Theoretical principles, design criteria, and analysis of treatment systems for domestic and industrial wastewaters and sludges; includes modeling of ideal biochemical reactors and design criteria for suspended-growth and biofilm processes applicable to wastewater treatment

Theory and design of water and wastewater treatment processes.

Current environmental engineering topics, with emphasis on water quality; governmental agencies, regulations, and technological limits affecting water and wastewater treatment, solid wastes, hazardous wastes, and air pollution.

Laboratory and pilot plant studies of water and wastewater treatment processes.

Biological waste treatment applications in civil and environmental

 engineering, including current and emerging techniques for characterization, analysis, control, and mathematical modeling of biological processes in municipal and industrial waste treatment systems.

Theory, design, and management of fixed film biofiltration processes used to recondition water in recirculating aquaculture systems and to provide tertiary treatment of domestic and industrial wastes characterized by low substrate regimes.

Water quality modeling from a perspective of practicality and reliability; emphasis on model calibration and verification procedures and methodologies for quantifying uncertainties associated with model predictions.

Transportation of sediment, mixing current, and other phenomena.

Properties of porous media and fluid mixtures; dynamics of flow in single phase and multiphase flow systems; miscible and immiscible flow; basic concepts in saturated and unsaturated flow; solution procedures and applications in engineering design; physics and mathematics of transport processes in ground water; governing equations, solution procedures, and applications; waste management and pollution control in subsurface environments.

Techniques of systems analysis and synthesis; application to hydrologic processes including runoff, stream flow routing, infiltration, evapotranspiration, and watershed yield; development of watershed models using these techniques and their

 application to engineering design.

Identification of management problems; applications of systems theory to develop modeling techniques; analytical and numerical techniques of groundwater modeling; development and application of models and computer codes for simulation and optimization management of surface and groundwater systems.

Principles of mathematical physics applied to hydrologic processes; methods of solution and model building; application to water resource problems.

Advanced theories of soil mechanics including stress distribution, seepage through soils, consolidation, and settlement analysis; their applications in foundation engineering.

Numerical analysis of problems of seepage, consolidation, stress-deformation, slope stability, and wave equation for piles.

Shear strength of cohesive and cohesionless soils; stability problems including bearing capacity, slope stability, and earth pressure distribution.

Analysis of the effect of compositional and environmental factors on conduction phenomena, volume change behavior, deformation, strength stress-strain-time behavior in soils; soil composition, mineralogy, soil-water electrolyte systems in identification of influencing variables.

Methodology and analysis of soil placement and improvement techniques; properties of mineral and organic salts, principles of soil compaction; methods of soil placement and improvement, chemical stabilization of soils, lime columns, stone columns, ultimate strength and bearing capacity of columns, compression by surcharging and drains, dynamic consolidation, vibro stabilization, thermal properties of soils, thermal stabilization.

Theory and practice of laboratory experimental techniques used in geotechnical design and analyses.

Theory and practice of new and advanced geotechnical in-situ testing methods (i. e. piezo-cone penetrometer, self-boring pressure meter, dilatometer, etc.)

Theory and practice related to soil-structure systems subject to time dependent loadings; wave propagation in various media, steady state and transient vibration of foundations, measurement of dynamic soil parameters, analysis and design procedures;

 influence of soils on ground motion characteristics; causes of soil failure during earthquakes; liquefaction.

Geotechnical aspects of waste management; solute transport in saturated media, flow in partially saturated media, diffusion in soil, sorption, hydraulic conductivity, soil-pore fluid interactions, compaction, clay and flexible membrane liners, slope stability/settlement considerations, remediation techniques.

Analysis and design of reinforced concrete structural elements according to ultimate strength and limit design theories; prestressed indeterminate structures, shrinkage, and creep.

Analysis of statically indeterminate structures by modern methods.

Analysis of steel structural behavior beyond elastic limit; design for ultimate load and use of load factors; application of linear programming and other computational techniques to optimization of structures designed by aid of concepts of limit analysis.

Sources, intensities, and methods of transmission of dynamic loads; response of structural systems to dynamic loading; modern computation techniques.

Finite element method as an extended Ritz technique based on variational concepts for continua with applications to heat transfer, flow through porous media, fluid dynamics, elasticity, plasticity, and stability and vibrations of elastic systems.

Laterally loaded plates with various boundary conditions; approximate methods of plate analysis; large deflections of plates; elastic stability of plates.

Beam columns, elastic and plastic buckling of bars and frames, torsional buckling, lateral buckling of beams, elastic and plastic stability of frames, plate and shell buckling, approximate and special methods, and high speed computation.

Mathematical approach to statics and dynamics of deformable solids; tensors in curvilinear coordinates and variational calculus used to formulate elasticity and viscoelasticity theory; energy theorems and conservation laws.

Elements of the theory of plasticity; yield criteria and stress-strain relations for perfectly plastic and strain hardening materials; boundary value problems of plasticity; the slip-line theory and applications; constitutive equations of viscoelastic bodies and methods of solution of the boundary value problems of viscoelasticity.

Modeling of the mechanical behavior of fibrous composites for application to structural components; emphasis on interlam inar stresses, strength and failure theories, thermal effects, nonlinear material response, test methods, and micromechanics.

Theoretical formulation and application of the different
constitutive models to metals and metal matrix composites,
but with consideration of other materials; analysis of
isotropic and anisotropic damage in materials.

Physical measurements, characteristics of present and future sensors, and laboratory and field instrumentation; computer analysis of spectra data to include classification algorithms, enhancement, calibration, georeferencing, overlay, and data base development; image processing; environmental applications.

Applications of sampling theory to data collections for
transportation studies; determination of sample sizes;
calculation of sampling error; expansion of sample survey
data; survey methodologies, including interviews, counting
programs, moving observer surveys, self-administered surveys. Simple panel surveys, etc.; design of survey
instruments; conduct of data collection activities; data reduction techniques.

Traffic regulations, operational problems, and engineering organization; theory and practice of application, design, operation, and maintenance of traffic control devices; methods and devices studied include signing, markings, delineation and illumination, signals and signal systems, one-way street and unbalanced-flow street operations, speed zoning, and freeway monitoring and control.

Traffic flow theory and the techniques used to analyze traffic operations and highway capacity; theoretical aspects of traffic flow, including current research in the field; application of analytical procedures used to assess the efficiency of highway operations.

Theories and applications of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).

Theoretical development and application of highway design principles, particularly as they relate to safety; analysis of accident statistics, diagnosis of high-hazard locations, risk
management, tort liability, and design treatments to address
high accident locations; design principles of traffic calming,
highway-railroad grade crossings, highway work zones, and
roadway cross-sections.

Historical development, role in society, federal participation, and institutional and legislative development of transit; description of conventional and innovative forms, and
characteristics of users; planning, vehicle scheduling,
environmental impact and energy consumption; system costs, pricing and financing; future systems and policies.

Theories of travel demand modeling; conventional four-step modeling procedures; network development for highways, transit, high-occupancy vehicles; development of trip generation, distribution, and mode-choice models; highway and transit assignment procedures; use of current software for microcomputers.

Quantitative methods for analysis of transportation systems; basic network algorithms; macroscopic and microscopic traffic simulation models; dynamic traffic assignment approaches; network design problems with travel demand uncertainty; optimization concepts in transportation network modeling.

Properties of asphalts and tars used in bituminous materials; historical developments; properties and design of bituminous mixtures; theory and practice of asphalt concrete mix design for pavements and bases including specification and construction methods for hot-mixes and surface treatments.

Earthen materials—fills and subgrades; aggregates—types, properties, and performance; introduction to asphalt and asphaltic concrete; introduction to cement and cement concrete; variability, OC Curves; stabilization principles and practices; unsealed roads.

Laboratory and field test methods for determining engineering properties of pavement materials; interpretation of test data for selecting property values; use of fundamental
engineering properties in design and analysis of pavement
response to environmental and vehicular loads.

Concepts of pavement, evaluation of pavement performance, serviceability concepts, structural evaluation, safety, maintenance and rehabilitation, economic considerations, selection of alternatives, and life cycle cost analysis.

Concepts of pavement maintenance and rehabilitation; pavement evaluation techniques; maintenance versus rehabilitation versus replacement alternatives.

Specialized civil engineering areas.

Comprehensive report with oral defense on subject approved by the major professor.

All graduate students are expected to enroll every semester. Only one semester hour of credit will be allowed toward degree. Pass-fail grading.

Basic concepts of statistical models and sampling; descriptive and inferential methods; normal, t, chi-square, and F distributions; tests of hypothesis and estimation, analysis of variance, correlation, regression, analysis of categorical data; emphasis on social and behavioral sciences research problems; computer software applications.

Specialized Civil Engineering areas.

“S”/“U” grading.