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CEE 2103 - Mechanics of Solids

Description: Stress resultants in bodies from tension, compression, shear, flexure, torsion and temperature; stress and strain transformations; combined stresses; load deformation relationships; Euler buckling.
Prerequisites: CEE 2104 or ME 2100
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Summer 2008, Spring 2008

CEE 2104 - Mechanics: Statics & Dynamics

Description: Force systems; equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies; analysis of simple structures; internal forces; friction; properties of areas and volumes; kinematic and kinetic analysis of particles.
Prerequisites: MAT 1505 and PHY 2400
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008

CEE 2105 - Mechanics I: Fund. Behavior

Description: Forces & moments; equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies; analysis of trusses; stress & strain; axial deformations; distributed force patterns; centroids & moments of inertia; dry friction; column buckling; material properties of steel & wood.
Prerequisites: MAT 1505 and PHY 2400
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009

CEE 2211 - Transportation Engineering

Description: Introduction to transportation planning, intermodal transportation systems, roles of government agencies, alternatives analysis, environmental justice and right-of-way process, facility design (alignment, geometrics), operations (capacity, level of service, traffic control, queuing), and air/public/freight/port and future modes of transportation.
Prerequisites: PHY 2400 and CEE 2602
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:

CEE 2311 - Environmental Engr Science

Description: Fundamental physical/chemical/microbiological principles for environmental remediation; environmental regulations; air and water quality, dissolved oxygen modeling, fate and transport of contaminants, risk assessment.
Prerequisites: CHM 1152 or CHM 1156
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Summer 2007, Spring 2007

CEE 2602 - Civil Egr Measurements

Description: Two major group projects: environmental study of local stream and test model of bridge truss; "as needed" topics include map skills, photo interpretation, plane surveying, water quality, stream hydraulics, material properties and testing, beam flexure; field trips.
Prerequisites: PHY 2400
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

CEE 3211 - Transportation Egr

Description: Transportation planning; system modes and roles of government agencies. Facility design: alignment, geometrics, pavement, economic evaluation of alternatives. Operations: capacity, level of service, traffic control, queuing, safety. Rail, air, public and future modes of transportation.
Prerequisites: CEE 2104 and CEE 2602
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006

CEE 3235 - Advanced Transportation Engr.

Description: (Technical Elective) Fundamentals of urban traffic engineering, including planning, data collection, analysis, and design. Traffic engineering studies, traffic control devices, capacity analysis, and congestion management of freeways and urban streets with software applications. Intelligent transportation systems.
Prerequisites: CEE 2211 or CEE 3211
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:

CEE 3321 - Water & Wastewater Treatment

Description: Water quality problems and eutrophication; Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water Acts; analysis and design of unit processes in water and wastewater treatment facilities including sedimentation, coagulation and flocculation, adsorption, filtration, disinfection, activated sludge and trickling filters.
Prerequisites: CEE 2311
Corequisites: CEE 3500, CEE 3921
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

CEE 3401 - Structural Analysis

Description: Concepts of stability and determinacy; moment area, conjugate beam and energy principles; indeterminate analysis by method of consistent deformation, slope deflection, moment distribution, introduction to analysis software.
Prerequisites: CEE 2103
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

CEE 3412 - Structural Design

Description: Principles of design; behavior and design of reinforced concrete and structural steel members; design for tension, compression, shear, and moment; serviceability; use of ACI and AISC codes.
Prerequisites: CEE 3401
Corequisites: CEE 3912
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006

CEE 3500 - Fluid Mechanics

Description: Fluid properties; fluid statics, kinematics of flow; conservation of mass, energy and momentum; dynamic similiarity; fluid resistance, boundary layer theory, flow in conduits; lift and drag; potential flow; compressible flow.
Prerequisites: MAT 2500 and CEE 2104
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008

CEE 3511 - Hydraulic Egr & Hydrology

Description: Pressure conduits, water and wastewater transport, pumping; open channel flow, hydraulic structures; principles of hydrology.
Prerequisites: CEE 3500 and CEE 3704
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006

CEE 3704 - CE Numerical & Stat Analysis

Description: Development and application of probability and statistics for solving CE problems. Development and application of numerical algorithms for CE problems: root finding, simultaneous equations, curve fitting, interpolation, integration and differentiation.
Prerequisites: EGR 1611 or EGR 1705 or EGR 1705
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

CEE 3801 - Soil Mechanics

Description: Properties of soil as an engineering material, stresses in soil masses, consolidation and settlement, bearing capacity, seepage and soil stabilization.
Prerequisites: CEE 2103 and GLY 2805
Corequisites: CEE 3901
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006

CEE 3901 - Soil Mechanics Lab

Description: Soil classification; techniques for determining properties of soil and soil aggregate; case histories in geotechnical engineering. One period a week.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites: CEE 3801, CEE 3912
Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006

CEE 3902 - Civil Egr Materials

Description: Basic properties of civil engineering materials including steel, Portland cement concrete, asphalt binder and concrete, aggregates, wood, masonry, and composites.
Prerequisites: CEE 2103
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 2.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

CEE 3911 - Fluid Mechanics Lab

Description: Experiments and demonstrations illustrating principles of flow behavior including computer-aided analysis and interpretation.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites: CEE 3511
Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006

CEE 3912 - Structural Engineering Lab

Description: Experimental testing of structural steel and reinforced concrete including tension, compression, and flexural members; fabrication of a reinforced concrete beam; field trip to a local construction site.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites: CEE 3412, CEE 3901
Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006

CEE 3921 - Environmental Egr Lab

Description: Physical, chemical, and microbiological analyses of water and wastewater; quantitative analysis of several unit operations and processes for water and wastewater treatment plant design and control; field trips to water and wastewater processing facilities.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites: CEE 3321
Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

CEE 4224 - Trans Facilities Design

Description: (CEE Senior Elective) Engineering applications of transportation design process including design philosophies, environmental impact evaluations, materials design, pavement design, and design of highway, airport, rail facilities. Use of national and state codes and computer-based design software.
Prerequisites: CEE 2211 or CEE 3211 or CEE 2211
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

CEE 4235 - Advanced Trans Egr

Description: (Technical Elective) Fundamentals of urban traffic engineering, including data collection, analysis, and design. Traffic engineering studies, traffic control devices, capacity and level of service analysis of freeways and urban streets with software applications. Intelligent transportation systems.
Prerequisites: CEE 3211
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2005

CEE 4331 - Solid & Hazardous Waste

Description: (CEE Senior Elective) Solid waste generation, composition, collection, management and regulations; hazardous waste classification, regulation and management; air polution control methods.
Prerequisites: CEE 3321
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

CEE 4412 - Advanced Structural Egr

Description: (CEE Senior Elective) Advanced structural analysis techniques; advanced topics in design of structural steel and reinforced concrete; structural modeling, analysis, and design using commercial software packages; experimental verification of a structural design; research investigation involving an innovative construction material or structural component.
Prerequisites: CEE 3412
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

CEE 4521 - Water Resources Egr Design

Description: (CEE Senior Elective) Design fundamentals of hydrology and open channel hydraulics using production-level programs. Topics include design storms, storm water design and open-channel river modeling.
Prerequisites: CEE 3511 and CEE 3911
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

CEE 4601 - CEE Professional Practice

Description: Relationships among planning, design, and construction processes for civil engineering projects. Multidisciplinary team feasibility/alternative study focusing on conceptual design. Seminars on finding employment, graduate school, professional licensure and ethics.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

CEE 4606 - CEE Capstone Design Project

Description: Written and oral reports on a design project in one or more civil engineering disciplines. Prerequisites: CEE Senior elective in the specific discipline corrresponding to that design project.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006

CEE 4607 - Selected Topics in CEE

Description: Independent study or research on a current engineering topic. Prerequisites: Senior standing and permission of the chairperson.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008

CEE 4608 - Project & Constr Management

Description: (Technical Elective) Project scheduling, estimating, specifying, cost management, personnel management, logistical support, contracts and change orders. Interaction among clients, engineers, constructional organizations and regulatory agencies. Focus on sustainable design. Restricted to seniors in the College of Engineering.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007

CEE 4611 - Civ Engr Service Learning

Description: Service learning experience related to civil engineering. Mandatory weekly group meetings for preparation and reflection on service activities and their impacts. Consent of instructor required.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007

CEE 4612 - CEE Undergraduate Research

Description: (Technical Elective) Individual participation in modern analytical or experimental research activities under faculty supervision; required technical report and presentation at end of semester. Consent of department chair required.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008

CEE 4701 - Economy and Risk

Description: Value theory, interest formulas, equivalence calculations, inflation and taxes, comparison among alternatives; decision criteria, risk and uncertainty.
Prerequisites: CEE 3704
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006

CEE 4801 - Foundation Design

Description: (CEE Senior Elective) Soil testing, site investigation, design of both shallow and deep foundations.
Prerequisites: CEE 3801
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006