Civil and Environmental Engineering (CIV ENG)
CIV ENG 11 Engineered Systems and Sustainability 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Chemistry 1A, Mathematics 1A.
An introduction to key engineered systems (e.g., energy, water supply, buildings, transportation) and their environmental impacts. Basic principles of environmental science needed to understand natural processes as they are influenced by human activities. Overview of concepts and methods of sustainability analysis. Critical evaluation of engineering approaches to address sustainability.
Formerly known as Engineering 11. Instructors: Harley, Horvath, Hunt, Nelson
CIV ENG 24 Freshman Seminars 1 Unit
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
CIV ENG C30/MEC ENG C85 Introduction to Solid Mechanics 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering; Mechanical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week. 4.5 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of discussion per week for 10 weeks. 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Mathematics 53 and 54 (may be taken concurrently); Physics 7A.
A review of equilibrium for particles and rigid bodies. Application to truss structures. The concepts of deformation, strain, and stress. Equilibrium equations for a continuum. Elements of the theory of linear elasticity. The states of plane stress and plane strain. Solution of elementary elasticity problems (beam bending, torsion of circular bars). Euler buckling in elastic beams.
Instructors: Armero, Papadopoulos, Zohdi
CIV ENG 60 Structure and Properties of Civil Engineering Materials 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Introduction to structure and properties of civil engineering materials such as asphalt, cements, concrete, geological materials (e.g. soil and rocks), steel, polymers, and wood. The properties range from elastic, plastic and fracture properties to porosity and thermal and environmental responses. Laboratory tests include evaluation of behavior of these materials under a wide range of conditions.
Students may receive two units of credit for 60 after taking Engineering 45. One unit of a deficient grade may be removed in Engineering 45 with 60. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructors: Monteiro, Ostertag
CIV ENG 70 Engineering Geology 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week. 6 hours of lecture and 4 hours of laboratory per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: Chemistry 1A (may be taken concurrently).
Principles of physical and structural geology; the influence of geological factors on engineering works and the environment. Field trip.
Instructors: Glaser, Sitar
CIV ENG 92 Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering 1 Unit
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
A course designed to familiarize the entering student with the nature and scope of civil and environmental engineering and its component specialty areas.
CIV ENG 93 Engineering Data Analysis 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture and 7.5 hours of Laboratory per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Engineering 7.
Application of the concepts and methods of probability theory and statistical inference to CEE problems and data; graphical data analysis and sampling; elements of set theory; elements of probability theory; random variables and expectation; simulation; statistical inference. Applications to various CEE problems and real data will be developed by use of MATLAB and existing codes. The course also introduces the student to various domains of uncertainty analysis in CEE.
Students will receive no credit after taking Statistics 25. Instructors: Der Kiureghian, Hansen, Madanat, Rubin
CIV ENG 98 Supervised Group Study and Research 1 - 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 3 hour of Directed group study per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Supervised group study and research by lower division students.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
CIV ENG 99 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 4 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Independent study per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Freshman or sophomore standing and consent of instructor. Minimum grade point average of 3.3 required.
Supervised independent study by lower division students.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
CIV ENG 100 Elementary Fluid Mechanics 4 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of recitation per week, plus individual laboratory experiments.
Prerequisites: Physics 7A and Mathematics 53 required; concurrent enrollment in Engineering 7, Civil and Environmental Engineering C30/Mechanical Engineering C85 recommended.
Fluid statics and dynamics, including laboratory experiments with technical reports. Fundamentals: integral and differential formulations of the conservation laws are solved in special cases such as boundary layers and pipe flow. Flow visualization and computation techniques are introduced using Matlab. Empirical equations are used for turbulent flows, drag, pumps, and open channels. Principles of empirical equations are also discussed: dimensional analysis, regression, and uncertainty.
Instructors: Chow, Stacey, Variano
CIV ENG 101 Fluid Mechanics of Rivers, Streams, and Wetlands 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring. Offered alternate years.
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100 or Mechanical Engineering 106 or consent of instructor.
Analysis of steady and unsteady open-channel flow and application to rivers and streams. Examination of mixing and transport in rivers and streams. Effects of channel complexity. Floodplain dynamics and flow routing. Interaction of vegetation and fluid flows. Freshwater and tidal marshes. Sediment transport in rivers, streams, and wetlands. Implications for freshwater ecosystem function.
Instructor: Variano
CIV ENG 103 Introduction to Hydrology 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week and 2 hours of computer laboratory every 3 weeks.
Prerequisites: 93 and 100.
Course addresses principles and practical aspects of hydrology. Topics in introduction to hydrology include hydrologic cycle, precipitation, evaporation, infiltration, snow and snowmelt, and streamflow; introduction to geomorphology, GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications, theory of unit hydrograph, frequency analysis, flood routing through reservoirs and rivers; introduction to rainfall-runoff analyses, watershed modeling, urban hydrology, and introduction to groundwater hydrology.
Instructor: Thompson
CIV ENG 105 Environmental Fluid Mechanics Design 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Civil and Environmental Engineering 100 or equivalent; two core courses, upper-division standing in science and engineering.
Hands-on design course in applied fluid mechanics. Course goes beyond basic examples of fluid flow to include detailed discussion of real-world environmental engineering. Class team projects are used to explore real fluid mechanics, e.g., engineering for air quality or design for sea level rise mitigation. Specific project topics vary by offering and include interdisciplinary design issues from structural, geotechnical, environmental and/or transporation engineering.
Instructors: Chow, Stacey, Variano
CIV ENG C106/EPS C180/ESPM C180 Air Pollution 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering; Earth and Planetary Science; Environ Sci, Policy, and Management
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Chemistry 1A-1B, Physics 8A or consent of instructor.
This course is an introduction to air pollution and the chemistry of earth's atmosphere. We will focus on the fundamental natural processes controlling trace gas and aerosol concentrations in the atmosphere, and how anthropogenic activity has affected those processes at the local, regional, and global scales. Specific topics include stratospheric ozone depletion, increasing concentrations of green house gasses, smog, and changes in the oxidation capacity of the troposphere.
Instructor: Goldstein
CIV ENG 107 Climate Change Mitigation 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Upper division or graduate standing in engineering or physical science, or consent of instructor.
Assessment of technological options for responding to climate change. Overview of climate-change science; sources, sinks, and atmospheric dynamics of greenhouse gases. Current systems for energy supply and use. Renewable energy resources, transport, storage, and transformation technologies. Technological opportunities for improving end-use energy efficiency. Recovery, sequestration, and disposal of greenhouse gases. Societal context for implementing engineered responses.
Instructor: Nazaroff
CIV ENG 108 Air Pollutant Emissions and Control 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 111 or consent of instructor.
Analysis of air pollution sources and methods for controlling emissions, with a focus on transportation-related air pollution. Combustion system fundamentals and pollutant formation mechanisms. Control of emissions from spark-ignition and compression-ignition engines.
Instructor: Harley
CIV ENG 111 Environmental Engineering 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing in engineering or physical sciences, or consent of instructor.
Quantitative overview of air and water contaminants and their engineering control. Elementary environmental chemistry and transport. Reactor models. Applications of fundamentals to selected current issues in water quality engineering, air quality engineering, air quality engineering, and hazardous waste management.
Instructors: Alvarez-Cohen, Nazaroff, Nelson, Sedlak
CIV ENG 111L Water and Air Quality Laboratory 1 Unit
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 hour of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week.
Prerequisites: Civil Engineering 111 (may be taken concurrently).
This laboratory course is designed to accompany the lecture topics in Civil Engineering 111. Each laboratory activity will provide an opportunity to understand key concepts in water and air quality through hands-on experimentation. Laboratory topics include phase partitioning, acid/base reactions, redox reactions, biochemical oxygen demand, absorption, gas transfer, reactor hydraulics, particle destablization, disinfection, and combustion emissions.
Instructors: Alvarez-Cohen, Nazaroff, Nelson, Sedlak
CIV ENG 112 Environmental Engineering Design 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Civil and Environmental Engineering 100, 111.
Engineering design and project management of environmental systems. Students will complete a design project focusing on pollution control in a selected environmental system. Lectures and project activities will address process design, economic optimization, legal and institutional constraints on design, and project management. Additional components of design (e.g., hydraulics, engineering sustainability, plant structures) will be included.
Instructor: Hermanowicz
CIV ENG 113N Ecological Engineering for Water Quality Improvement 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 111 or consent of instructor.
Ecological engineering approaches for treating contaminated water using natural processes to improve water quality. Emphasis on combining basic science and engineering approaches to understand the fundamental processes that govern the effectiveness of complex natural treatment systems. Applications include constructed wetlands, waste stabilization ponds, stormwater bioretention, decentralized wastewater management, ecological sanitation. Laboratory sessions will consist of design and monitoring of laboratory and full-scale natural treatment systems, including a range of water quality measurements.
Instructor: Nelson
CIV ENG 114 Environmental Microbiology 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Chemistry 1A-1B.
The scope of modern environmental engineering requires a fundamental knowledge of microbial processes with specific application to water, wastewater and the environmental fate of pollutants. This course will cover basic microbial physiology, biochemistry, metabolism, growth energetics and kinetics, ecology, pathogenicity, and genetics for application to both engineered and natural environmental systems.
Instructor: Alvarez-Cohen
CIV ENG 115 Water Chemistry 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Upper division or graduate standing in engineering or physical science, or consent of instructor.
The application of principles of inorganic, physical, and dilute solution equilibrium chemistry to aquatic systems, both in the aquatic environment and in water and wastewater treatment processes.
Instructor: Sedlak
CIV ENG C116/ESPM C128 Chemistry of Soils 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering; Environ Sci, Policy, and Management
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Civil Engineering 111 or equivalent.
Chemical mechanisms of reactions controlling the fate and mobility of nutrients and pollutants in soils. Role of soil minerals and humus in geochemical pathways of nutrient biovailability and pollutant detoxification. Chemical modeling of nutrient and pollutant soil chemistry. Applications to soil acidity and salinity.
Instructor: Sposito
CIV ENG 120 Structural Engineering 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture and 7.5 hours of Laboratory per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Civil and Environmental Engineering C30/Mechanical Engineering C85 required; Civil and Environmental Engineering 60 (maybe taken concurrently).
Introduction to design and analysis of structural systems. Loads and load placement. Proportioning of structural members in steel, reinforced concrete, and timber. Structural analysis theory. Hand and computer analysis methods, validation of results from computer analysis. Applications, including bridges, building frames, and long-span cable structures.
Instructor: Moehle
CIV ENG 121 Advanced Structural Analysis 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 120.
Theory and application of structural analysis. Stiffness and flexibility methods, with emphasis on the direct stiffness method. Equilibrium and compatibility. Virtual work. Response of linear and simple nonlinear structures to static loads. Use of computer programs for structural analysis. Modeling of two- and three-dimensional structures. Verification and interpretation of structural response.
Instructor: Filippou
CIV ENG 122L Structural Steel Design Project 1 Unit
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1.5 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Civil and Environmental Engineering 122N.
Introduction to one or more comprehensive structural design problems. Design teams will conceive structural system; determine design loads; conduct preliminary and final design of structure and its foundation; prepare construction cost estimate; prepare final report containing project description, design criteria, cost estimate, structural drawings, and supporting calculations; and make "client" presentations as required.
Students will receive no credit for Civil and Environmental Engineering 122L after taking Civil and Environmental Engineering 122 or 123L. Instructors: Astaneh, Stojadinovic
CIV ENG 122N Design of Steel Structures 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Civil and Environmental Engineering 120 or equivalent.
Introduction to materials and methods of steel construction; behavior and design of tension members, compression members, flexural members and beam-columns; design of welds, bolts, shear connections and moment connections; design of spread footings or other foundation elements, inroduction to design of earthquake-resistant steel structures including concentrically braced frames and moment frames.
Formerly known as Civil and Environmental Engineering 122. Instructors: Astaneh, Stojadinovic
CIV ENG 123L Structural Concrete Design Project 1 Unit
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1.5 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Civil and Environmental Engineering 123N.
Introduction to one or more comprehensive structural design problems. Design teams will conceive structural system; determine design loads; conduct preliminary and final design of structure and its foundation; prepare construction cost estimate; prepare final report containing project description, design criteria, cost estimate, structural drawings, and supporting calculations; make "client" presentations as required.
Students will receive no credit for Civil and Environmental Engineering 123L after taking Civil and Environmental Engineering 122L or 123. Instructors: Mahin, Moehle, Mosalam, Panagiotou
CIV ENG 123N Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 120 or equivalent.
Introduction to materials and methods of reinforced concrete construction; behavior and design of reinforced concrete beams and one-way slabs considering deflections, flexure, shear, and anchorage; behavior and design of columns; design of spread footings or other foundation elements; design of earthquake-resistant structures; introduction to prestressed concrete.
Formerly known as Civil and Environmental Engineering 123. Instructors: Mahin, Moehle, Mosalam, Panagiotou
CIV ENG 124 Structural Design in Timber 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 120.
Characteristics and properties of wood as a structural material; design and detailing of structural elements and entire structures of wood. Topics include allowable stresses, design and detailing of solid sawn and glulam beams and columns, nailed and bolted connections, plywood diaphragms and shear walls. Case studies.
Instructors: Mahin, Filippou
CIV ENG 130N Mechanics of Structures 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of computer laboratory per week. 4 hours of lecture and 6 hours of computer laboratory per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: C30/Mechanical Engineering C85, and either 60 or Engineering 45.
Elastic and plastic stress and deformation analysis of bars, shafts, beams, and columns; energy and variational methods; plastic analysis of structures; stability analysis of structures; computer-aided mathematical techniques for solution of engineering problems and modular computer programming methods.
Students will receive no credit for 130N after taking 130. Instructors: Filippou, Govindjee, Li
CIV ENG C133/MEC ENG C180 Engineering Analysis Using the Finite Element Method 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering; Mechanical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Engineering 7 or 77 or Computer Science 61A; Mathematics 53 and 54; senior status in engineering or applied science.
This is an introductory course on the finite element method and is intended for seniors in engineering and applied science disciplines. The course covers the basic topics of finite element technology, including domain discretization, polynomial interpolation, application of boundary conditions, assembly of global arrays, and solution of the resulting algebraic systems. Finite element formulations for several important field equations are introduced using both direct and integral approaches. Particular emphasis is placed on computer simulation and analysis of realistic engineering problems from solid and fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and electromagnetism. The course uses FEMLAB, a multiphysics MATLAB-based finite element program that possesses a wide array of modeling capabilities and is ideally suited for instruction. Assignments will involve both paper- and computer-based exercises. Computer-based assignments will emphasize the practical aspects of finite element model construction and analysis.
CIV ENG 140 Failure Mechanisms in Civil Engineering Materials 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 60.
The failure mechanisms in civil engineering materials (cement-based materials, metallic- and polymer-based materials) are associated with processing, microstructure, stress states, and environmental changes. Fracture mechanics of brittle, quasi-brittle, and ductile materials; cracking processes in monolithic, particulate, and fiber reinforced materials; examples of ductile/brittle failure transitions in civil engineering structures; retrofitting of existing structures; non-destructive techniques for damage detection.
Instructor: Ostertag
CIV ENG 153 Transportation Facility Design 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 155.
A capstone class with the objective to design transportation facilities based on operational capacity, site constraints, and environmental design considerations. Emphasis on airports, including landside and airside elements, and environmental assessment and mitigation techniques.
Instructor: Hansen
CIV ENG 155 Transportation Systems Engineering 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing in engineering or consent of instructor.
Operation, management, control, design, and evaluation of passenger and freight transportation systems. Their economic role. Demand analysis. Overall logistical structure. Performance models and modeling techniques: time-space diagrams, queuing theory, network analysis, and simulation. Design of control strategies for simple systems. Feedback effects. Paradoxes. Transportation impact modeling; noise; air pollution. Multi-criteria evaluation and decision making. Financing and politics.
Instructors: Cassidy, Daganzo, Hansen, Kanafani, Madanat
CIV ENG 156 Infrastructure Planning and Management 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Mathematics 1A-1B and Civil Engineering 93 (or equivalent).
This course focuses on physical infrastructure systems that support society, including transportation, communications, power, water, and waste. These are complex, large-scale systems that must be planned and managed over a long-term horizon. Economics-based, analytical tools are covered, including topics of supply, demand, and evaluation. Problem sets, case studies, and a class project provide for hands-on experience with a range of infrastructure systems, issues, and methods of analysis.
Instructor: Walker
CIV ENG 165 Concrete Materials and Construction 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 60.
Consideration of the broad aspects of use of concrete in construction; technical requirements; selection of materials; control of quality; types of concretes and construction methods used for buildings, highways, airfields, bridges, dams and other hydraulic structures. Laboratory demonstration on concrete testing and evaluation methods, field trip to construction sites. Group and individual projects on concrete construction.
Instructor: Monteiro
CIV ENG 166 Construction Engineering 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory or fieldtrip per week.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing, 167 recommended.
Introduction to construction engineering and field operations. The construction industry, construction methods and practice, productivity improvement, equipment selection, site layout formwork, erection of steel and concrete structures. Labs demonstrate the concepts covered. Field trips to local construction projects.
Instructor: Horvath
CIV ENG 167 Engineering Project Management 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 93 (can be taken concurrently) or equivalent.
Principles of economics, decision making, and law applied to company and project management. Business ownership, liability and insurance, cash flow analysis, and financial management. Project life-cycle, design-construction interface, contracts, estimating, scheduling, cost control.
Students will receive 2 units of credit for 167 after taking Engineering 120. Instructors: Ibbs, Tommelein
CIV ENG 169C Visualization and Simulation for Engineering and Management 1 Unit
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1.5 hours of Lecture per week for 10 weeks.
Prerequisites: Junior, senior, or graduate standing; 169A recommended before taking 169B or 169C.
A series of course modules on computer methods and tools for engineering and management, emphasizing the systems approach. Each 1 unit module will run for a segment of the semester, and will cover theory and hands-on laboratory exercises. Students may take 1-3 modules per semester. Representation and modeling, visualization, use of different graphic formats, and simulation in engineering and management research and practice. The course is a combination of lectures, readings, hands-on exercises, homework assignments, and a project. The project is an opportunity for students to develop a web-based application suitable to their own interests.
Instructors: Horvath, Tommelein
CIV ENG 171 Introduction to Geological Engineering 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 70 or an introductory course in physical geology and upper division standing in Engineering.
Geological and geophysical exploration for structures in rock; properties and behavior of rock masses; rock slope stability; geological engineering of underground openings; evaluation of rock foundations, including dams. No final examination.
Instructor: Glaser
CIV ENG 173 Groundwater and Seepage 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion/laboratory per week.
Prerequisites: Senior standing in engineering or science, 100 recommended.
Introduction to principles of groundwater flow, including steady and transient flow through porous media, numerical analysis, pumping tests, groundwater geology, contaminant transport, and design of waste containment systems.
Instructors: Rubin, Sitar
CIV ENG 174 Engineering Geomatics 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of lecture and 5 hours of laboratory per week for 6 weeks.
Engineering Geomatics is a field that integrates collections, processing, and analysis of digital geospatial data. This new field is anchored in the established field of geodetics that describes the complex shape of the Earth, elements and usage of topographic data and maps. Basic and advanced GPS satellite mapping. Digital globe technology. Advanced laser-LIDAR mapping. Quantitative terrain modeling, change detection, and analysis. Hydrogeomatics-seafloor mapping.
CIV ENG 175 Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture, 3 hours of laboratory and 1 hour of optional discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Civil end Environmental Engineering C30/Mechanical Engineering C85, Civil and Environmental Engineering 100 (may be taken concurrently), Civil and Environmental Engineering 70 recommended.
Soil formation and identification. Engineering properties of soils. Fundamental aspects of soil characterization and response, including soil mineralogy, soil-water movement, effective stress, consolidation, soil strength, and soil compaction. Use of soils and geosynsynthetics in geotechnical and geoenvironmental applications. Introduction to site investigation techniques. Laboratory testing and evaluation of soil composition and properties.
Instructors: Bray, Pestana, Seed, Sitar
CIV ENG 176 Environmental Geotechnics 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 175 required (or consent of instructor). 111 and 173 recommended.
Principles of environmental geotechnics applied to waste encapsulation and remediation of contaminated sites. Characterization of soils and wastes, engineering properties of soils and geosynthetics and their use in typical applications. Fate and transport of contaminants. Fundamental principles and practices in groundwater remediation. Application of environmental geotechnics in the design and construction of waste containment systems. Discussion of soil remediation and emerging technologies.
Instructors: Pestana, Sitar
CIV ENG 177 Foundation Engineering Design 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: CE 175 required, CE 120 recommended
Principles of foundation engineering. Shear strength of soil and theories related to the analysis and design of shallow and deep foundations, and retaining structures. Structural design of foundation elements; piles, pile caps, and retaining structures. The course has a group project that incorporates both geotechnical and structural components of different foundation elements.
Instructors: Bray, Seed
CIV ENG C178/EPS C178 Applied Geophysics 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering; Earth and Planetary Science
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory/field exercise per week.
The theory and practice of geophysical methods for determining the subsurface distribution of physical rock and soil properties. Measurements of gravity and magnetic fields, electrical and electromagnetic fields, and seismic velocity are interpreted to map the subsurface distribution of density, magnetic susceptibility, electrical conductivity, and mechanical properties.
Instructor: Rector
CIV ENG 179 Pavement Engineering 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall. Offered alternate years.
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: C30/Mechanical Engineering C85 required.
A first course in pavement engineering for highways and airfields, including failure mechanisms, design approaches, new pavement and rehabilitation design, effects of materials and construction on pavement performance. Emphasis on understanding of fundamental issues of pavement engineering, approaches to evaluation and design for new pavements and maintenance and rehabilitation design, practical lab experience with asphalt concrete materials and tools used for evaluation and design of pavements, understanding of construction issues, and effects on pavement performance.
Formerly known as 179N.
CIV ENG 180 Life-Ccle Design and Construction 4 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Civil and Environmental Engineering 167.
Course encompasses two design aspects of a civil and environmental engineering system: 1) Design of whole system, component, or life-cycle phase, subject to engineering standards and constraints, and 2) production system design (e.g., cost estimation and control, scheduling, commercial and legal terms, site layout design). Students form teams to address real-life projects and prepare project documentation and a final presentation.
Instructor: Horvath
CIV ENG 186 Design of Cyber-Physical Systems 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 191.
Design and prototype of large-scale technology intensive systems. Design project incorporating infrastruture systems and areas such as transportation and hydrology; for example, watershed sensor networks, robot networks for environmental management, mobile Internet monitoring, open societal scale systems, crowd-sources applications, traffic management. Design of sensing and control systems, prototyping systems, and measures of system performance. Modeling, software and hardware implementation.
Instructors: Bayen, Glaser, Sengupta
CIV ENG 191 Civil and Environmental Engineering Systems Analysis 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of computer laboratory per week.
Prerequisites: 93, Engineering 7 or 77.
This course is organized around five real-world large-scale CEE systems problems. The problems provide the motivation for the study of quantitative tools that are used for planning or managing these systems. The problems include design of a public transportation system for an urban area, resource allocation for the maintenance of a water supply system, development of repair and replacement policies for reinforced concrete bridge decks, traffic signal control for an arterial street, scheduling in a large-scale construction project.
Formerly known as 152. Instructors: Bayen, Madanat, Sengupta
CIV ENG 192 The Art and Science of Civil and Environmental Engineering Practice 1 Unit
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Senior standing in civil and environmental engineering.
A series of lectures by distinguished professionals designed to provide an appreciation of the role of science, technology, and the needs of society in conceiving projects, balancing the interplay of conflicting demands, and utilizing a variety of disciplines to produce unified and efficient systems.
CIV ENG 193 Engineering Risk Analysis 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing.
Applications of probability theory and statistics in planning, analysis, and design of civil engineering systems. Development of probabilistic models for risk and reliability evaluation. Occurrence models; extreme value distributions. Analysis of uncertainties. Introduction to Bayesian statistical decision theory and its application in engineering decision-making.
Instructor: Der Kiureghian
CIV ENG H194 Honors Undergraduate Research 3 - 4 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 to 4 hours of Independent study per week for 15 weeks. 6 to 7.5 hours of Independent study per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 to 10 hours of Independent study per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Upper division technical GPA 3.3, consent of instructor and faculty advsior.
Supervised research. Students who have completed 3 or more upper division courses may pursue original research under the direction of one of the members of the staff. A final report or presentation is required. A maximum of 4 units of H194 may be used to fulfill the technical elective requirement.
Course may be repeated once for credit only.Course may be repeated for a maximum of 8 units.
CIV ENG 197 Field Studies in Civil Engineering 1 - 4 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Fieldwork per week for 15 weeks. 1.5 to 6 hours of Fieldwork per week for 10 weeks. 1.5 to 7.5 hours of Fieldwork per week for 8 weeks. 2.5 to 10 hours of Fieldwork per week for 6 weeks.
Supervised experience in off-campus companies relevant to specific aspects and applications of civil engineering. Written report required at the end of the semester.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
CIV ENG 198 Directed Group Study for Advanced Undergraduates 1 - 4 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Directed group study per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Senior standing in engineering.
Group study of a selected topic or topics in civil engineering.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
CIV ENG 199 Supervised Independent Study 1 - 4 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hours of independent study per week. 1 to 4 hours of independent study per week for 10 weeks. 1 to 4 hours of independent study per week for 8 weeks. 1 to 5 hours of independent study per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and major adviser. Enrollment is restricted; see the Course Number Guide for details.
Supervised independent study.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course may be repeated for a maximum of four units per semester.
CIV ENG 200A Environmental Fluid Mechanics 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100; Mathematics 53, 54 or equivalents.
Fluid mechanics of the natural water and air environment. Flux equation analyses; unsteady free surface flow; stratified flow; Navier-Stokes equations; boundary layers, jets and plumes; turbulence, Reynolds equations, turbulence modeling; mixing, diffusion, dispersion, and contaminant transport; geophysical flows in atmosphere and ocean; steady and unsteady flow in porous media. Application to environmentally sensitive flows in surface and groundwater and in lower atmosphere.
Students will receive no credit for 200A after taking 105 before fall 1999. Formerly known as 105. Instructors: Chow, Stacey
CIV ENG 200B Numerical Methods for Environmental Flow Modeling 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 200A or consent of instructor.
Introduction to numerical methods with application to environmental flows (atmospheric, surface water, and subsurface flows). Scalar advection/ diffusion equations used to study finite difference schemes, numerical errors and stability. Methods introduced for solving Navier-Stokes equations and for turbulence modeling with Reynolds-averaging and large-eddy simulation. Basic programming skills required for hands-on exercises.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as 204. Instructor: Chow
CIV ENG 200C Transport and Mixing in the Environment 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100, Math 53 and 54, or equivalent.
Application of fluid mechanics to transport and mixing in the environment. Fundamentals of turbulence, turbulent diffusion, and shear dispersion in steady and oscillatory flows and the effects of stratification. Application to rivers, wetlands, lakes, estuaries, the coastal ocean, and the lower atmosphere.
Formerly known as 209A. Instructor: Stacey
CIV ENG 202A Vadose Zone Hydrology 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 173 or equivalent.
Course addresses fundamental and practical issues in flow and transport phenomena in the vadose zone, which is the geologic media between the land surface and the regional water table. A theoretical framework for modeling these phenomena will be presented, followed by applications in the areas of ecology, drainage and irrigation, and contaminant transport. Hands-on applications using numerical modeling and analysis of real-life problems and field experiments will be emphasized.
Students will receive no credit for 202A after taking 202 before fall 1998. Formerly known as 202. Instructor: Rubin
CIV ENG 203A Graduate Hydrology 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week.
Hydrology is presented and analyzed in the context of a continuum extending from the atmosphere to the land surface to the subsurface to free water bodies. In this class, we develop the theoretical frameworks required to address problems that both lie within individual components and span these traditionally separate environments. Starting from a development of the fundamental dynamics of fluid motion, we examine applications within the subsurface, the atmosphere and surface water systems.
Instructors: Thompson, Rubin
CIV ENG 203N Surface Water Hydrology 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 103 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Course addresses topics of surface water hydrology, such as processes of water in the atmosphere, over land surface, and within soil; advanced representation and models for infiltration and evapotranspiration processes; partition of water and energy budgets at the land surface; snow and snowmelt processes; applications of remote sensing; flood and drought, and issues related to advanced hydrological modeling. Students will address practical problems and will learn how to use the current operational hydrologic forecasting model, and build hydrological models.
Formerly known as 203.
CIV ENG 205B Margins of Quality for Engineered Systems 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 125, 193 or equivalents and senior design experience.
Processes and procedures to define and determine the demands and capacities of the structures and hardware elements of engineered systems during their life-cycles: margins of quality. The objective of this course is to provide students with the knowledge and skills to define and evaluate system demands, capacities, and reliabiltity targets to be used in design, requalification, construction, operation, maintenance, and decommissioning of engineered systems.
Instructor: Bea
CIV ENG 209 Design for Sustainable Communities 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
This course provides conceptual and hands-on experience in design and implementation of innovative products or processes for improving the sustainability of resource-constrained communities (mostly poor ones in the developing countries). Teams of students will take on practical projects, with guidance from subject experts.
Instructor: Gadgill
CIV ENG 210A Control of Water-Related Pathogens 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Basic course in microbiology recommended; graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Comprehensive strategies for the assessment and control of water-related human pathogens (disease-causing microorganisms). Transmission routes and life cycles of common and emerging organisms, conventional and new detection methods (based on molecular techniques), human and animal sources, fate and transport in the environment, treatment and disinfection, appropriate technology, regulatory approaches, water reuse.
Instructor: Nelson
CIV ENG 211A Environmental Physical-Chemical Processes 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 111 or equivalent and course work in aquatic chemistry, or consent of instructor.
Fundamental concepts of physical-chemical processes that affect water quality in natural and engineered environmental systems. Focus is on developing a qualitative understanding of mechanisms as well as quantitative tools to describe, predict, and control the behavior of physical-chemical processes. Topics include reactor hydraulics and reaction kinetics, gas transfer, adsorption, particle characteristics, flocculation, gravitational separations, filtration, membranes, and disinfection.
Instructor: Nelson
CIV ENG 211B Environmental Biological Processes 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 111 or equivalent and course work in microbiology, or consent of instructor.
Fundamental concepts of biological processes that are important in natural and engineered environmental systems, especially those affecting water quality. Incorporates basic fundamentals of microbiology into a quantifiable engineering context to describe, predict, and control behavior of environmental biological systems. Topics include the stoichiometry, energetics and kinetics of microbial reactions, suspended and biofilm processes, carbon and nutrient cycling, and bioremediation applications.
Instructor: Alvarez-Cohen
CIV ENG 213 Watersheds and Water Quality 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Overview of approaches used by engineers to preserve or improve water quality at the watershed scale. Characterization and modeling of nutrients, metals, and organic contaminants in watersheds. Application of ecosystem modification and pollutant trading to enhance water quality. The course emphasizes recent case studies and interdisciplinary approaches for solving water quality problems.
Students will receive no credit for 213 after taking 290C. Instructor: Sedlak
CIV ENG 217 Environmental Chemical Kinetics 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor; 115 or 214 or equivalent.
Kinetic aspects of chemical fate and transport in aquatic systems. Quantitative descriptions of the kinetics of intermedia transport and pollutant transformation by abiotic, photochemical, and biological reactions. Techniques for the estimation of environmental reaction rates. Development of models of pollutant behavior in complex natural systems.
Instructor: Sedlak
CIV ENG 218A Air Quality Engineering 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in engineering or consent of instructor.
Quantitative overview of the characterization and control of air pollution problems. Summary of fundamental chemical and physical processes governing pollutant behavior. Analysis of key elements of the air pollution system: sources and control techniques, atmospheric transformation, atmospheric transport, modeling, and air quality management.
Instructors: Nazaroff, Harley
CIV ENG 218B Atmospheric Aerosols 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Supplement per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor, Civil and Environmental Engineering 218A recommended.
Nature, behavior and signifance of airborne particulate matter. Size distributions. Transport phenomena and deposition processes. Light scattering, visibility impairment, and climate consequences. Aerosol thermodynamics and kinetics of phase-change processes, including nucleation. Phase partitioning of semivolatile species. Coagulation. Atmospheric sources including primary and secondary particle formation. Loss mechanisms including wet and dry deposition. Technological controls.
Instructor: Nazaroff
CIV ENG 218C Air Pollution Modeling 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 218A.
Theory and practice of mathematical air quality modeling. Modeling atmospheric chemical transformation processes. Effects of uncertainty in model parameters on predictions. Review of atmospheric diffusion theory and boundary layer meteorology. Dispersion modeling. Combining chemistry and transport.
Instructor: Harley
CIV ENG 220 Structural Analysis Theory and Applications 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 121 or equivalent.
Theory and applications of modern structural analysis. Direct stiffness method. Matrix formulations. Virtual work principles. Numerical solution methods. Modeling and practical analysis of large frame structures. Elastoplastic analysis of frames. P-delta effects.
Instructor: Filippou
CIV ENG 221 Nonlinear Structural Analysis 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 220.
Theory, modeling, and computation for analysis of structures with material and geometric nonlinearities. Sources of nonlinearity. Solution strategies for static and dynamic loads. Modeling of inelastic materials and members. P-delta and large deformation theory. Analysis of stability. Practical applications.
Instructor: Filippou
CIV ENG 222 Finite Element Methods 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites: 220 or equivalent, 131 or 231.
Approximation theory for analysis of deformation and stress in solids. Finite element formulations for frame, plane stress/strain, axisymmetric, torsion, and three-dimensional elastic problems. The isoparametric formulation and implementation. Plate and shell elements. Finite element modeling of structural systems.
Instructors: Filippou, Govindjee
CIV ENG 223 Earthquake Protective Systems 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 220, 225, or consent of instructor.
Conceptual basis for earthquake protective systems including seismic isolation and energy absorbing techniques. Design rules for seismic isolation, energy absorbing and self-centering systems. Characteristics of isolation bearings, frictional, metallic and energy absorbing devices, code provision for earthquake protective systems. Applications to new and existing structures.
Students will receive no credit for 223 after taking 290D. Formerly known as 290D. Instructors: Mahin, Panagiotou
CIV ENG 225 Dynamics of Structures 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 220 (may be taken concurrently) or equivalent.
Evaluation of deformations and forces in structures, idealized as single-degree of freedom or discrete-parameter multi-degree of freedom systems, due to dynamic forces. Evaluation of earthquake-induced deformations and forces in structures by linear response history analysis; estimation of maximum response by response spectrum analysis; effects of inelastic behavior. Laboratory demonstrations.
Instructor: Chopra
CIV ENG 226 Stochastic Structural Dynamics 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall. Offered odd-numbered years. Offered odd-numbered years.
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 225.
Introduction to the theory of probability and random processes. Correlation and power spectral density functions. Stochastic dynamic analysis of single- and multi-degree-of-freedom structures subjected to stationary and non-stationary random excitations. Time- and frequency-domain analyses; modal cross-correlations. Response to multi-support excitations. Level crossings, envelope process, first-excursion probability, and distributions of peaks and extremes. Introduction to nonlinear stochastic dynamic analysis. Applications in earthquake, wind, and ocean engineering.
Instructor: Der Kiureghian
CIV ENG 227 Earthquake-Resistant Design 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 220 and 225.
Design of structures to resist earthquakes and other dynamic excitations. Characterization of earthquakes for design. Development of design criteria for elastic and inelastic structural response. Seismic performance of various structural systems. Prediction of nonlinear seismic behavior. Basis for code design procedures. Preliminary design of steel and reinforced concrete structures. Evaluation of earthquake vulnerability of existing structures and rehabilitation of seismic deficiencies.
Instructors: Mahin, Moehle
CIV ENG 228 Advanced Earthquake Analysis 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring. Offered odd-numbered years.
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 225.
Advanced topics in time-domain dynamic analysis of structures. Frequency-domain analysis of dynamic response; discrete Fourier transform methods. Earthquake analysis of structures including structural-foundation-soil interaction, and of structures interacting with fluids.
Instructor: Chopra
CIV ENG 229 Structural System Reliability 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing.
Review of probability theory. Multivariate distribution models. Review of classical methods for characterization of systems and assessment of system reliability. Formulation of structural reliability for components and systems. Exact solutions for special cases. Computational reliability methods, including first- and second-order reliability methods (FORM and SORM), response surface, Monte Carlo simulation, and importance sampling. Bounds on system reliability. Reliability sensitivity and importance measures. Bayesian updating and reliability analysis under statistical and model uncertainties. Introductions to reliability-based optimal design, time- and space-variant reliability analysis, and finite-element reliability methods.
Instructor: Der Kiureghian
CIV ENG C231/MAT SCI C211 Mechanics of Solids 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Mechanical response of materials: Simple tension in elastic, plastic and viscoelastic members. Continuum mechanics: The stress and strain tensors, equilibrium, compatibility. Three-dimensional elastic, plastic and viscoelastic problems. Thermal, transformation, and dealloying stresses. Applications: Plane problems, stress concentrations at defects, metal forming problems.
Students will receive no credit for 231 after taking 231A or 231B prior to Fall 1992. Instructor: Govindjee
CIV ENG 232 Structural Mechanics 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 231 or consent of instructor.
The goal of this course is to study the theories of structural mechanics within the framework of nonlinear continuum mechanics of solids. Finite elasticity; invariance. Energy principles: principles of virtual and complementary virtual work; primary and mixed variational principles. Theory of stability: Euler method; stability under follower loads. Classical theories of beams: planar, torsional, and lateral buckling. Plate theories. Invariant theories of structural mechanics: directed continua; Cosserat theories of rods.
Instructor: Armero
CIV ENG 233 Computational Mechanics 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall. Students will no credit for 233 after taking 233A prior to Fall 1993. Offered even-numbered years.
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 222, or consent of instructor.
Computational methods for solution of problems in structural mechanics. Finite-element methods for displacement and mixed variational solutions of problems in elasticity and inelasticity. Treatment of constraints arising from near incompressibility in solids, transverse shear effects in beams, plates, and shells, and/or contact between structures. Programming methods for finite-element implementations.
Instructor: Armero
CIV ENG 234 Computational Inelasticity 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall. Offered odd-numbered years.
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 231 or Materials Science and Engineering 211 or Mechanical Engineering 185.
Computational methods applied to inelastic deformations of solids; 1, 2, and 3-D large and small-deformation continuum plasticity and viscoelasticity models and their algorithmic approximations; viscoplastic regularizations and softening; thermodynamics and its relationship to algorithmic stability; return mappings, closest-point projections and operator splits; application to metals, soils, concrete, and polymers and incorporation into finite element codes.
Instructors: Armero, Govindjee
CIV ENG C235/MEC ENG C279 Statistical Mechanics of Elasticity 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering; Mechanical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Introduction to statistical mechanics for engineers interested in the constitutive behavior of matter with a particular interest in continua. Systems of interest will be polymers and crystalline solids. Coverage includes introduction to statistical mechanics, ensembles, phase spaces, partitions functions, free energy, polymer chain statistics, polymer networks, harmonic and quasi-harmonic crystalline solids, limitations of classical methods and quantum mechanical influences.
Instructors: Govindjee, Papadopoulos
CIV ENG C236/MAT SCI C214 Micromechanics 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Basic theories, analytical techniques, and mathematical foundations of micromechanics. It includes 1. physical micromechanics, such as mathematical theory of dislocation, and cohesive fracture models; 2. micro-elasticity that includes Eshelby's eigenstrain theory, comparison variational principles, and micro-crack/micro-cavity based damage theory; 3. theoretical composite material that includes the main methodologies in evaluating overall material properties; 4. meso-plasticity that includes meso-damage theory, and the crystal plasticity; 5. homogenization theory for materials with periodic structures.
Instructors: Govindjee, Li
CIV ENG C237/NSE C237 Computational Nano-mechanics 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering; Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring. Offered in even years.
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week and 1 hour of laboratory every 2 weeks.
Basic mathematics foundations, physical models, computational formulations and algorithms that are used in nanoscale simulations and modelings. They include (1) cohesive finite element methods and discontinuous Galerkin methods; (2) meshfree methods, partition of unity methods, and the eXtended finite element methods (X-FEM); (3) quasicontinuum method; (4) molecular dynamics; (5) multiscale simulations; (6) Boltzmann method.
Instructor: Li
CIV ENG 240 Civil Engineering Materials 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: An undergraduate course in civil engineering materials.
Microstructures of concrete, wood, and steel. Differences and similarities in response to loading and environmental effects on these materials, with emphasis on strength, elastic properties, creep, shrinkage, thermal stresses, and failure mechanisms.
Instructors: Monteiro, Ostertag
CIV ENG 241 Concrete Technology 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 165 or equivalent.
Properties of fresh and hardened concrete; strength, elastic behavior, creep, shrinkage, and durability to chemical and physical attacks. New concrete-making materials. Recent advancements in concrete technology: high-strength, high-workability, and high-performance concrete; fiber-reinforced concrete, and roller-compacted concrete.
Instructor: Monteiro
CIV ENG 244 Reinforced Concrete Structures 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 123.
Analysis and design of reinforced concrete elements and systems that are common in building and bridge structures, with an emphasis on seismic response and design; structural design methods; reinforced concrete materials; confined concrete; line elements under axial, flexural, and shear loadings; bond, anchorage, and development; seismic design principles; earthquake-resistant building frames, walls, diaphragms, and foundations; earthquake-resistant bridges.
Instructor: Moehle
CIV ENG 245 Behavior of Reinforced Concrete 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring. Offered even-numbered years.
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 123 and 220.
Advanced topics in reinforced concrete construction, including inelastic flexural behavior; applications of plastic analysis to reinforced concrete frames; behavior in shear and torsion; yield-line analysis of slabs; behavior under cyclic and reversed loading; seismic rehabilitation.
Instructor: Moehle
CIV ENG 246 Prestressed Concrete Structures 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 244 or consent of instructor.
Behavior and design of statically determinate prestressed concrete structures under bending moment, shear, torsion and axial load effects. Design of continous prestressed concrete beams, frames, slabs, and shells. Time-dependent effects and deflections of prestressed concrete structures. Applications to the design and construction of bridges and buildings.
Instructors: Filippou, Moehle
CIV ENG 247 Design of Steel and Composite Structures 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 122 or equivalent.
Behavior and design of steel plate girders and shear walls. Design of bracings for stability. Design of members subjected to torsion. Design of composite beams, columns, and beam-columns. Behavior and design of shear, semi-rigid and moment connections. Concepts used in design of gusset plates and base plates. Selection and design of steel and composite systems.
Instructors: Astaneh, Mahin
CIV ENG 248 Behavior and Plastic Design of Steel Structures 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall. Offered even-numbered years.
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 122 or equivalent.
Topics related to inelastic behavior and plastic design of steel members and structures. Behavior of plastic hinge in members subjected to bending moment, axial force, shear, and their combinations. Collapse mechanisms of steel members and structures such as moment frames and braced systems. Inelastic cyclic behavior of steel components. Introduction to fracture and fatigue of steel components.
Instructors: Astaneh, Mahin, Stojadinovic
CIV ENG 249 Experimental Methods in Structural Engineering 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall. Offered odd-numbered years.
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
This course covers the following topics: similitude laws, design of structural models, instrumentation and measurement techniques; use of computers to acquire data and control tests; pseudo-dynamic testing method; standard proof-testing for capacity assessment; non-destructive testing for condition assessment, and virtual experimentation. Upon completing this course, the students will be able to use experimental methods to investigate the behavior of a structure and to evaluate its condition.
Instructors: Stojadinovic, Mahin
CIV ENG C250N/CY PLAN C217 Transportation Policy and Planning 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering; City and Regional Planning
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Prerequisites: 213 or consent of instructor.
Policy issues in urban transportation planning; measuring the performance of transportation systems; the transportation policy formulation process; transportation finance, pricing, and subsidy issues; energy and air quality in transportation; specialized transportation for elderly and disabled people; innovations in transportation policy.
CIV ENG 251 Operation of Transportation Facilities 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
The management of vehicle flows and fleets. Traffic stream properties and their measurement. Theories of traffic flow. Capacity analysis and queueing. Flow control and fleet scheduling.
Instructors: Cassidy, Daganzo
CIV ENG 252 Systems Analysis in Transportation 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
The systems approach and its application to transportation planning and engineering. Prediction of flows and level of service. Production functions and cost minimization. Utility theory and demand modeling. Transportation network analysis and equilibrium assignment. Decision analysis and evaluation of transportation projects.
Instructor: Madanat
CIV ENG 253 Intelligent Transportation Systems 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
The use of advanced surveillance, navigation, communication, and computer technology to monitor, analyze, and improve the performance of transportation systems. Enabling technologies. Application to monitoring, analysis, evaluation, and prediction of transportation system performance and behavior. Intervention strategies. Feasibility studies. Human factors and institutional issues. Case studies. In the laboratory, students carry out a term project under the supervision of an ITS researcher.
Instructors: Sengupta, Skabardonis
CIV ENG 254 Transportation Economics 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 252 or consent of instructor.
Application of micro- and macro-economic concepts to transportation systems. Urban and interregional travel demand analysis. Freight demand. Project and program evaluation. Social welfare theory. Analysis of social cost. Investment analysis and pricing theory. Economic impact analysis. Role of economic analysis in decision making.
Instructors: Hansen, Kanafani
CIV ENG 255 Highway Traffic Operations 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 251 or consent of instructor.
Operational planning and management of the highway transportation system. The highway system is presented as a set of operating environments with each having its unique analytical framework. Major topics to be covered include policy and institutional issues, selection of strategies and tactics, evaluation of objectives and measures of effectiveness.
Instructor: Cassidy
CIV ENG 256 Transportation Sustainability 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
This multi-disciplinary course is intended to introduce students to the fundamentals of sustainable transportation, with an emphasis on: 1) current trends, climate and energy science, and the policy context; 2) methodological and analysis techniques; 3) vehicle technology, fuels, and intelligent transportation systems (ITS) solutions (supply side); and 4) land use, public transportation, and demand management.
Instructor: Horvath
CIV ENG 258 Logistics 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Vehicle routing. Transportation-inventory-production interrelationships, physical distribution networks, many-to-many networks (airlines, postal, etc.), the role of transshipments and terminals in logistic systems for the transportation of goods and passengers, public and private transportation system design. Relevant methodologies.
Instructor: Daganzo
CIV ENG C258/IND ENG C253 Supply Chain and Logistics Management 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering; Industrial Engin and Oper Research
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week.
Supply chain analysis is the study of quantitative models that characterize various economic trade-offs in the supply chain. The field has made significant strides on both theoretical and practical fronts. On the theoretical front, supply chain analysis inspires new research ventures that blend operations research, game theory, and microeconomics. These ventures result in an unprecedented amalgamation of prescriptive, descriptive, and predictive models characteristic of each subfield. On the practical front, supply chain analysis offers solid foundations for strategic positioning, policy setting, and decision making.
Instructor: Shen
CIV ENG 259 Public Transportation Systems 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of optional discussion per week.
Prerequisites: 251, 252, and 262 (or equivalent course).
Analysis of mass transit systems, their operation, and management. Technology of transit vehicles and structures. Public policy and financing.
Instructors: Cassidy, Daganzo, Madanat
CIV ENG 260 Air Transportation 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Nature of civil aviation; structure of the airline industry; aircraft characteristics and performance; aircraft noise; navigation and air traffic control; airport planning and design; airline operations; aviation system planning.
Instructors: Hansen, Kanafani
CIV ENG 261 Infrastructure Systems Management 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 252 or equivalent, 262 or equivalent.
Integrated treatment of quantitative and analytical methods for the management of infrastructure facilities over their life. The focus of the course is on statistical modeling and numerical optimization methods and their application to managing systems of civil infrastructure, with an emphasis on transportation facilities.
Instructor: Madanat
CIV ENG 262 Analysis of Transportation Data 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Session per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: College calculus or consent of instructor.
Probabilistic models in transportation. The use of field data. Data gathering techniques, sources of errors, considerations of sample size. Experiment design for demand forecasting and transportation operations analysis. Analysis techniques.
Instructors: Daganzo, Hansen, Madanat
CIV ENG 263 Operations of Transportation Terminals 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Session per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Characteristics of terminals on a mode by mode basis (sea ports, railyards, airports, parking lots, etc.). Methodologies used to study terminal operations and the management of congestion. (Chronographs, input-output diagrams, pricing, simulation). Studies illustrating the use of the methodologies for different modes.
Instructor: Daganzo
CIV ENG 264 Behavioral Modeling for Engineering, Planning, and Policy Analysis 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 262 or City and Regional Planning 204 or equivalent.
Many aspects of engineering, planning, and policy involve a human element, be it consumers, businesses, governments, or other organizations. Effective design and management requires understanding this human response. This course focuses on behavioral theories and the use of quantitative methods to analyze human response. A mix of theory and practical tools are covered, with applications drawn from infrastructure investment and use, urban growth and design, health, and sustainability.
Instructor: Walker
CIV ENG C265/PB HLTH C285 Traffic Safety and Injury Control 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering; Public Health
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
This course applies principles of engineering, behavioral science, and vision science to preventing traffic collisions and subsequent injury. A systematic approach to traffic safety will be presented in the course, and will include (1) human behavior, vehicle design, and roadway design as interacting approaches to preventing traffic crashes and (2) vehicle and roadway designs as approaches to preventing injury once a collision has occured. Implications of intelligent transportation system concepts for traffic safety will be discussed throughout the course.
Instructor: Ragland
CIV ENG 268A Lean Construction Concepts and Methods 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Inspired by the "lean" resolution in manufacturing, production management concepts and methods are woven into a lean project delivery system. Key concepts include flow, value, variability, and waste. Key methods include proecution system design, target costing, value stream mapping, and work flow control. Student teams apply concepts and methods in field studies of real project management processes and construction operations. The course includes a tour of the NUMMI Auto Plant in Fremont.
Formerly known as 290M. Instructor: Ballard
CIV ENG 268B Lean Construction and Supply Chain Management 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Principles and practices of "lean" production are applied to project delivery in the AEC industry. Case studies illustrate the concepts. Project delivery is viewed holistically with a focus on work structuring and supply chain management. Topics include systems dynamics, uncertainty, and variation; materials management; logistics; e-commerce; building information modeling (BIM); and integrated product and process design. Students use process simulation to assess performance of different system configurations and develop a case study applying concepts on a real project.
Formerly known as 290N. Instructor: Tommelein
CIV ENG 268D Law for Engineers 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Engineering involves many parties with diverse interests. Legal principles form the framework for their interaction. Contracts for engineering services establish both risk allocation and reciprocal liabilities. Issues of contract formation, performance, breach, and remedy are covered in detail. Standard of care and professional negligence are emphasized during the discussion of tort law. Other topics include regulation, legal relationships, litigation, and alternative dispute resolution.
Formerly known as 290L.
CIV ENG 268E Civil Systems and the Environment 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 166 or 167 or equivalent.
Methods and tools for economic and environmental analysis of civil engineering systems. Focus on construction, transportation, and operation, and maintenance of the built infrastructure. Life-cycle planning, design, costing, financing, and environmental assessment. Industrial ecology, design for environment, pollution prevention, external costs. Models and software tools for life-cycle economic and environmental inventory, impact, and improvement analysis of civil engineering systems.
Instructor: Horvath
CIV ENG 268H Advanced Project Planning and Control 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 167.
Cost and time estimating and controlling techniques for projects. Evaluation of labor, material, equipment, and subcontract resources, scheduling techniques, earned value concepts. Measuring project percent complete. Contractual risk allocation. Project investment analysis techniques.
Instructor: Ibbs
CIV ENG 268I Business Fundamentals for Engineers 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 167 or equivalent.
This course will provide a broad survey of management practices critical to starting and managing a business in the engineering and construction industries. Topics that are covered include the entrepreneurial process; organizing and staffing; establishing and applying production control systems; means of protecting products and services from competitive threat; and financial management.
Instructor: Ibbs
CIV ENG 268K Human and Organizational Factors: Quality and Reliability of Engineered Systems 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing.
This course addresses human and organizational factors in development of desirable quality and reliabiltiy in engineered systems during their life-cyles (concept development through decommissioning). Applications tested and verified proactive, reactive, and interactive approaches are developed and illustrated.
Formerly known as 290A. Instructor: Bea
CIV ENG 270 Advanced Geomechanics 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 175 or equivalent.
Advanced treatment of topics in soil mechanics, including state of stress, consolidation and settlement analysis, shear strength of cohesionless and cohesive soils, and slope stability analysis.
Formerly known as 270A. Instructors: Bray, Pestana, Seed
CIV ENG 271 Sensors and Signal Interpretation 3 Units
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
An introduction to the fundamentals of sensor usage and signal processing, and their application to civil systems. In particular, the course focuses on how basic classes of sensors work, and how to go about choosing the best of the new MEMS-based devices for an application. The interpretation of the data focuses on analysis of transient signals, an area typically ignored in traditional signal processing courses. Goals include development of a critical understanding of the assumptions used in common sensing and analysis methods and their implications, strengths, and limitations.
Instructor: Glaser
CIV ENG 272 Numerical Modelling in Geomechanics 3 Units