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CEGR 5090. Special Topics in Civil Engineering. (1-4) Study of specific new areas emerging in the various fields of civil engineering. May be repeated for credit. (On demand)

CEGR 5108. Finite Element Analysis and Applications. (3) Prerequisite: consent of department. Finite element method and its application to engineering problems. Application of displacement method to plane stress, plane strain, plate bending and axisymmetrical bodies. Topics include but are not limited to dynamics, fluid mechanics, and structural mechanics. (Dual-listed with MEGR 5108.) (Spring)

CEGR 5121. Prestressed Concrete Design. (3) Prerequisites: CEGR 3225 and 4224 or consent of the department. Analysis and design of prestressed components and systems, including materials and systems for prestressing, loss of prestress, flexural and shear design in accordance with current building codes, analysis of indeterminate prestressed systems, and control of camber, deflection and cracking. (Spring) (Alternate years)

CEGR 5123. Bridge Design. (3) Prerequisites: CEGR 3221 and 3225, or consent of the department. Review of bridge design codes and loadings; superstructure and substructure design of short, intermediate, and long span bridges constructed of steel and concrete; earthquake design; segmental and cable-stayed bridges. (Spring) (Alternate years)

CEGR 5124. Masonry Design. (3) Prerequisites: CEGR 3225 or consent of the department. Introduction of masonry materials and engineering and materials properties and testing procedures. Design of reinforced and unreinforced masonry (clay and concrete) walls, beams, and columns for vertical, wind, and seismic loads. Analysis and design of masonry structures (including torsion) and introduction to computer applications. (Spring) (Alternate years)

CEGR 5128. Matrix Methods of Structural Analysis. (3) Prerequisite: consent of department. Derivation of the basic equations governing linear structural systems. Application of stiffness and flexibility methods to trusses and frames. Solution techniques utilizing digital computer. (Fall) (Alternate years)

CEGR 5141. Process Engineering. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 3141 or consent of the department. Applications of material and energy balance principles to the study of chemical, biological and environmental engineering processes. Overview of applied biotechnology, engineering thermodynamics and kinetics. (Fall)

CEGR 5142. Water/Wastewater Engineering. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 3141or consent of the department. Analysis and design of water and wastewater treatment processes including: physical, chemical and biological treatment. Computer-aided design of treatment systems. (Spring)

CEGR 5143. Solid Waste Management. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 3141 or consent of the department. Solid waste management, sources, generation rates, processing and handling, disposal, recycling, landfill closures, and remedial actions for abandoned waste sites. (Spring) (Alternate years)

CEGR 5144. Engineering Hydrology. (3) Prerequisite: consent of the department. A quantitative study of the various components of the water cycle, including precipitation, runoff, ground water flow, evaporation and transpiration, stream flow. Hydrograph analysis, flood routing, frequency and duration, reservoir design, computer applications. (On demand)

CEGR 5145. Groundwater Resources Engineering. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 3141 or consent of the department. Overview of hydrological cycle. Principles of groundwater flow and well hydraulics. Regional groundwater flow and flow nets. Water chemistry and contamination. Applications of groundwater modeling. (Fall) (Alternate years)

CEGR 5146. Advanced Engineering Hydraulics. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 3143 or consent of the department. Problems of liquids as applied in civil engineering; open channel flow; dams and spillways; water power; river flow and backwater curves; pipe networks, fire flow, sewage collection, groundwater, computer applications. (On demand)

CEGR 5161. Advanced Traffic Engineering. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 3161 or consent of the department. Analysis of basic characteristics of drivers, vehicles and roadway that affect the performance of road systems. Stream flow elements, volume, density, speed. Techniques of traffic engineering measurements, investigations and data analysis, capacity analysis. Intersections, accidents, parking. (On demand)

CEGR 5162. Transportation Planning. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 3161 or consent of the department. Urban transportation; travel characteristics of urban transportation systems; analysis of transportation-oriented studies; analytic methods of traffic generation, distribution, modal split and assignment; traffic flow theory. (On demand)

CEGR 5171. Urban Public Transportation. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 3161 or consent of the department. Planning, design, and operation of bus, rail, and other public modes. Relationship between particular modes and characteristics of urban areas. Funding, security and other administrative issues. (Fall) (Alternate years)

CEGR 5181. Human Factors in Traffic Engineering. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 3161 or consent of the department. Study of the driver's and pedestrian's relationship with the traffic system, including roadway, vehicle and environment. Consideration of the driving task, driver and pedestrian characteristics, performance and limitations with regard to traffic facility design and operation. (On demand)

CEGR 5182. Transportation Environmental Assessment. (3) A study of the environmental impact analysis and assessment procedures for transportation improvements. Route location decisions. Noise, air quality, socio-economic, and other impacts. (On demand)

CEGR 5183. Traffic Engineering Studies. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 3161 or consent of department. Introduction to the traffic engineering studies most used by traffic engineers including data collection techniques, statistical analysis procedures, report writing and presentation. One hour of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. (On demand)

CEGR 5184. Highway Safety. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 3161 or consent of the department. Engineering responses at the state and local levels to the problem of highway safety. Extent of the highway safety problem, elements of traffic accidents, common accident countermeasures, collection and analysis of accident data, evaluation of safety-related projects and programs, and litigation issues. (Fall) (Alternate years)

CEGR 5185. Geometric Design of Highways. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 3152 or consent of the department. Theory and practice of geometric design of highways including intersections, interchanges, parking and drainage facilities. Driver ability, vehicle performance, safety and economics are considered. Two hours of lecture and three laboratory hours per week. (On demand)

CEGR 5222. Structural Steel Design II. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 3221. Analysis and design of structural steel components and systems with emphasis on theories necessary for a thorough understanding of the design of complete structures. Compression members affected by local buckling, beams with lateral-torsional buckling, continuous beams and beam columns are covered. Welded and bolted connections. Current AISC Specifications used. (Spring)

CEGR 5224. Advanced Structural Analysis. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 3122 or consent of the department. A continuation of CEGR 3122. Methods to determine deflections in structural members, including moment area, conjugate beam, virtual work, and Castigliano's theorem. Methods to analyze statically indeterminate structures, including approximate force, slope deflection, moment distribution, and matrix stiffness methods. Project to compare analysis techniques and introduce use of structural analysis computer programs. (Fall)

CEGR 5226. Reinforced Concrete Design II. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 3225 or consent of the department. Analysis and design of reinforced concrete components and systems with emphasis on the fundamental theories necessary for a thorough understanding of concrete structures. Concentrically loaded slender columns, slender columns under compression plus bending. Wall footings and column footings. Analysis of continuous beams and frames. Total design project involving the analysis and design of a concrete structure. Current ACI Specifications used. (Spring)

CEGR 5234. Hazardous Waste Management. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 3141 or consent of the department. Integration of scientific and engineering principles with legislation, regulation and technology in the management of hazardous wastes. Study of thermal, chemical, physical and biological systems and processes used in the treatment of hazardous wastes and the remediation of hazardous waste sites. (On demand)

CEGR 5235. Industrial Pollution Control. (3) Prerequisite: consent of the department. Source and characterization of industrial wastewaters. Fundamentals of chemical and physical treatment processes. Biological treatment technologies. Waste minimization and reduction technologies. Sludge handling and toxicity reduction. Implementation of field or laboratory treatability study. (Fall) (Alternate years)

CEGR 5236. Watershed Analysis. (3) Prerequisite: consent of the department. Study of NPS problems in urban and non-urban watersheds and from highway runoff. Estimate of sediment yield and design of BMP's including sediment control structures. Introduction to monitoring and modeling of hydrologic systems. Watershed modeling in a GIS environment. (Spring) (Alternate years)

CEGR 5237. Environmental Risk Management. (3) Prerequisite: consent of the department. Review of legislation and requirements pertaining to spills and releases of chemicals to the environment. Fundamentals of fires, explosions, toxic emissions and dispersion, hazardous spills, and other accidents. Study of techniques for accident prevention and spill control, and hazardous and risk assessment. (Fall) (Alternate years)

CEGR 5241. Chemical Processes in Water and Wastewater Treatment. (3) Prerequisites: CHEM 1252(Formerly CHEM 1102) and CEGR 3141, or consent of the department. Chemical principles involved in the treatment of water and wastewaters; principles of chemical equilibrium relevant to natural water systems; the nature and effect of chemical interactions of domestic and industrial waste effluents on natural water systems. (On demand)

CEGR 5243. Topics in Environmental Health. (3) Prerequisites: CEGR 3141 and 4142, or consent of the department. Study of contemporary environmental health problems and practices as they relate to groundwater pollution, food and water-borne diseases, radiological health, occupational health and risk assessment. Provides an introduction to epidemiology and toxicology, and a historical review of federal environmental policy and legislative action. (On demand)

CEGR 5262. Traffic Engineering. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 3161 or consent of the department. Operation and management of street and highway systems. Traffic control systems, traffic flow theory, and highway capacity. Evaluation of traffic engineering alternatives and the conduct of traffic engineering studies. (Spring)

CEGR 5264. Landfill Design and Site Remediation. (3) Prerequisites: CEGR 3258 and 3278, or consent of the department. Principles of waste disposal and sanitary landfill siting including design, construction, operation and maintenance. Site assessment of underground storage tank leaks; site remediation, and clean up technologies using choice and economic analysis and computer applications. (Spring) (Alternate years)

CEGR 5270. Earth Pressures and Retaining Structures. (3) Prerequisites: CEGR 3122 and 3278 or consent of the department. Earth pressure theories, effects of wall friction and external loads (including earthquake); design of rigid retaining walls (including structural details); sheetpile wall design; soil reinforcement systems for retaining structures; computer applications. (On demand)

CEGR 5271. Pavement Design. (3) Prerequisites: CEGR 3161 and 3278, or consent of the department. Pavement design concepts and considerations; engineering properties of pavement materials including soils, bases, asphalt concrete, and portland cement concrete; design of flexible and rigid pavements including shoulders and drainage; computer applications for pavement analysis and design. (On demand)

CEGR 5272. Design with Geosynthetics. (3) Prerequisites: CEGR 3258 and 3278 or consent of the department. Types and properties of geosynthetics. Designing with geosynthetics for filtration, separation, drainage, soil reinforcement, stabilization, containment, and erosion control. Computer applications in design. (Fall) (Alternate years)

CEGR 5278. Geotechnical Engineering II. (3) Prerequisites: CEGR 3258 and 3278, or consent of the department. Design of shallow and deep foundations, including structural considerations; lateral earth pressure theories; design of rigid and flexible earth retaining structures; advanced aspects of slope stability analysis; and computer applications. (Fall)

CEGR 5892. Individualized Study and Projects. (1-6) Prerequisites: consent of the department. Individual investigation and exposition of results. May be repeated for credit. (On demand)

CEGR 5991. Graduate Research in Civil Engineering. (1-4) Prerequisite: consent of the department. Independent study of a theoretical and/or experimental problem in a specialized area of civil engineering. May be repeated for credit. (On demand)

CEGR 6090. Special Topics in Civil Engineering. (1-6) Directed study of current topics of special interest. May be repeated for credit. (On demand)

CEGR 6122. Advanced Topics in Structural Steel. (3) Prerequisites: CEGR 4222 or consent of the department. Theory of plastic-behavior of steel structures; current topics in structural steel. (On demand)

CEGR 6126. Analysis of Plates and Shells. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 4224, or consent of the department. Analysis of rectangular and circular plates using classical as well as numerical methods; orthotropic and continuous plates and plate buckling. Analysis of thin shells and shells of revolution with and without bending; membrane theory of cylindrical shells; symmetric and unsymmetric loading; pipes, tanks, and pressure vessels; computer applications. (On demand)

CEGR 6127. Fracture Mechanics and Fatigue. (3) Prerequisites: CEGR 3221 or consent of the department. Introduction to fracture mechanics and fatigue, including Griffith Theory, plan strain-stress conditions, critical stress intensity factors, factors influencing fracture toughness, fracture mechanics design principles, fatigue performance, and fatigue initiation and propagation. (On demand)

CEGR 6128. Structural Optimization. (3) Prerequisites: CEGR 4224, or consent of the department. Introduction to optimization concepts; reformulation of common structural analysis and design problems to an optimization format; optimization of constrained, unconstrained, linear, and nonlinear problems by classical and numerical techniques; and computer applications. (On demand)

CEGR 6129. Structural Dynamics. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 3122 or consent of the department. Methods for dynamic analysis of single and multiple degree of freedom systems. Topics include free vibrations, dynamic response of simple structures under time dependent loads (e.g., harmonic, periodic, impulsive, general dynamic loading), support motion, frequency domain analysis, response spectra, earthquake engineering. (On demand)

CEGR 6141. Water Quality Modeling. (3) Prerequisite: consent of the department. Mathematical modeling of water quality in receiving streams including: generation of point and nonpoint sources of pollution; formulation of transport equations for contaminants in stream and estuarine water; and prediction of the fate, persistence and transformation of chemical pollutants in aquatic ecosystems. Computer model simulation and case studies. (On demand)

CEGR 6142. Bioenvironmental Engineering. (3) Prerequisites: CEGR 3141 or consent of the department. Theoretical principles and design of aerobic and anaerobic biological unit processes for renovating waters and wastewaters. Activated sludge, aerated and facultative lagoons, rotating biological contractors, trickling and anaerobic filters. (On demand)

CEGR 6143. Bioprocess Technology. (3) Prerequisites: CEGR 4141 and general microbiology, or consent of the department. Introduction to metabolic pathways, growth kinetics and reactor theories. Laboratory investigation of the operation, optimization and scale-up problems associated with batch and continuous culture of microorganisms. Process analysis and modeling of environmental engineering processes. (Spring)

CEGR 6144. Environmental Biotechnology. (3) Prerequisite: Consent of the department. Application of biotechnology to the management of environmental problems. Study of bioprocess principles, bioremediation of waste disposal sites, cell immobilization technology and innovative biotechnologies. (On demand)

CEGR 6145. Waste Incineration. (3) Prerequisite: consent of the department. Fundamentals of incineration of hazardous/solid wastes. Thermochemical applications and equipment design. Computer modeling of the incineration process and air quality control. (Spring)

CEGR 6146. Advanced Groundwater Analysis. (3) Prerequisite: Consent of the department. Modeling of groundwater flow in saturated and unsaturated zones. Contaminant transport including advection, dispersion and numerical modeling. Groundwater remediation technology. (On demand)

CEGR 6147. Storm Water Modeling. (3) Prerequisite: Consent of the department. Characterization of non point source pollution; modeling of flow and pollutant transport in storm runoff; application of U.S. EPA Stormwater Management Model and U.S. Soil Conservation Service Models. (On demand)

CEGR 6148. Water Conservation. (3) Prerequisites: Consent of the department. Principles and issues concerning water conservation and methods for effecting water conservation, including residential, industrial, commercial, and agricultural water conservation; water rates, audits and reuse/reclamation as they relate to water conservation; and case studies. (On demand)

CEGR 6161. Traffic Control and Operation. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 5161 or consent of the department. Traffic control theory and application; traffic regulation, laws and ordinances; speed control, intersection control, flow control and parking control; design and application of control devices, investigation, evaluation techniques; statistical analysis; administration. (On demand)

CEGR 6165. Urban Systems Engineering. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 3202 or consent of the department. Survey of economic, political, sociological and technological factors affecting modern growth; a planning process and its role in solving selected urban problems with emphasis on engineering contributions. (On demand)

CEGR 6171. Air Quality Control. (3) Prerequisite: consent of the department. Study of various types of air pollutants, their sources, nature and effects. Examination of air quality criteria, standards and monitoring. Analysis of feasibility, applicability and efficiency of diverse systems of control. Evaluation of goal and research needs in the future. (On demand)

CEGR 6172. Air Dispersion Modeling. (3) Prerequisites: Consent of the department. Atmospheric pollution problems, federal regulations, boundary layer meteorology, dispersion theory, Gaussian model, plume rise formulas, air toxics, and computer modeling of point area, line and mobile sources. (On demand)

CEGR 6173. Environmental Aquatic Chemistry. (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 3111 or CHEM 3141, or equivalent, or consent of the department. Concepts of chemical equilibria applied to natural aquatic systems. Topics include acid-base reactions, buffer systems, mineral precipitation, coordinate chemistry, redox reactions, adsorption phenomena and chemical-equilibria computer programs. (Spring) (Alternate years)

CEGR 6181. Traffic Flow Theory. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 5161 or consent of the department. Logical foundations and mathematical representation of traffic flow; interrelation between microscopic and macroscopic equations of motion for highway traffic; stochastic properties of traffic at low and moderate densities. Car-following theories of traffic flow at high densities. Applications of queuing theory. (On demand)

CEGR 6182. Transportation Systems Analysis. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 5161 or consent of the department. Issues, concepts and methods of transportation systems engineering and planning. Decision making in transportation management. The application of analytical methods to the development and evaluation of transport systems. (On demand)

CEGR 6252. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. (3) Prerequisites: CEGR 3122 and 3278, or consent of department. Review of the dynamics of single and multi degree of freedom systems. Earthquake mechanism, distribution, magnitude, intensity, ground shaking, site effects, prediction, and response spectra. Soil liquefaction; seismic design of foundations; seismic codes; and machine foundation design. (On demand)

CEGR 6261. Traffic Signal Control Systems. (3) Prerequisite: CEGR 6161 or consent of the department. Study of control systems for isolated intersections, arterial streets, closed networks, and freeways. Emphasis on computer models; state-of-the-art detection, control, and communications equipment and software; and intelligent vehicle/highway systems. (Fall)

CEGR 6268. Advanced Soil Mechanics. (3) Prerequisites: CEGR 3258 and 3278, or consent of the department. One and two-dimensional consolidation, layered strata effects, and creep; seepage in layered strata, flow net, and seepage forces; shear strength parameters, effective and total stress paths, and application for slope stability evaluation; principles of critical state soil mechanics; computer applications. (On demand)

CEGR 6892. Individualized Study and Projects. (1-6) Individual investigation and exposition of results. May be repeated for credit. (On demand)

CEGR 6991. Graduate Master Thesis Research. (1-6) Individual investigation culminating in the preparation and presentation of a thesis. May be repeated for credit. (On demand)

Graduate Course Descriptions

(as of 2000-2002 catalog)