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Course Schedule—Fall 2005

Civil Engineering

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CIVIL ENGINEERING

560.201 (E,N)

STATICS AND MECHANICS OF MATERIALS (4) Graham-Brady Limit 50   Freshmen by permission only
Co-listed with 530.201

Sec. 01

MTW 3

560.305 (E)

SOIL MECHANICS (4) Anandarajah  Limit 30 Prereq: 560.206   

Sec. 01

MTW 11 10, F 1-4

560.325 (E)

CONCRETE STRUCTURES (3) Igusa   Limit 25    Prereq: 560.301

Sec. 01

MTW 9

560.349 (E)

DESIGN & SYNTHESIS I (2) Russo/Vigener  Senior status or Perm. Req'd.

Sec. 01

Th 4-6:30pm

560.435 (E)

PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING (3) Igusa Prereq: (110.109) Calculus II Development and applications of the analysis of uncertainty, including basic probability, statistics and decision theory, in civil engineering areas of soil mechanics, structures, transportation and water resources.

Sec. 01

MTW 12

560.445 (E)

ADVANCED STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS (3) Staff 
Prereq: 560.301     Matrix methods for the analysis of statically indeterminate framed structures such as beams, plane trusses, space trusses, plane frames, grids and space frames.  Stiffness and flexibility methods.
Course canceled 08/22/05

Sec. 01

MTW 11

560.491 (E)

CIVIL ENGINEERING SEMINAR FOR JUNIORS (0.5) Staff    Limit 75

Sec. 01

T 4

560.493 (E)

CIVIL ENGINEERING SEMINARS FOR SENIORS (0.5) Staff    Limit 75

Sec. 01

T 4

560.525

INDEPENDENT STUDY

   

560.535

RESEARCH

   

560.691

GRADUATE SEMINAR Staff

Sec. 01

T 4

540.667

ENGINEERING MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS Paulaitis

Cross-listed with Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering,, and Mechanical Engineering

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm, W 3-6pm

560.729

STRUCTURAL MECHANICS Arwade   Basic solid mechanics for structural engineers.  Stress, strain and constitutive laws.  Linear elasticity and viscoelasticity.  Introduction to nonlinear mechanics.  Static, dynamic and thermal stresses.  Specialization of theory to one- and two-dimensional cases: plane stress and plane strain, rods, and beams.  Work and energy principles; variational formulations. 

Sec. 01

MW 4-5:15

560.730

FINITE ELEMENT METHODS Anandarajah   Limit 15 30  Perm. Req’d Co-listed with Mechanical Engineering

Sec. 01

MW 2:30-4

560.734

ADVANCED PROBABILITY & STATISTICS Brady  Prereq: 560.435 or introductory course in probability and statistics. Course canceled 8/22/05

Sec. 01

MW 1-2:30

560.752

STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS Schafer     Brief review of rigid-body dynamics.  Lagrange’s equations and Hamilton’s principal.  Free and deterministic forced vibration of undamped and damped single and multi-degree-of-freedom systems.  Vibration of continuous systems.  Approximate methods of analysis.  Introduction to random vibration of linear systems.

Sec. 01

MW 10-11:30

560.781

INTRODUCTION TO WATER WAVE MECHANICS Dalrymple     The theories governing water waves are discussed. Linear waves will be explored in detail. Aspects of non-linear waves will be presented.

Sec. 01

MW 4:30-6pm

560.782

HYDRODYNAMICS Shen
This course covers fundamentals of hydrodynamics with applications in ocean science and engineering. Topics include fluids transport, elementary potential flows, method of conformal mapping, Green’s theorem, hydrodynamic forces in potential flows, free-surface flows, ship and ocean waves, air-sea interactions, boundary layers, flow past bluff bodies, vortex shedding and vortex-induced vibrations, scaling laws and model testing.

Sec. 01

Th 4-7pm 5-8pm

560.835

GRADUATE RESEARCH

   

 

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