Civil Engineering

Coordinates, directions, distances, and elevation, transverses and boundary surveys. Leveling, national rectangular coordinate systems. Property descriptions: public land subdivision and metes and bounds. Topographic surveys, surveying, planning, and estimating.

Evaluation of civil construction materials. Physical and mechanical properties of aggregates, asphalt, cement, concrete, and wood. ASTM test specifications and material characterizations for various materials.

Analyses of determinate beams, trusses and frames and indeterminate beams and frames. Topics include deflections, principle of superposition, influence lines, cables and arches, slope deflection method, and moment distribution method.

Behavior, strength, and design of reinforced concrete structures utilizing ACI specifications and steel structures utilizing AISC specifications and LRFD approach.

Principles of soil structures, classification, capillarity, permeability, flow nets, shear strength, consolidation, stress analysis, slope stability, lateral pressure, bearing capacity, and piles.

An introduction to transportation and the various modes of moving people and goods including roadways, rail, air, and waterways. Topics include traffic flow theory, capacity, level of service, traffic control, transportation planning, queueing, geometrics, and pavement design.

Pump design, water hammer; distribution system analysis and storm sewer design. Open channel flow and stream flow data measurement and analysis, water surface profiles; hydrographs and runoff predictions, NRCS and Rational methods, and unit hydrographs.

A study of the planning, administration, management, and cost of construction projects. Emphasis is placed on organization of construction firms, development of construction documents, estimating and quantity take-off, contractual and management systems, scheduling, project administration and inspection of construction operations.

Overview of the principles of sustainability as they relate to civil engineering design. Students work in multi-disciplinary teams to plan and write a proposal for the design of a civil engineering component or system. The teams will establish deliverables, project constraints, applicable codes/standards, and cost estimate.

Student teams participate in the design of civil engineering project proposed in Senior Design I. Knowledge and skills acquired in previous coursework are used to incorporate the ethical, societal, economic, aesthetic, and environmental aspects in the design. Communication with faculty, engineers, and the client is essential to utilizing applicable standards and real-world constraints to deliver a satisfactory design. Oral presentations and written reports are required.