CEE

Basic ecological principles. Food chains, trophic structure, biogeochemical cycles, and ecosystem dynamics. Water quality problems including nutrient enrichment, toxicity, and nonpoint source pollution. Watershed evaluation and management concepts, and TMDL applications.

Regulatory considerations, land disposal problems, groundwater contamination, health and safety, site clean-up, and treatment methods; RCRA, TSCA and other regulatory compliance aspects; health and safety requirements; land disposal options and design considerations; groundwater clean-up methodologies; treatment technologies and conceptual designs; remedial investigations and feasibility studies of hazardous waste sites; and case histories.

Addresses water quality modeling and its applications through case studies; application of QUAL2K and WASP models which are widely used in environmental engineering.

Extension of fluid mechanics. Basic principles, mathematical concepts and solution methods, experimental data, and engineering judgment. Pressurized-flow systems, free surface flow, stream channel behavior and control, hydrologic data interpretation, hydrograph analysis and synthesis, Prerequisite: Undergraduate fluid mechanics (or its equivalent), proficiency in computers.

Theoretical and practical approaches to water resource planning, analysis, design, economics and management: ground water and surface water supply, wetlands protection, water quality, water demand projections and reservoir operation. Prerequisite: CEE 7111 or its undergraduate equivalent.

Design principles for infrastructure found in railway and airport facilities. Railway facilities built for passenger and freight service, track geometry and alignment design, drainage, and intermodal operations. Design of airport infrastructure and field systems, including runway, taxiway, and aprons. Prerequisite: Engineering Statiscs.

Response of pavements subjected to both static and dynamic loads; design of rigid and flexible pavements; inspection and rehabilitation of pavement structures; design airport and port facility pavements. Prerequisite: CEE 8439 (with permission of instructor in the absence of this prerequisite).

Forensic evaluation and analysis of structural failures. Case studies of bridge, building, dam and construction catastrophes. Investigation of various failure mechanisms.

Design and behavior of masonry structural components with emphasis on design codes; ASD and SD design approaches; material properties; unreinforced and reinforced masonry; bearing walls, flexural walls, shear walls, beams, columns, pilasters; construction specifications; movements in masonry structures.

Design and behavior of wood structural components with emphasis on design codes; ASD and LRFD design approaches; material properties; beams, tension members, compression members, combined loading; connections; structural panels; shear walls and diaphragms; engineered wood products.

Development of structural stiffness matrices for trusses, beams and frames; nonlinear analysis of frames; numerical solutions of plates; finite elements for plane stress and strain; solid elements; utilization of commercial computer software.

Fundamental physical, chemical and biological principles and processes for water and wastewater treatment; chemical kinetics, reactor engineering, mass transfer and sedimentation. Prerequisites: CEE 3107 Mechanics III: Fluid Behavior or its equivalent and two semesters of undergraduate chemistry.

Introduction to microbiology and biochemistry; bacteria, fungi, algae, protozoa, and viruses; structure, function, synthesis, and degradation of lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, and carbohydrates; nutritional requirements for microbial growth; waterborne disease; indicator organisms; microbial ecology; and microbiology of the nitrifiers, methanogens, and sulfur bacteria. Prerequisite: One year of undergraduate chemistry.

Physical, chemical, and biological processes governing the fate and transport of hazardous contaminants in natural and engineered systems: sorption, volatilization, biodegradation, hydrolysis, advection, and diffusion.

Preventive environmental management approaches versus end of pipe treatment; cleaner production development and implementation; cleaner production tools such as environmental impact assessment, life cycle analysis, environmental technology assessment, chemical assessment, environmental compliance audit, waste audit, energy audit, risk audit, and good house keeping. Sustainable development and environmental ethics as integral components of pollution prevention approach.

This course will cover environmental, health and safety, and hazardous materials handling laws and the resulting regulations with which industry must comply. Tools and techniques for designing and conducting defensible compliance audits and due diligence programs will be provided. Prerequisite: Undergraduate Chemistry.

Chemical kinetics; equilibrium analyses of water solutions incorporating solubility, ionization, acid-base, redox, and complexation considerations; use of graphical procedures to analyze complex mixtures; and, applications including pC-pH diagrams of the carbonate system, chemistry of iron and aluminum coagulants, alkalinity and acidity of natural waters, and metal complexation by organic ligands. Prerequisite: One year of undergraduate chemistry.

Investigation of problems with the present system of development and production, and evaluation of required steps to achieve sustainability will be conducted. Sustainability approaches such as green engineering and design, renewable energy systems, sustainable transportation, green building and low impact development techniques will be explored.

Deep foundations, bulkheads, soil-structure interaction and advanced topics in soil behavior and stability. Prerequisite: Undergraduate Soil Mechanics

Design of civil engineering structures, such as retaining walls and landfills, using geosynthetics for reinforcement, drainage, filtration, separation, and containment. Prerequisite: Undergraduate Soil Mechanics

Application of geotechnical engineering to the disposal of wastes, remediation of polluted environments, and sustainable construction.

Practical design of below-grade support and special foundation work in urban and difficult sites.

Design of slopes and embankments, including slope stability, seepage, and design applications.

Processes governing flow and transport in soil and rock, measurement of transport properties, and design and evaluation of Geoenvironmental application. First Offering: Spring 2017 (will be offered odd spring).

Plate tectonics and earthquakes faulting; strong ground motions; development of design ground motions; dynamic soil properties; evaluation and mitigation of soil liquefaction; seismic earth pressures; seismic slope stability; soil-structure interaction.

Dam history; site investigation and loading; embankment, gravity, and arch dam design; hydraulic control structures and spillway design considerations; construction of dams; failure modes and risk analysis; dam performance monitoring.

Transportation problems as related to urban areas; transit and other mode characteristics and planning; transportation network analyses through generation; distribution and assignment.

Transportation planning and operation based on recently developed capacity analyses of transportation facilities and networks.

Road user and vehicle characteristics, stream flow characteristics, freeway operations, speed studies, traffic control and management, and its technologies and applications.

Overview of highway safety including factors that contribute to highway crashes, techniques to improve the safety of the roads, geometric design elements, and accident reconstruction techniques.

Project organization, scheduling techniques; changes, delays and claims management; systematic design review (standards and specifications); cost control technique of value engineering; quality control/quality assurance and warranty techniques; innovative contracting: design-build variations and public-private partnerships; case studies and computer-based scheduling. Prerequisite: BSCE or consent of instructor.

Environmental consequences and transportation systems; context sensitive solutions; national measures of sustainability in transportation; infrastructure asset management. Prerequisite: CEE 2211 or equivalent introduction undergraduate course in transportation engineering (or consent of instructor).

Pavement preservation, accelerated construction techniques, intelligent compaction, recycled and waste products in asphalt/concrete mixtures, energy translation from pavements, and the use of innovative materials in highway construction. Prerequisites: CEE 8439 (with permission of instructor in the absence of this prerequisite).

In this course, we will dive into the economic forces driving transportation systems and explore pricing strategies, policy impacts, and sustainability challenges, gaining insights to navigate the complex world of transportation in a rapidly changing global landscape

Structure and history of urbanization in the United States. The current problems of cities and suburbs, and how they have evolved, will be the subjects of student projects. Will Philadelphia survive? Proposed solutions involving community activism, urban renewal, fiscal reform and new towns will be examined and evaluated. The design professional's role in the planning team is defined.

Emphasizes the practical implementation of data analytics using Python and R. Uses real world civil engineering datasets in transportation and building energy consumption to cover data visualization, data cleaning, feature extraction, and statistical modeling, and introduces machine learning and clustering.

Repair and retrofit of structures and structural members; repair of concrete, steel wood, and masonry structures due to deterioration and strength deficiencies; introduction to the use of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) materials for repair.

Constituent materials and manufacturing processes for composites; limit-state design philosophy; anisotropic laminate theory for composite plates, beams, and shells; applications in reinforced concrete, structural and geotechnical engineering.

Dynamic response of damped and undamped structural systems. Free vibration; forced vibration for harmonic and general loading. Single and multiple degree-of-freedom systems. Modal superposition method; matrix structural analysis approach to dynamic problems.

Design and behavior of beams, columns and two-way slabs; shear and torsion; shear walls; strut and tie models.

Prestressed and partial prestressed concrete; flexure, shear, serviceability; composite beams; continuity, primary and secondary moments; load balancing. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

Behavior of steel beams, columns, and frames; elastic and plastic analysis; composite design; load and resistance factor.

Behavior of structural connections involving high strength bolts and welds; semi-rigid connections; LRFD and ASD.

Fundamentals of material science with applications to structural and transportation materials. Durability, fracture, fatigue, corrosion, non-destructive tests and properties of masonry, concrete, asphalt, and wood will be taught with discussion of laboratory testing, specifications, and quality assurance (QA) data analysis. Prerequisites: Undergraduate mechanics of materials course.

Advanced concepts related to concrete and other cement-based materials; multi-scale characterization (from macro to nano) of structure and behavior of cement-based systems, role of concrete in sustainable design, concrete durability; modifications through admixtures, special concretes, alternative binders.

Continuously supported rods and beams; stability analysis and the buckling of columns and frames; applied fracture mechanics.

Advanced structural theory and analysis. Beams, frames, and beam-columns; multistory structures; non-prismatic sections; curved members; thin plates and shells.

Discrete and Continuous System Models; Linear and Nonlinear Analyses in Solid and Structural Mechanics; Beams, Frames, and Plates; Time-Dependent Problems; Commercial Software Applications.

Behavior of high-rise building structures and design of their foundations, lateral systems and gravity systems. Wind and seismic loading, wind tunnel considerations. Introduction to finite element modeling software (ETABS).

Addresses AASHTO LRFD Bridge specifications as it applies to superstructure design of steel, concrete, and timber bridges; introduction to inspection, repair, and load rating for superstructure elements.

Addresses AASHTO LRFD Bridge specifications as it applies to substructure design of steel, concrete, and timber bridges; mechanically stabilized abutments, open abutments, column and solid wall piers; structural design of spread footing and pile supported foundations; introduction to inspection, repair, and load rating for substructure elements.

Basic factors for hydraulic design and storage requirements; frequency and duration studies; runoff hydrographs; design storms and flood determinations; hydrologic and hydraulic routing; peak flow formulas; reservoir regulation; effects of land use and treatment; mathematical models including HEC-HMS. Prerequisite: CEE 7111 (or its equivalent).

Continuation of CEE 8501 (Surface Water Hydrology). Use and application of hydrologic quality and quantity watershed models. Topics include GIS, Scale, accuracy and numerical and statistical methods.

Free surface flow in canals, chutes, bends, gradual and abrupt transitions, stilling basins and energy dissipators, constrictions, bridge waterways, spillways; channel delivery; water-surface profiles in artificial and natural channels; unsteady flow, wave propagation and surges; design criteria and case histories; mathematical models including HEC-RAS. Prerequisite: CEE 7111 (or its equivalent).

The principal concepts of fluid mechanics applied to environmental systems, such as rivers, lakes, estuaries and the atmosphere.

Current engineering approaches to reduce adverse environmental effects of urbanization. Water quality and runoff quantity. Storm water management and best management practices. Prerequisite: CEE 7111 (or its equivalent).

The occurrence and movement of water in the subsurface portion of the hydrologic cycle. Darcy's Law and flow equations for surficial aquifers, confined aquaifers, and the unsaturated zone. Pump tests for the determination of conductivity and storage. Seawater intrusion, sustainable yields, land subsidence, streamflow depletions and groundwater contamination.

Changes in channels and floodplains through time based on the governing theories of fluvial geomorphology, river hydraulics, and sediment entrainment, transport, and deposition. Analysis of various aspects of channels numberically and using different software platforms.

Includes fluvial geomorphology, streambank stabilization, dam removal, in-stream habitat enhancement, sediment transport analysis, scour at bridges and culverts, design of scour countermeasures, design of naturally and structurally stable channel systems and design of energy dissipaters.

Explores contemporary topics within water resources engineering with a unique theme identified for each course offering. The chosen topic theme changes with each offering to emphasize pressing issues within the industry. Technical details of topic theme are placed in the context of case studies.

Individual supervised study. Topic and scope must be submitted in writing to topic advisor for approval prior to registration. Requirements must be completed by the end of its semester of registration.

Individual supervised study. Topic and scope must be submitted in writing to topic advisor for approval prior to registration. Requirements must be completed by the end of its semester of registration.

Provides work experience for a graduate student who has been offered an opportunity to work in the civil engineering field in industry. Required for curricular practical training.

Analysis and design of physical/chemical processes for treatment of contaminated air and water. Topics include adsorption, stripping, scrubbing, chemical oxidation, disinfection, coagulation and flocculation, filtration, water softening and ion exchange. Prerequisite: CEE 7502 and CEE 7701 (or their equivalents).

Biological treatment processes including aerobic, anoxic, and anaerobic processes; suspended growth and fixed film microbial communities; biological nutrient removal processes. Prerequisite: CEE 7511 or its equivalent.

Topic and scope must be submitted in writing to topic advisor for approval prior to registration. The results of the course findings may provide the basis for the thesis option. The final written document at the completion of the semester will be submitted for approval as a thesis proposal or a term paper for grade. The thesis proposal must be agreed upon by both the student and the topic advisor and approved by the chairperson. Requirements must be completed by the end of its semester of registration and prior to CEE 9031 registration. Prerequisite: Consent of chairperson.