2013-2014 Graduate Catalog Downloadable PDF (10.71MB)

380 Course Descriptions/Civil Engineering683. Dynamic Soil Structure Interaction. (3-0). Credit 3. Introduction to basic concepts of wave propagation;soil dynamics; applications to the design of machine foundations; geotechnical earthquake engineering;soil effects on the characteristics of earthquake motions; liquefaction; dynamic stiffness offoundations; seismic soil structure interaction. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.684. Professional Internship. (2-0). Credit 1 to 2. Training under the supervision of practicing professionalengineers in settings appropriate to the student’s professional objectives, away from Texas A&Mcampus. May be taken 2 times for credit. Prerequisites: Approval of the department head and two semestersof graduate work completed.685. Directed Studies. Credit 1 to 12 each semester. Enables majors in civil engineering to undertake andcomplete with credit in their particular fields of specialization limited investigations not within theirthesis research and not covered by other courses in established curriculum.686. Offshore and Coastal Structures. (3-0). Credit 3. Fundamental design and analysis techniques; offshoreplatforms for shallow and deep water, pile supported, gravity based and floating platforms; newdesign problems faced by offshore industry will be examined by class during the semester. Prerequisite:Approval of instructor.687. Foundation Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3. Settlement and bearing capacity analysis of foundations;computer programs used to analyze axially-loaded piles, laterally-loaded piles and sheet-pile walls. Prerequisites:CVEN 365; approval of instructor.688. Computational Fluid Dynamics. (3-0). Credit 3. Finite-difference and finite-element methods andbasic numerical concepts for the solution of dispersion, propagation and equilibrium problems commonlyencountered in real fluid flows; theoretical accuracy analysis techniques. Prerequisites: Undergraduatecourse in fluid mechanics; MATH 601 and/or basic course in linear algebra; knowledge of oneprogramming language.689. Special Topics in... Credit 1 to 4. Selected topics in an identified area of civil engineering. May berepeated for credit. Prerequisites: Approval of instructor and department head.691. Research. Credit 1 or more each semester. Research for thesis or dissertation.695. Frontiers in Civil Engineering Research. Credit 1 to 3. The present status of investigative work ina variety of civil engineering fields; content selected based on visiting lecturers of distinguished internationalrecognition in their fields of research. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.696. Urban Traffic Facilities. (3-0). Credit 3. Driver, vehicle and roadway characteristics related to designand operation of traffic facilities; selection and design of traffic control devices and information systemsfor streets and highways; accident analysis and tort liability related to traffic engineering. Prerequisite:Graduate classification.699. Engineering Risk Analysis. (3-0). Credit 3. Introduction to applications of probability theory, statistics,and decision analysis to civil engineering problems; emphasis on probabilistic modeling andanalysis of civil engineering problems, Bayesian statistics, risk analysis, and decision under uncertainty.Prerequisite: STAT 211 or approval of instructor.710. Civil Engineering Project Finance. (3-0). Credit 3. Fundamentals of financing civil engineeringprojects; Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs); interdependencies between engineering and financingdecisions; equity and debt markets; type of debt instruments: loans vs. bonds; risk identification, quantification,and management; engineering due-diligence; pricing risk premium; hedging using civil engineeringdesign strategies.717. Engineering Project Control. (3-0). Credit 3. Project controls bridge from information-based tophysical-based development processes; includes detailed design, testing of designs, design realization,and preparation of facilities for steady state operations; application of basic project control theories,tools, and methods to development projects. Prerequisite: Graduate classification in civil engineering orindustrial and systems engineering or approval of instructor. Cross-listed with ISEN 642.740. Advanced Constitutive Behavior of Cementitious Materials. (3-0). Credit 3. Advanced multi-scaleconstitutive behavior of cementitious materials, including composite behavior, elasticity, viscoelasticity,aging, free strains, poromechanical behavior, thermal and moisture strains, and thermal, moisture, andionic transport; focus on experimental observation and analytical modeling. Prerequisite: CVEN 343 orCVEN 622 or approval of instructor.