CIV-ENGR 5563      Construction Law
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 5565      Project Finance
This course introduces students to the financial concepts faced by engineers. Students will learn how to read and apply financial statements and how to use these same financial concepts in developing pro formas to evaluate and support major capital investments. The effect of time on the value of money, appropriate discount factors, and the internal rate of return are explored in the class. All students will be required to develop a comprehensive financial model to evaluate/justify a real world capital project.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 5566      Green Building and Sustainable Infrastructure
This course will discuss various green building rating systems. Upon completion of this course students will be prepared for LEED Green Associates Exam for New Construction. This course will include many knowledgeable guest speakers to bring a current and real world connection to the topics discussed in class, 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 5567      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. Prerequisites: ME 285 and CE 211
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 5568      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. Prerequisites: ME 285, CE 211, CE 467
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 5569      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. Prerequisites: ME 285, CE 211, CE 467
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 5570      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. Prerequisites: Chem 211/211L and CE 378WI.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 5571      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. Prerequisites: Chem 211/211L and CE 378WI.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 5573      Durability of Civil Engineering Materials
Investigation o pavements and structures including steel, reinforced concrete, and plain concrete for a variety of applications and masonry and asphalt. Explores the identification, cause 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. (Cross-listed with CE 473). Prerequisites: CE 335, CE 378WI
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 5575      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, Prerequisites: ME 285 and CE 323 (or CE 422).
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 5582      Advanced Traffic Engineering
This course covers the review of traffic flow characteristics, the field survey practices and studies,traffic signal designs,freeway operation, and the introduction to Intelligent Traffic Systems (ITS) Prerequisites: CIV-ENGR 481 and CIV-ENGR 319
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 5584      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. Prerequisites: CE 378WI.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 5585      Freight Transportation Analysis
CE585 Freight Transportation Analysis (3) This course provides a better understanding of freight transportation and its issues, as well as the techniques of system analysis.Prerequisite: CE481
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 5599      Thesis Research
Independent investigation in the field of civil engineering to be presented in the form of a thesis.
Credits: 1,6 hours
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CIV-ENGR 5601      Doctoral Topics In Civil Engineering
Current technical developments in civil engineering.
Credits: 1,3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 5602      Directed Reading In Civil Engineering
Faculty supervised readings course. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Offered: Fall and winter.
Credits: 1,3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 5607      Numerical Methods In Engineering
Classification and numerical solution of engineering problems--ordinary and partial differential equations, algebraic equations. Includes initial, boundary, eigen-# and characteristic-value problems. Prerequisite: MATH 345.
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 5621      Continuum Mechanics
Introductory course in the mechanics of continuous media. Basic concepts of stress, strain, constitutive relationships; conservation laws are treated using Cartesian tensor notation. Examples from both solid and fluid mechanics investigated. (Same as MEC-ENGR 621) Prerequisites: CIV-ENGR 351, MATH 345, and CIV-ENGR 276
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 5622      Theory Of Elasticity
Stress and strain at a point. General equations of elasticity. Plane stress, plain strain problems; torsion of prismatic bars. Energy methods. (Same as ME 622) Prerequisite: CIV-ENGR 621
Credits: 3 hours
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CIV-ENGR 5623      Theory Of Plates And Shells
Bending of plates with various loading and boundary conditions. Deformations, stresses in thin shells. (Same as ME 623) Prerequisite: CIV-ENGR 621
Credits: 3 hours
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