The following courses, numbered 5000-9999, are offered for graduate credit. Courses numbered 5000-6999 which are offered for undergraduate credit only may be found in the undergraduate bulletin, as well as all other undergraduate courses (numbered 0900-4999). Courses in the following list numbered 5000-6999 may be taken for undergraduate credit unless specifically restricted to graduate students as indicated by individual course limitations. For interpretation of numbering system, signs and abbreviations, see University Courses.
Prereq: C E 4210. Fundamentals of chemical principles and their application to unit operations and processes encountered in the treatment of water and waste water. Material fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (B)
Prereq: C E 4210. Open only to students enrolled in professional engineering programs. Analysis and design of water supply and wastewater treatment systems; water distribution systems; treatment of municipal water supplies, including sedimentation, softening, filtration and disinfection; design of sanitary and storm sewers; primary, secondary and tertiary treatment plant design; sludge handling. Material fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (Y)
Prereq: M E 3400, C E 4400. Dynamic properties of structures,. Modeling of dynamic loads. Structural response to dynamic loading. Structural design requirements for dynamic loads. Fundamental techniques of dynamic system analysis. (W)
Prereq: C E 4400 or M E 5600. Matrix structural analysis, discretization of continuous structural systems, stress analysis. Commercial finite element software preprocessing for developing finite element models; postprocessing for evaluating analysis results. (F)
Prereq: senior standing in science or engineering discipline. Design, maintenance and operation of fuel-cell power generating facilities; handling of waste materials and waste disposal system design; design, construction, and operation of the infrastructure needed to transport hydrogen. (F)
Prereq: senior standing in science or engineering discipline. Discussion of current alternative energy technology applications, emerging developments, national programs and priorities, future prospects, tax incentive programs, economics of scale issues, interrelationship between fixed costs and variable costs. (W)
Prereq: C E 4510. Site investigation, site improvement, bearing capacity and settlement of shallow foundations, axial capacity and lateral deflection of deep foundations, design of conventional earth retaining walls, and basics of slope stability analyses. (F)
Prereq: C E 4510. Lateral earthpressure theories, design of conventional earth-retaining walls and of reinforced earth walls, anchored sheet-pile walls and cofferdams, fundamentals of soft-ground tunneling, two- and three-dimensional slope stability analyses, and static design of earth dams. (B)
Prereq: C E 4640. Application of standards, theory and practice in design of streets and highways. Design of streets and highways including cross section elements, shoulder and roadside features. Pavement design and rehabilitation work. (Y)
Open only to seniors and graduate students. Business of contracting, construction, liabilities of owner, architect, engineer and contractor. Rights in land, boundaries and foundations. Case studies. Material fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (F)
Prereq: C E 4850. Defining the engineering company, creating the organization, support services, business development, project management, scheduling, budgeting and profitability, operations, financial management and risk management. (T)
Prereq: consent of chairperson. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes . (I)
Prereq: C E 4850 or consent of instructor. An introduction to the organization and management of design and construction firms. Organizational and managerial theories. Problems of organization management, operation and control of engineering systems, case studies. Material fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (W)
Prereq: C E 4850. Estimating construction costs of engineering projects including materials, manhours, equipment and overhead. Emphasis on construction equipment, including productivity and planning. Bidding and bid documents. (B)
Prereq: C E 4450. Construction techniques and methods for excavation, foundations, concrete, wood, steel, masonry, heavy construction, wastewater treatment plants, highways and roads, high rise structures, bridges, and tunnelling projects. (B)
Prereq: C E 3250 or equiv. Theoretical development of equations governing flow in open channels. Application to real-world engineering problems involving water surface profiles, flood studies, and river.
(W)
Prereq: C E 6130. Principles of surface water hydrology and their application for evaluation of floods and the design of surface runoff control system; watershed characteristics; design storms and SCS methods; unit hydrographs; hydrologic models; application of computer methods. (B)
Prereq: C E 3250. Historical background, aquifers and aquitards, saturated and unsaturated flow, sources of ground water contamination, artificial recharge of ground water, development of ground water basins and efficient use of ground water resources. (Y)
Prereq: C E 4210. Engineering design and development within sustainability constraints; theoretical, regulatory, and practical implications; Detroit and global applications. (Y)
Prereq: C E 4410. Effect of axial loads on stiffness of flexural members. Buckling of trusses and rigid frames. Matrix method of analysis. Complex structures. Computer applications. (F)
Prereq: C E 4420. Concepts, procedures, methods of design and condition evaluation for modern highway bridges, according to current specifications. Entire system is covered, including superstructure, substructure, and their connections. (B)
Prereq: C E 4420. Theory and design of two-way slabs, footings, retaining walls, shear walls, and composite beams using ultimate strength design. Precast and prestressed concrete fundamentals.
(W)
Prereq: C E 4420. Advanced topics of structural steel design: thin walled rolled and built-up members, beam columns, lateral torsional buckling, steel fatigue design, connection details. Steel design project. (W)
Introduction to the role of transportation in the planning process involving both regional and urban considerations. (Y)
Prereq: C E 4510. Properties and test methods for natural and synthetic materials used in landfills; analysis of chemical interactions, flow mechanisms, stability and settlement for the design of landfill components. (Y)
Prereq: C E 4640. Principles and practices of pavement management at the network and project level: serviceability, pavement design models, economic analysis, and priority programming. (Y)
Prereq: C E 6010 or consent of instructor. Safety problems in the construction industry and their technical and managerial solutions, construction accident and failure analysis and control. Safety program design and implementation with TQM integration. (Y)
Prereq: B E 3220, C E 4995, or equiv. Uncertainty in civil engineering practice (e.g., loads, traffic, water demand, construction quality). Reliability theory based on probabilistic and statistical methods. Reliability-based engineering design and decision making. (B)
Prereq: C E 4210 or consent of instructor. Water resource and planning. Application of probability and operation research techniques for planning of water resources including engineering analysis, economic objective and water resource principles. (B)
Prereq: C E 6190. Analytical and numerical models of groundwater hydraulics and contaminant transport. Application of theoretical material developed in C E 6190. Case studies of model applications to real field problems. (Y)
Prereq: C E 4210. Theoretical aspects and applications of various operations and processes of importance in pollution and control including sedimentation, flotation, coagulation, softening and filtration through granular media. Material fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (B)
Prereq: C E 4200 or consent of instructor. A study of the sources of specific industrial waste waters and their treatability by physical, chemical and biological processes, including the industries' obligation in the prevention of stream pollution. Problems and solutions involved in combined treatment of industrial and domestic waste waters. Material fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (B)
Prereq: C E 4210 or consent of instructor. Principles and mechanisms governing the rate and transport of conventional and toxic pollutants in natural water; mathematical modeling of water quality in surface water systems; model applications for managing waste loads in lakes and rivers. (I)
Prereq: C E 6330 or consent of instructor. Theory of bending and torsion of bars, beams on elastic foundations. Introduction to theory of thin plates. Linear elastic fracture mechanics, application to brittle solids. (F)
Prereq: C E 5350 or consent of instructor. Dynamic analysis of civil engineering structures, lumped-mass and distributed mass systems, linear and non-linear systems, approximate methods of analysis, computer applications, seismic design of buildings. (B)
Prereq: C E 5370. Advanced topics in finite element analysis; stability analysis and vibrations of structural systems. Modeling of complex structures, dynamic analysis, nonlinear structural problems. Computer applications (W)
Prereq: C E 6370, 6410. Methods of determining deficiencies of existing structures, experimental assessment/appraisal of structures, analytical computer assessment/appraisal of existing structures, upgrade methodology of existing structures. (Y)
Prereq: C E 4350, 4450. Nondestructive testing methods applicable to appraisal of structures and materials; visual, optical, holographic imaging; magnetic flux, eddy current, acoustic, ultrasonic techniques. Laboratory applications. (Y)
Prereq: C E 4450 or consent of instructor. Infrastructure problems. Advanced fiber reinforced plastics, including applications in primary/secondary and marine structures, and in rehabilitation. High performance fiber reinforced concrete. Controlled composite properties via composite design. Review of composite analysis and failure criteria based on micromechanics and laminate theory. (B)
Prereq: C E 5510, 5520, or consent of instructor. Overview of experimental methods in geotechnical engineering, instrumentation and data acquisition methods, statistical analysis of test data, tests and theories for settlement predictions, tests and theories for hydraulic conductivity determination, tests and theories for static and cyclic stress-strain-volume change behavior of soils. (B)
Prereq: C E 5510 or 5520. Applications of finite difference methods to short- and long-term settlement analyses, applications of finite element methods to static and dynamic analyses of soil-structure interaction systems, and applications of boundary element methods in geotechnical engineering. (B)
Prereq: C E 4510 or consent of instructor. Fundamental theories and numerical techniques for vibration analysis and their application to solution of dynamic and earthquake problems in geotechnical engineering. (B)
Prereq: C E 4510 or consent of instructor. Stress-strain and volume-change behavior of sands and clays for both drained and undrained loading conditions, to gain insight in mechanical behavior of foundation soils. Material fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (B)
Prereq: C E 5510, 5520, or consent of instructor. Theories of plasticity and rigid plasticity, theoretical backgrounds in state of the art elastoplastic stress-strain-strength models of soils for both static and cyclic loading conditions, numerical implementation of such models to boundary-value problems, and lower- and upper- bound solutions in geotechnical engineering. (Y)
Prereq: C E 4510. Fundamental principles for testing, design, and construction of geosynthetics in civil engineering applications. (B)
Prereq: C E 4510 or equiv. or consent of instructor. Site assessment; soil and groundwater investigation for remediation; application of remediation technologies; legislation related to remediation. (Y)
Prereq: C E 4640. Safety aspects of streets and highways; planning, design, implementation and evaluation of highway safety improvement projects and programs. Highway risk analysis and risk management systems. Material fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (B)
Prereq: C E 4640. Traffic flow theories, macroscopic and microscopic models of traffic control, statistical analysis; design and application of intelligent transportation systems on traffic flow characteristics; evaluation. Material fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (Y)
Prereq: C E 4600. Planning and analysis of urban transportation, travel demand models, land use planning and public transportation; household and origin-destination survey techniques; and demand elasticities multicriteria evaluation. Material fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (F)
Prereq: C E 4850 or I E 5870. Application of engineering economy and price theory in optimization of transportation systems; analysis of congestion costs, externalities, primary and secondary costs and benefits; evaluation of alternatives and completed projects and programs. Material fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (Y)
Prereq: C E 7620. Analysis and design of traffic signal systems. Hardware, communication and detection systems associated with microcomputer-based signal systems. Coordinated signal systems.
(B)
Prereq: graduate standing. Advanced topics including: planning, design, operation, maintenance, scheduling, marketing and institution aspects; presented by established researchers and professionals. (B)
Prereq: C E 6010 or consent of instructor. Planning and scheduling of construction projects, project networks and critical path methods, resource levelling, use of Primavera software. (Y)
Prereq: C E 6010 or consent of instructor. Buildings and grounds operations and maintenance, planning design and construction, facilities economics and financing, real estate administration, environmental health and safety, health issues. (W)
Prereq: C E 6010. Construction financial management, construction accounting systems, analysis of financial statements, monitoring and controlling construction costs, managing overhead costs, markup, profit center analysis, cash flows for construction projects, financing, making financial decisions. (B)
Prereq: written consent of adviser, chairperson and engineering graduate officer for master's students; written consent of adviser, chairperson and Dean of Graduate Studies for Ph.D. students. (T)
Prereq: consent of instructor. A consideration of special subject matter in civil engineering. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes . (I)
Prereq: consent of adviser and chairperson. (T)
Prereq: consent of adviser. (T)
Prereq: consent of department. For Ph.D. program applicants. Offered for S and U grades only. Research in preparation for doctoral dissertation. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; Ph.D. candidate in department. Required in academic-year semester following advancement to Ph.D. candidacy. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; C E 9991. Required in academic-year semester following C E 9991. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; C E 9992. Required in academic-year semester following C E 9992. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; C E 9993. Required in academic-year semester following C E 9993. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; completion of 30 credits in C E 9999, or 9991-9994. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of doctoral adviser. Offered for S and U grades only. Maximum of ten credits may be elected before doctoral candidacy is obtained. (T)