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An asterisk (*) following the four-digit number indicates the course is approved for graduate credit.
Graduate College
Civil Engineering (CIVE)
CIVE 3413
Structural Analysis
Lab 3. Prerequisite(s): ENSC 2143. Analysis of internal forces and deflections of structures subjected to static loading. Beams, trusses, and framed structures analyzed by appropriate classical methods. Classical methods and modern computer procedures for the analysis of statically indeterminate structures.
CIVE 3513
Structural Steel Design
Lab 3. Prerequisite(s): 3413. Introduction to the design of structural steel members and connections in accordance with AISC specifications.
CIVE 3523
Reinforced Concrete Design
Lab 3. Prerequisite(s): 3413. Introduction to the design of reinforced concrete elements in accordance with the strength design requirements of the ACI Building Code.
CIVE 3614
Engineering Surveying
Lab 3. Prerequisite(s): MATH 1613 or 1715. Principles and techniques of vertical and horizontal measurements related to engineering and construction projects. Linear and angular measurements, differential leveling, traverses, topographic surveys, construction surveying, horizontal and vertical curves, earthwork quantities and design of route systems.
CIVE 3623
Engineering Materials Laboratory
Lab 3. Prerequisite(s): 3713 or concurrent. Basic construction materials including Portland cement concrete, asphalt concrete, aggregates, and composite materials. Behavioral characteristics, use, and quality control of these materials. Basic statistical procedures used for material specifications. Laboratory sessions provide "hands on" experience in performing standard tests.
CIVE 3633
Transportation Engineering
Prerequisite(s): 3614 or consent of instructor. Planning, design and operations of transportation facilities. Vehicle characteristics and human factors in design. Traffic stream variables and their measurement techniques. Basic traffic flow models. Highway and street intersection capacity and level of service. Traffic control concepts. Transportation systems management. Application of statistical analysis and operations research to analyze transportation problems.
CIVE 3713
Geotechnical Engineering
Prerequisite(s): ENSC 2143. Physical and mechanical properties of soils, including specific gravity, grain size distribution, plasticity, permeability, consolidation, and shear strength. Use of physical and mechanical properties to calculate stresses in a soil mass, lateral earth pressures, bearing capacity, and slope stability. Application of physical and mechanical properties to design of foundations, retaining structures and slopes.
CIVE 3813
Environmental Engineering Science
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 1414 or 1515, MATH 2144. Engineering aspects of the life support system; the carbon-oxygen cycle; cycling of nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorus; and the hydrologic cycle. Concepts of environmental pollution and degradation. Techniques for mitigation; water and wastewater treatment, solid and hazardous waste management, and air pollution abatement. Calculation of pollution potential and treatment system parameters.
CIVE 3833
Applied Hydraulics
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 1414 or 1515, ENSC 3233, PHYS 2014. Basic hydraulic principles and their application in civil engineering problems. Analyses of water distribution networks, open channels, storm-water management and wastewater collection systems, water pumps, hydraulic models, hydraulic measurements, treatment plant hydraulics and hydraulic structures.
CIVE 3843
Hydrology I
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 1414 or 1515, ENSC 3233, PHYS 2014. Basic principles of surface groundwater hydrology and their application in engineering problems. The hydrologic cycle, weather and hydrology, precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, subsurface waters, stream flow hydrographs, hydrologic and hydraulic stream routing, probability of hydrologic events, application of hydrologic models.
CIVE 3853
Environmental Engineering Laboratory
Lab 3. Prerequisite(s): 3813. Performance of experiments with benchscale environmental engineering unit operations, review of chemical principles and analyses important to the evaluation of these and other environmental engineering applications. Emphasis on the development of experimental results that can be used in the design of full-scale units.
CIVE 4010*
Civil Engineering Research
1-4 credits, max 12. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing or consent of instructor. Research and investigation of civil engineering problems.
CIVE 4042
Engineering Practice
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing or consent of instructor. Topics relevant to the professional practice of civil and environmental engineering. Written communications skills are stressed. Resumes, letters of introduction and job interviews are discussed in detail. Management principles and project management are introduced. The advantages of professional registration and professional and technical society membership are covered. Laws impacting the practice of engineering such as OSHA and ADA are introduced. Other topics such as professional ethics, income taxes and investments are discussed.
CIVE 4043
Senior Design
Prerequisite(s): 3513, 3523, 3713, senior standing. Major comprehensive design experience using the team approach. Industry practitioners provide design projects and analyze and critique results. Extends the undergraduate experience and provides the student with opportunities to analyze and design complex structures.
CIVE 4143*
Environmental Engineering Design
Prerequisite(s): 3833, 3853, 4833. Factors involved in the design of engineered environmental systems. Solving "real world" environmental engineering problems. Design experience using decision-making techniques, integrating and expanding upon current knowledge, and defending engineering decisions made. Economic, environmental, social, and regulatory aspects of environmental engineering design.
CIVE 4273*
Construction Engineering and Project Management
Lab 3. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing and consent of instructor. Principles and practice of construction engineering and project management. Project planning, development of cost estimates and project schedules, construction methods and fundamental terminology used in the engineering and construction industry.
CIVE 4711*
Basic Soils Testing Laboratory
Lab 3. Prerequisite(s): 3713. Laboratory measurement of the physical and mechanical properties of soils; specific gravity, grain size distribution, plasticity, compaction, compressibility, and shear strength.
CIVE 4823*
Human Impact on the Environment
The activities of humans and how they affect the aqueous, terrestrial, and atmospheric environment.
CIVE 4833*
Unit Operations in Environmental Engineering
Prerequisite(s): 3813, ENSC 3233. Fundamental principles of water and wastewater treatment, including basic theory and development of design parameters. Application of these to the design of unit operations and processes in various treatment plants.
CIVE 5000*
Master's Thesis or Report
1-6 credits, max 6. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing. A student studying for a master's degree will enroll in this course for 2 credit hours if a report is to be written; 6 credits if a thesis is to be written.
CIVE 5010*
Civil Engineering Seminar
1-3 credits, max 6. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing and approval of major professor. Review of literature of major fields of civil engineering.
CIVE 5013*
Aquatic Chemistry
Prerequisite(s): 5813 or concurrent enrollment, CHEM 1515 or equivalent. Application of chemical principles to environmental problems. Chemical kinetics, chemical equilibrium, acid-base chemistry, development of pc-pH diagrams, and coordination chemistry. Precipitation and dissolution reactions and oxidation-reduction reactions.
CIVE 5020*
Civil Engineering Research
1-6 credits, max 6. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing and approval of major professor. Research and investigations other than thesis studies.
CIVE 5023*
Public Health Engineering
Protection of public health through improved environment in urban, suburban, and rural communities. Practical examples, simple formulas, general rules and guidelines for application of public health principles. Intended for students in engineering, physical sciences and other technical disciplines.
CIVE 5030*
Engineering Practice
1-6 credits, max 9. Prerequisite(s): Approval of adviser. Professional supervised civil engineering practice involving authentic projects for which the student assumes a degree of professional responsibility. Activities must be approved in advance by the student’s adviser and may consist of engineering experience on-campus or off-campus, or both. Periodic reports, both oral and written, are required as specified by the adviser.
CIVE 5080*
Engineering Problems
1-3 credits, max 6. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing. Problems of particular interest to graduate students in the field of applied science.
CIVE 5103*
Construction Simulation
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. This course introduces students to effective ways of modeling construction processes and technologies. It provides an investigation of quantitative methods used for the design and analysis of construction operations to maximize productivity and minimize resource idleness. It includes discussions on queueing theory, line-of-balance techniques, linear programming and simulation. Comprehensive group projects that involve modeling and analyzing actual construction operations will be integral parts of this course.
CIVE 5113*
Construction Business Management
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Fundamental theories and applied methods of financial management of construction companies. The spectrum of the present and future practice of business management at the construction company level. Basic construction business operations in the context of construction accounting, financial management, cash flow analysis, financial planning, and risk analysis.
CIVE 5123*
The Legal and Regulatory Environment of Engineering
Prerequisite(s): Junior, senior or graduate standing. The U.S. and Oklahoma court systems. Tort law and labor law having an impact on engineering and construction. Union organization and activities. Government contracting and the laws governing it. Discussions of the Occupation Safety and Health Act and Americans with Disabilities Act. In-Depth look at environmental policy, laws, and regulations affecting engineering, including NEPA, CWA, SDWA, RCRA, CERCLA and CAA Water law.
CIVE 5133*
Construction Contracts and Specifications
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. The nature of contracts. Contract documents. Master format. Principles of specification writing. Contract types. Bonds and insurance. Bidding. Subcontracting. Disputes and disputes resolution.
CIVE 5143*
Project Engineering and Management
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Management of the design and construction of civil engineering projects. Topics include owner's study, formation of project teams, design coordination, construction, and project closeout.
CIVE 5153*
Contract Administration
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Methods and techniques of tracking and control of construction projects. Evaluation of current research findings to contract implementation.
CIVE 5163*
Construction Equipment Management
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Analysis of construction equipment. Performance under various operating conditions. Application of engineering fundamentals to construction methods. Selection and costs of equipment, prediction of equipment production rates, and unit costs of work in place.
CIVE 5173*
Concrete Formwork Design
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Design of formwork for concrete structures. Analysis of loads, deflections, and stresses of forming systems. Evaluation of economics of formwork designs.
CIVE 5183*
Construction Estimating
Lab 2. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. The construction industry, its makeup, operation, estimating, and bidding procedures. Theory and practice of estimating materials, labor, equipment, and overhead costs for various types of construction. Emphasis on preliminary cost estimates during the conceptual design phase of a construction project.
CIVE 5243*
Use and Design of Geosynthetics
Prerequisite(s): 3713, 4711. Description of types of geosynthetics available for engineering uses. Pertinent engineering properties required to design for various functions, basic design methodology for geosynthetics for various functions, and construction and performance considerations.
CIVE 5263*
Terrain Analysis
Prerequisite(s): Basic courses in soil mechanics and geology. Prediction of geotechnical engineering characteristics of geological landforms from remote sensing imagery. Emphasis on photographic stereo interpretation. Training and practice of this media in land-use applications and environmental problems.
CIVE 5303*
Systems Analysis for Civil Engineers
Prerequisite(s): Senior or graduate standing. Synthesis of systems modeling and simulation techniques, mathematical optimization procedures, and evaluation tools of multi-attributed systems including utility theory and decision analysis. Mathematical optimization techniques in the areas of resource allocation, transportation and water resources systems planning, structural design, construction management, and environmental and ecological problems.
CIVE 5313*
Highway Traffic Operations
Prerequisite(s): 3633. Level of service, capacity and service volume concepts. Operational characteristics of uninterrupted-flow and interrupted-flow traffic facilities. The 1985 HCM procedures for analyzing the capacity of freeways, multilane and two-lane rural highways, urban arterials, signalized and unsignalized street intersections, and transit and pedestrian facilities. Administrative and planning actions for congestion management. Design alternatives and improvement strategies for effective use of urban arterial street width.
CIVE 5343*
Urban Transportation Planning
Prerequisite(s): 3633. Determinants of demand for transportation and models for demand forecasting. Performance characteristics of transportation systems and models for performance. Quantitative analysis of multimodal transportation networks including prediction of flow patterns and service quality. Evaluation of social, environmental, and political impacts of transportation decisions. Application of systems analysis techniques to the generation, evaluation, and selection of alternative transportation systems.
CIVE 5363*
Design and Planning of Airports
Prerequisite(s): 3633. Nature of civil aviation. Aircraft characteristics and performance related to airport planning and design. Air traffic control and navigation systems. Basics of airport planning and airport demand forecasting. Analysis of airport capacity and delays. Runway length requirements. Configuration and geometric design of runways, taxiways, holding aprons, and landing areas. Airport lighting, marking, and signing. Drainage and noise control.
CIVE 5373*
Design of Traffic Control Systems
Prerequisite(s): 3633. Traffic control systems design, available technological options, and range of agency needs. Design of vehicle detectors, controllers, communications links, signal display hardware, and wiring. Development of timing plans using computer simulation models. Freeway surveillance and control: ramp metering, incident detection, and motorist information systems. Preparation of contractual documents and construction supervision.
CIVE 5383*
Geometric Design of Highways
Prerequisite(s): 3633. Geometric, functional, and aesthetic aspects of roadway design. Alignment, sight distance, at-grade intersections, interchanges, and freeway systems. Design tools and techniques.
CIVE 5403*
Advanced Strength of Materials
Prerequisite(s): 3413. General states of stress and strain, theories of failure, energy principles, beam bending, shear center, torsion of prismatic shafts, beams on elastic foundations, plates and shells, elastic stability.
CIVE 5413*
Classical Methods of Structural Analysis
Prerequisite(s): 3413. Advanced analysis of indeterminate frames, trusses and arches by classical, numerical, and energy methods with emphasis on methods for hand computations.
CIVE 5423*
Matrix Analysis of Structures
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor. Matrix analysis of two- and three-dimensional trusses and frames. Development of member stiffness matrices. Assemblage of structure matrices by direct stiffness method. Computer programs for structural analysis.
CIVE 5433*
Energy Methods in Applied Mechanics
Prerequisite(s): 3413, MATH 2233 or MAE 3323. Advanced structural mechanics from the standpoint of virtual work; energy principles and variational calculus applied to the analysis of structures, mechanisms, dynamics, and vibrations.
CIVE 5443*
Theory of Elastic Stability
Prerequisite(s): 5403. General theory of elastic stability; buckling of columns; analysis of beam-columns; stability analysis of structural frames, thin-walled beams of open cross-section, and plate structures.
CIVE 5453*
Engineering Analysis
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing and consent of instructor. Advanced, classical mathematical skills for engineers. Dimensional analysis, general tensor analysis, curvilinear coordinates, partial differential equations, perturbation theory, integral equations, special functions, eigen function analysis, integral transform methods, variational methods.
CIVE 5503*
Computer-aided Structural Analysis and Design
Prerequisite(s): 3413; 3513 and 3523 (or concurrent enrollment); senior or graduate standing. Major comprehensive design experience. Promotion of a design office atmosphere in using a team approach. Industry practitioners provide design projects and critique results. Analysis and design of complex structures and preparation of contract documents and drawings. Emphasis on modern computer-based computation and presentation tools.
CIVE 5513*
Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design
Prerequisite(s): 3523. Advanced topics in reinforced concrete design with emphasis on frames, slabs, and earthquake-resistant structures.
CIVE 5523*
Advanced Steel Structure Design
Prerequisite(s): 3513. Advanced topics in steel design such as plastic design, plate girders, composite design, fatigue and fracture, stability, and bracing design.
CIVE 5533*
Prestressed Concrete
Prerequisite(s): 3523. Design of simple and continuous prestressed concrete beams. Behavior under overload. Calculation of prestress losses and deflections.
CIVE 5653*
Asphalt Materials and Mix Design
Lab 3. Prerequisite(s): 3633 or consent of instructor. Principles of asphalt concrete mix design including material characteristics and performance. Evaluation of Hveem and Marshall mix design methods. Asphalt cements, rubberized asphalt polymer asphalts, emulsions, cutbacks, and aggregates. Laboratory sessions focused on the engineering properties of the materials discussed.
CIVE 5673*
Concrete Materials and Mix Design
Lab 3. Prerequisite(s): Senior or graduate standing. Principles of concrete mix design, including material characteristics, strength and durability requirements, environmental effects and forensic analysis. ACI and PCA mix design procedures. Laboratory on theoretical and practical aspects of concrete technology.
CIVE 5693*
Pavement Design and Analysis
Prerequisite(s): 3633 or consent of instructor. Principles of pavement design, including stress analyses, load and environmental effects, and material characteristics. AASHTO, PCA and AI methods of pavement design. Computer methods. Practical aspects of life cycle cost analyses and construction methods.
CIVE 5703*
Soils in Construction
Prerequisite(s): 3713, 4711 or consent of instructor. Soil types and general behavior during construction; earthwork construction requirements and specific considerations for embankments, pavements, buildings, and retaining structures; groundwater control during construction; soil modification and stabilization; and construction considerations for geosynthetics. Basic design considerations, including selection of placement conditions for compaction; proportioning of groundwater control systems; selection of type and amount of soil modifier and design of geosynthetics to meet specific functions.
CIVE 5713*
Soil Mechanics
Prerequisite(s): 3713 and 4711. Application of soil mechanics principles and concepts in geotechnical areas of permeability and seepage, settlement analysis, bearing capacity, lateral earth pressures and retaining walls, slope stability, and metastable soils.
CIVE 5723*
Foundation Engineering
Prerequisite(s): 3713 and 4711. Types of structural foundations including footings, mats, rafts, piles and drilled shafts. Site characteristics, exploration programs, field data, test results and construction materials and methods as basis for selection of type of foundation and design. Geotechnical design procedures and considerations.
CIVE 5733*
Rock Mechanics in Engineering Design and Construction
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate courses in soils and geology. Stresses, strength variations, and deformational behavior of rock. Engineering classification of rock. Methods of field and laboratory measurement of the engineering properties of rock. Rock mechanics consideration in the design and construction of engineering works.
CIVE 5753*
Engineering Soil Stabilization
Prerequisite(s): 3713 and 4711. Theoretical and practical aspects of engineering soil stabilization as a method for improving and upgrading low quality and unstable soils for engineering purposes. Use of lime, fly ash, portland cement, asphalt, and other physical and chemical admixtures. Application of deep foundation stabilization methods such as preloading, deep compaction, injection and reinforcement.
CIVE 5803*
Essentials of Environmental Engineering
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 1314 or 1515; MATH 2155. Engineering aspects of the life support system; the carbon-oxygen cycle; cycling of nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorus; and the hydrologic cycle. Concepts of environmental pollution and degradation. Techniques for mitigation; water and wastewater treatment, solid and hazardous waste management, and air pollution abatement. Calculation of pollution potential and treatment system parameters.
CIVE 5813*
Environmental Laboratory Analysis
Lab 3. Prerequisite(s): 4833 or concurrent enrollment. Analytical procedures for water and waste water contaminants. Emphasis on the chemical theory of procedures, analytical work and an understanding of the significance or need for such laboratory data for surface and groundwater management and water and wastewater treatment processes and design.
CIVE 5823*
Environmental Risk Assessment and Management
Prerequisite(s): Introductory class in statistics and background in engineering, management or science. Environmental risk assessment and management. Applies elements of statistics, probability and environmental simulation to determine the public health and ecological risks from activities of humans.
CIVE 5833*
Introduction to Environmental Modeling
Intended as an introductory course for graduate and senior undergraduate students to the fundamentals of environmental modeling. Develops material necessary to construct models capable of identifying contaminant distributions at future times and space for water and air pollution applications. Advanced topics such as stochastic modeling, ecological risk assessment, neural modeling and spatial statistical analysis among others will be presented according to the backgrounds and interests of the enrolled students. In part, the course is designed as the "Physical Science" component for MS students in the Environmental Sciences program.
CIVE 5853*
Bioremediation
Prerequisite(s): 3813 or equivalent science background. Process selection and design of bioremediation systems for renovation of contaminated hazardous and industrial waste sites, soils, sludge. Site analysis emphasizing contaminant and environmental characteristics. Engineering factors to promote successful bioremediation. Design project required.
CIVE 5863*
Advanced Unit Operations in Environmental Engineering
Prerequisite(s): 4833. Theory and design of advanced physical-chemical water and wastewater treatment processes applied to municipal, industrial, and hazardous waste situations.
CIVE 5873*
Air Pollution Control Engineering
Causes, effects, and control of atmospheric pollution. (Same course as CHE 5873*)
CIVE 5883*
Residuals and Solid Waste Management
Theory, design and operation of systems for handling, treatment, and disposal of process sludge (water treatment, wastewater treatment, industrial) and solid wastes. Potential material reclamation options.
CIVE 5913*
Groundwater Hydrology
Prerequisite(s): 3843. Theory of groundwater movement, storage, exploration and pumping tests. Design of groundwater recovery and recharge systems.
CIVE 5923*
Water Resources Planning and Management
Application of engineering economics and microeconomic theory to the planning and management of water resources projects, including flood control, hydroelectric, water supply, and urban storm water. Systems analysis approaches, primarily linear and dynamic programming, and their application in water resources.
CIVE 5933*
Water Treatment
Prerequisite(s): 4833. Theory, design, and operation of water treatment plants. Sizing of various unit processes. Water treatment plant control procedures.
CIVE 5953*
Biological Waste Treatment
Lab 3. Prerequisite(s): 4833 or equivalent. Fundamentals of microbial systems applied to waste treatment processes. Standard suspended-growth and fixed biofilm wastewater and sludge suspensions and treatment system design calculations.
CIVE 5963*
Open Channel Flow
Prerequisite(s): 3833. Open channel hydraulics, energy and momentum concepts, resistance, channel controls and transitions, flow routing, and sediment transport.
CIVE 5983*
Groundwater Pollution Control
Theory, design and operation of groundwater pollution control systems. Includes examples from site specific applications as well as regional or national focus.
CIVE 5993*
Environmental Data and Analysis and Modeling
Prerequisite(s): 5913 or equivalent. Identification and application of various methods to analyze environmental data. Includes statistical, mathematical, and neural modeling. Emphasis on application of geostatistics to spatial environmental problems; including construction modeling semivariogram, kriging, co-kriging, and indicator kriging problems. Deterministic and stochastic simulation methods addressed, including conditional and Monte Carlo simulation with discussions of the inverse problems. More conventional statistical evaluations of environmental monitoring data including trend analysis and sampling adequacy or redundancy.
CIVE 6000*
PhD Research and Thesis
1-16 credits, max 30. Independent research under the direction of a member of the graduate faculty by students working beyond the level of Master of Science degree.
CIVE 6010*
Seminar
1-6 credits, max 12. Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor and approval of the student's advisory committee. Analytical studies with suitable reports on problems in one or more of the subfields in civil engineering by students working beyond the level of Master of Science degree.
CIVE 6403*
Theory of Elasticity
Stress, strain, and deformation analysis of two- and three-dimensional elastic continua. Propagation of stress waves through elastic continua.
CIVE 6413*
Plate and Shell Structures
Prerequisite(s): 5403. Bending of thin plate structures to include rectangular and circular plates. Analysis of orthotropic plates by classical and numerical methods. Introduction to shell bending theory.
CIVE 6843*
Stochastic Methods in Hydrology
Prerequisite(s): STAT 4073 or 4033. Stochastic and statistical hydrologic analyses of surface water and ground water systems. Analyses of urban and rural drainage and detention systems. (Same course as BAE 6313*)
CIVE 6853*
Modeling of Water Resources Systems
Prerequisite(s): 5913. Application of finite-difference and finite-element methods to predict water flow and chemical and biological water quality in saturated-unsaturated ground waters, streams, lakes, urban areas, and watersheds.
CIVE 6913*
Advanced Environmental Laboratory Analysis
Lab 3. Prerequisite(s): 5813. Instrumental analysis of environmental contaminants. Process samples, effluents, residuals, and environmental samples. Use of gas and liquid (ion) chromatography, atomic absorption, and other analytical methods.
CIVE 6923*
Industrial Wastes Engineering
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing. Theory and methods of waste minimization, waste product reduction or reuse; process changes and treatment of residuals to reduce volume and toxicity of industrial wastes.
CIVE 6953*
Advanced Biological Waste Treatment
Prerequisite(s): 5953. Advanced biological treatment processes and new process developments. Nutrient management, anaerobic wastewater treatment, hazardous waste bioremediation, land treatment, and macrophyte systems. Use of kinetic models for system design.
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