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and through artificial conduits and storage/treatment systems. Analytical and numerical
prediction methods. Prerequisites: Civil Engineering 122L and Mathematics 111 or
equivalents. Instructor: Medina. 3 units.
246. Water Supply Engineering Design. The study of water resources and municipal water
requirements including reservoirs, transmission, treatment and distribution systems;
methods of collection, treatment, and disposal of municipal and industrial wastewaters. The
course includes the preparation of a comprehensive engineering report encompassing all
aspects of municipal water and wastewater systems. Field trips to be arranged. Prerequisite:
Civil Engineering 124L or consent of instructor. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
247. Air Pollution Control Engineering. The problems of air pollution with reference to
public health and environmental effects. Measurement and meteorology. Air pollution
control engineering: mechanical, chemical, and biological processes and technologies.
Instructor: Peirce. 3 units.
248. Solid Waste Engineering. Engineering design of material and energy recovery
systems including traditional and advanced technologies. Sanitary landfills and incineration
of solid wastes. Application of systems analysis to collection of municipal refuse. Major
design project in solid waste management. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 124L or consent
of instructor. Instructor: Staff. 3 units. C-L: Environment 248
249. Control of Hazardous and Toxic Waste. Engineering solutions to industrial and
municipal hazardous waste problems. Handling, transportation, storage, and disposal
technologies. Biological, chemical, and physical processes. Upgrading abandoned disposal
sites. Economic and regulatory aspects. Case studies. Consent of instructor required.
Instructor: Peirce. 3 units.
250. Environmental Microbiology. Fundamentals of microbiology and biochemistry as
they apply to environmental engineering. General topics include cell chemistry, microbial
metabolism, bioenergetics, microbial ecology and pollutant biodegradation. Prerequisites:
CE124L or graduate standing or consent of the instructor. Instructor: Gunsch. 3 units.
251. Engineering Analysis and Computational Mechanics. Mathematical formulation
and numerical analysis of engineering systems with emphasis on applied mechanics.
Equilibrium and eigenvalue problems of discrete and distributed systems; properties of these
problems and discretization of distributed systems in continua by the trial functions with
undetermined parameters. The use of weighted residual methods, finite elements, and finite
differences. Prerequisite: senior or graduate standing. Instructor: Dolbow and Laursen. 3
units.
252. Buckling of Engineering Structures. An introduction to the underlying concepts of
elastic stability and buckling, development of differential equation and energy approaches,
buckling of common engineering components including link models, struts, frames, plates,
and shells. Consideration will also be given to inelastic behavior, postbuckling, and design
implications. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 131L or consent of instructor. Instructor:
Virgin. 3 units. C-L: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science 252
254. Introduction to the Finite Element Method. Investigation of the finite element
method as a numerical technique for solving linear ordinary and partial differential
equations, using rod and beam theory, heat conduction, elastostatics and dynamics, and
advective/diffusive transport as sample systems. Emphasis placed on formulation and
programming of finite element models, along with critical evaluation of results. Topics
include: Galerkin and weighted residual approaches, virtual work principles, discretization,
element design and evaluation, mixed formulations, and transient analysis. Prerequisites: a
working knowledge of ordinary and partial differential equations, numerical methods, and
programming in FORTRAN. Instructor: Dolbow and Laursen. 3 units.
255. Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis. Formulation and solution of nonlinear initial/
boundary value problems using the finite element method. Systems include nonlinear heat
conduction/diffusion, geometrically nonlinear solid and structural mechanics applications,
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