Courses of Study 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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CEE—Civil & Environmental Engineering |
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CEE 6580 - [Biodegradation and Biocatalysis]
Spring. (Offered alternate years) 3 credits.
Prerequisite: CEE 4510 or BIOMI 2900 or equivalent; CEE 3510 or CHEME 3900 or permission of instructor.
R. E. Richardson.
Students explore the use of microbes in biodegradation and biocatalysis as well as the molecular techniques (i.e., analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins) commonly used in these applications. Lectures cover enzyme classes and kinetics, selective isolation of organisms with desired bioconversion capabilities, effects of environmental parameters and cell-to-cell communication on gene expression, methods in microbial molecular biology, and contemporary case studies in biodegradation and biocatalysis. Laboratory sessions give students hands-on experience in molecular and analytical methods. Student teams design and then construct a bioreactor employing their own environmental isolates that degrade a selected contaminant or produce a desired compound.
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CEE 6620 - Urban Transportation Network Design and Analysis
Fall. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: CEE 3610 or permission of instructor.
L. K. Nozick.
Covers the development and use of mathematical models for the design and analysis of urban transportation networks, including formulations and solution procedures for deterministic user equilibrium and stochastic user equilibrium. Students apply these tools to a substantive real-world case study and estimation of origin-destination tables.
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CEE 6630 - [Network Flows and Algorithms]
Spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: CEE 6620 or permission of instructor.
L. K. Nozick.
Algorithms for network flow problems encountered in transportation systems modeling, including shortest path, multiobjective shortest path, minimum cost flows, multi-commodity flows, and generalized flows. Applications to vehicle routing, dynamic vehicle allocation, and network design.
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CEE 6640 - Microeconometrics of Discrete Choice
Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: CEE 3040 and MATH 2940 .
R. Daziano.
Understanding individual choice behavior is critical for several disciplines that need to account for demand dynamics. Discrete choice models represent the cognitive process of economic decisions and are widely used in transportation analysis, applied economics, marketing, and urban planning. Discrete choice analysis is used to forecast demand under differing pricing and marketing strategies and to determine how much consumers are willing to pay for qualitative improvements. In transportation engineering, these models allow researchers, firms, and policy-makers to predict demand for new alternatives and infrastructure (e.g. a light rail or a new highway), to analyze the market impact of firm decisions (e.g. merger of two airline companies), to set pricing strategies (e.g. road pricing, toll definition, revenue management), to prioritize research and development decisions (e.g. ultra low emission vehicles) as well as to perform cost-benefit analyses of transportation projects (e.g. building a new bridge).
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CEE 6650 - Transportation, Energy, and Environmental Systems for Sustainable Development
Spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: CEE 3610 or permission of instructor. Co-meets with CEE 4650 .
H. O. Gao.
Focuses on the nexus of transportation and environment, energy, and climate-change concerns. It is interdisciplinary, drawing upon transportation, environment, urban planning, statistics, economics, and policy. The course covers both the theoretical and practical aspects of relevant topics including mobile emissions inventory estimation, renewable fuels, air quality impact and life cycle benefit assessment of alternative fuels/vehicles, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and urban sprawl, and congestion mitigation and air quality (CMAQ). Students apply course materials to real-world cases and projects.
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CEE 6660 - Multiobjective Systems Engineering Under Uncertainty (crosslisted) SYSEN 6410
Spring. 3 credits.
Enrollment limited to: students with graduate standing and prior programming experience. Prior coursework covering basic numerical methods (e.g., CS 4210 ), engineering optimization (e.g., SYSEN 5120 or CEE 5290 ), and statistics (e.g., CEE 5970 ) are highly recommended.
P. M. Reed.
Exploration of engineering design frameworks that effectively exploit simulation, optimization, and uncertainty assessments when balancing large numbers of conflicting performance objectives. Students will learn and advance software frameworks that combine evolutionary multiobjective optimization, high performance computing, uncertainty modeling techniques, and visual design analytics. The primary focus will be improving multi-stakeholder design of complex engineered systems. Course concepts will be demonstrated using case studies and projects drawn from the disciplines of the students enrolled.
Outcome 1: Incorporate conflicting objectives, account for system uncertainties, and exploit careful design diagnostics to guide problem formulation and capture key design dependencies.
Outcome 2: Use and advance software frameworks that combine evolutionary multiobjective optimization, high performance computing, uncertainty modeling techniques, and visual design analytics.
Outcome 3: Facilitate improved decision making in multi-stakeholder systems engineering design processes.
Outcome 4: Effectively communicate design analysis results visually and in writing.
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CEE 6667 - [Transportation Energy Systems Module] (crosslisted) CHEME 6667
Fall. (One quarter of term) Next offered 2015-2016. 1 credit.
Corequisite: CHEME 6660 .
R. A. Daziano.
For description, see CHEME 6667 .
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CEE 6710 - [Fundamentals of Structural Mechanics]
Fall. Next offered 2015-2016. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: ENGRD 2020 , MATH 2940 . Co-meets with CEE 4710 .
M. D. Grigoriu.
Topics include beam bending; beams on elastic foundations; stability analysis for columns and beam-columns; linear elasticity; numerical solutions for linear elasticity problems; and applications including stress concentration, torsion, and plates. Students are also required to complete an individual or group project assigned by the instructor.
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CEE 6730 - Design of Concrete Structures
Fall. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: CEE 3710 or permission of instructor. Co-meets with CEE 4730 .
K. C. Hover.
Centered on the design of a multi-story building that is initially planned with masonry bearing walls and precast-prestressed concrete floors. In the next phase the precast concrete is replaced with cast-in-place reinforced concrete. Finally, masonry bearing walls are replaced with a reinforced concrete framing system. The course explores gravity loads, wind loads, and earthquake loads, and the behavior of individual members and the structure as a whole.
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CEE 6750 - Concrete Materials and Construction
Spring. 3 credits.
Co-meets with CEE 4750 .
K. C. Hover.
Covers the materials science, structural engineering, and construction technology involved in the materials aspects of the use of concrete. Topics include cement chemistry and physics, mix design, admixtures, engineering properties, testing of fresh and hardened concrete, and the effects of construction techniques on material behavior.
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CEE 6760 - Advanced Composite Materials (crosslisted) MAE 6160 , MSE 6550
Spring. 4 credits.
Staff.
For description, see MAE 6160 .
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CEE 6780 - [Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering]
Spring. Next offered 2015-2016. 3 credits.
Co-meets with CEE 4780 .
M. D. Grigoriu.
Covers modal analysis, numerical methods, and frequency-domain analysis. Introduces earthquake-resistant design. Students are also required to complete an individual or group project assigned by the instructor.
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CEE 6900 - Creativity, Innovation, and Leadership
Spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisite or corequisite: CEE 5900 or permission of instructor.
F. J. Wayno.
Graduate course designed to help aspiring engineering managers to better understand individual creativity and organizational innovation and to develop the required skills to play a productive role in fostering both. Not incidentally, the course also helps students to become more creative themselves. The course is highly participative and has a flow that moves from the individual-to the group-to the organization, with theory, research results, and practical skills-development woven seamlessly together.
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CEE 6910 - Principles of Project Leadership
Spring. 3 credits.
Permission of instructor required. Offered as a distance learning course only.
F. J. Wayno.
Core graduate course in project management for people who will manage technical or engineering projects. Focuses both on the “technical” tools of project management (e.g., methods for planning, scheduling, and control) and the “human” side (e.g., forming a project team, managing performance, resolving conflicts), with somewhat greater emphasis on the latter.
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CEE 6930 - Public Systems Modeling
Fall. 4 credits.
D. P. Loucks.
An introduction to the art of model building and use, especially related to public sector planning and management issues. The course focuses on the quantitative systems approach for identifying and evaluating alternative possible decisions and their physical, economic, environmental, and social impacts. Modeling methods include various deterministic and probabilistic optimization and simulation models, decision analysis, evolutionary search algorithms, and statistical models applied to a variety of public sector issues. The aim of all of this “modeling technology” is to help us generate and communicate information that can assist and better inform public decision-making.
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CEE 6940 - Research in Engineering Management
(Offered on demand) 1-6 credits, variable.
Staff.
The student may select an area of investigation in engineering management. Results should be submitted to the instructor in charge in the form of a research report.
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CEE 7010 - Research - Remote Sensing
(Offered on demand) 1-6 credits, variable.
W. D. Philpot.
For students who want to study one particular area in depth. The work may take the form of laboratory investigation, field study, theoretical analysis, or development of design procedures.
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CEE 7020 - Environmental and Water Resources Systems Analysis Research
(Offered on demand) 1-6 credits, variable.
Permission of instructor required. Preparation must be suitable to investigation to be undertaken.
Staff.
Investigations of particular environmental or water resources systems problems.
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CEE 7030 - Research in Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology
(Offered on demand) 1-6 credits, variable.
Staff.
The student may select an area of investigation in fluid mechanics, hydraulic engineering, or hydrology. The work may be either experimental or theoretical in nature. Results should be submitted to the instructor in charge in the form of a research report.
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CEE 7040 - Research in Geotechnical Engineering
(Offered on demand) 1-6 credits, variable.
Staff.
For students who want to pursue a particular geotechnical topic in considerable depth.
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CEE 7050 - Research in Environmental Engineering
(Offered on demand) 1-6 credits, variable.
Staff.
For students who want to study a particular area in depth. The work may take the form of laboratory investigation, field study, theoretical analysis, or development of design and analysis procedures.
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CEE 7070 - Research in Structural Engineering
(Offered on demand) 1-6 credits, variable.
Staff.
Pursues a branch of structural engineering beyond what is covered in regular courses. Theoretical or experimental investigation of suitable problems.
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CEE 7073 - Civil and Environmental Engineering Materials Project
(Offered on demand) 1-3 credits, variable.
Staff.
Individual projects or reading and study assignments involving engineering materials.
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CEE 7360 - [Turbulence and Turbulent Mixing in Environmental Stratified Flows]
Spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: CEE 6550 or second course in fluid mechanics or with instructor’s permission.
P. J. Diamessis.
Fundamentals of stably stratified flows, stratified homogeneous turbulence (spectra, lengthscales, and timescales), kinematics of diapycnal mixing, basic turbulent flow processes in homogeneous and stratified fluids (shear layers, wakes, boundary layers, etc.), energy budget analysis, and parameterizations of geophysical turbulence. Additional topics may include fossil turbulence theory and vortex-internal wave decomposition in strongly stratified turbulence.
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CEE 7400 - Engineering Behavior of Soils
Fall. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: CEE 3410 .
H. E. Stewart.
Detailed study of the physiochemical nature of soil. Stress states due to geostatic loading and stress-history effects. In-depth evaluation of stress-strain-strength, compressibility, and hydraulic conductivity of natural soils.
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CEE 7410 - [Rock Engineering]
Fall. (Offered on demand) 3 credits.
Prerequisite: CEE 3410 or permission of instructor. Recommended prerequisite: introductory geology.
T. D. O’Rourke.
Geological and engineering classifications of intact rock, discontinuities, and rock masses. Includes laboratory and field evaluation of properties. Covers stress states and stress analysis; design of foundations on, and openings in, rock masses; analysis of the stability of rock slopes; and rock blasting.
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CEE 7700 - [Engineering Fracture Mechanics]
Spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: CEE 6720 or equivalent and MAE 7160 , or permission of instructor.
Staff.
Computational and physical modeling of crack growth processes. Finite and boundary element-based simulation of brittle fracture initiation and propagation, fatigue crack growth, and elasto-plastic and cohesive approaches to inelastic crack growth. Element formulation, meshing and remeshing, interactive steering. Case studies across scales from geomechanics to micromechanics, and including metals, ceramics, and polymers. Laboratory techniques for fracture toughness, crack growth rate, and trajectory testing.
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CEE 7710 - Stochastic Problems in Science and Engineering
Fall. 3 credits.
Permission of instructor required.
M. D. Grigoriu.
Review of probability theory, random functions, and Monte Carlo simulation. Representation of material properties at various scales by probabilistic models that are consistent with physics and observations. Solutions of stochastic algebraic and differential equations by Monte Carlo simulation, collocation, Galerkin, and reduced order models. Applications include construction of probabilistic models for a broad range of material microstructures, estimates for properties of response fields, for example, potential and stress/strain fields, and bounds on the discrepancy between continuum mechanics solutions and solutions based on high resolution probabilistic models for microstructures.
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CEE 7740 - Advanced Structural Concrete
Spring. 3 credits.
K. C. Hover.
Course is an extension of CEE 6730 covering design of reinforced and post-tensioned slabs, doubly-reinforced beams, slender columns, deflections, shear walls, deep beams, two-way slab systems, punching shear, and other advanced topics.
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CEE 7750 - Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis: Solids
Spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: CEE 6720 or equivalent.
D. Warner.
Covers fundamental aspects of nonlinear finite element analysis including geometric and material nonlinearity. Also covers total and updated Lagrangian formulations, implementation of constitutive models, numerical solutions of global nonlinear systems of equations, and regularization techniques for softening materials.
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CEE 7770 - [Advanced Concepts in Finite Element Methods]
Spring. 3 credits.
Staff.
The main objective of this course is to introduce the student to modern techniques used for solving partial differential equations using finite element methods. In addition, half of the course is devoted to advanced programming techniques to produce fast and robust finite element computer codes. The course covers formal mathematical formulations of the finite element method using function spaces, extensions of the finite element method, optimization of continuous systems, object-oriented implementations, and an introduction to multilevel techniques such as multigrid and domain decomposition.
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CEE 7780 - Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics (crosslisted) MAE 7880
Spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: MAE 6810 and MAE 6820 ; and MAE 6110 and MAE 6120 or equivalents.
J. Jenkins.
Topics include kinematics; conservation laws; the entropy inequality; constitutive relations: frame indifference, material symmetry; and finite elasticity, rate-dependent materials, and materials with internal state variables.
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CEE 7790 - Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis: Structures
Fall. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: CEE 6720 (or equivalent).
C. Earls.
An advanced course in finite element analysis emphasizing the nonlinear solution of problems involving solids and structures (with a special emphasis on the latter). The formulation of nonlinear structural elements, the development of efficient and robust means for treating material nonlinearity, and the nonlinear solution of finite element systems are fundamentals topics treated in this course. Topics from structural stability, problems involving coupled physics, and those involving transient dynamical response, are also treated. The primary out-of-class effort centers on a significant project, and all students are required to write their own nonlinear finite element code in support of this. As a result, some experience with programming is required.
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CEE 8100 - Thesis - Remote Sensing
Fall, spring. 1-12 credits, variable.
Students must register for credit with professor at start of each semester.
W. D. Philpot.
The student selects a thesis research topic with the advice of the faculty member in charge and pursues it either independently or in conjunction with others working on the same topic.
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CEE 8200 - Thesis - Environmental and Water Resource Systems
Fall, spring. 1-12 credits, variable.
Students must register for credit with professor at start of each semester.
Staff.
The student selects a thesis research topic with the advice of the faculty member in charge and pursues it either independently or in conjunction with others working on the same topic.
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CEE 8300 - Thesis - Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology
Fall, spring. 1-12 credits, variable.
Students must register for credit with professor at start of each semester.
Staff.
The student selects a thesis research topic with the advice of the faculty member in charge and pursues it either independently or in conjunction with others working on the same topic.
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CEE 8400 - Thesis - Geotechnical Engineering
Fall, spring. 1-12 credits, variable.
Students must register for credit with professor at start of each semester.
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The student selects a thesis research topic with the advice of the faculty member in charge and pursues it either independently or in conjunction with others working on the same topic.
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CEE 8500 - Thesis - Environmental Engineering
Fall, spring. 1-12 credits, variable.
Students must register for credit with professor at start of each semester.
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The student selects a thesis research topic with the advice of the faculty member in charge and pursues it either independently or in conjunction with others working on the same topic.
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CEE 8600 - Thesis - Transportation Systems Engineering
Fall, spring. 1-12 credits, variable.
Students must register for credit with professor at start of each semester.
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The student selects a thesis research topic with the advice of the faculty member in charge and pursues it either independently or in conjunction with others working on the same topic.
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CEE 8700 - Thesis - Structural Engineering
Fall, spring. 1-12 credits, variable.
Students must register for credit with professor at start of each semester.
Staff.
The student selects a thesis research topic with the advice of the faculty member in charge and pursues it either independently or in conjunction with others working on the same topic.
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CEE 8800 - Thesis - Civil Infrastructure Systems
Fall, spring. 1-12 credits, variable.
Students must register for credit with professor at start of each semester.
Staff.
The student selects a thesis research topic with the advice of the faculty member in charge and pursues it either independently or in conjunction with others working on the same topic.
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