Civil Engineering

CE 201 Statics (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: PH 150, M 117. Composition and resolution of forces in two and three dimensions. Equilibrium of forces in stationary systems. Analysis of trusses, frames, and machines. Centroids and second moments of areas, distributed forces and friction. 3 credit hours.

CE 202 Strength of Materials I (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 201. Elastic behavior of structural elements under axial, flexural, and torsional loading. Shear and bending moment diagrams. Stress in and deformation of members, including beams, columns, and connections. 3 credit hours.

CE 203 Elementary Surveying (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: M 115 or permission of instructor. Theory and practice of surveying measurements using tape, level, and transit. Field practice in traverse surveys and leveling. Traverse adjustment and area computations. Adjustment of instruments, error analysis. Laboratory fee; 3 credit hours.

CE 205 Statics and Strength of Materials (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: PH 150. Effects and distribution of forces on rigid bodies at rest. Various types of force systems, friction, center of gravity, centroids, and moments of inertia. Relation between externally applied loads and their internal effects on nonrigid, deformable bodies. Stress, strain, Hooke’s law, Poisson’s ratio, bending and torsion, shear and moment diagrams, deflection, combined stress, and Mohr’s circle. 4 credit hours.

CE 206 Engineering Geology (back to previous page)
Introduction to relationship of geologic processes and principles to engineering problems. Topics include engineering properties of rock as a construction and foundation material, soil formation and soil profiles, and subsurface water. 3 credit hours.

CE 218 Civil Engineering Systems (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: CE 205 or EAS 213 (may be taken concurrently), M 118. An introduction to civil engineering design. Analyze needs, determine capacities and develop design alternatives for civil engineering systems. Structures, water and wastewater facilities, geotechnical and transportation systems are studied. 3 credit hours.

CE 301 Transportation Engineering (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: M 117. A study of planning, design, and construction of transportation systems including highways, airports, railroads, rapid transit systems, and waterways. 3 credit hours.

CE 302 Building Construction (back to previous page)
Introduction to the legal, architectural, structural, mechanical, and electrical aspects of building construction. Principles of drawing and specification preparation and cost estimating. 3 credit hours.

CE 304 Soil Mechanics (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 205 or EAS 222. Soil classifications. Methods of subsurface exploration. Design principles are related to the potential behavior of soils subjected to various loading conditions. Seepage analysis. 3 credit hours.

CE 306 Hydraulics (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: M 204, EAS 224 or permission of instructor. The mechanics of fluids and fluid flow. Fluid statics, laminar and turbulent flow. Energy, continuity and momentum. Analysis and design of pipes and open channels. Orifices and weirs. 3 credit hours.

CE 309 Water Resources Engineering (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 306. Study of principles of water resources engineering including surface and ground water hydrology. Design of water supply, flood control, and hydroelectric reservoirs. Hydraulics and design of water supply distribution and drainage collection systems including pump and turbine design. Principles of probability concepts in the design of hydraulic structures. General review of water and pollution control laws. 3 credit hours.

CE 312 Structural Analysis (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 205 or CE 202 or EAS 222. Basic structural engineering topics on the analysis of beams, trusses, and frames. Topics include load criteria and influence lines; force and deflection analysis of beams and trusses; analysis of indeterminate structures by approximate methods, superposition, and moment distribution. Computer applications and a semester-long design-analysis project requiring engineering decisions. 3 credit hours (two hours lecture, two hours discussion).

CE 315 Environmental Engineering (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: CH 115, CH 117, CE 306. Introduction to water supply and demand. Water quantity and quality. Design and operation principles of water and wastewater treatment, disposal, and reuse systems. Collection, recycling, and disposal practices of solid wastes. Fundamentals of air pollution and air pollution control. 3 credit hours.

CE 323 Mechanics and Structures Laboratory (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 312 (may be taken concurrently). Experiments covering mechanics and structural engineering. The response of metals and wood to different loading conditions will be examined. Laboratory instrumentation will be studied. Laboratory procedures, data collection, interpretation, and presentation will be emphasized. 2 credit hours.

CE 327 Soil Mechanics Laboratory (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 304 (may be taken concurrently). Experiments and laboratory testing in geotechnical engineering. Lab testing includes classification, density, hydraulic conductivity, shear strength, and consolidation tests. Laboratory procedures and data collection, interpretation, and presentation will be discussed. 2 credit hours.

CE 328 Hydraulics and Environmental Laboratory (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 315 (may be taken concurrently). Fundamentals of data collection, analysis, and presentation. Principles of technical report writing. Laboratory methods in hydraulics and environmental engineering. Experiments include pipe and open channel flow, analysis of various hydraulic structures, pumps and other hydraulic machinery, titrimetric, gravimetric, and instrumental methods in water/wastewater quality testing. 2 credit hours.

CE 398 Internship (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: 60 credit hours toward the B.S. degree. A partnership consisting of the student, faculty, and employers/organizations providing exposure to and participation in a working engineering environment. The internship will translate classroom knowledge to a professional work environment, and the student will work and learn with practicing engineers while gaining professional experience. A minimum of 300 hours performing related engineering duties is required. No credit.

CE 401 Foundation Design and Construction (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 304 or consent of instructor. Application of soil mechanics to foundation design, stability, settlement. Selection of foundation-type shallow footings, deep foundations, pile foundations, mat foundations. Subsurface exploration. 3 credit hours.

CE 403 City Planning (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Senior status or permission of instructor. Engineering, social, economic, political, and legal aspects of city planning. Emphasis placed on case studies of communities in Connecticut zoning. Principles and policies of redevelopment. 3 credit hours.

CE 404 Water and Wastewater Engineering (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 315. Physical, chemical, and biological aspects of water quality and pollution control. Study of unit operations and processes of water, wastewater and wastewater residuals treatment. Emphasis on hydraulic and process design of water pollution control facilities. 3 credit hours.

CE 405 Indeterminate Structures (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: CS 110, ME 307 or CE 312, ME 204 or EAS 222. The analysis of statically indeterminate structures. Topics include approximate methods, moment distribution, conjugate beam, energy methods, influence lines, and an introduction to matrix methods. Computer applications and a project requiring structural engineering decisions. 3 credit hours.

CE 407 Professional and Ethical Practice of Engineering (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Senior status or permission of instructor. Principles of engineer-client, engineer-society, and owner-contractor relationships examined from ethical, legal, and professional viewpoints. Examination of codes of ethics and preparation of contract documents. 3 credit hours.

CE 408 Steel Design and Construction (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 312. Analysis, design, and construction of steel structures. Topics include tension, compression, and flexural members; connections; members subjected to torsion; beam-columns; fabrication, erection, and shop practice. Designs will be based on Load Resistance Factor Design (LRFD). 3 credit hours (two hours lecture, two hours discussion).

CE 409 Concrete Design and Construction (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 312. Analysis and design of reinforced concrete beams, columns, slabs, footings, retaining walls. Fundamentals of engineering shop drawings. 3 credit hours (two hours lecture, two hours discussion).

CE 410 Land Surveying (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 203 or consent of instructor. A study of boundary control and legal aspects of land surveying including deed research, evidence of boundary location, deed description, and riparian rights. Theory of measurement and errors, position precision, state plane coordinate systems, photo-gammetry. 3 credit hours.

CE 411 Highway Engineering (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 301 or consent of instructor. Highway economics and financing. Study of highway planning, geometric design, and capacity. Pavement and drainage design. 3 credit hours.

CE 412 Wood Engineering (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 205 or CE 202 or EAS 222. Study of the growth and structure of wood and their influence on strength and durability, preservation, and fire protection. The analysis and design of structural members of wood using the Allowable Stress Design (ASD) method including beams, columns, and connections. The design of wood structures. Discussion of Load Resistance Factor Design (LRFD). 3 credit hours (two hours lecture, two hours discussion).

CE 413 Masonry Engineering (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 205 or EAS 222. The design and analysis of brick and concrete masonry non-reinforced and reinforced structures. Strength, thermal, fire, and sound characteristics, testing and specifications. 3 credit hours.

CE 414 Route Surveying (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 203. A continuation of elementary surveying covering principles of route surveying, stadia surveys, practical astronomy, aerial photography, adjustments of instruments. Field problems related to classroom designs. 3 credit hours.

CE 415 Traffic Engineering (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 301 or junior status. Traffic flow theory including data collection, data analysis, freeways, multilane highways, signalized and unsignalized intersections, intersection signal coordination. Students will be taught how to use several computer programs to analyze traffic flow along roadways. Projects will deal with actual locations in the area. 3 credit hours.

CE 450-459 Special Topics (back to previous page)
Selected topics of special or current interest in the field of civil engineering. 1-3 credit hours.

CE 500 Senior Project I (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Senior status. An introduction to project planning and presentation. This course will prepare students for professional practice by teaching organizational skills, scheduling, technical writing for a lay audience, and oral presentation. Students will begin working on their senior design project and use this preliminary work in their course assignments. Oral and written presentations will be given to update the class on the progress of the project. 3 credit hours.

CE 501 Senior Project II (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 500. Supervised individual or group project. The project may be the preparation of a set of contract documents for the construction of a civil engineering facility, research work with a report, or a project approved by the faculty advisor. 3 credit hours.

CE 505 Solid Waste Management (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 315. Characteristics, volumes, collection, and disposal of solid waste and refuse. Design of processing, recycling, and recovery equipment; landfill design and operation; resource recovery; incineration. 3 credit hours.

CE 520 Engineering Hydrology (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 309. Theory, methods, and applications of hydrology to contemporary engineering problems. Methods of data collection and analysis as well as design procedures are presented for typical engineering problems. Specific topics to be considered within this framework include the rainfall/runoff process, hydrograph analysis, hydrologic routing, urban runoff, storm water models, and flood frequency analysis. 3 credit hours.

CE 523 Open Channel Hydraulics (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 309. Basic theories of open channel flow will be presented and corresponding equations developed. Methods of calculating uniform/steady flow; gradually varied flow; and rapid, spatially varied, unsteady flow will be investigated. Flow through bridge piers, transitions, and culverts; backwater curves and the design of open channels. 3 credit hours.

CE 599 Independent Study (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and department chair. Opportunity for the student to explore an area of interest under the direction of a faculty member. Course must be initiated by the student. 1-3 credit hours.

Civil Engineering - Graduate Courses

CE 601 Physical-Chemical Treatment of Aqueous Wastes (back to previous page)
Analysis of physical and chemical processes in natural and engineered systems for water pollution control. Unit processes covered include, but are not limited to, aeration and gas transfer, sedimentation, filtration, coagulation/flocculation, adsorption, chemical stabilization, ion exchange, and disinfection. Design methodologies and operational aspects of treatment are also considered.

CE 602 Biological Treatment of Aqueous Wastes (back to previous page)
This course provides an in-depth study of principles of biological treatment of aquatic wastes (municipal, industrial and/or hazardous). Commonly used suspended and attached growth processes are covered. Emphasis is given to design and operational aspects of activated sludge, trickling filters and rotating biocontactors. On-site treatment processes are also covered.

CE 603 Contaminant Fate and Transport in the Environment (back to previous page)
This course covers the fundamental principles of contaminant behavior in the environment. Contaminant physical-chemical properties, transport, and transformation mechanisms affecting contaminant distribution among air, water and solid domains are studied in depth. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, environmental interface equilibria; advective and diffusional transport, and biochemical exchange in atmospheric, aquatic and terrestrial domains. Environmental modeling is also considered.

CE 605 Solid Waste Management (back to previous page)
Characteristics, volumes, collection and disposal of solid waste and refuse. Design of processing, recycling and recovery equipment; landfill design and operation; resource recovery; incineration.

CE 606 Environmental Law and Legislation (back to previous page)
Review of techniques of enforcement of state and federal pollution control laws and regulations; effects on waste treatment criteria and design and evaluation of municipal ordinances; preparation of environmental assessments and impact statements.

CE 607 Water Pollution Control Processes (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CH 601. This course is open to non-engineering students only. Study of physical, chemical and biological processes employed for pollution control. Processes cover the removal of suspended, colloidal, and dissolved phases of pollution.

CE 610 Pollution Prevention Management Technologies (back to previous page)
The first half of this course focuses on methods to implement a pollution prevention hierarchy: developing management support, identifying pollution prevention opportunities, assembling a pollution prevention team, and developing economic justification for potential opportunities. The second half of the course focuses on various technologies available for a wide variety of pollutants, including a review of methods that can be used to integrate the technologies within processes of existing facilities.

CE 612 Advanced Wastewater Treatment (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 602. Theories and principles of advanced sewage treatment including nutrient removal, demineralization, distillation, ozonization, carbon filtration, ion exchange, and nitrification; design of facilities; upgrading secondary plants.

CE 613 Industrial Wastewater Control (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: CE 601, CE 602. Characteristics of industrial wastes volumes, sources, and types; methods of volume reduction, waste segregation, recovery, recycling and waste treatment.

CE 614 Surface Water Quality Management (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 620. Determination of controls that must be instituted to achieve specific water quality objectives. Waste load allocation as principal management tool, requiring knowledge of response of a system to waste load inputs. Input/response relationships for three different surface water systems: rivers and streams; lakes and estuaries. Related topics: dissolved oxygen analysis, indicator bacteria, and eutrophication.

CE 615 Groundwater Hydrology (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Undergraduate courses in fluid mechanics and soil mechanics. Study of fundamental principles governing fluid flow in porous and fractured media; provides necessary foundation for advanced studies in hydrogeology and contaminant hydrology. Includes Darcy’s law, the continuity equation, aquifers, flow in the saturated zone, flow nets, wells and well hydraulics, flow in fractures, flow in the unsaturated zone, and groundwater modeling.

CE 616 Contaminant Hydrology (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 615. Behavior of contaminants in the subsurface. Emphasis on physical, chemical and biological processes that determine the fate of a contaminant: advection, diffusion, adsorption, mechanical dispersion, biochemical reactions. Quantitative relationships for predictive framework. Applications include site characterization, remediation, wellhead protection, flow and transport modeling, and groundwater waste disposal.

CE 617 Wastewater Residuals Management (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: CE 601, CE 602, or permission of instructor. An overview of rules and regulations affecting treatment and disposal of wastewater residuals. Quantitative and qualitative characteristics are considered. Treatment processes for preliminary operations, thickening, chemical/biological stabilization, conditioning, disinfection, dewatering, drying, thermal reduction and ultimate disposal are covered extensively and design procedures are outlined. Case studies address beneficial use of wastewater residuals.

CE 618 Hazardous Waste Treatment (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: CE 601, 602, or permission of instructor. A review of the historical, legislative and social framework of hazardous waste issues. Physical, chemical, biological and thermal processes used for decontamination of hazardous wastes and hazardous waste sites are studied extensively. Specific remedial in-situ/ex-situ technologies such as soil vapor extraction, soil washing, incineration, bioremediation, immobilization and chemical extraction are covered. Includes various laboratory and field case studies.

CE 620 Engineering Hydrology (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: Undergraduate course in hydraulics; computer literacy. Theory, methods and applications of hydrology to contemporary engineering problems. Methods of data collection and analysis as well as design procedures are presented for typical engineering problems. Specific topics to be considered within this framework include the rainfall/runoff process, hydrograph analysis, hydrologic routing, urban runoff, storm water models and flood frequency analysis.

CE 621 Advanced Hydrology (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 620. Examination of water sources and losses; the evaporation and infiltration processes and their effects on stream flow hydrographs. Deterministic and stochastic methods of reservoir analysis and design for purposes of flood protection and water conservation as well as problems in urban hydrology will be investigated.

CE 623 Open Channel Hydraulics (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Undergraduate course in hydraulics. Basic theories of open channel flow will be presented and corresponding equations developed. Methods of calculating uniform/steady flow; gradually varied flow; and rapid, spatially varied, unsteady flow will be investigated. Flow through bridge piers, transitions and culverts; backwater curves and the design of open channels.

CE 624 Computer Applications in Hydrology/Hydraulics (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 620, CE 623. Investigation of widely used computer software in the areas of hydrology and hydraulics. The theory underlying the programs, as well as application and evaluation of software, will be stressed.

CE 629 Wood Engineering I (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: A structural analysis course and a structural design course. Course may not be taken for credit by students who have completed the undergraduate equivalent of this course. Study of the growth and structure of wood and how these influence wood strength, durability, preservation and fire protection. Analysis and design of structural members of wood using Allowable Stress Design (ASD) method, including beams, columns and connections; design of wood structures. Laboratory experiments included.

CE 630 Reinforced Concrete Design (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Undergraduate course in concrete design and construction. Advanced topics include deep beams, slabs, composite beams, beam columns, stability, connections, creep and deflection control.

CE 631 Structural Steel Design (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Undergraduate course in steel design and construction. Advanced topics related to the behavior and design of rigid frames (single and multistory), plate girders and connections.

CE 633 Wood Engineering II (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 629, or undergraduate course in wood engineering. Wood properties and determination of allowable stresses. Laminated, built-up and composite sections. Wood framing systems and connections to resist gravity and lateral loads.

CE 634 Prestressed Concrete Design (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Undergraduate course in concrete design and construction. Analysis and design of pre-tensioned and post-tensioned concrete structures. Beams, columns, connections, partial prestressing, deflections, anchorage.

CE 640 Structural Analysis (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Undergraduate course in indeterminate structures. Analysis of structures having members with variable cross sections, secondary stresses, shear walls and semirigid connections. Influence lines for statically indeterminate structures.

CE 650 Soil Mechanics I (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: Undergraduate course in soil mechanics; computer literacy. The first in a series of courses dealing with soil mechanics and foundation engineering. Gives the student a better understanding of the basic principles of geomechanics. Includes the nature of soil; soil formation; phase relationships and classification; stress, strain and strength analysis; flow analysis; and consolidation theory.

CE 651 Soil Mechanics II (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 650. Second course in the soil mechanics series. Includes consolidation theory, settlement analysis, soil modification, compaction, lateral earth pressure, slope stability, and soil exploration.

CE 652 Foundation Engineering I (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 651. Deals primarily with shallow foundations. Includes: types of foundations, site exploration, shear strength, bearing capacity, limit states, settlement, allowable pressure, and rafts and mats.

CE 653 Foundation Engineering II (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: CE 652. Deals primarily with deep foundations. Topics include pile foundations, pile types, pile driving, load testing, design of individual piles, group action, drilled pier foundations, construction methods, and capacity in sand and clay.

CE 660 Project Planning (back to previous page)
Application of network analogy to project planning and scheduling; resource, time and financial management. Computer applications will be included.

CE 661 Air Pollution Fundamentals (back to previous page)
An introduction to the sources of air pollution: transport of gaseous and particulate pollutants in the atmosphere on local and global scales, transformations of pollutants by atmospheric processes, impact of airborn pollutants on the environment, control of sources of air pollution, and legislative mandates. Introduction to meteorological concepts and computer transport models. Current issues such as ozone depletion and global warming will also be discussed. (See also CM 621.)

CE 670 Selected Topics (back to previous page)
A study of related topics of particular interest to students and instructor. Course may be taken more than once.

CE 678 Computer Applications in Civil Engineering (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Introductory course in computer fundamentals. The design and analysis of software and hardware systems for the solution of civil engineering problems. Includes software engineering, software coding, and evaluation of hardware and software.

CE 690 Research Project (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: 18 graduate hours or permission of the department chair and program coordinator. Independent study under the guidance of an adviser into an area of mutual interest, each study terminating in a technical report of academic merit. Research may be in environmental areas such as water resources, stream pollution, solid waste management or air pollution.

CE 695 Independent Study I (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Permission of program coordinator. Independent study under the guidance of an adviser into an area designated by the program coordinator.

CE 696 Independent Study II (back to previous page)
A continuation of Independent Study I.

CE 698 Thesis I (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: 15 graduate hours. Periodic meetings and discussions of the individual student’s progress in the preparation of a thesis.

CE 699 Thesis II (back to previous page)
A continuation of Thesis I.