Undergraduate Courses Offered
Undergraduate Courses in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department are between the 1000 - 5000 levels
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This course presents the fundamentals of computer programming using the Python computer language. Topics include problem solving, programming, program development, and data structures with civil and environmental engineering applications.
Credit(s): 2
Orients students to programs of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, professional and academic advising, student services, professional societies, and engineering careers. Laboratory activities emphasize problem solving using computer applications, such as spreadsheets and the HP48 Scientific Calculator.
Credit(s): 0–1
Experience with a wide variety of common surveying equipment, including use and operation of levels, theodolites, total station equipment, and GPS. Prior to graduation, computer applications and field exercises prepare students for civil engineering employment early in their careers.
Credit(s): 0–3
This course introduces the computer-aided drafting environment, including hand CAD techniques, AutoCAD, Civil 3-D and Revit, and provides background in drafting theory and applications. Students prepare to employ creative thinking and graphical communication skills in team and workplace environments.
Credit(s): 0–2
This course provides hands-on experience in computer programming applications and numerical methods to perform practical tasks and solve civil and environmental engineering problems using the Python programming language. The course focuses on the problem-solving scenarios engineers commonly encounter.
Credit(s): 3
This course explores environmental microbiology foundations with emphasis on engineering applications. Topics include: metabolism, classification, growing and enumerating microorganisms, biogeochemical nutrient cycling, pathogens in environmental media, indicator organisms, water and wastewater treatment, and microbial ecology applications in treating hazardous pollutants.
Credit(s): 3
Introduces students to the field of environmental engineering, emphasizing design, ethics, and leadership in the environmental engineering profession. Emphasizes creative thinking, organizational skills, team work, professional ethics, and social responsibility.
Credit(s): 1
Classification of structural types and development of loads. Analysis of trusses, beams, frames, cables, and arches (determinate and indeterminate). Calculation of deflections using superposition, geometric and energy methods. Utilization of approximate methods to analyze large structures.
Credit(s): 3
This course explores the design of reinforced concrete structural elements, simple and continuous reinforced beams, columns, joints, and one-way slabs. Includes concrete materials laboratory.
Credit(s): 0–3
This course introduces the measurement of engineering properties of various civil engineering materials. It emphasizes load-deformation characteristics and failure modes of natural and fabricated materials. The required laboratory includes experiments on data collection, data analysis, interpretation and presentation of results.
Credit(s): 0–2
This laboratory teaches measurement of the mechanical behavior of civil engineering materials.
Credit(s): 1
Introduction to basic concepts of roadway geometric design, and intersection and highway capacity analysis. Other topics include: traffic flow characteristics, traffic studies, signal design, and transportation project evaluation.
Credit(s): 3
This study abroad course explores ancient and modern civil and environmental engineering, covering transportation, structural, geotechnical, environmental, and hydraulic disciplines. Through lectures, site visits, and hands-on projects, students gain practical knowledge of international engineering practices and cultural impacts.
Credit(s): 3
Provides a basic understanding of engineering hydrology through the hydrologic cycle, watershed characteristics, atmospheric water, rainfall-runoff processes, infiltration and evaporation, stream flow analysis, groundwater flow, and related designs.
Credit(s): 0–3
Explores fluid properties, hydrostatics, fluid dynamics similitude, energy and momentum principles, closed conduit flow, open channel flow, and flow measurement.
Credit(s): 3
Steady flow in open channel and closed circuits, nonuniform flow in open channels, combined energy losses in pipelines, and distribution in pipe networks. Includes laboratory and computer exercises in data collection, pipe networks, and unsteady and nonuniform flow.
Credit(s): 0–3
This course provides an introduction to environmental health, emphasizing relationships among environmental quality, public health, environmental and occupational health regulations, human health risk assessment, institutions, and engineered systems in environmental health management.
Credit(s): 0–3
Engineering analysis and design of processes for treatment of drinking water. Major topics include regulations; water quality evaluation; physical, chemical, and biological treatment systems; design of facilities for production and conveyance of drinking water; and management of residuals from water treatment facilities.
Credit(s): 0–3
Engineering analysis and process design for municipal and industrial wastewater. Major topics include water quality evaluation; physical, chemical, and biological treatment; design and analysis of wastewater collection systems; design of municipal and industrial wastewater reclamation facilities; and management of wastewater treatment residuals.
Credit(s): 3
Biological and environmental engineering students learn principles, concepts, modes, and methods of calculating heat and mass transfer. Emphasis is on contaminant and nutrient flux, their state transformations, and evaluating options for production, clean-up, and control of bio-environmental systems.
Credit(s): 3
Introduction to integrated management of municipal and industrial solid waste; household, commercial, and industrial hazardous waste; and resource recovery, recycling, and sustainability principles. Three lectures augmented by computer modeling and field trip experiences related to modern solid and hazardous waste management principles.
Credit(s): 3
This is the first of a three-semester senior design sequence focused on civil engineering project management, economics, and acquiring work. Students self-organize into teams to identify projects, draft proposals, and plan, schedule, and manage projects.
Credit(s): 2
Introduction to senior environmental engineering students' integrated design experience. Design project identified and proposal for its completion during the senior year is produced, under mentoring of course instructor. Emphasizes project identification, project scoping, manpower and materials budgeting, project scheduling, and completion of design proposal.
Credit(s): 1
This course provides an overview of municipal engineering, focusing on planning, design, construction, and maintenance of municipal infrastructure. Topics include water supply, wastewater, stormwater, transportation systems, land development, urban planning, zoning, legal aspects, and public involvement.
Credit(s): 3
This course consists of applications of the mathematics of finance, statistics, and probability to engineering decision making. It should be taken during the junior year of the engineering curriculum.
Credit(s): 3
This course explores the physical and mechanical properties of soils. Topics include: classification, permeability, soil stresses and settlement analysis, soil strength, slope stability, lateral earth pressures, introduction to foundations, numerical solutions, and computer applications.
Credit(s): 0–4
Second semester of three-semester design sequence. Teams work on projects they proposed in Engineering Design I. Emphasizes teamwork, project management, scheduling, design calculations, communication, presentations, progress toward completing project report.
Credit(s): 2
Completion of three-semester sequence. Teams complete professionally-reviewed design projects proposed in Engineering Design I, and begun in Design II, and submit professional reports. Emphasizes teamwork, project management, scheduling, design calculations, evaluation criteria, presentations peer-review, response to technical review.
Credit(s): 2