NOTE: 2000 through 4000 level courses are for undergraduate credit only. 5000 through 6000 level courses can be taken for undergraduate as well as graduate credit. 7000 through 9000 level courses are strictly for graduate credit and are not open to undergraduate students.

5220 Environmental Chemistry. Cr. 3
Prereq: senior standing in science or engineering discipline. Fundamentals of aqueous chemistry for
environmental engineers and scientists. Course covers basic chemistry, equilibria, kinetics and
thermodynamics; includes acid/base reactions, precipitation/dissolution, oxidation/reduction reactions and
partitioning. Material fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (B)

5230 Water Supply and Wastewater Engineering. Cr. 4
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)

5350 Introduction to Structural Dynamics. Cr. 4
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)

5370 Finite Element Analysis Fundamentals. Cr. 4
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)

5410 Hydrogen Infrastructure and Alternative Fuel Transportation.(AET 5410) Cr. 4
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)

5420 Alternative Energy Technologies for Various Transportation Modes. (AET 5420) Cr. 4
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)

5510 Geotechnical Engineering I. Cr. 4
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)

5520 Geotechnical Engineering II. Cr. 4
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)

5580 (HWM 5580) Land Disposal of Hazardous Waste. Cr. 2
Prereq: HWM 5510. Industrial landfill, biological methods of disposal, land disposal techniques, ocean
disposal techniques, disposal of flue gas cleaning wastes. (F)

5590 (HWM 5590) Biological Methods of Waste Disposal. Cr. 2
Prereq: HWM 5510. Biological treatment of industrial wastes, including unit operations, solids handling
and activated carbon processes. (F)

5610 Highway Design. Cr. 4
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)

5810 Legal Aspects of Engineering and Construction. Cr. 3
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)

5830 Business of Engineering. Cr. 3
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)

5995 Special Topics in Civil Engineering I. Cr. 1-4
Prereq: consent of chairperson. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes . (I)

6010 Introduction to Construction Management. Cr. 3
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)

6050 Construction Cost Estimating. Cr. 3
Prereq: C E 4850. Estimating construction costs of engineering projects including materials, man-hours,
equipment and overhead. Emphasis on construction equipment, including productivity and planning.
Bidding and bid documents. (B)

6060 Construction Techniques and Methods. Cr. 3
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)

6130 Open Channel Hydraulics. Cr. 4
Principles and practices of pavement management at network and project level: serviceability, pavement design models, economic
analysis and priority modeling

6150 Hydrologic Analysis and Design. Cr. 4
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)

6190 Groundwater. Cr. 4
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)

6270 Environmental Management and Sustainable Development. (HWM 6270) Cr. 4
Prereq: C E 4210. Review Introduction to engineering design and development within sustainability
constraints: theoretical, regulatory and practical implications: Detroit and global applications (Y)

6330 Advanced Structural Analysis. Cr. 4
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)

6340 Bridge Design and Evaluation. Cr. 4
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)

6370 Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design. Cr. 4
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)

6410 Advanced Steel Design. Cr. 4
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)

6525 (U P 6520) Transportation Policy and Planning. Cr. 3
Introduction to the role of transportation in the planning process involving both regional and urban
considerations. (Y)

6580 Geoenvironmental Engineering I. Cr. 4
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)

6660 Pavement Management Systems: Principles and Practices Cr. 4
Prereq: C E 4640. Principles and practices used in pavement management systems, including pavement
serviceability, pavement design, priority programming. (Y)

7020 Construction Safety. Cr. 4
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)

7070 Risk and Reliability in Civil Engineering. Cr. 4
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. Reliabilitybased
engineering design and decision making. (B)

7100 Water Resources Systems Analysis and Economics. Cr. 4
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)

7190 Groundwater Modeling. Cr. 4
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)

7200 Environmental Engineering Operations and Processes. Cr. 4
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)

7220 Industrial Waste Treatment. Cr. 4
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)

7260 Surface Water-Quality Modeling and Management. Cr. 4
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)

7300 Advanced Structural Mechanics. Cr. 4
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)

7350 Structural Dynamics. Cr. 4
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)

7370 Advanced Finite Element Analysis. Cr. 4
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)

7410 Assessment and Upgrade of Structures. Cr. 4
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)

7450 Nondestructive Testing for Structural Evaluation. Cr. 4
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)

7460 Advanced Composite Materials for Civil Infrastructure. Cr. 4
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)

7500 Engineering Properties of Soils. Cr. 4
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)

7510 Soil-Structure Interaction. Cr. 4
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)

7520 Soil Dynamics. Cr. 4
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)

7530 Advanced Soil Mechanics. Cr. 4
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)

7540 Soil Plasticity. Cr. 4
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)

7550 Geosynthetics Engineering. Cr. 4
Prereq: C E 4510. Fundamental principles for testing, design, and construction of geosynthetics in civil
engineering applications. (B)

7580 Environmental Remediation. Cr. 4
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)

7600 Highway Safety and Risk Management. Cr. 4
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)

7620 Traffic Engineering Control and Operation. Cr. 4
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)

7630 Urban Transportation Planning. Cr. 4
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)

7640 Economic Analysis in Transportation Systems. (I E 7640) Cr. 4
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)

7670 Advanced Traffic Signal Systems. Cr. 4
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)

7685 Transit Research Seminar. Cr. 2
Prereq: graduate standing. Advanced topics including: planning, design, operation, maintenance,
scheduling, marketing and institution aspects; presented by established researchers and professionals. (B)

7830 Construction Planning and Scheduling. Cr. 3
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)

7840 Facilities Management. Cr. 3
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)

7850 Construction Contract Administration. Cr. 3
Prereq: C E 6010 : This course provides an overview of construction contract administion covers also how
to utilize Microsoft Excel, Primavera Expedition, and prolog Manager software for construction
administration and management.

7860 Construction Accounting and Financial Management. Cr. 3
Prereq: C E 6010 : Overview of the fundamental principles to successfully manage the finances of
construction companies. These are attributed to business management, engineering economics,
accounting, cost estimating and project management.

7890 Integrated Construction Project Management. Cr. 3
Prereq: C E 6010 : This course provides a comprehensive overview construction project management
knowledge areas. It describes the processes required to ensure that the various elements of the project
are properly coordinated. It explains how o use different project management software for integrated
construction project management.

7990 Directed Study. Cr. 1-4 (Max. 6)
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)

7995 Special Topics in Civil Engineering II. Cr. 1-4
Prereq: consent of instructor. A consideration of special subject matter in civil engineering. Topics to be
announced in Schedule of Classes. (I)

7996 Research. Cr. 1-4 (Max. 6)
Prereq: consent of adviser and chairperson. (T)

8999 Master's Thesis Research and Direction. Cr. 1-8 (8 req.)
Prereq: consent of adviser. (T)

9990 Pre-Doctoral Candidacy Research. Cr. 1-8 (Max. 10)
Prereq: consent of department. For Ph.D. program applicants. Offered for S and U grades only. Research
in preparation for doctoral dissertation. (T)

9991 Doctoral Candidate Status I: Dissertation Research and Direction. Cr. 7.5
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)

9992 Doctoral Candidate Status II: Dissertation Research and Direction. Cr. 7.5
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; C E 9991. Required in academic-year semester following 9991.
Offered for S and U grades only. (T)

9993 Doctoral Candidate Status III: Dissertation Research and Direction. Cr. 7.5
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; C E 9992. Required in academic-year semester following 9992.
Offered for S and U grades only. (T)

9994 Doctoral Candidate Status IV: Dissertation Research and Direction. Cr. 7.5
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; C E 9993. Required in academic-year semester following 9993.
Offered for S and U grades only. (T)

9995 Candidate Maintenance Status: Doctoral Dissertation Research and Direction. Cr. 0
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; completion of 30 credits in C E 9999, or 9991-9994. Offered for S
and U grades only. (T)

9999 Doctoral Dissertation Research and Direction. Cr. 1-16
Prereq: consent of doctoral adviser. Offered for S and U grades only. Maximum of ten credits may be
elected before doctoral candidacy is obtained.