Civil Engineering
Courses
CIVE 510 Prestressed Concrete 3.0 Credits
Open to advanced undergraduates. Covers definitions and general principles, anchorage systems, and loss of prestress; analysis and design of simple beams for flexure, shear, bond, and bearing; partial prestressed and post-tensioned reinforcement; and continuous beams.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CIVE 302 [Min Grade: D] and CIVE 303 [Min Grade: D]
Corequisite: CIVE 401
CIVE 511 Advanced Steel Design 3.0 Credits
This course covers a variety of special topics in steel design including (i) plate girders, (ii) composite beams, (iii) frame analysis and design (i.e., summation of P concept and direct analysis method), (iv) special connection detailing (e.g., moment connections and gusset plates), (v) beam, column, and frame bracing, (vi) fatigue and fracture.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 512 Wood and Timber Design 3.0 Credits
Covers properties, species and grades of wood; definitions and general principles of wood and timber design including light wood frame construction and mass timber (CLT) construction; analysis and design of simple joists/beams and girders for flexure, shear, deflections, and bearing; analysis and design of compression and tension members, and beam-columns; shear walls and horizontal diaphragms; sustainability of mass timber construction; simple connections. The focus will be on the ASD method with a few examples using the LRFD method.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CIVE 302 [Min Grade: D] and CIVE 303 [Min Grade: D]
CIVE 513 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Smart Structures and Systems 3.0 Credits
This course covers concepts for smart structures and systems. The students will learn high-level working knowledge of smart systems through applied examples and practice problem-solving by formulating engineering challenges as data-driven problems.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 514 Steel Bridge Design Team 3.0 Credits
As the name suggests, this course is centered around the annual Student Steel Bridge Competition (SSBC) supported by AISC and ASCE. In general, the competition (and therefore this course) is intended to introduce students to the complex and multifaceted process by which steel bridge superstructures are designed, detailed, and fabricated – progressing from specification review and conceptual design through final design/detailing and construction. SSBC is the single-best project available to graduate civil engineering students, as it simulates the critical thinking and decision making required to design and construct our nation’s bridge infrastructure.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 516 Geotechnical Site Investigation 3.0 Credits
This course will cover best practices for the geotechnical characterization of subsurface conditions required for successful planning, design, construction, and operation of civil infrastructure. The course provides historical, theoretical, experimental, and empirical development of different in situ tests in geotechnical engineering. Practical applications and limitation of field testing devices will be studied. Interpretation of test results and measurements for geotechnical site characterization will be discussed.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 518 Natural Hazards and Infrastructure 3.0 Credits
Overview of natural hazards in the form of landslides, earthquakes, windstorms, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods, scour, subsidence, tornadoes, wildfires, etc. Covers processes and risk to civil infrastructure through case histories and post-disaster reconnaissance to improve our understanding of these hazards and how to help us mitigate the risk posed by these natural hazards.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 520 Advanced Concrete Technology 3.0 Credits
This course covers the mechanical, physical and chemical properties of concrete: characteristics of concrete in the fresh, setting and hardening states; high performance concrete. Factors influencing the mechanical performance of concrete are discussed as well as field testing methods.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is AE or major is CIVE or major is EGEO.
CIVE 530 Geotechnical Engineering for Highways 3.0 Credits
Covers design if stable right-of-way, USDA classification, frost and swell expansion, capillary moisture retention, subgrade compaction, beam on elastic foundation pavement model, loads and resistance of buried pipes, subdrainage, basic slope stability and retaining structures.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 531 Advanced Foundation Engineering 3.0 Credits
Covers design of shallow foundations (footing and mats), deep foundations (piles, augered, drilled shafts) and retaining structures for stability and deformation performance.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 540 Forensic Structural Engineering 3.0 Credits
Investigation of structural failures which includes partial or total collapse or the inability of structures to function as intended. Using structural failure case studies and hypothetical failure scenarios, the course will cover the forensic engineering process, types and causes of structural failures, mechanisms and modes of structural failures, structural condition assessment, load testing, structural retrofitting, structural failure investigation and analysis. The technical, ethical and legal ramifications of structural failures and the role of the expert witness are also discussed, and students will be expected to prepare failure investigation reports.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 542 Incorporating Sustainability Principles in Design 3.0 Credits
This course considers different approaches to green and sustainable design. It introduces the concept of regenerative design, which seeks to restore ecological balance and health in communities and ecosystems. Students will apply ecological engineering principles to design of resilient and sustainable built environments.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 545 Pavement Materials and Design 3.0 Credits
Covers the recent design for flexible and rigid pavements, and innovation in sustainable pavement materials; stress-strain in pavement; soils and aggregates; geosynthetics; Asphalt Cement (AC) and Asphalt Cement Concrete (ACC) materials; Portland Cement Concrete (PCC); the pavement mechanistic-empirical (M-E) design approach; distress models; pavement rehabilitation design; sustainable pavement design and materials.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 550 Transportation Engineering 3.0 Credits
This course will introduce basic knowledge, mathematical models, and solution tools to various highway traffic problems. Topics that will be covered include roadway vehicle performance, geometric design of highways, queuing theory, traffic flow basics, highway capacity and level of service, and emerging transportation technologies.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 551 Transportation System Planning 3.0 Credits
This course introduces foundational concepts and methods for transportation planning. Topics that will be covered include transportation history, planning process and institutions, funding, travel demand modeling, planning data, and transportation equity. Emerging topics such as planning for autonomous vehicles will also be discussed if time permits.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CIVE 550 [Min Grade: C]
CIVE 552 Traffic Signal Systems 3.0 Credits
This course introduces topics, concepts, and models related to signalized intersections, including signal timing concepts, signal design, signal timing plans, uncoordinated timing, level of service and capacity analysis.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 554 Traffic Flow Theory 3.0 Credits
This course introduces topics and concepts of traffic flow theory and their applications, including models (single vehicle dynamics, car following models, lane-change models, etc.), data (sensing, data processing, model calibration and validation), and applications (microscopic traffic simulation, connected and automated vehicles).
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 561 Introduction to Hydrology 3.0 Credits
Covers climate and weather, precipitation, evaporation and transpiration, drainage basins, and hydrographs.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: EGEO 700 [Min Grade: C]
CIVE 562 Introduction to Groundwater Hydrology 3.0 Credits
Covers the fundamentals of fluid flow in porous media, groundwater supply, pollution problems, well and aquifer hydraulics, and groundwater flow modeling.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 564 Sustainable Water Resource Engineering 3.0 Credits
Objective is to enable students to incorporate sustainability concepts into the planning, design, and management of water resources, accomplished through critique of historical agricultural, industrial, and urban water infrastructure in the context of their ecological, social justice, and economic impacts. Global case studies featured and discussed. Also involves a research/design project with an actual "class client".
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman or Sophomore
CIVE 565 Urban Ecohydraulics 3.0 Credits
Will enable students to incorporate an understanding of ecohydrologic patterns and processes into the design of built landscapes and engineered infrastructure. Students will be introduced to techniques for analyzing and modeling rainfall-runoff processes and will learn how to develop ecosystem water budgets in urban contexts. Case studies and field trips will expose students to both ecosystem restoration and green infrastructure projects in the mid-Atlantic region.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CIVE 320 [Min Grade: D] and CIVE 330 [Min Grade: D] and CIVE 430 [Min Grade: D]
CIVE 567 Watershed Analysis 3.0 Credits
This course focuses on land use change (LUC) and the hydrologic cycle in agricultural and forest (non-urban) watersheds. Using climate, hydrology, and agricultural models, students will investigate how changes in hydroclimatology and landscape-scale land cover affect surface water flow, runoff, and water quality in selected watersheds. The course will explore emerging topics pertaining to water and energy that course through rural watersheds, with the goal of interpreting data output from models into an environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) framework. LCA is a systems analysis framework that feeds information on life cycle environmental damages/consequences back into design and decision making. This course focuses specifically on watershed analysis models and how their output feed into design.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CIVE 320 [Min Grade: B-] and CIVE 330 [Min Grade: B-] and CIVE 240 [Min Grade: B-]
CIVE 585 Transportation Planning and Capacity 3.0 Credits
Open to undergraduates. Covers prediction of travel demand; principles of highway and transit capacity; level-of-service concepts; uninterrupted and interrupted flow; traffic characterization by volume, speed, and density; operational analysis and design of freeways, highways, and urban streets; intermodal systems, intelligent transportation systems (its), and mass transit.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 605 Advanced Mechanics of Materials 3.0 Credits
Open to advanced undergraduates. Covers shear flow and shear center, unsymmetrical bending, torsion of non-circular and open sections, bending of curved beams, stress at a point, and failure theories.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if classification is Senior.
CIVE 615 Infrastructure Condition Evaluation 3.0 Credits
This course covers the tools necessary for the inspection and evaluation of infrastructure. Non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques are introduced and applications and limitations of NDT techniques for a variety of structures are illustrated. Also covered are the policies for deter-mining the physical condition and maintenance needs for highway bridges.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is AE or major is CIVE or major is EGEO.
Prerequisites: CIVE 250 [Min Grade: D] and CIVE 520 [Min Grade: C]
CIVE 632 Advanced Soil Mechanics 3.0 Credits
Consolidation magnitude and time rate of settlement, secondary compression, mitigating settlement problems, shear strength of cohesive and non-cohesive soils, critical state soil mechanics, undrained pore pressure response, SHANSEP undrained strength.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 633 Lateral Earth Pressures and Retaining Structures 3.0 Credits
In this course, students will learn classical and modern lateral earth pressure theories, effects of wall friction and external loads (including earthquakes). Geotechnical design, including computer applications, of retaining structures including rigid and flexible retaining walls; Deadman anchors, sheet pile walls, mechanically stabilized soil reinforcement systems, and excavation bracing.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 635 Slope Stability and Landslides 3.0 Credits
Slope process and mass wasting; landslide characteristics, features and terminology; limit equilibrium slope stability analysis, including Bishop, Janbu, Spenser, Morgenstern-Price methods; effects of water on slop stability; dynamic (earthquake) stability analysis methods; introduction to rock slopes, slope stability investigations, and design and repair.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 636 Engineering Ground Improvement 3.0 Credits
This course covers the improvement of soil properties to meet project requirements, including surface and in situ technologies: compaction, densification, precompression, stabilization with admixtures, grouting and dewatering.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 637 Seepage and Consolidation 3.0 Credits
Covers permeability of soils, seepage and drainage, seepage analysis of geotechnical problem such as dams, sheet piles, excavations. Classical one-dimensional consolidation theories, analysis and interpretation of laboratory and field tests. Extended consolidation theories to include 3D consolidation, nonlinear finite strain, etc. Course covers numerical methods applied to seepage and consolidation geotechnical problems.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 639 Applied Finite Element Analysis in Geotechnical Engineering 3.0 Credits
This course provides the basic knowledge necessary for developing finite element models of geotechnical engineering problems such as foundation settlement, SSI problems, seepage, consolidation, excavations, slope stability. Industry-standard finite Element software such as GeoStudio (Sigma/W, Seep/W), RocScience (RS2 and RS3), and PLAXIS, will be introduced to the students. At the end of this course, the students will be able to develop finite element models of various geotechnical systems including, foundations, earth dams, excavations, and tunnels, and learn how to present and interpret results for better decision making.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CIVE 632 [Min Grade: C]
CIVE 640 Environmental Geotechnics 3.0 Credits
This course covers the analysis and control of subsurface exploration, groundwater remediation, pollutant-soil interaction and waste containment barriers and drains.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 650 Geosynthetics in Civil Infrastructure 3.0 Credits
An overview of geosynthetics used in civil infrastructure applications, including geotextiles, geogrids, geocomposites, plastic pipes and geofoam. Covers testing and design based on the primary application function such as separation, filtration, drainage, reinforcement in roadways, soil consolidation, and retaining structures. Analyze failure criteria and determine the long-term engineering design values.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 651 Geosynthetics in Waste Containment 3.0 Credits
An overview of each category of geosynthetics. Covers testing and design based on primary application function: separation, reinforcement, filtration, drainage, barrier, and combined in landfills (liner and cover systems), surface impoundments, floating covers, and mining. Analyze failure criteria and determine the long-term engineering design values.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CIVE 650 [Min Grade: C]
CIVE 660 Hydrology-Stream Flow 3.0 Credits
Covers precipitation, runoff, evaporation and transpiration, streamflow, floodflow, and minimum flow. Pays special attention to factors affecting water supply and quality.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if classification is Senior.
Prerequisites: CIVE 561 [Min Grade: C]
CIVE 664 Open Channel Hydraulics 3.0 Credits
Covers principles of flow in open channels, conservation laws, uniform flow, critical flow, gradually varied flow, backwater computations, channel design, and numerical computation of flows having a free surface.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if classification is Senior.
CIVE 665 Computational Hydraulics I 3.0 Credits
This course continues CIVE 664 to cover the application of mathematical and numerical techniques to model complex open channel hydraulic processes. At each stage the fundamental hydraulic principles are reviewed to assure proper construction of a modeling algorithm and to assist in interpretation of results.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is CIVE.
Prerequisites: CIVE 664 [Min Grade: C] and CIVE 330 [Min Grade: D] and (CIVE 341 [Min Grade: D] or ENVE 416 [Min Grade: D]) and CIVE 430 [Min Grade: D]
CIVE 701 Advanced Structural Analysis I 3.0 Credits
Covers basic principles of structural analysis, including elastic deflection; elastic analysis of statically indeterminate structures by methods of virtual work, Castigliano's theorems, and moment distribution; and the Muller-Breslau principle and application to influence lines for continuous members and frames. Introduces numerical techniques.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
Corequisite: CIVE 400
CIVE 702 Advanced Structural Analysis II 3.0 Credits
Covers matrix analysis of structures using finite elements, including elastic analysis of structures by influence coefficients, Argyris force method, direct stiffness method, and the displacement method. Introduces the finite-element method for planar structures.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CIVE 701 [Min Grade: C]
CIVE 703 Advanced Structural Analysis III 3.0 Credits
Covers development of stiffness functions for planar and three-dimensional finite elements, and application to frame, plate, shell, and massive structures. Introduces the general application of finite elements to continuum problems.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CIVE 702 [Min Grade: C]
CIVE 704 Behavior and Stability of Structural Members I 3.0 Credits
Covers development of the basic differential equations of member behavior, including second-order effects, in-plane beam-column behavior, column buckling, elastic and inelastic behavior, energy methods, and approximate methods.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 708 Fundamentals of Structural Dynamics 3.0 Credits
Covers formulation of equations of motion, free vibration response, undamped and damped systems, harmonic analysis, resonance and vibration isolation, response to periodic loading, impulsive loading, response to general dynamic loading, shock and response spectra. Introduces multi-degree-of-freedom systems.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 710 Design and Structure of Integrity Building Systems 3.0 Credits
Covers integration of design and building cycle, building envelope, structural morphology, composite structures, thermal and moisture design, fire and smoke, sound and vibration, building failure, and repair and restoration.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 711 Engineered Masonry I 3.0 Credits
Covers masonry materials, structural behavior of masonry assemblages, and deformational characteristics of brick and block masonry; performance of load-bearing wall systems and design of unreinforced masonry elements; and special design and construction topics.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 714 Behavior of Concrete Structures I 3.0 Credits
Covers reinforced concrete members; relationship between results of research and current specifications for design of members subjected to axial loads, flexure, combined axial load and flexure, combined shear and flexure, long columns, bond and anchorage, and limit design; application to design of determinate and indeterminate reinforced concrete frames; and development of current code provisions for design of floor slabs in buildings.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 717 Behavior of Metal Structures I 3.0 Credits
Covers load and resistance factor design, including tension, bolted and welded connections, block-shear, compression, built-up compression members, lateral-torsional instability, light-gauge metal buckling and post-buckling strength, and behavior.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CIVE 605 [Min Grade: C]
CIVE 730 Experimental Soil Mechanics I 3.0 Credits
Covers methods and techniques of soil testing, including interpretation and evaluation of test data, and fundamentals of soil behavior.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CIVE 632 [Min Grade: D]
CIVE 731 Experimental Soil Mechanics II 3.0 Credits
Continues CIVE 730.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CIVE 632 [Min Grade: C]
CIVE 737 Seismic Geotechnics 3.0 Credits
Introduction to earthquake hazards and seismology; strong ground motion parameters, deterministic and probabilistic seismic hazard analysis, influence of subsurface conditions and topography and ground motion, soil liquefaction, and brief coverage of seismic slop stability, design of retaining structures, and soil-structure interaction.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CIVE 632 [Min Grade: C]
CIVE 801 Dynamics of Structures I 3.0 Credits
Covers formulation of equations of motion, including generalized single-degree-of-freedom systems, free vibration response, undamped and damped systems, harmonic analysis, resonance and vibration isolation, response to periodic loading, impulsive loading, response to general dynamic loading, non-linear structural response, and Rayleigh's method and other variational techniques. Introduces multi-degree-of-freedom systems.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 802 Dynamics of Structures II 3.0 Credits
Covers formulation of multi-degree-of-freedom equations of motion, including evaluation of structural property matrices; elastic properties, mass properties, damping, and external loading; geometric stiffness; undamped free vibrations; analysis of dynamic response; practical vibration analysis; Stodola method; Holzer method; reduction of degrees of freedom; matrix iteration and other techniques; analysis of non-linear systems; variational formulation of the equations of motion; partial differential equations of motion; and free vibrations of beams.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CIVE 801 [Min Grade: C]
CIVE 803 Dynamics of Structures III 3.0 Credits
Covers distributed parameter dynamic systems, equations of motion, free and forced vibrations, analysis of structural response to earthquakes, seismological background, deterministic analysis of single-degree-of-freedom and multi-degree systems, multi-degree-of-freedom and distributive parameter systems, soil-structure interaction, non-linear response to earthquakes and current design code requirements, dynamics of complex structures, modeling, and use of large computer codes.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 811 Plates and Shells I 3.0 Credits
Covers analysis of circular, rectangular, and continuous plates by classical and approximate methods, including the folded plate theory.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 831 Deep Foundations 3.0 Credits
Covers topics including mat foundation design using plate theory, continuous beam design using beam-on-elastic foundation theory, and pile design.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
CIVE 838 Soil Behavior 3.0 Credits
Particle-scale behavior of soil and assemblages; clay mineralogy; soil formation, composition, structure and properties; soil water interaction; clay-water-electrolyte systems, adsorption-desorption and ion exchange; conduction phenomena; micromechanics; volume change behavior; strength and deformation behavior.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CIVE 632 [Min Grade: C]
CIVE 839 Constitutive Models in Geomechanics 3.0 Credits
This course covers constitutive laws in geomechanics, including linear elastic, quasi-linear (hyperbolic) elastic, linear elastic-perfectly plastic and elasto-plastic models based on critical state soil mechanics. The finite element method is used to solve geotechnical boundary value problems incorporating different constitutive models.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CIVE 632 [Min Grade: C]
CIVE 898 Master's Thesis 0.5-20.0 Credits
Involves investigation of an approved topic. Required of full-time master's degree students.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
CIVE 997 Research 1.0-12.0 Credit
Research.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
CIVE 998 Ph.D. Dissertation 1.0-12.0 Credit
Involves investigation of an approved topic. Required of Ph.D. students.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
CIVE I599 Independent Study in Civil Engineering 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
CIVE I699 Independent Study in Civil Engineering 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
CIVE I799 Independent Study in Civil Engineering 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
CIVE I899 Independent Study in Civil Engineering 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
CIVE I999 Independent Study in Civil Engineering 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
CIVE T580 Special Topics in Civil Engineering 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
CIVE T680 Special Topics in Civil Engineering 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
CIVE T780 Special Topics in Civil Engineering 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
CIVE T880 Special Topics in Civil Engineering 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
CIVE T980 Special Topics in Civil Engineering 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit