Teaching

CE 282 prepares students to apply fundamental fluid mechanics concepts to simple engineering problems involving fluid systems and lays the foundation for subsequent courses in water resource engineering, environmental engineering, and coastal and ocean engineering. To learn more about the course, download the course syllabus and policies.

This course will enable students to design concrete materials for different exposures according to ACI 318 and Portland Cement Association (PCA) guidelines, design concrete materials for specific applications that are not covered by codes, design internally cured concrete for structural and pavement applications, understand the microstructure development in portland cement systems, explain the deterioration mechanisms and factor affecting the durability of concrete, explain the fundamental difference between portland cement and non-portland cement binders, use service life prediction models for concrete structures as design tools while understanding their limitation.

CE 331 prepares students to design water supply infrastructures, understand surface water treatment processes like plain sedimentation, coagulation, flocculation, filtration, disinfection, and various other treatment methods. This course will also enable students to understand groundwater flow, well hydraulics, water well design, construction, and maintenance.

CE 333 introduces students to wastewater engineering. Students will learn to estimate wastewater generation, design wastewater collection systems, determine hydraulics of sewer, design, construction, and maintenance of sanitary sewer and storm drainage system. Students will also learn the microbiology of wastewater, their characteristics and treatment processes, and disposal. This course will discuss the treatment and disposal of industrial effluents and sludge. Students will also be introduced to solid and hazardous waste management; environmental management and environmental impact assessment.

CE 351 introduces students to transportation planning and traffic engineering. In this course, students will learn about transportation systems, functional components, factors in transportation development, transportation modes, public transportation, emerging modes; intelligent transportation system: components and applications; transport planning: concepts, scope and hierarchy, process, goals and objectives, inventories, socio-economic activities, land use-transport interaction, travel demand forecasting; road safety and accident analysis. Students will also learn to design highways, intersection, and interchange layouts.

CE 401, Project Planning and Management, enables students to write feasibility reports by understanding cash flows, payback period, internal rate of return, benefit-cost ratio, cost-benefit analysis. This course will also prepare students to prepare resource scheduling and manage construction sites for materials and equipment. Students will learn about site management, contracts and specifications, inspection and quality control, safety, and economy. This course will briefly discuss conflict management, psychology in administration: human factors in management, human resource management.

CE 315 introduces the fundamental behavior of reinforced concrete. Students will learn strength design and alternate design methods; flexural design of beams (singly reinforced, doubly reinforced, T-beam) using strength design method. The lesson plan includes shear, diagonal tension, and torsion of beams, bond and anchorage, design of one-way slabs, and design of two-way edge supported slabs.

WRE 311 introduces the open channel flow and its classification; velocity and pressure distributions in an open channel flow; energy equation, specific energy and transition problems; critical flow and control; principles of flow measurement and devices; concept of uniform flow; momentum equation and specific momentum; hydraulic jump theory and analysis of gradually varied flow; computation of flow profiles; design of open channels.