CIV-ENGR 466      Green Building and Sustainable Infrastructure
All construction projects must not only consider the immediate cost, but must also consider the future environmental impacts. Green building programs are one mechanism to quantify the ""greenness"" of construction, including LEED, Green Globes/BREEM, and many others. Green rating systems are also in development for residential subdivisions, highways, roads, and airports. Upon completion of this course students will be prepared for LEED Professional Accreditation Exam for New Construction. Two major additional aspects of green building important to sustainable infrastructure include stormwater management using ""green"" techniques and methods to mitigate the urban heat island. The course will also discuss infrastructure project sustainability from a life cycle cost perspective and determining the life cycle inventory of various materials. This course will include many knowledgeable guest speakers to bring a current and real world connection to the topics discussed in class. Upon completion of the course, students will better understand what sustainability means and how it applies in the context of our build environment and have a good idea of how technology will impact our sustainable future.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 467      Introduction To Construction Management
Structure of the construction industry; construction drawings and specifications; estimating and bidding; construction contracts, bonds and insurance; planning and scheduling of construction operations; project management; computer techniques.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 468      Construction Planning And Scheduling
Planning and scheduling of construction operations by the critical path method. Network diagramming, scheduling computations, and time-cost trade-offs. Manpower and equipment leveling. Computer and non-computer techniques.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 469      Construction Methods And Equipment
Introduction to methods used to plan, construct, and manage heavy civil projects. Topics will include development, project control, equipment productivity, earthmoving fundamentals, formwork design, and other issues in heavy civil projects.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 470      Corrosion Engineering
This course will cover the physical interaction of metallic materials with their environment, called corrosion. Corrosion is an electrochemical process and the thermodynamics and kinetics of corrosion processes will be discussed.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 471      Advanced Portland Cement Concrete
This course will cover topics such as cement chemistry, concrete proportioning, aggregates, mineral and chemical admixtures, fresh and hardened properties of concrete, and durability of concrete. Design and proportioning of concrete mixtures for desired fresh and hardened properties will be emphasized. Specialty concrete types such as high strength/high performance concrete, lightweight concrete, pervious concrete, high volume fly ash concrete, and fiber reinforced concrete will also be covered.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 472      Advanced Mechanics Of Materials
Shear center; unsymmetric bending; curved beams; beams on elastic foundations; thick-walled cylinders. Energy methods. Torsion of noncircular sections. Theories of failure. Plate theory.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 473      Durability of Civil Engineering Materials
Investigation of pavements and structures including steel, reinforced concrete, and plain concrete for a variety of applications and masonry and asphalt. Explores the identification, causes of, and remediation for issues related to metallic corrosion and concrete deterioration in civil engineering projects. Course content will be delivered through lectures, labs and case study examples.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 475      Seismic Design of Structures
Introduction to basic analysis and design principles for the seismic design of buildings (concrete, steel, wood). General seismic principles, codes and loads, static lateral force procedure, dynamic lateral force procedure, topics in rigidities of buildings.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 481      Highway And Traffic Engineering
Principles of highway engineering and traffic analysis, road/vehicle performance, geometric alignment of highways, traffic analysis and queuing theory, signal design, statistical analysis of traffic data and highway drainage.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 484      Pavement Materials Design, Maintenance, and Rehabilitation
Traffic loading and volume, stress and deflection, characterization of pavement materials, design of flexible and rigid pavements, design of overlays, evaluation of pavement performance, maintenance techniques, and rehabilitation options.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 487      Applied Finite Element Analysis
The study of advanced simulation techniques for the solution to engineering problems. The use of Finite Element Method toward solving mechanical,structural,vibration and potential flow problems will be explored. The use of current commercial simulation tools will be used extensively.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 491      Internship
For International students who must register to cover off-campus employment which is approved as related to their degree by their departmental advisor and ISAO.
Credits: 0-6 hours
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CIV-ENGR 497      Engineering Hydrology
Fundamental concepts of hydrology in engineering; computation principles of runoff from rainfall; measurement of hydrologic quantities; quantitative and statistical estimation of design stream-flow magnitude and frequency; principles of unsteady routing of hydrographs.
Credits: 3 hours
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