A discussion of the ethical and professional aspects of civil engineering practice. Concepts of loss prevention and conflict resolution. Structured small group discussion, oral presentations, and role playing. Lecture, two hours per week.

The course is designed to provide the graduating civil engineer with an integration of professional practice issues with planning, design, and construction. Topics to be covered will include: development of teaming, problem solving, and decision-making skills; development of written and oral technical communication skills; procurement of professional services; integration of planning, design, and construction activities; integration of environmental, legal, political, and social issues and concerns into the project process. All activities will be conducted in teams.

A hydrological study of the laws governing the occurrence, distribution, and movement of water in watershed systems. Meteorological considerations, precipitation, evaporation, infiltration, streamflow, hydrograph analysis, flood routing, open channel hydraulics, culvert design, pump systems, groundwater flow, and frequency analysis. Principals of mathematical models that describe the flow process in a natural watershed and hydraulic structures.

A study of the strength, deformation and hydraulic properties of soils and their relationship to settlement, stress distribution, earth pressure, bearing capacity and slope stability. Design of footing foundations and retaining walls. Written and oral presentations of student projects will be required. Lecture, three hours; laboratory, three hours per week.

A study of the strength, deformation and hydraulic properties of soils and their relationship to settlement, stress distribution, earth pressure, bearing capacity and slope stability. Design of footing foundations and retaining walls. Written and oral presentations of student projects will be required. Lecture, three hours; laboratory, three hours per week.

A study of the strength, deformation and hydraulic properties of soils and their relationship to settlement, stress distribution, earth pressure, bearing capacity and slope stability. Design of footing foundations and retaining walls. Written and oral presentations of student projects will be required. Lecture, three hours; laboratory, three hours per week.

Application of principles of solid mechanics to the design of steel, timber and reinforced concrete members and structures. Emphasis on basic ideas and their application to practical design of relatively simple structures according to building code.

The course critically examines repetitive operations that occur from project to project and the deterministic approached used to design and optimize their effectiveness. Scientific techniques used to field measure the efficiency of construction operations are also examined. The primary metrics used to optimization include cost, schedule, and sustainability.

This course investigates the principles and practices for the control of budget and schedule for construction projects. Topics studied include: estimating construction costs and developing a project budget, planning construction operations and developing a project schedule, documenting and reporting of project progress and spending, and the management of change of contract mount, contract time, and contract scope of work.

This course focuses on the application of quantitative sustainable design to engineering infrastructure and technologies. Quantitative sustainable design is a process of mechanistically linking design and operational decisions to sustainability indicators to inform decision- making. This process enables navigation of trade-offs across dimensions of sustainability (e.g., environmental, economic, social) so that design and operation can be informed by sustainability metrics.