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11.6.4 DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL, CONSTRUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING (CCEE)
Head:
Professor Kenneth Fridley, Office: 262 H. M. Comer Hall
The department offers programs leading to the master of science in
civil engineering, master of science in engineering (environmental
engineering), and doctor of philosophy degrees in civil engineering.
Research programs in the department include urban environmental
quality and water resources; management and safety of transportation
systems; infrastructure development, assessment, renewal, and
protection; and construction engineering and management. Laboratory
facilities are provided for graduate research and instruction in
these and other areas.
Admission Requirements
The
requirements for admission to the Graduate School
are detailed in section 4.4 of this catalog. The Department of
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering also embraces the
requirements of the College of Engineering, summarized as follows:
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An applicant
must have earned a baccalaureate degree from an institution
accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC) of
ABET, inc. and have a grade point average of at least 3.0
on a 4.0 scale, or at least 3.0 for the last 60 hours completed.
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Applicants who
are not graduates of EAC/ABET-accredited programs must have
Graduate Record Examination general test scores of 1000 or
higher and grade point averages of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale.
Degree Requirements
Master of Science Degree Requirements
The basic requirements for both the master of science in civil
engineering and master of science in engineering (environmental
engineering) are identical. A total of 30 hours is required for
a master's degree, consisting of at least 24 regular course hours
and 6 or more thesis research hours for Plan I students.
The student’s advisor and supervisory committee work with the
student to define an appropriate plan of study that meets all degree
requirements, including any prerequisite or preparatory work and a
core set of courses as required and specified by each specialty
area. Students are required to pass a comprehensive exam or thesis
defense administered by the student’s supervisory committee.
See the
Master's Degrees Graduate School requirement section of this
catalog for additional information.
Doctor of Philosophy Degree Requirements
A total of 72
hours is required for the degree, including a minimum of 48 hours of
coursework beyond the baccalaureate and 24 hours of dissertation
research. A maximum of 24 hours of approved transfer credit is
allowed, with approval of the Graduate School on the form for
Request for Transfer of Graduate Credit.
The student’s advisor and supervisory committee will work
with the student to define an appropriate plan of study that meets
all degree requirements, including any prerequisite or preparatory
work and a core set of courses as required and specified by each
specialty area. After approval by the department the
PhD Plan of Study
is submitted to the Graduate School for final approval.
All doctoral students must have a completed Plan of Study approved by the Graduate
School no later than the semester during which the student will
complete 30 semester hours of UA and/or transfer credit for the
doctoral degree.
Otherwise, a "hold" may be placed on future registration.
Students
are required to pass a preliminary examination that includes both written
and oral components, a proposal defense, and a final dissertation
defense administered by
the student’s supervisory committee.
After passing the comprehensive (preliminary) examination,
the student should complete and submit an
Admission to Candidacy for the Doctoral Degree
to the department for approval. A department-approved
candidacy form will be forwarded to the Graduate School for final
approval.
For additional information about the
Graduate School's general requirements for advanced degrees see the
online Graduate Catalog (Sec. 4.11.3) for details.
Course Descriptions
Master's students may, with permission of the department and
approval by the Graduate School, receive credit for six
hours of 400-level credit. No 400-level courses can be approved for
application to a PhD degree, other than the maximum of 6 hours
already completed as part of a master's degree. A master's student may, with approval
of a petition, meet prerequisites with a combination of related
coursework and experience.
CE 511 Advanced Rock Mechanics. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: AEM 250.
Advanced levels of theories of rock failure, ground movement,
stability analysis, and the design of underground openings; rock
testing methods.
CE 515 Advanced Engineering
Economics. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: IE 203 or CE 366; and GES 255 or GES 400 or 500
Not open to students with credit for CE 415. Capital budgeting
decision making under risk and uncertainty, utility theory, cost
estimation, and design of financial control through management
simulation.
CE 516 Advanced Information Systems
Design. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE 414 or equivalent.
Not open to students with credit for CE 416. Current concepts in
information systems architecture and applications, including
decision support systems and expert systems. Emphasis placed on
expanded use of systems design methodology.
CE 517 Advanced Project Management.
(3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisites: IE 203 or CE 366; and GES 255
Not open to students who have credit for CE 417. This is an
engineering management course designed to introduce students to the
functions of project engineers and managers. It details the
processes of planning and controlling project scope, time, and cost.
CE 518 Engineering Management. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE 366
Not open to students who have credit for CE 418. An introduction to
management principles, and the management functions of planning,
organizing, motivating, and controlling. Management of engineers in
research, design, manufacturing/construction, and quality will be
studied.
CE 522 Solid and Hazardous Waste
Management. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE 320 or B.S. degree in a compatible field.
Engineering design and regulatory requirements for the collection,
storage, recycling, treatment, and disposal of solid wastes.
CE 523 Effects and Fates of Hazardous Chemicals Released to the
Environment. (3-0) Three Hours.
Prerequisites: CE 520; CE 378; & CE 425 or permission of
instructor.
Chemical fate
and transport in the environment. Frequency and magnitude of
accidents involving hazardous material. Effects of these releases
on the community.
CE 525 Air
Pollution. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: AEM 311 or CHE 304.
Introduction to the source, characteristics, and effects of air
pollution and to air pollution control technology and design.
CE 526 Physical/Chemical Processes in
Water and Wastewater Treatment. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and course in differential
equations; or permission of the instructor.
Discussion of fundamentals of physical/chemical processes, as they
relate to environmental quality and water and wastewater treatment.
Reactor principle, chemical processes, and particle removal process
will be discussed from fundamental theory.
CE 527 Storm Water Management. (3-0) Three
hours.
Prerequisites: CE 378 and CE 475 or permission of instructor.
Quality and
quantity of urban storm water. Receiving water problems and sources
of pollutants. Runoff quality and quantity characteristics.
Selection and design of controls; regulations.
CE 529 Environmental Systems Analysis
(3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisites: CE 320 and CE 424.
Advanced examination of tertiary, physical, and chemical unit
operations used in water and wastewater systems.
CE 532 Advanced
Structural Analysis. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE
331.
Introduction to
the matrix-displacement method of analysis for framed structures,
including computer implementation of analysis. An introduction
to finite-element analysis is also included.
CE 534 Advanced Structural Mechanics. (3-0) Three
hours.
Prerequisite:
CE 331 or graduate standing
Introduction
to advances structural mechanics topics, including elementary
elasticity, elementary beam theories, beams on elastic foundations,
energy methods, buckling and free vibration of beams, and elementary
thin-plate theory.
CE 536 Wood Structural Design. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE 331.
Modern timber engineering: design of beams, columns, trusses, and
floor systems.
CE 537 Reinforced Concrete Structures
II. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE 433.
Design of reinforced concrete building components including two-way
slabs, slender columns, prestressed beams, slap-on-grade, and
retaining walls.
CE 538 Structural Steel Design II. (3-0)
Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE 434.
Basic and
elementary design procedures for steel structures such as plate
girders, mill buildings, multistory buildings, highway bridges, and
light-gauge steel structures.
CE 539 Design of Masonry Structures. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE
539
Design of
un-reinforced and reinforced masonry walls, columns, pilasters,
beams and lintels.
CE 542 Waste Containment Facilities. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE 340 or permission of instructor.
Introduction to the fundamentals of soil behavior as they relate to
environmental engineering. Topics include soil behavior, soil
compaction, conduction phenomena, geosynthetics, and aspects of
landfill design.
CE 544 Foundation Engineering.
(3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE 340.
Analysis and design of soil foundation systems.
CE 551 Geometric Design of Roadways. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE 350.
Application of the principles of geometric design: alignment,
vertical control, drainage, traffic control, interchanges, and
intersections. Design projects will be prepared to illustrate
standard techniques.
CE 552 Traffic Safety and Security.
(3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE 350.
Introduction to transportation safety and security issues.
Site/situation identification techniques, risk assessment,
countermeasure analysis, cost effectiveness, construction, and
evaluation.
CE 553 Intelligent Transportation
Systems--ITS. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE 350.
Introduction to intelligent transportation systems including traffic
management, institutional and planning issues; system architecture,
and system design/construction/operation.
CE 554 Urban Transportation Planning.
(3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE 350.
An introduction to the planning process, software associated with
transportation modeling, and conducting transportation planning and
traffic impact studies.
CE 556 Transportation Systems Analysis. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE 350 or Graduate
Status.
Basic concepts and tools of systems
analysis, including those from microeconomics, optimization, project
evaluation and decision making, are integrated into the context of
transportation planning and management.
CE 560 Front End Planning. (3-0) Three
hours.
Prerequisite:
CE 366
Principles and
applications for effective early planning of capital facilities,
including: finance, economics decision making, risk management, team
alignment, and front end planning processes and tools.
CE 563 Construction Cost Estimating. (3-0) Three
hours.
Prerequisite:
CE 366
Addresses the
estimating and cost control function from conceptual planning
through project execution. Topics include productivity analysis,
organization of estimates, cost forecasting, estimating tolls and
techniques, contingency planning and relationship to contract types
and project execution strategies.
CE 557 Pavement Design and Construction.
(3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE 340.
The thickness design of base, subbase, asphalt, and concrete layers
for highway pavements, including both design and construction
aspects.
CE 558 Traffic Engineering. (3-0)
Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE 350.
Vehicle operating characteristics, traffic flow, geometric design of
road and intersections, and methods of traffic control.
CE 559 Pavement Rehabilitation. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE 350.
This course covers two areas concerning care of existing highway
asphalt and concrete pavements. Major maintenance includes overlay
design, additional drainage, recycling, and slab repair. Routine
maintenance includes distress surveys, pothole repair, and crack and
joint sealing.
CE 561 Horizontal Construction Methods.
(3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite:
CE 366
Introduction
to horizontal construction engineering equipment and methods.
Design of horizontal construction systems, and construction
operation analyses and simulation.
CE 562 Vertical Construction Methods. (3-0) Three
hours.
Prerequisite:
CE 366
Construction
of buildings, including mechanical, electrical plumbing and controls
systems, design of temporary structures, and planning and design of
lifts.
CE 564 Safety Engineering. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: GES 255 or equivalent.
Not open to students with credit for CE 464. An exposure to safety
engineering and accident prevention including state and federal laws
related to general and construction projects. Topics include
accident theories, safety regulations, Construction Safety Act,
hazards and their control, human behavior and safety, and safety
management.
CE 565 Advanced Blasting Engineering.
(3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE 340 or CE 411 or AEM 250.
Behavior of rock under dynamic loads intended to fragment or
penetrate; theories of drilling, blasting, and communication; and
application of theory.
CE 569 Construction Internship. (3-0) Three
hours.
Prerequisite:
CE 366, CE464 or Graduate Standing
Practical
field experience working with management of construction.
CE 570 Open Channel Flow. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE 378.
Basic concepts of fluid flow, energy and momentum principles, flow
resistance in nonuniform sections, channel controls and transitions,
and nonuniform flow computations.
CE 573 Statistical Applications in
Civil Engineering. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: MATH 238.
Applications of statistical and probabilistic methodologies for
analysis and solution of practical civil engineering problems,
including frequency and risk analysis, analyses of experimental
data, and systems simulation and optimization.
CE 575
Hydrology. (3-0) Three
hours.
Prerequisite: CE 378.
Hydrologic cycle, rainfall-runoff relations, unit hydrograph,
statistical hydrology, and hydrologic simulation; includes a class
project with application to flood control, water supply, and
multipurpose projects.
CE 580 Forensic Engineering. (3-0) Three
hours.
Prerequisite:
AEM 250
When failures
in the built environment occur, whether during design, construction
or in-service, a thorough examination of the causes is essential to
both the evolution sound engineering practices and to dispute
resolution through the legal system. The role of the engineer in
this process is examined.
CE 581 Legal Aspects of Engineering and Construction.
(3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisites: CE 262 and at least one CE 300-level class.
Legal aspects
of engineering and construction contacts and specifications;
contract formation, interpretations, rights and duties, and changes;
legal liabilities and professional ethics of architects, engineers,
and contractors.
CE 582 Advanced Geological Engineering.
(3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: GEO 101 or permission of instructor.
Engineering properties of rocks and soils, surface and subsurface
exploration, ground water, land subsidence, earthquakes, geophysical
techniques, and application of geology to civil, mining, and
environmental engineering.
CE 584 Experimental Design and Field Sampling.
(3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisites: CE 320 & GES 255 (or equivalent) or permission of
instructor
Experimental
design, sensitivity analyses, water sampling and flow monitoring.
Receiving water chemical reactions. Field investigations.
CE 585 Construction Site Erosion Control. (3-0) Three
hours.
Prerequisites
CE 378, basic engineering hydrology.
Nature and
magnitude of erosion problems, erosion plan development. Rainfall
energy and erosion predictions. Sediment transport in urban areas.
Channel and slope stability, and sedimentation and other controls.
CE 591:592 Special Problems. One to three hours.
Prerequisite: Written permission of the instructor.
Independent study. Credit is based on the amount of work undertaken.
CE 598 Research Not Related to
Thesis. Variable credit.
CE 599 Master's Thesis Research. One to Twelve hours.
CE 605 Impacts of Homeland Security
on America. (1-0) One hour.
Prerequisite: None.
An interdisciplinary seminar that explores the impacts of homeland
security on the economy, politics, law, computing infrastructure,
transportation, drinking water, the environment, and other fields.
CE 622 Water Quality Engineering.
(3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisites: MATH 238 and CE 424.
Introduction to the principles of water-quality engineering and the
development and use of
water-quality
models.
CE 629 Environmental Regulations. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE 424.
Study of environmental laws and the regulations that have resulted
from those laws.
CE 632 Advanced Structural Analysis
II. (2-3) Three hours
Prerequisite:
CE 532.
Finite-element methods, three-dimensional structures.
CE 633 Structural Stability. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE 331.
Static buckling of structural elements, frames, and trusses.
CE 634
Advanced Structural Mechanics. (3-0) Three
hours.
Prerequisite:
CE 331 or graduate standing.
Introduction
to advances structural mechanics topics, including elementary
elasticity, elementary beam theories, beams on elastic foundations,
energy methods, buckling and free vibration of beams, and elementary
thin-plate theory.
CE 653 Traffic Planning. (3-0)
Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE 350.
The role of transportation and traffic in urban planning; the
relationship of traffic facilities to land use, zoning, and planning
studies.
CE 655 Sustainable Transportation.
(3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission.
Pre-requisite: Instructor permission.
Course will define the concept of sustainable transportation and
examine its applications. It will address the travel behavior, land
use and policy issues that affect and are affected by the increasing
emphasis towards developing more sustainable transportation systems.
CE 656 Transportation Demand and
Network Modeling. (3-0) Three hours.
Prerequisite: CE456/556 or equivalent,
or permission from instructor.
Co-requisite: CE 573 Statistical
Application in Civil Engineering or equivalent, or consent of
instructor.
Theory and models of individual choice
behavior and their applications in travel demand modeling;
mathematical models for transportation network problems and their
applications in planning and operations of urban highway and transit
systems.
CE 691:692 Special Problems (Area).
Variable credit.
Advanced work in some area of specialization. Credit awarded is
based on the amount of work completed.
CE 698 Research Not Related to
Dissertation. Variable credit.
CE 699 Doctoral Dissertation Research. Three to twelve hours.
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