Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Discussion of content, administration, and implementation of the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Exam, a comprehensive review of FE-type problems, and a targeted review of specific topics on the FE Exam.

Generating three-dimensional architectural/structural models. Dimensioning and Annotating. Modeling various components of a building, including floors, roofs, structure, ceilings, stairs, ramps, railings. Generating schedules, views and detailing views.

Probability, statistics, and decision theory applied to a variety of civil-engineering disciplines, such as structural design and analysis, geotechnical, water quality, water resources, and transportation.

Design of structures using load- and resistance-factor design concept. Limit states design of columns, beams, beam-columns, frames, connections, plate girders, and composite sections. Computer applications to design.

Analysis and design of prestressed concrete members for flexure, shear, torsion, and compression. Basic concept of prestressing. Stress computation and prestress loss estimation. Deflection and crack control.

Response of single and multiple degree of freedom systems to dynamic loadings (harmonic, blast, wind, earthquake); design of buildings, bridges, and pipelines for dynamic loading (with particular emphasis on earthquakes); building and bridge codes.

Pavement types and stress analysis, traffic assessment, subgrade and pavement materials evaluation, design of flexible and rigid pavements for highways and airports, pavement distress and rehabilitation, introduction to pavement management systems and SuperPave mix design.

Value-based assessment and management of engineering/technology projects: equivalence; discounted cash flow; taxes/depreciation; financial statements. Risk-adjusted valuation: risk/uncertainty in staged projects; Monte Carlo simulations; decision trees; real options; project portfolio management.

Introduction to geofoam production, physical properties, evaluation of engineering parameters, specification and quality assurance, analyses and design of selected applications, comparison with conventional methods, field monitoring, and case histories.

Energy demand and resources. Fundamentals of combustion. Power plants, refrigeration systems. Turbines and engines. Advanced systems. Direct energy conversion. Alternate energy sources. Energy storage. Costs and environmental impact.

Fundamentals of building ventilating methods for measuring and controlling indoor environmental conditioning, thermal comfort, and indoor air quality.

Fundamentals of moist air properties, basic air conditioning processes, heat transfer in building structures, heating and cooling load calculations, and air distribution systems.

Factors that make chemicals environmental hazards and techniques used in their evaluation. Topics include chemical, physiological, and molecular aspects of toxicology; transport and fate of chemicals in the environment; and current legislation.

Regulations that address management of hazardous wastes. Practices and technologies commonly used in meeting regulations. Investigative and diagnostic techniques.

Composition of refuse. Quantities produced by individuals and industries. Collection equipment, methods, and associated costs. Disposal problems and solutions, such as landfills, incineration, and composting.

Occurrence, nature and properties, major sources and quantities of contaminants. Ambient air concentration levels, community distribution patterns, and control of air pollution.

Design of water and wastewater treatment plants; design capacity, process size and configuration, and overall treatment system performance for specific use needs and regulatory requirements. Groups prepare designs and cost estimates with written and oral reports.

Conceptual and mathematical models of water quality in surface waters. Application of mass and energy balances to aquatic systems. Numerical methods for solution of governing equations. Students will build simple models and use existing water quality modeling software.

Overview of water and sanitation technologies and systems, including design and operational principles, commonly found in low-resource settings around the world. Emphasis on sustainable design considering environmental, economic, and social dimensions, with inclusion of stakeholder perspectives.

Theory and practice of urban stormwater management systems. Selecting and sizing stormwater quality and quantity control devices and systems. Sustainability aspects of urban stormwater design and regulatory compliance requirements. ENVISION rating system. Final design project.

Principles and methods of lean construction. History and evolution of lean production and lean construction paradigms. Production control and contracting. Applications to construction processes and operations to improve project performance.

Discussion of construction productivity measurement techniques, productivity improvement methods, and how to measure productivity loss. Examine factors that affect construction productivity such as human behavior, overtime, shift work, overmanning, change orders, and weather.

Engineering properties of geosynthetics (geotextiles, geogrids, geonets, geomembranes, and geocomposites). Design of filters using geotextiles, retaining structures using geosynthetics, design of liquid impoundment, and solid waste containment facilities.

Aerodynamics, performance, control, and electrical aspects wind turbines.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Overview of various aspects of construction engineering and project management. Construction contracts, resource management, scheduling, equipment, quality control, productivity, construction safety, cash flow concepts, legal and management structures. Additional coursework required of graduate students.

Cost and schedule estimations based on project specifications. Construction drawings and specifications, quantity take-off, cost estimation, scheduling through deterministic and probabilistic methods, resource management, accelerated construction, and schedule updating. Additional work (research presentation and report) required of graduate students.

Introduction to data science methods for environmental analysis in the R and Python programming languages. Reproducible scientific computing; open geospatial data sources; common structures of environmental data; space/time applications of supervised machine learning; and high throughput computing.

Fundamentals of watershed hydrology presented from a physical hydrology perspective; course topics include: the water cycle, hydrologic processes, streamflow generation, groundwater-surface water interactions, and introduction to hydrologic modeling concepts. Additional work required of graduate students.

Structural design using timber. Topics covered include dimensional features, structural properties, and behavior under loads using current NDS and ASCE 7 in both ASD and LRFD. Additional work is required of graduate students.

Probability-based risk assessment. Probability modeling of load and resistance processes. Probability distribution and cumulative density functions. Extreme value problems. First and second order reliability analyses of series and parallel civil engineering systems.

Movement and fate of organic chemicals in aquatic systems. Thermodynamic principles and molecular descriptors for predicting the partitioning in environmental phases. Mechanisms and kinetics of chemical transformation processes including hydrolysis, reduction, oxidation, and photolysis. Additional work required for graduate students.

Analysis of cables and arches using classical method. Linear and nonlinear analyses of trusses and frames using matrix method. Modeling and analysis of special structures.

Dynamic response of single- and multi-degree-of-freedom structures. Time domain and frequency domain analyses. Linear and nonlinear systems. Applications to earthquake engineering. Blast loading and soil-structure interaction effects.

Fundamentals and techniques of modern finite analytical methods, including the finite element and finite difference methods. Application to elasticity, plate, shell seepage, torsion, and fracture mechanics problems.

Stability analysis of bars, arches, plates and shells. Stability criteria. Analytical and numerical solutions to stability problems. Effects of geometrical imperfections and material nonlinearity. Design considerations for stability.

Relation of straight line and ultimate theories to the analysis and design of reinforced an prestressed concrete structures.

Design of steel structures using plasticity theory. Concept of plastic hinge and collapse mechanism. Lower and upper bound theorems. Equilibrium and mechanism methods for the analysis and design of continuous beams and frames.

Physiochemical studies of soils land soil behavior. Stress distribution in soil masses. Immediate and time-dependent compression of soils. Settlement analysis. Seepage through foundations and earth structures.

Shear strength of soils. Bearing capacity and slope stability analyses. Earth pressures and analysis of retaining structures. Soil dynamics.

Introduction to public infrastructure systems. Management of infrastructure systems. Monitoring, planning, design, construction, maintenance/rehabilitation and operation. Emphasis on water, storm water, waste water, transportation, electrical power distribution and telecommunications systems.

Types of earth dams. Method of construction. Case histories. Stability of dams. Seepage-flow nets. Effective stress analysis. Darcy's law. Estimation of flow. Design of filters. Instrumentation. Design of dams for earthquake forces.

Fundamental engineering concepts and principles used for the design and operation of water and wastewater treatment systems. Estimating water demand and wastewater flows in the urban water use cycle. Significance of government regulations and standards.

Transportation systems, modes and significance. Traffic engineering fundamental relationships and field studies. Intersection design and control. Geometric design of road alignments. Introduction to transportation planning. Additional work required of graduate students. A research report is required for CEE 643.

Building environmental analysis; contaminant source and sink models; single-zone, multizone, and computational fluid dynamics models.

Understanding of heat, air and moisture transfer effects on building envelope/enclosure through linking material properties, assembly design and hygorthermal performance with structural and mechanical considerations. Introduction to advanced computational tools for building enclosures.

Students will analyze the human health impact of exposure to toxic chemicals in air, water, and soil according to USEPA Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund. Additional work required of graduate students.

Principles used in the analysis and design of physical-chemical water/waste-treatment processes.

Theories and Advanced design concepts for aerobic, anoxic and anaerobic system applications.

Principles of aquatic chemistry applied to the solution of environmental engineering problems. Includes acid-base, carbonate, precipitation-dissolution, coordination, and oxidation-reduction chemistry.

Biogeochemical relationships as a unifying concept for ecological systems, including importance of biogeochemical relationships in ecosystems and global cycles. The interface between abiotic and biotic components of ecosystems is explained. Additional work required of graduate students.

Development of advanced theories of hydrologic action: precipitation frequencies, precipitation-runoff relations, magnitude and frequency of maxima and minima; interpretation and application of these theories.

Research report presentations by students and visiting specialists in civil engineering and associated sciences and professions. Required each semester of all M.C.E. candidates.

General principles. Chemical properties of soils, nature of surfaces, soil formation, soil minerals, and mechanisms regulating solute chemistry in soil solutions.

Introduction to principles underlying engineering decisions to improve our quality of life without jeopardizing quality of life for future generations. Application of these principles to qualitative and quantitative engineering problems. Additional coursework required of graduate students.

Interdisciplinary view of urban infrastructure (transportation, water supply, electric power, etc.). Considerations of resilience, sustainability, design objectives, politics, economic/community impacts, finance, and smart cities. Challenges and possibilities inherent in modern infrastructures. Additional work required of graduate students.

Analysis and design of highway concrete bridges. Bridge economics, aesthetics, construction, load distribution, and design using load resistance factor design (LRFD). Analysis of stresses and deformations, and the relation to AASHTO-LRFD Design Specifications.

Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.

An introduction to chemical principles in natural and engineered environmental systems. Thermodynamics and kinetics of reactions; acid-base chemistry; environmental organic chemistry; treatment process design applications. Includes selected laboratory exercises. Additional work is required of graduate students.

General Principles and application of environmental microbiology and microbial processes. Role of microbes in water pollution control, environmental health, and element cycling in the environment. Additional work is required of graduate students.

Fundamentals and applications of mass and heat transport in environmental engineering. Molecular and turbulent diffusion, advection, dispersion, settling, and surface transfer in air and water. Quantitative applications in treatment systems and the natural environment. Additional work is required of graduate students.

Advanced computational and theoretical tools to model and simulate the behavior of materials from the fundamental building blocks to the continuous functional form at multiple scale levels.

Planning, analysis, and design of structural systems, e.g. buildings and bridges. Structure economics, aesthetics, construction, analysis, and design will be presented. Reference will be made to the AASHTO-LRFD Specifications, and the International Building Codes.

Deterioration of construction materials. Evaluation, non-destructive testing, and rehabilitation of existing structures. Properties and applications of repair materials. Seismic retrofit of bridges. Analysis and design of structural members retrofitted with carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites.

Statistical analysis of spatial patterns in environmental data. Exploratory data analysis; estimation, modeling, and interpretation of variograms; prediction using driging. Applications in engineering, geography, earth science and ecology. Use of geostatistical software.

Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.

Shallow and deep foundations, buried structures, and earth structures.

Principles and practice of stabilization techniques for soil and rock material: chemical, mechanical electrosmosis, chemical and cement grouting, de-watering, heating, and dynamic consolidation.

Earthquakes: magnitude, intensity, design acceleration history, response spectra, soil behavior under dynamic loads, wave propagation, shear modulus and damping dynamic analysis, design of retaining walls, shallow foundations and deep foundation for earthquakes.

Environmental hazards to human health. Toxic properties of industrial dusts, gaseous contaminants, and ionizing radiations. Theories and principles of maximum permissible doses. Control techniques.

Special investigations and research in civil engineering designed to meet the needs of individual students.

Written paper on a topic in civil or environmental engineering, supervised by a faculty advisor and submitted in accordance with current departmental guidelines.

Investigation of a civil engineering or environmental engineering or science problem. A written report is required in accordance with current departmental guidelines. Required of all students electing the non-thesis option for a master's degree.

Research thesis on some phases of engineering to be selected by student and approved by department chair.

Research Studies directed to the dissertation under supervision of member of Graduate School faculty.