Undergraduate Catalog 2002 - 2003

Civil & Environmental Engineering (CE)

Head of Department: Professor Erling Smith
Associate Head of Department: Associate Professor Ramesh Malla
Department Office: Room 302, F.L. Castleman Building

Courses in Applied Mechanics are listed under that heading, immediately following the Civil Engineering courses. Also see courses listed under Engineering.
 

222. Civil Engineering Materials Second semester. Three credits. Two lectures. One 3-hour Laboratory. Prerequisite or corequisite: CE 287.  Accorsi, Davis, Frantz, Smith Engineering properties of steel, Portland cement concrete, bituminous cement concrete, and timber; laboratory measurement of properties; interpretation of results. Written reports.

222P. Civil Engineering Materials Must be taken with another P course in Civil Engineering to equal one W course.

230. Mechanics of Materials and Structures Laboratory Two credits. One hour lecture and one 2-hour Laboratory. Prerequisite: CE 222; and prerequisite or corequisite: CE 234 and CE 236. Smith, Davis Laboratory experiments to complement, reinforce and develop concepts learned in Mechanics of Materials, Basic Structural Analysis and Basic Structural Design. Topics include tension, torsion, flexure and buckling. Written reports.

234. Basic Structural Analysis Second semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: CE 287. Accorsi, DeWolf, Epstein, Frantz, Leonard, Malla Analysis of statistically determinate structures; influence lines; deflection of trusses, beams, and frames; introduction to indeterminate analysis using consistent deformation and moment distribution; computer programming.

236. Basic Structural Design Second semester. Four credits. Three class periods and one 3-hour Laboratory. Prerequisite: CE 287. DeWolf, Epstein, Frantz, Malla, Smith Loads; design of principal components - beams, columns and simple connections - of steel and reinforced concrete structures. Design projects.

237. Advanced Structural Analysis First semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: CE 234. DeWolf, Epstein, Leonard, Malla Instruction sets and addressing modes. The control path and microprogramming. The data path; fast arithmetic. The memory hierarchy, both logical and physical aspects. The input/subsystem; interrupts, DMA, structure and function. SIMD and MIMD parallelism. Modern architectural theories.

238. Reinforces Concrete Structure Design First semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: CE 234 and 236. Dewolf, Epstein, Frantz. Design for flexure, shear, torsion, and axial loads; two - way slabs; serviceability considerations. Applications to buildings.

239. Steel Structures Design Second semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: CE 234 and 236. Dewolf, Frantz. Beam columns, composite members, plate girders, connections; introduction to plastic design. Applications to buildings. Written reports.

239P. Steel Structure Design Must be taken with another P course in Civil Engineering to equal one W course.

240. Soil Mechanics and Foundations First semester. Four credits. Three class periods and one 3- hour laboratory period. Prerequisite : CE 287 and CE 297, both of which may be taken concurrently.  Fundamentals of soil behavior and its use as construction material. Effective stress principle, seepage and flow nets, consolidation, shear strength limit equilibrium analysis. Written reports.

240P. Soil Mechanics and Foundations  Must be taken with another P course in Civil Engineering to equal one W course.

241. Foundation Design First semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: CE 240. Demars. Application of soil properties to design of foundations, retaining structures, excavation drainage, shallow footings, deep foundations, specifications, subsurface exploration.

242. Soils Engineering Second semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: CE 240.  Earth structures, slope stability, consolidation and settlement of soil, vertical drains, surcharging, pressures on buried pipes, and tunnels, numerical solutions.

242P. Soil Engineering Must be taken with another P course in Civil Engineering to equal one W course.

251. Probability and Statistics in Civil Engineering  (Also offered as ENVE 251). First semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores. Recommended preparation: MATH 113Q or 115Q/115V. Anagnostou, Aultman-Hall, Garrick. Application of statistical principles to the analysis of civil engineering problems. Topics include probability, random variable distributions, hypothesis testing, and linear regression analysis.

254. Transportation Facilities Design Second semester. Three credits. Recommended preparation: CE 271 or consent of instructor. Open to sophomores. Garrick, Ivan. Design of transportation facilities. Traffic flow and capacity analysis. Travel demand analysis.

255. Case Studies in Transportation Engineering (Also offered as CE 302.) First semester. Three credits.  Prerequisite: CE 254. Ivan, Garrick Analysis of transportation case studies in road design, metropolitan planning and corridor study. Application of transportation engineering and planning skills. Oral and written group reports, group discussions, individual written papers.

256. Civil Engineering Systems Analysis and Design Second semester. Three credits. Recommended preparation: CE 251. Davis, Ivan.  Optimization, decision and risk analysis, and simulation in design of civil engineering systems. Network analysis and project scheduling.

256P. Civil Engineering Systems Analysis and Design Must be taken with another P course in Civil Engineering to equal one W course.

260. Water Quality Engineering (Also offered as ENVE 260.) Second semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: CE 263 and (CE 297 or CHEG 223). Abboud, Smets Physical, chemical, and biological principles for the treatment of aqueous phase contaminants; reactor dynamics and kinetics. Design projects.

262. Environmental Engineering Laboratory (Formerly offered as CE 264.) (Also offered as ENVE 262.) Second semester. Three credits. Two class periods and one 3-hour laboratory period. Prerequisite: CE 263; and prerequisite or corequisite: CE 297 or CHEG 223. Abboud, Holmen, Smets Aqueous analytical chemical techniques, absorption, coagulation/flocculation, fluidization, gas stripping, biokinetics, interpretation of analytical results, bench-scale design projects, written and oral reports.

262P. Environmental Engineering Laboratory (Also offered as ENVE 262P.) Must be taken with another P course in Civil Engineering to equal one W course.

263. Environmental Engineering Fundamentals (Also offered as ENVE 263.) First semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: CHEM 128 or 130. Open to sophomores. Hoag, MacKay, Smets Concepts from aqueous chemistry, biology, and physics applied in a quantitative manner to environmental problems and solutions. Mass and energy balances, chemical reaction engineering. Quantitative and fundamental description of water and air pollution problems. Environmental regulations and policy, pollution prevention, risk assessment. Written and oral reports.

265. Hydraulic Engineering (Also offered as ENVE 265.) Second semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: CE 297 or (CHEG 223 and CHEG 224). Anagnostou,  Ogden Design and analysis of water and wastewater transport systems, including pipelines, pumps, pipe networks, and open channel flow. Introduction to hydraulic structures and porous media hydraulics. Computer applications.

266. Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory (Also offered as ENVE 266.) Second semester. Two credits. One class period. One 2-hour Laboratory. Prerequisite CE 297.  Tests of the flow of water in pipes and open channels. Theory and calibration of flow measurment devices. Study of velocity profiles. Generation of pump performance curves. Physical hydraulic modeling and similitude.

267. Engineering Hydrology (Also offered as ENVE 267.) First semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: CE 297 or (CHEG 223 and CHEG 224). Anagnostou,  Ogden Hydrologic cycle: precipitation, interception, depression storage, infiltration, evaportranspiration, overland flow, snow hydrology, groundwater and streamflow processes. Stream hydrographs and flood routing. Hydrologic modeling and design. Computer applications. Design project.

267P. Engineering Hydrology Must be taken with another P course in Civil Engineering to equal one W course.

268. Limnology (Also offered as EEB 247 and ENVE 268.) First semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: (MATH 109 or 112 or 115) and (CHEM 122, 127, or 129 or 137). Recommended preparation: BIOL 107 or an introductory biology course.  Physical, chemical, and biotic interrelationships of freshwater habitats.

269. Selected Environmental Problems Second semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores.  Ecological effects of pollution and despoilment. Organized and rational study of specific environmental problems, including social, economic, political and legislative aspects.

271. Geomatics and Spatial Measurement First semester. Four credits. Three lecture periods and one 3-hour Laboratory. Recommended preparation: MATH 107 or MATH 112 or 115. Open to sophomores.  Elementary plane surveying, geospatial coordinate systems, error and accuracy analysis, introduction to geographic information systems, theory and uses of global positioning systems, introduction to photogrammetry and land-surface remote sensing in the context of civil and environmental engineering.

275. Route Surveying Second semester. Three credits. Two class periods. One 3-hour Laboratory. Prerequisite: CE 271.  Reconnaissance and route selection, simple, compound and reverse horizontal curves, spirals, vertical curves, earthwork, cross-sectioning, slope staking, and observations for the meridian.

276. Computer Aided Site Design Second semester. Three credits. One 3-hour class period. Prerequisite: CE 271; and prerequisite or corequisite: CE 254.  Grading and earthwork, runoff and drainage structures for highway design and site development using computer software.

279. Environmental Modeling (Also offered as ENVE 279.) Second semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: CE 263 and (CHEG 223 or CE 297).  Systematic approach for analyzing contamination problems. Systems theory and modeling will be used to assess the predominant processes that control the fate and mobility of pollutants in the environment. Assessments of lake eutrophication, conventional pollutants in rivers and estuaries and toxic chemicals in groundwater.

280W. Civil Engineering Projects Either semester. Three credits. Two 3-hour laboratory periods. Prerequisite: Departmental consent required. This course can be taken no sooner than the semester in which the student completes the Professional Requirements for the B.S. degree.  Design of Civil Engineering Projects. Students working singly or in groups produce solutions to Civil Engineering design projects from first concepts through preliminary proposals, sketches, cost estimations, design, evaluation, oral presentation and written reports.

281. Engineering Economics Second semester. One credit. Given as two 1-hour class periods weekly during first half of semester only. Prerequisite: Senior standing. Leonard, Smith. Costs of Civil Engineering projects; components of cost estimating; comparison of alternate designs; cost/benefit analysis; useful life and depreciation; basic methods of project financing.

291. Civil and Environmental Engineering Professional Issues Seminar Students taking this course will be assigned a final grade of  S (satisfactory) or U  (unsatisfactory).  Either semester. No credits. One 1-hour period. Open to sophomores. May be repeated.  Issues in the practice of Civil & Environmental Engineering: professional ethics, law/contracts, insurance/liability, global/societal issues (e.g., sustainable development, product life cycle), construction management and professional development.

294. Special Topics in Civil Engineering Semester, credits, and hours by arrangement or as announced. Prerequisite and/or consent: Announced separately for each course. Course may be repeated for credit.  Classroom or laboratory courses as announced for each semester. For independent study see Civil Engineering 299.

299. Independent Study for Undergraduates Either or both semesters by arrangement. Credits by arrangement, not to exceed 4 per semester. Open only with consent of supervising instructor. Course may be repeated for credit.  Designed for students who wish to extend their knowledge in some specialized area of civil engineering.

Applied Mechanics

211. Applied Mechanics I Either semester. Three credits. Not open to students who have passed CE 213 or 214. Prerequisite: ENGR 150 or CSE 110 or CSE 123C; and prerequisite or corequisite: MATH 210 or MATH 220. Open to sophomores. Accorsi, Demars, DeWolf, Frantz, Leonard, Malla, Smith, Uthgennant,  Fundamentals of statics using vector methods. Resolution and composition of forces; equilibrium of force systems; analysis of forces acting on structures and machines; centroids; moment of inertia. Computer applications.

212. Applied Mechanics II Either semester. Three credits. Not open to students who have passed CE 215. Prerequisite: CE 211 and (MATH 210 or MATH 220). This course and CE 213 may not both be taken for credit. Open to sophomores. Epstein, Malla, Uthgennant. Fundamentals of dynamics using vector methods. Rectilinear and curvilinear motion, translation, rotation, plane motion; work, energy and power; impulse and momentum. Computer applications.

287. Mechanics of Materials Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite ENGR 150 or CSE 110, CE 211 or CE 214 and CE 215, which may be taken concurrently. Open to sophomores. Accorsi,Davis, DeWolf, Epstein, Malla, Smith, Uthgennant. Simple and combined stress, torsion, flexure and deflection of beams, continuous and restrained beams, combined axial and bending loads, columns. Computer applications.

289. Intermediate Mechanics of Materials Second semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: CE 287. This course and ME 229 may not both be taken for credit.  Stresses and strains, curved beams, torsion of non-circular sections, flat plates, strain-energy, deflections. Impact and energy loads, repeated stress, mechanical properties of materials and theories of failure, influence of stress concentration.

297. Fluid Mechanics Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite or corequisite: CE 212 or CE 215; and prerequisite: (MATH 210 or MATH 220) and MATH 211. This course and ME 250 may not both be taken for credit. Anagnostou, Ogden Statics of fluids, analysis of fluid flow using principles of mass, momentum and energy conservation from a differential and control volume approach. Dimensional analysis. Application to pipe flow and open channel flow.