DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING Undergraduate Courses Postgraduate Courses
Undergraduate Courses: CIVL 001 Academic and Professional Development I [0-1-0:0] For Civil Engineering students only. This is one of a series of three courses designed to assist students in developing attributes necessary for professional growth. Discussions will be led by individual or small groups of students on topics ranging from civil engineering practice to student issues. Graded P or F. CIVL 002 Academic and Professional Development II [0-1-0:0] For Civil Engineering students only. This is one of a series of three courses designed to assist students in developing attributes necessary for professional growth. Discussions will be led by individual or small groups of students on topics ranging from civil engineering practice to student issues. Graded P or F. CIVL 003 Academic and Professional Development III [0-1-0:0] For Civil Engineering students only. This is one of a series of three courses designed to assist students in developing attributes necessary for professional growth. Discussions will be led by individual or small groups of students on topics ranging from civil engineering practice to student issues. Graded P or F. CIVL 099 Industrial Training [0 credit] For students of the Civil Engineering Department only. A practical training course for a total duration of ten weeks covering building practice, scaffolding, formwork, brickwork, reinforced concrete practice, site formation, environmental monitoring and assessment, safety, first aid, and site project. Graded P or F. CIVL 101 History and Practice of Civil Engineering [1-0-0:1] For Civil Engineering students only. Past and current practices of civil engineers in relation to their interaction with society, introduction to various subdisciplines of civil engineering, emphasis on ethics, responsibility and professionalism. Graded P or F. Exclusion: CIVL 161 CIVL 102 Surveying and Surveying Camp [2-0-3:2] Plane surveying fundamentals including preliminaries and planning, leveling, triangulation, traversing, detail survey and plotting by AutoCAD, least squares adjustments setting out; followed by one-week surveying camp in the Winter Session. Final grades issued after completion of the surveying camp. CIVL 111 Construction Materials [2-1-3:3] Properties of engineering materials and their relation to the internal structure of materials; includes physical properties of construction materials like portland cement concrete, asphalt, polymers, ferrous metals and non-ferrous metals. CIVL 112 Mechanics of Materials [3-1-0:3] Analysis of stress, strain and deformation; linear and non-linear material behavior; strain energy; bending of beams, deflection; stability and buckling of compression members; shear and torsional stresses. Background: CIVL 113 Exclusion: MECH 101 CIVL 113 Statics and Dynamics [3-1-0:3] Application of Newton s laws to engineering problems; includes force equilibrium, kinematics and kinetics of particles and rigid bodies. Exclusion: CIVL 115 CIVL 114 Civil Engineering Drawing [0-0-3:1] Fluency in graphical communication skills using freehand sketching, draughting equipment and computer draughting. Drawing procedures and relevant civil engineering standards. Layout and development of multiple orthographic views, sectional views and dimensioning. CIVL 115 Introduction to Statics and Dynamics [3-1-0:3] An introduction of Newton s laws and its application in engineering problems; includes system of forces and moments, objects in equilibrium, energy methods and rigid body kinematics. Exclusion: CIVL 113 CIVL 141 Environmental Engineering and Management [3-1-0:3] Introduction to current environmental issues; providing the essential chemical principles required to understand the nature of the pollution problems; applying knowledge from science and engineering approaches to the solutions of environmental problems that affect our water, air and land resources. This course also covers basic concepts of environmental impact assessment of civil engineering projects. Exclusions: CENG 152, CIVL 142 CIVL 142 Environmental Quality Control and Improvement [3-1-0:3] Introduction to local and global environmental issues; providing the essential physical, chemical, and biological concepts required to understand the nature of the pollutants; applying engineering and management approaches to the solutions of environmental problems that affect our water, air, and land resources. Background: AL Chemistry Exclusions: CENG 152, CIVL 141 CIVL 151 Fluid Mechanics [3-0-2:3] An introduction to the mechanics of fluids, including fluid statics, kinematics and fundamental equations of fluid flow, laminar and turbulent flow, boundary layers and applications in the design of hydraulic structures. Exclusion: MECH 221 Prerequisite: CIVL 113
CIVL 161 Civil Engineering and Modern Society [2-2-0:3] Fundamental principles involved in the provision of infrastructure to sustain modern society, including the planning, construction, and maintenance of these aspects: water supplies, highways and transportation, drainage and flood control, waste water treatment, environment protection, marine work, slope and foundation, new town planning, etc. Exclusion: CIVL 101 CIVL 181 Modeling Systems with Uncertainties [3-1-0:3] [Previous Course Code: CIVL 281] Identification and modeling of non-deterministic problems in civil engineering, and the treatment thereof relative to engineering design and decision making. Development of stochastic concepts and simulation models, and their relevance to real design and decision problems in various areas of civil engineering. Exclusions: ISMT 111, MATH 243, MATH 244 CIVL 202 Construction Engineering I [2-1-0:2] Study of the construction industry, demand for project, initial and feasibility studies, impact assessment, local statutory ordinances, estimates, finance, resource allocation, bills of quantities. CIVL 231 Structural Analysis [3-1-1:3] Structural forms and modeling, statically determinate structures, statically indeterminate structures, force and displacement methods, deflections of structures, influence lines, approximate analysis, energy methods. Prerequisite: CIVL 112 CIVL 232 Structural Concrete Design [3-1-1:3] Ultimate limit state design of reinforced concrete beams, columns and slabs; serviceability limit states of deflection and cracking. Prerequisite: CIVL 231 CIVL 242 Water and Wastewater Engineering [3-1-0:3] Introduction to basic concepts of water quality, fundamentals of water and wastewater treatment processes, analysis of treatment process flowsheets, analysis of water quality management alternatives. Prerequisite: CIVL 141 CIVL 252 Hydraulics [3-0-2:3] Application of the principles of fluid mechanics to civil engineering systems; includes hydraulic machinery, pipe flow, pipe networks, open channel flow, channel networks, rapidly and gradually varied flow, quasi-steady flow. Prerequisite: CIVL 151 CIVL 253 Hydrology [3-1-0:3] Hydrological cycle, routing, mass curve, precipitation analysis, abstractions, infiltration and evaporation, runoff and streamflow, runoff simulation, stochastic hydrology, hydrologic design, subsurface flow and wells. Pre-/Co-requisite: CIVL 181 CIVL 261 Traffic and Transportation Engineering [3-1-0:3] Introduction to transportation systems; characteristics of transportation models; traffic flow fundamentals; geometric design of highways; travel demand analysis including trip generation, modal split and trip assignment. Exclusion: CIVL 262 CIVL 262 Introduction to Transportation Systems [3-1-0:3] Introduction to transportation systems; characteristics of transportation models; traffic flow fundamentals; transportation economics; traffic demand forecasting including trip generation, trip distribution, modal split and trip assignment. Exclusion: CIVL 261 CIVL 270 Geology for Civil Engineers [3-0-3:3] Introduction to minerals, rocks, structural geology, engineering in geological materials. Introduction to basic soil mechanics for civil engineers. CIVL 272 Soil Mechanics [3-0-3:3] State of stress, shear strength, flow and seepage problems, consolidation theory, and introduction to the concept of critical state. Prerequisite: CIVL 270 CIVL 300 Special Topics [1-4 credit(s)] Selected topics in Civil Engineering of current interest to the Department and not covered by existing courses. CIVL 302 Construction Engineering Management and Law [2-1-0:2] Continuation of CIVL 202. Further study in contract and contract management, contract disputes, claims, settlement by arbitration, settlement by litigation, rules of evidence, tort and professional negligence. Prerequisite: CIVL 202 CIVL 303 Construction Engineering II [2-1-0:2] Continuation of CIVL 202. Contract strategy, tender documents, methods of invitation of tenders, contract management, site supervision, financial control, site safety, variation order. Prerequisite: CIVL 202 CIVL 323 Construction Materials Technology [2-1-0:2] Constituents of concrete; failure mechanisms and mechanical properties; advanced cementitious composites: high strength, fiber, polymer, high performance; concrete fracture: mechanics; test methods; non-destructive evaluation: wave, scan, ultrasonic, acoustic emission. Exclusion: CIVL 524 Prerequisite: CIVL 111 CIVL 324 Prestressed Concrete [3-1-0:3] Historical development; methods of prestressing, elastic analysis and design; flexural and shear capacity; losses of prestress; anchorage zones; composite members; design procedures and applications. Prerequisite: CIVL 232
CIVL 332 Introduction to Structural Dynamics [3-1-0:3] Single degree of freedom systems, multi-degree of freedom systems, continuous systems, random vibrations, dynamic behavior under wind loads and earthquakes. Prerequisites: CIVL 113 and MATH 152 CIVL 334 Structural Steel Design [3-2-0:3] Limit state design of steel structures, stability analysis of thin-walled members, design of tension members, columns, beams, plate girders, beam-columns, structural connections, plastic analysis and design. Background: CIVL 231 CIVL 335 Design of Structural Systems [3-2-0:3] Structural systems for buildings, loads on structures, selection of structure schemes, preliminary analysis and design, computer-aided proportioning, special consideration in high-rise structures, composite design. Prerequisites: CIVL 232 and CIVL 334 CIVL 337 Computer Methods of Structural Analysis [3-1-0:3] Matrix formulation of structural analysis using stiffness method, solution of linear equations, applications to civil engineering structures, modeling of large and complex structural systems. Prerequisite: CIVL 231 CIVL 338 Introduction to Wind Effects on Buildings and Structures [3-0-0:3] [Previous Course Code: CIVL 300D] Basic meteorology, structure of wind near the ground, wind induced vibrations, wind loading codes, wind tunnel test techniques. Exclusion: CIVL 537 Prerequisite: CIVL 252 CIVL 344 Solid Waste Management [3-0-0:3] Practical aspects of problem solving with discussion on current collection methods, systems, and equipment, available disposal techniques and facilities, material recovery and recycling systems. Exclusion: CIVL 546 Prerequisite: CIVL 141 CIVL 346 Process Design of Environmental Engineering Facilities [3-1-0:3] Basic principles in the process design of environmental engineering facilities, such as water and wastewater treatment systems, pump station, as well as sanitary landfill disposal. Prerequisite: CIVL 242 CIVL 351 Municipal Hydraulic Systems [2-1-0:2] Planning, analysis and design of municipal water and wastewater systems and sewage outfalls; includes community planning, loading and demand forecasting, hydraulics, stormwater management, and drainage system design. Prerequisite: CIVL 253 CIVL 352 Water Resources Engineering [3-1-0:3] Broadening of hydraulic/hydrologic concepts; includes water resources systems, mathematical skills for analyzing natural and engineered water resource systems, planning and design of water resource systems using representative examples. Prerequisite: CIVL 253 CIVL 353 Subsurface Pollutant Transport [3-0-0:3] Study on groundwater pollution and transport; includes groundwater hydrology, sources of pollution, transport mechanisms, advection-dispersion model, unsaturated zone transport and numerical modeling. Prerequisites: CIVL 141, and MATH 150/MATH 152 CIVL 362 Transportation System Operations [3-1-0:3] Transportation economics, land use and transportation system, queuing theory and traffic flow analysis, intersection control and design, urban transit operations and management. Prerequisite: CIVL 261 or CIVL 262 CIVL 372 Geotechnical Analysis and Design [3-1-0:3] Introduction to geotechnical analysis and design including slope stability analysis, bearing capacity of soils, lateral earth pressures, design of retaining wall, shallow and piled foundations, geotechnical centrifuge modeling and field monitoring. Prerequisite: CIVL 272 CIVL 375 Numerical Solutions to Geotechnical Problems [3-0-0:3] [Previous Course Code: CIVL 300F] Use of specific and general-purpose computer software to solve common geotechnical problems associated with empirical relationships, seepage, consolidation, pile applications, excavations, and general soil behavior. Brief introductions to and applications of finite difference, finite element and other numerical solution techniques are included. CIVL 376 Introduction to Rock Mechanics [3-1-0:3] [Previous Course Code: CIVL 300G] This course introduces basic concepts of rock mechanics applied to geotechnical engineering; topics includes: index properties and classification of rocks, rock strength and failure criteria, initial stresses in rocks, rock mass properties, underground openings in rocks, rock slopes, rock foundations and stabilization of rock mass. Prerequisites: CIVL 270 and CIVL 372 CIVL 390 Directed Studies [1 credit] Specialist courses where instruction is generally given on a one-to-one basis. Graded P or F.
CIVL 395 Integrated Civil Engineering Design Project [2-1-0:2] A capstone project course emphasizing a team approach to integrate prior course work and design skills for the execution of a real-life civil engineering project. Topics may include project planning, feasibility studies; environmental impact assessments; site development; foundation design; structural design, water resources engineering, transportation engineering, cost estimating, contract document preparation, and construction project management. Students should have successfully completed the Fall Semester of the third year. CIVL 397 Civil Engineering Project I [0-0-6:2] Applications of civil engineering principles to the design, planning, experimental or analytical investigation of current engineering design and research problems. Students should have completed the second-year program. May be graded PP. CIVL 398 Civil Engineering Project II [0-0-12:4] Continuation of CIVL 397. Prerequisite: CIVL 397
Postgraduate Courses: CIVL 512 Finite Element Methods [3-0-0:3] [Co-list with MECH 593] FEM formulation; variational and Galerkin principles for continuum; element technology; numerical integration scheme; solution of large systems of linear equations; applications to structural mechanics; fluid flow and heat transfer problems. Exclusion: MECH 593 Prerequisite: CIVL 533 or MECH 501 or equivalent CIVL 514 Instrumentation Systems for Civil Engineers [2-0-1:3] This course introduces the theoretical and practical knowledge of the basic components of an instrumentation system, including transducers, signal conditioning, data acquisition, noise elimination, and signal processing. CIVL 521 Advanced Reinforced Concrete [3-0-0:3] In-depth study of mechanics and behavior of reinforced concrete members and structures. Design for flexure, shear and disturbed regions, including slabs, columns, structural walls, deep beams, beam-column joints. Background: CIVL 232 Exclusion: CIEM 521 CIVL 522 Advanced Prestressed Concrete [3-0-0:3] Basic concepts, design for serviceability and time dependent analysis, ultimate strength limit states, anchorage zones, statically indeterminate structures, two-way slabs, compression and tension members. CIVL 524 Advanced Concrete Technology [3-0-0:3] Fundamental concepts (workability, strength, dimension stability, and durability); updated concrete technology (micro structural engineering, development of special concretes); concrete fracture and modeling; nondestructive evaluation methods for concrete structures. Background: CIVL 111 and CIVL 112 or equivalent Exclusions: CIEM 524, CIVL 323 CIVL 525 Renovation Engineering [3-0-0:3] [Previous Course Code: CIVL 602A] Reinforced concrete durability; damage caused by natural and human-being disaster; Infrastructure degradation, inspection; nondestructive evaluation; Conventional repair techniques; Composite materials; Steel plate or composite strengthening, beam and column retrofitting. Exclusion: CIEM 525 CIVL 531 Structural Analysis and Design of Tall Buildings [3-0-0:3] Integrated treatment of analytical methods and technical aspects in design of tall building structures; includes stuctural modeling, frames, shear walls, outriggerbraced systems, core-walls, tubular structures, and special topics. Exclusion: CIEM 531 CIVL 532 Structural Dynamics [3-0-0:3] Basics, lumped mass systems with various degrees of freedom, energy methods, modal analysis, frequency domain, numerical methods, continuous systems, earthquake engineering, wind loading and aerodynamic effects on buildings. Perequisite: CIVL 332 CIVL 533 Advanced Mechanics of Materials [3-0-0:3] Analysis of stress and strain; elastic and inelastic behavior of materials; formulation of BVP; beam on elastic foundations; torsion of noncircular thinwalled members; deformation of cylinders and spheres; inelastic analysis. Exclusion: CIEM 533 CIVL 534 Optimal Structural Design [3-0-0:3] Presents advanced theories for design optimization; linear and nonlinear mathematical programming techniques, approximation concepts, sensitivity analysis, optimality criteria method for large-scale structures, evolutionary optimization using genetic algorithms and simulated annealing. CIVL 536 Seismic Design of Building Systems [3-0-0:3] Current seismic design philosophy and methodologies, structural configurations and irregularities, concepts of structural fuse, ductile concrete, and capacity design. These concepts are illustrated in design examples of reinforced concrete moment resistant frames and walls. CIVL 537 Wind Effects on Buildings and Structures [3-0-0:3] [Previous Course Code: CIVL 600O] Wind structures; wind loads; wind induced vibrations; wind codes; wind tunnel test techniques; structural monitoring; virbration control. Exclusion: CIEM 537 CIVL 541 Physical-Chemical Water/Wastewater Treatment [3-0-0:3] Principles of treatment for removing contaminants from drinking water and municipal wastewaters; includes equalization, neutralization, precipitation, coagulation and flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, air stripping, carbon adsorption, disinfection. Prerequisite: CIVL 242 CIVL 542 Biological Waste Treatment [3-0-0:3] Principles of secondary, biological treatment processes; includes sewage sand filters, trickling filters, activated sludge plants, lagoons, ponds, rotating biological contactors, aerobic and anaerobic digesters, and biological nutrient removal. Exclusion: CIEM 542 Prerequisite: CIVL 242
CIVL 543 Aquatic Chemistry [3-0-0:3] Chemistry applied to reactions occurring in water and wastewater, includes inorganic solution chemistry, chemical equilibrium, acids/bases, coordination chemistry, chemical kinetics, colloid chemistry, solubility and precipitation, oxidation-reduction potential. Prerequisite: CIVL 141 CIVL 544 Process Design of Water and Wastewater Treatment [3-0-0:3] Systems Complete design of water or wastewater treatment plants with emphasis on careful iterative accounting in terms of solids mass balances, flow sidestreams, hydraulics and pumping. Exclusion: CIEM 544 Prerequisite: CIVL 242 CIVL 545 Hazardous Waste Treatment and Site Remediation [3-0-0:3] Regulatory aspects of the handling and disposal of hazardous wastes, and innovative technologies for hazardous wastes treatment and contaminated soils such as bioremediation, and soil washing will be included. Exclusion: CIEM 541 Prerequisite: CIVL 141 CIVL 546 Solid Waste Management and Disposal [3-0-0:3] Practical aspects of solid waste collection methods and equipment, current available disposal techniques with emphasis on complete engineering design of landfill systems, and landfill leachate treatment will be included. Exclusion: CIVL 344 Prerequisite: CIVL 141 CIVL 547 Industrial Wastewater Treatment [3-0-0:3] Procedures for industrial surveys; includes waste sampling, waste characterization, treatability studies, selection of treatment methods for achieving cost effective operation, case studies of selected types of industrial waste treatment. Exclusion: CIEM 547 Prerequisite: CIVL 242 CIVL 552 Water Resources Systems Analysis [3-0-0:3] Systems approach to the area of water resources management; includes water resources systems within the context of public investment systems, criteria and design of water management schemes. Background: ECON 111 and MATH 281 CIVL 555 Modeling Fluid Systems [3-0-0:3] Physical processes in water resources systems, their mathematical representation and numerical solutions; includes Newton s second law, equations of mass and energy conservation applied to closed-conduit, open-channel and groundwater flow problems. CIVL 561 Urban Transportation Networks Analysis [3-0-0:3] Reviews transportation planning models and traffic analysis; examines the assignment of traffic flow on a network according to user-equilibrium and system optimal objectives; addresses formulation methods and solution techniques. Background: CIVL 261 and IEEM 201 CIVL 562 Travel Demand Analysis [3-0-0:3] Overview of transportation planning process; population/employment forecasting techniques; discrete choice models; simplified transportation demand models. Background: CIVL 261 Exclusion: CIEM 562 CIVL 563 Traffic Control Fundamentals [3-0-0:3] Traffic flow fundamentals; microscopic and macroscopic traffic flow characteristics; principle and theory of traffic signals; essential modeling techniques; various traffic signal control models. Background: CIVL 261 Exclusion: CIEM 563 CIVL 571 Advanced Soil Mechanics [3-0-0:3] Selected topics from recent advances in theoretical and experimental development in soil mechanics; includes stress-strain behavior of soil, consolidation settlement, drained and undrained strength slope stability problems. Background: CIVL 372 CIVL 572 Advanced Foundation Design [3-0-0:3] Current practice of foundation design and analysis; includes design and analysis of bulkheads, deep excavation, tieback systems, tunneling in soft ground, buried conduits, lateral pile loading, pier foundations. Background: CIVL 372 Exclusion: CIEM 572 CIVL 573 Theoretical Soil Mechanics [3-0-0:3] Recent advances in numerical methods in geotechnical modeling; includes boundary conditions, constitutive laws, critical state soil mechanics, bounding-surface and hypoplastic concepts, diffusion and consolidation problems. Background: CIVL 372 CIVL 574 Ground Improvement and Geosynthetics [3-0-0:3] A state-of-the-art examination of the use of geosynthetics and ground modification techniques in geotechnical engineering; includes soil densification, preloading, vertical drain, grouting, ground freezing, soil nailing, and the use of geosynthetics in geotechnical design. Background: CIVL 372 Exclusion: CIEM 574 CIVL 575 Soil Dynamics [3-0-0:3] Examines basic principles of soil dynamics and site response analysis; includes theory of vibration and elastic wave propagation, time discretization, earthquake excitation, soil behavior under dynamics loading, liquefaction, machine foundations. Background: CIVL 372
CIVL 577 Unsaturated Soil Mechanics [3-0-0:3] Basic principles, stress state variables, permeability, pore pressure parameters, shear strength theory and measurements, plastic and limit equilibrium analyses, volume change theory and measurements, critical-state frameworks and applications. Background: first degree in Civil Engineering Exclusion: CIEM 577 Prerequisite: CIVL 372 or equivalent CIVL 581 Engineering Risk, Reliability and Decision [3-0-0:3] Advanced reliability methods in engineering decision; Bayesian methods, system reliability and design, risk analysis, probabilistic observational method, Markov and availability models, random field, large-scale system simulation, decision with multiple objectives. Exclusion: CIEM 581 Prerequisite: CIVL 281 or equivalent CIVL 600-609 Special Topics [3-0-0:3] Selected topics of current interest. May be repeated for credit if different topics are covered. CIVL 610 Directed Studies [1-3 credit(s)] Specialist courses where instruction is generally on a one-to-one basis. Graded P or F. CIVL 612 Advanced Topics in Finite Element Analysis [3-0-0:3] Variational formulation of nonlinear boundary-valued problems with material and geometric nonlinearities; solution methods for nonlinear systems of equations; solutions for plastic and viscoplastic problems. Background: CIVL 512 CIVL 680 Civil Engineering Seminar I [1-0-0:0] Discussion of current research by faculty members, and guest lectures on recent advances in civil engineering. Graded P or F. CIVL 681 Civil Engineering Seminar II [1-0-0:0] [Previous Course Code: CIVL 680G] Presentation of current graduate research by postgraduate students. Graded P or F. CIVL 698 MSc Project [6 credits] An independent research project carried out under the supervision of a faculty member. This optional project for MSc students will normally be completed at the end of the course of study. CIVL 699 MPhil Thesis Research Master s thesis research supervised by a faculty member. A successful defense of the thesis leads to the grade Pass. No course credit is assigned. CIVL 799 Doctoral Thesis Research Original and independent doctoral thesis research. A successful defense of the thesis leads to the grade Pass. No course credit is assigned.