2009-2010 Bulletin – PDF - SEAS Bulletin - Columbia University

will engage in a joint project that addresses habitability
and sustainability issues in an urban environment
and also provides community service.
Emphasis will be on the integration of science,
engineering, and design within a social context.
Interdisciplinary approaches and communication
will be stressed. The studio can be used as a
replacement for the capstone design project in
CEEM water resources/environmental engineering
concentration, or the undergraduate design
project in Earth and Environmental Engineering.
CIEN E6131x Quantitative infrastructure risk
management
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Chiara.
Prerequisite: IEOR E4003 or CIEN E4133, or the
equivalent. Core concepts of risk analysis, risk
mitigation, and quantitative risk management
applied to civil infrastructure systems. State of
art of simulation applied to infrastructure risk
management during construction and operation.
Public Private Partnership (PPP) risk management:
identification, quantification, mitigation of
risks in transportation and energy PPP systems.
Risk management during construction using the
envelop method.
CIEN 6132y Advanced systems and technologies
for global project collaboration
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Taylor.
Prerequisite: CIEN E4129 or the equivalent.
Systems and technologies that support collaborative
work in global projects. Information technologies
for design, visualization, project management,
and collaboration in globally distributed networks of
design, fabrication, and construction organizations,
including Web-based, parametric computer-aided
modeling, project organizational simulation, and
other emerging applications. Global team project
with students at collaborating universities abroad.
CIEN E6133y Advanced construction and
infrastructure risk management using reel
options
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Chiara.
Prerequisite: CIEN E6131. Advanced concepts of
risk analysis and management applied to civil engineering
systems. Identifying and valuing flexibility
in construction and operation. Tools to perform risk
analysis in flexible civil infrastructure systems.
Valuation methods for real options. Risk flexibility
analysis: integrating real options analysis with
quantitative risk analysis. Applications to case
studies on construction management, life-cycle
cost analysis for infrastructure assets, publicprivate
partnerships projects, real estate developments,
and renewable energy infrastructure projects.
CIEN E6246y Advanced soil mechanics
Lect: 2.5. 3 pts. Not given in 2009–2010.
Prerequisite: CIEN E3141. Stress-dilatancy of
sand; failure criteria; critical state soil mechanics;
limit analysis; finite element method and case
histories of consolidation analysis.
CIEN E6248x Experimental soil mechanics
Lect: 2.5. 3 pts. Not given in 2009–2010.
Prerequisite: CIEN E3141. Advanced soil testing,
including triaxial and plane strain compression
tests; small-strain measurement. Model testing;
application (of test results) to design.
CIEN E9101x and y, and s Civil engineering
research
1 to 4 pts. By conference. The faculty.
Advanced study in a specialized field under the
supervision of a member of the department staff.
Before registering, the student must submit an
outline of the proposed work for approval of the
supervisor and the department chair.
CIEN E9120x and y, and s Independent
studies in flight sciences
3 pts. By conference. Professor Vaicaitis.
Prerequisite: The instructor’s permission. This
course is geared toward students interested in
flight sciences and flight structures. Topics related
to aerodynamics, propulsion, noise, structural
dynamics, aeroelasticity, and structures may be
selected for supervised study. A term paper will
be required.
CIEN E9130x and y, and s Independent
studies in construction
3 pts. By conference. Professor Wilson.
Prerequisite: Department chair’s and instructor’s
permission. Independent study of engineering and
construction industry problems. Topics related to
capital planning and financing, project management,
contracting strategies and risk allocation,
dispute mitigation and resolution, and infrastructure
assessment and management may be selected
for supervised study. A term paper is required.
CIEN E9165x and y, and s Independent
studies in environmental engineering
4 pts. By conference. The faculty.
Prerequisite: CIEN E4252 or the equivalent.
Emphasizes a one-on-one study approach to
specific environmental engineering problems.
Students develop papers or work on design problems
pertaining to the treatment of solid and liquid
waste, contaminant migration, and monitoring and
sampling programs for remediation design.
CIEN E9201x and y, and s Civil engineering
reports
1 to 4 pts. By conference. The faculty.
A project on some civil engineering subject
approved by the chairman.
CIEN E9800x and y, and s Doctoral research
instruction
3, 6, 9, or 12 pts. The staff.
A candidate for the Eng.Sc.D. degree in civil
“engineering must register for 12 points of doctoral
research instruction. Registration in CIEN E9800
may not be used to satisfy the minimum residence
requirement for the degree.
CIEN E9900x and y, and s Doctoral dissertation
The staff.
A candidate for the doctorate may be required
to register for this course every term after the
student’s course work has been completed and
until the dissertation has been accepted.
COURSES IN ENGINEERING
MECHANICS
See also Civil Engineering.
ENME-MECE E3105x or y Mechanics
Lect: 4. 4 pts. Professors Betti and Hone.
Prerequisites: PHYS C1402 and MATH V1101-
V1102 and V1201. Elements of statics; dynamics
of a particle and systems of particles; dynamics
of rigid bodies.
ENME E3106x Dynamics and vibrations
Lect: 2. 3 pts. Professor Smyth.
Prerequisite: MATH E1210. Corequisite: ENME
E3105. Kinematics of rigid bodies; momentum
and energy methods; vibrations of discrete and
continuous systems; eigen-value problems; natural
frequencies and modes. Basics of computer
simulation of dynamic problems using MATLAB
or Mathematica.
ENME E3113x Mechanics of solids
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Yin.
Stress, stress resultants, equilibrium.
Deformation. Material behavior in two dimensions.
Thermal stresses. Problems in flexure and
torsion, pressure vessels. Buckling.
ENME E3114y Experimental mechanics of
materials
Lect: 2. Lab: 3. 4 pts. Professor Yin.
Prerequisite: ENME E3113. Material behavior and
constitutive relations. Mechanical properties of
metals and cement composites. Cement hydration.
Modern construction materials. Experimental
investigation of material properties and behavior
of structural elements, including fracture, fatigue,
bending, torsion, and buckling.
ENME E3161x Fluid mechanics
Lect: 3. Lab: 3. 4 pts. Professor Waisman.
Prerequisites: ENME E3105 and ordinary differential
equations. Fluid statics. Fundamental principles
and concepts of flow analysis. Differential
and finite control volume approach to flow analysis.
Dimensional analysis. Application of flow
analysis: flow in pipes, external flow, flow in open
channels.
ENME E4113x Advanced mechanics of solids
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Yin.
Stress and deformation formulation in two- and
three-dimensional solids; viscoelastic and plastic
material in one and two dimensions.
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SEAS 2009–2010