Program Overview

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Joint Civil Engineering Program

The Joint Civil Engineering program offers a comprehensive curriculum that covers various aspects of civil engineering, including design, analysis, and problem-solving. The program is designed to provide students with a strong foundation in civil engineering principles and practices.

Courses

The program includes a range of courses that cover topics such as:

• Introduction to Engineering Design: CAD & GIS
• Surveying
• Computer Methods of Engineering Analysis
• Civil Engineering Materials Lab
• Structural Analysis
• Structural Design
• Civil Engineering Design CAD & GIS
• Transportation Engineering
• Water and Wastewater Treatment
• Hydraulic Engineering
• Independent Study
• Soil Mechanics
• Soil Exploration and Testing
• Highway and Traffic Engineering
• Design of Steel Structures
• Foundation Engineering
• Advanced Design of Concrete Structures
• Structural Design Projects
• Construction Operations and Management
• Economic Decisions in Engineering
• Fundamentals of Surface Water Hydrology and Environmental Engineering
• Hydrology and Hydraulic Design Project
• Fundamentals of Civil Engineering Review
• Senior Civil Engineering Seminar

Course Descriptions

Introduction to Engineering Design: CAD & GIS

This course introduces students to engineering design in the context of civil engineering problems and applications. Students learn the basics of GIS and computer-aided design and drafting concepts and techniques.

Surveying

This course covers horizontal and vertical control surveys, including traverses, triangulation, trilateration, and leveling. It also introduces basic adjustments of observations and geologic data.

Computer Methods of Engineering Analysis

This course provides an introduction to engineering design and analysis utilizing numerical methods, spreadsheet functions, and database queries.

Civil Engineering Materials Lab

This course covers testing procedures, testing machines, use of laboratory equipment, analysis of data, and presentation of results. Laboratory tests on static tension, compression, bending, and torsion of metal specimens are also included.

Structural Analysis

This course reviews the calculation of reactions, shear, and bending moment. It also covers the definition, construction, and use of influence lines, as well as the analysis of statically indeterminate trusses.

Structural Design

This course covers the fundamentals of structural design in steel, reinforced concrete, and timber. It also introduces students to the sources of various design codes and practice in interpreting them.

Civil Engineering Design CAD & GIS

This course provides an introduction to engineering design in the context of civil engineering. Students learn to utilize computer-aided design software and GIS software to develop techniques for civil engineering design and problem-solving.

Transportation Engineering

This course covers the fundamental treatment of the planning, engineering, design, and procedural aspects of multimodal transportation.

Water and Wastewater Treatment

This course applies the basic principles of chemistry, microbiology, and fluid mechanics to the analysis of environmental problems, especially those involving control of water and land contamination.

Hydraulic Engineering

This course discusses the principles of open channel flow and illustrates them with practical examples. It also presents methods for channel design, storm sewer, culvert, and bridge analysis.

Independent Study

This course allows students to conduct an independent investigation of a civil engineering topic of special interest under the direction of a faculty member.

Soil Mechanics

This course covers basic geology as it relates to index and classification properties of soil. It also explores exploration, sampling, and testing techniques.

Soil Exploration and Testing

This course covers soil exploration, in-situ soil testing, laboratory testing of soil, processing of test data, and statistical analysis of test data.

Highway and Traffic Engineering

This course studies basic highway design and traffic circulation principles. It also investigates functional highway classification and traffic volume, delay, and accident studies.

Design of Steel Structures

This course covers the behavior and design of steel frames by 'allowable stress' and 'maximum strength' based on deterministic and LRFD (Load-resistance factor design) methods.

Foundation Engineering

This course covers the principal problems in design and construction of foundations for bridges and buildings. It also discusses bearing capacity, pressure on retaining walls, and slope stability.

Advanced Design of Concrete Structures

This course covers flexural behavior and design, strength and deformation of rectangular and nonrectangular sections, shear strength, beam-columns, long columns, slab systems, and design of frames and footings.

Structural Design Projects

This course allows students to carry out the complete design of typical and unusual building and bridge structures. It emphasizes the use of the computer as a design tool.

Construction Operations and Management

This course covers the construction industry, its development, components, and organization. It also discusses contracting methods, applications, and limitations.

Economic Decisions in Engineering

This course examines the principles of economics involved in engineering decisions. It looks at decisions between alternatives based on the efficient allocation of resources.

Fundamentals of Surface Water Hydrology and Environmental Engineering

This course discusses the principles of the hydrologic cycle, including precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, infiltration, runoff, streamflow, and groundwater.

Hydrology and Hydraulic Design Project

This course provides seniors in Hydrology and Hydraulics with a major design/facility plan project. It applies the principles of hydrologic and hydraulic design to develop the hydrology, hydraulics, and floodplain analysis for a local watershed or land area.

Fundamentals of Civil Engineering Review

This course reviews and prepares students for the most recent NCEES Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Exam specifications for Civil Engineering students.

Senior Civil Engineering Seminar

This course allows students to research assigned topics of importance to graduates entering the Civil Engineering profession. It includes oral presentations and a written report, as well as lectures from practicing professionals.