• CE 4070

    Smart and Healthy Buildings
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    Fall 2025

    This class focuses on the next generation of buildings where smart devices, Internet of Things (IoT) systems, machine learning applications, and simulations platforms will be utilized to contextualize the changes in indoor environments and occupants¿ needs, allowing building systems (e.g., HVAC, lighting, blinds) to dynamically adjust themselves to enhance the indoor environmental conditions from the health, comfort, and energy perspectives.

  • CE 4320

    Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design
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    Fall 2026

    Advanced topics in reinforced concrete design, including design of slender columns, deflections, torsion in reinforced concrete, design of continuous frames, and two-way floor systems. Introduction to design of tall structures in reinforced concrete, and design of shear walls. Prerequisite: CE 3330.

  • CE 4600

    Adapting Civil Infrastructure Systems for Climate Change
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    Fall 2026

    In this course, civil engineers learn to create resilient infrastructure that withstands climate impacts like floods, droughts, & heat. It covers risk assessment, managing uncertainty, and designing for climate adaptation, with a focus on water, energy, & transport systems. Students will use case studies to consider the effects on various communities, emphasizing equitable solutions, and complete a project on a climate challenge of their choice. Prerequisite: APMA 3110 or APMA 3100

  • CE 4610

    Smart Communities
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    Fall 2026

    Smart communities use technology to improve sustainability, resilience, & quality of life. Technology adoption depends on the specific needs & resources of a place. When done right, it can greatly benefit communities; if not, it can create inequality & privacy issues. This course gives students an understanding of advanced smart technology & hands-on experience to address community issues, showcasing technology's role in community improvement. Prerequisite: Fourth-Year Standing and CS 1110, or CS 1111, or CS 1112, or CS 1113.

  • CE 5750

    Civil Engineering Design and Practice
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    Fall 2026

    This class surveys the breadth of Civil Engineering as a discipline, and is customized for graduate students without previous education in civil engineering. Students will learn the basics on a wide variety of design and practice topics within the field of civil engineering. Restricted to Civil Engineering Graduate Students with Instructor's Permission.

  • CE 6025

    Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) Coordination and Control
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    Spring 2026

    In this course, students will learn how to use Building Information Modeling to 1) support the decision-making over a project life cycle and 2) improve coordination between stakeholders throughout the design and construction stages. With this hands-on course, students will learn how to integrate all project models to visualize construction process and better predict, manage, and communicate project outcomes.

  • CE 6280

    Stochastic Hydrology
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    Spring 2025

    The goal of this course is to illustrate the importance of uncertainty analysis in hydrology. Topics include extreme value theory applied to floods & droughts, regionalization methods for predictions in ungauged basins, & trend analysis of historical time series. Students should leave the course with an understanding of how to apply these methods in practice to design civil infrastructure systems that are robust to hydrologic uncertainty. Prerequisite: APMA 3100 and CE 3220 or Equivalent

  • CE 6370

    Dynamics of Structures
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    Fall 2026

    Study of the dynamic behavior of such structures as beams, rigid frames, floors, bridges, and multi-story buildings under the action of various disturbing forces such as wind, blasts, earthquakes, vehicles, machinery, etc.; dynamic modeling of single, multidegree of freedom, and continuous systems; damping; numerical integration; Prerequisite: Concrete and metal structure design.

  • CE 6720

    Continuum Mechanics
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    Fall 2026

    Introduces continuum mechanics and mechanics of deformable solids. Vectors and cartesian tensors, stress, strain, deformation, equations of motion, constitutive laws, introduction to elasticity, thermal elasticity, viscoelasticity, plasticity, and fluids. Taught concurrently with APMA 6020, AM 6020, MAE 6020. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

  • CE 6731

    Vibrations
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    Fall 2025

    Free and forced vibration of undamped and damped single-degree-of-freedom systems and undamped multi-degree-of-freedom systems; use of Lagrange's equations, Laplace transform, matrix formulation, and other solution methods; normal mode theory; introduction to vibration of continuous systems. Taught concurrently w/ AM 6230 and MAE 6230. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.