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Cullen College of Engineering

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Note: Nonengineering majors may not register for engineering courses except with the written permission of the dean.

Courses: Civil Engineering (CIVE)

6198:6298:6398:6498:6598: Research
Cr. 1-5 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of chair.

6320: Constitutive Modeling of Materials
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Introduction to elasticity, plasticity, viscoelasticity and fracture mechanics; mathematical modeling of stress-strain relationships and failure theories for structural and geomaterials; use of rheological models.

6321: Experimental Soil Mechanics
Cr. 3. (2-3). Prerequisite: CIVE 3339. Determination, interpretation, significance, and application of engineering properties of soils, including laboratory testing, sample handling, reliability of results, and methods of evaluation; field instrumentation.

6322: Stormwater Management
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CIVE 3434. Detention pond analysis and design, stormwater analysis and management alternatives, governmental criteria, and computer programs.

6323: Advanced Foundation Design
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite CIVE 4369. Site characterization; in-site testing methods; reliability in foundation design; structural design of shallow and deep foundations.

6331: Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CIVE 3434. Flow in natural and artificial channels, flood routing, methods of characteristics, and diffusion analogy.

6333: Stress-Deformation Behavior of Soil
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CIVE 6345. Review of principles of elasticity and plasticity and their application to the behavior of soil; constitutive models for soil including critical state and cap models; numerical techniques.

6334: Geotechnical Stability
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CIVE 6345. Shear strength of cohesive and cohesionless soils; stability of natural and man-made slopes; bearing capacity theory.

6335: Advanced Concrete Design
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CIVE 4363. Design of two-way slabs, long columns, and connections; deflection and cracking of beams and slabs; ACI design criteria.

6336: Computer Methods in Structural Analysis
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CIVE 3337, INDE 2331, and MATH 3331.

6337: Matrix Analysis of Structures (formerly CIVE 7337)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CIVE 3337. Systematic analysis of structures using computers; including stiffness equation formation, flexibility equation formulation, virtual work method, and special analysis methods.

6338: Advanced Steel Design
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CIVE 4364. Plastic analysis of indeterminate structures; design of beams, columns, and beam-columns using the Load and Resistance Factor Design (LFRD) method.

6341: Bridge Design
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. History, development and classification of highway bridges. Bridge loads and load combinations. Design of deck slabs, steel and concrete girders. Design of piers, abutments and bearings.

6345: Intermediate Soil Mechanics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CIVE 3339. Theory of consolidation; physicochemical properties of soils; expansive soils; introductory concepts of shear strength.

6346: Soil-Structure Interaction
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CIVE 4369 or equivalent. Introduction to advanced techniques in the design of axially and laterally loaded piles; soil criteria for foundation design.

6348: Wave-Structure Interaction
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Methods for calculation of wave loading on offshore structures; probabilistic and spectral properties of ocean waves; estimating wave forces dues to a random sea-state.

6349: Reliability and Safety of Structures
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CIVE 4364 or consent of instructor. Review of probability theory and treatment of uncertainties in structural engineering. Probabilistic models for loads and resistance variables. Structural analysis incorporating uncertainties. Mathematical background of reliability theory. Probability-based limit state design.

6350: Advanced Mechanics of Materials
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CIVE 2332 and MATH 3331. Stress and strain at a point; failure criteria; energy principles and their application in structural mechanics; theories of torsion, unsymmetrical bending, shear center, curved beams, and beams on elastic foundation.

6351: Advanced Concrete Behavior
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CIVE 4363. Behavior of reinforced and prestressed concrete sections and members subjected to axial force, movement, and shear. Confinement of concrete, creep, and shrinkage.

6353: Behavior and Design of Prestressed Concrete
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CIVE 4363 and consent of instructor. Prestressing systems and materials; loss of prestress; analysis and design for flexure, shear, and bond; anchorage zone; continuous beams; columns.

6355: Introduction to Dynamics of Structures (formerly CIVE 5334)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in civil engineering. Fundamentals of vibration; dynamic response of structures to periodic and general dynamic loading; analytical and computational techniques.

6361: Groundwater Hydrology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CIVE 4332 or equivalent and graduate standing in civil engineering and graduate standing in environmental engineering. Fundamental processes that govern the flow of groundwater in aquifers and soils. Survey of techniques to determine aquifer characteristics. Conceptual modeling and application of computer models to groundwater flow problems.

6362: Hydraulic Structures
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CIVE 3334. Analysis and design of water transmission, storage, and energy dissipating structures.

6363: Evaluation of Water Quality in Natural Waters
Cr. 3. (3-0). Water quality management planning for rivers, lakes, and tidal estuaries; mixing and diffusion phenomena; biologic productivity; mineral, chemical, and oxygen utilization and equilibria; photosynthetic light transfer and sediment transport.

6372: Geotechnical Practice in Waste Disposal
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in civil engineering or graduate standing in environmental engineering. Applications of geotechnical engineering principles and practices to land disposal of hazardous and nonhazardous wastes.

6377: Environmental Chemistry
Cr. 3. (2-3). Prerequisites: CHEM 1331, CHEM 1332, CHEM 1111, and CHEM 1112; and graduate standing in civil engineering or graduate standing in environmental engineering. Aqueous environmental chemistry in natural waters and wastewaters: ionic equilibria, solubility, hardness, alkalinity, buffering, and the carbonate system; theory and practice of quantitative water and wastewater analysis.

6379: Stochastic Hydrology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CIVE 4332 and INDE 6361. Advanced hydrology oriented toward probabilistic computer applications of rainfall and runoff, including Stanford Watershed Model, single-multiple site streamflow generation, stochastic reservoir analyses.

6381: Biological Processes for Wastewater Treatment
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite or corequisite: CIVE 6391 or CHEE 6360. Theory and practice of biological wastewater treatment including aerobic and anaerobic processes in suspended and attached growth reactors, treatment models, advanced treatment, sludge handling, and treatment plant design.

6383: Advanced Planning and Design of Water Resource Systems
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Conventional and computer solutions to the economical planning and design of single- and multiunit, multipurpose water resources systems.

6385: Stability of Structures
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: MATH 3363 and CIVE 4364. Elastic and inelastic buckling of columns, beams, frames, and plates; classical and work-energy methods; background of AISC specifications.

6387: Physicochemical Treatment Processes
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CIVE 6377 or equivalent. Theory and practice of physicochemical processes for water and wastewater treatment: reactors, sedimentation, aeration, adsorption, ion-exchange, membrane processes, and disinfection.

6388: Solid and Hazardous Waste Treatment Processes
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CIVE 6361 or equivalent preferred and CIVE 6387. Physical and chemical principles of solid and hazardous waste treatment processes; mass conservation equations, transport phenomena, phase equilibria, fluid flow in porous media with applications to soil vapor extraction, soil vapor extraction, soil leaching/flushing, stabilization, and bioremediation processes.

6389: Civil Engineering Design
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: open only to students in the Master of Civil Engineering degree program. Topics and projects illustrating civil engineering design theory and practice. A final report is required.

6390: Municipal Drinking Water Treatment
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite or corequisite: CIVE 6377. Theory and design of unit processes used in conventional drinking water treatment, coagulation, rapid mix, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, and disinfection. Source water control is also studied.

6391: Environmental Engineering Microbiology
Cr. 3. (2-3). Prerequisite: graduate standing in environmental engineering. Fundamental aspects of microbiology and biochemistry as related to environmental pollution and water quality processes, engineering energetics and kinetics of microbial growth, and biological fate of pollutants.

6392: Environmental Engineering Design Project
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CIVE 6381, CIVE 6387, CIVE 6390. A project design course for the Environmental Engineering Program incorporating economic considerations, design details, and ethics.

6399-7399: Master's Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester.

7330: Organic Contaminant Control
Cr. 3. (2-3). Prerequisite: CIVE 6390. Emphasis on treatment for controlling organic contaminants, particularly organic disinfection by-products in drinking water. Organic control unit processes are discussed.

7332: Ground Water Contaminant Transport
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CIVE 6361 or equivalent and graduate standing in civil engineering and graduate standing in environmental engineering or consent of instructor. Principles of contaminant transport in soils and aquifers. Mathematical modeling of underground contaminant transport. Numerical modeling using existing and student developed computer software.

7335: Coastal Hydrodynamics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Analysis of motion of surface waves, linearized approximation, waves of finite height, generation of waves, and coastal engineering applications.

7336: Finite Element Methods
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CIVE 6377 or consent of instructor. Elasticity and energy principles; shape functions; isoparametric elements; nonconforming elements; plate elements; hybrid formulation.

7340: Earthquake Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CIVE 6355 or consent of instructor. Characteristics of earthquake waves and ground motion; review of structural dynamics; building responses; inelastic spectrum; foundation effect; various support motions; hazard analysis; design procedure and seismic codes.

7352: Unified Theory of Reinforced Concrete
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CIVE 4363. Unified theory applicable to the four basic actions: bending, axial load, shear and torsion, rational models based on stress equilibrium, strain compatibility and constitutive laws of materials. Equilibrium (Plasticity) Model, Bernoulli Compatibility Model, Mohr Compatibility Model and Softened Model.

7365: Design of Offshore Structures
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CIVE 7364. Design of fixed, floating and compliant offshore structures; environmental loading; dynamic analysis; finite element applications; design of structural systems and components; fatigue analysis; safety and reliability analysis.

7397: Selected Topics
Cr. 3. (3-0). May be repeated for credit.

8198:8298:8398:8498:8598: Doctoral Research
Cr. 1-5 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of chair.

8311: Organized Graduate Research Discussions (also ECE, INDE, MECE)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. Group research discussions with the intent of broadening the education and background of the student by exposure to the related research activities in his/her field.

8399:8699:8999: Doctoral Dissertation
Cr. 3, 6, or 9 hours depending on the semester.