May 28, 2024  
2021-2022 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2021-2022 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


*LCCN indicates Louisiana Common Course Number.

 

Chemistry

  
  • CHEM 462 - Undergraduate Research II

    Credit Hours: 1-2
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1-2 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Research, formal written report.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required. Chemistry majors only.

  
  • CHEM 490 - Directed Individual Studies

    Credit Hours: 1-3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1-3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Restriction(s): Permission of the instructor required

  
  • CHEM 497 - Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

  
  • CHEM 501 - Advanced Physical Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 232   and CHEM 302  
  
  • CHEM 502 - Physical Chemistry of Surfaces

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Interfacial characteristics including the determination of surface properties and thermodynamic relationships; adsorption at, electrical aspects of, and reactions at surfaces. Applied topics emphasize nucleation, friction and lubrication, detergents and flotation, and emulsions and foams.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 302 
  
  • CHEM 505 - Industrial Organic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Industrial processes, feedstocks used in synthesis, manufacturing/uses of industrial chemicals, and applied chemistry.

    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate organic chemistry
  
  • CHEM 506 - Advanced Analytical Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 430G  
  
  • CHEM 510 - Polymer Science

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3
    Functional materials and properties, applications, chemistry, and theories used in polymer production and mechanisms.

    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate organic chemistry
  
  • CHEM 555 - Inorganic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Emphasis on catalysis, organometallic chemistry, metallurgy, chemical bonding, and industrial processes.

    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate inorganic chemistry
  
  • CHEM 590 - Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CHEM 597 - Directed Individual Study

    Credit Hours: 1-6
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1-6 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Student may accumulate 6 hours of credit toward the M.S. degree.

    Prerequisite(s): Student must have had the 500 level course in the major area.
  
  • CHEM 598 - Internship

    Credit Hours: 6
    Lecture Contact Hours: 6 Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CHEM 599 - Thesis Research and Thesis

    Credit Hours: 1-6
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1-6 Lab Contact Hours: 0

Child and Family Studies

  
  • CAFS 123 - Professionalism in Child and Family Studies

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Professional development, career choices, and ethical considerations in a global society.

    Restriction(s): CAFS majors or minors

  
  • CAFS 201 - Diverse Families

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Factors affecting family relationships and adjustments in diverse settings, with emphasis on making knowledgeable choices.

  
  • CAFS 223 - Introduction to Individual and Family Theories

    Credit Hours: 2
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Historical and contemporary theories and models.

    Corequisite(s): CAFS 123  
    Restriction(s): Sophomore standing

  
  • CAFS 243 - Human Sexuality

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Physiological, psychological, and social aspects of sexual development throughout the life span. Sexual involvement and decision making in interpersonal relationships.

  
  • CAFS 339 - Human Development: Early Childhood

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Factors influencing individual differences in development. Physical, cognitive, affective, and social domains of growth and interaction among domains. Observation at UL Lafayette Early Childhood Development Laboratory.

  
  • CAFS 350 - Family Resource Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Goal setting and decision-making; development and allocation of resources; social environment influences; life cycle and family structure influences.

  
  • CAFS 359 - Human Development: Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Physical, emotional, cognitive, social, moral, and personality changes of individuals during adolescence and emerging adulthood.

  
  • CAFS 370 - Research Methods and Evaluations in HDFS

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Data collection, sampling, and statistical analysis utilizing research methods and evaluation skills.

    Restriction(s): Sophomore standing CAFS majors only.

  
  • CAFS 431G - Human Development: Gerontology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Individual and family issues of people ages 55 and older.

    Prerequisite(s): CAFS 201  or graduate standing with permission of instructor
  
  • CAFS 432G - Families in Crisis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Ways diverse families react to and resolve crises. Emphasis on nature of crises, impact on family functioning, and methods of prevention and management.

    Prerequisite(s): CAFS 201  or graduate standing with permission of instructor
  
  • CAFS 437 - Interactions with Young Children

    Credit Hours: 4
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 4
    Designing environments appropriate to developmental needs of young children. Impact of social and environmental conditions on direct and indirect guidance techniques. Includes participation at UL Lafayette Childhood Development Laboratory.

    Prerequisite(s): CAFS 339  
    Restriction(s): Senior standing CAFS majors only

  
  • CAFS 439 - Parent-Child Relationships

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Socio-cultural and environmental conditions affecting families with children. How parents teach, guide and influence children over the lifespan.

    Prerequisite(s): CAFS 201 , CAFS 339  
  
  • CAFS 440 - Family Law and Public Policy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Legal definitions, rights, and responsibilities. Policy and advocacy skill development.

  
  • CAFS 445 - Family Life Education and Ethics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Planning, implementing and evaluating family life education programs for diverse audiences. Character and quality of human social conduct and the ability to critically examine ethical questions and issues.

    Restriction(s): CAFS majors only

    Course Notes: Must be completed prior to internship.
  
  • CAFS 447 - Internship in Human Development and Family Science

    Credit Hours: 5
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 8
    Class meetings and supervised observation and participation through placement at a family service agency.

    Prerequisite(s): CAFS 432G  and CAFS 445  
    Restriction(s): Graduating seniors in CAFS with a 2.0 cumulative GPA

  
  • CAFS 449G - Administration of Child and Family Programs

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Resources for organizing and administering child care and family support programs. Philosophy, policy development, methods, and advocacy skills.

    Prerequisite(s): CAFS 437  or graduate standing with permission of instructor
  
  • CAFS 497G - Special Projects I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Individual research or writing projects.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required

  
  • CAFS 498G - Special Projects II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Individual research or writing projects.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required


Chinese

  
  • CHIN 101 - Elementary Chinese I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Script, pronunciation and grammar of modern Mandarin Chinese. Reading, writing, aural comprehension and elementary conversation. Not open to native speakers. Heritage speakers must consult department head for appropriate placement.

    Prerequisite(s): Elegibility for ENGL 101 
  
  • CHIN 102 - Elementary Chinese II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Script, pronunciation and grammar of modern Mandarin Chinese. Not open to native speakers. Heritage speakers must consult department head for appropriate placement.

    Prerequisite(s): CHIN 101 
  
  • CHIN 201 - Intermediate Chinese I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Intermediate level of modern Standard Chinese. Not open to native speakers. Heritage speakers must consult department head for appropriate placement.

    Prerequisite(s): CHIN 102 
  
  • CHIN 202 - Intermediate Chinese II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Basic grammatical concepts of modern Mandarin Chinese, as well as introduction to reading literary and cultural texts. Not open to native speakers of Chinese. Heritage speakers must consult department head for appropriate placement.

    Prerequisite(s): CHIN 201  or approval of department head

Civil Engineering

  
  • CIVE 101 - Introduction to Civil Engineering

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Introduction to the technical practice areas, professional requirements, history and ethics of civil engineering.

    Pre/Corequisite(s): MATH 109  
  
  • CIVE 142 - Civil Engineering Graphics

    Credit Hours: 2
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 4
    Fundamentals of data presentation, interpretation, and analysis, including object sketching, graphing, computer-aided drafting and graphing, data base management and geographic information systems.

    Pre/Corequisite(s): MATH 143  
  
  • CIVE 225 - Surveying

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Surveying operations and computations; errors and analysis; horizontal and vertical linear and angular measurements, and control systems; route surveying; traverse computations, topographic maps; geo-positioning; and state plane coordinate systems.

    Pre/Corequisite(s): ITEC 103  
  
  • CIVE 315 - Civil Engineering Internship I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Supervised work experience. Does not apply toward degree requirements in Civil Engineering.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required

  
  • CIVE 322 - Environmental Engineering I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Mass transfer, environmental chemistry, mathematics of growth, water pollution, risk assessment, water and wastewater treatment, air pollution, global atmospheric change, and hazardous and municipal solid wastes management; laboratory examination of water and wastewater quality.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGR 304 ENGR 313 , CHEM 108 , and CHEM 115 , all with a grade of “C” or better
  
  • CIVE 328 - Geotechnical Engineering

    Credit Hours: 4
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Fundamental chemical and physical properties of soil. Basic structure and composition; index and classification of soils, compaction, capillarity, permeability, seepage, effective stress, settlement, stresses in a soil mass, shear strength, earth retaining structures.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGR 219 , ENGR 304 , and ENGR 313  all with a grade of “C” or better
  
  • CIVE 332 - Structural Mechanics I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Statically determinate and indeterminate analysis. Deflections by geometrical and energy methods, flexibility and stiffness methods of indeterminate analysis, slope-deflection equations, moment distribution methods.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGR 211  and ENGR 219  both with a grade of “C” or better
  
  • CIVE 335 - Structural Engineering I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Forces and structural equilibrium; analysis of structural systems; moment and shear diagrams; stress and strain in structural members; stability, structural design in steel and timber; long span structural systems; earthquake and wind forces.

    Prerequisite(s):  MATH 110 , MATH 143 , or MATH 210  and PHYS 207  both with a grade of “C” or better
    Restriction(s): Not for engineering majors

  
  • CIVE 336 - Structural Engineering II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Codes and construction practices; analysis of structural systems; structural design in steel and concrete; design of masonry and foundation structures; stability; long span structural systems; lateral forces.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 335  with a grade of “C” or better.
    Restriction(s): Not for civil engineering majors

  
  • CIVE 342 - Civil Engineering Design I

    Credit Hours: 2
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Process of design and professional development with an original design problem, as well as engineering ethics.

    Restriction(s): Junior standing

  
  • CIVE 345 - Transportation Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Traffic flow models, highway capacity and level of service analysis, transportation planning models, and highway safety.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 225  with a grade of “C” or better
    Pre/Corequisite(s): STAT 325  or STAT 427G  
  
  • CIVE 397 - ASCE/ACI Projects I

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Research, design, and fabrication of student projects involved with ASCE and ACI. Chapter activities. Not for degree credit.

    Restriction(s): Junior and senior standing. Permission of instructor required.

  
  • CIVE 398 - ASCE/ACI Projects II

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Research, design, and fabrication of student projects involved with ASCE and ACI. Chapter activities. Not for degree credit.

    Restriction(s): Junior and senior standing. Permission of instructor required.

  
  • CIVE 408G - Computer Applications

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Applications of computational and numerical methods to the solution of civil engineering problems. Includes computer techniques on advanced spreadsheet operations, programming languages and geographical information systems.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 350  or equivalent
  
  • CIVE 415 - Civil Engineering Internship II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Supervised work experience. Does not apply toward degree requirements in Civil Engineering.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required

  
  • CIVE 422G - Environmental Engineering II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Physical, chemical, and biological treatment of water and wastewater treatment units. Examination of water and wastewater quality.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 322  and ENGR 313  with a grade of “C” or better
  
  • CIVE 426 - Structural Steel Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Properties of structural steel; design of steel members: tension, compression, bending, axial and bending stress combined. Design criteria and interpretation of codes, allowable stress and load resistance factor designs, aluminum structural elements. Testing of materials.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 332  with a grade of “C” or better
  
  • CIVE 427 - Reinforced Concrete

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Behavior, analysis, and design of reinforced concrete columns, beams, slabs, retaining walls, and footings. Testing of materials.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 332  with a grade of “C” or better
  
  • CIVE 429G - Hydrology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Principles of hydrologic science and their application to hydraulic, hydrologic, environmental, and water resources engineering problems; environmental restoration and protection techniques.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGR 211 , ENGR 304 , ENGR 313  and STAT 325  or STAT 427G  with a grade of “C” or better in all.
  
  • CIVE 430G - Structural Mechanics II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formulation and calculation of structural stiffness matrix, nodal displacements, reactions, and internal loadings. Includes tapered members and influence lines. Software applications.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 332  or equivalent with a grade of “C” or better
  
  • CIVE 434G - Hydraulics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Flow in open channels; flow through hydraulic structures; coastal hydraulics, drainage, experimental fluid mechanics.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGR 211  ,ENGR 304 , and ENGR 313  with a grade of “C” or better in both
  
  • CIVE 435 - Transportation Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Traffic flow models, highway capacity and level of service analysis, transportation planning models, and highway safety.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 225  with a grade of “C” or better
    Corequisite(s): STAT 325  or STAT 427G  
  
  • CIVE 436G - Civil Engineering Systems Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Development of a system methodology and its application to the design and operation of civil engineering systems including transportation design, traffic control, water resource design and operation, structural design, and construction management.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 302 
    Restriction(s): Senior standing in Civil Engineering program

  
  • CIVE 437G - Highway Safety Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Highway safety, fundamentals of safety analysis, highway systems, safe highway systems, safe highway design and operation, and highway safety modeling.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 302  
    Pre/Corequisite(s): CIVE 345 
  
  • CIVE 438G - Foundation Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Theory of consolidation, stress-strain relationship of soils, drained and undrained conditions, design of shallow and deep foundations, settlements, retaining structures, and structural design of foundations.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 328  and ENGR 313  with a grade of “C” or better
  
  • CIVE 439 - Structural Design in Concrete

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Analysis and design of reinforced concrete members and systems; masonry structures; foundation and retaining structures; application of codes and construction practices; earthquake and other lateral forces; stability of structural systems.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 336 
    Restriction(s): Not available to Civil Engineering majors

  
  • CIVE 442 - Senior Civil Engineering Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Major design experience in an engineering project involving realistic constraints and multiple sub-discipline areas of civil engineering. The design project incorporates engineering standards, and professional issues; constructability, sustainability, ethics, economics, professional practice, safety and public welfare, and other topics.

    Corequisite(s): ECON 430G  and credit or registration in all required civil engineering courses in the current curriculum
  
  • CIVE 444 - Civil Engineering Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Professional, educational and licensure requirements for the practice of Civil Engineering.

    Restriction(s): Senior standing in Civil Engineering program and permission of instructor required

  
  • CIVE 449G - Coastal Hydrology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Coastal hydrology analysis and applications; analysis and screening of management alternatives in a project-based modeling framework.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 429G  and CIVE 434G  with a grade of “C” or better; or approval from instructor.
  
  • CIVE 450G - Highway Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Analysis and design of transportation systems, geometric and pavement design, human factors, environmental impact assessment, and economic analyses of transportation alternatives. Applications to large-scale problems. Testing of materials.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 225  and CIVE 328  both with a grade of “C” or better
  
  • CIVE 452G - Intelligent Transportation Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    ITS concept, rural and urban ITS applications, ITS in transportation management systems, ITS in traffic operations and traffic management centers, ITS in freight, intermodal, private and public transportation, and ITS emerging issues.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 345  or permission of the instructor for undergraduate students/Graduate standing in the College of Engineering for graduate students.
  
  • CIVE 454G - Hydraulic and Hydrology Modeling and Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Application of hydraulics and hydrology to address contemporary modeling and urban H&H design problems.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 429G  and CIVE 434G  with a grade of “C” or better; or approval from instructor.
  
  • CIVE 460G - Wastewater Treatment

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Pollutants of importance; design approach; pretreatment; primary, secondary, tertiary treatment alternatives; biological process design; sludge characterization and treatment. Wastewater treatment and collection system technical management.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 322  with a grade of “C” or better
  
  • CIVE 470G - Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Continuity of reinforced concrete structures. Continuous floor beams and girders. Retaining walls. Length effects on columns. Design of flat slabs. Approximate design of cylindrical shells and spherical domes. Footings.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 427  or equivalent
  
  • CIVE 472G - Wood Engineering Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Structural characteristics of wood. Design of timber beams, columns, and other members. Design and selection of connectors. Glued-laminated components. Particular emphasis on wood design codes.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 332 
    Restriction(s): Senior standing

  
  • CIVE 474G - Bridge Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Highway loadings and design methods currently used for short and medium span bridges constructed of concrete and/or steel.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 426  and CIVE 427 
  
  • CIVE 480 - Construction Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Planning, scheduling, and control; contract documents and public bid laws; Uniform Construction Index. Soil stabilization; concrete and steel construction; soil, drainage, and pressure piping. Construction engineering terminology and inspection techniques.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 328  
  
  • CIVE 485G - Principles of Sustainable Infrastructure Development

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Principles of development that promote sustainable development, the Project Development and Environmental (PD&E) study, Life-Cycle Cost Analysis, Life-Cycle Assessment, Benefit-Cost Analysis, basic project scheduling and estimates.

    Prerequisite(s): STAT 325  and ECON 430G  
  
  • CIVE 497G - Special Topics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Content varies. Additional assignments required for grad students are additional topic report and out of class assignment or exam.

    Repeatable Course: May be repeated for credit for a maximum of six credit hours.

    Restriction(s): Undergraduates with senior standing and graduates with additional assignments.

  
  • CIVE 504 - Mechanics of Sediment Transport

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Theory and application of sediment fate and transport in water bodies; environmental impact of morphological changes in natural waterways; laws governing fall velocity, incipient motion, and bed forms.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor required
  
  • CIVE 521 - Structural Systems Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Analysis and design of structural systems for various loadings including: dead, live, wind, earthquake, and wave. Steel and concrete connection analysis and design. Lateral load resisting systems.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 332  
  
  • CIVE 526 - Foundation Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Shallow foundations including spread footings, combined footing, and mat foundations; deep foundations including piles and drilled shafts; caissons and retaining structures. Structural design and foundation stability will be emphasized.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 438G  or equivalent
  
  • CIVE 544 - Open Channel Flow

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General review of the governing equations of steady and unsteady free-surface flows; advection and diffusion of constituents in open channels; calibration and validation of numerical models.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 434G  or permission of instructor required
  
  • CIVE 565 - Water Quality Modeling

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Hydraulic, chemical and biological concepts used in formulating numerical models of water quality. Investigation of computer modeling applied to analysis and control of water pollution.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 322  and CIVE 434G  or equivalent course or permission of instructor required
  
  • CIVE 567 - Experimental Analysis for Environmental Engineers

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Examination of laboratory techniques for assessing water quality and sludge contamination. Optical, electrical, gas chromatography, and x-ray methods are included.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 322  or equivalent course, or permission of instructor required
  
  • CIVE 591 - Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Contemporary research literature in Civil Engineering.

    Repeatable Course: May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credit hours.

  
  • CIVE 594 - Research

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    To be taken by non-thesis option master’s students only. Credit to be 3 hours unless written justification for varied credits is accepted by the Graduate School.

  
  • CIVE 596 - Special Topics

    Credit Hours: 1-3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1-3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Advanced civil engineering topics offered through scheduled class presentations.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required

  
  • CIVE 597 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1-3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1-3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Individual investigation of civil engineering topics with faculty sponsor.

    Restriction(s): Credit toward degree must be approved by the student’s advisor and department head or graduate coordinator.

  
  • CIVE 599 - Thesis Research and Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3-9
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3-9 Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CIVE 605 - Hydraulic and Hydrologic Modeling and Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Application of advanced hydraulic and hydrologic concepts to address contemporary modeling and design problems.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 429G  and CIVE 434G  with a grade of “C” or better.
  
  • CIVE 606 - Advanced Hydrology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Quantitative approaches for modeling rainfall-runoff processes. Topics include lumped and distributed models, treatment of spatial and temporal hydrologic variability, hydrologic data quality control, and design of hydrologic networks.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required

  
  • CIVE 608 - Matrix Analysis of Structures

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Energy theorems. Flexibility and stiffness methods. Effects of shear deformations, axial force - bending interaction and elastic medium. Includes tapered members, substructuring redesign; material and geometrical nonlinearities, software for practical applications.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 430G 
  
  • CIVE 616 - Dynamics of Structures

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    One degree and multi-degree freedom systems, free and forced vibrations. Numerical and mathematical analyses of elastic, elastoplastic, damped and undamped systems. Support motion, model analysis, earthquake and blast effects.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 426  and CIVE 430G  or permission of instructor
  
  • CIVE 620 - Behavior of Reinforced Concrete

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Behavior of reinforced concrete structures under creep, shrinkage and temperature effects. Moment curvature analysis, section ductility, plastic hinge analysis, biaxial bending, modified compression field theory, strut and tie models, anchorage to concrete, and advanced repair methods.

  
  • CIVE 622 - Advanced Design of Steel Structures

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Elastic and plastic behavior of steel members including bending, torsion, stability, local buckling. Design topics include beams, columns, plate girders, multistory frames, tubular structures, bridges, special structures.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 426  or permission of instructor required
  
  • CIVE 624 - Prestressed Concrete

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Basic concepts of prestressed concrete; flexural analysis; moment-curvature relationship; shear, bond and bearing; elastic and ultimate strength design; simple and continuous beams; slabs; composite design; deflections.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 427  or equivalent
  
  • CIVE 646 - Probabilistic Methods in Hydroscience

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Advanced probability and statistics concepts, Monte Carlo simulation of hydro-systems, probabilistic models of observed hydrologic data, optimal estimation and interpolation of geophysical fields. Use of data-intensive computer applications is emphasized.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required

  
  • CIVE 650 - Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    ITS concepts, rural and urban ITS applications, ITS in transportation management systems, ITS in traffic operations and traffic management centers, ITS in freight, inter-modal, private and public transportation, and ITS emerging issues.

  
  • CIVE 651 - Transportation Planning

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Theory of travel demand modeling; conventional four-step transportation modeling procedures including trip generation, trip distribution, modal choice, and traffic assignment; transportation modeling using GIS software.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor required
  
  • CIVE 652 - Systems Engineering for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Introduction to the systems engineering process and how it can be used to plan, design, and deploy intelligent transportation system projects.

  
  • CIVE 653 - Traffic Flow Theory and Control.

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Vehicle motion and traffic flow models. Urban traffic control methods, highway capacity analysis, traffic data collection, and impact studies. Traffic control devices and signal analysis using real-world data. Congestion management using Intelligent Transportation Systems.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 345  and STAT 325  
  
  • CIVE 654 - Probe Data For Its Applications In Traffic Planning, Operations, And Safety

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Introduction to probe data and traffic messaging channels. Application of probe data in bottleneck ranking, project prioritization, traffic incident management, work zone monitoring, performance targeting and monitoring, and safety assessments.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 345  or permission of the instructor.
  
  • CIVE 655 - Pavement Design and Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Analysis and design of flexible and rigid pavements for highways and airfields. Pavement materials, distress analysis, and pavement condition surveys. Pavement management, maintenance, and rehabilitation. Pavement system evaluation and life-cycle cost analysis.

    Prerequisite(s): CIVE 450G  or permission of instructor required
  
  • CIVE 656 - Pavement Rehabilitation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Engineering concepts and techniques needed to rehabilitate transportation infrastructures. Network and project surveys and evaluation. Selection of rehabilitation alternatives and designs related to rigid and flexible pavements.

    Restriction(s): Graduate standing and permission of instructor.

 

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