The basic economics of transportation and the tools of economic analysis used to analyze transportation activities, firms and government policies.
Undergraduate courses in economics and calculus.
3 hr./wk.
Open channel hydraulics of artificial and natural water-courses, including roughness and shape characteristics; surface curve calculation by step methods and by integration methods. Delivery of canals. Hydraulics of spillways and stilling basins, including chute spillways, drop structures, gate and side channel spillways.
3 hr./wk.
Hydraulic principles utilized in design of structures, such as spillways, dams, drop structures, gate and side channel spillways, and water transport systems. Studies of erosion, sediments, their transport and deposition. Similarity, dimensional analysis, and modeling techniques as applied to hydraulic systems.
3 hr./wk.
Survey of analytical methods encountered in Civil Engineering: ordinary differential equations (first and second order), linear algebra (inverse matrices, eigenvectors), differential equations systems, partial differential equations, Laplace transforms, Fourier Analysis, vector analysis (line and surface integrals, Green, Stokes and Gauss theorems), probability and statistics (probability distributions, sampling distributions of mean and standard deviation), and optimization (gradient search, simplex method). Applications in Structural, Geotechnical, Environmental, Water Resources, and Transportation Engineering.
3 hr./wk.
Exploratory data analysis including locating hot spots, quantiles and proportions. Analysis and modeling of engineering data that includes detecting trends, seasonality and distributional properties, Spatio-temporal variability in data, Dependence measures, Building generalized linear and non-linear cross-validated predictive, Introductory hierarchical Bayesian modeling.
3 hr./wk.
Traffic flow theory, including fundamental diagram, microscopic models, and macroscopic models. Analysis of traffic data, including capacity and performance assessment. Network models and simulation. Advanced technology applications for data collection, traffic control, and real-time system management. This course is crosslisted with CE 52000 Highway Engineering, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE 52000.
3 hr./wk.
3 hr./wk.
Planning of individual airports and statewide airport systems. Functional design of air and landscape facilities. Orientation, number, and length of runways. Concepts of airport capacity. Passenger and freight terminal facility requirements. Airport access systems. FAA operating requirements. Financial, safety, and security issues. Design and planning for maintenance, rehabilitation and upgrading.
3 hr./wk.
Design of light and heavy rail facilities for passenger and freight operations. Track structure. Alternative technologies for construction, guidance and communications. Maintenance of way. This course is cross listed with CE 52600 Rail System Design, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE 52600.
3 hr./wk.
Introduction to elasticity including basic ideas of stress, strain, and constitutive relations. Theories of failure and fracture. Analysis of unsymmetrical bending. Shear center and shear flow. Torsion. Twisting of thin-walled sections. Buckling criteria. This course is cross-listed with CE 53000 Advanced Strength of Materials, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE 53000.
3 hr./wk.
The design of highway alignment and route location. Basic elements of highway design, including pavement type, earth-work and drainage. Importance and consequences of maintenance and engineering economics; life-cycle cost analysis. This course is cross listed with CE 54000 Highway Engineering, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE 54000.
3 hr./wk.
Overview of highway and airport engineering and construction; highways vs. airports; urban vs. rural highways. Construction planning, organization and cost estimating; construction scheduling using computer packages, e.g., Primavera; construction tracking. Construction operations: mobilization, removal, disposal, placement; management of equipment, material, labor, money; cash flow accounting. Construction specifications: quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC); investigation of environmental impacts and mitigation measures. Site investigation and project preparation. This course is cross-listed with CE 54100 Highway and Airport Construction, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE 54100.
3 hr./wk.
Historical development of urban surface transportation systems. Stakeholders, user and operating characteristics, and infrastructure elements for passenger motor vehicle, transit, bicycle, pedestrian, and freight modes. Safety, environmental, and financial considerations. Regulations and technology applications. This course is crosslisted with CE 54500 Urban Transportation, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE 54500.
3 hr./wk.
Survey of transportation-related environmental issues. The pollutants and their impacts on human health and welfare. Environmental law and regulations. Air pollution, water pollution, noise. Environmental impact statement.
3 hr./wk.
Core concepts, challenges and methods of urban freight and city logistics. Fundamentals of urban spatial structure, drivers of urban changes. Freight distribution methods and stakeholders. Externalities of freight operations. Urban freight data sources and data collection strategies. Policies and mitigation strategies, and analytical methodologies supporting decision-making. Illustrative case studies. This course is cross listed with
CE 54700 Urban Freight and City Logistics, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed
CE 54700.
3 hr./wk.
Basic techniques of service area analysis, route development, scheduling, revenue estimation, and service improvements for fixed route bus and rail transit. Integration of fixed route transit with paratransit, matching mode with service area, relationship of transportation department with other departments, budgeting, and policy setting also will be discussed. This course is crosslisted with CE 54800 Transit Systems: Planning and Operation, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE 54800.
3 hr./wk.
Mechanical properties of reinforced concrete materials including shrinkage, and creep. Ultimate load theory and ultimate strength design. Moment-curvature and load-deflection relationships. Columns subjected to biaxial bending. Combined shear and torsion. Design of flat plates and two-way slabs. Yield line theory. This course is crosslisted with CE 55000 Advanced Reinforced Concrete, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE 55000.
3 hr./wk.
Properties of prestressed concrete materials. Simple, composite and continuous prestressed beams. Prestressed rigid frames, buildings and bridges.
3 hr./wk.
General considerations for design and load capacity evaluation of highway bridges. Introduction to Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) philosophy. Bridge loads. Influence lines. Grillage analysis of bridges. Reinforced and prestressed concrete bridges. Composite steel bridges. Bridge substructures. Load rating. Introduction to seismic analysis and design.
3 hr./wk.
Structural loads. Behavior of structural steel members. Simple shear and moment connections. Plate girders. Composite construction. Fatigue and fracture of structural materials. Braced and unbraced frames. Plastic analysis and design.
3 hr./wk.
Concepts, knowledge and methods for producing environmentally-friendly concrete. Concept of sustainable development. Properties of concrete. Environmental impact of cement production. Types of aggregates and their effect on durability and performance of concrete. Use of waste materials and industrial byproducts in concrete. Enhancement of short-term and long-term properties of concrete. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of concretes with alternative compositions. This course is crosslisted with CE 55500 Concrete Sustainability, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE 55500.
3 hr./wk.
Applications in buildings, large-span structures, and bridges. Wood products as sawn lumber and composite laminates and particulates. Material microstructure and orthotropic macrostructure simulation. Species and species groups. Grading of structural lumber, design values and adjustment factors (NDS). Design of solid wood beams, columns, and beam-columns. Design of Glued-Laminated Timber (Glulam) continuous beams, bilateral and axial loads, tapered and curved members, arches, bridge girders, and panelized construction for large-scale floor and roof systems. Structural panels for sheathing and diaphragms with plywood and Oriented-Strand Board (OSB) products. Wood connections with bolts, lag-bolts, split-rings, shear plates, and specialized assemblies. This course is cross-listed with CE 55600 Design of Wood Structures, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE 55600.
3 hr./wk.
Mechanics of damage and deterioration of structural materials. Nondestructive techniques. Condition assessment of structures. Service life prediction, rating and load capacity evaluation of structural systems. Structural repair and strengthening methods.
3 hr./wk.
Integrated water management and systems analysis. Design of regulatory system for water allocation, Tools for conservation incentives and insurance system design. Planning and operation for competing objectives. Benefit-cost analysis for water projects. Climate variability and change analysis for infrastructure planning. Probabilistic risk assessment.
CE 21400 or ENGR 26400
3 hr./wk.
Fundamental principles for numerical simulation and modeling of fluids. Basic concepts, including potential flow equation, convection equations, diffusion equations, and Navier-Stokes equations. Numerical discretization and related concepts; basic and advanced numerical methods for fluid flows. Practical programming and software applications.
3 hr./wk.
Course provides introduction to governing equations of flow and transport in groundwater. Topics include Darcy's Law, the flow equation, piezometric contours, confined and unconfined flow in aquifers, radial flow towards wells, flow through leaky layers and transient flow due to compressibility effects. Flow and retention in the unsaturated zone, soil-water characteristic curves and the Richards equation are examined. Course also covers material on contaminant transport in groundwater including the advection-dispersion equation, transport through heterogeneous media and the transformation and retardation of solutes.
3 hr./wk.
Study of microorganisms and biochemical reactions involved in the purification of wastewaters by both aerobic and anaerobic treatment systems. Metabolic reactions, growth patterns and population dynamics. Review of chemical reactions as they relate to the analysis and purification of water. Data collection and interpretation.
3 hr./wk.
Application of statistics to water resources and environmental pollution studies/monitoring. Sampling environmental population, sampling design, simple random sampling, stratified random sampling, systematic sampling, locating hot spots, quantiles, proportions, means. Topics include analysis of trends, seasonality, outlier detection, normal and log normal distribution, and time series.
Graduate standing.
3 hr./wk.
Elements of hydrometeorology including climate tele-connections. Analysis of precipitation and use of statistical methods. Design storm determination. Basin characteristics, runoffs and losses. Stream flow data, extension of data, overland flow, and design floods. Routing and unit hydrograph method. Sediments, their transport and deposition. Application of hydrologic design. Estimating evaporation. Groundwater flow modeling. This course is cross listed with CE 56600 Engineering Hydrology, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE 56600.
3 hr./wk.
Basic techniques for modeling motions of contaminates in surface water problems. Fundamental physical phenomena such as diffusion, advection, and chemical reaction kinetics and related analytical approaches. Numerical models for surface flow and pollution problems. Modeling and computer program applications.
Acid-base titration curves and acid-base indicators, alkalinity and the carbonate system, buffer intensity and design, optical methods of analysis, the spectrophotometer and Beer’s law, colorimetric analysis of phosphate, colorimetric analysis of ammonia, chelation analysis of iron, calcium carbonate equilibria, solubility product determination, Chemical Oxygen Demand, determination of forms of aqueous chlorine, reactions of aqueous chlorine with ammonia, adsorption on activated carbon, kinetics of ferrous iron oxidation. This course is crosslisted with
CE 57100 Water Quality Analysis, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed
CE 57100.
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Sources, volumes, and characteristics of industrial wastewaters. Federal and local pretreatment regulations, including categorical standards. Uses of applicable biological, absorption, stripping, precipitation, chemical oxidation, reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration processes. Recovery methods and sludge handling and disposal.
3 hr./wk.
Physical-chemical unit operations in drinking water and wastewater purification. Process kinetics, ideal/nonideal reactor design, mixing, coagulation/flocculation, discrete/flocculant settling, filtration, air stripping, disinfection, adsorption, ion exchange and membrane technologies.
3 hr./wk.
Biological processes used to treat municipal wastewaters for BOD and nutrient removal: Activated sludge, trickling filters, rotating biological contactors, secondary settling and sludge thickening. Sludge stabilization processes, chemical and biological both aerobic and anaerobic.
3 hr./wk.
Procaryotic and eukaryotic cell structure, origin and evolution of modern eukaryotes, microbial diversity and classification. Energy sources, chemolithotrophs, photolithotrophs, chemoorganotrophs, fermentation, respiration. Culture of microorganisms, types of culture media, enumeration of microbes in natural populations. Effects of environmental factors on growth. Virus structure, quantification, replication lysogeny, microbial genetics, mutations, recombinations, transformations, eukaryotic microbial genetics. Biogeochemical mineral cycling, detritus, wastewater microbiology, eutrophication.
3 hr./wk.
Air pollutants and their properties that dictate how they can be measured. Principles of operation, and strengths and weaknesses of approaches used to measure air pollutants, with a focus on approaches to measure criteria pollutants and their precursors. Design of air pollution measurement campaigns per EPA guidelines, including measurement siting and placement, maintenance, quality assurance, record keeping, and data validation and reporting.
3 hr./wk.
Effects of air pollution on humans and on the environment. Clean Air Act and its Amendments. Mobile and industrial sources of air pollution and emission inventories of pollutants across the US and in NY. Pollution prevention vs. pollution control. Air pollution control from industrial, mobile and area sources, to meet needed removal efficiency, with an emphasis on control of gaseous and particulate air pollution from industrial sources. This course is cross listed with CE 58300 Air Pollution and Control, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE 58300.
Math 39100 (C min)
3 hr./wk.
Air pollutants, their sources, and their properties that dictate how they can be modeled. Atmospheric diffusion equation, and key mechanisms for pollutant transport and transformation, including radiation, gas and aqueous phase chemical reactions, convection, dispersion, and wet and dry deposition. Mathematical derivation and computer modeling of the transport and transformation of pollutants using specific receptor (CMB, PMF, HYSPLIT), dispersion (AERMOD, CALQ3HC) and transport (CMAQ, UAM/CAMx) models.
3 hr./wk.
Soil exploration and sampling. Engineering properties of soils. Bearing capacity and settlement of foundations. Beams on elastic foundation. Design of footings and mats. Bearing capacity and settlement of piles and pile groups. Analysis of pile-raft foundations. Design of retaining structures. Slope stability. This course is crosslisted with CE 59000 Foundation Engineering, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE 59000.
3 hr./wk.