Mar 28, 2024  
USC Catalogue 2018-2019 
    
USC Catalogue 2018-2019 [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.

 

Civil Engineering

  
  • CE 106L Design and Planning of Civil Engineering Systems

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    History of civil engineering; introduction to the synthesis and design of systems dependent upon civil engineering technology; structuring, modeling, and simulation of systems using graphics.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 107 Introduction to Civil Engineering Graphics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Graphic communication and drawing; use of instruments, lettering, dimensioning, and detailing of engineering drawing; free-hand sketching, drafting, and modeling.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    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: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Basic concepts of environmental engineering. Air, water, and soil pollution control technologies; pollution prevention strategies. Design of simple water distribution and treatment systems.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 205 Statics

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Statics of particles and rigid bodies; equivalent force systems; distributed forces; applications to trusses, frames, machines, beams, and cables; friction; moments of inertia.
    Prerequisite: PHYS 151Lg .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 207L Introduction to Design of Structural Systems

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Structural materials, components and systems; gravity and lateral forces; structural performance and failures; introduction to structural plans and analysis; computer applications, case studies, design project.
    Prerequisite: CE 205 
    Corequisite: CE 106  and CE 225 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 210L Introduction to Environmental Engineering Microbiology

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Principles of environmental microbiology; waterborne pathogens; microorganisms and air pollution; microorganisms in soil; water pollution microbiology; biodegradation of hazardous chemicals; eutrophication.
    Recommended Preparation: CE 106  or CE 110 .
    Corequisite: CHEM 105aLg  or CHEM 115aLg ;
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 225 Mechanics of Deformable Bodies

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    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 205 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 235 Dynamics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Elements of vector algebra; dynamics of particles, systems of particles and rigid bodies; kinematics; momentum relations, energy methods; vibrations; Euler’s equations of motion.
    Prerequisite: CE 205 .
    Duplicates Credit in CE 325.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 309 Fluid Mechanics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    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 226  or MATH 229 
    Corequisite: CE 235  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 334L Mechanical Behavior of Materials

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Measurement of stress and strain; tensile, impact, creep, and fatigue behavior; statistical methods, brittle fracture; properties of structural materials.
    Prerequisite: CE 225  or AME 204 , CHEM 105aLg  or CHEM 115aLg  and PHYS 152L .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as MASC-334l
  
  • CE 358 Theory of Structures I

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Deformations and deflections of elastic systems; statically indeterminate beams, arches, and frames; secondary stresses.
    Prerequisite: CE 225 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    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: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Fundamentals of analog and digital computers; simulation of nonlinear physical systems; numerical analysis and solution of engineering problems.
    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 Analysis in Civil Engineering

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Realization of nondeterministic problems in civil engineering; quantitative analysis of structural and system reliability; optimal design and design with specified risk.
    Prerequisite: CE 225  and (MATH 226  or MATH 229 
    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 412 Construction Law and the Property Development Process

    Units: 3
    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, and bonds.
    Recommended Preparation: CE 404  or a general business law course.
    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 Engineering

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Discussion of broad perspectives on control and utilization of water, quantitative hydrology, ground water, probability concept, economic study, hydraulic structures, multipurpose water resources projects.
    Prerequisite: CE 309  or ENE 410 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 453 Water Quality Science and Engineering

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Water quality criteria and fundamental considerations of acceptability. Natural purification of surface waters. Processes employed in the treatment of waste waters for disposal or re-use.
    Prerequisite: CHEM 105aLg  or CHEM 115aLg 
    Corequisite: CE 309  or ENE 410 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 456 Design of Steel Structures

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Fundamentals of analysis and design of steel structures; structural elements; simple and eccentric connections; design project.
    Prerequisite: CE 207L , CE 225 ;
    Corequisite: CE 358 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 457 Reinforced Concrete Design

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Strength and deformation of reinforced concrete; beams in flexure and shear; bond and development of bars; deflections; columns; slabs; footings; introduction to prestressed concrete.
    Prerequisite: CE 207L , CE 225 ;
    Corequisite: CE 358 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 458 Theory of Structures II

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Matrix algebra; stiffness method; force method; computer analysis of planar structures.
    Prerequisite: CE 108  and CE 358 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 459 Introduction to Structural Dynamics

    Units: 3
    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.
    Corequisite: CE 458 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 460 Construction Engineering

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to the construction processes; estimating and bidding, construction administration, planning and scheduling, equipment and methods, labor relations, cost control systems, and safety.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 461 General Construction Estimating

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Theory of estimating. Quantity surveying; unit cost synthesis and analysis. Bid organization and preparation; competitive simulations and exercises.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 462 Construction Methods and Equipment

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Current procedures in selected fields of construction; organization and planning; equipment economics; machinery.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 463L Water Chemistry and Analysis

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Chemistry of water purification technology and water pollution control. Chemical processes in natural and engineering aquatic environments; physical/chemical and biological characterization of water and wastewater.
    Prerequisite: CE 453 , CHEM 105b   or CHEM 115bL .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ENE-463
  
  • 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: 3
    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 466 Design of Free-Surface Hydraulic Systems

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Hydrological and hydraulic design for uniform and non-uniform flows, channel transition, sedimentation controls, design discharge for tributary watersheds, flood routing, flood detention, computer aided design.
    Prerequisite: CE 309 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • 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: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    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 and Integrated Practice

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Building Information Modeling, current BIM technologies; coordination of design and construction; information management throughout building lifecycle; project delivery systems and technologies for integrated practice.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 471 Principles of Transportation Engineering

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of facilities for air, water, rail, and highway transit systems.
    Prerequisite: MATH 226   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 Pressurized Hydraulic Systems

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Application of hydraulic principles to the engineering design of hydraulic structure with pressurized flow, piping network, water hammer, surge suppression, pumps and turbines, manifold hydraulic design.
    Prerequisite: CE 309 .
    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 Structural Systems Design

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Evaluate, design and analyze buildings. Organize and perform calculations for vertical loads, wind loads, and seismic loads on building projects.
    Prerequisite: CE 456  or CE 457  or CE 478 ; CE 358 , CE 467L , CE 473 , CE 482 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 482 Foundation Design

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Analysis and design principles of building foundations, including spread footings, piles, drilled shafts, sheetpile walls and retaining structures.
    Prerequisite: CE 467 .
    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 Wastewater Treatment Design

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Process kinetics, mass balance, reactor design, pretreatment, clarification, chemical treatment, biological treatment (aerobic and anaerobic), disinfection, sludge treatment, nitrogen and phosophorus removal, carbon adsorption.
    Prerequisite: CE 451 , CE 463L , CE 473 .
    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 Functions of the Constructor

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    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 and Finance

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Cost control, finance, and engineering economy for construction operations.
    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: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    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: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Analysis of stress and strain; constitutive equations for elastic materials; plane stress and strain; torsion; introduction to plates and shells; energy methods.
    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 520a Ocean and Coastal Engineering

    Units: 3
    Linear and nonlinear wave theories with engineering applications; wind waves; wave spectra; wave interactions with marine structures; ship mooring, harbor resonance; sediment transport; diffusion processes.
    Prerequisite: CE 309  or ENE 410 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 520b Ocean and Coastal Engineering

    Units: 3
    Linear and nonlinear wave theories with engineering applications; wind waves; wave spectra; wave interactions with marine structures; ship mooring, harbor resonance; sediment transport; diffusion processes.
    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: 3
    Concepts and applications of processes that affect water quality in engineered and natural systems, including coagulation, sedimentation, filtration, adsorption, air stripping, and membrane processes.
    Prerequisite: CE 453  or CE 463 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ENE 523  
  
  • CE 525 Engineering Mathematical Analysis

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Engineering problems discussed on a physical basis with solutions via mathematical tools: Vector analysis; functions of complex variables, infinite series, residues and conformal mappings.
    Duplicates Credit in the former CE 525a.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 526 Engineering Mathematical Methods

    Units: 3
    Engineering problems discussed on a physical basis with solutions via mathematical tools: Fourier series; Fourier and Laplace transforms; partial differential equations, wave and Laplace equations.
    Recommended Preparation: undergraduate multivariable calculus and ordinary differential equations.
    Duplicates Credit in the former CE 525b.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 528 Seismic Analysis and Design of Reinforced Concrete Bridges

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Fundamental concepts, methods and current codes used in the analysis and design of reinforced concrete bridge structures. Experimental and earthquake observations of bridge performance.
    Prerequisite: CE 457 ;
    Recommended Preparation: CE 538 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 529a Finite Element Analysis

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Basic concepts; stiffness method; variational methods; displacement method; isoparametric formulation; plane stress and strain; plates and shells; dynamics; stability; nonlinear analysis, heat transfer; computer applications.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AME 528a
  
  • CE 529b Finite Element Analysis

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Basic concepts; stiffness method; variational methods; displacement method; isoparametric formulation; plane stress and strain; plates and shells; dynamics; stability; nonlinear analysis, heat transfer; computer applications.
    Prerequisite: CE 529a 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AME 528b
  
  • CE 530 Nonlinear Mechanics

    Units: 3
    Nonlinear problems in structural dynamics; elastic-plastic response; approximate methods of nonlinear analysis; stability theory; stability of periodic nonlinear oscillations; Liapounov’s method; nonlinear buckling problems.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 531 Soil Mechanics

    Units: 3
    Soil formation; clay mineralogy; steady state seepage; mechanical coupling between interstitial water and soil skeleton; experimental soil behavior and its modeling with constitutive equations.
    Prerequisite: CE 464 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 532 Principles of Foundation Engineering

    Units: 3
    Fundamental methods in foundation engineering; plastic collapse, limit equilibrium, bearing capacity, slope stability; soil-structure interaction; application of numerical methods, finite differences and finite elements.
    Prerequisite: CE 464 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 533 Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

    Units: 3
    Provides a design-oriented understanding of the “stateof- the-practice” of soil mechanics and foundation engineering aspects of earthquake engineering.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 534 Design of Earth Structures

    Units: 3
    Designed to provide a thorough understanding of the analytical and design principles underlying the construction of a broad range of earth structures.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 535 Earthquake Engineering: Strong Motion Studies

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Earthquake source mechanisms; wave propagation, scattering, diffraction and amplification; empirical scaling of strong ground motion; seismic hazard analysis for earthquake resistant design codes and mapping.
    Duplicates Credit in former CE 535a.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 536 Structural Design for Dynamic Loads

    Units: 3
    Earthquake resistant design criteria with application to steel reinforced concrete and timber structures. Design of blast resistant structures and structures subject to impact loads.
    Prerequisite: CE 459  or CE 541a .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 537 Advanced Reinforced Concrete

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Behavior of reinforced concrete members in terms of strength and deformation; relationship between behavior and building code requirements.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 538 Prestressed Concrete

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Fundamental principles of prestressing by pre- and post-tensioning; elastic and time dependent losses; stress analysis and design of prestressed and precast concrete structures.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 539 Advanced Steel Structures

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Design of tubular members and plate girders; design for torsional and seismic loads; general flexural theory; introduction to plastic design; connections.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 540 Limit Analysis of Structures

    Units: 3
    Plastic analysis and design of frames. Fundamental theorems of plastic analysis; general methods of plastic analysis, design requirements, minimum weight design theorems and applications, shakedown theorems.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 541a Dynamics of Structures

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Forced vibrations of discrete MDOF systems; modal analysis; energy methods; analytical dynamics; vibration of continuous systems; wave propagation; computational techniques; application of commercial software tools.
    Prerequisite: CE 541a.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 541b Dynamics of Structures

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Continuous system responses; approximate methods; introduction to structural control; random vibration concepts; response of continuous systems to random excitation; nonlinear systems (geometric theory), (approximate methods).
    Prerequisite: CE 541a .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 542 Theory of Plates

    Units: 3
    Theory of plate bending; rectangular and circular plates; anisotropic plates; energy methods; numerical methods; large deformations; sandwich plates.
    Prerequisite: CE 428  or CE 507 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AME-542
  
  • CE 543 Stability of Structures

    Units: 3
    Critical loads of columns, beams, thin-wall bars, plates, shells; stability of frames and trusses; effect of inelastic behavior of materials; effect of dynamic loading.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AME-543
  
  • CE 544 Theory of Shell Structures

    Units: 3
    General bending theory of shells; membrane theory; shells of revolution; numerical methods; dynamic response.
    Prerequisite: CE 428  or CE 507 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 545a Advanced Finite Element Method in Structural and Continuum Mechanics

    Units: 3
    Finite elements in nonlinear mechanics, elasticity, plasticity, viscoelasticity; advanced finite element applications in fracture mechanics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics; computational implementation of finite element method.
    Prerequisite: CE 529a .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 545b Advanced Finite Element Method in Structural and Continuum Mechanics

    Units: 3
    Mathematical aspects of the finite element method; correctness of discretizations for elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic equations; accuracy and convergence considerations; stability of time dependent algorithms.
    Prerequisite: CE 545a .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 546 Structural Mechanics of Composite Materials

    Units: 3
    Applications and manufacturing of composites: anisotropic materials; laminated composite plates and shells; buckling and dynamics; strength and failure; interlaminar stresses; delamination; thermal properties; design considerations.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 547 Earthquake Engineering: Response of Structures

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Solutions of seismic structural response: vibrational vs. wave methods, spectral superposition, probabilistic response estimation, nonlinear response; soil-structure interaction; identification and structural health monitoring; experimental methods.
    Duplicates Credit in former CE 535b.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 549 Building Design Project

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Integrated design project following design office procedures. A building will be designed in detail using the team approach. Capstone for MEng in Structural Design.
    Prerequisite: CE 459  or CE 541a , CE 458  or CE 529a , CE 537 ;
    Corequisite: CE 539 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 550 Computer-Aided Engineering

    Units: 3
    Basic concepts of computer-aided engineering. Modeling; simulation; visualization; optimization; artificial intelligence; manufacturing; information management. Organization and management of computer-aided engineering projects.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 551 Computer-Aided Engineering Project

    Units: 3
    Computer-aided engineering in a project environment. Responding to RFPs; conceptual design; preliminary analysis; overall and detailed analysis and design; trade-off studies; project management; project presentation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • CE 552 Managing and Financing Public Engineering Works

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Tools for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of public engineering works, taking into account the political and policy context.
    Recommended Preparation: microeconomic theory.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as PPD-552
  
  • CE 553 Biological Processes in Environmental Engineering

    Units: 3
    Fundamentals and design of aerobic and anaerobic biological treatment processes with a focus on removing organic and inorganic pollutants and recovering resources.
    Prerequisite: CE 453 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ENE-553
 

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