Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering

Architectural Engineering: ARE

Lower-Division Courses

ARE 102. Introduction to Architectural Engineering.

Introduction to architectural engineering as a career by use of case studies. One lecture hour a week for one semester. Offered in the fall semester only. Prerequisite: A major in architectural engineering, civil engineering, or architecture, or consent of instructor.

ARE 217. Computer-Aided Design and Graphics.

Introduction to procedures in computer-aided design and computer graphics used in producing plans and three-dimensional electronic models associated with building design and construction. Three hours of lecture and laboratory a week for one semester.

Upper-Division Courses

ARE 320K. Introduction to Design I.

Introduction to design principles, concepts, and problem-solving approaches. Issues addressed by a series of two- and three-dimensional studies. Nine laboratory hours a week for one semester. Offered in the fall semester only. Prerequisite: Credit or registration for Architectural Engineering 217.

ARE 320L. Introduction to Design II.

Continuation of Architectural Engineering 320K. Focus on building design. Nine laboratory hours a week for one semester. Offered in the spring semester only. Prerequisite: Architectural Engineering 320K and credit or registration for Architectural Engineering 335.

ARE 323K. Project Management and Economics.

Solving economic problems related to construction and engineering; construction project management techniques; characteristics of construction organizations, equipment, and methods. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Mathematics 408D or 408M.

ARE 325L. Cooperative Engineering.

This course covers the work period of architectural engineering students in the Cooperative Engineering Program. Forty laboratory hours a week for three semesters. The student must complete Architectural Engineering 325LX, 325LY, and 325LZ before a grade and degree credit are awarded. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: For 325LX, application to become a member of the Cooperative Engineering Program, approval of the dean, and appointment for a full-time cooperative work tour; for 325LY, Architectural Engineering 325LX and appointment for a full-time cooperative work tour; for 325LZ, Architectural Engineering 325LY and appointment for a full-time cooperative work tour.

ARE 225M. Cooperative Engineering.

This course covers the work period of architectural engineering students in the Cooperative Engineering Program. Forty laboratory hours a week for two semesters. The student must complete Architectural Engineering 225MA and 225MB before a grade and degree credit are awarded. Prerequisite: For 225MA, application to become a member of the Cooperative Engineering Program, approval of the dean, and appointment for a full-time cooperative work tour; for 225MB, Architectural Engineering 225MA and appointment for a full-time cooperative work tour.

ARE 125N. Cooperative Engineering.

This course covers the work period of architectural engineering students in the Cooperative Engineering Program. Forty laboratory hours a week for one semester. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Architectural Engineering 325LZ or 225MB, application to become a member of the Cooperative Engineering Program, approval of the dean, and appointment for a full-time cooperative work tour.

ARE 335. Materials and Methods of Building Construction.

Elements and properties of construction materials and components; fabrication and construction technologies, methods, and processes; engineering systems characteristic of commercial buildings such as foundation, structural, and building envelope systems. Three or four lecture and discussion hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Architectural Engineering 320K, Civil Engineering 314K, and admission to the major sequence in architectural engineering.

ARE 345K. Masonry Engineering.

Behavior and design of masonry with respect to architectural, economic, and structural criteria. Four and one-half hours a week for one semester, including lecture and laboratory. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 329 and credit or registration for Civil Engineering 331.

ARE 346N. Building Environmental Systems.

Analysis and design of building air conditioning systems; heating and cooling load calculations, air side systems analysis, air distribution, building electrical requirements, electrical and lighting systems. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Physics 303L and 103N, and credit or registration for Mechanical Engineering 320 or 326.

ARE 346P. HVAC Design.

Design and analysis of heating, ventilation, and cooling systems for buildings. Focus on application of fundamental energy and mass transfer principles to HVAC components. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Architectural Engineering 346N or consent of instructor.

ARE 358. Cost Estimating in Building Construction.

Building construction estimating from plans and specifications, unit prices, lump sum estimates, job sites, overhead, general overhead, and bidding procedures. Estimating methods throughout the design process. Two lecture hours and three supervised laboratory hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Architectural Engineering 335 and admission to the major sequence in architectural engineering. Experience reading construction blueprints is recommended.

ARE 362L. Structural Design in Wood.

Engineering properties of wood; design of glued-laminated and lumber structural members, connections, and simple systems; introduction to shear walls and diaphragms. Five hours of lecture and supervised work a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 329.

ARE 465. Integrated Design Project.

Design of low-rise buildings, including structural and environmental systems; preparation of contract documents. Six hours a week for one semester, including lecture and laboratory. Prerequisite: Architectural Engineering 217, 320L, 335, and 346N, and Civil Engineering 331 or 335, and 357.

ARE 366. Contracts, Liability, and Ethics.

Legal aspects of engineering and construction contracts; contract formation, interpretation, rights and duties, and changes; legal liabilities and professional ethics of architects, engineers, and contractors. Two lecture hours and two laboratory hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Admission to the major sequence in civil engineering or architectural engineering.

ARE 370. Design of Energy Efficient and Healthy Buildings.

Design and analysis of sustainable buildings, envelopes and facades, and energy and resource use in energy efficient and healthy buildings. Applies building science principles used to avoid moisture problems, minimize sick-building syndrome symptoms, and reduce energy use. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Architectural Engineering 346N.

ARE 371. Energy Simulation in Building Design.

Fundamentals of building energy simulations, analytical models for heat transfer in buildings, general numerical methods for solving equations from the analytical models, use of energy simulation tools in building design analysis, and parametric analyses used to study various operational parameters that affect energy use in buildings. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Architectural Engineering 346N or consent of instructor.

ARE 372. Modeling of Air and Pollutant Flows in Buildings.

Fundamentals of indoor airflow modeling; use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for air quality and thermal comfort analyses; application of CFD for analysis of air velocity, temperature, humidity, and contaminant distributions with different ventilation systems. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Architectural Engineering 346N, Civil Engineering 319F, or consent of instructor.

ARE 177K, 277K, 377K. Studies in Architectural Engineering.

Various specified topics or conference course. For each semester hour of credit earned, the equivalent of one lecture hour a week for one semester. Additional hours are required for some topics; these topics are identified in the Course Schedule. Some topics are offered on the pass/fail basis only. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Prerequisite: Varies with the topic and is given in the Course Schedule.

ARE 679H. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Research performed during two consecutive semesters under the supervision of an engineering faculty member; topics are selected jointly by the student and the faculty member with approval by the director of the Engineering Honors Program. The student makes an oral presentation and writes a thesis. Individual instruction for two semesters. Students pursuing both the Bachelor of Arts, Plan II, and a bachelor's degree in engineering may use this course to fulfill the thesis requirement for the Bachelor of Arts, Plan II. Prerequisite: For 679HA, enrollment in the Engineering Honors Program; for 679HB, Architectural Engineering 679HA and enrollment in the Engineering Honors Program.

Civil Engineering: C E

Lower-Division Courses

C E 301. Civil Engineering Systems.

Introduction to civil engineering as a career; engineering problem solving; use of computers for text, graphics, and data analysis; introduction to civil engineering measurements; breadth of disciplines within civil engineering; engineering ethics. Two lecture hours and three laboratory hours a week for one semester.

C E 311K. Introduction to Computer Methods.

Organization and programming of civil engineering problems for computer solutions. Five hours a week for one semester, including lecture and laboratory. Prerequisite: Credit or registration for Mathematics 408D or 308L.

C E 311S. Probability and Statistics for Civil Engineers.

Basic theory of probability and statistics with practical applications to civil engineering problems, including statistical inference and sampling. Additional subjects may include reliability and risk analyses, estimation and regression analyses, and experimental design. Three lecture hours and one laboratory hour a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Mathematics 408D or 408M.

C E 314K. Properties and Behavior of Engineering Materials.

Structure, properties, and behavior of engineering materials, including concrete and metals. Laboratory exercises illustrate mechanical behavior of typical materials and demonstrate selected principles of mechanics. Six hours of lecture, laboratory, and supervised work a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Chemistry 301 and Engineering Mechanics 319.

C E 319F. Elementary Mechanics of Fluids.

Fluid properties, hydrostatics, elements of fluid dynamics, energy and momentum, boundary layers, similitude, pipe flow, metering instruments, drag forces. Three lecture hours and two laboratory hours a week for one semester. Civil Engineering 319F and Mechanical Engineering 330 may not both be counted. Prerequisite: Engineering Mechanics 306.

Upper-Division Courses

C E 321. Transportation Systems.

Planning, economics, location, construction, operation, maintenance, and design of transportation systems; concepts of various modes of transportation. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 311S.

C E 325L. Cooperative Engineering.

This course covers the work period of civil engineering students in the Cooperative Engineering Program. Forty laboratory hours a week for three semesters. The student must complete Civil Engineering 325LX, 325LY, and 325LZ before a grade and degree credit are awarded. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: For 325LX, application to become a member of the Cooperative Engineering Program, approval of the dean, and appointment for a full-time cooperative work tour; for 325LY, Civil Engineering 325LX and appointment for a full-time cooperative work tour; for 325LZ, Civil Engineering 325LY and appointment for a full-time cooperative work tour.

C E 225M. Cooperative Engineering.

This course covers the work period of civil engineering students in the Cooperative Engineering Program. Forty laboratory hours a week for two semesters. The student must complete Civil Engineering 225MA and 225MB before a grade and degree credit are awarded. Prerequisite: For 225MA, application to become a member of the Cooperative Engineering Program, approval of the dean, and appointment for a full-time cooperative work tour; for 225MB, Civil Engineering 225MA and appointment for a full-time cooperative work tour.

C E 125N. Cooperative Engineering.

This course covers the work period of civil engineering students in the Cooperative Engineering Program. Forty laboratory hours a week for one semester. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 325LZ or 225MB, application to become a member of the Cooperative Engineering Program, approval of the dean, and appointment for a full-time cooperative work tour.

C E 329. Structural Analysis.

Classical methods of analysis for determinate and indeterminate structures under stationary and moving loads. Four hours of lecture and supervised work a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Engineering Mechanics 319 and Civil Engineering 311K.

C E 331. Reinforced Concrete Design.

Design of reinforced concrete beams and columns. Five hours of lecture and supervised work a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 314K and 329.

C E 333T. Engineering Communication.

Technical communication skills for engineers, especially researching and writing technical documents for many kinds of readers, representing information graphically, delivering oral presentations, working collaboratively, and managing computer-mediated communication. Two lecture hours and one and one-half laboratory hours a week for one semester. Civil Engineering 333H and 333T may not both be counted. Prerequisite: Rhetoric and Writing 306 and admission to an appropriate major sequence in architectural or civil engineering.

C E 335. Elements of Steel Design.

Analysis and design of tension members, beams, columns, and bolted and welded connections. Five hours of lecture and supervised work a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 314K and 329.

C E 341. Introduction to Environmental Engineering.

Quantitative evaluation of the environmental, economic, and technical problems involved in control of pollutants of the air, water, and land. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Chemistry 301 and 302, or consent of instructor.

C E 342. Water and Wastewater Treatment Engineering.

Application of chemical, biological, and physical principles to the analysis and design of water and wastewater treatment processes. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 341 and credit or registration for Civil Engineering 319F, or consent of instructor.

C E 346. Solid Waste Engineering and Management.

Characteristics of municipal and industrial solid wastes, generation rates, collection systems, recycling, processing, and disposal. Three lecture hours a week for one semester, with occasional field trips. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 341 or consent of instructor.

C E 351. Concrete Materials.

Portland cement, aggregates, supplementary cementing materials, properties of fresh and hardened concrete, concrete durability, mixture proportioning, concrete construction, special concretes. Three lecture hours and three laboratory hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 314K.

C E 356. Elements of Hydraulic Engineering.

Flow in closed conduits, hydraulic machinery; open-channel flow; flow measurement; design of storm sewers. Five hours a week for one semester, including lecture and laboratory. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 319F.

C E 357. Geotechnical Engineering.

Engineering properties of soils; permeability and shear strength of soils; settlement of embankments and foundations of structures; laboratory measurements. Six hours a week for one semester, including lecture and laboratory. Prerequisite: Engineering Mechanics 319 and Civil Engineering 319F.

C E 358. Introductory Ocean Engineering.

Wave theory and its applications to coastal engineering and offshore structure technology. Includes fundamentals of inviscid and viscous flow of incompressible fluids, and applications of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in design. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 319F or consent of instructor.

C E 360K. Foundation Engineering.

Effect of geotechnical conditions on the behavior, proportioning, and choice of foundation type; design of shallow and deep foundations; study of foundation case histories. Five hours a week for one semester, including lecture and discussion. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 357.

C E 362M. Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design.

Design of reinforced concrete buildings, including floor systems and structural walls. Five hours of lecture and supervised work a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 331.

C E 362N. Advanced Steel Design.

Design of steel buildings, beam columns, composite beams, plate girders, and connections. Five hours of lecture and supervised work a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 335.

C E 363. Advanced Structural Analysis.

Structural analysis for forces and deflections using stiffness and flexibility approaches; application of energy methods in structural analysis; stiffness methods for computer-based structural analysis. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 329.

C E 364. Design of Wastewater and Water Treatment Facilities.

Analysis, synthesis, and integrated design of collection systems, pumping stations, and treatment plants for municipal wastewater; design of water treatment plants. Six hours a week for one semester, including lecture and design laboratory. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 356 and credit or registration for Civil Engineering 342, or consent of instructor.

C E 365K. Hydraulic Engineering Design.

Application of engineering hydraulics to stormwater management; storm sewer design; engineering hydrology; open-channel hydraulics; hydraulic structures; culverts and bridges; stormwater detention facilities. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 356.

C E 366K. Design of Bituminous Mixtures.

Fundamental properties of asphalt and aggregates; design and construction of asphalt mixtures; special mixtures; superpave design method. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Upper-division standing or consent of instructor.

C E 367. Highway Engineering.

Geometric design of modern highways and streets, including intersections and interchanges; driver behavior; and safety. Three lecture hours and one hour of computer-aided-design laboratory a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 321 or consent of instructor.

C E 367P. Pavement Design and Performance.

Basic principles of design of pavements for highways, airfields, and railroads; pavement construction, maintenance, and rehabilitation. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 321, 357, and 366K.

C E 367T. Traffic Engineering.

Driver and vehicle characteristics, traffic studies, traffic laws and ordinances, intersection capacity, signs, markings, signals, bus transit, parking, design of street systems, and operational controls. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 321 or consent of instructor.

C E 369L. Air Pollution Engineering.

Characterization of sources, emissions, transport, transformation, effects, and control of outdoor and indoor air pollutants. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 341 and Mechanical Engineering 320, or consent of instructor.

C E 370K. Environmental Sampling and Analysis.

Principles of environmental chemistry; measurement of contaminants in air, water, and land environments; applications to municipal, industrial, and ambient samples. Six hours a week for one semester, including lecture and laboratory. Prerequisite: Upper-division standing in engineering and Civil Engineering 341, or consent of instructor.

C E 171P. Engineering Professionalism.

Examines professional engineering licensure, ethics, leadership, public service, and public policy, with an emphasis on multidisciplinary perspectives, legal and business considerations, and the importance of lifelong learning. Includes participation in a public service project. Two lecture hours a week for one semester, with additional fieldwork hours to be arranged. Prerequisite: Admission to the major sequence in civil engineering and credit or registration for one of the following: Civil Engineering 360K, 362M, 362N, 364, 365K, 367, 376.

C E 374K. Hydrology.

Phases of the hydrologic cycle, unit hydrograph, flow routing, hydrologic statistics, design storms and flows, design of storm sewers, detention ponds and water supply reservoirs. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 311S and 356.

C E 374L. Groundwater Hydraulics.

Darcy's law, steady flow in aquifers, aquifer and well testing, regional flow, numerical simulation of groundwater flow, unsaturated flow, and groundwater recharge. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 356 or consent of instructor.

C E 375. Earth Slopes and Retaining Structures.

Earth fills, excavations, and dams; soil compaction, ground improvement, and slope stability; seepage and dewatering; study of earth-pressure theories; design of earth-retaining structures. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Offered in the spring semester only. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 357.

C E 177K, 277K, 377K. Studies in Civil Engineering.

Various specified topics or conference course. For each semester hour of credit earned, the equivalent of one lecture hour a week for one semester. Additional hours may be required for some topics; these are identified in the Course Schedule. Some topics are offered on the pass/fail basis only. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Prerequisite: Varies with the topic and is given in the Course Schedule.

C E 679H. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Research performed during two consecutive semesters under the supervision of an engineering faculty member; topics are selected jointly by the student and the faculty member with approval by the director of the Engineering Honors Program. The student makes an oral presentation and writes a thesis. Individual instruction for two semesters. Students pursuing both the Bachelor of Arts, Plan II, and a bachelor's degree in engineering may use this course to fulfill the thesis requirement for the Bachelor of Arts, Plan II. Prerequisite: For 679HA, enrollment in the Engineering Honors Program; for 679HB, Civil Engineering 679HA and enrollment in the Engineering Honors Program.