Effective and efficient study habits and group work habits. Student responsibility. Critical thinking in problem solving. Clear presentation of student work. Reinforcement of concepts taught in math, physics, and computer science and application to civil engineering.
1 hr./wk.
The
CE Department has a need for a course to introduce the profession to the students while also accomplishing goals important to the curriculum and profession. The course will present in depth professional options including fields (structural, environmental and transportation), job types (government, private sector), and duties (field work, desk job). It will also present in depth ethics, broad policy considerations, and other issues pertinent to the profession. All
CE students will take this course, regardless of whether they are freshmen or transfer students.
3 hr./wk.
Graphical methods of conveying ideas and information related to civil engineering projects. Functional planning. Structural plans and details in wood, masonry, steel and concrete. Topographic mapping and site plans. AutoCAD.
4 hr./wk.
Role of statistics and probability in civil engineering. Measurability and variability. Data collection. Descriptive analysis. Presentation of data in the context of civil engineering. Numerical descriptive statistics. Probability distributions and their application to civil engineering. Introduction to inferential statistics. Applications of civil engineering quality control. Linear correlation and regression analysis.
2 class, 3 lab hr./wk.
Laws of motion and equilibrium. Elements of vector algebra. Equilibrium of rigid bodies. Constraints, and reactions. Equilibrium of machines and hinged frames. Internal forces in trusses and beams. Shear and bending moment diagrams. Analysis of cable systems. Friction. Centroid and centers of gravity. Moments of inertia. Work and virtual work. Stability of equilibrium.
5 hr./wk. 3 lecture, 2 recitation
Algorithmic formulation of the solution to civil engineering problems. Flowcharts. Solutions to algebraic and differential equations common to civil engineering. Matrix problems. Differentiation and integration. Optimization problems. Students will primarily use microcomputers and a programming language, spreadsheets and "macros" and symbolic calculations software.
5 hr./wk.
Civil Engineering systems analysis. Modeling and optimization of large scale CE systems, including structural, hydraulic, environmental and transportation systems, and construction projects. Economic evaluation of engineering projects. Decisions under uncertainty. Design as multi-dimensional resource allocation. Scheduling models. Applications to management and planning. Computer applications.
3 hr./wk.
Introduction to transportation planning concepts and methods. Travel demand forecasting. Transportation economics. Quantitative techniques in transportation planning: discrete choice models, regression methods and optimization techniques. Societal impacts including environmental, land use, safety and quality of life issues. Project evaluation.
CE 21400
3 hr./wk.
Principles and practice of transportation engineering. Introduction to traffic engineering concepts including traffic flow theory, multimodal level of service analysis, and traffic control. Fundamentals of geometric and pavement design. Influence of modern technologies on transportation systems.
3 hr./wk.
Stresses and strains in elastic and inelastic materials subjected to axial, torsional, and flexural loads and combinations of loads for statically determinate and indeterminate configurations. Deformations and deflections due to loads and temperature. Combined stresses. Mohr circles and principal stresses. Introduction to energy methods. Castigliano's theorem. Stability of columns and critical loads. Testing of engineering materials. Stress-strain characteristics, including creep, shrinkage and hysteresis effects. Effects of temperature and impact loading on material properties.
3 class, 2 lab hr./wk.
Algorithmic formulation of the solution to civil engineering problems. Flowcharts. Solutions to algebraic and differential equations common to civil engineering. Matrix problems. Differentiation and integration. Optimization problems. Students will primarily use microcomputers and a programming language, spreadsheets and "macros" and symbolic calculations software.
2 class, 3 lab hr./wk.
Loading systems. Structural determinacy, indeterminacy and stability. Analysis of two and three dimensional trusses and frames. Influence lines. Structural deflections. Methods of solving statically indeterminate structures. Introduction to structural safety and redundancy. Computer applications.
2 class, 3 design hr./wk.
Introduction to geotechnical engineering. Index properties and classification of soils. Compaction. Mohr circles and failure theories of soils. Permeability, seepage and effective stresses. Consolidation. Drained and undrained shear strength. Stresses due to surface loads. Bearing capacity of footings. Lateral earth pressure. Introduction to slope stability. Testing of soils.
2 class, 3 lab hr./wk.
Study of behavior of viscous and non-viscous fluids at rest and in motion through development and application of the principles of fluid statics, continuity, energy, momentum, similitude, and dimensional analysis. Applications include flow in open and closed conduits, the boundary layer, dynamics of drag and measurement of velocity and discharge.
3 hr./wk.
Conservation of mass, energy, and momentum in hydraulic systems. Pipe networks and reservoir systems. Pumps and turbines. Uniform and non-uniform flow principles. Hydraulic jump. Introduction to hydrology, hydrograph, peak discharges, and runoff computation and design. Computer applications in hydraulics and hydrology.
2 class, 3 lab hr./wk.
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the impact assessment of engineering projects on human and environmental health. Structure of the natural environment and pollutants typically released by engineering projects to the atmosphere, soil, and surface and ground water. Federal regulations. Modeling of the transport and transformation of pollutants in the environment using material balances, equilibrium chemistry and specialized models.
3 hr./wk.
Review of core and general requirements including engineering mathematics, probability and statistics, computational tools, ethics, professional practice, engineering economics, statics, dynamics, mechanics and materials, fluid mechanics, hydrologic systems, structural analysis, structural design, geotechnical engineering, transportation engineering, environmental engineering, construction and surveying. Testing of student competence in all these topics. This pass/fail course will be offered as a self-study course with weekly assessment. Students who pass the actual Fundamentals of Engineering exam will be given credit for the course.
Upper junior or senior standing.
4.5 hr./wk for 10 weeks.
Introduction to civil engineering management. Development of a project team for effective delivery; project delivery roles. Roles, rights and obligations of civil engineers. Ethical and professional responsibilities of civil engineers. Project life cycle analysis. Project costs and financing. Project administration; change orders, claims and dispute resolution. Group project.
3 hr./wk.
Kinematics and kinetics of particles. Work-energy and impulse momentum principles. Systems of particles. Kinematics of rigid bodies. Plane motion of rigid bodies. Energy and momentum methods for rigid bodies. Dynamical behavior of simple civil engineering structures: Free and forced vibration, undamped and damped motion. Response to harmonic loading, earthquake response spectra.
3 hr./wk.
Review of basic concepts of structural analysis. Energy methods. Stiffness & flexibility methods. Fundamentals of Finite Element Method. Uniaxial and beam elements. Analysis of trusses and frames. Plane stress and plane strain elements. Computer applications.
2 class, 3 design hr./wk.
Principles of reinforced concrete design. Proportioning concrete mixes. Safety factors as influenced by uncertainties in the design and construction processes and as they relate to public safety. Design of singly and doubly reinforced beams, T-beams, and one-way slabs. Cracking, deflection and serviceability criteria. Design of columns subjected to combined axial load and bending.
2 class, 3 design hr./wk.
Analysis and design of beams, girders, tension and compression members, and other components of structural frames. Rational basis of safety factors and specifications and their public safety ramifications. Load and Resistance Factor Design.
2 class, 3 design hr./wk.
Water and water pollution in the natural world. The hydrologic cycle. Atmospheric, surface and subsurface water. Hydrographs, unit hydrographs and flow routing. Mechanisms of contaminant transport. Sources and remediation of water pollution. Pollution in surface and groundwater. Design problems.
3 hr./wk.
Physical, chemical and microbiological characterization of water, wastewater, air pollution and solid waste. Remediation objectives and regulatory constraints. Conventional unit operations and processes for potable water, domestic wastewater and air pollution control and solid waste management. Handling of process sidestreams.
2 lect., 3 lab hr./wk.
An introduction to the principles and practices of computer security in various computing environments. Conventional encryption systems and classical cryptography. Confidentiality using conventional encryption. Public key cryptography and protocols for authentication and digital signatures. Recent cryptanalytic attacks on conventional and public key systems. Intruders, worms, viruses and trusted systems. Firewalls and internetwork security. A survey of applications and problems arising in contemporary computer security.
3 lect. hrs/wk.
Determination of design parameters and preliminary design of conventional water and wastewater treatment operations and processes using bench-scale experiments and commercially available computer software. The topics include aeration, sedimentation (flocculant and hindered), disinfection chemistry and kinetics, activated carbon adsorption for removal of soluble organics, precipitation and ion-exchange for hardness removal of domestic wastewaters.
2 class, 3 design hr./wk.
Major culminating design experience emphasizing multi- and interdisciplinary collaboration, and incorporating engineering standards and realistic constraints that include the following considerations: economic, financial, environmental, sustainability, constructability, ethical, health and safety, social and political.
4 hr./wk.;
The student will pursue a program of independent study under the direction of a full-time faculty member of the department with the approval of the undergraduate advisor. The program may consist of an extensive design project, an experimental investigation, or an analytical study. A final engineering report describing the work done and the outcomes must be submitted to the Department at the end of the study. Subject does not have to be in the area of the student’s specialization but must include a design component.
Departmental approval.
The student will pursue a program of independent study under the direction of a full-time faculty member of the department with the approval of the undergraduate advisor. The program may consist of an extensive design project, an experimental investigation, or an analytical study. A final engineering report describing the work done and the outcomes must be submitted to the Department at the end of the study. Subject must be in the area of the student’s specialization. Faculty mentor may require additional requisites based on the specific subject under study. Only available for students specializing in structural, environmental or transportation.
Departmental consent,
CE 34000, min GPA 3.0
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 H2000 Highway Engineering, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE H2000.
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 crosslisted with CE H2600 Rail System Design, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE H2600.
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 crosslisted with CE H3000 Advanced Strength of Materials, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE H3000.
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 conse¬quences of maintenance and engineering economics; life-cycle cost analysis. This course is crosslisted with CE H4000 Highway Engineering, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE H4000.
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 crosslisted with CE H4100 Highway and Airport Construction, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE H4100.
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 H4500 Urban Transportation, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE H4500.
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 H4700 Urban Freight and City Logistics, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed
CE H4700.
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 H4800 Transit Systems: Planning and Operation, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed
CE H4800.
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 H5000 Advanced Reinforced Concrete, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE H5000.
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 H5500 Concrete Sustainability, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE H5500.
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 H5600 Design of Wood Structures, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE H5600.
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 crosslisted with CE H6600 Engineering Hydrology, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE H6600.
3 hr./wk.
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 H7100 Water Quality Analysis, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE H7100.
5 hr./wk.
The effects of air pollution on humans and on the environment. The 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 crosslisted with CE H8300 Air Pollution and Control, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE H8300.
3 hr./wk.
Physical, chemical and biological characterization of municipal solid waste streams. Generation, transport (collection and distribution), handling and disposal of municipal solid waste streams. Technologies used in source and field separation of solid wastes. Disposal of source separated and commingled solid wastes. Terminal disposal of solid wastes – planning, design and operation of landfills and thermal conversion facilities. Generation and treatment of landfill leachates. Recycling of municipal solid wastes. Characterization and disposal of hazardous wastes. Required field trip. This course is crosslisted with CE H8400 Solid Waste Management, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE H8400.
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 H9000 Foundation Engineering, and therefore is not available to students who have already completed CE H9000.
3 hr./wk.
Topics chosen for their particular or current interest to undergraduate students. Various courses designated CE 59800 and CE 59900 will be offered whenever there is sufficient student demand as evidenced by pre-registration forms or petitions.
Departmental approval.
3 hr./wk.
Topics chosen for their particular or current interest to undergraduate students. Various courses designated CE 59800 and CE 59900 will be offered whenever there is sufficient student demand as evidenced by pre-registration forms or petitions.
Departmental approval.
2 class, 3 design hr./wk.