainty and reliability; public-private partnerships; operation and maintenance strategies; and future issues.

601 Infrastructure Modeling (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CEIE 605. Concepts of modeling for infrastructure engineering. Covers modeling, simulation, optimization, deterministic and stochastic models, and limitations of modeling approaches. Also includes multiple objective, multiple decision maker problems, and case studies in areas such as transportation, water resources, the environment, energy, telecommunications, and construction. s

605 Infrastructure Systems Analysis (3:3:0) Prerequisite: STAT 344. Probability and statistics topics for analysis of infrastructure systems. Includes Bayesian decision theory, decision trees, Monte Carlo analysis, stochastic models, and economic analysis of infrastructure projects and systems. f

610 Construction Systems and Management (3:3:0) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Studies applications of construction management concepts and techniques to the production of constructed system. Explores construction industry and environment through project cycle design and construction phases, emphasizing estimating, planning, scheduling, labor, money, materials, machines, time, and information. Uses popular scheduling software with class projects and case study.

632 Groundwater Systems Modeling (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CEIE 601. Introduces groundwater hydrology and modeling, including quantity and quality aspects. Topics include characterization of subsurface regime; well hydraulics; consideration of two-dimensional steady and unsteady state flows; exploration of modeling approaches; simulation and optimization modeling; contaminant transport; parameter estimation; and design of systems to control groundwater quantity and quality. f, even years

660 Urban Transportation Planning (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CEIE 601. Quantitative and qualitative techniques in urban transportation planning. Topics include different levels of urban transportation planning; technical transportation planning process, including travel demand estimation, establishment of transportation strategies, and utility analysis; and activity center planning including onsite vehicle and pedestrian circulation, transportation interface, environmental planning, and planning administration.

663 Intelligent Transportation Systems (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CEIE 561 or 562. Advanced transportation system operations and safety through the use of wireless and wireline communications; integrated transportation systems; in-vehicle technologies; industry standards; and systems architecture. Provides skills to apply advanced technologies to transportation systems to improve operational and safety performance. Provides nontraditional tools to address issues of congestion and improved safety performance.

670 Civil Engineering Decision Methods and Tools (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CEIE 605. Principles of decision making and knowledge acquisition to build knowledge based decision support tools for civil, environmental, and infrastructure engineering. Includes solving complex problems from several areas of urban systems engineering; and using various decision-support tools based on Bayesian decision theory and principles of artificial intelligence, including knowledge-based systems and learning systems. f, even years

671 Best Engineering Management Practices (3:3:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing. Covers strategies to identify and implement best engineering management practices. Addresses development of performance standards. Introduces quality-improvement methods and standards, including Quality Functional Development, ISO 9000, Baldrige Excellence Award, and the Six Sigma method. Presents relevant national and engineered standards, statistical norms, rules of thumb, selected statistics from comparative projects, excerpts from performance records, and performance targets. Covers case studies relating to management of infrastructure projects. Includes introduction to benchmarking methods, addressing criteria to select benchmarking program or process.

680 Introduction to Infrastructure and Security Engineering (3:3:0) Prerequisite: BS in civil engineering, or permission of instructor. In-depth review of present and proposed practices and issues to manage civil infrastructure, focusing on performance and security through the full life cycle, including planning, designing, and construction of new, rehabilitated, modified, and recycled or decommissioned components. Covers asset-management methods and their effectiveness in managing all types of risk. Profiles policies leading civil infrastructure industry toward adoption of such methods, and examines industry case studies. Special attention to vulnerability assessment and risk management in context of broad sampling of potential threats.

681 Security of Structural Systems (3:3:0) Prerequisite: BS in civil engineering, or CEIE 367. Basic concepts of security of structural systems; analytical models of behavior of structural systems under various security threats; computer simulation of security threats, including blasts and fire; generation of terrorist scenarios and of preventive structural measures; design for security; out-of-thebox approaches to development of preventive structural measures; lessons learned; and intelligent structural security systems.

683 Water and Wastewater Systems Security (3:3:0) Prerequisite: BS in civil engineering, or CEIE 440 and 455. Examines overall security of water and wastewater systems. Covers theory and methods to define water and wastewater infrastructure as physical and organizational systems. Explores concepts of infrastructure systems security; identifies actors, interactions in organizational infrastructure, and threats to water and wastewater infrastructure; describes behavior of physical and organizational infrastructures under stress; examines history of threats or attacks against water and wastewater systems; and explores evolution of design, operations, and maintenance paradigms in response to changes in threats. Covers proactive responses to security threats through vulnerability assessments, and models of organizational and physical infrastructure system.

685 Civil Engineering Information Management (3:3:0) Advanced course covering all phases of information management life cycle from conceptual design and data collection through systems development, archiving, and disposal. Covers software engineering such as structured analysis, rapid prototyping, and object-oriented analysis as applied to urban systems infrastructure problem solving. Reviews database technology, spreadsheets, communications software, customized applications software, groupware, and graphics software including computer-aided design and geographic information systems. Covers selection and use of appropriate software to match specific engineering problems related to the design, construction, and management of civil engineering infrastructure. Includes design and development of system for engineering application. s

686 Transportation System Security and Safety (3:3:0) Prerequisite: BS in engineering, or permission of instructor. Focuses on critical transportation systems infrastructure and operations, and technologies for predicting and managing damage and disruptions caused by potential threats, including natural and technological disasters and terrorist threats. Includes asset management, methodologies for assessing vulnerabilities, potential impact of damage and disruption, applying state-of-the-art technologies and R&D processes for harnessing best analysis methods, and technologies for hardening transportation infrastructure systems. Includes sensing and surveillance using satellite and aerial remote sensing imagery, application of GIS and spatial information technologies, information and communication, intelligent transportation systems, hardening systems, and making intelligent choices for implementing technology advances to transportation security and safety.

690 Topics in Civil Engineering (3:3:0) Prerequisite: determined by topic. Topics not covered in the regular civil engineering offerings. Course content may vary each semester. Course may be repeated with change in topic.

762 Transportation System Planning Models (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CEIE 562 or 660; CEIE 601. Covers transportation systems analysis; theory, mathematical structure, and applications of transportation planning models; network analysis and equilibrium; dynamic and stochastic equilibrium models; modal choice analysis; discrete choice models of transportation demand; and model estimation and aggregation.

767 Traffic Engineering Modeling and Analysis (3:3:0) Prerequisites: CEIE 561, 601. Covers basic principles of simulation; queuing theory and traffic signal operations at individual intersections, arterials and networks; applying models related to traffic signalization; optimization and traffic simulation; and developing skills to select most appropriate model for given scenario.

795 Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Seminar (0:1:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing. Invited speakers, faculty, and CEIE graduate students lecture on current topics and research. Partially fulfills MS in civil and infrastructure engineering seminar requirement; required for master’s candidates during semester they complete research project or thesis.

796 Directed Reading (1-3:0:0) Prerequisites: graduate standing and permission of instructor. Reading on specific topic under direction of faculty member. May be repeated with change in topic.

798 Research Project in Civil Engineering (3:0:0) Prerequisite: permission of instructor; corequisite: CEIE 795. Analyzes and investigates contemporary problem in civil, environmental, and infrastructure engineering. Requires prior approval by faculty member who supervises student’s work. Written report also required.

799 Master’s Thesis (1-6:0:0) Prerequisites: 18 credits of graduate-level course work and permission of instructor. Research project chosen and completed under guidance of graduate faculty member that results in technical report acceptable to three-faculty-member committee, and an oral defense.

IT 890 Special Topics in Urban Transportation (3:3:0) Prerequisites: CEIE 560 and 660 or equivalent; or permission of instructor. Includes traffic safety analysis, simulation in transportation, intelligent transportation systems, advanced public transportation systems, congestion and travel demand management, geographic information systems and information technology, and innovative refinancing and public-private partnerships. May be repeated for credit when topics distinctly different.

IT 891 Special Topics in Applications of Information Technology to Urban Systems Engineering (3:3:0) Prerequisites: CEIE 670, or permission of instructor. Topics include inventive engineering, design engineering, network computing, building and using intelligent agents in engineering, and proactive design. May be repeated for credit when topics distinctly different.

IT 892 Special Topics in Environmental and Water Resource Systems Engineering (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CEIE 601. Possible topics include studies in waste minimization; pollution prevention; hazardous waste management; wastewater management; air pollution control; solid waste management; environmental decision making; sustainability; water resource and environmental economics; wetlands management, design and construction; groundwater contamination modeling; stochastic hydrology; river basin planning and management; and water quality modeling. May be repeated for credit when topics distinctly different.

IT 894 Design and Inventive Engineering (3:3:0) Prerequisite: SYST 573, CEIE 670, or OR 681; or permission of instructor. Topics include evolution of engineering, design engineering, inventive engineering, general design methodology, conceptual versus detailed design, axiomatic and inferential design theories, engineering method in design, design paradigms, case-based and proactive design, design evaluation, virtual design studio, Internet and browsers in design, creative problem solving, and computer tools to support design creativity.