Jun 15, 2024  
USC Catalogue 2020-2021 
    
USC Catalogue 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction


The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.

 

Cancer Biology and Genomics

  
  • CBG 794z Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit


Craniofacial Biology

  
  • CBY 561 Molecular Biology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in INTD 561 )
  
  • CBY 571 Biochemistry

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in INTD 571 )
  
  • CBY 573 Molecular Embryology

    Units: 4
    Principles of developmental biology; emphasis on molecular genetics and cell and molecular mechanisms of tissue interaction and morphodifferentiation.
  
  • CBY 574 Statistical Methods in Bioexperimentation

    Units: 3
    Experimental design and analysis as applied to all levels of biologic organization; hypothesis construction; probability; univariate and multivariate analysis; basic epidemiology.
  
  • CBY 575 Biologic Basis of Oral-facial Disease

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Cell and molecular biology of oral tissues in disease: emphasis on immunopathology.
    Duplicates Credit in former CBY 575a.
  
  • CBY 576 Biochemical Aspects of Periodontal Disease

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Cell and molecular biology of oral tissues in disease; emphasis on molecular oral pathology.
    Duplicates Credit in former CBY 575b.
  
  • CBY 578 Pathological Conditions of the Craniofacial Complex

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Acquired and inherited, systemic and local disease resulting in clinical craniofacial morbidity: cellular and molecular expression as related to etiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.
  
  • CBY 579L Craniofacial Molecular Genetics

    Units: 4
    Principles and methodologies of mammalian molecular genetics; laboratory exercises applied to pre- and postnatal craniofacial growth and development.
  
  • CBY 580a Seminars in Craniofacial Biology

    Units: 2
    Seminars presented by recognized researchers in the various disciplines relating to craniofacial biology; selected readings in preparation for discussion.
    Grading Option: Graded CR/NC.

  
  • CBY 580b Seminars in Craniofacial Biology

    Units: 2
    Seminars presented by recognized researchers in the various disciplines relating to craniofacial biology; selected readings in preparation for discussion.
    Grading Option: Graded CR/NC.

  
  • CBY 582L Laboratory Methods

    Units: 3
    Contemporary methods of laboratory analysis, including theoretical and practical exposure to procedures and equipment in the research laboratory.
  
  • CBY 583 Craniofacial Clinical Genetics

    Units: 4
    Principles of human genetics; clinically oriented normal and abnormal human embryology; diagnosis and natural history of human craniofacial birth defects; genetic counseling and bioethics.
  
  • CBY 585 Systematic Research Writing

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Enhancement of critical research thinking by fulfilling anticipated conceptual components of the journal article; perfection of writing skills by correcting inter- and intra-sentence flaws.
  
  • CBY 586x Scientific Writing Practicum

    Units: 3
    Development of writing skill while completing a discipline-required project (proposal, dissertation, journal article). Seminar and tutorial format. Not for graduate credit.
    Prerequisite: CBY 585  or DENT 402 .
  
  • CBY 587 Cell and Molecular Biology of Craniofacial Tissues

    Units: 3
    Contemporary cell and molecular biology as applied to the development, structure, and function of craniofacial tissues.
  
  • CBY 590 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Research leading to the master’s degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Grading Option: Graded CR/NC.

  
  • CBY 594a Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Grading Option: Graded IP/CR/NC.

  
  • CBY 594b Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Grading Option: Graded IP/CR/NC.

  
  • CBY 594z Master’s Thesis

    Units: 0
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Grading Option: Graded IP/CR/NC.

  
  • CBY 599 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: max 8
    Seminars on craniofacial biology in subject areas of special interest to faculty and students.
  
  • CBY 671 Epistemology and Ethos of Bioscience

    Units: 2
    Classical and contemporary thought on knowledge acquisition, truth, and method as applied to bioscience; characteristic spirit, beliefs, and moral assumptions of bioscientists in modern history.
  
  • CBY 672 Advances in Development and Differentiation

    Units: 2
    Integration of recent advances in cell and molecular developmental biology into classical and emerging thematic frameworks.
  
  • CBY 673 Biomineralization

    Units: 2
    Fundamental principles and mechanisms of matrix mediated biomineralization in model systems from bacteria to humans.
  
  • CBY 674 Advanced Oral Microbiology

    Units: 2
    Cell and molecular aspects of microbiology as applied to oral infections: microbial physiology and genetics; oral microbial ecology; host resistance factors in oral infections.
  
  • CBY 790 Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Grading Option: Graded CR/NC.

  
  • CBY 794a Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Grading Option: Graded IP/CR/NC.

  
  • CBY 794b Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Grading Option: Graded IP/CR/NC.

  
  • CBY 794c Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Grading Option: Graded IP/CR/NC.

  
  • CBY 794d Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Grading Option: Graded IP/CR/NC.

  
  • CBY 794z Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 0
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Grading Option: Graded IP/CR/NC.


Civil Engineering

  
  • CE 106 Introduction to Civil Engineering

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Introduction to the civil engineering discipline, subdisciplines, technology and problem solving; technical report writing; contemporary civil engineering topics; engineering ethics.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 107L Introduction to Civil Engineering Graphics

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Graphic communication and drawing; Free-hand sketching; Use of CAD software; Drawing in 2-D, including lettering, dimensioning, and detailing; Drawing and modeling in 3-D.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 108 Introduction to Computer Methods in Civil Engineering

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Computer programming, organization of problems for computational solution, flow charts, programming; numerical methods; analysis and solution of civil engineering problems.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 110 Introduction to Environmental Engineering

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Basic concepts of environmental engineering including topics of water, land, energy, air, climate, resource management, human society and professional development.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 119 Probability Concepts and Civil Engineering

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Elements of statistical data exploration, interpretation and analysis.
    Corequisite: MATH 245 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 215 Statics and Dynamics

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Statics, kinematics and kinetics of systems of particles and rigid bodies; equivalent force systems; distributed forces and applications; moments of inertia, momentum, energy; vibrations; Euler’s equations.
    Prerequisite: PHYS 151Lg  
    Duplicates Credit in former CE 205 and former CE 235
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 225 Mechanics of Deformable Bodies

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Analysis of stress and strain; axial, flexural, and torsional behavior of slender bars; elastic deflections; combined stresses; introduction to elastic stability and energy methods.
    Prerequisite: CE 215  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 309 Fluid Mechanics

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Fluid statics; relative velocity field; total acceleration; divergence theorem; conservation of mass, energy, and momentum applied to engineering problems in laminar and turbulent flow.
    Prerequisite: MATH 226g  or MATH 229 
    Corequisite: CE 225 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 334L Mechanical Behavior of Materials

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Basic material science, atomic bonding, crystalline structures, structural and mechanical behavior and characterization of metals, concrete, wood, composites and asphalt.
    Prerequisite: (CE 225  or AME 204 ) and (CHEM 105aLg  or CHEM 115aLg ) and PHYS 152L 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as MASC 334
  
  • CE 358L Elementary Theory of Structures

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Deformations and deflections of elastic systems; statically indeterminate beams, arches, and frames; secondary stresses; computer analysis of simple structural systems.
    Prerequisite: CE 225  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 363L Water Chemistry and Analysis

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Chemistry of water purification technology and water pollution control, chemical processes in natural and engineering environments; physical/chemical and biological characterization of water and wastewater.
    Prerequisite: ENE 200  and (CHEM 105bL  or CHEM 115bL )
    Duplicates Credit in former CE 463
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 390 Special Problems

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 402 Computer Methods in Engineering

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Application of computer-oriented numerical analysis methods and tools to a broad spectrum of practical science and engineering problems. Use of Python, R and computer algebra.
    Prerequisite: CE 108  and MATH 245 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 404 Business and Intellectual Property Law for Engineers

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    An examination of legal issues confronting the professional engineer. Topics include the legal system, contracts, risk management, forms of doing business, capital formation and intellectual property rights.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ISE-404
  
  • CE 408 Risk and Decision Analysis in Civil Engineering

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to probabilistic concepts and to the formulation and solution of related problems in civil and environmental engineering.
    Corequisite: MATH 245 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 409aL Computer-Aided Design

    Units: 3
    Applications of interactive computer graphics to design problems; automated drafting; 3-D graphic algorithms. Analysis of design process from information processing viewpoint.
    Prerequisite: CE 225 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 409bL Computer-Aided Design

    Units: 3
    Applications of interactive computer graphics to design problems; automated drafting; 3-D graphic algorithms. Analysis of design process from information processing viewpoint.
    Prerequisite: CE 225 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 410L Introduction to Environmental Engineering Microbiology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Fundamentals and applications of microbiology in the context of natural and engineered environmental systems.
    Prerequisite: BISC 220Lg  and (CHEM 105aLg  or CHEM 115aLg ) and (CHEM 105bL  or CHEM 115bL )
    Duplicates Credit in former CE 210
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 412 Construction Contracts and Law

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Legal aspects of property development and construction: land use, construction practices and specifications, architecture and engineering contracts, agency, subcontracting, professional registration, liability, insurance, liens, bonds.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 428 Mechanics of Materials

    Units: 3
    Analysis of stress and deformation; equations of elasticity; bending of beams; elastic instability; torsion problems; introduction to plates and shells; elastic wave propagation; numerical methods.
    Prerequisite: CE 225 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AME-428
  
  • CE 443 Environmental Chemistry

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Chemistry of water, gas, liquid and solid wastes. Chemical principles applicable to environmental engineering.
    Prerequisite: CHEM 105bL  or CHEM 115bL .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ENE-443
  
  • CE 450 Basic Coastal Engineering

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Mechanics of wave motion; wave refraction, diffraction and reflection; wave forecasting; shore processes; planning of coastal engineering projects; design of seawalls, breakwaters and offshore installations.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 451 Water Resources and Coastal Engineering

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Control and utilization of inland and coastal water, quantitative hydrology, groundwater, probability concepts, extreme events, coastal hydrodynamics, wave-structures interactions, multiple purposes water projects, economic study.
    Prerequisite: CE 309 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 453 Water Quality Science and Engineering

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Water quality criteria and fundamentals of acceptability; processes employed in treatment of water and wastewater; water reclamation and reuse; sustainability in water and wastewater systems.
    Prerequisite: CHEM 105aLg  or CHEM 115aLg 
    Corequisite: CE 309 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 456 Structural Design I

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Structural design processes for wood, steel, concrete, and masonry structural beams, columns, and connections; determination of structural loads; framing systems; and applications of structural mechanics to the design process.
    Prerequisite: CE 225 
    Duplicates Credit in former CE 207 and former CE 478
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 457 Structural Design II

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Design of structural systems in wood, steel, concrete and masonry, and the performance of structural systems for wind and seismic forces.
    Prerequisite: CE 358L  and CE 456 
    Duplicates Credit in former CE 207 and former CE 478
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 458 Computational Structural Analysis

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Computerized structural analysis; displacement method; force method; large scale structural systems; static analyses; structural dynamics of systems; earthquake engineering; nonlinear analysis; elastic stability and buckling.
    Prerequisite: CE 358L 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 459 Introduction to Structural Dynamics

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Response of single and multiple degree of freedom systems to dynamic excitation; structural modeling and approximate solutions; introduction to earthquake resistant design.
    Prerequisite: CE 458 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 460 Construction Engineering

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to the construction processes; estimating and bidding, construction administration, planning and scheduling, equipment and methods, labor relations, cost control systems, safety and ethics.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 461 Construction Estimating

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Fundamental principles and practices of advanced building cost estimating using Revit Models and industry standard databases.
    Recommended Preparation: CE 460 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to juniors, seniors and graduate students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 462 Construction Methods and Equipment

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Current procedures in selected fields of construction; organization and planning; equipment economics; machinery.
    Recommended Preparation: CE 460  
    Registration Restriction: Open only to juniors, seniors and graduate students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 464 Geotechnical Engineering

    Units: 3
    Fundamentals of soil mechanics and foundation engineering; soil classification, seepage, stress-strain behavior, shear strength, consolidation, design of retaining structures and foundations, and slope stability.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 465 Water Supply and Sewerage System Design

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Design of water supply systems, storm drains, sanitary sewers, and lift stations.
    Prerequisite: CE 453 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ENE 465
  
  • CE 467L Geotechnical Engineering

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Fundamentals of geotechnical engineering; soil classification, seepage, stress-strain behavior, shear strength, consolidation, design of retaining structures and foundations, and slope stability. Soil testing.
    Prerequisite: CE 225 .
    Duplicates Credit in CE 464.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 469 Sustainable Design and Construction

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED); green building strategies; carbon footprinting; calculating the embodied energy of building materials; cyclical processes in design and construction.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 470 Building Information Modeling: Project Visualization and Simulation for Management

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Building Information Modeling, current BIM technologies; coordination of design and construction; information management throughout building lifecycle; project visualization and simulation for integrated practice.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to juniors, seniors and graduate students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 471 Principles of Transportation Engineering

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of facilities for air, water, rail and highway transit systems.
    Prerequisite: MATH 226g  or MATH 227  or MATH 229 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 473 Engineering Law, Finance and Ethics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    An examination of the legal, financial and ethical issues regularly considered by all practicing engineers.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 476 Design of Hydraulic Systems

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Design of pressurized and free surface hydraulic systems, piping networks, surge suppression, pumps, turbines, submarine outfalls, water wave interactions with marine structures, breakwater design.
    Prerequisite: CE 309 
    Duplicates Credit in former CE 466
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 478 Timber and Masonry Design

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Characteristics and properties of wood; beams, columns, trusses, connectors, and diaphragms. Properties of masonry, working stress and strength design, seismic design requirements.
    Prerequisite: CE 207  , CE 225 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 480 Civil and Environmental Engineering Capstone Design

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Civil and Environmental Engineering capstone design project incorporating all disciplines of Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering.
    Prerequisite: CE 408  and (CE 456  or CE 457  or CE 476  or CE 485 )
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 482 Subsurface Foundation Design

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Site exploration and characterization; analysis and design of structural foundations, including spread footings, mats, piles and drilled shafts; retaining wall and braced excavation design.
    Prerequisite: CE 467L 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 484 Water Treatment Design

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Predesign studies, precipitation softening, coagulation and flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, sludge handling, chlorination, chloramination, ozonation; plant hydraulics, flow measurement, pumps, instrumentation and control, tertiary treatment.
    Prerequisite: CE 451 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 485 Water Treatment Design

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Engineering design of unit operations and unit processes for municipal wastewater treatment, including preliminary, primary, secondary, tertiary, and advanced treatments; disinfection; sludge treatment; sidestream treatment.
    Prerequisite: CE 453  and CE 363L 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 486a Innovation in Engineering and Design for Global Crises

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Engineering innovation to design products, services and technologies with a human-centered approach to help solve the needs of people affected by global crises.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 486b Innovation in Engineering and Design for Global Crises

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Engineering innovation to design products, services and technologies with a human-centered approach to help solve the needs of people affected by global crises.
    Prerequisite: CE 486a 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 490x Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 12.0
    Individual research and readings.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 495 Seminars in Civil Engineering

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Information necessary for successful transition to engineering practice with emphasis on substantive engineering topics, employee rights and responsibilities, communication skills, ethic and lifelong learning.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  
  • CE 499 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Course content to be selected each semester from recent developments in civil engineering and related fields.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 501 Construction Practices

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Systems, processes, and constraints governing the initiation, direction, engineering, and delivery of major construction projects. Professional construction management, responsibilities, and practice.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 502 Construction Accounting, Finance and Strategy

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Fundamental accounting principles, financial analysis and financial control, strategic management and a review of alternative project delivery methods.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ISE 502
  
  • CE 503 Microbiology for Environmental Engineers

    Units: 3
    Basic microbiology of water, air, and soil. Application of microbiology to the practice of environmental pollution control.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ENE-503
  
  • CE 504 Solid Waste Management

    Units: 3
    Characterization, production, storage, collection, and transport of solid wastes; alternative disposal methods; design principles and environmental impact; management of radiological solid wastes.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ENE-504
  
  • CE 505 Data Management for Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    The basics of databases and database management systems as applied to engineering problems. Introduction to data mining concepts, techniques and knowledge discovery in database principles.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 506 Heavy Construction Estimating

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Methods engineering, work analysis and pricing for route construction. Grading, draining, paving, haul economy, plant-materials production, pipeline and bridge building.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 507 Mechanics of Solids I

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Fundamental theory of linear elasticity applicable to multiple branches of solid mechanics.
    Recommended Preparation: Expected to have knowledge of mechanics of deformable bodies or solid mechanics on the level of CE 225  or AME 204 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AME 507
  
  • CE 508 Mechanics of Solids II

    Units: 3
    Thermal stresses; introduction to elastic stability; yield criteria; constitutive equations for elastoplastic materials; elastoplastic stress analysis; viscoelasticity and creep.
    Prerequisite: CE 507  or CE 428 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 509 Mechanics of Solids III

    Units: 3
    Advanced topics in mechanics of solids; complex variable methods for plane problems; three-dimensional problems; introduction to fracture mechanics.
    Prerequisite: CE 507 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 510 Groundwater Management

    Units: 3
    Groundwater hydrology, aquifer testing technology, groundwater quality and contamination, geophysical method, well design and development, basin water balance, computer modeling, legal aspects, groundwater management system.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 511 Flood Control Hydrology

    Units: 3
    Flood frequency, storm characteristics, net rain; surface drainage, peak discharge, flood runoff.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 514a Advanced Sanitary Engineering Design

    Units: 3
    Design of water and waste treatment works.
    Prerequisite: CE 453 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ENE-514a
  
  • CE 514b Advanced Sanitary Engineering Design

    Units: 3
    Design of water and waste treatment works.
    Prerequisite: CE 453 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ENE-514B
  
  • CE 516 Geohydrology

    Units: 3
    Principles of groundwater motion; acquifer characteristics, prospecting, practical engineering problems, well design, maintenance and rehabilitation; hydrodynamic dispersion, field testing essentials and procedures, groundwater quality, artificial recharge.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 517 Industrial and Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal

    Units: 3, 2 years
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Physical, chemical, and biological treatment processes for industrial and hazardous wastes; pretreatment systems, biodegradation of toxic chemicals; groundwater and soil decontamination; biofilters for air decontamination.
    Prerequisite: CE 463L .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ENE-517
  
  • CE 518 Carbon Capture and Sequestration

    Units: 3
    The needs for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) and systematic introduction to CCS technologies. Main topics include: introduction to global change, world energy consumption, greenhouse gases control, carbon capture and separation, and carbon sequestration.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 519 Transportation Engineering

    Units: 3
    Principles of analysis and planning. Characteristics of transportation systems. Urban and regional systems. Relationship between environment and transportation systems. Estimating the impact of decisions.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 520 Ocean and Coastal Engineering

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Introduction to coastal engineering. Basic wave kinematics and dynamics, long wave theory, tsunamis, effects of climate change and coastal reliance.
    Recommended Preparation: Knowledge of fluid mechanics on the level of CE 309  or ENE 410 , and partial differential equations on the level of CE 526 
    Duplicates Credit in former CE 520a and former CE 520b
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 522 Groundwater Hydrologic Modeling

    Units: 3
    Simulation of groundwater hydrologic processes through mathematical, analog, and physical models.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 523 Physiochemical Processes in Environmental Engineering

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Concepts and applications of physicochemical processes in engineered systems, including coagulation, sedimentation, filtration, adsorption and membrane processes.
    Prerequisite: CE 453 
    Recommended Preparation: CE 363L  and CE 485 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ENE 523
 

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