Graduate Catalog 1993-1994
College of Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Course Descriptions
CIEG 601 Introduction to the Finite Element Method 3
Discussion of approximate solution procedures: finite difference
method, weighted residual methods and variational methods.
Development of approximate solutions using the finite element
method. Application to one- and two-dimensional problems in
applied mechanics. Discussion of numerical methods and computer
programming techniques applicable to finite element analyses.
PREREQ: CIEG381.
CIEG 604 Prestressed Concrete Design 3
Behavior, analysis and design of prestressed concrete structures.
Covers flexure, shear, axial load, bond anchorage design and
construction considerations for pretensioned and post-tensioned
concrete.
PREREQ: CIEG403.
CIEG 605 Matrix Structural Analysis 3
Computer analysis of two- and three-dimensional frameworks using
matrix methods. Straight, tapered, curved and beam on elastic
foundation members; flexible supports, element and temperature
loads, partially rigid connections and finite sized joints;
material and geometric nonlinearities; stability analyses; and
determination of ultimate load capacities.
PREREQ: CIEG301.
CIEG 606 Structural Materials 3
Specification, evaluation and testing of materials commonly used
in structural engineering. Emphasis on concrete, concrete
admixtures, epoxies, wood and metals.
PREREQ: CIEG212, CIEG213 and MASC302.
CIEG 611 Structural Dynamics Design 3
Design of structures (buildings, bridges, dams, foundation piles
and offshore platforms) for dynamic loadings (severe wind force,
ocean wave force, strong earthquake excitations, machine
vibrations, and general impulse and time dependent forces and
motions). Determination of realistic dynamic loadings and
application of design concepts.
CIEG 615 Reliability Design in Civil Engineering 3
Reliability analysis of civil engineering systems using concepts
and methods of probability and statistics to supplement the
engineer's judgment when addressing uncertainty in design. Topics
include elements of probability and statistics, measure of
reliability, time to failure, reliability bounds, confidence of
reliability and Monte Carlo simulation.
CIEG 616 Random Vibration 3
Elementary characterization of random dynamic loads of structures
using concepts of statistics and probability. Statistics of
structural response and safety of structures.
May be cross-listed with MEEG626.
PREREQ: CIEG311 and MATH302.
CIEG 617 Advanced Structural Analyses 3
Nonlinear vs. linear beam analyses. Nonlinear beam bending
equations. Structures with composite cross-section. Structures
subjected to mechanical and thermal loads, beams to bending and
torsion. Superposition principle. Analysis of problems that
partially separate from base. Generalized functions. Method of
initial parameters. Influence line method.
PREREQ: CIEG212 and MATH302.
CIEG 618 Continuously Supported Structures 3
Analytical properties of various elastic, viscoelastic and elasto-
plastic foundation models for describing the base response.
Embedded rods subjected to axial forces, torsion and temperature
changes. Glued lap joints, long riveted joints and threaded
connections. Continuously supported beams and plates. Problems in
geophysics and composite materials.
PREREQ: CIEG212 and MATH302.
CIEG 620 Soil Mechanics II 3
Behavior of cohesionless and cohesive soils; failure theories and
lateral earth pressures; stresses within earth mass; steady-state
flow through porous media; consolidation and time rate settlement;
shear strength of cohesive soils.
PREREQ: CIEG420.
CIEG 621 Foundation Engineering 3
Field investigation techniques; interpretation of data; theory and
design of shallow and deep foundations, retaining walls, sheet
pile walls, cofferdams braced excavations and geosynthetically
reinforced soil.
PREREQ: CIEG421.
CIEG 622 Earth Structures Engineering 3
Properties of soils and methods to determine them: water flow
through inhomogeneous and anisotropic earth mass; predictions of
pore-water pressures; stresses and settlement predictions; slope
stability: type and causes of slope failures, effective and total
stability analyses, design strength parameters and safety factors,
construction considerations; design of earth dams; and predictions
vs. field performance. Computer software used in problem solving.
PREREQ: CIEG420.
CIEG 623 Soil Mechanics Lab 3
Enhances knowledge of soil properties and behavior. Generally, the
following tests are performed: Atterberg limits, sieve and
hydrometer analysis, compaction, relative density, permeability,
flow-net simulation, consolidation, specific gravity, direct
shear, traxial (CU, CD, UU) tests simulating various loading
paths, and liquifaction.
PREREQ: CIEG420.
CIEG 624 Soil Dynamics 3
Wave propagation in elastic media; dynamic soil properties;
vibration of foundations; influence of soil type on ground motion
characteristics; causes of soil failure during earthquake; soil-
structure interaction; lateral earth pressures. Discussion of
numerical methods used in dynamic analyses of porous media.
PREREQ: CIEG420.
CIEG 631 Water Quality and Pollution Control 3
Covers water and its impurities, water quality criteria and
monitoring, transport and transformation of chemicals in the
aquatic environment, stream sanitation, ecological aspects of
impoundments and eutrophication processes, groundwater systems,
decontamination of subsurface water systems, land application of
wastewater and current topics in water pollution.
CIEG 632 Chemical Aspects of Environmental Engineering 3
The principles and applications of aqueous chemistry to
environmental systems. Includes a review of general chemistry,
with emphasis on the structure of matter and stoichiometry;
chemical thermodynamics; chemical kinetics; equilibrium reactions
in himogeneous and heterogeneous solutions; applied
electrochemistry and Redox reaction; and interfacial phenomena.
CIEG 634 Physical Aspects of Environmental Engineering 3
Particle size characterization; particle diffusion, sedimentation
and flocculation; surface tension; adsorption; and electrodouble
layer theory.
CIEG 635 Air Pollution and Its Control 3
Sources and effects of atmospheric pollutants: meteorological and
solar radiation phenomena and atmospheric chemistry. Emphasis on
gas cleaning operations such as absorption, chemical conversion
and particulate removal process design, among other control
measures.
May be cross-listed with CHEG635.
RESTRICTIONS: Requires upper division or graduate standing in
engineering.
CIEG 636 Biological Aspects of Environmental Engineering 3
Presents fundamental molecular biological concepts which pertain
to cellular function in the environment and in engineered
environmental treatment systems. Briefly reviews elementary
organic chemical classifications.
PREREQ: CIEG331.
CIEG 637 Water and Wastewater Quality 3
Principles and applications of analysis of solids, organic load,
dissolved oxygen, disinfectants, nutrients, trace metals, trace
organic compounds and microorganisms. Lecture and laboratory.
PREREQ: CIEG331.
CIEG 639 Hydromechanics 3
Kinematics and dynamics of incompressible fluids with emphasis on
engineering problems in the hydraulic and hydrologic environment.
Governing equations, solutions for laminar, creeping and porous
media flows. Turbulence, boundary layers, potential flows, water
waves, and stratified and rotating systems.
PREREQ: MECH305.
CIEG 650 Urban Transportation Systems 3
Design and operation of urban transportation systems,
characteristics of public transportation modes, vehicle design,
right-of-way types and terminal facilities. Application of
operations research techniques to analysis of scheduling, network
optimization, capacity and evaluation of alternatives.
May be cross-listed with ORES650.
RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of instructor.
CIEG 652 Transportation Facilities Design 3
Theoretical concepts of general transportation demand, supply and
flow analysis. Planning and design of multi-modal transportation
facilities including streets and highways, railways and guideways,
airports, and harbors and ports. Engineering, social and economic
evaluation of alternative design schemes for case studies and
existing transportation facilities.
RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of instructor.
CIEG 654 Urban Transportation Planning 3
Characteristics of urban travel demand, travel demand forecasting
models, urban transportation modes and their characteristics,
urban transportation planning processes and issues, evaluation of
plans, economic analysis, transportation financing, transportation
policy and regulations, and urban transportation systems
management.
RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of instructor.
CIEG 659 Railroad Engineering 3
Evolution and analysis of railroad track design and components,
ballast and subgrade, rail axial forces, expansion joints,
anchors, and track buckling and preventive measures. Response of
tracks to moving loads, track transition problems and track tests.
Review of track standards. Movies on maintenance and construction.
PREREQ: CIEG212.
CIEG 671 Introduction to Ocean Engineering 3
Acquaints the engineer with the problems of design in the ocean.
Water waves and tides, wave forces on structures, corrosion and
fouling, coastal structures and littoral processes.
PREREQ: MECH305.
CIEG 672 Water Wave Mechanics 4
Primary emphasis on linear water wave theory and its applications.
Shoaling, refraction and diffraction of waves as well as wave
forces. Finite amplitude waves. Laboratory experiments to verify
the theoretical developments.
PREREQ: MECH305.
CIEG 678 Transport and Mixing Processes 3
Application of hydrodynamics to mixing and transport processes in
the water environment.
PREREQ: CIEG672.
CIEG 679 Sediment Transport Mechanics 3
Mechanics and mathematical modelling of sediment transport in
unidirectional and oscillatory flow; sediment properties,
initiation of sediment movement, bedload and suspended load
transport rates, formation of bed forms and flow resistance,
erosion and deposition in the vicinity of structures, and
practical applications.
PREREQ: MECH305.
CIEG 680 Littoral Processes 3
Coastal morphology, equilibrium beach profiles, onshore-offshore
response, sediment transport relationships, sand budgets around
inlets and along open coasts, modeling of shoreline response,
analyses of beach problems and recommendations of remedial
measures.
CIEG 681 Water Wave Spectra 3
Concepts of amplitude and energy spectra, covariances and cross-
spectra; linear response functions; use of the Fast Fourier
Transform for ocean engineering applications including analysis of
one-dimensional and directional spectra, probability of ocean
waves and wave forces.
RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of instructor.
CIEG 682 Nearshore Hydrodynamics 3
The mechanics of waves and currents in the nearshore zone: wave
breaking, surf zone dynamics, cross- and long-shore currents,
turbulence and bottom boundary layers, infra-gravity and edge
waves and nearshore modeling.
PREREQ: CIEG672 and CIEG639.
CIEG 683 Probabilistic Engineering Analysis 3
Operational techniques, derived distributions and expectations are
used to develop random models to analyze and design in a random
environment. Applications may span topics in mechanics, stream and
reservoir flows and technologic decision making and management.
CIEG 691 Groundwater Hydrology 3
A quantitative analysis of groundwater in the hydrologic cycle.
Topics include groundwater movement, Darcy's law, mathematical
formulation of groundwater problems, groundwater pollution, salt
water intrusion, well hydraulics and unsaturated flow.
CIEG 801 Advanced Topics in Finite Element Analysis 3
Review of elementary aspects of the finite element method.
Application of the method to linear and nonlinear one-, two- and
three-dimensional problems in applied mechanics. Basic and
advanced numerical methods and computer programming techniques
appropriate to finite element analyses (includes two to three
computational laboratories).
PREREQ: CIEG401.
CIEG 802 Advanced Steel Design 3
Application of ultimate and elastic design procedures to
continuous beams and frames, composite members, statically
indeterminate trusses and arches. Projects and special topics
focus attention to the basis and limitations of codes and
specifications for steel structures.
PREREQ: CIEG402.
CIEG 803 Advanced Concrete Design 3
Application of ultimate strength design procedures to continuous
beams and frames, composite members, slabs and arches. Projects
and special topics focus attention to the basis and limitations of
codes and specifications for concrete structures.
PREREQ: CIEG403.
CIEG 811 Advanced Structural Dynamics Design 3
Linear and nonlinear dynamic analysis of multiple degree of
freedom systems subjected to earthquake, wind and impact loadings;
the use of analysis results in design. Computer analysis of
complex structural systems; distributed, consistent and lumped
mass models; wave propagation; random excitations; and structural
control.
PREREQ: CIEG611.
CIEG 816 Analytical Structural Dynamics 3
Derivation of dynamic differential equations for rods, beams and
plates. Boundary and initial conditions. Vibration and impact
problems. Analysis of dynamic problems using integral equations.
Variational methods in structural dynamics. Hamilton's principle
and Lagrange equations. Approximate methods of analysis. Wave
propagation in beams and plates.
PREREQ: CIEG411 or CIEG611.
CIEG 817 Stability of Structures 3
Structural instability phenomena caused by static and dynamic
loads. Stability analyses of structures by equilibrium, energy and
dynamic methods. Conservative and non-conservative problems.
Elastic and non-elastic buckling of beams, frames and arches
caused by mechanical and thermal loads. Buckling of continuously
supported beams and in plates and shells. Delamination buckling in
composites.
PREREQ: CIEG212 and MATH302.
CIEG 820 Inelastic Behavior of Geomaterials 3
Introduces constitutive laws and numerical methods used to
characterize the stress-strain-time behavior of geomaterials.
Correlation between laboratory experiments and numerical
predictions. Finite element analyses of coupled stress-flow
problems (e.g., consolidation), reinforced earth structures and
slopes. Discussion of anisotropy, time effects and frictional
interfaces.
PREREQ: CIEG420, CIEG601.
RESTRICTIONS: CIEG620 is highly recommended as a Prereq.
CIEG 831 Theory of Water Treatment 3
Application of physical, chemical and engineering techniques to
water treatment processes: aeration, coagulation, sedimentation,
filtration and disinfection. Advanced purification methods
including adsorption and demineralization processes.
PREREQ: CIEG632 and CIEG634.
CIEG 832 Theory of Wastewater Treatment 3
Composition of wastes; physical, chemical and biological methods
of wastewater treatment; treatment and disposal of sludges
produced at wastewater treatment plants.
PREREQ: CIEG636.
CIEG 833 Fate of Pollutants in the Environment 3
Study of processes affecting the distribution of inorganic and
organic pollutants in the environment. Equilibrium and kinetics of
exchange among soil, water, sediment, air and biota. Photolysis,
hydrolysis, oxidation, reduction and complexation of chemicals.
Models used to describe fate of chemicals.
PREREQ: CIEG632 and CIEG634.
CIEG 842 Design of Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems 3
Presents design implementation and unit operation of water and
wastewater treatment processes. Whenever possible, utilizes
computer modeling and computer-aided design principles.
COREQ: CIEG831 and CIEG832.
CIEG 865 Civil Engineering Seminar 1
CIEG 868 Research 1-6
CIEG 869 Master's Thesis 1-6
An independent investigation under supervision of a member of the
civil engineering graduate faculty.
CIEG 870 Offshore Design 3
Naval hydrodynamics, behavior of submerged and floating bodies,
and ship waves. Tsunamis and harbor response.
PREREQ: CIEG672 and CIEG639.
CIEG 872 Advanced Water Wave Mechanics 3
Development of finite amplitude wave theories such as solitary,
conoidal stokes and stream function. Application to coastal and
ocean engineering problems.
PREREQ: CIEG639, CIEG672.
CIEG 891 Mechanics of Fluids in Porous Media 3
Physical and mathematical description of flow through porous
media; conservation of mass, energy and momentum; Darcy's law;
general equations of single and multiphase flow, partially
saturated flow, heat and mass transfer, hydrodynamic dispersion,
deformation of porous media, elastic, plastic and viscous behavior
of actual material and applications to engineering problems.
CIEG 969 Doctoral Dissertation 1-12 PF
UNIV 899 Master's Sustaining 0 PF
UNIV 999 Ph.D. Sustaining 0 PF