• CE 2100

    Introduction to Environmental Engineering
     Rating

    2.89

     Difficulty

    3.37

     GPA

    3.03

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Focuses on society's interaction with water, air, and soil systems. Management of these major environmental components is examined, considering health and ecological needs and technical limitations. This course may stand alone as introduction to the current environmental challenges that we face, or as the foundation for further study in the field of environmental engineering. Prerequisites: CHEM 1410 or CHEM 1610

  • CE 2310

    Strength of Materials
     Rating

    3.11

     Difficulty

    2.89

     GPA

    3.20

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Normal stress and strain, thermal strain, shear stress, shear strain; stress and strain transformations; Mohr's circle for plane stress and strain; stresses due to combined loading; axially loaded members; torsion of circular and thin-walled closed sections; deformation, strains and stresses in beams; beam deflections; column stability; energy concepts in mechanics. Cross-listed as MAE 2310. Prerequisite: CE 2300 or MAE 2300

  • CE 3220

    Water Resources Engineering
     Rating

    3.14

     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.23

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Covers topics related to hydraulics and hydrology, including complicated pipes designs, pumps, open channel, rainfall, evaporation, and surface runoff applied to stormwater and bmp design. Applications include water supply, drainage, flood control, and water control, and computer modeling. Prerequisite: CE 3210

  • CE 2300

    Statics
     Rating

    3.26

     Difficulty

    3.21

     GPA

    3.30

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Basic concepts of mechanics: systems of forces and couples: equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies; analysis of structures: trusses, frames, machines; internal forces, shear and bending moment diagrams; distributed forces; friction, centroids and moments of inertia; principle of virtual work; and computer applications. Cross-listed as MAE 2300. Prerequisite: PHYS 1425 or PHYS 1420 or PHYS 1710.

  • CE 2110

    Environmental Engineering Laboratory
     Rating

    3.33

     Difficulty

    2.50

     GPA

    3.49

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Lab study/basic principles in environmental engineering inc. reactor theory, fate & transport in the environment, wastewater treatment unit operations, climate change dynamics, & life cycle assessment. Lab, field, & online simulations will be used to produce data for analysis. Opportunity to develop design/experiments methodologies and to work in teams on written reports. Corequisite CE 2100

  • CE 3400

    Transportation Infrastructure Design
     Rating

    3.44

     Difficulty

    2.67

     GPA

    3.38

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Fundamentals of transportation infrastructure design will be covered. Topics include: analysis of the characteristics of the driver, pedestrian, vehicle, and road; highway geometric design; intersection desgin and operations; highway drainage and drainage structures; highway pavement design. Prerequisite: CE 2010 and Third-year standing.

  • CE 3000

    Civil Engineering Systems Analysis
     Rating

    4.33

     Difficulty

    1.00

     GPA

    3.67

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    This course focuses on the analysis and management of large-scale civil engineering systems. Students will be introduced to problem formulation, linear programming, and decision analysis, with applications in structural optimization, traffic flow, resource allocation and environmental design. Prerequisites: CE 2010 or SYS 2001

  • CE 4500

    Special Topics in Civil Engineering
     Rating

    4.33

     Difficulty

    2.00

     GPA

    3.82

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Applies basic engineering principles, analytical procedures and design methodology to special problems of current interest in civil engineering. Topic for each semester are announced at the time of course enrollment. Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing and instructor permission.

  • CE 3120

    Solid Waste Management
     Rating

    4.67

     Difficulty

    2.00

     GPA

    3.92

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    This course introduces students to the methods used by today's engineers regarding the management of solid waste. Specific topics include: solid waste management history and regulation; current issues regarding solid waste; planning, design, and operation of landfills; recycling facility operations; alternate solid waste disposal methods; and composting. Prerequisites: APMA 3110

  • CE 3010

    Project Business Planning
     Rating

    5.00

     Difficulty

    2.00

     GPA

    3.76

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Construction projects only occur when the needs of the market, sponsors, end-users, and society are sustainably met. In this course, students will learn how to: 1) plan successful business cases for construction projects considering technical, societal, financial, legal, environmental, and market limitations, 2) evaluate and select the best alternative, and 3) express it through a business plan while increasing their entrepreneurship competencies.

  • CE 2001

    Sustainability Science
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Sustainability is the challenge of meeting today's needs without impairing the needs of future societies. This course seeks to provide an integrated scientific foundation to understand the sustainability of environmental systems and of some science-based sustainable solutions. Sustainability science will draw from a spectrum of relevant sciences, including chemistry, biology, environmental science, and physics. Pre-requisite: CHEM 1410 or CHEM 1810

  • CE 2020

    Engineering Economic Analysis
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.45

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    This purpose of this course is to introduce and familiarize students with engineering economics. Students will apply the concepts of the time value of money to infrastructure management. Students will be able to compare cash flows using net present value, future value, and cost-benefit analysis. Students will use cost indices to complete cost estimations. Students will be able to make appropriate adjustments for depreciation and inflation.

  • CE 3050

    Introduction to Green Engineering
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.42

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    A hands-on overview in systems thinking as it relates to infrastructure and sustainability analysis. Students will learn quantitative tools to analyze complex socio-technical systems with a focus on water, energy, transportation, buildings, and food. Students will undertake an open-ended, team-based life cycle assessment project on a topic of their choice. Prerequisites: CHEM 1410 and CE 2100 or Energy/Mass Balances.

  • CE 3222

    Water Resources Engineering Workshop
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.81

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Introduction to computational tools and approaches common in water resource engineering. Topics include: geographic information systems (GIS) for water resources; software tools applied for hydrologic and hydraulic data analysis and visualization; and use of industry-standard hydrology and hydraulic models water resource system simulation and design. Pre/Coreq: Students must have completed or currently enrolled in CE 3220.

  • CE 3330

    Introduction to Design of Structural Systems
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.55

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Introduction of concepts, approaches, procedures, and codes for the design of civil structural systems with emphasis on the characterization of structural loads, structural systems and system behavior on structural systems constructed of steel and reinforced concrete. Topics to include engineering properties of materials, design and behavior of compression members, flexural members, and tension members. Prerequisite: CE3300 or equivalent.

  • CE 3402

    Transportation Infrastructure Design Workshop
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.70

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Computer aided design applications of the fundamentals of transportation infrastructure design using real world scenarios. Application topics include: highway geometric design for highway facilities; intersection design including at-grade, roundabouts, and grade separated interchanges, and the transportation improvements associated with a new development. Co-requisite: CE 3400. Prerequisite: CE 2010, CE 2305, CE 3700

  • CE 3500

    Special Topics in Civil Engineering
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.90

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Applies basic engineering principles, analytical procedures and design methodology to special problems of current interest in civil engineering. Topics for each semester are announced at the time of course enrollment.

  • CE 3800

    Civil Engineering Undergraduate Seminar
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Students will be introduced to current civil engineering challenges and emerging solutions. Research and practical case studies will be included. Participants will summarize and explore implications of introduced topics.

  • CE 4025

    Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) Coordination and Control
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.66

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Students will learn how to use Building Information Modeling (BIM) 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 models of a project to visualize construction processes and better predict, manage, and communicate project outcomes.

  • CE 4040

    Sustainability and Systems in the Built Environment
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.94

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    This course takes a systems perspective to study and design for sustainability in the built environment at various scales (e.g., materials, buildings, cities, and regions) and for different types of systems (e.g., physical, social, information). Students from SEAS, A-School, and other majors are welcome in this course, which emphasizes interdisciplinary design collaboration and diversity of thought.

  • CE 4050

    Risk Analysis
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.83

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    This course is an introduction to the theory, methods, and applications of risk analysis and systems engineering. The topics include research and development priorities, risk-cost-benefit analysis, emergency management, human health and safety, environmental risk, extreme events, infrastructure resilience, system interdependencies, and enterprise systems. Prerequisites: Course in Probability/Statistics; Third or fourth year standing in SEAS; Or permission of instructor.

  • CE 4990

    Civil Engineering Design and Practice I
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.57

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Team-based project course focusing on a design in a sub-discipline of civil and environmental engineering. Student participants will develop professional practice skills, such as project scoping, scheduling, cost-estimation, and appropriate technical communication, and visual representation of designs. Projects will continue in CE4992. Requisites: 4th-Year Standing in Civil Engineering

  • CE 4995

    Civil Engineering Research
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.88

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Study of a civil engineering problem in depth by each student using library, computer, or laboratory facilities. The project is conducted in close consultation with departmental faculty and involves survey, analysis, or project development. Progress reports and a comprehensive written report are required. May be repeated if necessary. Prerequisite: Contact individual professor for Instructor Permission.

  • CE 5035

    Construction Estimating and Bidding
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.68

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    This course provides students with an in-depth understanding of how a general contractor pursues, estimates, bids and procures work. The course will cover the full range of activities from conceptual estimating, to scoping and bidding projects, to the submission of proposals to the general contractor's clients as well as the procurement types and the corresponding strategies that a general contractor employs in the pursuit of these procurements.

  • CE 5240

    Ground-Water Hydrology and Contaminant Transport
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.61

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    An introduction to ground-water hydrology and contaminant transport. Topics include Darcy's Law, fluid potential, hydraulic conductivity, the unsaturated zone, the 3-D equation of ground-water flow, well hydraulics and pump tests, including the principle of superposition, the advection-dispersion-reaction equation, pollutant fate and transport processes, and numerical simulation of ground-water. Prerequisites: CE 2210, CE 3200 or equivalent.

  • CE 5300

    Advanced Design of Metal Structures
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    4.00

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Behavior and design of structural elements and systems, including continuous beams, plate girders, composite steel-concrete members, members in combined bending and compression. Structural frames, framing systems, eccentric connections, and torsion and torsional stability are also studied. (Y) Prerequisites: CE 3330 or equivalent.

  • CE 5410

    Introduction to Transportation Planning
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.61

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Introduces the legal requirements, framework, and principles of urban and statewide planning. Focuses on describing and applying the methodology of the forecasting system of the transportation planning process, including inventory, forecasts of population and economic activity, network analysis, and travel demand analysis.

  • CE 5500

    Special Topics in Civil Engineering
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.75

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Applies basic engineering principles, analytical procedures and design methodology to special problems of current interest in civil engineering. Topic for each semester are announced at the time of course enrollment.

  • CE 6000

    Forefronts of Civil Engineering
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.96

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    This course is an introduction to major challenges facing civil engineering infrastructures and emerging solutions to these challenges. Innovative technologies and techniques will be presented. Topics will vary but may include sustainability, sensor technology, infrastructure security, and resiliency and design for natural disasters. Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Instructor Permission.

  • CE 6015

    Project Management
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.71

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Project management skills are just as crucial to success as engineering skills. Therefore, it is essential to understand how projects are planned, executed, and managed.The purpose of this course is to introduce the principles of project management. The course will equip students with the concepts, tools, and language of project management that can be applied to any project size and type.

  • CE 6025

    Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) Coordination and Control
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    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
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    Last Taught

    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
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    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 6440

    Advanced Transportation Systems
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.77

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    The surface transportation system is transforming into a cyber-physical system, with the wide-scale use of sensors and communications in infrastructure management, integration of wireless device apps for improved traveler situational awareness, and introduction of connected and automated vehicles. This course explores the resulting "intelligent transportation system" through readings, case studies, projects, and discussion forums.

  • CE 6500

    Special Topics in Civil Engineering
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.58

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Detailed study of special topics in civil engineering. Master's-level graduate students. Prerequisites: to be listed for each section as needed

  • CE 6993

    Independent Study
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Detailed study of graduate course material on an independent basis under the guidance of a faculty member. Master's-level graduate students. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission

  • CE 6995

    Supervised Project Research
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Formal record of student commitment to project research under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Registration may be repeated as necessary. Master's-level graduate students. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission

  • CE 7001

    Graduate Seminar
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Weekly meeting of graduate students and faculty for presentation and discussion of contemporary research and practice in civil engineering. This seminar is offered every spring and fall semesters. Prerequisite: For students who have established resident credit.

  • CE 7993

    Independent Research in CE
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Detailed independent study of graduate course material under the guidance of a faculty member. Doctoral-level graduate students. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission

  • CE 8001

    Graduate Teaching Instruction
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    For graduate students who will be GTA for a course taught by CE faculty who have granted Instructor Permission for that section. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission

  • CE 8999

    Thesis
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Formal record of student commitment to master's thesis research under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Registration may be repeated as necessary. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission

  • CE 9999

    Dissertation
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Formal record of student commitment to doctoral research under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission