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CE 5 - Refresher Course for Civil Engineers
(0 cr; Prereq-BCE or equivalent degree or completion of Parts I and II of the State Board Examination; S-N or Audit; offered Every Spring; 2 academic progress units; 2 financial aid progress units)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5 until 17-JAN-17
Review of civil engineering fundamentals required to pass the Minnesota Professional Engineering Examination in civil engineering.
CE 1101 - Orientation to Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering
(1 cr; Prereq-Lower div; S-N or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 1101 until 13-MAY-24
Introduction to civil, environmental, geo-engineering practice. Presentations made by faculty members/professional engineers, followed by discussion on topics related to future challenges.
CE 3101 - Computer Applications in Civil Engineering I
(3 cr; Prereq-MATH 1272, PHYS 1301, CSE; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 3101 until 13-MAY-24
Computer tools, computational methods for solving civil engineering problems. Spreadsheets, Visual Basic, Matlab. Solving systems of linear/nonlinear equations, engineering model fitting, numerical differentiation/integration, numerical solution of ordinary and partial differential equations.
CE 3102 - Uncertainty and Decision Analysis in Civil Engineering
(3 cr; Prereq-MATH 1372 or equiv; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 3102 until 13-MAY-24
Stochastic models, their usefulness in reasoning about uncertainty in civil engineering. Techniques for identifying, fitting, validating models using data samples. Testing hypotheses about, bounding uncertainty attached to, engineering parameters. Branches of civil engineering.
CE 3111 - CADD for Civil Engineers
(2 cr; Prereq-3201; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4111 until 13-MAY-24, was CEGE 3111 until 13-MAY-24
Introduction to AutoCAD and land development desktop software. Students complete all tasks to design two-lane roadway using civil engineering design software, including topography, plan/profile, contours, cross sections, and quantity calculations.
CE 3201 - Transportation Engineering
(3 cr; Prereq-PHYS 1301, 3101, 3102; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 3201 until 13-MAY-24
Applying laws of motion to vehicle performance, determining constraints for highway designs. Traffic flow principles, their relation to capacity and level of service. Geometric design, pavement design, transportation planning.
CE 3202 - Surveying and Mapping
(2 cr; Prereq-MATH 1271, MATH 1272], [CSE or Construction Mgmt]; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Summer)
Equivalent courses: was CMGT 3202 until 03-SEP-24, was CEGE 3202 until 03-SEP-24
Theory of precision measurements of distance, elevation, angle, and direction of points/lines above, on, or beneath earth's surface. Establishing such points/lines. Elements of coordinate systems, datum planes, and maps.
CE 3301 - Soil Mechanics I
(3 cr; Prereq-CSE, AEM 3031; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 3301 until 13-MAY-24, was GEOE 3301 until 07-SEP-99
Index properties and soil classification. Effective stress. Permeability and seepage. Elasticity theory. One-dimensional compression and consolidation; settlements. Compaction; cut and fill problems.
CE 3401 - Linear Structural Analysis
(3 cr; Prereq-Grade of at least C- in AEM 3031, CSE; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 3401 until 13-MAY-24
Analysis of determinate/indeterminate trusses and frames and of deformation by virtual work. Application of energy, slope-deflection, and moment distribution methods to indeterminate structures. Influence lines. Design.
CE 3402W - Civil Engineering Materials [WI]
(3 cr; Prereq-Grade of at least C- in [AEM 3031 or BBE 3001], IT; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 3402 until 13-MAY-24, was CEGE 3402W until 08-SEP-20, was CE 3402 until 07-SEP-10
Concepts of behavior mechanisms for civil engineering materials such as concrete, metals, asphalt, plastics, and wood. Standard specifications for material properties. Techniques for testing.
CE 3501 - Environmental Engineering [ENV]
(3 cr; Prereq-Chem 1022, Phys 1302; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 3501 until 13-MAY-24
Introduction to environmental engineering. Quantitative approach to environmental problems. Scientific background for understanding roles of engineers and scientists.
CE 3502 - Fluid Mechanics
(4 cr; Prereq-[AEM 2012 or AEM 3031], Math 2373, [CSE or ForP major]; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 3502 until 13-MAY-24
Fluid statics/dynamics. Kinematics of fluid flow, equations of motion, pressure-velocity relationships, viscous effects, boundary layers. Momentum/energy equations. Lift/drag. Flow in pipes and pipe systems. Hydraulic machinery. Fluid measurements.
CE 3541 - Environmental Engineering Laboratory
(3 cr; Prereq-3501; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 3541 until 13-MAY-24
Experiments focused on physical, chemical, microbiological measurements used in analysis of air, water, solid samples. Applications to water treatment, waste water treatment, hazardous waste treatment/remediation, air pollution, environmental sensing.
CE 4000H - Honors Research Seminar
(1 cr; Prereq-Upper div CE; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 2 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4000H until 05-SEP-23, GEOE 4000H (inactive), CEGE 4000H (inactive, was CE 4000H until 08-SEP-15)
Research seminars in civil and geological engineering given by faculty members and visiting scholars.
CE 4011 - Special Topics (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 4]; Prereq-Upper div CSE; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 3 times)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4160 until 19-MAY-25, was CEGE 4011 until 17-MAY-21, CEGE 4160 (ending 26-MAY-15, was CEGE 4011 until 17-MAY-21, was CE 4011 until 08-SEP-15)
Topics/credits vary.
CE 4092H - Honors Selected Reading (independent study)
(1 cr; Prereq-Upper div CE, honors; A-F only; offered Every Fall; may be repeated for 2 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4092H until 05-SEP-17, GEOE 4092H (inactive), CEGE 4092H (inactive, ending 20-JAN-15, was CE 4092H until 08-SEP-15)
Selected readings, student presentations.
CE 4094H - Senior Honors Thesis (independent study)
(2 cr; Prereq-Upper div CE; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4094H until 16-MAY-22, CEGE 4094H (inactive, ending 20-JAN-15, was CE 4094H until 08-SEP-15), GEOE 4094H (inactive)
Writing thesis under direction of CE faculty member.
CE 4102W - Capstone Design for Civil Engineering [WI]
(4 cr; Prereq-4301, 4401, 4501, 4502; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4102W until 13-MAY-24, was CE 4102 until 05-SEP-00
Teams formulate/solve civil engineering problems. From conceptual stage through preliminary planning, public hearings, design, environmental impact statements, final plans/specifications, and award of contracts.
CE 4121 - Computer Applications in Civil Engineering II
(3 cr; Prereq-3101, MATH 2243, MATH 2263, [CE or upper div GeoE]; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4121 until 13-MAY-24, was GEOE 4121 until 07-SEP-99
Advanced application of computer tools/methods in solving ordinary/partial differential equations from civil engineering problems. Spreadsheet, MatLab programming. Methods may include finite differences, boundary element, finite element, and control volume finite element.
CE 4170 - Independent Study I
(1 cr [max 4]; Prereq-instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall; may be repeated for 4 credits)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4170 until 08-SEP-15
Special studies in planning, designing, or analyzing civil engineering systems. Lab problems, literature studies, or reports supervised by staff.
CE 4180 - Independent Study II
(1 cr [max 4]; Prereq-instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 4 credits; may be repeated 4 times)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4180 until 08-SEP-15
Special studies in the planning, design, or analysis of civil engineering systems. Individual lab research problems, literature studies, reports. Supervised by staff.
CE 4190 - Engineering Co-op Assignment
(2 cr [max 6]; Prereq-Upper div CE, approval of department co-op director; S-N or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 6 credits)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4190 until 06-SEP-22
Formal written report of work during six-month professional assignment.
CE 4194H - Senior Honors Thesis (independent study)
(2 cr; Prereq-Upper div CE; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4194H until 03-SEP-19, GEOE 4194H (inactive), CEGE 4194H (inactive, ending 20-JAN-15, was CE 4194H until 08-SEP-15)
Writing thesis under direction of CE faculty member.
CE 4201 - Highway Design
(3 cr; Prereq-CE or upper div GeoE or grad, 3202, 3201 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4201 until 05-SEP-23
Vertical and horizontal alignment, earthwork computations, highway capacity, forecast of traffic volume demand, impact of vehicle type on geometric design, intersection design.
CE 4211 - Traffic Engineering
(3 cr; Prereq-3201 or Stat 3021 or equiv; Student Option; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4211 until 05-SEP-23
Principles of vehicle/driver performance as they apply to safe/efficient operation of highways. Design/use of traffic control devices. Capacity/level of service. Trip generation, traffic impact analysis. Safety/traffic studies.
CE 4251 - Pavement Analysis, Design, and Rehabilitation
(4 cr; Prereq-[3201, 3301, 3402, upper div CSE] or grad student or instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4251 until 21-JAN-20
Concepts/principles in rigid/flexible pavement design. Traffic loads, soil considerations, material characteristics for highway/airfield pavement design. Rehabilitating flexible/rigid pavement systems.
CE 4253 - Pavement Engineering and Management
(3 cr; Prereq-[3201, 3301, 3402, upper div CSE] or grad student or instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4253 until 13-MAY-24
History of road construction. Asphalt pavement. Portland cement concrete pavement construction. Construction technologies. Maintaining flexible/rigid pavement systems. Manual/automated assessment. Definitions of performance. Optimization.
CE 4301 - Soil Mechanics II
(3 cr; Prereq-[[3301 or GEOE 3301], upper div CSE] or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4301 until 05-SEP-17, GEOE 4301 (inactive, starting 18-JAN-00), GEOE 4301 (inactive), CEGE 4301 (starting 16-JAN-01, was CE 4301 until 08-SEP-15)
Traction and stress. Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion. Experiments on soil strength. Earth pressure theories, rigid/flexible retaining walls. Stability of slopes. Bearing capacity of foundations.
CE 4311 - Rock Mechanics
(4 cr; Prereq-3301 or GeoE 3301 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4311 until 05-SEP-17, was GEOE 4311 until 07-SEP-99
Site investigation/classification. In-situ stresses. Strength/failure criteria of rock/interfaces. Stereographic projections. Kinematic analysis of rock slopes. Block size/stability. Reinforcement. Methods of stress analysis. Pillar design, stiffness effects. Elastoplastic analysis. Rock-support interaction. Numerical modeling of support systems. Lab testing of rock.
CE 4351 - Groundwater Mechanics
(3 cr; Prereq-[3502, [upper div CSE or grad student]] or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4351 until 03-SEP-19, was GEOE 4351 until 07-SEP-99, GEOE 4351 (inactive), CEGE 4351 (starting 07-SEP-99, was CE 4351 until 08-SEP-15, was GEOE 4351 until 07-SEP-99)
Shallow confined, unconfined, and sem-confined flows. Flow in two coupled aquifers separated by leaky layers. Transient flow. Flow toward wells. Streamlines/pathlines in two/three dimensions. Contaminant transport. Elementary computer modeling.
CE 4352 - Groundwater Modeling
(3 cr; Prereq-[4351, GEOE 4351, [upper div CSE or grad student]] or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4352 until 16-JAN-18, was GEOE 4352 until 07-SEP-99, CEGE 4352 (starting 07-SEP-99, was CE 4352 until 08-SEP-15, was GEOE 4352 until 07-SEP-99), GEOE 4352 (inactive)
Analytic element method. Mathematical/computer modeling of single/multiple aquifer systems. Groundwater recovery. Field problems. Theory/application of simple contaminant transport models, including capture zone analysis.
CE 4401 - Steel and Reinforced Concrete Design
(4 cr; Prereq-Grade of at least C- in 3401, concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 3402, [upper div CSE or grad student]; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4401 until 16-JAN-18
Limit-states design. Steel: tension, compression, flexure, combined compression/flexure, connections. Concrete: beams in flexure/shear, one-way slabs, T-beams, development length, serviceability.
CE 4411 - Matrix Structural Analysis
(3 cr; Prereq-[Grade of at least C- in [3101, 3401] or in a CSci programming course], [upper div CSE or grad student]] or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4411 until 05-SEP-17
Analysis of linear structural systems by matrix methods, stiffness, and flexibility methods. Introduction to computerized structural analysis of trusses/frames, including coding in programming language.
CE 4412 - Reinforced Concrete Design II
(3 cr; Prereq-[Grade of at least C- in 4401, [upper div CSE or grad student]] or instr consent; 4411 recommended; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4412 until 05-SEP-17
Advanced design of reinforced concrete structures: footings, retaining walls, columns with slenderness effects and biaxial loading, torsion, continuous systems, two-way floor systems.
CE 4413 - Steel Design II
(3 cr; Prereq-[Grade of at least C- in 4401, [upper div CSE or grad student]] or instr consent; 4411 recommended; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4413 until 05-SEP-17
Design of steel and composite steel/concrete structures, including multistory frames and plate-girders bridges. Beam-columns, torsion, connections, frames.
CE 4501 - Hydrologic Design
(4 cr; Prereq-3502; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4501 until 16-OCT-18
Hydrologic cycle: precipitation, evaporation, infiltration runoff. Flood routing through rivers and reservoirs. Statistical analysis of hydrologic data and estimation of design flows. Open channel flow, flow through conduits. Detention basin design, hydraulic structure sizing, estimation of risk of flooding.
CE 4502 - Water and Wastewater Treatment
(3 cr; Prereq-3501 or CHEN 2001; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4502 until 03-SEP-19
Theory of chemical, physical, and biological processes in treating water and wastewater. Sequencing of processes. Design of treatment facilities. Impact on society.
CE 4511 - Hydraulic Structures
(3 cr; Prereq-4501; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4511 until 13-MAY-24
Hydraulic design procedures for culverts, dams, spillways, outlet works, and river control works. Drop structures, water intakes, bridge crossings. Offered alt yrs.
CE 4512 - Open Channel Hydraulics
(4 cr; Prereq-CSE or grad, 3502 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4512 until 05-SEP-23
Theories of flow in open channels, including gradually varied and rapidly varied flows, steady and unsteady flows. Computational methods for unsteady open channel flows, applications to flood routing. Introduction to moveable bed mechanics.
CE 4561 - Solid Hazardous Wastes
(3 cr; Prereq-CSE or grad, Chem 1022, 3501 or instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4561 until 16-JAN-18
Solid and hazardous waste characterization; regulatory legislation; waste minimization; resource recovery; chemical, physical, and biological treatment; thermal processes; disposal practices. Analysis and design of systems for treatment and disposal.
CE 4562 - Environmental Remediation Technology
(3 cr; Prereq-[3501, 4501] or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4562 until 07-SEP-21
Technologies designed for removal of pollutants from groundwater and soils. Advances in technological design. Emerging technologies such as in situ bioremediation, phytoremediation. Role of environmental biotechnology in pollution abatement.
CE 5094 - Civil Engineering Research
(1 cr [max 4]; Prereq-instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 4 credits; may be repeated 4 times)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5094 until 08-SEP-20
Research or independent study in concrete, structural steel, soils, hydraulics, hydrology/municipal, environmental, or transportational problems. Investigations, reports, tests, designs.
CE 5180 - Special Topics (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 4]; Prereq-instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 4 credits; may be repeated 3 times)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5180 until 19-MAY-25
Topics vary depending on faculty and student interests.
CE 5211 - Traffic Engineering
(3 cr; Prereq-3201, Stat 3021 or equiv; Student Option; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5211 until 05-SEP-23
Principles of vehicle and driver performance as they apply to the safe and efficient operation of highways. Design and use of traffic control devices. Capacity and level of service. Trip generation and traffic impact analysis. Safety and traffic studies.
CE 5212 - Transportation Policy, Planning, and Deployment
(4 cr; Prereq-3201 or equiv; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5212 until 05-SEP-17, CEGE 5212 (starting 02-SEP-08, was CE 5212 until 08-SEP-15), PA 5232 (starting 02-SEP-08)
Techniques of analysis and planning for transportation services. Demand-supply interactions. Evaluating transportation alternatives. Travel demand forecasting. Integrated model systems. Citizen participation in decision-making.
CE 5213 - Transit Planning and Management
(3 cr; Prereq-CE Jr, Sr, CE Grad student or instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5213 until 08-SEP-20
Principles/techniques related to transit systems. Historical perspective, characteristics of travel demand, demand management. Evaluating/benchmarking system performance. Transit-oriented development. Analyzing alternative transit modes. System design/finance. Case studies, field projects.
CE 5214 - Transportation Systems Analysis
(4 cr; Prereq-3201; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5214 until 06-SEP-22
Systems approach, its application to transportation engineering/planning. Prediction of flows and level of service. Production functions, cost optimization, utility theory, demand modeling, transportation network analysis, equilibrium assignment, decision analysis, multidimensional evaluation of transportation projects.
CE 5253 - Asphalt and Portland Cement Concrete Materials
(4 cr; Prereq-[3402, upper div CSE] or grad student or instr consent; Student Option; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5253 until 20-MAY-19
Cement chemistry. Materials for and design of Portland cement concrete mixtures. Mixture design, short-/long-term behavior. Admixtures, fiber reinforcement. Effects of proportionment. Bituminous materials. Asphalt cement, rheology, emulsions, chip seals, hot mix asphalt, viscoelastic characterization.
CE 5341 - Wave Methods for Nondestructive Testing
(4 cr; Prereq-[AEM 2021, AEM 3031] or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5341 until 04-SEP-18, was CE 5431 until 21-JAN-03
Introduction to contemporary methods for nondestructive characterization of objects of civil infrastructure (e.g., highways, bridges, geotechnical sites). Imaging technologies based on propagation of elastic waves such as ultrasonic/resonant frequency methods, seismic surveys, and acoustic emission monitoring. Lecture, lab.
CE 5351 - Advanced Mathematics for Civil Engineers
(3 cr; Prereq-[[Math 2263 or Math 2374 or equiv], [sr or grad student] in civil engineering]] or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5351 until 05-SEP-17
Emphasizes skills relevant for civil engineers. Mathematical principles explained in an engineering setting. Applications from various areas in civil engineering.
CE 5411 - Applied Structural Mechanics
(3 cr; Prereq-[Upper div CSE or grad student] or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5411 until 05-SEP-17
Principal stresses and failure criteria in 3 dimensions. Introduction to plane elasticity, energy methods, torsion of beams, and bending of unsymmetrical beams.
CE 5414 - Prestressed Concrete Design
(3 cr; Prereq-[Grade of at least C- in 4401, [upper div CSE or grad student]] or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5414 until 05-SEP-17, was CE 4414 until 19-JAN-10, was CE 5412 until 17-JAN-06
Design of prestressed concrete structures. Time dependent effects, behavior, flexure, shear, torsion, deflections, continuous systems.
CE 5415 - Masonry Structures
(3 cr; Prereq-[Grade of at least C- in 3401, [upper div CSE or grad student]] or instr consent; 4401 recommended; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5415 until 03-SEP-24, was CE 4415 until 19-JAN-10, was CE 5413 until 17-JAN-06
Masonry materials and their production. Mortars, grouts. Design of unreinforced, reinforced, and prestressed masonry structural systems. Walls, columns, lintels, arches. Codes/specifications, testing, inspection.
CE 5511 - Urban Hydrology and Land Development
(4 cr; Prereq-CE 4501; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5511 until 03-SEP-19
Urban hydrology for small watersheds and the management of storm water quality and quantity.
CE 5541 - Environmental Water Chemistry
(3 cr; Prereq-3501, Chem 1021, Chem 1022; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall; may be repeated for 4 credits)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5541 until 07-SEP-21, was CE 4541 until 04-SEP-01
Introduction to water chemistry. Physical chemical principles, geochemical processes controlling chemical composition of waters, behavior of contaminants that affect the suitability of water for beneficial uses.
CE 5542 - Experimental Methods in Environmental Engineering
(3 cr; Prereq-3501, Chem 1021, Chem 1022; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5542 until 08-SEP-20
Tools necessary to conduct research in environmental engineering and chemistry. Theory of operation of analytical equipment. Sampling and data handling methods, statistical analyses, experimental design, laboratory safety. Lecture, laboratory.
CE 5543 - Introductory Environmental Fluid Mechanics
(4 cr; Prereq-3502 or AEM 4201 or ChEn 3005; A-F or Audit; offered Fall Odd Year)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5543 until 13-MAY-24
Divergence theorem, Convective flux, Mass conservation, Biological reactions, Random walk and diffusive flux, Receptors and channels, Momentum conservation, Navier-Stokes equations, Boundary layer, Chemotaxis, Phototaxis, Shear dispersion, Turbulent flows.
CE 5551 - Environmental Microbiology
(3 cr; Prereq-[Upper div or grad] student; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5551 until 05-SEP-17, was CE 4551 until 16-JAN-01
Role of microorganisms in environmental bioremediation, pollution control, water/wastewater treatment, biogeochemistry, and human health. Lecture.
CE 5552 - Environmental Microbiology Laboratory
(1 cr; Prereq-5551 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 5551; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5552 until 16-JAN-18
Basic microbiological techniques: isolation, identification/enumeration of bacteria, BOD, biodegradable kinetics, disinfection. Lab.
CE 5561 - Air Quality Engineering
(3 cr; Prereq-Grad student in engineering or instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5561 until 16-JAN-18
Introduction to air pollution problems/solutions, local to global. Quantitative analysis of chemistry and physics of atmospheric pollutants. Sources, sinks, and controls; atmospheric transport and transformation; air quality management and regulation; health impacts; global issues.
CE 5570 - Design for Sustainable Development: Discovery
(3 cr [max 9]; Prereq-Juniors or seniors with minimum 3.0 GPA or grad student; A-F only; offered Every Fall; may be repeated for 9 credits)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5570 until 17-JAN-23
Intensive, experiential learning opportunity on infrastructure, development, environment issues in Delhi, India.
CE 5571 - Acara Global Venture Design: Grand Challenges [GP]
(3 cr [max 4]; Prereq-instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 8 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5571 until 16-JAN-18
Project-based course focused on designing venture solutions to global grand challenges related to environment, health, development. Identify specific social-environmental problem. Design financially-viable venture solution. Collaborate with professional mentors/technical experts. Create venture plan, may pitch for funding. Course is part of Acara program.
CE 5572 - Acara Social Venture Launchpad: Ideas to Impact
(1 cr [max 2]; Prereq-instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Spring; may be repeated for 4 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5572 until 16-JAN-18
Project-based Acara entrepreneurship course in which students refine existing venture solutions to social-environmental challenges. Students work on business model/develop effective pitch. Teams interact with entrepreneurs, investors/Acara staff.
CE 5573 - Design for Sustainable Development: Create II
(1 cr [max 5]; S-N only; offered Every Spring; may be repeated for 10 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 5573 until 16-JAN-18
Weekly discussion on social or environmental venture.
CE 8022 - Numerical Methods for Free and Moving Boundary Problems
(3 cr; Prereq-8401 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8022 until 08-SEP-15
Examples of free and moving boundary problems: metal solidification, filling, polymer molding, flow in porous media, ground freezing. Solutions: analytical, fixed finite difference, fixed finite element, front tracking schemes, general deforming finite element methods.
CE 8094 - Civil Engineering Research
(1 cr [max 4]; Prereq-instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 12 times)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8094 until 21-JAN-20
Research or independent study in concrete, structural steel, soils, hydraulics, hydrology, and municipal, environmental, or transportational problems. Investigations, reports, tests, or designs.
CE 8200 - Seminar: Transportation
(1 cr; S-N or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 3 credits; may be repeated 3 times)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8200 until 05-SEP-23
Content depends on instructor and student. Sample topics: traffic safety, traffic flow theory, transportation materials, transportation planning, transportation economics.
CE 8202 - Networks and Places: Transportation, Land Use, and Design
(4 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8202 until 23-MAY-16, PA 8202 (inactive, starting 08-SEP-15), CEGE 8202 (inactive, was CE 8202 until 08-SEP-15), PA 5234
Relationship between land use and transportation. Developing synthetic design skills for linking land use transportation in urban/regional settlements. Economic, political, legal, institutional frameworks for planning. Parallel computer lab, practicum assignment.
CE 8211 - Theory of Traffic Flow
(4 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8211 until 08-SEP-15
Definitions/measurements of basic traffic flow parameters, fundamental relationships. Macroscopic continuum and microscopic traffic flow models. Schockwaves and applications. Flow, speed, headway, and other statistical distributions of traffic parameters. Gap availability/acceptance. Simulation of traffic flow. Traffic control theory, queuing theory, applications.
CE 8212 - Advanced Travel Demand Modeling and Supply Analysis
(3 cr; Prereq-5211 or equiv, Stat 3021; Student Option; offered Fall Odd, Spring Even Year)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8212 until 08-SEP-15
Application of random utility theory to model travel demand; deterministic and stochastic trip assignment; network design problems; transportation planning software.
CE 8213 - Advanced Transportation Technologies Seminar
(1 cr; S-N or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8213 until 17-JAN-23, ME 8772, CEGE 8213 (inactive, was CE 8213 until 08-SEP-15)
Advantaged technologies specifically related to transportation. Topics drawn from core science/technology areas of human factors, intelligent vehicles, traffic modeling/management, sensing, communications, and controls.
CE 8214 - Transportation Economics
(4 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8214 until 08-SEP-15
Application of microeconomic theory to transportation. Demand/demand estimation, cost/cost estimation, pricing/investment, regulation/deregulation. Urban/intercity passenger transportation, freight transportation.
CE 8215 - Transportation Data Analysis
(3 cr; Prereq-[8210 or 8211], [STAT 5021 or equiv]; Student Option; offered Spring Even Year)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8215 until 08-SEP-15
Maximum likelihood methods for generalized linear models, with logit/probit models. Linear regression as special cases. Applications to gap acceptance, discrete choice, speed/headway distributions, accident modeling. Introduction to Bayesian inference.
CE 8216 - Urban Traffic Operations
(3 cr; Student Option)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8216 until 08-SEP-15
Capacity analysis techniques for urban streets, optimal traffic signal timing, coordination, real time control. Traffic signal hardware, including detectors/controllers. Operational techniques for traffic management. Use of computer program packages in traffic engineering practice. Freeway operations/control.
CE 8217 - Transportation Network Analysis
(4 cr; A-F only; offered Fall Odd Year)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8217 until 08-SEP-15
Concepts/tools for transportation system and network analysis. Analytical models, algorithms for formation/solution of equilibrium assignment problem for transportation networks. Static/dynamic user equilibrium traffic assignments. System optimal, stochastic user equilibrium, traffic paradox. Linear/nonlinear programming, variational inequalities.
CE 8231 - Advanced Pavement Engineering
(3 cr; Prereq-4231 or instr consent; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8231 until 06-SEP-22
Advanced concepts in pavement analysis and design; computation of stresses and strains in flexible and rigid pavement systems; review of Boussinesq theory, Burmeister model, and Westergaard model; load transfer in rigid pavements; temperature induced stresses; mechanics of drainage.
CE 8233 - Advanced Bituminous Materials Characterization
(3 cr; Prereq-[3402, grad student] or instr consent; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8233 until 18-JAN-22
Applications of viscoelasticity, rheology, elastoplasticity, and fracture mechanics to bituminous materials characterization. Lectures, discussions of advanced research reading assignments, laboratory assignments.
CE 8300 - Seminar: Geomechanics
(1 cr [max 3]; S-N or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 4 credits; may be repeated 4 times)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8300 until 18-JAN-22, was GEOE 8300 until 22-JAN-02, was GEOE 8300 until 07-SEP-99, CEGE 8300 (starting 22-JAN-02, was CE 8300 until 08-SEP-15, was GEOE 8300 until 22-JAN-02, was CE 8300 until 22-JAN-02, was GEOE 8300 until 07-SEP-99), GEOE 8300 (inactive)
Presentations on various topics.
CE 8301 - Fracture of Geomaterials
(3 cr; Prereq-CSE grad student, 5321, GeoE 5321 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8301 until 17-JAN-23, was GEOE 8301 until 07-SEP-99, CEGE 8301 (inactive, starting 07-SEP-99, was CE 8301 until 08-SEP-15, was GEOE 8301 until 07-SEP-99), GEOE 8301 (inactive)
Crack tip stress and displacement fields; stress intensity factors. Energy principles of fracture; compliance method. Process zone models. J integral. Mixed-mode fracture. Behavior of cracked solids. Numerical and experimental approaches.
CE 8302 - Soil/Rock Plasticity and Limit Analysis
(4 cr; Prereq-CSE grad student, CE 4300 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Spring Even Year)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8302 until 17-JAN-23, was GEOE 8302 until 07-SEP-99
Plasticity of soils and rocks. Yield conditions, flow rules. Theorems of limit analysis. Static solutions, method of characteristics. Kinematic solutions, hodograph. Energy balance. Applications to soil/rock engineering problems.
CE 8311 - Advanced Rock Mechanics
(3 cr; Prereq-CSE grad student, 4311 or GeoE 4311 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8311 until 17-JAN-23, was GEOE 8311 until 07-SEP-99, GEOE 8311 (inactive), CEGE 8311 (inactive, starting 07-SEP-99, was CE 8311 until 08-SEP-15, was GEOE 8311 until 07-SEP-99)
Stress transformations; principal stresses and directions. Friction and behavior of rock joints; stability of frictional sliding. Elastic waves; acoustic emission and seismic measurements. Fragmentation and rock breakage.
CE 8321 - Thermoporoelasticity
(4 cr; Prereq-CSE grad student, 5321 or GeoE 5321 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8321 until 08-SEP-15, was GEOE 8321 until 07-SEP-99, GEOE 8321 (inactive), CEGE 8321 (starting 07-SEP-99, was CE 8321 until 08-SEP-15, was GEOE 8321 until 07-SEP-99)
Micro-mechanical description of porous media. Thermodynamics foundations. Linear theory of thermoporoelasticity: constitutive, transport, and balance laws; field equations. Determination of material constants. Singular solutions. Methods of solution: integral transform, method of singularities, finite and boundary element method.
CE 8322 - Storage and Flow of Granular Materials
(3 cr; Prereq-CSE grad student, 4301 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8322 until 06-SEP-22, was GEOE 8322 until 07-SEP-99
Plasticity of granular media. Static and dynamic method of slices. Storage and flow of granular materials in bins and hoppers. Stress concentrations, arching, piping. Experiments on granular material properties and flow.
CE 8331 - Modeling Geomechanical Processes
(3 cr; Prereq-CSE grad student, 5321 or GeoE 5321; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8331 until 17-JAN-23, was GEOE 8331 until 07-SEP-99, GEOE 8331 (inactive), CEGE 8331 (inactive, starting 07-SEP-99, was CE 8331 until 08-SEP-15, was GEOE 8331 until 07-SEP-99)
Data-limited nature of problems in geomechanics. Dimensional analysis. Regimes of solution. Similarity of solutions. Elements of fracture mechanics, elastoplasticity, poroelasticity. Applications to stability of underground excavations, fluid flow in fracture, tool-rock interaction, hydraulic fracturing.
CE 8333 - FTE: Master's
(1 cr; Prereq-Master's student, adviser and DGS consent; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; 6 academic progress units; 6 financial aid progress units)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8333 until 08-SEP-15
(No description)
CE 8336 - Boundary Element Methods I
(3 cr; Prereq-CSE grad student; A-F or Audit; offered Fall Even Year)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8336 until 08-SEP-15, was GEOE 8336 until 07-SEP-99, CEGE 8336 (starting 07-SEP-99, was CE 8336 until 08-SEP-15, was GEOE 8336 until 07-SEP-99), GEOE 8336 (inactive)
Introduction to boundary element methods for elastostatics; stress discontinuity, displacement discontinuity, and direct boundary integral methods. Derivation of basic mathematical solutions from the theory of elasticity. Applications in geomechanics.
CE 8337 - Boundary Element Methods II
(3 cr; Prereq-8336, GeoE 8336 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8337 until 17-JAN-23, was GEOE 8337 until 07-SEP-99, CEGE 8337 (inactive, starting 07-SEP-99, was CE 8337 until 08-SEP-15, was GEOE 8337 until 07-SEP-99), GEOE 8337 (inactive)
Transient and nonlinear problems.
CE 8341 - Dynamics of Soils and Foundations
(4 cr; Prereq-Basic courses in soil machanics/dynamics or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8341 until 19-JAN-16
Vibration or single-/multi-degree-of-freedom systems. Dynamic soil properties. Wave propagation in continuous media. Foundation dynamics. Liquefaction. Introduction to seismology/earthquakes.
CE 8351 - Analytical modeling in Civil Engineering
(3 cr; Prereq-[4351 or GeoE 4351], [CSE grad student or instr consent]; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8351 until 22-JAN-19, was GEOE 8351 until 07-SEP-99
Two-dimensional problems. Boundary integrals. Theorems of Gauss, Stokes, Green. Superposition of solutions. Boundary integral equation method. Analytic element method. Laplace's equation. Biharmonic equation. Modified Helmholtz equation. Diffusion equation.
CE 8352 - Advanced Groundwater Mechanics II
(3 cr; Prereq-4351, CSE grad student or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8352 until 08-SEP-15, was GEOE 8352 until 07-SEP-99, GEOE 8352 (inactive), CEGE 8352 (starting 07-SEP-99, was CE 8352 until 08-SEP-15, was GEOE 8352 until 07-SEP-99)
Applying complex methods, including conformal mapping, in groundwater mechanics; solving problems with free boundaries using the hodograph method; drains in aquifers with free boundaries; superposition of solutions with drains; singular Cauchy integrals; boundary elements.
CE 8361 - Engineering Model Fitting
(3 cr; Prereq-CSE grad student or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Fall Even Year)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8361 until 17-JAN-23, was GEOE 8361 until 07-SEP-99
Parameter estimation and inverse modeling for civil and geological engineering. Formulating engineering model fitting problems; comparing and selecting various fit criteria; implementing numerical algorithms; analyzing and interpreting results using both statistical and qualitative tools; designing future measurement plans.
CE 8400 - Seminar: Structures
(1 cr; S-N or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 3 credits; may be repeated 3 times)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8400 until 08-SEP-15
Content depends on instructor and student. Sample topics: theory of elasticity, optimization, reliability, wave propagation, soil dynamics, experimental equipment, wind forces on structures, structural failures, modern construction practices.
CE 8401 - Fundamentals of Finite Element Method
(3 cr; Prereq-4411 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8401 until 08-SEP-15
Elements of calculus of variations; weak and strong formulations of linear continuum and structural problems. Isoparametric elements and numerical integration. Basic concepts of error analysis and convergence. Analysis of plates and shells. Introduction to mixed methods and time dependent problems.
CE 8402 - Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis
(3 cr; Prereq-8401 or instr consent; offered alt yrs; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8402 until 08-SEP-15
Large strains and work conjugate stresses. Equilibrium and principle of virtual work for nonlinear problems. Nonlinear elasticity and plasticity. Finite element discretization and nonlinear algebraic equations. Linearization and solution algorithms for nonlinear problems. Structural stability.
CE 8411 - Plate Structures
(3 cr; Prereq-5411 or instr consent; offered alt yrs; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8411 until 08-SEP-15
Analysis of plate structures based on the small-deflection elastic Kirchhoff-Love theory. Classical and numerical analysis methods. Skew and orthotropic plate structures. Elements of large deflection theory and stability of plates.
CE 8412 - Shell Structures
(3 cr; Prereq-CSE grad or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8412 until 08-SEP-15
Static analysis of thin elastic shells based on Love's postulates. Membrane and bending theories. Thermal stresses in cylinders. Buckling of shells of revolution. Offered alternate years.
CE 8413 - Fracture and Scaling
(3 cr; Prereq-5411; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8413 until 08-SEP-15
Linear elastic fracture mechanics, cohesive fracture, scaling, strength statistics.
CE 8421 - Structural Dynamics
(3 cr; Prereq-[3401, AEM 2012] or instr consent; concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 4411 recommended; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8421 until 08-SEP-15
Response of discrete/continuous systems to dynamic loading. Formulation/solution of problems of one or more degrees of freedom. Modal analysis. Numerical integration and transform techniques. Response of dynamic systems to base motion using response spectrum methods.
CE 8422 - Earthquake Engineering
(3 cr; Prereq-8421 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8422 until 08-SEP-15
Introduction to earthquake engineering; response spectra; energy absorption capacity of structures; estimation of damping; earthquake resistant design; seismic design codes; base isolation; soil-structure interaction. Blast resistant design. Wind effects on structures.
CE 8431 - Structural Stability
(3 cr; Prereq-CSE grad student or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8431 until 04-SEP-18
Classification of discrete/continuous conservative/nonconservative systems. Buckling analysis of, e.g., structural members, frameworks, and plates by classical/numerical methods. Offered alternate years.
CE 8432 - Analysis of Thin-Walled Members
(3 cr; Prereq-5411 or instr consent; offered alt yrs; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8432 until 17-JAN-23
Analysis of thin-walled structural members based on Vlasov theory and its modifications. Members with open and closed cross sections. Second-order effects and buckling. Influence of inelastic material behavior on buckling.
CE 8441 - Ductile Behavior of Steel Structures
(3 cr; Prereq-4411 or eqiv; A-F or Audit; offered Fall Even Year)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8441 until 17-JAN-23
Advanced topics in behavior of steel structures; Modeling techniques for material/geometric nonlinearity. Plastic analysis. Introduction to plasticity of continuum bodies. Computer methods. Seismic design, code provisions.
CE 8442 - Nonlinear Analysis of Structural Systems
(3 cr; Prereq-4411, 4413 or instr consent; offered alt yrs; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8442 until 04-SEP-18
Advanced theory and computational techniques for analyzing complex structural building systems. Using comprehensive geometric and material nonlinear analysis for designing steel and composite structures.
CE 8443 - Fracture of Materials and Structures
(3 cr; Prereq-4401 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8443 until 17-JAN-23
Foundations of engineering fracture mechanics. Analytical, computational, and experimental tools to analyze/design solid structures and materials containing cracks. Predicting structural performance, designing experiments. Metals, concretes, rocks, ceramics, advanced composites, biological structures, micro-devices.
CE 8444 - FTE: Doctoral
(1 cr; Prereq-Doctoral student, adviser and DGS consent; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; 6 academic progress units; 6 financial aid progress units)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8444 until 08-SEP-15
(No description)
CE 8451 - Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Structures
(3 cr; Prereq-4412 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8451 until 08-SEP-15
Advanced topics; experimental and theoretical background to design code provisions. Moment-curvature analysis of members. Shear; torsion; disturbed regions. Beam column joints; shear walls. Effects of earthquake loading. Limit analysis.
CE 8461 - Structural Reliability
(3 cr; Prereq-[4412, 4413] or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8461 until 08-SEP-15
Structural design standards/methods. Uncertainties in structural design. Basic probabilistic concepts, statistical distributions. Resistance/load statistics. First-/second-order reliability methods, systems reliability. Development of probability-based design codes. Offered alternate years.
CE 8490 - Special Topics (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 4]; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 8 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8490 until 13-MAY-24
Topics vary depending on faculty and student interests.
CE 8500 - Environmental Seminar
(1 cr; Prereq-grad CE major or instr consent; S-N or Audit; offered Every Spring; may be repeated for 3 credits; may be repeated 3 times)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8500 until 18-JAN-22
Broad coverage of topics in environmental engineering and science. Speakers consist primarily of graduate students in these areas, but presentations may also be given by University faculty and guest speakers.
CE 8501 - Environmental Fluid Mechanics I
(4 cr; Prereq-3502 or equiv or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8501 until 08-SEP-15
Basic laws of mass, energy, and momentum transport in environmental fluid flow. Exact and approximate solutions for viscous flow. Irrotational flow; gravity waves. Similitude and inspectional analysis. Laminar boundary layers and slender flows. Application to engineering and environmental problems.
CE 8502 - Environmental Fluid Mechanics II
(4 cr; Prereq-8501 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8502 until 08-SEP-15
Reynolds equations. Developed and developing turbulent boundary layers and slender flows, and their interaction with inviscid flow. Jets, plumes, wakes and shear layers. Statistical description of turbulence; data analysis.
CE 8503 - Environmental Mass Transport
(4 cr; Prereq-3502, 3501 or equiv or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8503 until 08-SEP-15
Principles of intraphase and interfacial chemical transport and fate in the environment, specifically the processes of diffusion, dispersion, and convection. Application to surface water and atmospheric mixing, dispersion in groundwater, and transport between these media.
CE 8504 - Theory of Unit Operations
(4 cr; Prereq-5541; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8504 until 08-SEP-15
Theoretical basis, design, operation of chemical/physical processes used in treating/controlling water quality. Adsorption, ion exchange, sedimentation, thickening, filtration, gas transfer, coagulation, flocculation, membrane processes, disinfection.
CE 8505 - Biological Processes
(3 cr; Prereq-4502, 4501 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8505 until 08-SEP-15
Theoretical principles underlying chemical and biological wastewater treatment processes, including aerobic and anaerobic treatment for organic carbon and nutrient removal. Mathematical models of microbial growth kinetics and mass transport in suspended growth and attached film applications are developed.
CE 8506 - Stochastic Hydrology
(4 cr; Prereq-Stat 3021 or equiv or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8506 until 08-SEP-15
Analysis and synthesis of hydrologic series and systems; derived distributions; uncertainty and risk analysis; flood frequency analysis; multivariate time series analysis; correlation and spectral analysis; series of long-range dependence; linear estimation; geostatistics; sampling networks; hydrologic forecasting.
CE 8507 - Advanced Methods in Hydrology
(4 cr; Prereq-8506; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8507 until 08-SEP-15
Notions of scale-invariance, scaling, and multiscaling in geophysical processes; methods of multiscale analysis; wavelet transforms; time-frequency-scale analysis and fractal analysis. Applications in atmospheric, hydrologic, and geomorphologic processes.
CE 8508 - Ecological Fluid Mechanics
(4 cr; Prereq-3502 or equiv; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8508 until 08-SEP-15
Fluid mechanics of microbiological processes in lakes, rivers, and wetlands. Small-scale fluid motion, nutrient uptake, growth kinetics, ecosystem metabolism, scaling, lab/field microstructure measurements.
CE 8511 - Mechanics of Sediment Transport
(3 cr; Prereq-3502 and 4501 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8511 until 08-SEP-15, ESCI 8511, CEGE 8511 (starting 02-SEP-08, was CE 8511 until 08-SEP-15)
Particle motion in fluids. Criteria for incipient motion. Formulations for bedload and suspended load. Bedform mechanics and hydraulic resistance relations. Channel stability, aggradation and degradation, alluvial stream morphology.
CE 8521 - The Atmospheric Boundary Layer
(4 cr; Prereq-CSE or COAFES grad student or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Summer)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8521 until 08-SEP-15
Land-atmosphere interactions and turbulent transport in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL), the lowest part of the atmosphere. ABL development and dynamics. Turbulence, surface energy balance, spectral analysis, similarity theory. Flow over homogeneous and heterogeneous surfaces. Atmospheric stability, measurement, simulation of turbulent fluxes.
CE 8541 - Aquatic Chemistry
(3 cr; Prereq-4541 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8541 until 17-JAN-23
Advanced course on water chemistry; physical chemical principles and geochemical processes controlling the chemical composition of natural waters, soil- and sediment-water interactions. Emphasizes behavior of inorganic contaminants in natural waters and engineered systems and dissolved natural organic matter.
CE 8542 - Chemistry of Organic Pollutants in Environmental Systems
(3 cr; Prereq-[4541, 5541] or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8542 until 22-JAN-19
Structural characteristics and physico-chemical properties of organic contaminants in aquatic systems. Emphasizes PCBs, PAHs, dioxins, insecticides, herbicides, and chlorinated solvents. Factors affecting their transport/transformation. Structure- and property-activity relationships, their use in predicting organic chemical behavior.
CE 8551 - Environmental Microbiology: Molecular Theory and Methods
(4 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Fall Even Year)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8551 until 06-SEP-22
Introduction to microbial genetics and molecular phylogeny. Application of nucleic-acid techniques in environmental microbiology and microbial ecology.
CE 8552 - Groundwater Microbiology: Laboratory
(4 cr; Prereq-grad CE major or instr consent, exposure to basic environ engr and microbiol; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8552 until 18-JAN-22
Subsurface microbial ecology, biogeochemical cycling, metabolic classification of subsurface bacteria, modeling bacterial transport, diagnosis of microbial induced fouling (MIF) events, bioremediation of contaminated aquifers. Lectures and four lab hours per week.
CE 8553 - Biofilms
(3 cr; Prereq-4551 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8553 until 18-JAN-22
Science/engineering concepts to investigate formation/function of biofilms. Properties/composition of biofilms, transport/transformation processes in biofilms, communication in biofilms, mathematical modeling. Applications in environmental engineering.
CE 8561 - Analysis and Modeling of Aquatic Environments I
(3 cr; Prereq-One sem grad work or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8561 until 08-SEP-15
Introduction to hydrologic transport and water quality simulation in natural water systems. Deterministic, process-oriented water quality model development. Mixed cell models, advection, turbulent diffusion/dispersion. Chemical/biological kinetics in water quality models. Application of water quality models to management problems.
CE 8562 - Analysis and Modeling of Aquatic Environments II
(3 cr; Prereq-One sem grad work or instr consent; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 6 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8562 until 08-SEP-15
Models for transport/transformation of pollutants, nutrients, particulates, ecosystems, etc., from recently completed theses, articles, or research in progress. Students review assigned recent papers, make presentations, and analyze a topic of their choice.
CE 8563 - Industrial Waste Treatment
(3 cr; Prereq-3501, 4501, 4502, or equiv or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8563 until 18-JAN-22
Introduction to industrial waste treatment. Individual industries, emphasizing constituents of the waste-stream and how best to recycle, recover, or reduce wastes. Cost concerns and regulations. Field trips to various industries to gain first-hand knowledge of processes involved in treatment.
CE 8571 - Hydraulic Measurements
(3 cr; Prereq-3502 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8571 until 08-SEP-15
Lab and field methods and instruments for measuring hydraulic pressure, velocity, and discharge.
CE 8572 - Computational Environmental Fluid Dynamics
(4 cr; Prereq-grad student in CSE or COAFES or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8572 until 08-SEP-15
Finite difference methods, their application to solution of one-/two-dimensional problems in environmental fluid dynamics. Stability, convergence, consistency, and accuracy of numerical schemes. Navier-Stokes equations, their physical meaning, and their numerical solution. Turbulence modeling: RANS and LES.
CE 8581 - Research and Professional Ethics in Water Resources and Environmental Science
(.5 cr; Prereq-[Environmental engineering or water resource science] grad student or instr consent; S-N or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8581 until 08-SEP-15, CEGE 8581, CEGE 8442 (ending 02-SEP-08, was CE 8442 until 08-SEP-15), WRS 8581
Ethics of water resources science and environmental engineering research/practice. Societal responsibility, plagiarism, recording-keeping, authorship, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, professional relationships, fraud, reporting misconduct. Meets during first eight weeks of spring semester.
CE 8601 - Introduction to Stream Restoration
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8601 until 06-SEP-22
Background material required to participate in a stream restoration project. How to assimilate geologic, hydrologic, and ecological data at watershed and reach scales to plan a restoration project and evaluate/critique existing stream restoration projects.
CE 8602 - Stream Restoration Practice
(2 cr; Prereq-8601 or Geo 8601; S-N only; offered Every Summer)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8602 until 06-SEP-22, CEGE 8602, ESCI 8602, EEB 8602
Field experience, group design project. Students provide a stream restoration context for each other?s elective coursework, complete critical assessments of stream restoration projects, and design a stream restoration site.
CE 8666 - Doctoral Pre-Thesis Credits
(1 cr [max 6]; Prereq-Doctoral student who has not passed prelim oral; no required consent for 1st/2nd registrations, up to 12 combined cr; dept consent for 3rd/4th registrations, up to 24 combined cr; doctoral student admitted before summer 2007 may register up to four times, up to 60 combined cr; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8666 until 08-SEP-15
TBD
CE 8777 - Thesis Credits: Master's
(1 cr [max 18]; Prereq-Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 10 cr total required [Plan A only]; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 50 credits; may be repeated 10 times)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8777 until 08-SEP-15
(No description)
CE 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral
(1 cr [max 24]; Prereq-Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 100 credits; may be repeated 10 times)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8888 until 08-SEP-15
(No description)

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