Mar 28, 2024  
2018-2019 Graduate Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


Courses offered only online or both online and on-ground are indicated with (**)asterisks.

 

City and Regional Planning

  
  • PLAN 7801 - Design Collaborative Studio

    (3) Collaborative fieldwork designed to address a complex community challenge, bring to bear knowledge and skills from a variety of perspectives and from previous coursework. Work with community stakeholders to develop the scope and response to the problem, collect and analyze data, describe existing conditions, conduct best practices research, develop strategies, and prepare a final product or products (e.g., community action plan, policy paper, etc.). Topics include appropriate products, building materials and techniques, sustainable design, site and environmental issues, codes and standards, and client needs. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  
  • PLAN 7890 - Planning Internship

    (1) Experiential learning assignment to be achieved via an approved work assignment with a public or private planning organization or a member of the planning faculty. NOTE: Does not count toward degree requirements. Grades of S, U, or IP will be given. PREREQUISITE(S): Permission of instructor.
  
  • PLAN 7896 - Capstone Project

    (1-3) Preparation of a research paper that exhibits mastery of process and substantive area of planning. May be repeated for a maximum of 12 hours credit. Grades of S, U, or IP will be given. May be repeated for a maximum of 12 hours credit
  
  • PLAN 8208 - Economics of Cities

    (3)

Civil Engineering

  
  • CIVL 6122 - Structural Analysis II

    (3) Analytical and numerical solutions for statically indeterminate structures. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 3121, 3322 or equivalent.
  
  • CIVL 6131 - Inter Steel Design

    (3) Design of plate girders and composite beams; moment connections; building design. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 3131 or equivalent.
  
  • CIVL 6136 - Inter Rein Concr Design

    (3) Design of two-way slab systems; column design including length effects; integrated building design using current code provisions. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 4122, 4135 or equivalents.
  
  • CIVL 6140 - Environmentl Engr Design

    (3) Detailed design of one component of an environmental engineering system with appropriate consideration of interactions with other components; design standards, procedures, and legal constraints emphasized.
  
  • CIVL 6143 - Physical/Chem Treatment

    (3) Basic physical-chemical treatment concepts, including sedimentation, filtration, adsorption, neutralization, coagulation, air stripping, dissolved air flotation, disinfection, and ion exchange, with application of basic concepts to design of water and wastewater treatment systems components. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 3140 or equivalent.
  
  • CIVL 6144 - Biol Wastewater Treat

    (3) Basic biological treatment concepts, including kinetics, activated sludge, fixed-film systems, lagoon systems, and sludge digestion, with application of basic concepts to design of biological wastewater treatment system components. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 3140 or equivalent.
  
  • CIVL 6149 - Pump Station Design

    (3) Detailed design of sumps, pumps, piping, valves, and controls associated with the design of pumping systems for wastewater, process water, drinking water, and storm water. PREREQUISITE(S): PREREQUISITES: CIVL 3180, 3182 or equivalent.
  
  • CIVL 6152 - Applied Soil Mechanics

    (3) Subsurface exploration, foundation types, foundation construction, selection of foundation type and basis of design, earth retaining structures, and slope stability. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 4151 or equivalent.
  
  • CIVL 6155 - Pavement Design and Evaluation

    (3) Structural design of concrete and asphalt pavements, design of surface and subsurface pavement drainage; performance evaluation of existing pavements; pavement rehabilitation and pavement management.  PREREQUISITE(S): 3137 or permission of instructor. COREQUISITE(S): CIVL 4151 or permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 6162 - Traffic Engineering

    (3) Traits and behavior patterns of road users and their vehicles, including traffic signs and signals, pavement markings, hazard delineation, capacity, accidents, and parking analysis. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 3103 and 3161 or equivalents.
  
  • CIVL 6163 - Airport Plnng & Design

    (3) Aeronautical demand and air traffic control; airport and runway configuration; capacity and delay analysis; geometric design of runways and taxiways; airport access and parking; ground movements and baggage movements. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 3103 and 3161 or equivalents.
  
  • CIVL 6164 - Route Location & Design

    (3) Elements of route location and design; emphasis on horizontal and vertical alignment, curvature, gradient, and sight distance. Two lecture, three laboratory hours per week. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 1101 and 3161 or equivalents.
  
  • CIVL 6180 - Adv Hydrology/Hydraulics

    (3) Current methods and techniques used in hydrologic and hydraulic analysis for the design of water resources projects; watershed hydrology, groundwater hydrology, flood frequency analysis, flood plain management, hydraulic structures, hydraulic machinery, and project feasibility.  PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 3181 or equivalent.
  
  • CIVL 6190 - Water Resrc Plan/Dsgn

    (3) Application of engineering principles to planning and design of multipurpose water resources projects; various physical components and appurtenances of water resources projects; and economic, financial, and social feasibility of various purposes. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 3181 and 4111 or permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 6900 - Special Topics in Civil Engineering

    (1-3) Topics are varied and announced in the online class listings.
  
  • CIVL 6901 - Special Topics in Civil Engineering

    (1-3) Topics are varied and announced in the online class listings.
  
  • CIVL 6902 - Special Topics in Civil Engineering

    (1-3) Topics are varied and announced in the online class listings.
  
  • CIVL 6903 - Special Topics in Civil Engineering

    (1-3) Topics are varied and announced in the online class listings.
  
  • CIVL 6904 - Special Topics in Civil Engineering

    (1-3) Topics are varied and announced in the online class listings.
  
  • CIVL 6905 - Special Topics in Civil Engineering

    (1-3) Topics are varied and announced in the online class listings.
  
  • CIVL 6906 - Special Topics in Civil Engineering

    (1-3) Topics are varied and announced in the online class listings.
  
  • CIVL 6907 - Special Topics in Civil Engineering

    (1-3) Topics are varied and announced in the online class listings.
  
  • CIVL 6908 - Special Topics in Civil Engineering

    (1-3) Topics are varied and announced in the online class listings.
  
  • CIVL 6909 - Special Topics in Civil Engineering

    (1-3) Topics are varied and announced in the online class listings.
  
  • CIVL 6910 - Special Topics in Civil Engineering

    (1-3) Topics are varied and announced in the online class listings.
  
  • CIVL 7001 - Engineering Analysis

    (3) (Same as CERI 7130 ). Numerical integration of linear and non-linear differential equations; finite difference methods; systems of linear algebraic equations; applications to engineering problems. Grades of A-F, or IP will be given.
  
  • CIVL 7002 - Prog Tools for Scits & Engrs

    (3) (Same as CERI 7102 ). An introduction to applied programming and programming tools for scientists and engineers at a graduate level with limited background on computer programing.
  
  • CIVL 7012 - Prob Meth In Engr

    (3) Concepts and methods of probability and statistics that are essential for modeling engineering problems under conditions of uncertainty; application to practical problems. PREREQUISITE(S): PREREQUISITE: CIVL 3103 or equivalent.
  
  • CIVL 7111 - Computatnl Mechncs

    (3) Advanced mathematical modeling techniques using finite difference, finite element, and boundary element formulations to solve civil engineering problems.
  
  • CIVL 7112 - Plstc Dsgn Steel Strctr

    (3) (7122) Plastic analysis and design of steel structures; application to multistory buildings.
  
  • CIVL 7113 - Prestressed Cncrte Dsgn

    (3) (7121) Theory of prestressing; design of prestressed concrete beams, slabs, and box girders; statically determinate and indeterminate structures.
  
  • CIVL 7114 - Elastic Stability

    (3) Classical theory of buckling of rods, plates, and shells.
  
  • CIVL 7115 - Plate Shell Struc

    (3) (Same as MECH 7115) Analysis of rectangular and circular flat plates; large deflections of plates; variational methods; analysis of shells as surfaces of revolution under symmetric and unsymmetric loading.
  
  • CIVL 7116 - Structural Dynamics

    (3) Dynamic analysis of single-degree-of-freedom structures; response to general dynamic loading; modal analysis of multistory shear buildings; introduction to nonlinear and random vibration.
  
  • CIVL 7117 - Finite Elem Struc Mech

    (3) Structural idealization, stiffness properties of elements, structural analysis of element assemblage; plane stress and strain problems; applications to problems of plates and shells; computer solution of large systems.
  
  • CIVL 7119 - Earthquake Resist Design

    (3) Earthquake strong motion; response spectrum analysis; seismic design of buildings.
  
  • CIVL 7123 - Seismic Risk Assess

    (3) Evaluation of seismic hazard and site-specific ground motion for critical facilities; analysis of structural reliability and seismic risk.
  
  • CIVL 7125 - Earthquake Ground Motion Simul

    (3) (Same as CERI 7124 ). Contemporary methods in earthquake ground motion simulation, applications in seismic hazard analysis and engineering, state-of-the-art simulation software. PREREQUISITE(S): Permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 7126 - Data Analysis in Geophysics

    (3) (Same as CERI 7104 ) Overview of data analysis techniques and common tools in geophysics; includes working with the UNIX/LINUX environment; understanding shells; basic programming using Fortran, C, C+ +, and Perl; generating publishable graphics; emphasis on seismic data analysis using Matlab and Seismic Analysis Code. PREREQUISITE(S): Permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 7127 - Signal Processing Earth Sci

    (3) (Same as CERI 7106 ) Fundamentals of digital processing of geophysical data, both purely mathematical and applied aspects with attention to digital seismograms and gravity and magnetic data. PREREQUISITE(S): MATH 1920 or equivalent.
  
  • CIVL 7128 - Inverse Methods in Geophysics

    (3) (Same as CERI 7260 ) Methods for parameter estimation in earth sciences, including review of linear algebra and vector spaces, introduction to probability and statistics, and solution of inverse linear and nonlinear problems; students will solve an inverse problem in their field of interest. PREREQUISITE(S): Linear Algebra (MATH 3242 or equivalent) or permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 7132 - Advanced Soil Mech

    (3) Stresses in soil masses; pore-water stresses; consolidation and settlement; shear strength; applications to problem solution.
  
  • CIVL 7133 - Slopes and Embankments

    (3) Analysis, design, and construction of earth dams, levees, embankments and slopes; soil stabilization; seepage, drainage, and flow nets. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 4152/CIVL 6152   or permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 7135 - Soil Dynamics

    (3) Theory and measurements of dynamic properties of soils and their applications in seismic hazards assessments, earthquake engineering design, and geophysics studies.
  
  • CIVL 7136 - Prob & Earthquake Haz Anly

    (3) (same as ESCI 7204 , CERI 7204 ) Fundamentals of basic probability, seismicity analysis, ground motion attenuation and site effects, seismic hazard analysis, and uncertainty analysis; students will perform a probabilistic seismic hazard analysis for a region of their interest. PREREQUISITE(S): Permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 7137 - Geotechnical Earthquake

    (3) Earthquake magnitude and intensity, seismic hazard evaluation using deterministic and probabilistic approaches, site response analyses and ground motion amplification, liquefaction, and response to earth structures.
  
  • CIVL 7138 - Shallow and Deep Foundations

    (3) Analysis and design of footing, mat, pile, and drilled-shaft foundations. Three lecture hours a week. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 4152/CIVL 6152   or permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 7139 - Earth Retaining Structures

    (3) Types of earth retaining structures. Retaining wall selection. Lateral earth pressure theories. Design of conventional, MSE, soil-nailed, and tied-back walls. Three lecture hours a week. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 4152/CIVL 6152  or permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 7141 - Water Trt Plant Dsgn

    (3) Design of a water treatment plant; application of fundamental water treatment theory; evaluation of alternatives; selection and design of optimum alternative. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 4143/CIVL 6143  or permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 7142 - Wastewater Trt Plnt Dsgn

    (3) Design of a wastewater treatment plant; application of fundamental wastewater treatment theory; evaluation of alternative; selection and design of optimum alternative. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 4144/CIVL 6144   or permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 7143 - Solid Waste Mgmt

    (3) Systems approach to solid waste generation, characterization, collection, transportation, and disposal; emphasizes both domestic and industrial wastes.
  
  • CIVL 7144 - Residuals Mgmt

    (3) Systems approach to unique solid wastes (inflammable industrial, sewage sludge, etc.), as well as resource recovery and energy conversion as disposal practices.
  
  • CIVL 7145 - Adv Biological Treatmnt

    (3) In-depth study of biokinetics applicable to waste management; model evaluations; hazardous and non-hazardous wastes. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 4144/CIVL 6144  or permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 7146 - Adv Phys/Chem Treatmnt

    (3) An in-depth analysis of theory and practice of advanced water and wastewater treatment processes; emphasis on adsorption processes, ion exchange, membrane processes, chemical oxidation, land treatment, nutrient removal, and sludge treatment and disposal. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 4143/CIVL 6143   or permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 7147 - Hazardous Waste Mgmt

    (3) Design of hazardous waste management systems; application of current design theories; review of regulatory requirements.
  
  • CIVL 7154 - Indust Wastewater Treat

    (3) In-plant control measures and end-of-pipe treatment technologies for reducing conventional and toxic industrial pollutant discharges; emphasis on water conservation, wastewater recycle/reuse, and optimum treatment strategies for waste streams from major industries.
  
  • CIVL 7162 - Transportation Sys Eval

    (3) Transportation problems, goals, and objectives; evaluation and decision-making techniques; measurement of variables and intangibles in transportation decisions, cost allocation and benefit transfer, risk and uncertainty; financing and implementation; differential impacts of transportation improvements.
  
  • CIVL 7164 - Urban Transport Engr

    (3) A review of the transportation problem as it relates to development patterns in American cities. The theory and application to engineering and socioeconomic factors directed toward the formulation of models for conducting transportation studies.
  
  • CIVL 7165 - Geom Dsgn Trnsprtn Syst

    (3) Design of streets and highways with emphasis on the factors and features controlling safe and efficient vehicle operation; applications of design concepts to urban and rural systems, intersections, interchanges, safety appurtenances, and parking facilities. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 4164/CIVL 6164  or permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 7166 - Design Hgwy Airpt Pvmt

    (3) Design practices, materials, and testing of flexible and rigid pavements.
  
  • CIVL 7168 - Traffic Engr Operations

    (3) Theory of traffic control: traffic laws and ordinances; application of traffic control devices; analysis and design of traffic signal systems, parking control and design pedestrian control; one-way and unbalanced lane operation, roadway illumination; selected operational problems. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 4162/CIVL 6162  or permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 7169 - Mass Transit Systems

    (3) Operational analysis of equipment and facility design and service characteristics of urban mass transit systems; analysis of capacity, speed, accessibility, terminal operations; study of financing, decision-making, administration and marketing policies and practices, trends in future transit technology.
  
  • CIVL 7170 - GW Cont Fate/Transport

    (3) Elements of ground water contamination and migration; study of various contaminant transport modeling techniques; analysis of numerical dispersion and stability criteria; chemical reactions; discussion of analytical solutions.
  
  • CIVL 7173 - Environmental Geochem

    (3) (Same as GEOL 7140) Inorganic and organic geochemical concepts applied to transport and fate of contaminants in surface water, ground water, and sediment. PREREQUISITE(S): ESCI 6341  and permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 7177 - Quantitative Hydrogeol

    (3) Analysis of ground water parameters; geostatistics of aquifer properties used in ground water modeling via various techniques; salt water intrusion. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 7195  or permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 7181 - Statistical Hydrol Modl

    (3) Current statistical techniques used in stochastic, deterministic, and parametric hydrologic models; emphasis on probability and frequency analysis; optimization methods; time series analysis and synthesis; sensitivity analysis; computer applications.
  
  • CIVL 7182 - Engr Sedimen & Erosion

    (3) Soil erosion and sedimentation process within a watershed; emphasis on means of controlling erosion and sediment from land-disturbing activities.
  
  • CIVL 7185 - Hydraul Open Channels

    (3) (7148) Phenomena accompanying flow of water in open channels, uniform and varied flow, critical conditions, backwater curves or water surface profiles, hydraulic jumps, hydraulic drops, and various design applications.
  
  • CIVL 7191 - Computer Appl Water Res

    (3) Application of current computer programs used in hydrology, hydraulics, sediment transport, groundwater flow, water quality, and water resources engineering and planning.
  
  • CIVL 7192 - River Engineering

    (3) River mechanics and principles governing river regulation and improvement, with emphasis on navigation and flood control structures. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 7185  or permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 7193 - Hydraul Sediment Transp

    (3) River mechanics and stream morphology governing hydraulics of bed loads and sediment transport in alluvial river system; current methods for conducting sediment investigation; engineering analysis procedures for design of stable channel system.
  
  • CIVL 7194 - Comp River Hydraulics

    (3) (7149) Advanced studies in computational open channel hydraulics; major emphasis on unsteady flow simulation in natural rivers, dynamic flood routing, sediment transport and transport of pollutants. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 7001  and CIVL 7185  or permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 7195 - Groundwater Hydraulics

    (3) (Same as ESCI 7195 ) Geological contributions to ground water flow; ground water contribution to water demand and conjunctive use; well hydraulics, design and construction, pump selection; determine aquifer properties via field well tests.
  
  • CIVL 7196 - Urban Drainage

    (3) Flooding and pollution problems associated with urban areas; application of planning, analysis, and hydraulic design techniques for storm water and erosion control measures. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 7185  or permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 7197 - Ground Water Qual Cntrl

    (3) Analysis of ground water quality and contamination problems; study of multispecies chemical reactions and radioactive microbiological decay; techniques for monitoring, and site remediation of ground water problems. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 7170  or permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 7261 - Traffic Flow Theory

    (3) This course will introduce to student the theories that seek to describe in a precise mathematical way the interactions between the vehicles, their operators, and the infrastructure. Different models and theories that characterize the flow of highway traffic, signalized or unsignalized intersections will be presented. A number of softwares will be introduced that are currently used in practice and in research to perform traffic impact studies using macroscopic, mesoscopic and microscopic traffic simulation. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 3161 or equivalent.
  
  • CIVL 7262 - Freight Demand Modeling

    (3) Introduce the concepts, modeling and solution methods of freight demand modeling.
  
  • CIVL 7263 - Intro. to Num. Opt. for Eng

    (3) Introduce the concepts, modeling and solution methods of unconstrained optimization and linear and integer programs. Topics include: convex analysis and polyhedral sets, unconstrained optimization methods (line search, trust region), the simplex method, duality theory, and decomposition principles.
  
  • CIVL 7264 - Simulation Modeling

    (3) Simulation modeling of complex, dynamic and stochastic transportation systems, model building, input and output statistical data analysis, use of simulation for design, evaluation, and improvement of these systems, introduction to simulation software, review of case studies. Three lecture hours a week.
  
  • CIVL 7265 - Intro to Intermodal Freight

    (3) An introduction to the real-world environment in which freight transportation systems are planned and operated. Emphasis is placed on the policies, methods and practices utilized in managing freight movements and intermodal transfers. Topics include the overall impact of freight transportation on the economy, individual modal operations, intermodal opportunities.
  
  • CIVL 7266 - Freight Terms and Distr Facils

    (3) Introduce state of the art and state of the practice in modeling of operations and management of intermodal freight and distribution facilities. Overview of the advanced in freight terminal and distribution facilities modeling, design, and operation. Special reference to network modeling of facility location, allocation, and routing. Planning, design, and operations or rail/road intermodal terminals, trans-modal facilities, marine container terminals, intermodal logistics centers, and warehouses. PREREQUISITE(S): Permission of instructor for non-degree-seeking students.
  
  • CIVL 7267 - Maritime Economics

    (3) Introduce the concepts and explain how the shipping marker is organized. Topics include: Price and freight rates, key players, bulk and liner shipping, ship financing, forecasting, market cycles. PREREQUISITE(S): permission of instructor.
  
  • CIVL 7268 - Transport Network Flows

    (3) This course provides an analytical framework for network analysis. The course will discuss algorithms for finding transport network equilibrium flows and the applications that relate to these flows. Topics will include routing algorithms, transportation network design, and several solution algorithms. Mathematical rigor will be stressed and some basic programming will be expected.
  
  • CIVL 7269 - Quant Meth for Engr Dec Making

    (3) Overview quantitative methods for engineering decision making using software commonly used by the industry (e.g., Excel). Topics covered include: linear & integer programming, network models, project scheduling, inventory models, queuing models and simulation, multicriteria analysis and forecasting.
  
  • CIVL 7360 - Transp Econ & Decision Making

    (3) A comprehensive discussion of decision making using transportation engineering economic analysis. The course involves the use of mathematical tools required to understand the economic analysis principles to aid the transportation decision making process.
  
  • CIVL 7362 - Port Planning Mgmt & Operation

    (3) Overview of port planning, management and operations with strong reference to terminal processes and engineering aspects of port development, port functions and management models, port pricing and financing, port security and safety, environmental management and human resources management in ports.
  
  • CIVL 7363 - Discr. Choice Model for Transp

    (3) An in-depth study of discrete choice models, data collection, specification, estimation, statistical testing, forecasting, and application. By examining actual case studies of discrete choice methods, students will become familiar with problems of model formulation, estimation, testing, and forecasting. PREREQUISITE(S): CIVL 3161 or equivalent.
  
  • CIVL 7900 - Special Topics in Civil Engineering

    (1-3) Topics are varied and announced in the online class listings.
  
  • CIVL 7901 - Special Topics in Civil Engineering

    (1-3) Topics are varied and announced in the online class listings.
  
  • CIVL 7902 - Special Topics in Civil Engineering

    (1-3) Topics are varied and announced in the online class listings.
  
  • CIVL 7903 - Special Topics in Civil Engineering

    (1-3) Topics are varied and announced in the online class listings.
  
  • CIVL 7904 - Special Topics in Civil Engineering

    (1-3) Topics are varied and announced in the online class listings.
  
  • CIVL 7905 - Special Topics in Civil Engineering

    (1-3) Topics are varied and announced in the online class listings.
  
  • CIVL 7906 - Special Topics in Civil Engineering

    (1-3) Topics are varied and announced in the online class listings.
  
  • CIVL 7907 - Special Topics in Civil Engineering

    (1-3) Topics are varied and announced in the online class listings.
  
  • CIVL 7908 - Special Topics in Civil Engineering

    (1-3) Topics are varied and announced in the online class listings.
 

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