2008-2009 Catalog - United States Air Force Academy

Suggested Course Sequence
3rd-Class Year 2nd-Class Year 1st-Class Year
Chem 200 Academy/BasSci Opt Astro Engr 410
Civ Engr 330 Aero Engr 315 Civ Engr 351 (Summer)
Civ Engr 362 Beh Sci 310 Civ Engr 369
Econ 201 Biology 315 Civ Engr 463
English 211 Civ Engr 361 Civ Engr 467
Engr Mech 220 Civ Engr 368 Civ Engr 468
Law 220 Civ Engr 390 Civ Engr 469
Math 243 El Engr 231 Civ Engr 480
Math 245 Engineering Opt English 411
MSS 200 History 302 MSS 400
Physics 215 Math 356 Philos 310
Pol Sci 211 Sys Opt Engr 311 Soc Sci 412
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING (Civ Engr)
Offered by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Civ Engr 330. Elementary Structural Analysis. Static analysis of determinate structures: stresses and deformations in
beams, trusses, and frames.
Civ Engr 351. Civil Engineering Practices - Field Engineering. This two-phase course includes Operation Civil
Engineering Air Force (OpsCEAF) and a three-week field experience at the Academy Field Engineering and Readiness
Laboratory (FERL). Second-class cadets spend first period at a government facility working on a project in the civil engineering
field. Participants will be scheduled for a second or third period summer leadership program. The three-week field experience
introduces surveying, construction materials, design of concrete mixes, and hands-on construction using metal, timber, asphalt
and concrete and working knowledge of environmental systems. Students will construct various projects that they will design
in later civil and environmental engineering courses. OpsCEAF is in lieu of Operation Air Force (Mil Tng 301).
Civ Engr 361. Fundamental Hydraulics. Application of the principles of incompressible fluid mechanics. Topics include:
fluid properties, manometry, forces on submerged bodies, open channel flow, and conduit flow. Impulse momentum, energy
methods, Hardy-Cross method for balancing flows in distribution systems and sewer design are also covered.
Civ Engr 362. Introduction to Environmental Engineering. Fundamental theory, principles and preliminary design of
unit operations in environmental engineering. Topics include air and water pollution, municipal and hazardous waste treatment,
water chemistry, microbiology, mass balance, reactor theory and kinetics, and physical process theory.
Civ Engr 368. Ground and Surface Water Hydrology and Contaminant Transport. Comprehensive introduction to
groundwater and surface water hydrology. Contaminant transport of hazardous chemicals in groundwater is also covered.
Topics include: hazardous chemicals, environmental regulations, groundwater flow, well hydraulics, transport of contaminants
in the subsurface environment, hydrologic cycle, surface water hydrology, hydrographs, rational method for storm water runoff,
and storm water collection system design.
Civ Engr 369. Introduction to Air Pollution. In-depth introduction into air pollution covering such topics as the causes,
sources and effects of air pollution. Topics include: legislative standards (ambient and source) for pollutants, regional and
global air pollution issues, environmental health, indoor air pollution, noise, air pollution instrumentation and gas flow
measurements, basic meteorology, and dispersion modeling. The course work involves several laboratory exercises.
Civ Engr 390. Introduction to Soil Mechanics. Engineering properties of soils, soil classification, permeability,
consolidation, compaction and shear strength and applications to engineering design. Soils laboratories and reports.
Civ Engr 405. Civil Engineering Seminar. Designed to give civil engineering majors the opportunity to synthesize and
apply the concepts they have learned throughout their undergraduate education. Topics discussed include engineering ethics
and those that cadets may encounter in the Air Force after graduation.
Civ Engr 463. Wastewater Treatment Plant Design. Design of facilities for physical, chemical, and biological treatment
of wastewater, and treatment and disposal of sludge. Coverage of advanced wastewater treatment and land treatment systems.
Laboratory exercises analyzing raw sewage with data being used for the design processes.
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