Course Curriculum for Master Degree in Civil Engineering/ Structural Engineering

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1 Course Curriculum for Master Degree in Civil Engineering/ Structural Engineering The Master Degree in Civil Engineering/Structural Engineering, is awarded by the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) upon the fulfillment of the following requirements: 1) Compliance with the J.U.S.T. Master Degree regulations approved by the Dean Council (No. 492/2006), dated 8/8/ ) Successful completion of (34) credit hours: 1. Compulsory Requirements: (13) credit hours as follows: CE 703 Civil Engineering Seminar 1 CE 731 Advanced Reinforced Concrete 3 CE 732 Structural Dynamics 3 CE 733 Finite Element Method 1 3 CE 736 Advanced Structural Mechanics 3 2. Elective Requirements: (12) credit hours from the following * : CE 701 Advanced Applied Mathematics 3 CE 721 Advanced Concrete Technology 3 CE 730 Design of Thin Concrete Structures 3 CE 734 Structural Stability 3 CE 735 Theory of Plates and Shells 3 CE 737 Numerical Methods in Structural Engineering 3 CE 738 Advanced Structural Steel Design 3 CE 739 Structural Reliability 3 CE 783 Special Topics in Structural Engineering 3 * The student may study not more than 3 credit hours from courses of 700 or 800 level offered by other programs related to his field of study upon approval of the Dean of Graduate Studies based on the recommendation of the departmental graduate studies committee. 3. Master Thesis (CE799): total of 9 credit hours as follows: Course Code Course Name Credit CE 799 A Master Thesis 9 CE 799 B Master Thesis 6 CE 799 C Master Thesis 3 CE 799 D Master Thesis 0 1

2 Course Curriculum for Master Degree in Civil Engineering/ Transportation Engineering The Master Degree in Civil Engineering/Transportation Engineering, is awarded by the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) upon the fulfillment of the following requirements: 1) Compliance with the J.U.S.T. Master Degree regulations approved by the Dean Council (No. 492/2006), dated 8/8/ ) Successful completion of (34) credit hours: 1. Compulsory Requirements: (13) credit hours as follows: CE 703 Civil Engineering Seminar 1 CE 740 Highway Materials 3 CE 741 Analytical Techniques in Transportation 3 CE 742 Traffic Flow Theory and Control 3 CE 743 Advanced Pavement Analysis and Design 3 2. Elective Requirements: (12) credit hours from the following * : CE 701 Advanced Applied Mathematics 3 CE 704 Analytical and Digital Photogrammetry 3 CE 744 Advanced Transportation Planning 3 CE 745 Pavement Management Systems 3 CE 746 Highway Safety 3 CE 747 Transportation Network and Simulation 3 CE 748 Applications of Advanced Technologies in 3 Transportation Engineering CE 784 Special Topics in Structural Engineering 3 * The student may study not more than 3 credit hours from courses of 700 or 800 level offered by other programs related to his field of study upon approval of the Dean of Graduate Studies based on the recommendation of the departmental graduate studies committee. 3. Master Thesis (CE799): total of 9 credit hours as follows: Course Code Course Name Credit CE 799 A Master Thesis 9 CE 799 B Master Thesis 6 CE 799 C Master Thesis 3 CE 799 D Master Thesis 0 2

3 Course Curriculum for Master Degree in Civil Engineering/ Water Resources Engineering The Master Degree in Civil Engineering/Water Resources Engineering, is awarded by the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) upon the fulfillment of the following requirements: 1) Compliance with the J.U.S.T. Master Degree regulations approved by the Dean Council (No. 492/2006), dated 8/8/ ) Successful completion of (34) credit hours: 1. Compulsory Requirements: (13) credit hours as follows: CE 703 Civil Engineering Seminar 1 CE 751 Surface Hydrology 3 CE 752 Open Channel Hydraulics 3 CE 753 Wastewater Engineering 3 CE 754 Chemistry for Environmental Engineers 3 2. Elective Requirements: (12) credit hours from the following * : CE 701 Advanced Applied Mathematics 3 CE 755 Physical and Chemical Processes 3 CE 756 Groundwater Hydrology 3 CE 757 Industrial and Hazardous Waste 3 CE 758 Surface and Subsurface Modeling 3 CE 759 Water Resources Engineering 3 CE 785 Special Topics in Structural Engineering 3 * The student may study not more than 3 credit hours from courses of 700 or 800 level offered by other programs related to his field of study upon approval of the Dean of Graduate Studies based on the recommendation of the departmental graduate studies committee. 3. Master Thesis (CE799): total of 9 credit hours as follows: Course Code Course Name Credit CE 799 A Master Thesis 9 CE 799 B Master Thesis 6 CE 799 C Master Thesis 3 CE 799 D Master Thesis 0 3

4 Course Curriculum for Master Degree in Civil Engineering/ Geotechnical Engineering The Master Degree in Civil Engineering/Geotechnical Engineering, is awarded by the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) upon the fulfillment of the following requirements: 1) Compliance with the J.U.S.T. Master Degree regulations approved by the Dean Council (No. 492/2006), dated 8/8/ ) Successful completion of (34) credit hours: 1. Compulsory Requirements: (13) credit hours as follows: CE 703 Civil Engineering Seminar 1 CE 761 Advanced Soil Mechanics 3 CE 762 Soil Behavior 3 CE 763 Advanced Foundation Engineering 3 CE 765 Advanced Rock Mechanics 3 2. Elective Requirements: (12) credit hours from the following * : CE 701 Advanced Applied Mathematics 3 CE 702 Applied Statistics 3 CE 764 Earth Retaining Structures 3 CE 766 Soil Dynamics 3 CE 757 Soil Properties and Their Measurements 3 CE 768 Pile Foundations 3 CE 769 Foundation on Rocks 3 CE 786 Special Topics in Structural Engineering 3 * The student may study not more than 3 credit hours from courses of 700 or 800 level offered by other programs related to his field of study upon approval of the Dean of Graduate Studies based on the recommendation of the departmental graduate studies committee. 3. Master Thesis (CE 799): Total of 9 credit hours as follows: Course Code Course Name Credit CE 799 A Master Thesis 9 CE 799 B Master Thesis 6 CE 799 C Master Thesis 3 CE 799 D Master Thesis 0 4

5 Courses Description CE 701: Advanced Applied Mathematics (3 Credit Hours) Complex functions, application of conformal mapping, Fourier series and integrations, special functions, Legendre polynomials, Bessel functions, Laplace Transforms and its application to ODE s in engineering practice, Partial Differential Equations. CE 702: Applied Statistics (3 Credit Hours) A review of basic probability and statistics: Random variables and probability distributions: discrete and continuous. Moments and expectations of functions of single and multiple random variables. Taylor series expansion for approximating mean and variance of functions. Common probability distributions: Discrete trails, random occurrence, and limiting cases. Estimating distribution parameters from observed data. Interval estimate of mean and variance: sample and population. Determination and verification of distribution models. Linear and non-linear multiple regression analysis with constant and non-constant variance. Nomographs. Design of experiments and analysis of variance. CE 703 Seminar in Civil Engineering (1C, 1H) Research and studies presented by post-graduate students, faculty members, invited speakers from industry and academia. CE 704 Analytical and Digital Photogrammetry (3 Credit Hours) Basic mathematics of photogrammetry, theory of orientation, geometric solution to some photogrammetric problems, mathematics and stochastic modeling in photogrammetry, analytical technology of camera calibration, terrestrial and close-range photogrammetry, least-squares adjustment of photogrammetric blocks, non-topographic photogrammetric, analytical data-reduction schemes, theory of image coordinate errors, on-line non-topographic photogrammetry, video metrology and real-time photogrammetry, industrial photogrammetry, and trends in nontopographic photogrammetric systems. CE 721: Advanced Concrete Technology (3 Credit Hours) Hydration of Portland cement and gel formation and cement paste microstructure, Strength development and relations between pore structure and strength of paste and concrete, Elasticity, Curing at elevated temperatures, Concreting in cold and hot weathers, Maturity concept and accelerated curing, Introduction to fracture mechanics and failure mechanism, Shrinkage, creep and related deformation and cracks, Strength variations and quality control. CE 730: Design of Thin Concrete Structures (3 Credit Hours) Design of Thin Concrete Structures Including Slabs, Folded Plates, and Shells. CE 731: Advanced Reinforced Concrete (3 Credit Hours) Review of flexural, shear, and torsional behavior of reinforced concrete beams of different crosssections. Deflection and curvature, limit analysis and design of beams and frames. Moment redistribution. Yield-line theory of slabs. Deflection of two-way edge supported and flat slabs. Behavior and design of brackets, corbels, bearing walls, shear walls and beam-column joints. CE 732: Structural Dynamics (3 Credit Hours) Analysis of structures subjected to dynamic loads. Theory developed for single degree of freedom system and generalized to multiple degree of freedom and continuous systems. Spectral Analysis, Analytical and numerical techniques for solution of equations of motion. Transient, steady state, 5

6 and modal response. Analysis of nonlinear structural response. Distributed-parameter systems. Applications to earthquake design and presentation of practical methods. CE 733:Finite Element Method 1 (3 Credit Hours) Theoretical basis of the finite element method. Elements for use in the solution of two-and threedimensional problems. Plate-bending problems and shell problems. Computer Applications. CE 734:Structural Stability (3 Credit Hours) Stability of Mechanical systems, Bending of structural members subjected to axial and lateral loads. Buckling of compression members (columns) and frames in elastic range, lateral buckling of beams, Buckling of Plates. CE 735:Theory of Plates and Shells (3 Credit Hours) Two-dimensional elasticity theory, Analysis and design of rectangular and circular plates, Analysis of plates including shear deformations, Numerical methods for shells, Analysis and design of thin shells; cylindrical vaults, domes, circular-cylindrical tanks, intersection shells and folded plates. CE 736: Advanced Structural Mechanics (3 Credit Hours) Studies of stress and strain, failure theories, and yield criterion, flexure and torsion theories for solid and thin-walled members and energy methods. CE 737:Numerical Methods in Structural Engineering (3 Credit Hours) Numerical differentiation and integration, Solution of linear and differential equations related to structural engineering, problems in structural dynamics, Initial value problems. Newmark s method. Series methods, finite method and energy methods applied to problems in structures and soil mechanics. CE738: Advanced Structural Steel Design (3 Credit Hours) Bolted and welded connections, Building Connections, Rigid Steel frames, elastic and plastic design methods, supports of rigid frames, composite design. CE739 Structural Reliability (3 Credit Hours) Review of basic probability concepts, probability distribution and random variables, Decision analysis, Markov Models, statistics of extremes, Monte Carlo simulation, Reliability analysis and assessment, Reliability based design, system reliability. CE 740: Highway Materials (3 Credit Hours) Origin and use of asphalt materials, asphalt cement, cutback asphalts, emulsified asphalt, road tars. Aggregates for bituminous mixtures. Design of bituminous mixtures. Mix-design methods. Use of additives in bituminous mixtures. CE 741: Analytical Techniques in Transportation (3 Credit Hours) Probability and probability models, statistical inference regression analysis, experiment design and analysis of variance and covariance. Use of computer statistical packages. Linear programming of transportation problem. CE 742: Traffic Flow Theory and Control (3 Credit Hours) Traffic mathematical models. Traffic distributions. Deterministic and probabilistic relationships. Analysis of arrivals. Traffic delay models. Gap and Gap acceptance models. Shock waves in traffic stream. 6

7 CE 743: Advanced Pavement Analysis and Design (3 Credit Hours) Historical developments, road tests, design factors, stresses and strains in flexible pavements, stresses and strains in rigid pavements, traffic loading and volume, pavement performance, reliability methods, pavement design methods, design of pavement shoulders, computer applications. CE 744: Advanced Transportation Planning (3 Credit Hours) Activity - based analysis, models of discrete / continuous choice, theories of choice and econometric models, theory and specification of multinomial choice models, model specification development and testing joint choice models, alternative choice modes (Nested Logit), non-linear utility functions, prediction with disaggregate choice models, systems of travel demand model. CE 745: Pavement Management Systems (3 Credit Hours) Role of pavement in today s transport system, basic components of pavement management systems (PMS). Planning pavement investments and pavement research management. Evaluation of pavement structural capacity performance, distress and safety. Analysis and economic evaluation of alternative design strategies. Construction, rehabilitation and maintenance as related to other phases of PMS. Data management requirements. This course includes field work investigation. CE 746: Highway Safety (3 Credit Hours) Road safety problem. Road accidents in Jordan and developing countries. Effect of design elements on road safety. Traffic management. Accident reporting and recordings. Accident surveys and analysis. Accident causes and prevention. Traffic regulations. Study of the vehicle in relation to road safety. CE 747: Transportation Network and Simulation(3 Credit Hours) Simulation methods. Graph theory. Shortest paths in transportation networks, transportation network flows. Vehicle route problems on networks including the Chinese postman s problem and traveling salesman problem. Designing optimal routes for a fleet of vehicles, vehicle routing with one depot, vehicle depot locations. CE748: Applications of Advanced Technologies in Transportation Engineering (3 Credit Hours) Emphasis on intelligent transportation systems (ITS) including available systems and up to date research efforts. Imaging application for highway maintenance and transportation engineering. Real - time urban traffic control. Vehicle detection and image processing. Vision systems role in transportation engineering. Applications of image processing, GIS, remote sensing, knowledgebased systems, and expert systems; to transportation engineering. CE 751: Surface Hydrology (3 Credit Hours) Composition and general characteristics of the atmosphere; temperature and pressure distributions in the atmosphere and evaluation of perceptible water; and Radiation. Frequency analysis in hydrology. Unit hydrograph theory and synthetic unit hydrograph; Hydrologic and hydraulic routing. Stream flow generation and forecasting. Hydrologic modeling and design. CE 752: Open Channel Hydraulics (3 Credit Hours) Open channels classifications and properties. Energy and momentum principles. Critical and normal flow formulas and computations. Design of channels for uniform flow. Boundary layer concept and velocity distribution in open channels. Gradually-varied flow. Spatially varied flow. Rapidly-varied flow-unsteady flow and wave propagation. 7

8 CE 753: Wastewater Engineering (3 Credit Hours) Rate processes, energetic and kinetics of chemical, physical and biological processes. Design of wastewater treatment facilities for the reduction and elimination of organic and inorganic pollutants. Including activated sludge, rotating biological contactors, trickling filter and experiments and field trips. CE 754: Chemistry for Environmental Engineers (3 Credit Hours) Homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical and biochemical kinetics and equilibrium in air and water. Applied environmental aspects of physical, organic, and inorganic chemistry, including applications in environmental engineering of the phenomena of precipitation, complexation, buffering capacity, chemical equilibria. Nomenclature and properties of organic compounds. CE 755:Physical and Chemical Processes (3 Credit Hours) Physiochemcial and transformation processes in natural and engineered environmental systems; process modeling; design of operations involving state and phase transformation; chemical oxidation, reduction, sorption; stripping; and exchange processes; membrane separations, particle aggregation and coagulation, sedimentation and filtration. CE 756:Groundwater Hydrology (3 Credit Hours) Occurrence of groundwater; movement of groundwater; groundwater levels; quality of groundwater, hydrodynamic dispersion; modeling of groundwater; surface and subsurface investigation of groundwater; artificial recharge of groundwater; intrusion of saline water into coastal aquifers. Transport of contaminants; use of computer models for the simulation of flow and transport problems. CE 757:Industrial and Hazardous Waste (3 Credit Hours) Identification of industrial and hazardous waste sources. industrial wastewater treatment, In plant management, and wastewater reuse. Industrial Hygiene. Problems associated with hazardous wastes, risk assessment, government regulations, and waste management techniques. CE 758:Surface and Subsurface Modeling (3 Credit Hours) Governing equations of saturated flow and boundary value problems. Numerical techniques in GW. Solute transport in porous media and numerical solution methods. Reaction kinetics Overview. Completely and incompletely-mixed reactors. Water Quality environment. Rivers, stream and reserow Dissolved Oxygen and pathogens. Eutrophication and temperature. CE 759:Water Resources Engineering (3 Credit Hours) Fields of water resources engineering, probability concepts in water resources planning, engineering economy in water resources planning, flood damage mitigation planning and management of water resources systems. Optimization techniques (linear and nonlinear programming) in water resources. Geographic Information systems (GIS) and its application in water resources engineering. CE 761: Advanced Soil Mechanics (3 Credit Hours) Permeability and seepage, consolidation theory, secondary compression, three dimensional consolidation, settlement analysis, stress-strain-strength behavior of soils: drained and undrained conditions for cohesive and cohesionless soils, anisotropy of soils, classes of stability. CE 762: Soil Behavior (3 Credit Hours) Soil formation, bonding, phyllosilicates and clay mineralogy, soil water, clay-water-electrolyte system, soil structure and soil fabric, rheology, swelling behavior of soils, shear strength behavior of soils, collapsibility of soils, dispersive phenomenon and soil erosion, the rate process theory, consolidation and compressibility of soils. 8

9 CE 763: Advanced Foundation Engineering (3 Credit Hours) Site investigation, shallow foundations; bearing capacity and settlement analysis, beams on elastic foundations, analysis and design of pile foundations under static loading, use of wave equation theory, piles subjected to uplift loading, laterally loaded piles, model piles. CE 764: Earth Retaining Structures (3 Credit Hours) Earth pressure theories, graphical techniques, lateral pressure due to external loads, compaction pressures, wall flexibility, determination of soil parameters, design of anchored sheet-pile walls, design of cofferdams, design of gravity and reinforced concrete cantilever walls, design of reinforced earth retaining walls. CE 765: Advanced Rock Mechanics (3 Credit Hours) Elastic theory; stress distribution around an underground excavation; design of underground excavation in competent and incompetent rock; rock slope engineering, ground movement and subsidence engineering; introduction to instrumentation and field techniques. Finite elements method of analysis and application to rock mechanics problems This course includes some laboratory experiments. CE 766: Soil Dynamics (3 Credit Hours) Introduction to the theory of motion and vibration, basic principles of dynamics of linear systems as applied to analysis of structures, single and multiple degrees of freedom system, excitation by applied forces and by ground motions, response spectrum concepts, wave propagation in one and two dimensions, stress-strain behavior of soils during transient and repeated loading, strength degradation and liquefaction, bearing capacity and settlement under dynamic loading, analysis of machine foundations. CE767: Soil Properties and Their Measurements (3 Credit Hours) Estimation of basic soil properties for engineering purposes, index and classification properties, shear strength characteristics of soils, permeability and capillarity, consolidation and secondary compression, swelling potential, field testing. CE 768: Pile Foundations (3 Credit Hours) General principles. Effect of pile installation. Ultimate load capacity of piles; single pile, pile groups, and piles to rocks. Special types of piles; large bored piles, under-reamed bored piles. Uplift resistance of piles. Load capacity by dynamic methods. Settlement analysis of piles. Ultimate lateral resistance of piles. Piles in swelling and shrinking soils. Pile load test. CE 769: Foundations on Rock (3 Credit Hours) Characteristics of rock foundations, structural geology rock strength and deformability, Bearing capacity, settlement and stress distribution, Stability of foundations, Foundations of gravity and embankment dams, rock-socketed piers and tension foundations. CE 783: Special Topics in Structural Engineering (3 Credit Hours) A very well-structured advanced course in the area of structural engineering covering a topic which is not offered such as earthquake engineering, theory of plasticity and applications, etc. CE 784: Special Topics in Transportation Engineering (3 Credit Hours) A very well-structured advanced course in the area of transportation engineering, covering a topic which is not offered such as airport planning and design, railroad engineering, Transportation planning methods remote-sensing, GIS, Stereo mapping, adjustment of observations, etc. 9

10 CE 785: Special Topics in Water and Env. Engineering (3 Credit Hours) A very well-structured advanced course in the area of water resources and environmental engineering, covering a topic which is not offered such as solid waste engineering, sediment transport, Statistical hydrology or hydrodynamics, etc. CE 786: Special Topics in Geotechnical Engineering (3 Credit Hours) Advanced earthquake engineering, advanced geotechnical aspects of dam engineering, seepage analysis in porous media, etc. CE 799A:M.Sc. Thesis (9C). CE 799B:M.Sc. Thesis (6C) _ CE 799C:M.Sc.Thesis (3C) CE 799D: M.Sc. Thesis (0C) 10