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Civil Engineering (CE)
Introduction to the civil engineering discipline, subdisciplines, technology and problem solving; technical report writing; contemporary civil engineering topics; engineering ethics.
| 29600R | 001 | Lecture | 9:00-9:50am | Mon, Wed | 1 of 35 | Amy Rechenmacher | KAP158 | |  |
Basic concepts of environmental engineering including topics of water, land, energy, air, climate, resource management, human society and professional development.
Data exploration and visualization, fundamentals of probability distributions and statistical inference (including notions of confidence interval, maximum likelihood, regression).
| 29605R | 001 | Lecture | 12:00-1:50pm | Friday | 11 of 48 | Audrey Olivier | KAP144 | | |
Statics, kinematics and kinetics of systems of particles and rigid bodies; equivalent force systems; distributed forces and applications; moments of inertia, momentum, energy; vibrations; Eulers equations.
Deformations and deflections of elastic systems; statically indeterminate beams, arches, and frames; secondary stresses; computer analysis of simple structural systems.
Introduction to probabilistic concepts and to the formulation and solution of related problems in civil and environmental engineering.
| 29655R | 001 | Lecture | 12:00-1:50pm | Thursday | 18 of 50 | Roger Ghanem | GFS101 | | |
Fundamentals and applications of microbiology in the context of natural and engineered environmental systems.
| 29616R | 001 | Lecture | 10:00-11:20am | Mon, Wed | 9 of 21 | Adam Smith | WPHB30 | | |
| 29617R | 001 | Lab | 12:00-1:50pm | Tuesday | 9 of 21 | | BHEB8 | | |
Sustainability practices in building and maintaining transportation infrastructure; interrelations between innovation, policies and regulations for improving mobility services while reducing the environmental impact.
Fundamentals of wave motion and coastal wave transformation. Statistical analysis of oceanographic conditions. Basics of coastal infrastructure design and coastal planning.
Water quality criteria and fundamentals of acceptability; processes employed in treatment of water and wastewater; water reclamation and reuse; sustainability in water and wastewater systems.
| 29670R | 001 | Lecture | 4:00-5:50pm | Tue, Thu | 8 of 20 | Adam Simpson | ZHS360 | | |
| 29671R | 001 | Discussion | 1:00-1:50pm | Wednesday | 8 of 20 | | GFS210 | | |
Structural design processes for wood, steel, concrete, and masonry structural beams, columns, and connections; determination of structural loads; framing systems; and applications of structural mechanics to the design process.
| 29673R | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:50pm | Tue, Thu | 14 of 40 | Maria Mohammed | GFS207 | | |
Response of single and multiple degree of freedom systems to dynamic excitation; structural modeling and approximate solutions; introduction to earthquake resistant design.
Introduction to the construction processes; estimating and bidding, construction administration, planning and scheduling, equipment and methods, labor relations, cost control systems, safety and ethics.
| 29677R | 001 | Lecture | 12:00-3:20pm | Monday | 13 of 36 | Henry Koffman | DMC203 | | |
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED); green building strategies; carbon footprinting; calculating the embodied energy of building materials; cyclical processes in design and construction.
| 29607R | 001 | Lecture | 12:00-1:40pm | Tuesday | 13 of 60 | Henry Koffman | OHE100C | | |
| 29612D | 014 | Lecture | 12:00-1:40pm | Tuesday | 0 of 15 | Henry Koffman | DEN@Viterbi | | |
Building Information Modeling, current BIM technologies; coordination of design and construction; information management throughout building lifecycle; project visualization and simulation for integrated practice.
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Doctoral Student, Junior, Master Student, Senior
| 29615D | 001 | Lecture | 10:30-1:50pm | Monday | 6 of 27 | Burcin Becerik | RTH115 | | |
| 29618D | 014 | Lecture | 10:30-1:50pm | Monday | 0 of 10 | Burcin Becerik | DEN@Viterbi | | |
Planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of facilities for air, water, rail and highway transit systems.
| 29699R | 001 | Lecture | 6:00-7:50pm | Tue, Thu | 11 of 35 | Ruolin Li | KAP163 | | |
Site exploration and characterization; analysis and design of structural foundations, including spread footings, mats, piles and drilled shafts; retaining wall and braced excavation design.
| 29709R | 001 | Lecture | 10:00-11:50am | Mon, Wed | 11 of 35 | Amy Rechenmacher | DMC201 | | |
Engineering design of unit operations and processes for water and wastewater treatment: coagulation, sedimentation, filtration, disinfection; primary, secondary, tertiary, advanced treatment; sludge treatment and processing.
Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Junior, Senior
| 29715D | 001 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 30 | | OFFICE | | |
Systems, processes, and constraints governing the initiation, direction, engineering, and delivery of major construction projects. Professional construction management, responsibilities, and practice.
| 29719R | 048 | Lecture | 6:00-9:20pm | Tuesday | 9 of 41 | Sandra Ichiho | KAP156 | | |
Fundamental accounting principles, financial analysis and financial control, strategic management and a review of alternative project delivery methods.
Fundamental theory of linear elasticity applicable to multiple branches of solid mechanics.
| 29732R | 048 | Lecture | 4:00-5:50pm | Mon, Wed | 13 of 40 | Thomas Petersen | RTH105 | | |
| 29733D | 034 | Lecture | 4:00-5:50pm | Mon, Wed | 1 of 17 | Thomas Petersen | DEN@Viterbi | | |
Economic and systems level aspects of transportation; traveler decision models; network performance; congestion pricing; resource allocation; revenue forecasting and project evaluation.
Concepts and applications of physicochemical processes in engineered systems, including coagulation, sedimentation, filtration, adsorption and membrane processes.
| 29736R | 048 | Lecture | 11:00-12:50pm | Mon, Wed | 1 of 30 | Amy Childress | DMC260 | | |
Basic concepts; variational methods; isoparametric formulation; plane stress; plane strain; axisymmetric structures; plates and shells; structural dynamics; stability and buckling; computer applications; nonlinear analysis.
Introduction to uncertainty quantification; fundamentals of probability theory, forward propagation of uncertainties, probabilistic inference from data; civil and environmental engineering applications.
| 29800R | 048 | Lecture | 4:00-5:50pm | Tuesday | 7 of 30 | Audrey Olivier | RTH105 | | |
| 29860D | 034 | Lecture | 4:00-5:50pm | Tuesday | 0 of 10 | | DEN@Viterbi | | |
Introduction to the concept, principles and applications of prestressed concrete; covers the analysis and design of prestressed concrete structures.
Structural steel and its properties, the design of typical steel buildings and design and performance of steel buildings for earthquake loads.
| 29768R | 048 | Lecture | 12:00-1:50pm | Mon, Wed | 7 of 25 | | OHE136 | | |
| 29769D | 034 | Lecture | 12:00-1:50pm | Mon, Wed | 0 of 10 | | DEN@Viterbi | | |
Design of aerobic and anaerobic biological treatment processes for organic and inorganic pollutant removal and resource recovery from waste streams.
| 29760D | 048 | Lecture | 4:00-5:50pm | Mon, Wed | 0 of 35 | Adam Smith | WPH205 | | |
The steps and processes for the planning and pre-construction phases of a project using tools and technologies for budgeting, scheduling and planning.
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Doctoral Student, Master Student
| 29828D | 034 | Lecture | 6:00-9:20pm | Thursday | 0 of 10 | Roxana Javid | DEN@Viterbi | | |
| 29829R | 048 | Lecture | 6:00-9:20pm | Thursday | 1 of 35 | Roxana Javid | RTH115 | | |
Project controls principles including costs and schedules, cost engineering concepts, schedule development, status evaluation, progress monitoring and responses to variances and changes.
| 29837R | 048 | Lecture | 6:00-9:20pm | Thursday | 1 of 30 | | SGM226 | | |
Data-centric engineering paradigms, modeling and simulation technologies; applications for Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) projects or challenges.
Job site logistics, field management, means and methods as they pertain to the builder, with an emphasis on constructability, productivity and schedule impacts for building construction.
| 29841R | 048 | Lecture | 6:00-9:20pm | Tuesday | 14 of 30 | Daniel Mcauliffe | RTH115 | | |
| 29842D | 034 | Lecture | 6:00-9:20pm | Tuesday | 4 of 10 | Daniel Mcauliffe | DEN@Viterbi | | |
Investigating, analyzing, and incorporating data sources, case studies, and statistical tools to explore surface transportation systems.
| 29807R | 048 | Lecture | 9:00-12:20pm | Thursday | 1 of 18 | Roxana Javid | WPH200 | | |
Research leading to the master's degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.
| 29815D | 048 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 20 | | OFFICE | | |
Course content will be selected each semester to reflect current trends and developments in the field of civil engineering.
Analysis of policies relating to transportation alternatives; institutional environment and background; federal, state, regional, and local agency responsibilities and interactions.
- Crosslist: This course is offered by the PPD department but may qualify for major credit in CE. To register, enroll in PPD 634.
| 51239R | 001 | Lecture | 6:00-9:20pm | Monday | 5 of 40 | Hasan Ikhrata | VPD116 | | |
Research leading to the Doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.
| 29824D | 048 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 40 | | OFFICE | | |
Credit on acceptance of Dissertation. Graded CR/NC.
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Doctoral Student
| 29830D | 048 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 15 | | OFFICE | | |
Credit on acceptance of Dissertation. Graded CR/NC.
- Prerequisite: CE 794A
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Doctoral Student
| 29831R | 048 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 10 | | OFFICE | | |
Credit on acceptance of Dissertation. Graded CR/NC.
- Prerequisite: CE 794B
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Doctoral Student
| 29832R | 048 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 2 of 15 | | OFFICE | | |
Credit on acceptance of Dissertation. Graded CR/NC.
- Prerequisite: CE 794C
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Doctoral Student
| 29833R | 048 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 15 | | OFFICE | | |
Credit on acceptance of Dissertation. Graded CR/NC.
- Prerequisite: CE 794D
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Doctoral Student
| 29834D | 048 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 15 | | OFFICE | | |
