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Course Descriptions

Courses are listed alpha-numerically. The 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 series are undergraduate courses. The 5000 series are graduate courses that can also be taken by undergraduates with cumulative grade point averages of 2.75 or higher, who have satisfied all listed prerequisites and whose registration is approved by the department head or program chair responsible for the course. The 6000 series courses are restricted to graduate students only. Courses below 1000 are developmental in nature, are not counted in GPA calculations and do not count toward any Florida Tech degree.

Courses that may be taken in fulfillment of Undergraduate Core Requirements are designated as follows: CL: computer literacy requirement, COM: communication elective, HU: humanities elective, LA: liberal arts elective, Q: scholarly inquiry requirement, SS: social science elective, CC: cross-cultural, Hon: course may include honors sections during some semesters. These designations follow the course descriptions. Other courses that satisfy Undergraduate Core Requirements are identified by the course prefix: any MTH course can be used toward meeting the mathematics requirement; and any AVS, BIO, CHM or PHY course, or EDS 1031  or EDS 1032 , toward meeting the physical/life sciences requirement.
 

Chemistry
  

  • CHM 2001 Organic Chemistry 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the fundamentals of structure and reaction mechanisms. Includes a review of bonding, preparations and reactions of organic substances.
    (Hon)
    Prerequisite: CHM 1102  
  

  • CHM 2002 Organic Chemistry 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the fundamentals of structure and reaction mechanisms. Includes a review of bonding, preparations and reactions of organic substances.
    (Hon)
    Prerequisite: CHM 2001  
  

  • CHM 2011 Organic Chemistry Laboratory 1

    Credit Hours: 2
    Introduces organic chemistry techniques for lab operations. Includes preparation, reaction and analysis of organic compounds.
    Prerequisite: CHM 2001   Corequisite: CHM 2001  
  

  • CHM 2012 Organic Chemistry Laboratory 2

    Credit Hours: 2
    Continues CHM 2011 . Introduces organic chemistry techniques for lab operations. Includes preparation, reaction and analysis of organic compounds.
    Prerequisite: CHM 2002  and CHM 2011   Corequisite: CHM 2002  
  

  • CHM 3001 Physical Chemistry 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes fundamental principles of chemical phenomena; thermodynamics, equilibria and states of matter; and chemical kinetics.
    Prerequisite: CHM 2001  and (MTH 2001  or MTH 2010 ) and PHY 2002   Corequisite: PHY 2002  
  

  • CHM 3002 Physical Chemistry 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Continues CHM 3001 . Includes chemical dynamics, quantum mechanics, atomic structures, chemical bonding and spectroscopy.
    Prerequisite: CHM 3001  
  

  • CHM 3011 Physical Chemistry Laboratory 1

    Credit Hours: 2
    Experiments illustrating the principles and techniques of physical chemistry studied in CHM 3001 .
    Prerequisite: CHM 2011  and CHM 3001   Corequisite: CHM 3001  
  

  • CHM 3012 Physical Chemistry Laboratory 2

    Credit Hours: 2
    Experiments illustrating the principles and techniques of physical chemistry studied in CHM 3002 .
    (CL)
    Prerequisite: CHM 3002  and CHM 3011   Corequisite: CHM 3002  
  

  • CHM 3301 Analytical Chemistry 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on the principles of modern analytical methods. Includes chemical separation and quantitative measurements, important equilibrium considerations and the treatment of experimental data.
    Prerequisite: CHM 1102  
  

  • CHM 3302 Analytical Chemistry 2: Instrumentation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Principles of modern chemical instrumentation, focusing on spectroscopy.
    Prerequisite: CHM 2002  and CHM 3001  and CHM 3301  
  

  • CHM 3311 Analytical Chemistry Laboratory 1

    Credit Hours: 2
    Students conduct experiments in quantitative analytical techniques.
    Prerequisite: CHM 3301   Corequisite: CHM 3301  
  

  • CHM 3312 Analytical Chemistry 2: Instrumentation Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 2
    Quantitative and instrumental analysis techniques to accompany CHM 3302 .
    Prerequisite: CHM 3311  and CHM 3302   Corequisite: CHM 3302  
  

  • CHM 4001 Inorganic Chemistry 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers basic theoretical concepts of inorganic chemistry as related to elementary structure and bonding, stressing representative elements; and donor-acceptor concepts, symmetry and group theory. Introduces transition metal chemistry.
    Prerequisite: CHM 3002  
  

  • CHM 4002 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes structure and stability in coordination chemistry, spectroscopy of transition metal compounds; descriptive transition metal chemistry and reactions of metal compounds; and lanthanides and actinides. Introduces bioinorganic chemistry.
    Prerequisite: CHM 4001  
  

  • CHM 4111 Advanced Physical Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Selected topics in physical chemistry. Includes statistical mechanics and molecular modeling.
    Prerequisite: CHM 3002  
  

  • CHM 4222 Environmental Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Applies basic principles of inorganic and organic chemistry to natural systems. Includes applications of terrestrial, aquatic and atmospheric chemistry.
    Prerequisite: CHM 2001  
  

  • CHM 4304 Advanced Analytical Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes electrode processes, thermodynamic and kinetic considerations, electrochemical methods and recent research articles.
    Prerequisite: CHM 3002  and CHM 3302  
  

  • CHM 4305 Special Topics in Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers advanced topics in chemistry. May include such topics as electroanalytical, mass spectrometric and imaging techniques.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  

  • CHM 4500 Advanced Organic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Fundamentals of physical organic chemistry. Includes stereochemistry and structure, methods of mechanistic elucidation and selected mechanistic descriptions.
    Prerequisite: CHM 2002  and CHM 3002  
  

  • CHM 4503 Organic Synthesis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies reagents, their capabilities and limitations, and the use of reagents in the design of an organic synthesis. Meets with CHM 5503 .
    Prerequisite: CHM 2002  and CHM 3001  
  

  • CHM 4507 Natural Products

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys organic natural products, emphasizing marine organisms. Outlines major structural families and their sources. Includes the role of natural products in the environment, approaches to their analysis and structure elucidation, and biosynthesis of major classes of secondary metabolitesis. Meets with CHM 5507 .
    Prerequisite: CHM 2002  
  

  • CHM 4508 Bioorganic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes structure–function interrelationships, the role of cofactors, origins of efficiency and selectivity, recognition phenomena and artificial enzymes. Meets with CHM 5508 .
    Prerequisite: CHM 2002  
  

  • CHM 4520 Medicinal Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the chemical nature of physiological mediators, the hormones that mediate life processes. Includes isolation, structure determination and synthesis of the mediators. Preparation of inhibitors or activators of enzymes that work on those mediators or agonists or antagonists to the mediators to correct imbalances that cause disease. Meets with CHM 5520 .
    Prerequisite: CHM 2002  and CHM 3001  
  

  • CHM 4550 Polymer Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces classes of polymers, their general patterns of behavior, polymer synthesis, physics of the solid state, polymer characterization, polymer rheology and polymer processing.
    Prerequisite: CHM 3002  
  

  • CHM 4611 Advanced Laboratory Techniques 1

    Credit Hours: 2
    Studies advanced lab techniques. Emphasizes analytical and inorganic methodology.
    Must be enrolled in chemistry (7031, 7034, 7036). Minimum student level - senior
  

  • CHM 4700 Physical Biochemistry

    Credit Hours: 1
    Emphasizes the physical aspects of biochemistry. Includes enzyme mechanism, kinetics, inhibition, thermodynamics and binding constraints. Explores molecular modeling of proteins and protein folding, highlighting chemical interactions. Also includes an examination of protein-DNA binding interactions.
    Prerequisite: CHM 3001   Corequisite: BIO 4010  
  

  • CHM 4800 Undergraduate Research 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Senior research conducted under the direct supervision of a chemistry department faculty member.
    (Q)
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  

  • CHM 4801 Undergraduate Research 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Senior research conducted under the direct supervision of a chemistry department faculty member.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
    Prerequisite: CHM 4800  
  

  • CHM 4900 Chemistry Seminar

    Credit Hours: 0
    Presents topics of current chemical research interest by students, faculty and distinguished visiting scientists.
    May be repeated
  

  • CHM 4901 Senior Research Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1
    Students present results of their senior research projects.
    (Q)
    Corequisite: CHM 4911  
  

  • CHM 4910 Senior Thesis in Chemistry 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Research conducted under the direction of a chemistry department faculty member. Includes the preparation and department approval of a written senior thesis during the second semester of study.
    (Q)
    Must be enrolled in research chemistry (7034). Minimum student level - senior
  

  • CHM 4911 Senior Thesis in Chemistry 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Research conducted under the direction of a chemistry department faculty member. Includes the preparation and department approval of a written senior thesis.
    Must be enrolled in research chemistry (7034). Minimum student level - senior
    Prerequisite: CHM 4910  
  

  • CHM 5002 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes structure and stability in coordination chemistry, spectroscopy of transition metal compounds; descriptive transition metal chemistry and reactions of metal compounds; and lanthanides and actinides. Introduces bioinorganic chemistry.
  

  • CHM 5018 Special Topics in Inorganic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers advanced topics in inorganic chemistry. May include organometallic compounds, compounds of the less familiar elements, ligand field theory and advanced concepts in coordination chemistry.
    Prerequisite: CHM 5002  
  

  • CHM 5095 Chemical Research Projects

    Credit Hours: 3
    Research projects under the direction of a member of the chemistry faculty in a selected area of chemistry.
  

  • CHM 5111 Advanced Physical Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Selected topics in physical chemistry. Includes statistical mechanics and molecular modeling.
  

  • CHM 5112 Special Topics in Physical Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Selected topics in physical chemistry.
    Prerequisite: CHM 5111  
  

  • CHM 5201 Green Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Extends and reinforces the basic knowledge introduced in undergraduate chemistry courses. Emphasizes chemistry for a sustainable environment, current clean chemical technology and waste minimization. Introduces new areas such as process design and solvent alternatives. Teaches recognition of the impact of green chemistry on daily life.
  

  • CHM 5304 Advanced Analytical Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes electrode processes, thermodynamic and kinetic considerations, electrochemical methods and recent research articles.
  

  • CHM 5305 Special Topics in Analytical Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes advanced topics in analytical chemistry. Emphasizes separation techniques (chromatography) and electroanalytical methods (voltammetry).
  

  • CHM 5500 Advanced Organic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Fundamentals of physical organic chemistry. Includes stereochemistry and structure, methods of mechanistic elucidation and selected mechanistic descriptions.
  

  • CHM 5501 Interpretation of Chemical Spectra

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies modern spectroscopic methods in organic chemistry. Includes the interpretation of 1D and 2D spectra obtained by ultraviolet, infrared, proton and carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance and mass-spectral techniques.
  

  • CHM 5503 Organic Synthesis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies reagents, their capabilities and limitations, and the use of reagents in the design of an organic synthesis.
    Prerequisite: CHM 5500  
  

  • CHM 5507 Natural Products

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys organic natural products, emphasizing marine organisms. Outlines major structural families and their sources. Includes the role of natural products in the environment, approaches to their analysis and structure elucidation, and biosynthesis of major classes of secondary metabolitesis.
  

  • CHM 5508 Bioorganic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes structure-function interrelationships, the role of cofactors, origins of efficiency and selectivity, recognition phenomena and artificial enzymes.
  

  • CHM 5520 Medicinal Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the chemical nature of physiological mediators, the hormones that mediate life processes. Includes isolation, structure determination and synthesis of the mediators. Preparation of inhibitors or activators of enzymes that work on those mediators or agonists or antagonists to the mediators to correct imbalances that cause disease.
  

  • CHM 5550 Polymer Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces classes of polymers, their general patterns of behavior, polymer synthesis, physics of the solid state, polymer characterization, polymer rheology and polymer processing.
  

  • CHM 5899 Final Semester Thesis

    Credit Hours: 0 - 2
    Variable registration for thesis completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Approval by Office of Graduate Programs and accepted petition to graduate
  

  • CHM 5900 Chemistry Graduate Seminar

    Credit Hours: 0
    Seminars on current research in chemistry.
  

  • CHM 5901 Chemistry Thesis Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1
    Students present results of their thesis research.
    Requirement(s): Must be in final semester of thesis research
  

  • CHM 5999 Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3 - 6
    Individual research for the master’s degree under the direction of a member of the graduate faculty in chemistry.
    Must be enrolled in biochemistry or chemistry (7028, 7031, 7034, 7036)
  

  • CHM 6095 Chemical Research

    Credit Hours: 1 - 6
    Research under the guidance of the chemistry faculty. Area chosen may lead to a research proposal for dissertation work.
    Must be enrolled in chemistry (7031, 7034, 7036)
  

  • CHM 6899 Final Semester Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 0 - 2
    Variable registration for dissertation completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Approval by Office of Graduate Programs and accepted candidacy
  

  • CHM 6999 Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 3 - 12
    Research and preparation of the doctoral dissertation.
    Requirement(s): Admission to candidacy for the doctoral degree

Civil Engineering
  

  • CVE 0002 Final Program Examination

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
  

  • CVE 0003 Final Program Examination 2

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: CVE 0002   Corequisite: CVE 0002  
  

  • CVE 0004 Final Program Examination 3

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: CVE 0003   Corequisite: CVE 0003  
  

  • CVE 1000 Introduction to Civil Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the civil engineering sub-disciplines, including professional aspects and ethics. Uses hands-on group projects, group presentations, field trips and lectures. Includes exposure to structures, soils, transportation, hydrology, construction and the environment. Emphasizes technical communication and computer skills through all coursework.
  

  • CVE 1001 Computer Applications Lab

    Credit Hours: 1
    Offers a broad background in computer applications, strongly emphasizing computer-aided design. Briefly discusses word processing, spreadsheet coding and PowerPoint® presentations.
    (CL)
  

  • CVE 2080 Construction Measurements

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers measurement of distances, elevations and angles; statistical errors and data adjustment; working with coordinates; topographic mapping and photogrammetry; global positioning systems (GPS); geographic information systems (GIS); and computer applications.
    Prerequisite: CVE 1001   Corequisite: CVE 1001 
  

  • CVE 2083 Construction Measurements Lab

    Credit Hours: 1
    Covers measurement of distances, elevations and angles using tapes, levels, transits, total station systems and global positioning systems (GPS). Includes field exercises that parallel course material in CVE 2080. Requires use of AutoCAD® and Excel®.
    Prerequisite: CVE 2080  Corequisite: CVE 2080  
  

  • CVE 3012 Engineering Materials

    Credit Hours: 3
    Addresses stress-strain concepts and the relationship between internal structure and engineering properties as the basis for selection of materials. Materials studied include metals, concretes, timber, plastics and fiber composites.
  

  • CVE 3013 Civil Engineering Materials Lab

    Credit Hours: 1
    Offers experiments in measurement techniques, materials testing and engineering applications.
    Prerequisite: PHY 2091  and CVE 3012   Corequisite: CVE 3012  
  

  • CVE 3015 Structural Analysis and Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces modeling of structures; elastic analysis of statically determinate trusses, beams and frames; influence lines for determinate and indeterminate structures; deflections by the method of virtual work and other methods; analysis of indeterminate structures.
    Prerequisite: AEE 3083 
  

  • CVE 3020 Soils and Foundations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the application of mechanics and hydraulics to the analysis of soils. Includes engineering geology, index properties, classification, compaction, effective stress, permeability, consolidation, and shear strength behavior of soil, as well as application to the design of foundations and retaining walls.
    Minimum student level - junior
    Prerequisite: AEE 3083   
  

  • CVE 3021 Soil Mechanics Lab

    Credit Hours: 1
    Offers experiments in the sampling and testing of soil as an engineering material, to support topics in soil mechanics.
    Prerequisite: CVE 3020   Corequisite: CVE 3020  
  

  • CVE 3030 Fluid Mechanics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes estimation of pressure distribution and forces in static fluids, rigid body fluids and flowing fluids; integral expressions for conservation of mass and momentum; energy equation; pipe design and analyses of water distribution systems, estimation of external forces, and similitude.
    Prerequisite: MEE 2081  and (MTH 2201  or MTH 3200 ) Corequisite: MTH 2201  or MTH 3200  
  

  • CVE 3033 Hydraulics Lab

    Credit Hours: 1
    Offers experiments in fundamental and applied fluid mechanics, hydraulics and hydrology.
    Prerequisite: CVE 3030   Corequisite: CVE 3030  
  

  • CVE 3042 Water and Wastewater Systems for Land Development

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the topics necessary to design potable water and domestic wastewater utility systems for land development projects. Includes the treatment and distribution of potable water and the collection and treatment of wastewater.
    Prerequisite: CHM 1101  and CVE 1001  and CVE 3030   Corequisite: CVE 3030  
  

  • CVE 3052 Municipal Water and Wastewater Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the topics necessary to design and develop large-scale potable water and domestic wastewater treatment facilities. Includes site planning; physical, chemical and biological treatment; sludge processing and advanced treatment methods.
    Prerequisite: CHM 1101  and CVE 1001  
  

  • CVE 4000 Engineering Economy and Planning

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents economic evaluation of engineering alternatives. Includes time value of money, replacement alternatives, benefit/cost analysis, minimum cost analysis, depreciation, taxes and inflation.
    Minimum student level - junior
  

  • CVE 4013 Steel Structures

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the design of various elements of steel structures including tension members, beams, columns, beam-columns and connections. Introduces the AISC codes. Includes a design project.
    Prerequisite: CVE 3015 
  

  • CVE 4016 Reinforced Concrete Structures

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the basic mechanics of reinforced concrete and the design of reinforced concrete structures and structural elements. Introduces the design practices and procedures of the ACI code. Includes a design project.
    Prerequisite: CVE 3015 
  

  • CVE 4019 Timber Structures

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the engineering properties of timber and their effect on design of timber structures. Studies the design of various elements of timber structures including tension members, beams, bean-columns, diaphragms and connections according to the NDS ASD specification. Includes a design project.
    Prerequisite: CVE 3015 
  

  • CVE 4020 Foundation Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Applies soil mechanics to foundation engineering, exploration techniques, foundation selection criteria, design and construction. Includes analysis and design of spread, mat and pile foundations; retaining wall design; drilled piers; caissons; design using geotechnical fabrics; and slope stability.
    Prerequisite: CVE 3020 
  

  • CVE 4032 Hydraulics and Hydrology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes steady flow in open channels, analysis of water surface profiles, channel design; measurements and estimation of components in the hydrologic cycle; unit hydrograph theory; statistical design methods; and hydrologic routing.
    Prerequisite: CVE 3030 
  

  • CVE 4035 Urban Hydrology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Uses state-of-the-art water-quality and water-quantity computer models to predict the impact of urbanization on receiving waters. Students design a stormwater management system as a project.
    Prerequisite: CVE 4032 
  

  • CVE 4050 Solid and Hazardous Waste

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the design process used in investigation and remediation of sites contaminated with solid or hazardous waste. Also covers the processing, treatment and disposal of solid and hazardous wastes.
  

  • CVE 4060 Transportation Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Modes of transportation are reviewed with emphasis on highways, including vehicle characteristics, geometric alignment, traffic analysis, queuing theories, signal timing, levels of service, traffic forecasting, pavement design and airport runway design and layout.
    Minimum student level - senior
    Prerequisite: CVE 2080   
  

  • CVE 4070 Construction Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    The fundamentals of construction engineering from a project management point of view. Focus on basics of construction project management principles including scope, quality control, planning and scheduling, cost engineering, risk management and loss prevention, local environment, information and communications, and stakeholder relations.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval or prerequisite course
    Prerequisite: CVE 3012  and CVE 3013  
  

  • CVE 4073 Construction Cost Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    The application of cost engineering principles and estimating within a project management framework in conjunction with scope definition, quality control, planning and scheduling, risk management and loss prevention techniques, local conditions, information and communication, and working relations with stakeholders.
    Prerequisite: CVE 2080  
  

  • CVE 4074 Leading Construction Operations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers specialized application of leadership fundamentals and team building to construction operations. Focuses on the basic principles of leadership including motivation, organizational dynamics, team formation and conflict resolution. Examines construction operations, work practices and ethics in the business environment.
    Minimum student level - junior
  

  • CVE 4090 Selected Topics in Civil Engineering

    Credit Hours: 1 - 3
    Advanced topics in civil engineering in which a formal course does not exist at Florida Tech. Classes are conducted on a seminar basis with extensive student participation. Topics are chosen according to student interest and faculty expertise.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
    May be repeated for a maximum of six credits
  

  • CVE 4091 Design Project 1

    Credit Hours: 1
    Develops a real-world, peer reviewed, team design project. Students review alternatives and present a schedule and cost estimate. Professional and ethical issues are discussed. Project is completed in CVE 4092 . Oral and written reports and a final team presentation are required.
    (Q)
    Requirement(s): Senior standing
  

  • CVE 4092 Design Project 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Proposal developed in CVE 4091  is completed. Oral and written reports and a final team oral presentation and report required. Also includes discussion of professional and ethical issues.
    (Q)
    Prerequisite: CVE 4091 
  

  • CVE 4095 Independent Study in Civil Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Independent study undertaken on a cooperative basis between a student and a member of the faculty. Typically, it is a short-term research-related project.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
    May be repeated for a maximum of six credits
  

  • CVE 5011 Advanced Cold Formed Steel Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Evaluates the theories of design and actual behavior of cold-formed steel metal components and their connections. Considers the development of pertaining codes. Includes tension members, buckling behavior, compression members, beams, beam-columns, connections and structural systems.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to CVE 4013 Steel Structures . 
  

  • CVE 5014 Advanced Steel Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Behavior and design of steel structures with an emphasis on the AISC-LRFD specifications. Includes plate girders, continuous beams, complex connections, frames and composite construction.
    Prerequisite: CVE 4013 
  

  • CVE 5016 Advanced Reinforced Concrete

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers advanced topics in the analysis and design of reinforced concrete structures. Includes two-way slabs, torsions, strut-and-tie method, and slender and biaxial columns. Introduces the basic concepts of prestressed concrete. Requires students to complete a design project.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to CVE 4016 Reinforced Concrete Structures . 
  

  • CVE 5018 Modeling of Natural Disasters Risk

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces natural hazard risk and the modeling of associated fragilities and vulnerabilities of man-made exposure. Includes catastrophe risk modeling and management, and performance-based engineering appropriate for business majors, hazard scientists and engineers. Concepts presented for hurricanes can be applied to other perils.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MTH 2401 Probability and Statistics . 
  

  • CVE 5020 Geotechnical Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Advanced treatment of theory and principles of engineering soil mechanics as related to permeability, capillary, seepage forces, stress distribution, effective stress, consolidation and shear strength. Includes lab testing of soils for engineering properties.
    Prerequisite: CVE 3020 
  

  • CVE 5025 Foundation Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores the application of soil mechanics to foundation engineering, exploration techniques, foundation selection criteria, design and construction; analysis and design of spread, mat and pile foundations; retaining wall design; drilled piers; caissons; design using geotechnical fabrics; and slope stability.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to CVE 3020 Soils and Foundations . 
  

  • CVE 5035 Design Concepts in Urban Hydrology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Uses state-of-the-art water-quality and water-quantity computer models to predict the impact of urbanization on receiving waters. Students design a stormwater management system as a project.
    Prerequisite: CVE 4032 
  

  • CVE 5037 Numerical Groundwater Modeling

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the partial differential equations governing the motion of fluids and solute or contaminants in subsurface media; introduction to finite difference methods; description of the Galerkin finite element method. Uses state-of-the-art models, such as MODFLOW and SUTRA to solve real-world problems.
    Prerequisite: CVE 5039 
  

  • CVE 5039 Groundwater Hydrology and Contaminant Transport

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers energy concepts and governing equations in groundwater, estimation of aquifer properties, well and well-field design, saltwater intrusion, artificial recharge and modeling of contaminant transport in groundwater.
    Prerequisite: CVE 3030 
  

  • CVE 5050 Design of Remediation Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the design process to clean up soil and groundwater contaminated with hazardous waste, including the design of contaminated groundwater capture systems, contaminant treatment, treated water disposal and air phase emission compliance.
  

  • CVE 5052 Solid Waste Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Regulation, generation, storage, treatment and disposal of solid wastes. Emphasizes the management of solid waste in an environment of changing regulations.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
    Prerequisite: CVE 5050 
  

  • CVE 5061 Pavement Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers stresses, strain and deflections in both flexible and rigid pavements; flexible and rigid pavement materials testing techniques; pavement designs for roads and airports; nondestructive pavement evaluation; and pavement management systems. 
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to CVE 3020 Soils and Foundations . 
  

  • CVE 5062 Statistical and Econometric Methods for Transportation Data Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Teaches model estimation and application for transportation data analysis (least squares regression; simultaneous equations; count-data; discrete outcome; multinomial, nested and mixed logit; ordered data; duration (hazard-based); and random parameters models). Uses NLOGIT.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MTH 5401 Applied Statistical Analysis . 
  

  • CVE 5064 Transportation Planning

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers demand analysis for transportation planning. Includes fundamental modeling techniques (trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice (modal split), traffic assignment), surveys and data requirements. Also includes evaluation of transportation alternatives and policy implications. Uses GIS transportation software.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to CVE 4060 Transportation Engineering  and MTH 5401 Applied Statistical Analysis . 
 

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