Courses: Civil and Environmental Engineering (CIVE)College: Cullen College of Engineering

Any TCCN equivalents are indicated in square brackets [ ].

CIVE 1188: The Challenge of Civil Engineering
Cr. 1. (1-0). Prerequisite: Course required for freshmen and transfer students during their first fall semester enrollment in civil engineering. A study of the scope of the civil engineering profession and the vision of civil engineering for the twenty-first century.

CIVE 1331: Computing for Engineers (also CHEE 1331, INDE 1331, MECE 1331)
Cr. 3. (2-2). Prerequisite: Math 1431. Credit may not be received for more than one of CHEE 1331, CIVE 1331, INDE 1331, and MECE 1331. Introduction to the computing environment; matrix arithmetic; programming essentials; spreadsheets; symbolic algebra tools; solution of typical engineering problems using computer tools.

CIVE 2330: Mechanics I (Statics)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: PHYS 1321 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CIVE 1331 and MATH 2433. Composition and resolution of forces, free-body diagrams, analysis of forces acting on structures and machines, friction, centroids, and moments of inertia.

CIVE 2331: Mechanics II (Dynamics)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CIVE 2330 and MATH 2433. Dynamics of rigid bodies; force-mass-acceleration, work-energy, impulse-momentum, and introduction to mechanical vibrations.

CIVE 2332: Mechanics of Deformable Solids
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CIVE 2330, MATH 2433, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in MECT 3341. Stress and strain in elastic bodies; statically determinate and indeterminate members; axial force, shear, moment and torsion; beam deflections; columns; combined stresses.

CIVE 3331: Environmental Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEM 1112, 1332, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ENGI 2334. Introduction to air, water, and environmental pollutants, and concepts of design for treatment.

CIVE 3332: Engineering Materials
Cr. 3. (2-3). Prerequisites: CIVE 2332 and ENGI 2304. Analysis of properties of solid materials related to engineering design, introduction to metallurgical processes, and materials testing.

CIVE 3334: Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: MECE 3400 or CIVE 2331 and MATH 3321. Fluid properties, hydrostatics, basic equations of fluid mechanics, inviscid and viscous flows, flow through pipes, open channel flow, groundwater seepage, and hydraulic structures.

CIVE 3337: Theory of Structures
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CIVE 2332. Structural analysis of determinate trusses, beams, frames, using analytical and graphical methods; influence lines, deflections, approximate and exact (classical) methods of analysis of indeterminate structures.

CIVE 3339: Geotechnical Engineering
Cr. 3. (2-3). Prerequisites: CIVE 2332 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 3321. Laws of mechanics and hydraulics applied to soils. Physical and mechanical properties of soils and introduction to geotechnical engineering concepts.

CIVE 3434: Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Engineering
Cr. 4. (3-3). Prerequisites: CIVE 2331, ENGI 2334, MATH 3321, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CIVE 2332. Fluid properties, hydrostatics, basic equations of fluid mechanics, inviscid and viscous flows, flow through pipes, open channel flow, groundwater seepage, and hydraulic structures.

CIVE 4198:4298:4398:4498: Special Problems
Cr. 1-4 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

CIVE 4311: Civil Engineering Design and Professional Practice
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CIVE 3337, 3339, and 3434 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 3336. Ideas, concepts, and approaches for design applied to small civil engineering projects. Ethics, professional conduct, legal issues, and communication in civil engineering practice.

CIVE 4312: Civil Engineering Design Project
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CIVE 4311 and either 4331, 4332, 4333 for the water/environment project or CIVE 4363, 4364, 4369 for the structural/geotechnical project. Design of a civil engineering project, including social, economic, environmental, regulatory, and constructability factors.

CIVE 4331: Water Quality Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CIVE 3331 and 3434. Environmental chemistry and biology with applications to engineering problems in the natural environment. Emphasis on chemical and biological reactions of contaminants as they move through surface and ground waters and the resulting corrective actions.

CIVE 4332: Hydrology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CIVE 3434. Hydrologic cycle, rainfall and runoff, water losses, snowmelt, ground water, unit hydrograph, floods and flood routing, stream flow records, reservoir design, and sedimentation.

CIVE 4333: Water and Wastewater Treatment
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CIVE 3331 and 3434. The fundamental principles of design for municipal water and wastewater treatment facilities.

CIVE 4337: Transportation Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: MATH 3321 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in INDE 3333. Highway, rail, water, air, and other modes of transportation, emphasizing problems related to their planning, use, operation, and maintenance.

CIVE 4363: Concrete Design
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CIVE 3332 and 3337. Analysis and design of concrete structures and their components.

CIVE 4364: Structural Steel Design
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CIVE 3332 and 3337. Analysis and design of steel structures and their components.

CIVE 4369: Foundation Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CIVE 3337 and 3339. Applications of soil mechanics to foundation engineering. Exploration techniques, foundation selection criteria, design, and construction.

CIVE 4399: Senior Honors Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester. Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

CIVE 5360: Urban and Regional Planning
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CIVE 3331, CIVE 3434, and INDE 3333. Collection and analysis of data for urban planning. Development of master plan emphasizing engineering aspects of utilities, transportation, and other city facilities.

CIVE 5397: Selected Topics
Cr. 3 per semester (3-0). May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

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Catalog Publish Date: August 19, 2010
This Page Last Updated: May 25, 2010
Effective Date of Archive: January 13, 2011