DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

CE 301 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN CIVIL ENGINEERING PROJECTS
Prediction and assessment of impacts on the environment of projects in the field of structural, geotechnical, water resources, transportation and construction engineering.
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units

CE 304 PROBABILISTIC METHODS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
Concepts and methods of probability and statistics; probabilistic modeling; statistical decision theory; risk analysis; reliability analysis; probabilistic-based design; Markov and queuing models; Monte Carlo simulation; applications in civil engineering.
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units

CE 305 FINITE ELEMENT METHODS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING I
Modeling; formulation and numerical solutions to linear problems using finite element method.
Prerequisite: ES 201 and ES 204
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units

Dissertation

CE 400 Ph.D. DISSERTATION
credit 12 units

Geotechnical Engineering

CE 360 GEOTECHNICAL TESTING AND INSTRUMENTATION
Site investigation techniques; soil and rock sampling; laboratory testing for strength and compressibility; triaxial tests; odometer tests; in-situ testing techniques; laboratory and field instrumentation; case studies.
Prerequisite: CE 260 and CE 261
7 hrs. a week (1 lec, 6 lab); credit 3 units

CE 361 ADVANCED SOIL MECHANICS
Stress and strain in soils; effective stress principles; continuum mechanics; flow through porous media; consolidation theory; stability analysis; seepage analysis; analytical and numerical methods.
Prerequisite: CE 360, ES 201, and Es 204
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units

Structural Engineering

CE 322 ADVANCED TOPIC IN CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY
Modeling of concrete structure and behavior; concrete micromechanics
Prerequisite: CE 222 or Consent of Instructor
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units

CE 350 ADVANCED STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
Material and geometric nonlinear problems; stability analysis; nonlinear analysis strategies and numerical techniques.
Prerequisite: CE 250
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units

CE 351 RANDOM STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS
Probability distributions for maxima and extreme values; stationary and ergodic random processes; excitation and response autocorrelation functions; spectral density functions; response characteristics of lightly-damped, linear, narrow-band systems; stochastic response of linear system with multiple degrees of freedom; extreme response of nonlinear systems.
Prerequisite: CE 251, CE 256, and CE 304
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units

CE 352 ADVANCED DESIGN IN METAL STRUCTURES
Design of continuous beams, plate girders, composite steel and concrete members, steel plates and shells; braced and unbraced frames.
Prerequisite: CE 252 or Consent of Instructor
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units

CE 353 ADVANCED DESIGN OF REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES
Members subject to bi-axial bending and axial load; slenderness effects on beam-columns; seismic design provisions; design for torsion; two-way slabs
Prerequisite: CE 253 r Consent of Instructor
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units

CE 356 ADVANCED STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS
Methods of structural dynamics for discretized and continuous systems in free and forced vibration; formulation and solution of partial differential equation of motion; potential and kinetic energy methods; mode-superposition; Rayleigh quotient; numerical solution to the eigenvalue provlem; direct integration methods; frequency domain analysis; introduction to nonlinear dynamics.
Prerequisite: CE 256
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units

CE 358 WIND ENGINEERING
Concepts of atmospheric boundary layer; extreme wind climatology; wind tunnel; bluff-body aerodynamics; aerolastic phenomena; along-wind response and across-wind response; pressures on low rise structures; vibrations of high-rise and long-span structures; prevention of wind-induced discomfort in and around structures.
Prerequisite: CE 256 or Consent of Instructor
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units

Transportation Engineering

CE 340 ADVANCED TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND PLANNING
Disaggregate models in transportation; fuzzy logic; advanced tools in planning including geographic information systems (GIS) applications.
Prerequisite: CE 240
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units

CE 341 ADVANCED TRAFFIC FLOW THOORY AND ANALYSIS
Traffic theories applied to highways and intersections; macroscopic and microscopic analyses of traffic flow- hydrodynamic analogies; gap acceptance; car following.
Prerequisite: CE 248
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units

CE 342 ADVANCED TRAFIIC ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
Application of computer simulation, expert systems and intelligent transportation systems (ITS) for solving and evaluating traffic problems.
Prerequisite: CE 242
5 hrs. a week (2 lec, 3 lab); credit 3 units

Water Resources Engineering

CE 311 RIVER MECHANICS AND SEDIMENT TRANSPORT MODELING
Overview of river mechanics; erosion and sedimentation; one- and two-dimensional flow; unsteady open channel flow equations; velocity profiles; mechanics of sediment-laden flows; incipient motion; bedforms; bedload; suspended load and total load; mathematical modeling of river and reservoir sedimentation.
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units

CE 313 STOCHASTIC TECHNIQUES IN WATER RESOURCES
Time series analysis; spatial analysis; applications of stochastic techniques to water resource systems.
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units

CE 315 MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF WATER RESOURCES SYSTEMS
Modeling concepts and approaches; methods of solutions; applications to watershed hydrology; river; lake and estuarine flow hydraulics; and groundwater flow.
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units

CE 316 OPTIMIZATION AND SIMULATION OF WATER RESOURCE SYSTEMS
Concepts and models of water resources systems; simulation and optimization models; application to watershed, rivers, lakes, reservoir, groundwater aquifer and conjunctive use of surface and groundwater resources; simulation and optimization techniques incorporating risk and uncertainty.
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units

CE 318 GROUNDWATER FLOW AND CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT
Basic concepts and mechanisms of groundwater flow and contaminant transport; derivation of general groundwater flow equation; methods of solutions of groundwater flow equation; mass transport in saturated groundwater zone, derivation of advection-dispersion equations; transformation; attenuation or retardation mechanisms; methods of solution of mass transport equations; mass transport in the unsaturated zone; groundwater remediation measures.
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units

Electives

CE 397 SPECIAL TOPICS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units

CE 398 SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING I
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units

CE 307 FINITE ELEMENT METHODS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING I
Modeling; formulation and numerical solution of nonlinear problems using finite element method.
Prerequisite: CE 306 or Consent of Instructor
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units

CE 308 MECHANICS OF FRACTURE AND FATIGUE
Elastic stresses at a crack; energy and stress intensity criteria for crack growth; effect of plastic zone at the crack; fracture testing; fatigue characterization by stress-life and strain-life; damage index; crack propagation; fail safe and safe life analysis.
Prerequisite: ES 230 or Consent of Instructor
3 hrs. a week (3 lec); credit 3 units