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CEE 7001 -
Business Basics for Engineers
Description: Business fundamentals providing working knowledge in key business disciplines: economics, globalization, business ethics, money and banking, securities, investing, accounting, marketing and business etiquette/protocol.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
CEE 7002 -
Management for Engineers
Description: Application of principles and tools of contemporary management focusing on the process of getting the job done effectively and efficiently: planning, organization, staffing, leadership, control and communication.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
CEE 7010 -
Lake, Stream & Wetland Ecology
Description: Basic ecological principles. Food chains, trophic structure, biogeochemical cycles, and ecosystem dynamics. Water quality problems including nutrient enrichment, toxicity, and nonpoint source pollution. Watershed evaluation and management concepts, and TMDL applications.
Prerequisites: CHM 1152
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2008, Summer 2006, Summer 2004, Summer 2002
CEE 7011 -
Hazardous Waste Manage
Description: Regulatory considerations, land disposal problems, groundwater contamination, health and safety, site clean-up, and treatment methods; RCRA, TSCA and other regulatory compliance aspects; health and safety requirements; land disposal options and design considerations; groundwater clean-up methodologies; treatment technologies and conceptual designs; remedial investigations and feasibility studies of hazardous waste sites; and case histories.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Spring 2002
CEE 7111 -
Into to Hydraulics & Hydrology
Description: Extension of fluid mechanics. Basic principles, mathematical concepts and solution methods, experimental data, and engineering judgement. Pressurized-flow systems, free surfact flow, stream channel behavior and control, hydrologic data interpretation, hydrograph analysis and synthesis, Prerequisite: Undergraduate fluid mechanics (or its equivalent), proficiency in computers.
Prerequisites: CEE 3111
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Summer 2008, Summer 2007, Summer 2006
CEE 7201 -
Traffic Flow Theory & Control
Description: Platoon theory of single lane traffic, kinetic theory of multilane traffic, two-fluid model of traffic flow in urban networks, traffic control of intersections and traffic assignment.
Prerequisites: CEE 3211 and MAT 2705
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Summer 2003
CEE 7211 -
Water Res Planning & Mgmt
Description: Theoretical and practical approaches to water resource planning, analysis, design, economics and management: ground water and surface water supply, wetlands protection, water quality, water demand projections and reservoir operation. Prerequisite: CEE 7111 or its undergraduate equivalent.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Spring 2004
CEE 7303 -
Pavement Design & Dynamic Resp
Description: Responses of pavement subjected to both static and dynamic loads, design of rigid and flexible pavement design, rehabilitation of pavement structures. Prerequisite: Undergraduate Civil Engineering Materials or equivalent.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Summer 2006, Spring 2004
CEE 7400 -
Design of Bridges
Description: Structural design of highway bridges; load distribution and influence line analysis for simple and continuous span bridges; steel and reinforced concrete design; strength and serviceability; AASHTO specifications.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2003
CEE 7401 -
Wood and Masonry Structures
Description: Design and behavior of wood and masonry structures; introduction to design codes; material properties; structural members; connections; structural systems.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2008, Summer 2005, Summer 2002
CEE 7402 -
Forensic Engineering
Description: Forensic evaluation and analysis of structural failures. Case studies of bridge, building,dam and construction catastrophes. Investigation of various failure mechanisms.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Summer 2006, Summer 2003, Summer 2000
CEE 7502 -
Intro. Env. Engr Processes
Description: Fundamental physical, chemical and biological principles and processes for water and wastewater treatment; chemical kinetics, reactor engineering, sedimentation, disinfection, filtration, and fixed film biological treatment. Prerequisites: Undergraduate fluid mechanics or its equivalent and two semesters of undergraduate chemistry.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Summer 2008, Summer 2007, Summer 2006
CEE 7511 -
Microbiology Enviro EGR
Description: Introduction to microbiology and biochemistry; bacteria, fungi, algae, protozoa, and viruses; structure, function, synthesis, and degradation of lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, and carbohydrates; nutritional requirements for microbial growth; waterborne disease; indicator organisms; microbial ecology; and microbiology of the nitrifiers, methanogens, and sulfur bacteria. Prerequisite: One year of undergraduate chemistry.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2002
CEE 7512 -
Residuals Management
Description: Overview of residuals (water and wastewater solids) generation, processing, and disposal; types of residuals; physical, chemical, and microbiological characteristics of residuals; quantities; thickening; conditioning; dewatering; stabilization/disinfection; thermal reduction; and ultimate disposal including landfilling, agricultural utilization, and marketing. Prerequisite: Undergraduate fluid mechanics (or its equivalent); undergraduate or graduate treatment processes course (or consent of instructor).
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2001, Fall 1999, Fall 1997, Summer 1995
CEE 7513 -
Fate-Trans. Contaminants
Description: Physical, chemical, and biological processes governing the fate and transport of hazardous contaminants in natural and engineered systems: sorption, volatilization, biodegrada- tion, hydrolysis, advection, and diffusion. Prerequisites: Undergraduate Fluid Michanics or its equivalent and two semesters of under- graduate Chemistry.
Prerequisites: CEE 7502
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2003
CEE 7514 -
Ind Pollution Prevention
Description: Preventive environmental management approaches versus end of pipe treatment; cleaner production development and implementation; cleaner production tools such as environmental impact assessment, life cycle analysis, environmental technology assessment, chemical assessment, environmental compliance audit, waste audit, energy audit, risk audit, and good house keeping. Sustainable development and environmental ethics as integral components of pollution prevention approach.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Spring 2004
CEE 7701 -
Aquatic Chem Environ EGR
Description: Chemical kinetics; equilibrium analyses of water solutions incorporating solubility, ionization, acid-base, redox, and complexation considerations; use of graphical procedures to analyze complex mixtures; and, applications including pC-pH diagrams of the carbonate system, chemistry of iron and aluminum coagulants, alkalinity and acidity of natural waters, and metal complexation by organic ligands. Prerequisite: One year of undergraduate chemistry.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2003, Fall 2001
CEE 7829 -
Princ Sust Devel for Ind & Soc
Description: Investigation of problems with the present system of development and production, and evaluation of required steps to achieve sustainability will be conducted. Sustainability approaches such as green engineering and design, renewable energy systems, sustainable transportation, green building and low impact development techniques will be explored.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Summer 2008, Summer 2006
CEE 8102 -
Foundation Engineering
Description: Deep foundations, bulkheads, soil-structure interaction and advanced topics in soil behavior and stability. Prerequisite: Undergraduate Soil Mechanics
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 2000
CEE 8103 -
Geosynthetics
Description: Design of civil engineering structures, such as retaining walls and landfills, using geosynthetics for reinforcement, drainage, filtration, separation, and containment. Prerequisite: Undergraduate Soil Mechanics
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2002
CEE 8104 -
Geoenvironmental Engineering
Description: Sources and types of contamination, remedial investigations, and remedial measures including in-situ treatment and containment. Prerequisite: Undergraduate Soil Mechanics
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2003
CEE 8105 -
Advanced Soil Mechanics
Description: Select topics in soil behavior, soil stability and geotechnical design. Prerequisite: Undergraduate Soil Mechanics
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2007, Spring 2005
CEE 8201 -
Urban Transportation Egr
Description: Transportation problems as related to urban areas; transit and other mode characteristics and planning; transportation network analyses through generation; distribution and assignment.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2003, Fall 2001
CEE 8202 -
Transportation Plan & OP
Description: Transportation planning and operation based on recently developed capacity analyses of transportation facilities and networks.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2002
CEE 8203 -
Traffic Engineering
Description: Road user and vehicle characteristics, stream flow characteristics, freeway operations, speed studies, traffic control and management, and its technologies and applications.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005
CEE 8205 -
Highway Safety
Description: Overview of highway safety including factors that contribute to highway crashes, techniques to improve the safety of the roads, geometric design elements, and accident reconstruction techniques.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Spring 2004, Spring 2002
CEE 8206 -
Construction Project Mngmnt
Description: Project organization, planning, contracts, scheduling techniques, cost control, changes, delays and claims management; systematic design review and cost control technique of value engineering; case studies and computer assisted scheduling. Prerequisite: Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering (or consent of instructor).
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 1999, Spring 1997, Spring 1995
CEE 8303 -
Urban Planning
Description: Structure and history of urbanization in the United States. The current problems of cities and suburbs, and how they have evolved, will be the subjects of student projects. Will Philadelphia survive? Proposed solutions involving community activism, urban renewal, fiscal reform and new towns will be examined and evaluated. The design professional's role in the planning team is defined.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2003, Fall 2001
CEE 8311 -
Environmental Geology
Description: The geological environment and the works of man; the geology of Pennsylvania and vicinity; interactrion between geology and engineering work, the resulting problems and their solutions.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Summer 2008, Summer 2007, Summer 2006
CEE 8414 -
Earthquake Engineering
Description: Seismicity; selection of design earthquakes. Elastic and inelastic response of structures to ground motion; response spectra; basis of current design methods; structural control and rehabilitation. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Prerequisites: CEE 8434
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2003, Spring 2001, Spring 1999, Spring 1997
CEE 8420 -
Composites for Infrastructure
Description: Constituent materials and manufacturing processes for composites; limit-state design philosophy; anisotropic laminate theory for composite plates, beams, and shells; applications in reinforced concrete, structural and geotechnical engineering.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2007, Spring 2005
CEE 8430 -
Finite Element Analysis
Description: Finite element method in structural analysis and design. Truss, beam, and frame elements; elements for plane stress and plane strain; three-dimensional solid elements. Direct equilibrium and variational approaches; isoparametric formulation. Computer implementation of the method. Discussion of modeling techniques, convergence, exactness.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2000, Spring 1998, Spring 1996
CEE 8434 -
Structural Dynamics
Description: Dynamic response of damped and undamped structural systems. Free vibration; forced vibration for harmonic and general loading. Single and multiple degree-of-freedom systems. Modal superposition method; matrix structural analysis approach to dynamic problems.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2002
CEE 8435 -
Reinforced Concrete
Description: Design and behavior of beams, columns and two-way slabs; shear and torsion; shear walls; strut and tie models.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2003, Fall 2001
CEE 8436 -
Prestressed Concrete
Description: Prestressed and partial prestressed concrete; flexure, shear, serviceability; composite beams; continuity, primary and secondary moments; load balancing. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Prerequisites: CEE 8435
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Spring 2004, Spring 2002
CEE 8437 -
Structural Steel
Description: Behavior of steel beams, columns, and frames; elastic and plastic analysis; composite design; load and resistance factor.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2002
CEE 8438 -
Structural Connections
Description: Behavior of structural connections involving high strength bolts and welds; semi-rigid connections; LRFD and ASD.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2007, Summer 2004, Summer 2001, Summer 1998
CEE 8439 -
CE Materials
Description: Fundamentals of material science with applications to structural materials. Composition and properties of metals, concrete and wood, durability, fracture and fatigue, corrosion and non-destructive tests. Laboratory testing and data analysis.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2003
CEE 8441 -
Adv Mechanics of Materials
Description: Elastic curve for flexure, integration method, effects of shear and axial force on bending; unsymmetric and inelastic bending; energy methods; analysis of stress and strain; beams on elastic foundations; curved beams.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2001
CEE 8442 -
Advanced Structural Mechanics
Description: Continuously supported rods and beams; stability analysis and the buckling of columns and frames; applied fracture mechanics.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Fall 2003, Fall 2001
CEE 8443 -
Advanced Structural Analysis
Description: Advanced structural theory and analysis. Beams, frames, and beam-columns; multistory structures; non-prismatic sections; curved members; thin plates and shells.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 2002
CEE 8501 -
Surface Water Hydrology
Description: Basic factors for hydraulic design and storge requirements; frequency and duration studies; runoff hydrographs; design storms and flood determinations; hydrologic and hydraulic routing; peak flow formulas; reservoir regulation; effects of land use and treatment; mathematical models including HEC-HMS. Prerequisite: CEE 7111 (or its equivalent).
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2002
CEE 8502 -
Watershed Modeling
Description: Continuation of CEE 8501 (Surface Water Hydrology). Use and application of hydrologic quality and quantity watershed models. Topics include GIS, Scale, accuracy and numerical and statistical methods.
Prerequisites: CEE 8501
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2003
CEE 8503 -
Open Channel Hydraulics
Description: Free surface flow in canals, chutes, bends, gradual and abrupt transitions, stilling basins and energy dissipators, constrictions, bridge waterways, spillways; channel delivery; water-surface profiles in artificial and natural channels; unsteady flow, wave propagation and surges; design criteria and case histories; mathematical models including HEC-RAS. Prerequisite: CEE 7111 (or its equivalent).
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2003, Fall 2001
CEE 8507 -
Environmental Fluids
Description: The principal concepts of fluid mechanics applied to environmental systems, such as rivers, lakes, estuaries and the atmosphere.
Prerequisites: CEE 8502
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2006
CEE 8508 -
Urban Hyd & Storm Water Mgmt
Description: Current engineering approaches to reduce adverse environmental effects of urbanization. Water quality and runoff quantity. Storm water management and best management practices. Prerequisite: CEE 7111 (or its equivalent).
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Summer 2007, Summer 2005, Summer 2003
CEE 8510 -
Groundwater Hydrology
Description: The occurrence and movement of water in the subsurface portion of the hydrologic cycle. Darcy's Law and flow equations for surficial aquifers, confined aquaifers, and the unsaturated zone. Pump tests for the determination of conductivity and storage. Seawater intrusion, sustainable yields, land subsidence, streamflow depletions and groundwater contamination.
Prerequisites: CEE 7111
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2007
CEE 8512 -
River Mechanics & Engineering
Description: Includes fluvial geomorphology, streambank stabilization, dam removal, in-stream habitat enhancement, sediment transport analysis, scour at bridges and culverts, design of scour countermeasures, design of naturally and structurally stable channel systems and design of energy dissipaters.
Prerequisites: CEE 8503
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2008
CEE 8601 -
Special Topics Engr
Description: Individual supervised study. Topic and scope must be submitted in writing to topic advisor for approval prior to registration. Requirements must be completed by the end of its semester of registration.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
CEE 8706 -
Industrial Waste Mgmt
Description: Management of industrial wastes; independent treatment, pretreatment for discharge to municipal systems, and joint treatment; waste characterization and volume reduction; toxic waste treatment and disposal; unique industrial waste treatment processes; case histories.
Prerequisites: CEE 8707 or CEE 8708
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2000, Fall 1998, Fall 1996
CEE 8707 -
Phys/Chem Treatment Proc
Description: Analysis and design of physical/chemical processes for treatment of contaminated air and water. Topics include adsorption, mass transfer, stripping, scrubbing, chemical oxidation, and coagulation and locculation. Prerequisite: CEE 7502 and CEE 7701 (or their equivalents).
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Spring 2004, Spring 2000
CEE 8708 -
Bio Treatment Processes
Description: Biological treatment processes including aerobic, anoxic, and anaerobic processes; suspended growth and fixed film microbial communities; biological nutrient removal processes. Prerequisite: CEE 7511 or its equivalent.
Prerequisites: CEE 7511
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2003
CEE 9030 -
CE Resrch/Investigation
Description: Topic and scope must be submitted in writing to topic advisor for approval prior to registration. The results of the course findings may provide the basis for the thesis option. The final written document at the completion of the semester will be submitted for approval as a thesis proposal or a term paper for grade. The thesis proposal must be agreed upon by both the student and the topic advisor and approved by the chairperson. Requirements must be completed by the end of its semester of registration and prior to CEE 9031 registration. Prerequisite: Consent of chairperson.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
CEE 9031 -
Thesis I
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Prerequisites: CEE 9030
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
CEE 9032 -
Thesis II
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Prerequisites: CEE 9031
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
CEE 9080 -
Thesis Continuation
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Credit Hours: 0.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
CEE 9085 -
Independent Study Continuation
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Credit Hours: 0.0
Last Offered: Summer 2007, Spring 1999, Fall 1998, Spring 1998
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