Undergraduate Courses

Courses and Course Descriptions updated to correspond with the 2006-2007 Catalog

100 Environmental Engineering around the World (3:3:0). Introduces environmental engineering as practiced in different societies around the world. Environmental engineering is broadly defined as organizational and physical infrastructure to manage natural resources. Focuses on how different societies respond to environmental challenges related to engineering opportunities. Issues include construction of large dams to manage river systems; use of forecast climate and weather data to improve agriculture, emergency response, or water supply; collection and treatment of wastewater; public health and pollution control; disposal of waste nuclear materials; and management of significantly polluted sites.

ENGR 107 Introduction to Engineering (2:2:0). Corequisite: MATH 105, or Math Placement Test score qualifying student for MATH 113. Introduces engineering profession fundamentals and problem-solving. Topics include description of engineering disciplines, functions of the engineer, professionalism, ethics and registration, problem-solving and representation of technical information, estimation and approximations, and analysis and design. f,s

ENGR 183 Engineering Computer Graphics (3:2:3).  Fundamentals of engineering drawing, graphic communication, descriptive geometry, multiview projection, and graphical analysis. Introduces computer-aided drafting, visualization, pictorial views, and reading of engineering drawings. f,s

197, 297, 397 Industrial Internship I-A, II-A, III-A (0:0:0). Prerequisite: Civil and infrastructure engineering majors only. Preparation for summer work experience in civil and infrastructure engineering positions with land development, architecture/engineering, and construction firms or government. s

198, 298, 398 Industrial Internship I-B, II-B, III-B (0:0:0). Prerequisites: CEIE 197, 297, 397. Civil and infrastructure engineering majors only. Supervised 10-week summer work experience in civil and infrastructure engineering positions with land development, architecture/engineering, and construction firms or government. sum

199, 299, 399 Industrial Internship I-C, II-C, III-C (1:1:0). Prerequisites: CEIE 198, 298, 398. Evaluation of summer work experience in civil and infrastructure engineering positions with land development, architecture/engineering, and construction firms or government. Written report and presentation are required. f

ENGR 210 Statics and Dynamics (3:3:0). Prerequisites: PHYS 160 and MATH 114. Covers general principles and fundamental concepts, including units of measurement; force vectors and their use, including vector operations; equilibrium of a particle; resultants of a system of forces; equilibrium of a rigid body; dry friction; center of gravity and centroid; moments of inertia, including parallel axis theorem and radius of gyration; kinematics of a particle; and work and energy. f,s

230 Hydraulics (3:3:0). Prerequisite: PHYS 160. Principles of fluids in equilibrium and motion. Topics include hydrostatic pressure; continuity, Bernoulli, and momentum equations; viscosity flow problems; measuring instruments; and applications to closed conduits and open channels. s

290 Engineering Computation and Design (3:2:3). Prerequisite: ENGR 183. Introduces civil engineering design process. Includes methods, technologies for spatial data acquisition, emphasizing land measurements, mapping, and surveying. Covers processing field data to incorporate into computer-aided design systems; conversion of raw data into finished design documents, including schematic layouts, digital terrain models, preliminary plans, topographic maps, detailed design plans, cut sheets, cross-sections and profiles; 2D and 3D computer-aided design techniques; and application of digital computation. Includes design projects. f

301 Engineering and Economic Models in Civil Engineering (3:3:0) Prerequisites: STAT 344 and basic spreadsheet knowledge, or permission of instructor. Applies planning, analysis, control, and engineering economic models to life cycle of physical infrastructure. Introduces infrastructure design process and application of quantitative and probabilistic models. Presents applications of model building for engineering economics; decision making; forecasting; resource scheduling and allocation; estimating; work measurement and materials; and quality and process control in water, transportation, environmental, energy, and telecommunications infrastructure systems and the built environment. f

305 Soil Mechanics (3:3:0). Prerequisite: ENGR 210. Covers formulation and engineering characteristics of soils. Includes strength and deformation characteristics, consolidation and bearing capacities, and corrective measures. Introduces foundation design fundamentals. s

310 Mechanics of Materials (3:3:0). Prerequisite: ENGR 210. Concepts of stress, strain, elasticity, and plasticity. Stress and strain analysis, including the use of Mohr’s circle. Pure torsion. Theory of pure bending and members under transverse loading, including normal and shear stress analysis. Theory of elastic buckling. Distribution of internal forces in statically determinate systems, including beams, frames, and arches. f

311 Structural Analysis (3:3:0). Prerequisite: ENGR 310. Basic concepts and assumptions of structural analysis, including statical and geometric redundancy and related degrees of redundancy. Analyzes, by integration of deformation, simple structural members. Includes virtual work method to analyze deformations of simple structural systems such as articulate beams, trusses, frames, and arches. Analyzes statically determinate trusses. Covers method of forces to analyze statically indeterminate systems, method of displacements to analyze geometrically indeterminate systems, and symmetry and antisymmetry in structural analysis. Uses computer programs for structural analysis. s

340 Water Resource Engineering (3:2:3). Prerequisite: CEIE 230. Introduces principles and practice of water resources engineering. Covers analytic methods and computer models to design and evaluate water resource projects such as flood control and river basin development. Topics include hydrology; governing principles, common models, and typical applications for water resource systems; and design of storm water management systems and sanitary sewers. Laboratory and field work required on selected topics. f

360 Introduction to Transportation Engineering (3:2:3). Prerequisites: ENGR 210, ENGL 302, and CEIE 290. Introduces transportation systems and the factors that influence their planning, design, and operation. Topics include fundamentals of urban travel, travel demand forecasting, and traffic flow; principles of highway design; highway capacity and level of services; introduction to traffic control; traffic signal control systems; intersection design; speed zoning and control; and introduction to Intelligent Transportation Systems and travel demand management. Requires laboratory, field work on selected topics. Fulfills writing-intensive requirement for civil and infrastructure engineering major. f,s

367 Behavior of Concrete and Steel Structures (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CEIE 311. Covers structural design process. Analysis and design of simple steel structural and simple reinforced concrete members, including tension members, beams, and columns; and bolted and welded connections in steel structures. Uses computer programs to analyze, design, and optimize complex structural systems. f

400 Civil Engineering Planning and Management (3:3:0). Prerequisites: CEIE 360 and 340; corequisites: CEIE 440 and 455. 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 urban design systems and how they can be achieved. Discusses physical relationships among development, land use, transportation, energy, communications, and water systems. Studies public- and private-sector urban development industry. Other topics include innovation, competition, new technology, and environmental issues. Requires design projects. f

ENGR400 Principles of Professional Practice in Engineering (3:3:0) Prerequisite: engineering majors within 30 hours of graduation. Does not satisfy requirements for CEIE technical elective. Overview of all engineering disciplines focusing on engineering ethics and professionalism, need for lifelong learning, and professional licensure. Topic areas also include engineering science and mechanics, material science, electric circuits, chemistry and thermodynamics, engineering economics, and other fundamentals of engineering. s

410 Geographic Information Systems in Engineering (3:2:3) Prerequisites: 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 situations. Explores methods, 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

411 Introduction to Design and Inventive Engineering (3:3:0) Outlines major stages of design process. Covers conceptual versus detailed design; design theories, including axiomatic and inferential; basic assumptions and industrial applications of proactive design; design evaluation, including multiattribute utility models; and network computing in design. Covers inventive problem-solving methods, including brainstorming, Synectics, TRIZ, and morphological analysis. Includes computer tools to support design creativity. Features collaborative design: fundamentals and group projects dealing with civil engineering problems provided by industry.

440 Water Supply and Distribution (3:2:3) Prerequisite: CEIE 230. Focuses on analysis and design of public water supplies. Topics include supply evaluation; water quality and quantity requirements; treatment requirements and methods; hydraulic analysis of water distribution systems including line sizing, fire protection, pumps, valves, and storage; environmental impact assessments; and federal, state, and local government laws and regulations related to public water systems. Requires laboratory, field work on selected topics. f

450 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 to characterize environmental sites. s

452 Wastewater Management (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CEIE 455. 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. Also covers 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

455 Introduction to Environmental Engineering (3:3:0) Prerequisite: 3 credits of chemistry. 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

456 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

460 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

461 Traffic Engineering (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CEIE 360 or 365. Credit is not given for both CEIE 461 and 561. 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

462 Urban Transportation Planning (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CEIE 360 or 365. Credit is not given for both CEIE 462 and 562. 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, trip distribution, mode choice, and trip assignment models; site traffic impact studies; environmental impacts; project and plan evaluation; and technology options for urban transport. s

463 Construction Systems (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CEIE 400. Overview of urban construction industry, including organizations and interactions. Topics include project and construction management for operations, tactical, and strategic planning and decision making; cost estimation and scheduling, accounting, estimating, resource planning, and structuring of urban systems construction projects; and legal theories and relationships in the construction process, including role of design professional and manager. Introduces value engineering. s

490 Senior Design Project (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CEIE 367, 400. Capstone design experience. Integrates all design fundamentals employed by a typical civil engineering design team. Major team efforts include land use, transportation, water and sewerage, stormwater, site analyses, economic and regulatory considerations, sectioning, grading, and siting. Students focus on teamwork, interdisciplinary interaction, and tradeoff decision making. Design team analyzes all aspects of a major urban project, develops solutions to design problems, and produces project report and oral presentation. Design effort completed and report is prepared, presented, and evaluated. Primary course goal is to produce design for contemporary civil infrastructure project. s

498 Independent Study in Civil Engineering (1-3:0:0) Prerequisite: 60 credits; must be arranged with an instructor and approved by department chair before registering. Directed self-study of special topics of current interest. May be repeated for maximum 6 credits if topics are substantially different.

499 Special Topics in Civil Engineering (3:3:0) Vary with nature of topic. Topics of special interest to undergraduates. May be repeated for maximum 6 credits if topics are substantially different.