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, sustainability.

Organization and programming of civil engineering problems for computer solutions.

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.

Fluid properties, hydrostatics, elements of fluid dynamics, energy and momentum, boundary layers, similitude, pipe flow, metering instruments, drag forces.

Used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Planning, economics, location, construction, operation, maintenance, and design of transportation systems; concepts of various modes of transportation.

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.

Classical methods of analysis for determinate and indeterminate structures under stationary and moving loads.

Used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Design of reinforced concrete beams and columns.

Technical communication skills for engineers, especially researching and writing technical documents for many kinds of readers, managing and documenting sources of information, using and explaining graphics, delivering oral presentations, working collaboratively, and eliciting information from experts and stakeholders.

Analysis and design of tension members, beams, columns, and bolted and welded connections.

Quantitative evaluation of the environmental, economic, and technical problems involved in control of pollutants of the air, water, and land.

Application of chemical, biological, and physical principles to the analysis and design of treatment processes for drinking water, industrial process water, municipal wastewater, and water reuse applications.

Characteristics of municipal and industrial solid wastes, generation rates, collection systems, recycling, processing, and disposal.

Portland cement, aggregates, supplementary cementing materials, properties of fresh and hardened concrete, concrete durability, mixture proportioning, concrete construction, and special concretes.

Flow in closed conduits, hydraulic machinery; open-channel flow; flow measurement; design of storm sewers.

Engineering properties of soils; hydraulic conductivity and shear strength of soils; soil compaction and consolidation; stresses with the soil mass; settlement of foundations of structures; laboratory measurements.

Wave theory and its applications to coastal engineering, wave energy conversion, and offshore structure technology. Includes fundamentals of inviscid and viscous flow of incompressible fluids, and applications of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in design.

Effect of geotechnical conditions on the behavior, proportioning, and choice of foundation type; design of shallow and deep foundations; study of foundation case histories.

Design of reinforced concrete buildings, including floor systems and structural walls.

Design of steel buildings, beam columns, composite beams, plate girders, and connections.

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.

Explore analysis, synthesis, and integrated design of municipal water and wastewater treatment plants.

Fundamental properties of asphalt and aggregates, design and construction of asphalt mixtures, special mixtures, and superpave design method.

Methods for design and evaluation of transportation systems, emphasizing roadway and non-motorized travel, in light of traveler safety, system operations, construction and maintenance costs, environmental impacts, and other considerations.

Basic principles of design of pavements for highways, airfields, and railroads; pavement construction, maintenance, and rehabilitation.

Overview of optimization techniques, including linear programming, nonlinear optimization, and network flow algorithms including shortest path, maximum flow, and minimum spanning tree. Examples and applications primarily drawn from transportation engineering, with connections to other areas.

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.

Characterization of sources, emissions, transport, transformation, effects, and control of outdoor and indoor air pollutants. Applications of chemistry, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics in the selection and design of air pollution control equipment.

Sources, properties, transport and fate, human exposure, and adverse responses to indoor air pollutants. Control strategies and engineered technologies to mitigate impacts of gaseous and particle phase air pollutants in indoor environments.

Principles of environmental chemistry; measurement of contaminants in air, water, and land environments; applications to municipal, industrial, and ambient samples.

Explore the large-scale solutions to climate change systematically. Examine the fundamentals of climate science, mitigation of climate change through transformation of energy supply and end-use, geoengineering, and industrial carbon management. Discuss the social and economic context for engineered solutions.

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 culminating major design project in public service, reflecting knowledge from technical electives and base level coursework.

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 culminating major design project in public service, reflecting knowledge from technical electives and base level coursework.

Phases of the hydrologic cycle and associated transport processes; land surface-atmosphere interaction; soil infiltration; rainfall runoff; unit hydrograph; flow routing; hydrologic statistics; and extreme events, including design storms and flows.

Explore the application of engineering hydraulics to analysis of river behavior and sediment transport through complex natural topography. Examine basin-scale and reach-scale river dynamics as well as river restoration design and analyses.

Explore the application of engineering hydraulics to analysis of river and stream behavior at small scales that interact with ecology. Examine sustainable design with vegetation to mitigate sediment impacts as well as hydraulic effects on invasive species.

Explore the application of engineering hydraulics to design and analyses of urban stormwater infrastructure. Examine engineering hydrology for design storms; an introduction to hydraulic and hydrologic modeling tools; and design requirements for controlling urban water quality and enhancing sustainability.

Explore the application of engineering hydraulics to design and analyses of urban water distribution systems. Examine computational modeling and control of pipe networks as well as considerations of variable user demand, fireflow, and contaminant transport.

Earth fills, excavations, and dams; soil compaction and ground improvement, seepage and dewatering; stability of natural slopes and embankments; earth-pressure theories; design of earth retaining structures.

Various specified topics or conference course.

Conduct independent research with a tenure track faculty member in the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering. Prepare a project proposal and a final report, each of which is evaluated by the faculty supervisor.

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.

Explore experimental techniques and instrumentation for studying common turbulent flows. Examine fundamentals of signal processing, data pre- and post-processing techniques for optical and acoustic instrumentation, turbulent flow analysis, and experimental design. Utilize particle image velocimetry, laser induced fluorescence, and acoustic Doppler velocimetry.

Formulation and numerical implementation of boundary element methods; applications to problems in fluid mechanics, structural analysis, and solid mechanics.

Hydrofoil and lifting surface theory, actuator disk and lifting line theory, modeling via vortex lattice, panel methods, and Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes solvers, optimum loading and blade design techniques for propellers and turbines, unsteady blade and shaft forces, and modeling of sheet cavitation.

Fundamentals of fluid mechanics applied in natural systems; analysis of energy; momentum, diffusion, turbulence, and stratification in lakes, rivers, and estuaries.

Basics of numerical methods as applied to the solution of the steady and unsteady fluid flow equations, such as the Euler and the Navier-Stokes equations and the advection-diffusion equation. Emphasis on finite volume methods as applied to fluid mechanics problems in civil and environmental engineering.

Presentations and discussions on various topics in water resources engineering.

Examine econometric model estimation methods and use of behavioral models in service design, marketing, and prediction. Discuss practical problems in the context of transportation planning to gain familiarity with models used and experience in data handling and estimation.

Design of buildings for low energy use and optimal indoor air quality. Includes ventilation, energy efficiency, moisture problems, and prevention by design.

Linear and nonlinear analysis of trusses and frames; introduction to structural stability; and computational aspects of linear and nonlinear structural analysis.

Introductory concepts; weighted residual methods; strong and weak forms; boundary conditions; global v. local basis functions; error estimates; smooth and nonsmooth problems; one-dimensional second- and fourth-order problems; two-dimensional potential and plate problems; two-dimensional and three-dimensional elasticity; dynamic and eigenvalue problems; numerical, computational, and meshing issues; applications using commercial software.

Survey of numerical methods; weighted residuals, finite differences, finite elements, boundary elements; applications to equilibrium, eigenvalue, and propagation problems.

An introductory course in the theory and modeling of propagating waves. Subjects may include scalar waves in 1-D and 2-D, traveling and standing waves, flexural waves in beams, dispersion, phase and group velocity, vector waves in 2-D and 3-D, waves in infinite media and semi-infinite media, P waves, SH waves, SV waves, Rayleigh and Love surface waves, Stoneley waves, reflection and transmission at interfaces, numerical modeling, radiation conditions, scattering and radiation from obstacles, and fluid-solid interaction.

Explore the principal methods used for non-destructive evaluation (NDE) and structural health monitoring (SHM) of structural components. Examine relevant physical principles of continuum mechanics, electrical engineering, acoustics, and elastic wave propagation underlying the experimental methods. Examine sensor data acquisition and interrogation and ultrasonic digital signal processing. Utilize laboratory demonstrations on selected subjects.

Principles and methods of plastic analyses and design, and their applications to continuous beams, frames, plates, connections, and multistory buildings.

Application of systems engineering principles to planning, design, and construction of building and bridge structures with emphasis on performance requirements and economic factors.

Survey of experimental methods used in structural engineering, including loading and measurement techniques and systems used in structural research.

Design of steel highway bridges, including the analysis and design of composite girder, box girder, and cable-stayed bridges.

Behavior and design of structures subjected to fire; heat transfer fundamentals and modeling of fires; material properties at elevated temperature; structural fire resistance and protection; calculating structure-fire response.

Behavior of reinforced concrete members; critical review of specifications; limit states; anchorage and development of reinforcement; shear; torsion.

Behavior of reinforced concrete structures, with emphasis on ductility and detailing of frames, slabs, and braced (shearwall) structures. Detailing for seismic loads.

Theory, advantages, and limitations; various systems of prestressing; composite construction; continuous span theory.

Evaluation of condition, strength, serviceability, and ductility of existing structures; criteria for rehabilitation; retrofit techniques for change in function, loading, and seismic forces.

Planning, design, and construction of reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete bridges, including arch, frame, girder, and cable stay systems; aesthetics, economy, and durability.

Application of plasticity theory to structural concrete columns, girders, frames, and joints. Development and application of transparent detailing methods such as truss models, strut-and-tie models, and both strip and yield line methods for slabs.

Single and multidegree-of-freedom systems; dynamic load factors, response to harmonic excitation; damping; modal analysis; direct integration of equations of motion; analysis in time and frequency domains; application to earthquake, wind, wave, and traffic loadings.

Earthquake characteristics; seismic loads; elastic and inelastic response; analysis and design of buildings for earthquakes.

Load and resistance factors in reliability-based design; first- and second-order reliability methods; Monte Carlo simulation techniques with variance reduction and importance sampling refinements; reliability of systems; fault-tree and event-tree models; inverse reliability procedures; and random fields and stochastic finite element analysis for reliability analysis.

Physics of explosions and basic blast phenomenology; structural loading due to blast effects; nonlinear dynamic response of blast-loaded structures; protective design; progressive collapse.

Application of engineering economics and operations research to the planning and management of water systems. Major subjects include water supply, water resources management, multi-objective planning, and optimization techniques. Focus on programming skills and implementation of the models using a programming language.

Introduction to planning, policy, and development of water resources in the international setting, with emphasis on transboundary situations. Basic concepts of water rights and international law pertaining to transboundary water use and protection; economic analysis and applications to transboundary water resources problems; international development goals and how these relate to water supply and use.

Legal and technological approaches to effective and sustainable control of hazardous wastes and contaminated sites, studied through problem evaluation and solution.

Analysis of water quality in natural systems and of effects of wastewater discharges.

Basic physical, chemical, and biological properties of streams, impoundments, estuaries, and coastal waters; methods for analysis of water quality problems.

Application of methods of analysis to development of a water quality management plan for a water body in Texas.

Mathematical modeling of water quality, including dissolved oxygen, nutrients, and toxic substances in lakes, reservoirs, rivers, and estuaries.

Advanced topics in the application of engineering solutions to ecological problems in freshwater and marine environments.

Principles of sustainable treatment of domestic and industrial water, wastewater, and sludges.

Project-based course addressing advanced topics in treatment process design: alternative designs, computer models, laboratory testing, economics, and least-cost designs.

Physical, chemical, and biological unit operations for sustainable water and wastewater treatment.

Industrial wastewater characteristics; methods of in-plant control; application of various biological, chemical, and physical processes in practical water pollution control systems.

Principles of the use of land in management of municipal and industrial wastewaters, sludges, and solids; includes problem evaluations.

Probability and statistics applied to the solution of hydrological problems; extreme event frequency analysis, time series analysis of hydrologic data, autocorrelation and spectral analysis, theory of regionalized variables and applications.

Fundamentals and applications of drinking water treatment processes, interactions among treatment processes, source water quality, and public health issues.

Design of water and wastewater treatment facilities; pumps and hydraulic considerations; design of wastewater collection systems; design of systems for handling and disposal of residuals. Specific facilities may be selected to meet individual interests.

Application of fracture mechanics to fracture-safe design of metal structures; material behavior and analysis of components containing cracks.

Introduction to theories of inelastic behavior; theory of plasticity; applications to materials such as steel, concrete, and soils; implementation of constitutive equations in structural analysis.

Hydraulic conductivity of soils; clay behavior; compacted clay barriers; unsaturated soil behavior and barriers; geosynthetics and geosynthetic barriers; contaminants and solid waste; liquid drainage layers; stability of landfills; contaminant transport through barriers.

Fundamental concepts of geology, including geologic time and plate tectonics. Interactions among earth materials, landforms, and geologic processes across a range of spatial and temporal scales. Emphasizes common interests shared by engineers and geologists, as well as gaps between the disciplines, such as those posed by the geologic vocabulary.

Theoretical and experimental studies of the consolidation and shearing properties of both saturated and unsaturated soils.

Bearing capacity, design of piers and pile foundations.

Development and application of limit equilibrium procedures, including effects of seepage, rapid drawdown, and seismic loading and reinforcement for stability analysis of natural and constructed slopes.

Explore the engineering of underground openings in both soil and rock. Examine rock mechanics and rock mass characterization, tunnel design and construction methodologies, and pre- and post-excavation ground improvement with regards to design and construction of safe and economical tunnels.

Wave propagation in soil and rock, foundation vibration and isolation, dynamic behavior of soil.

Types of earth retaining systems, earth pressure theory; gravity, semi-gravity, and modular walls; reinforcing elements; mechanically stabilized earth walls and reinforced soil slopes; soil nail walls; sheet pile walls, drilled shaft walls and anchored walls; advances in soil reinforcement.

Application of soil dynamics to earthquake engineering; influence of soil conditions on ground motion characteristics; evaluation of site response using wave propagation techniques; liquefaction of soils; liquefaction mitigation; seismic response of earth structures; seismic slope stability.

Principles and theory for modeling uncertainty in civil engineering, analyzing how uncertainties affect performance, and developing rational bases for design and decision making under uncertain conditions.

Explore the large-scale solutions to climate change systematically. Examine the fundamentals of climate science, mitigation of climate change through transformation of energy supply and end-use, geoengineering, and industrial carbon management. Discuss the social and economic context for engineered solutions.

Characterization and collection of solid wastes; biological, chemical, and physical principles and integrated systems applicable to the treatment and disposal of municipal and industrial residuals.

Explore physicochemical processes governing indoor and outdoor air quality, human exposure to gas-phase and particle-phase pollutants, and factors affecting human health. Examine the connection between air quality, regulatory perspectives, engineering solutions and acute and chronic environmental issues impacting human exposure. Discuss research questions through efficient data retrieval and run simple dispersion models.

Explore technological advancements in measurements of indoor and outdoor air quality. Discuss operation principles of novel real-time trace-gas sensors and mass spectrometers. Examine air quality measurements at different spatiotemporal scales, utilizing analytical instrumentation, data acquisition, and data processing. Explore research questions in air quality through hands-on laboratory and field measurements.

Advanced work in theory and practice of communicating research and design results to a variety of audiences, in print, orally, and through multimedia. Students use their own work and writing projects as the material to communicate.

Explore the physical basics of sustainable building design for reducing energy demand and providing on-site renewable energy.

Design of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems.

Explore applied machine learning for analyzing data in the domain of buildings (nexus of cities, water and energy).

Transport and control of indoor pollutants. Includes particulate removal and pollutant transport into and within indoor environments.

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.

Fundamentals of microbiology and biochemistry as applied to environmental pollution and sustainable treatment processes, energetics and kinetics of microbial growth, and biological fate of pollutants; introduction to laboratory techniques.

Advanced analytical procedures for the sampling, monitoring, and analyses of air, liquid, and other wastes.

Advanced topics in the application of engineering solutions to chemical problems in freshwater and marine environments.

Advanced subjects in the environmental chemistry of organic contaminants in groundwater, soil, and air systems; includes sustainable chemistry.

Environmental chemodynamics: interphase equilibrium, reactions, transport processes, and related models for anthropogenic substances across natural interfaces (air-water-sediment-soil) and associated boundary regions.

Application of microbiology and molecular biology tools for monitoring environmental systems and biological treatment processes.

Introduction to conceptual, methodological, and mathematical foundations of analysis and design of transportation services; review of probabilistic modeling; application of discrete choice models to demand analysis.

Operations research techniques for modeling system performance and design of transportation services; routing and scheduling problems, network equilibration, and spatially distributed queueing systems.

Developments in the econometric and behavioral aspects of demand analysis and forecasting; supply-demand integration; dynamic models. Applications to passenger and freight transportation and other infrastructure services.

Relations among traffic variables; distribution functions; single lane and multilane traffic flow; characterization of traffic in cities; kinematic waves; yellow signal dilemma; merging; fuel consumption; emissions; and special topics. Emphasis on the interplay among theory, experimentation, and observation.

Analysis of a wide range of planning studies to establish the logic and foundation for the transportation planning process. Emphasis on techniques of estimation and forecasting population, economic activity, land use, and mobility patterns; determination of goals and objectives; decision making; economic analysis; and alternative evaluation.

Characterization and analysis of arterial street and freeway traffic operations using theoretical and experimental techniques, especially computer simulation. Introduction to the most current analysis and optimization tools for control device design and implementation.

Geometric design of highways and guideways, including topics on levels of service, alignment, vehicle operations, intersection and interchange design, roadside design, lighting, and economics.

Advanced methods for selection of transportation and other infrastructure systems in the presence of multiple criteria, multiple decision makers, and uncertainty.

Theories of pavement behavior and concepts of pavement design.

Pavement performance evaluation and the application of theory to the design of pavements.

Defines the interrelationships among all aspects of pavement technology. Application of computer-based management methodology.

Design and use of asphalt mixtures; chemical, physical, and rheological properties of asphalt; and practical applications in highways, airports, and other construction.

Aircraft characteristics, site selection, airport configuration, capacity, terminal design, traffic control, and interfacing with other transportation modes.

Consideration, analysis, and evaluation of recent transportation-related innovations and developments.

Concepts and advanced methods for the design of control strategies for transportation systems operations, including highway traffic systems (signalized street networks and freeways), transit systems, and private carrier operations, including airlines.

Transportation network analysis focusing on planning and optimization using static traffic assignment models. Subjects include deterministic and stochastic equilibrium, traditional and modern solution methods, shortest path algorithms, combined models, and basic nonlinear programming skills.

Theory and practice of dynamic traffic assignment as an evolving field. Subjects include basic flow models (point queues, cell transmission model, and link transmission model), time-dependent shortest path algorithms, equilibrium algorithms (convex combinations, simplicial decomposition, and gradient methods), and case studies from practice.

Methods and technologies for the acquisition and analysis of data on various aspects of transportation systems, including properties of different data sources and types; stated versus revealed preferences; traffic sensing; survey design; sampling strategies; probabilistic methods of data analysis; overview of statistical methods and various regression models, including random-utility, ordered-choice, simultaneous-equations, time-series, and spatial econometric models.

Explore the physics concepts related with sensors, basic circuits, and wireless communications. Examine properties and specifications of sensors, and their importance in practical use cases. Discuss sensor noise properties and explore the use of signal processing in time and frequency domains to reduce noise. Explore data and model fusion using classical estimation methods (linear observers and Kalman filters).

Explore various aspects of regional transportation system performance forecasting, including methods for anticipating Americans' evolving travel choices. Examine key data sources and model specifications for planning activities; forecasting and validation of predictions, for personal vs. commercial travel; and system-wide applications for traffic and travel pattern forecasts.

Theoretical and practical knowledge of transducers, sensors, and data acquisition systems for soil and general laboratory testing. Experimental techniques used to characterize properties of geomaterials.

Introduction to public transportation systems, including demand forecasting, operations, and design. Includes statistical methods, driver and vehicle scheduling, algorithms, and survey sampling techniques.

Management principles, modeling techniques, computer applications, and emerging technologies for the analysis, engineering, and management of infrastructure systems.

Concepts, principles, theories, and models for infrastructure management, with emphasis on civil infrastructure systems.

Theory of reliability, maintainability, and availability and its application for the analysis of infrastructure systems.

Concepts, frameworks, and models of intelligent infrastructure systems, with emphasis on the application of emerging technologies and advanced modeling techniques.

Pavement design; back calculation; use of locally available materials for pavement construction; recycled asphalt pavements and shingles; warm mix and cold mix asphalt; industrial by-products and waste incorporated in pavement materials; emerging technologies for sustainable pavement design and pavement management.

Methods and statistics of model estimation, with emphasis on maximum-likelihood; individual choice theory; binary choice models; unordered multinomial and multidimensional choice models; sampling theory and sample design; ordered models and aggregate prediction with choice models; introduction to advanced concepts, such as unobserved population heterogeneity, joint slated preference and revealed preference modeling, and longitudinal choice analysis.

Strategic planning of intermodal freight transportation systems (infrastructure and rolling stock). Freight logistics, intermodal technology, and intermodal terminal operations. Intermodal freight transportation policy, planning, and operational systems and programs.

Application of economic theory and principles to transportation systems analysis and evaluation. Subjects include individual demand decisions, optimal private and public transport supply (including pricing strategies and input demands), market imperfections and externalities, and welfare-based transport policy.

Evolving concepts of transportation agency organization, management, and delivery of transportation programs, products, and services. Separation versus integration of transport policymaking and service delivery functions; emerging models for delivering programs and services, such as outsourcing, privatization, and state-owned enterprises; review of national and international experiences with innovative approaches and the benefits and costs associated with change.

Introduction to the design and performance prediction of asphalt mixtures. Experimental and computational methods used to characterize the chemical and mechanical properties and performance of bituminous materials at several different length scales. Includes computational models.

Test methods and physical models used to characterize the mechanical response of linear and nonlinear viscoelastic materials. Use of correspondence principles to solve simple boundary value problems for linear viscoelastic materials. Introductory topics on modeling damage and nonlinear response of viscoelastic materials.

Comprehensive coverage of Portland cement concrete materials. Topics include cement and aggregate properties, chemical and mineral admixtures, concrete microstructure and the effects of chemical and mechanical properties, durability issues, concrete construction, and special concretes.

Cement chemistry, hydration, and microstructural formation; analytical techniques used in the investigation of cement and concrete.

Examine comprehensive coverage of durability issues affecting portland cement concrete. Includes transport properties (e.g., diffusion, osmosis, sorption, etc.), alkali-silica reaction, external sulfate attack, delayed ettringite formation, corrosion of reinforcing steel, freezing and thawing, and salt scaling. Explore, for each durability issue, the underlying mechanism are presented, along with methods for preventing such distress in new concrete construction.

Presentation and discussion of environmental topics in surface water, groundwater, air resources, and land resources.

Material selection criteria, including mechanical and environmental factors; selected case studies of emerging materials, including derivation of properties and potential applications.

Beams on foundation, laterally loaded piles, applications of the finite-element method, beam-columns with nonlinear soil support, and behavior of pile groups.

Fundamentals of wave propagation; determination of foundation stiffnesses; mat foundations on the surface of a layered soil; embedded foundations; pile foundations; effect of foundation conditions on dynamic response of structures to applied loads (machine foundations) and to seismic excitation.

Groundwater flow and hydrogeologic modeling, sources of contamination, multiphase partitioning, advection-dispersion transport and modeling.

Rainfall runoff processes, hydrograph theory, linear and nonlinear hydrologic system models, hydrologic and hydraulic streamflow routing, rainfall and flood flow frequency analysis, watershed models.

Principles of geographic information systems, hydrology, and database management systems applied to water resources problems.

Development and application of linear and nonlinear finite element procedures for solution of geotechnical engineering problems related to embankments, excavations, static soil-structure interaction, and seepage.

Explore the integration of mass manufacturing, digital technologies, and automated processes for the production of the built environment. Learn how such approaches can improve productivity, safety, quality, and sustainability. Discuss key concepts behind industrialization and examine key technologies spanning design, offsite manufacturing, and onsite assembly.

Introduction to advanced CAD procedures and CAD systems, and their influence on building design and construction.

Construction automation and integration activities, methods for opportunity identification and financial analysis of systems, and tools from several disciplines that are used in construction automation and integration; students prepare a project that synthesizes this information.

The elements of construction systems, including mechanisms, sensors, and control; systems design methods and concerns. Students develop an individual design project.

Sensor types and properties, data acquisition, sensor data analysis, sensor fusion, and classes of civil engineering applications. Students are encouraged to work on projects related to their research areas.

Fundamentals of planning, scheduling, and cost management on projects. Topics include network scheduling, activity and resource management, cost loading and cost control, and computer tools used for project controls, such as schedule simulation and three-dimensional and four-dimensional CAD.

Advanced topics in project controls, including supply chain management, procurement, interorganizational controls and incentives, process modeling, and simulation.

Introduction to financial, managerial, and tax accounting concepts, as well as corporate finance and strategy as they relate to engineering and construction firms. Emphasis is on content, interpretation, and uses of various accounting reports and financial statements in general, as well as those specific to engineering and construction industries. Topics include determination and reporting of net income methods and financial position unique to engineering and construction firms, and theories underlying business financial statements, as well as the consideration of managerial accounting and financial management topics that cover the planning and controlling of business operations and how financial management impacts a company's overall business success.

Information systems design and management concepts and their implementation in construction projects. Data acquisition, transmission, and storage; database management systems and information systems design.

Fundamentals of decision analysis and risk assessment; construction engineering/project management applications in decision analysis; methods of risk management; overview of project insurance.

Measurement systems and benchmarking approaches for many aspects of construction projects. Included are measurement systems for design effectiveness, construction productivity, safety, cost and schedule controls, and overall industry statistics.

Fundamentals of data mining. Techniques for data classification, prediction, clustering, and association rules mining. Data mining as an advanced data analysis method in engineering and construction. Implementation issues.

Practical methods of data analysis for evaluating project performance metrics. Includes quantitative methods for solving everyday problems such as bid selection, capital budgeting, assignment of resources, equipment replacement analysis, and the optimization of capital structure. Techniques for developing models under conditions of risk using Microsoft Excel and add-ins such as At Risk.

Building information models in plan execution for a building construction project. Focus on implementation of building information modeling concepts throughout the lifecycle of a building, from planning and design to construction and operations.

Explore system thinking concepts and sociotechnical system modeling of civil infrastructure systems. Examine defining system boundaries, abstracting interdependencies and system structure, and implementing mathematical models for the analyses of systems.

Evaluation of individual, group, and organizational behavior in construction work. In-depth study of communication, decision making, and the relationship between controls and behavior.

Construction productivity improvement by group field studies. In-depth study of the way overtime, changes, weather, and staffing levels influence productivity. Industrial engineering techniques are applied to the construction environment to improve the use of equipment and human and material resources.

Overall aspects of project and portfolio management from inception to successful operation: project selection and feasibility, contracting methods, project scheduling, cost control systems, project communications, project scope and quality management, human resource management, partner selection and management, project leadership, project closeout, and global project management.

Methods and materials in heavy civil construction; earthwork, concrete, structural steel, and deep foundations; equipment selection, configuration, productivity, and safety issues; site and craft planning, environmental issues, and optimization modeling; and field studies.

Industry value management processes, including value engineering and life cycle costing, process simplification, function analysis concept development, design to capacity, constructability, modularization and preassembly, and design effectiveness.

Industry value management processes, including mechanical reliability modeling, predictive maintenance, design for maintainability, waste minimization and pollution prevention, sustainable design and construction, planning for startup, lean construction, postoccupancy evaluation, and knowledge management and lessons learned systems.

Methods and materials in industrial construction; heavy lifts, mechanical equipment, process piping, electrical, and instrumentation work; equipment selection, configuration, productivity, and safety issues; preassembly, modularization, and work planning in the industrial environment; and field studies.

Principles and applications of advanced project planning techniques for capital facility owners and contractors. Effective owner front-end planning of capital facilities, including team alignment, and preproject planning processes and tools. Contractor preconstruction planning, including team selection, scope and budget review, procurement, strategic sequencing, and planning assessment tools.

Contracts, documentation requirements, claims avoidance, and settlement of claims by alternative dispute resolution. Students conduct and present in-depth studies of the most frequent causes of claims (delay, disruption, acceleration, soil conditions, and changes) and consider the way the court establishes causation and determines damages.

Causes and effects of construction safety incidents, proactive preventative strategies, and tactics.

Construction research methods seminar, including concepts and practice of research in construction engineering and management. Research methodologies and steps in the research process, including review and framing research questions. Students develop and critique a research proposal.

Construction industry issues and best practices, such as front-end planning and zero accident techniques, developed by the Construction Industry Institute (CII). Guest lecturers include CII management staff and visiting industry leaders. Emphasis on implementation of proven practices on projects.

Sources, transport, fate, impacts, characteristics, and control of air contaminants; source control and prevention; urban air quality; occupational and residential indoor air quality.

Classification, transport, transformation, deposition, sampling, and analysis of particulate and gaseous air pollutants in urban, regional, and global-scale systems. Emphasis on sustainable engineering.

Design of air pollution control systems for stationary sources. Technical, regulatory, and economic fundamentals related to the control of gaseous and particulate emissions.

Sources, transport, and fate of indoor air pollutants. Interactions between indoor pollutants and indoor materials. Indoor air chemistry. Human exposure to pollutants in indoor environments.

Mathematical models of contaminant transport in the atmosphere; atmospheric turbulence and air pollution meteorology; Gaussian plume, gradient transport, and higher-order closure models; theoretical development and practical applications to engineering problems.

Human exposure to air pollution in the built environment, including the effects of sustainable building design on human exposure to toxic air pollutants. Subjects may include inhalation intake fractions for risk calculations and comparisons of sources of air pollution, transmission of airborne infectious disease, pharmacokinetic modeling, and case studies involving several important air pollutants.

Basic meteorology applied to air pollution; diffusion of conservative and nonconservative pollutants; plume rise; air pollution models.

Design and behavior of solid wood and glued-laminated wood structural members; light-frame and heavy timber systems, including trusses and arches.

Causes of distress, evaluation methods, repair materials, repair techniques, and quality control methods for repair of concrete.

Collection and analysis of air samples for gaseous and particulate contaminants. Gas flow rate and calibration techniques, stationary source sampling and analysis, indoor air sampling, ozone and NOx ambient air monitoring.

Essential methods for computer-aided problem solving in transportation and other civil engineering areas. Topics may include computer operating systems concepts; the Internet and World Wide Web site design; advanced programming with C programming language; data structures; file manipulation and management; Monte Carlo simulation techniques; interfacing with spreadsheets, SQL databases, and computer-aided design packages; introduction to Geographic Information Systems. Team programming is emphasized.

Introduction to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) concepts, evolution, and current initiatives. Program evolution from Mobility 2000, through IVHS and strategic planning activities by the Department of Transportation and ITS America, to current operational tests and deployment projects.

Hydrofoil and lifting surface theory, actuator disk and lifting line theory, vortex-lattice and panel methods, blade design techniques, propulsor-inflow and propulsor-hull interaction, unsteady blade and shaft forces, and modeling of sheet cavitation.

Discussion of force and stress, vectors and tensors; equilibrium; displacement and deformation; compatibility; constitutive equations, with examples from linear elasticity, linear viscoelasticity, and plasticity; principle of virtual work; elastic structures, principle of minimum potential energy, reciprocity theorem; critical equilibrium, stability; linear theories of beams, plates, and shells.

Topics include review of transport systems analysis; shipper objectives; demand and supply modeling; freight flow data; network analysis; truck size and weight policies; finance.

Analysis of water resources projects, particularly international water projects, with emphasis on engineering and planning considerations and their relation to governmental policies.

The application and evaluation of new concepts in water pollution abatement and advanced water and wastewater treatment.

Evaluation of new theoretical approaches to air pollution control.

Topics range from fundamentals of vehicular traffic science to relevant methodologies in physics, applied mathematics, and operational science.

Selection of design storm; wave forces on structures; preliminary analysis of steel jacket platforms; joint design; fatigue considerations; foundation design; dynamic effects and responses.

Methods of forensic analysis; role of the expert witness; methods of dispute resolution; case studies; term project.

Stability as it relates to actual behavior and design; elastic and inelastic theories; evaluation of specifications; columns, beams, and frames.

Elastic and inelastic design methods for steel members, connections, and structures; torsion of open and closed sections, welding, plate buckling, and column stability; bracing design.

Basic signal processing knowledge; introduction to wave propagation theory; nondestructive testing (NDT) principles and applications to steel structures; evaluation of concrete structures and foundations; NDT methods selection; emerging technologies.

Preparation of a report to fulfill the requirement for the master's degree under the departmental report option.

Preparation of a report to fulfill the requirement for the Master of Science in Engineering degree under the Graduate School report option.

Special training in teaching methods and procedures for civil engineering courses, including laboratory courses; the development of new material and methods to update present courses.