Principles of railroad location, construction, rehabilitation, maintenance, and operation with emphasis on track structure design and analysis, bridges and bridge loading, drainage considerations, track geometry effects, and operating systems analysis.
Introduction to principles of fluvial geomorphology for application in restoring impaired streams. Topics include channel formation processes (hydrology/ hydraulics), stream assessment, sediment transport, in-stream structures, erosion control, habitat, and monitoring.
Analysis of flow in closed conduits and natural and artificial open channels. Design of hydraulic structures.
This course is an introduction to the science of environmental pollution with an emphasis on fate and transport of contaminants and adverse effects on biological systems. Pollutants covered include metals, pesticides, organics, radionuclides, nanomaterials, and nutrients. The course covers physiological and toxicological effects of chemicals on natural biota, including considerations at cellular, organismal, population, community, and ecosystem levels.
Application of the principles of soil mechanics and structural mechanics to the design of retaining walls, bracing for excavations, footings, mat and pile foundations and to the analysis of the stability of earth slopes.
Design, evaluation, and construction of portland cement concrete and hot mix asphalt performance concrete and asphalt materials are covered in this course.
Building codes, design loads, computerized structural analysis and design, gravity and lateral system design, structural system descriptions and selection considerations, and structural contract documents.
Individual work on some selected problem in the field of civil engineering. May be repeated for a maximum of six credits.
The course focuses on advanced information systems used to control and predict project performance (cost and schedule) in construction. Building Information Modeling is examined as a systems approach of integrating design and construction for the benefit of developing construction work packages, 4D simulations, clash detection, trade coordination, and status visualization
Introduction to seismology. Dynamic and earthquake response of soils using standard analysis. Liquefaction of soils under cyclic loading. Measurements of dynamic properties of soils. ark's Earthquake resistant design of retaining walls, foundations, slopes, and earth dams. Soil improvement methods for seismic resistant design. Current state-of-the-art techniques in geotechnical earthquake engineering.
