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Selected studies in the properties and design of concrete mixtures, cement chemistry, concrete durability, specialty concrete, construction, admixtures, and quality control. Includes laboratory and significant design components.
- Prerequisites:
- ME 223
- Areas of Interest:
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
Provides students with hands-on experience in the testing of civil engineering materials including concrete, metals and structural systems. Includes laboratory component.
- Prerequisites:
- CIVE 235, CIVE 340
- Areas of Interest:
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
- Programs:
Provides students with hands-on experience in the testing of civil engineering materials including soil and asphalt, fluid mechanics, hydraulics, and hydrology. Includes laboratory component.
- Prerequisites:
- CIVE 350, CIVE 360, CIVE 380
- Areas of Interest:
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
- Programs:
Design of reinforced concrete beams, columns, slabs, and structural foundations according to ACI 318 Building Code requirements. Includes significant design component.
- Prerequisites:
- CIVE 340
- Areas of Interest:
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
- Programs:
Design of prestressed concrete structures. Basic materials and prestress loss mechanisms. Flexure, shear, and deflections of prestressed concrete beams. Load-moment interaction curves for columns. Prestressed concrete bridge girders. The use of software is expected. Includes significant design component.
- Prerequisites:
- CIVE 340
- Areas of Interest:
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
Behavior and properties of structural steel. Design of tension members, compression members, beams, and connections using the LRFD method. Use of the AISC Steel Construction Manual is required. Includes significant design component.
- Prerequisites:
- CIVE 340
- Areas of Interest:
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
- Programs:
Analysis of open channel flow systems. Includes natural channels, designed channels, flow transitions, steady flow, unsteady flow, uniform flow, and non-uniform flow. Includes significant design component.
- Prerequisites:
- CIVE 350
- Areas of Interest:
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
Analysis and design of water regulating structures. Includes dams, spillways, gates, dikes, levees, stilling basins, water distribution systems, and various simpler structures. Environmental impacts of hydraulic structures are discussed throughout the course. Includes significant design component.
- Prerequisites:
- CIVE 350
- Areas of Interest:
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
Application of hydraulics, hydrology, soil and crop properties to the design of agricultural drainage systems. Environmental impacts of traditional drainage systems, current best management practices to decrease these impacts and emerging trends will be discussed throughout the course. Includes significant design component.
- Prerequisites:
- CIVE 350
- Areas of Interest:
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
Application of fluid mechanics and hydrology to the design of stormwater management facilities. Environmental impacts of stormwater management are discussed throughout the course. Includes significant design component.
- Prerequisites:
- CIVE 350
- Areas of Interest:
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
Performance and design of rigid, flexible, and composite pavement structures with emphasis on modern pavement design procedures. Principles of pavement maintenance, rehabilitation, and pavement management systems. Materials characterization, tests, quality control, and life cycle cost analysis. Includes significant design component.
- Prerequisites:
- ME 223, CIVE 235
- Areas of Interest:
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
Classification of foundations; applications of fundamental soil mechanics to design and analysis of soil-structure systems; design and computer application of shallow and deep foundations, piles and caissons, retaining structures. Introduction to rock mechanics. Includes significant design component.
- Prerequisites:
- CIVE 360
- Areas of Interest:
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
Design and construction of traditional embankments, including slope stability analysis; earth and rockfill dams, introduction to seepage analysis; excavations, earth retaining structures, and other geotechnical structures. Geotechnical software application in analysis and design. Includes significant design component.
- Prerequisites:
- CIVE 360
- Areas of Interest:
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
Elements of traffic engineering including road use, vehicle and roadway systems; traffic flow theory; traffic studies and data collections; traffic control devices; principles of intersecting signalization; capacity and level of service; analysis of freeways, rural highways and intersections using computer software for traffic operations and management. Includes significant design component.
- Prerequisites:
- CIVE 370W
- Areas of Interest:
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
Classification and design process of highways; development and use of design controls; criteria, and highway design elements; design of vertical and horizontal alignment, and establishment of sight distances; design of cross sections, intersections, and interchanges. Extensive use of CAD software. Includes significant design component.
- Prerequisites:
- CIVE 370W
- Areas of Interest:
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
Introduction to rural and agricultural transportation topics including transport economics, freight transportation, multimodal issues and asset management. Introduction to driver, pedestrian, and vehicular characteristics. Traffic characteristics; highway capacity; traffic studies and analyses. Principles of traffic control for improved highway traffic service. Includes significant design component.
- Prerequisites:
- CIVE 370W
- Areas of Interest:
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
- Programs:
Development and design of airport facilities and the integration of multiple disciplines including runway orientation and capacity, terminal facilities, forcasting, planning, noise, airspace utilization, parking, lighting, and construction. Includes significant design component.
- Prerequisites:
- CIVE 370W
- Areas of Interest:
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
Engineering management techniques for maintaining and managing infrastructure assets. Systematic approach to management through value engineering, engineering economics, and life cycle cost analysis. Selection and scheduling of maintenance activities. Analysis of network-wide resource needs. Project level analysis. Transportation Asset Management Plans. Includes significant design component.
- Prerequisites:
- CIVE 370W
- Graduation Requirements:
- Writing Intensive
- Areas of Interest:
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
Overview of municipal water and wastewater treatment and distribution practices. Application of chemical, biological and physical principles to design and the operation of water and wastewater treatment and distribution systems. Includes significant design component.
- Prerequisites:
- CIVE 380
- Areas of Interest:
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
This course will be taught as a classroom based course with a combination of lecture, individual and group projects, reading, homework, discussion, review, and examinations. The goal of the course is to develop competency in the design and implementation of landfill design and hazardous waste remediation, with understanding of both performance and cost implications to all choices.
- Prerequisites:
- CIVE 380
- Areas of Interest:
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
May be repeated for credit on each different topic.
This class provides students pursuing a minor in Global Solutions in Engineering and Technology with an opportunity to explore a set of topics related to achieving success in advance of and following an international experience (internship, study abroad, etc.). Speakers will include faculty, graduate students, visiting researchers and industry members as well as student participants. Returning students will be required to participate in mentoring of students preparing for their international experience and provide written and/or oral presentations of various topics during the semester. This course is required both before and after participation in the international experience (min. 2 cr.)
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Selected studies in the properties and design on concrete mixtures, cement chemistry, concrete durability, specialty concretes, conrete construction, admixtures, and quality control.