CIV-ENGR 422WI      Reinforced Concrete Design
Basic principles of reinforced concrete design. Design of beams for flexture and shear; design of short and slender columns. Bond stress development. Footing design.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 423      Advanced Structural Steel Design
Design of steel structures and bridges. Topics include composite beams, plate girder design, and moment resistant connections.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 425      Prestressed Concrete
Theory and practice of prestressed concrete design. Pretensioning, posttensioning. Anchorage of steel. Materials, design specifications.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 427      Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design
Advanced topics in the design of footings, retaining walls, two way floor slabs, torsion and continuous structures, shear friction, strut and tie design, precast design.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 429      Design of Structures for Blast and Fire
General overview of Blast Design; risk assessment and design criteria; simplifies Blast Effects Analysis; ground shock, material response; antiterrorism design considerations; weapons effects and mitigation; internal explosions; progressive collapse analysis; and introduction to Fire Design.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 431      Fundamentals of Geomaterial Characterization
Overviews state-of-the-art instrumental techniques for analysis of the physio-chemical properties of soils and civil engineering materials. Analysis techniques will be presented for soils, fresh and hardened concrete, asphalt binders and metals.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 432      Foundation Engineering
Design of basic foundation structures, footings, retaining walls, pile foundations, dams.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 442      Hydraulic Structures
A review of the history and hydraulic design procedures for a variety of hydraulic structures including spillways, water measurement structures, canal structures and energy dissipation structures. (Cross-listed with CE 5542.) Prerequisites: CE 355WI
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 443      Hazardous Waste Management
Engineering principles involved in handling, collection, transportation, processing and disposal of hazardous wastes, waste minimization, legislation on hazardous wastes and groundwater contamination.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 444      Unit Processes in Environmental Engineering
Chemical and physical relationships as applied to unit processes of water and wastewater.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 446      Limnology
Physical, biological and chemical issues important in surface fresh waters. Includes carbonate chemistry, algal assay and thermocline analysis.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 447      Contracts and Law for Engineers
Law of contracts, including types, construction, interpretation, performance, and termination. Construction and Engineering service contracts: proposals, general and financial conditions, specifications and drawings. Corporate and professional and person liability, insurance and bonds, property, evidence, arbitration and mediation.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 448      Environmental Public Policy
Engineering and economic aspects of environmental policy. Basic understanding of environmental statutes and case law.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 449      Environmental Compliance, Auditing And Permitting
Statutes, regulations and permitting for air hazardous wastes and storage tanks. Asbestos, radon, EMF, and emerging areas of regulatory concern. Siting issues. Criminal and civil enforcement.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 452      Hydraulics Of Open Channels
Gradually varied flow and theory of the hydraulic jump. Slowly varied flow involving storage; rating curves.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 453      Hydraulics And Variability Of Rivers
Introduction to the concepts of alluvial channel behavior, evolution and change due to natural and man-induced modifications to streams and watersheds. Numerous case studies of river behavior are studied from the perspective of hydraulics, geomorphology and sediment transport. Prerequisite: CIV-ENGR 355
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 454      River Stability And Scour
Bridge hydraulics, stream stability, scour at bridge piers and abutments, hydraulic modeling of floods, countermeasures for protection of bridge infrastructure. Prerequisite: CIV-ENGR 355
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 456      Urban Hydrology
An introduction to urban hydrology and urban drainage systems focusing on the engineering techniques and unique issues associated with estimating and designing for rainfall/runoff in an urban metropolitan area. (Cross-listed with CE 5556.) Prerequisites: CE 355WI
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 463      The Engineer in Society
Broad concepts in law as related to business industry and the processes of design, procurement, construction, and the role of the design professional.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 465      Engineering Administration
Cash flow analysis, financial analysis, managerial accounting and cost control, budgeting, organizational structure and behavior.
Credits: 3 hours
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