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CHEM 551 - Advanced Organic Chemistry
3 hours.
3 Credits
Structure, synthesis and bonding in organic compounds, and reaction mechanisms (ionic, free radical and concerted).
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CHEM 552 - Organic Synthesis
3 hours.
3 Credits
Principles of reactions leading to carbon-carbon bond formation, functional group transformation, protecting groups and masked groups introduction. It also includes strategies of skeletal structures of main classes of biologically active compounds.
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CHEM 553 - Polymer Chemistry
3 hours.
3 Credits
Principles of structural and physical properties of polymers, copolymers and block copolymers, characterization, degradation and stabilization of polymeric materials.
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CHEM 555 - Natural Products
3 hours.
3 Credits
Topics covered will include structure, biosynthesis and reactions of the major classes of natural products: alkaloids, antibiotics, polyketides and shikimates.
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CHEM 561 - Advanced Inorganic Chemistry
3 hours.
3 Credits
Principles of chemical bonding in metals and nonmetals, ligand field theory, applications of group theory to chemical bonding, inorganic reaction mechanism.
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CHEM 562 - Organometallic Chemistry
3 hours.
3 Credits
Principles and chemistry of compounds containing carbon-metal bonds, their synthesis and reaction mechanisms.
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CHEM 563 - Bioinorganic Chemistry
3 hours.
3 Credits
Structure and bonding of inorganic material with biological systems. Functional relationship and reactions.
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CHEM 565 - Special Topics in Inorganic/Organic Chemistry or Biochemistry
2 hours.
2 Credits
Special topics course in inorganic, organic or biochemistry, which may be taken as an independent course.
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CHEM 571 - Advanced Biochemistry
3 hours.
3 Credits
Principles and chemistry of living matter, their metabolism and energetic transformations, lipid structure and membranes are topics covered.
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CHEM 572 - Enzymology
3 hours.
3 Credits
Structure and functions of enzymes, enzyme kinetics, competitive, noncompetitive and cooperative binding of substrates to enzymes, reversible and irreversible binding of substrates to enzymes.
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CHEM 573 - Protein and Amino Acids
3 hours.
3 Credits
Advanced study of proteins, their building blocks and structure. Function and chemistry of amino acids and proteins, synthesis and purification.
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CHEM 581 - Advanced Techniques in Chemistry
4 hours.
4 Credits
Topics to be covered include modern synthetic methods in inorganic and organic chemistry, qualitative and quantitative analysis of reaction products using absorptiometric, fluorometric, electrochemical, separation and various other optical techniques.
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CHEM 590 - Special Topics in Advanced Chemistry
3 hours.
3 Credits
Special topics in the area of the thesis advisor’s research including new advances in that area of chemistry, new advanced techniques and methods, or other advancements.
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CHEM 600 - Advances in Biochemistry
3 hours.
3 Credits
Rigorous treatment of molecules of biological importance, their fundamental applications to the understanding of human function and the environmental effects on their activity.
Offered (FALL)
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CHEM 601 - Environmental Chemistry
3 hours.
3 Credits
Environmental problems in the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere and the anthrosphere. It covers pollutants’ sources and production, environmental distribution, health effects, and remediation using chemical methods.
Offered (SPRING)
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CHEM 602 - Pollutants in the Environment
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course involves a rigorous treatment of materials and particulates that contribute to environmental hazards. Their origin and production will be covered in great depth. Rigorous quantitative methods of analysis and the general instrumental techniques will be covered.
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CHEM 603 - Physical Chemistry of Environmental Sciences
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course covers the fundamental thermodynamics and kinetics in the treatment of environmental problems. Topics covered will include first, second and third laws of thermodynamics, phase transformations, free energy changes, equilibrium, transport phenomena, catalysis.
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CHEM 604 - Analytical Techniques in Environmental Chemistry
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course covers the fundamental analytical methods used in the determination of both trace and bulk materials of chemical interest. Such techniques include errors in analysis and their propagation.
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CHEM 605 - Atmospheric Chemistry
3 hours.
3 Credits
Chemistry of the lower atmosphere (troposphere and stratosphere) including photochemistry, kinetics, thermodynamics, box modeling, biogeochemical cycles and measurement techniques for atmospheric pollutants.
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CHEM 780 - Thesis Research
Six hours.
6 Credits
Thesis Research is of variable contact hours for 6 credits. This thesis Research course is designed to satisfy the scientific research requirements for the Graduate students. The course requires that the student conducts literature research, laboratory experiments, data analysis and interpretation, prepare a research report, develop a thesis research project, prepare a manuscript for publication and scientific presentations.
Offered FALL/ SPRING
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CHEM 788 - Supervised Research in Chemistry
4 hours.
8 Credits
These are research courses designed to enable students to participate in research in the areas of their competence under the supervision of qualified faculty members. Students are required to submit oral presentations of research findings in seminars and to submit a written thesis report to the graduate faculty.
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CHEM 789 - Supervised Research in Chemistry
4 hours.
8 Credits
These are research courses designed to enable students to participate in research in the areas of their competence under the supervision of qualified faculty members. Students are required to submit oral presentations of research findings in seminars and to submit a written thesis report to the graduate faculty.
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CHEM 790 - Graduate Seminar
2 hours.
2 Credits
This course explores in-depth reviews of modern scientific topics in chemistry. It enables students engaged in this course to review the literature and provide discussions on the topics.
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CHEM 797 - Thesis Guidance
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course enables a student to develop and execute an approved scholarly research agenda in consultation with the student’s thesis chairperson and committee. Students register for this course continuously to maintain enrollment until the student has completed the thesis. This course is a non-curricular course and is not considered as part of the overall program credit requirement. However, this course maintains the student status as a matriculated, full-time student (student registers for 3 credit hours each semester, but is acknowledged as having a 9 credit hour load).
Contact Hours Three
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CHEM 798 - Thesis Research
3 hours.
3 Credits
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CHEM 799 - Thesis Defense
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course allows students the opportunity to defend their thesis for approval by the student’s thesis chairperson and committee after the thesis has been completed. After gaining approval of the thesis chairperson and committee, the thesis is submitted to the School of Graduate Studies for final processing and approval. This course is a curricular course and may be considered as 3 credit hours of the overall program credit requirement. This course maintains the student status as a matriculated, full-time student (student is registered for 3 credit hours, but is acknowledged as having a 9 credit hour load).
Contact Hours Three
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CHEM 800 - Supervised Doctoral Research
3 hours.
3 Credits
These courses are designed to allow students to participate in doctoral research in areas of their choosing under the supervision of a research mentor and also to defend their thesis for the doctoral degree. Students are required to submit their research findings in a seminar topics series.
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CHEM 801 - Supervised Doctoral Research
3 hours.
3 Credits
These courses are designed to allow students to participate in doctoral research in areas of their choosing under the supervision of a research mentor and also to defend their thesis for the doctoral degree. Students are required to submit their research findings in a seminar topics series.
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CHEM 802 - Supervised Doctoral Research
3 hours.
3 Credits
These courses are designed to allow students to participate in doctoral research in areas of their choosing under the supervision of a research mentor and also to defend their thesis for the doctoral degree. Students are required to submit their research findings in a seminar topics series.
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CHEM 803 - Supervised Doctoral Research
3 hours.
3 Credits
These courses are designed to allow students to participate in doctoral research in areas of their choosing under the supervision of a research mentor and also to defend their thesis for the doctoral degree. Students are required to submit their research findings in a seminar topics series.
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CHEM 804 - Supervised Doctoral Research
3 hours.
3 Credits
These courses are designed to allow students to participate in doctoral research in areas of their choosing under the supervision of a research mentor and also to defend their thesis for the doctoral degree. Students are required to submit their research findings in a seminar topics series.
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CHEM 997 - Dissertation Guidance
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course enables a student to develop and execute an approved scholarly research agenda in consultation with the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee. Students register for this course continuously to maintain enrollment until the student has completed the dissertation. This course is a non-curricular course and is not considered as part of the overall program credit requirement. However, this course maintains the student status as a matriculated, full-time student (student registers for 3 credit hours each semester, but is acknowledged as having a 9 credit hour load).
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CEGR 511 - Principles of Environmental Engineering II
3 hours.
3 Credits
A continuation of CEGR 510 and covers topics such as advanced water and wastewater treatment, air quality engineering, integrated solid waste management, hazardous waste management, site assessment, remediation technologies, and environmental health and safety.
Prerequisite(s) CEGR 510 or instructor approval
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 512 - Principles of Environmental Engineering III
3 hours.
3 Credits
The course covers basic concepts in environmental engineering design not covered in CEGR 510 and CEGR 511 and covering topics such as urban sustainable systems, bioremediation, and environmental modeling and simulation (water, groundwater, stormwater, and air).
Prerequisite(s) CEGR 511 or instructor approval.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 513 - Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology
3 hours.
3 Credits
Chemical laboratory work includes analyses of turgidity, color, pH, acidity, alkalinity, and hardness, etc.; and instrumental methods using high pressure liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, and atomic absorption, etc. The microbiological analyses include uses and functions of the microscope, multiple- tube and membrane filter techniques. The laboratory analyses are covered independently from the lecture. The lecture covers combustion chemistry, chemistry of the anaerobic process, and atmospheric chemistry.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 514 - Environmental Impact and Risk Assessment
3 hours.
3 Credits
The course covers strategies and methodologies that have been used to assess the impact of engineering projects. These include technology to assess the impact on air, surface water, and ground water quality, and on land use of transportation facilities, water supply and pollution control facilities, and industrial and community development.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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CEGR 531 - Reliability Analysis for Infrastructure and Environmental Systems
3 hours.
3 Credits
Systems reliability and reliability analysis. Includes measures of reliability, reliability index, correlation coefficient, influence, reliability bounds, Point Estimate Method, Monte Carlo Simulation and others.
Prerequisite(s) Department permission
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 533 - Matrix Structural Analysis
3 hours.
3 Credits
Review of statically determinate and indeterminate structures. Degrees of freedom of a structure. Force-Displacement relations for axial load, shear force and bending moment. Euler-Bernoulli beam element. Analytical basis for Force and Displacement Methods of Structural Analysis. Introduction to the Stiffness Method for structural systems. Application of Stiffness Method for trusses, beams and frames. Stepwise development of a computer program to compute nodal displacements and member forces.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 590 - Smart Material Systems
3 hours.
3 Credits
An introduction to the principles and applications of various sensor, actuator and functionality of smart materials and structures in order to monitor their state of health, automatically heal internal fractures and adapt to environmental changes to reduce maintenance cost and increase life span. Constitutive modeling of piezoelectric materials, electroactive polymers, shape memory alloys, and system modeling for the analysis, design, and control of smart material systems.
Prerequisite(s) Mechanics of Materials and Departmental Approval
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 610 - Stormwater Management
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course covers fundamental concepts of stormwater management. The class is provided on the engineering and regulatory aspects of stormwater management to address quality and quantity, receiving water problems and sources of pollutants, selection and design of controls and regulations. This course focuses on the proper design, construction and maintenance of various stormwater BMPs, a number of actual constructed systems to support their feasibility and applicability in different development settings.
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CEGR 611 - Hydrologic Modeling
Three hours.
3 Credits
The class will discuss about functionality, accessibility, characteristics and components in the quantity analysis of the hydrological design models. It will cover the basic theories of hydrologic modeling concepts. This course include computing requirements, data preparation, boundary conditions, model components, model verification a model optimization, forecasting streamflow, depth-area reduction, assessing model uncertainty, erosion and sediment transport, and water quality.
Contact Hours Three
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CEGR 612 - Stormwater Modeling
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course is an introduction to simulation modeling of river analysis system and stormwater management model. The river analysis system will cover flood areas, embankment and protection work design, river restoration, emergency plans for dam break, optimization of hydraulic work and risk assessment and management. The stormwater management model will cover planning, analysis, and design related to stormwater runoff, combined and sanitary sewers, and other drainage systems.
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CEGR 613 - Physical-Chemical Treatment of Waste and Wastewater I
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course covers topics in physical-chemical treatment of water and wastewater and advanced topics in unit operations, flow measurements and water quality equalization; pumping; screening, settling, and flotation; mixing and flocculation; filtration and aeration, absorption, and stripping.
Prerequisite(s) CEGR 512 .
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 614 - Physical-Chemical Treatment of Waste and Wastewater II
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course covers areas of the physical-chemical treatment of water and wastewater not covered in CEGR 613 and includes the unit operations of carbon absorption and membrane processes and the unit processes of water softening and removal of nitrogen and phosphorous, fluoridation and defluoridation, iron exchange, and disinfection.
Prerequisite(s) CEGR 613 .
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 615 - Open Channel Hydraulics
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course covers basic principles and energy and momentum equations, uniform flow, gradually varied flow, and spatially and rapidly varied flow. A software project will be required for submission at the end of the course.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 616 - Biochemical Processes in Environmental Engineering
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course covers the basic fundamental principles of biochemical processes in environmental engineering systems. Basic concepts in biochemical processes, qualitative tools for describing stoichiometry and energetics of biochemical reactions; qualitative tools for enzymatic kinetics and the principle of mass balance in the analysis of biochemical reactors are presented.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 617 - Advanced Biochemical Processes in Environmental Engineering
3 hours.
3 Credits
This is an advanced course in biochemical process engineering application in environmental quality control. It covers in depth application of the principles of biochemical system in the treatment of water, wastewater and biodegradation of hazardous chemicals in the environment.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 619 - Modeling of Groundwater Flow
3 hours.
3 Credits
Numerical solutions of the groundwater flow equations (Partial Differential Equations). Emphasis on learning methodology and the use of groundwater flow models such as MODFLOW, FLOW PATH AND SEETRAN.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 620 - Modeling of Groundwater Pollutant Transport
3 hours.
3 Credits
Numerical and analytical solutions of the advection dispersion equation. Emphasis on learning method- ology and the use of groundwater models in contaminant and transport such as MT3D, RT3D and MODFLOW.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 623 - Hydrodynamics
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course covers fundamental concepts of dynamics of surface water flow, analysis and characteristics of flow in open channels, flow and channel design with consideration of various types of flow, methods and application of flow measuring devices, and problem solving.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 624 - Hydrostatistics
3 hours.
3 Credits
Introduction to hydrostatistical data estimation using the concepts of variograms, multivariate techniques, correlation analysis, and linear multiple linear regression. Introduction to some stochastic hydrologic models.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 625 - Modeling of Surface Water
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course emphasizes fundamental concepts and theory and methods of modeling surface water flow, establishment of conceptual, physical, mechanical, mathematical models and applications of analytical and numerical solutions to solving engineering problems related to environmental issues.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 626 - Surface Water Hydrology
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course emphasizes fundamental concepts of surface water hydrology and physical processes in surface and shallow subsurface water. Through exercises and problem sets, the course introduces students to practical techniques utilized in applied surface water hydrology.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 627 - Introduction to Multiphase Flow
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course emphasizes fundamental concepts of theory of multiphase flow including physical processes within multiphase flow, conservation of mass, energy and momentum, constitutive relations of multi- phase flow and analytical solutions for problems related to multiphase flow through porous media.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 628 - Bridge Engineering
3 hours.
3 Credits
Historical development of the modern highway bridge; materials; loads and the load path; reinforced concrete bridges; slab, T-Beam and box girders; slab-steel beam bridges, non-composite vs. composite sections; design of continuous steel beam bridges; plate girder bridges; pre-stressed concrete bridges; serviceability; inspection, maintenance and rehabilitation of highway bridges; bridge aesthetics.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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CEGR 629 - Advanced Structural Steel
3 hours.
3 Credits
Advanced design of structural steel elements according to the AISC Load and Resistance Factor Method as applied to advanced topics in steel design. Topics include composite floor systems; bolted and welded connections; beam-column connections; base plates, conventional and innovative lateral load resisting systems for seismic loading as well as application of high strength steel and designing of hybrid steel sections.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 630 - Finite Element Analysis
3 hours.
3 Credits
Approximation techniques; Introduction to the Finite Element Method; weighing functions; Galerkin formulation; 1-d and 2-d finite elements; coordinate systems; field problems-irrotational flow, heat transfer; structural and solid mechanics, axial force member, theory of elasticity; linear and quadratic elements, element shape functions; isoparametric elements; Software platform ANSYS 5.3.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 631 - Structural Dynamics
3 hours.
3 Credits
Free and forced vibrations of damped and undamped, single-degree-of-freedom and multidegree-of- freedom systems. Langrange’s equations; transient and steady-state vibrations; eigenvalue analysis for natural frequencies and normal modes; analysis and stability of structural components (including beams, cables and large systems inshore, offshore, and in space). Time-domain vs. frequency domain analysis; classical approximate methods, Rayleigh method, Dunkerley’s equation, Rayleigh Ritz Method, Myklestad’s Method for beams; introduction to random vibrations.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 634 - Prestressed Concrete Design
3 hours.
3 Credits
Study of prestressing methods (Pre-tensioning and post-tensioning techniques) including strength and load-balancing approaches and their application to the analysis and design of beams, slabs, and axially loaded members. The course discusses properties of concrete and prestressing steels and topics include PCI and ACI design criteria. Anchorage-zone analysis and design for flexure, shear, torsion, camber and study of deflection and time-dependent losses.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 635 - Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course utilizes the mechanics of concrete and structural design principles to enable students to perform advanced design of reinforced concrete structures. It emphasizes the design for torsion, shear and shear friction, and teaches how to perform the design of two-way slabs, walls, reinforcement at joints, multistory columns and concrete building systems in accordance with the latest building code.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 645 - Construct Project Administration and Management
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course will teach the applications of the fundamentals of construction management in construction practice and teach the students the responsibilities and risks that are encountered in the construction industry in equipment and material utilization, costing, quality, productivity and safety in construction practice.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 646 - Construction Engineering Management for Engineering
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course will teach the students how the construction industry worldwide works and cover such areas as feasibility studies; organization for construction; financing and cost accounting for construction; design and engineering contracts and procedures; construction contracts; change orders and delays; acceleration; claims, arbitration, mediation, litigation; labor management; project planning.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 651 - Computer Aided Highway Engineering Design
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course covers the operational, geometric and hydraulic design of highways to achieve safe and efficient vehicle operation under the conditions of uninterrupted flow.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 655 - Traffic Engineering I
3 hours.
3 Credits
The principles of traffic engineering involving the analysis, planning and design of loads, streets and highways, and their related networks. Coverage includes the dynamics of traffic flows, traffic studies, and data collection; capacity analysis of freeways and arteries; the analysis and design of traffic control systems, including signalized and unsignalized intersections.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 656 - Transportation Models and Simulation Analysis I
3 hours.
3 Credits
The theory, development, and application of modeling systems commonly used in planning, engineering and operational analysis of transportation systems. The application and calibration of an existing transportation modeling system.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 657 - Advanced Topics in Traffic Engineering
3 hours.
3 Credits
Theory, analysis and design of coordinated traffic signal systems, traffic information systems and traffic management emphasizing area wide optimization, intermodal coordination and incident management.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 659 - Pavement Analysis and Design
3 hours.
3 Credits
The analysis of pavement loading and the response of flexible and rigid pavements to loads. The design of pavements to achieve the desired performance and reliability. The management of pavement to optimize life-cycle performance.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 661 - Airport Planning and Engineering
3 hours.
3 Credits
The planning and design of airports and their supportive infrastructural systems. The operational analysis of airports and the environmental considerations in their location, design, expansion, and operation.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 663 - Readings in Environmental Engineering
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course is required to prepare students in doctoral dissertation. Selected topics from the current literature will include water and waste, air pollution, solid waste, hazardous wastes, ground water hydrology, hydraulics, etc.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 665 - Random Vibrations and Nonlinear Dynamics
3 hours.
3 Credits
Review of linear systems. Time Domain vs. Frequency Domain approaches. Introduction to Nonlinear Systems. Phase Plane representation. Existence and Stability using Averaging methods. Random Vibrations. Response of SDOF and MDOF systems subjected to random excitation.
Prerequisite(s) CEGR 631
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 670 - Special Topics in Highway Safety
3 hours.
3 Credits
This is an elective course which discusses highway safety and design issues. The design of horizontal and vertical alignments as well as transition curves is covered. The causes of highway accidents and their relations to highway design elements such as side slope, roadway width, and sight distance, as well as to human elements are thoroughly investigated. Analysis of high accident locations, accident reducing measures, and highway economics is also covered. Students are expected to complete a course project in the broad area of highway safety and design.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 671 - Traffic Flow Theory
3 hours.
3 Credits
Advanced topics in traffic flow theory for non-interrupted and interrupted flows. Topics include speed flow and density; shock waves in traffic streams; gap acceptance. Queuing theory and probabilistic processes as applied in the analysis of interrupted traffic flows. Applications in highway, traffic signals and terminal systems design.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 673 - Advanced Environmental Engineering Design
3 hours.
3 Credits
Covers basic parameters and elements in planning, development of design parameters, conceptual design, hydraulic and/ or pneumatic profiles, innovation, cost, and financing. Possible topics included water treatment systems, wastewater treatment, stormwater management systems, air pollution controls, site remediation technologies, etc. This course is a design course that involves real-life projects that the students have selected from the proceeding list of topics and approved by the instructor.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 680 - Highway Infrastructure Management Systems
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course deals with the development of computerized maintenance management systems for the integrated management of transportation infrastructures. It addresses the requirements of Government Accounting Standard Board (GASB) Statement 34, required to be followed on transportation maintenance projects. Modeling and management of highway maintenance, bridge maintenance, and pavement maintenance are discussed. Depreciation of highway assets over time and correlation between highway maintenance and infrastructure security are covered.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 681 - Theory of Traffic Flow
3 hours.
3 Credits
Study and evaluation of various qualitative descriptions of the complex phenomenon of traffic flow. The concept and mathematical models considered are statistical relationships, car-following analogy, queuing theory, traffic-network analysis, computing machine simulation studies, mathematical experiments, and distribution-function theories.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 684 - Advanced Algorithms in Transportation I
3 hours.
3 Credits
An introduction to graphs and networks, their properties and values in systems analysis, identification and formulation of standard problems, and basic techniques available to solve them. Spanning trees, shortest paths, traveling salesman problem, routing and scheduling, facility location problems, flow problems, covers and matchings. Applications and decision analysis. Emphasis on problem identification, use of computer packages, and the relationship of network properties to solution efforts.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 685 - Advanced Algorithms in Transportation II
3 hours.
3 Credits
This is an advanced level transportation engineering course focusing on development and applications of various algorithms in transportation problem solving. It involves modeling and analysis of transportation network problems through the design, analysis, and implementation of algorithms. Emphasis is placed on the use of quantitative techniques of operations research to model system performance.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 686 - Demand Analysis and Forecasting
3 hours.
3 Credits
Analysis and forecasting of demand for facilities and services, for use in the planning, design, and operations of transportation systems. Emphasis on the collection and analysis of survey data for demand model development. Covers alternative sample designs, individual choice theories, probabilistic discrete choice models, estimation of desegregate and aggregate models, aggregate forecasting methods and simulation. Illustrated with applications from the field of transportation planning. Hands on exercises in the use of PC statistical analysis software.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 687 - Ground Water Hydrology
3 hours.
3 Credits
Theory of ground water movement, storage exploration, and pumping tests. Design of ground water recovery and recharge systems.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 688 - Advanced Mechanics of Solids
3 hours.
3 Credits
Mechanical response of materials, including elastic, plastic and viscoelastic components. Continuum mechanics; kinematics of deformation, analysis of states of stress and strain, conservation of mass, balance of momentum and energy, constitutive equations. Discussion of applications including stress concentrations at defects, metal processing, and composite materials.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 690 - Adaptive Structures
3 hours.
3 Credits
Behavior of engineering structures subject to induced internal deformations. Transduction devices and adaptive physical systems. Excitation and response of adaptive structures. Actuator placement and static control. Extension to the dynamic case and active vibration control.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 691 - Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
3 hours.
3 Credits
Altitude dynamics and control of spacecraft. Overview of spacecraft systems and orbit determination. Rigid body kinematics and dynamics, and linear control concepts. Active and passive stabilization of spacecraft. Altitude control subsystems and hardware components, and design technology. Illustrations with available real examples and applications.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 692 - Theory of Elastics
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course presents the continuum concepts of stress, stress boundary conditions, principal stresses and the equations of equilibrium; Generalized Hook’s law; Small strain theory and principal strains; Plane problems; Stress functions; Saint Venant torsion and flexure; Introduction to three-dimensional problems; Thermoelasticity; Anisotropic solutions.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 695 - Discrete-Time Control Engineering
3 hours.
3 Credits
Design of controllers for discrete-time systems, with emphasis on linear sampled-data control. Single- loop digital controllers. Discrete-time state space design. Discrete-time optimal control. Realization of microcomputer real-time control systems. Design problems and applications with hands-on experience.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 697 - Geographic Information Systems Applications in Transportation
3 hours.
3 Credits
Course explores Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications in transportation (GIS-T). The underlying concepts in GIS applications as well as advantages of GIS over non-GIS methods will be covered extensively. Students will be introduced to GIS softwares including ArcView GIS, MapObjects, and other relevant GIS tools. Finally, a number of GIS applications in real-world problem solving will be reviewed.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 702 - Seismic Design
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides for the seismic design of buildings. Dynamic analysis of single and multidegree-of-freedom elastic systems subjected to earthquake motions. Earthquake Design Spectra Analysis. Inelastic dynamic response analysis. Consideration of new building code requirements.
Prerequisite(s) CEGR 629 and CEGR 631
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 703 - Geometrically Nonlinear Structural Analysis
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides a basic background in the theory of geometrically nonlinear structural analysis. Formation of geometric stiffness matrices. Nonlinear analysis of trusses, plane frames, space frames, membrane, and cable net structures. Development of three-dimensional beam-column theory.
Prerequisite(s) EEGR 505
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 704 - Innovations in Structural Steel Design
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides for the study of innovations in structural steel design. Ductile design concepts of steel structures and the systematic methods and applications of plastic analysis concepts required to describe the structural behavior associated with ductile design are presented. Design procedures and detailing requirements for ductile braced frames and ductile moment-resisting frames. Consideration of new building code requirements.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 705 - Mechanics of Composite Materials
3 hours.
3 Credits
Basic mechanics of composite materials. Stress Strain relationship of orthotropic materials. Introduction to micromechanics. Classical lamination theory. Mechanical behavior of fiber reinforced composite materials. Damage and failure criteria.
Prerequisite(s) CEGR 692
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 709 - Wave Propagation in Elastic Media
3 hours.
3 Credits
Mechanical wave propagation in bounded and unbounded media. Wave reflection and transmission at interfaces and boundaries; stress waves. Additional topics of mutual interest to students and instructor.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 723 - Advanced Consolidation Theory
3 hours.
3 Credits
The fundamentals of soil consolidation theory are addressed in detail. Based on principles of continuum mechanics and constitutive relations, governing equations are derived for the deformation of the saturated skeletal frame. These in turn are tested against laboratory measurements. Unsolved problems in consolidation theory are emphasized.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 725 - Aquifer Mechanics
3 hours.
3 Credits
Emphasis on mechanical characteristics of pore flow and skeleton matrix within an aquifer system; motion of pore flow and aquifers, including vertical and horizontal movement of aquifers; interaction between pore flow and skeleton matrix of sedimentary material. Solving Environmental problems related to land subsidence and fissures due to ground fluid (gas, oil and water).
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 726 - Geosynthetics
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides graduate students and engineering professionals with knowledge of geosynthetic materials and methods for application procedures in geotechnical and foundation engineering. Geotextiles, geogrids, geosynthetic clay liners, and geocomposites are among the geosynthetic topics of application and procedures. Designing with geosynthetics, application procedures, and specifications are topics of this course.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 730 - Constitutive Laws in Geomechanics
3 hours.
3 Credits
Fundamental concepts of stress and strain tensors, criterion of failures for geomaterials. Theory of elasticity, viscosity, and plasticity, and their combinations such as elasto-viscous, elasto-plastic models in geomechanics for clay and sand soils. Discussion of classic models in geomechanics and their applications to engineering.
Prerequisite(s) Advanced Soil Mechanics and Continuum Mechanics and MATH (PDE).
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 731 - Advanced Soil Mechanics I
3 hours.
3 Credits
Mechanics of seepage and groundwater flow. Effect of seepage on stability, uplift, and foundation design. Basic lateral earth pressure relationships. Stability analysis. Design of breakheads, cofferdams, retaining walls and slopes.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 737 - Continuum Mechanics
3 hours.
3 Credits
Emphasis on theoretical study of continuum mechanics including introduction to tensor analysis; analysis of stress and strain tensors; motion and deformation; conservation laws; constitutive laws. Applications to porous material or sedimentary material in geomechanics and geotechnical engineering.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 738 - Boundary Element Method in Geomechanics
3 hours.
3 Credits
Theoretical concepts and principles of the Boundary Element Method (BEM) and applications to Geo- mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Establishment of conceptual, mathematical, numerical, and mechanical models. Time and spatial discretization. Solution of matrix equations and programming in FORTRAN and C. Applications of BEM to geomaterials which exhibit linear and nonlinear elastic, viscous, and elasto-plastic behavior. Applications of BEM to solve 2D and 3D problems in Geotechnical Engineering.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 739 - Discrete Element Method in Geomechanics
3 hours.
3 Credits
Advanced concepts, principles, programming, and applications of the Discrete Element Method (DEM) in Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Parameter and determination. Contacting laws and constitutive models. Modeling of rigid block and granular materials. Modeling of deformable block and granular materials. Establishment of conceptual, physical, numerical, and mathematical models. Discretization in space and time. Programming for computation and user friendly interfaces in Visual Basic. Applications of the DEM in solving engineering problems.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 740 - Special Topics in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
3 hours.
3 Credits
Advanced concepts, principles, and applications of GIS are presented and illustrated. Project design, data acquisition, management, analyses, and display/product generation will be emphasized. Applications of GIS methodologies in real world problems from various disciplines will also be presented. Student will be required to complete a GIS project as the final examination grade for the course. ESRI’s ARCINFO and ArcView will form the basic GIS software for the course
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CEGR 741 - Special Course in Remote Sensing (RS)
3 hours.
3 Credits
Advanced concepts, principles, and applications of RS are presented and illustrated. Project design, data acquisition, management, analyses, and display/product generation will be emphasized. Applications of RS methodologies in real world problems from various disciplines will also be presented. Student will be required to compete a RS project as a final examination grade for the course. ENVI and ERDAS will form the basic GIS software for the course.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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