Civil and Environmental Engineers (CEEs) engage in the planning, design, construction, operation, retrofit, demolition, and reuse of large-scale infrastructure that forms the backbone of all societies and economies. CEEs work at the dynamic interface of the built…
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Building upon design themes introduced in 12-100, in this course, students will be challenged to solve more complex problems related to conventional, cutting-edge, and emerging issues in Civil and Environmental Engineering and one or more of the areas of the built,…
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Introduction to physical geology; common rocks and rock-forming minerals and their chemical compositions/structure, physical properties, origins, and uses; geologic processes: surface and ground-water flow, volcanism, mountain-building, tectonics, glaciation,…
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Introduction to vector mechanics; equivalent systems of forces; equilibrium of rigid bodies; free body diagram; distributed forces, hydrostatic forces, effective forces, centroids; applications to simple statically determinate trusses, beams, frames, cables and other…
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The objective of the course is to prepare students for writing technical reports and essays assigned in CEE courses and laboratories, writing professional letters and reports for internships and professional positions, preparing documents in a team…
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Civil Engineering undergraduates will learn and practice research skills relevant to both academic research and engineering practice. Exposure to a breadth of cutting-edge Civil Engineering research topics and projects will be achieved through expert presentations and…
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Environmental chemistry is foundational to the understanding of processes in natural and engineered systems. This course introduces environmental chemistry principles within the context of air and water systems. It focuses on the use of stoichiometry, thermodynamics,…
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Students learn to conduct lab and field experiments relevant to environmental engineering and the understanding of natural and engineered systems. Exercises involve the collection and analysis of data from major domains of the environment (air, water, soil,…
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Understanding and calculating the deformation and eventual failure of solids is fundamental to the design of structures and materials for civil engineering applications ranging from structural analysis and design of buildings and bridges to the design of novel materials…
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Civil and environmental engineering infrastructure is all around us. CEE infrastructure is integral to society's day-to-day operations, providing, for example, shelter, transportation, and clean drinking water. In this course, students will get a first-hand experience of…
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Collecting and analyzing massive amounts of data is integral to understanding and managing the complexities of our infrastructure systems. Civil and environmental engineers need to select tools and to collect data to gain an understanding of the problems they are trying to…
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Computational science and computer applications play an important role in modern engineering practice and research. This course provides students with an introduction to the fundamentals of computation and data science using both deterministic and stochastic…
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Civil and environmental engineers work at the interface of multiple disciplines, understanding and applying principles to evaluate and create. This course extends design skills from 12-100 and 12-200 to hands-on experiences with more integrated, interdisciplinary problem…
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Civil and environmental engineers must decide what information they need to collect, how to collect it, how to analyze the data and how to use that data to develop solutions for a changing world. Data are often incorporated into computational models to gain further insight…
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Understanding the behavior of soils is essential for many applications within civil and environmental engineering from construction safety and structural integrity of buildings, to foundations, levees, groundwater remediation, landfill design, and erosion control.
This…
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Environmental engineering applies sustainability science, engineering principles, and systems approaches to protect the environment and human health. This includes protecting natural ecosystems and enhancing the quality of human life through environment-related policy…
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Environmental engineering depends on many kinds of measurements as well as experimentation for monitoring and managing natural and engineered systems. In this course, students will design and conduct laboratory experiments that illustrate the fundamental…
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Profound changes are affecting our environment, including climate change, habitat loss, pollution, and invasive species. Understanding ecosystems and their inhabitants and functions is critical to engineering a sustainable future for humans.
This course is an introduction…
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The flow of fluids is important in many civil and environmental engineering applications ranging from water infrastructure and coastal engineering to bridge design. This course provides students with an introduction to fundamental concepts and methods in fluid mechanics.…
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An understanding of fluid mechanics is greatly enhanced by hands-on experimentation and experience with the physical concepts of fluid flows. In this course, students will develop an ability to conduct experiments, take measurements, and analyze and interpret data in fluid…
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Building upon the fundamentals developed in 12-271, this course introduces students to advanced topics in computational problem solving that are critical for implementing and interpreting computational solutions in civil and environmental engineering practice.
These topics…
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This capstone design experience integrates knowledge and experience from technical and professional skills acquired in the CEE project course sequence.
Students apply the design process and knowledge from the core curriculum to design engineering solutions to real…
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Through planning and management, and optimization and allocation of materials and labor under time and financial constraints, project managers lead teams to achieve project goals. This course is an introduction to project management of engineering, construction, and…
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Basic concepts of economic analysis and evaluation of alternative engineering projects for capital investment.
Consideration of time value of money and common merit measures such as net present value and internal rate of return. Selection of independent projects and…
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Building on the fundamentals developed in 12-221, 12-351, and 12-353, students learn the fundamentals of design for physical, chemical, and biological processes used for pollution control, multi-phase transport, and transformation processes.
Specific topics include unit…
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Building upon the fundamentals developed in 12-271 and 12-371, this course empowers students to leverage computing tools for big data.
Topics include design of experiments; advanced topics in statistics and uncertainty quantification; an introduction to signal processing…
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AutoCAD is a mostly online course.
The course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of computer-aided design (CAD)software. Students learn how to set up CAD projects using Autodesk's AutoCAD software.
Topics include coordinates, lines, circles, arcs, zooms, snaps…
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In this course, students will work on an interdisciplinary, design-build project to improve the quality of life through design interventions on campus. The semester will begin with a review of design proposals developed during the Fall semester, and through a collaborative…
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The purpose of this course is to expose engineering students to the theory and implementation of numerical techniques for modeling atomic-level behavior. The main focus is on molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations.
Students will write their own simulation computer…
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This class provides a general introduction to microorganisms in natural and engineered environments.
Selected topics include: cellular architecture, energetics and energy conservation, growth and catabolism; evolution and genetics; population and community dynamics; water…
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Design of structural members for bending moment, shear force, axial force, and combined axial force and bending.
Reinforced concrete, structural steel, and composite beam construction are considered.
Buckling effects in columns, beams and local plate segments are…
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Classical and matrix-based methods of structural analysis; energy principles in structural mechanics.
Basic concepts of force and displacement methods for analyzing redundant structural systems.
Matrix methods utilizing flexibility (force) and stiffness (displacement) concepts.
Behavior of geotechnical structures; engineering design of geotechnical structures considering failure modes; uncertainties; economic issues, required design formats and relevant code provisions; performance requirements for foundations, subsurface investigations;…
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This course covers fundamentals of planning, design and operation of roadway transportation and public transportation. Topics covered include basic traffic flow theory, traffic signal design and evaluation, transportation planning, pricing of transportation systems, and…
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Cities all around the world are being built and re-invented as smart cities utilizing information systems and innovative applications of data analytics. One major smart cities component is transportation.
The Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) industry is expected…
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The course provides a quantitative introduction to the processes that control atmospheric pollutants and the use of mass balance models to predict pollutant concentrations.
We survey major processes including emission rates, atmospheric dispersion, chemistry,…
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Water Resource Systems Engineering combines hydrology, engineering, economics, and operations research to create tools and analyses that support decisions about large-scale water resource systems. The emphasis in this course will be on optimization methods, which are a…
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This mini course is designed to be a practical introduction to engineering scientific computation.
The topics of this class will include basic matrix computation, solving ordinary and partial differential equations, solving systems of linear equations, computing…
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This course is a systematic overview of water quality engineering designed for students with no prior civil and environmental engineering background.
Topics examined include physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of water; common water pollutants; basic water…
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This course emphasizes numerical methods to solve differential equations that are important in engineering.
Procedures will be presented for solving systems of ordinary differential equations and boundary value problems in partial differential equations.
Students will be…
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Overview of rules of probability, random variables, probability distribution functions, and random processes.
Techniques for estimating the parameters of probability models and related statistical inference.
Application to the analysis and design of engineered systems…
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This course introduces students to the fundamental principles and quantitative methods used in engineering systems, and how to communicate results.
Its primary audience is first-year graduate students in engineering. The course covers economic-based decision-making…
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Use of analytics is rapidly transforming decision making as individuals and firms begin to leverage analytics in various functional areas to improve data-driven planning and decision making.
This course will cover the underlying fundamental concepts and principles…
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This course begins with an overview of the concept of sustainability, including changing attitudes and values toward technology and the environment throughout the twentieth century.
Models for population growth, global food production, and global water resources are then…
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Cradle-to-grave analysis of new products, processes and policies is important to avoid undue environmental harm and achieve extended product responsibility.
This course provides an overview of approaches and methods for life cycle assessment and for green design of…
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This course integrates and exercises students in a significant sustainable engineering and/or environmental project that is team-based and built upon the knowledge, skills, and technologies learned in the core and specialist courses in the EESS graduate curriculum.
This course provides a rigorous yet practical basis for applying the principles of physical chemistry to understanding the composition of natural waters and to the engineering of water and wastewater treatment processes.
Topics covered include chemical equilibrium and…
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Examination of the major physical and chemical processes affecting the fate and treatment of organic compounds nanoparticles in aquatic systems. The emphasis is on anthropogenic organic compounds. The course will review some concepts from physical organic chemistry, and…
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Development and application of mathematical models for environmental systems.
Material balance formulations and their solutions, computer implementation, model validation, uncertainty analysis, and use for projection and policy analysis.
Applications to surface water,…
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This course is intended for first-year graduate students who enroll in 12-629; additional work is required by way of a term project.
Structural health monitoring system, which enables us to automatically diagnose and prognose structural damage, is important to ensure a safe and functional built environment.
This area requires a multi-disciplinary approach that encompasses structural engineering,…
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The intent of this course is to introduce students to the concepts, approaches and implementation issues associated with data acquisition for infrastructure systems.
Students will be introduced to the types of data that is collected about infrastructure systems,…
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This course introduces students to database management systems and database principles.
Students will learn how to develop powerful tools for efficiently managing large amounts of civil engineering data so that it may persist safely over long periods of time.
Students…
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This course will integrate and exercise students in a significant AIS system development project that is team-based, related to some area of infrastructure systems, industry driven, and built upon the knowledge, skills, and technologies learned in the core and specialist…
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This course uses the Python programming language to introduce fundamental programming approaches to students from civil and environmental engineering.
This course will cover fundamental programming approaches, object-oriented programming concepts, graphical user interface…
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This course will cover the basics of the design, retrofit and monitoring of buildings to achieve energy efficiency. We will introduce energy simulation tools, the fundamentals of the most important building systems (i.e., heating, cooling, ventilation, insulation, etc.)…
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Class will cover HVAC, Electrical, and Plumbing systems for buildings. We will calculate heat loss and heat gains manually and with computer programs and calculate operating costs with various fuels and system types.
We will size building electrical systems and look at…
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While the specific timing and magnitude of climate change impacts are uncertain, long-lived civil engineering infrastructure will need to be resilient to these potential impacts.
Engineers designing for climate change adaptation require the tools to maximize resiliency…
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This course takes a broad view of infrastructure systems to include physical infrastructure and information networks.
The course will consider the need to protect these critical infrastructures from both degradation as well as malicious attacks.
Infrastructure management…
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The course provides a quantitative introduction to the processes that control atmospheric pollutants and the use of mass balance models to predict pollutant concentrations.
We survey major processes including emission rates, atmospheric dispersion, chemistry, and…
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The basic theory and applications of the finite element method in mechanics are presented.
Development of the FEM as a Galerkin method for numerical solution of boundary value problems.
Applications to second-order steady problems, including heat conduction, elasticity,…
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This course is concerned with the response of discrete and continuous linear elastic systems subjected to dynamic excitation.
Newtons equations, Lagranges equations, and variational principles are used to formulate the problems; their solution is based primarily on direct…
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This course will introduce smart monitoring systems for applications in physical structures and systems.
Such monitoring systems enable us to understand the performance of the physical systems and diagnose/prognose their critical status using technologies, such as sensor…
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Although an international problem, climate change will affect each country's critical infrastructure in diverse ways.
This course will focus on understanding how international communities are adapting and innovating to reduce critical infrastructure risk.
Students will…
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This course consists of four parts.
The first part will provide a primer for those who are curious about the physical mechanisms by which climate is determined, and by which climate change occurs. The treatment of these mechanisms will not be overly quantitative,…
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This course introduces modeling frameworks and computational tools to address complex, ill-defined, large-scale decision-making problems that arise in policy and business.
Using a combination of lecturing, case studies and class discussions, it covers advanced methods of…
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The topics that shall be covered:
An overview of Cartesian Tensors
Kinematics and Deformation
Conservation Principles
Constitutive Relations for Fluids and Solids and Boundary Value Problems
Dynamics of Continuum Systems
An undergraduate background in mechanics,…
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This is the first course in a two-part professionally oriented course sequence covering a variety of important problems in solid mechanics.
Topics covered typically include torsion of non-circular cross sections, the field equations of elasticity and boundary conditions,…
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This course uses the Python and Javascript programming language to introduce advanced programming approaches to students from civil and environmental engineering.
Students are required to already know a modern programming language (e.g., Python, Java, C++, etc.), or have…
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A geographic information system (GIS) provides storage, retrieval, and visualization of geographically referenced data as well as design and analysis of spatial information.
GIS provides unique analytical tools to investigate spatial relationships, patterns, and processes…
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The course reviews skills and techniques for preparing technical documents, professional letters, resumes, and presentations typically encountered in advanced degree programs and in research and development positions in the public and private sector.
Class topics focus on…
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