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Following are the Graduate Courses offered by the Department of Civil Engineering.

MASTER'S DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

A. Core Courses: Given below for all specializations with the course codes.

B. Credits.

Option A: 24 credit hours and a thesis (no need of credits for thesis), or
Option B: 30 credit hours and a project, or
Option C: 27 credit hours and 3 credit hours for project.
For all the above options, at least half of the credit hours must be in higher than 600-level courses including CE project.

I: TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

CE 531: Transportation Facilities Design & Operations

"A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets", by AASHTO (2001).

You can bring Geometric Design of Highways Text Book by Khanna and Justo for some references.

CE 539: Transportation Systems Design

Course Notes: "Transportation Systems Design--CE 539 Course Notes", by Prof. Stamatiadis are available for download.

CE 631: Urban Transportation Planning

Required Text: Urban Transportation Planning by Michael D.Meyer and Eric J. Miller, second edition, 2001

CE 634: Traffic Characteristics

Required Text: Taylor, M.A., P.W.Bomsall and W.Young (2000). Understanding Traffic systems: Data, Analysis and Presentation, 2^nd Edition, Ashgate Publishing, England

May, A. (1990) Traffic Flow Fundamentals, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

Daganzo, C. (1997) Fundamentals of Transportation and Traffic Operations, Pergamon-Elsevier, Oxford, UK.

CE 635: Issues on Highway Safety

Course Notes: .Issues on Highway Safety Course Notes", by Prof. Stamatiadis are available for download

CE 533: Railroad Facilities Design and Analysis

Required Text: W.W. Hay, Railroad Engineering, 2nd Edition. Wiley Interscience (1982).

CE 599 . 002: Topics in CE: Railway Operations Management

Required Text: J.H. Armstrong, The Railroad: What It Is What It Does, 4th Edition, Simmons- Boardman (1998).

***Any one Statistics Course: STA 570 preferred.

II: WATER RESOURSES AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

CE 546: Fluvial Hydraulics

Required Text: Design Hydrology and Sedimentology for Small Catchments, Edition: 1^st Author(s): Haan, C.t., B.J. Barfield

CE 549: Engineering Hydraulics

Required Text: Handbook of Hydraulics, Edition: 7^th Author(s): Brater, Ernest F

CE 641: Mechanics of Liquid Flow in Pipes

Required text: Bruce E. Larock, Roland W. Jeppson, Gary Z. Watters, Hydraulics of Pipeline Systems by CRC Press.

CE 642: Open-Channel Flow/Book and Disk

Required Text: Edition: w/ disk Author(s): Chaudhry, M. Hanif

F.M. Henderson, Open Channel Flow by Prentice-Hall.

CE 652: Fundamentals of Water Quality Control II

Required Text: Bruce E. Ritmann, Perry L.M. Carty, Environmental Biotechnology: Principles and Applications, by McGraw Hill.

CE 653: Principles of Surface Water: Quality Modeling and Control

Required Text: Edition: 1^st Author(s): Thomann, Robert V.

III: CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AND ENGINEERING

CE 503: Fundamentals of Construction Estimating (Book with CD-ROM)

Required Text: Edition: 2^nd Author(s): Pratt, David J

CE 505: Construction Project Planning and Administration

Course Notes: Provided by the Instructor

CE 599: Construction Accounting

Course Material: Provided by the Instructor

CE 601: Construction Equipment

Course Notes: Provided by the Instructor

CE 602: Advanced Construction Project Management

Text Book and Material: Provided by the Instructor

CE 605: New Engineering Enterprises

Text Book: Provided by the Instructor

CE 699: Construction Law (Elective)

Course Material: Provided by the Instructor

IV: STRUTURAL ENGINEERING

CE 486G: Reinforced Concrete Structures

Course Notes: Provided by the Instructor

CE 487G: Steel Structures

Required Text: Fundamentals of Structural Analysis: by Kenneth M. Leet & Chia-Ming Uang

CE 582: Advanced Structural Analysis

Required Text: Edition: 2^nd Author(s): Kassimali, Aslam

CE 589: Designs of Structural Systems

There is no book for this course because this course helps in learning new software related to Structures like Staad Pro, Ram Steel, Conspan and Simon.

CE 682: Advanced Structural Analysis

Required Text: Edition: 2^nd Author(s): Kassimali, Aslam

CE 686: Advanced Reinforced Concrete Theory

Required Text: Reinforced Concrete Mechanics and Design by James Macgregor.

Notes will be provided by the Instructor

CE 783: Structural Finite Element Analysis

Finite Element Procedures by Klaus-Jurgen Bathe àPreferred to buy from India if interested in taking this course.

Helpful Books:

Strength of Materials by Ramamurtham or Any book used in Undergrad, Advanced structural Mechanics by Boresi and Schmidt available in Library, and Book used for Reinforced Concrete Design and Steel Design in Undergrad.

V: GEO-TECHNICAL ENGINEERING

CE 471G: Advanced Soil Mechanics