400 Level Courses

Credit hours are in parenthesis; an asterisk denotes courses that are not offered every year. Click on the course title for an example syllabus - these are samples for informational purposes only; students are responsible for obtaining the current syllabus from the instructor.

CE 401 Research (Credit to be arranged.)

Consent of instructor.

CE 404 Cooperative Education/Internship (Credit to be arranged.)

Consent of instructor.

CE 405 Reading and Conference (Credit to be arranged.)

Consent of instructor.

CE 406 Special Projects (Credit to be arranged.)

Consent of instructor.

CE 407 Seminar (Credit to be arranged.)

Consent of instructor.

CE 407 Seminar: Transportation Research & Practice (1)

CE 407 Seminar: Cost-Benefit Analysis of Transportation Engineering (1)

CE 407 Seminar: Forensic Structural Engineering (2)

CE 410 Selected Topics (Credit to be arranged.)

Consent of instructor.

CE 410 Cold-Formed Steel Design

CE 410 Principles of Masonry Design

CE 410 Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design (3)

CE 410 Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering

CE 410 Traffic Engineering Applications

CE 410 Transportation Safety Analysis

CE 410 Freight Transportation and Logistics

CE 410 Traffic Control and Analysis

CE 410 Geometric Design of Transportation Facilities

CE 410 Environmental Organic Chemistry

CE 410 Fluid Transients in Pipelines/Turbomachine Systems

CE 410 Applied Geomorphology and Stream Restoration

CE 410 Mixing Zone Analysis

CE 410 Groundwater Contaminant Transport

CE 410 Water Quality Chemistry

CE 410 Urban Hydrology

CE 410 Bridge Engineering

CE 410 Construction Contracts & Engineering Law

CE 410 Site Engineering (3)

CE 410 Estuarine Circulation

CE 410 The Columbia River as a Physical System

CE 410 Introduction to Sediment Transport

*CE 420 Advanced Mechanics of Materials (4)

Advanced studies in mechanics of materials including fundamentals of elasticity, phenomenological material behavior, and theories of failure. Timoshenko beam theory, stress functions, shear stresses, unsymmetrical sections, and beams on elastic foundations. Thick-walled cylinders; approximate methods. Prerequisites: EAS 212, Mth 256 or equivalent.

*CE 421 Analysis of Framed Structures (4)

Generalized analysis of multi-story and irregular structural framework with classical methods; analysis of arches, curved beams and frames with nonprismatic members. Energy methods with introduction to matrix methods. Prerequisite: CE 325.

*CE 423 Vibration Analysis in Structural Engineering (4)

Fundamentals of vibration theory; applications in structural engineering. Free, forced, and transient vibration of single and multi-degrees of freedom systems including damping, normal modes, coupling, and normal coordinates. Prerequisites: EAS 212 and Mth 261.

*CE 431 Stability of Structures (4)

Study of elastic and inelastic flexural buckling of bars and frames; use of energy methods and successive approximations; bracing of columns and frames; torsional, lateral-torsional, and local buckling. Prerequisites: CE 333, Mth 261 or equivalent.

*CE 432 Structural Steel Design—LRFD Method (4)

Design of components of steel structures based on load and resistance factor design method. Prerequisite: CE 333.

*CE 433 Cold-Formed Steel Design (4)

Design of cold-formed steel beams, columns, beam-columns, cylindrical tubular members and connections based on the Allowable Stress Design (ASD) and the Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) methods of the AISI specification. Prerequisite: CE 333.

CE 434 Principles of Reinforced Concrete (4)

Loads, load factors and structural safety, ultimate strength analysis; short column behavior, design of simple and continuous beams; one-way slabs; serviceability and detailing requirements with reference to current codes. Prerequisite: CE 321, CE 325.

CE 435 Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures (4)

Development and splicing of reinforcement; design of long columns, retaining walls, footings, and slabs with reference to current codes; lateral loads; laboratory demonstration of beam and column behavior. Prerequisite: CE 434.

*CE 436 Masonry Design (4)

Materials of construction; design of masonry elements, lateral load resisting systems, and connections with reference to current codes. Prerequisite: CE 434.

CE 437 Timber Design (4)

Design of solid and glued-laminated structural members including arches, connections, plywood components, and diaphragms; design provisions for lateral forces. Prerequisite: CE 325.

*CE 438 Design of Composite Structures (4)

Design of composite steel-concrete members based on allowable stress design and load and resistance factor design methods. Prerequisites: CE 333.

CE 440 Geosynthetics in Infrastructure Engineering (2)

Testing and design with polymer-based geosynthetic products in and on soil for the civil infrastructure. Strength-based design applications are introduced with design-by-function principles, and product approval for transportation, structural and geotechnical disciplines. Use of geotextiles, geogrids and geo-composites in slopes, mechanically stabilized earth retaining walls, pavement subgrades and overlays. Prerequisite: CE 444

CE 442 In Situ Behavior and Testing of Soils (4)

Introduction to field behavior of soils related to engineering properties; site investigation procedures and in situ testing. Development of fundamental analytical solution techniques for engineering with soil, the use and limitations of elasticity assumptions. Three lectures, one 3-hour laboratory period. Prerequisite: CE 341.

*CE 443 Introduction To Seismology And Site Evaluation (4)

Earthquakes and exploration seismology, the origin and occurrence of earthquakes, nature and propagation of seismic waves in the earth, earthquakes as a hazard to life and property. Uses of reflection and refraction exploration seismology, borehole velocity measurements, seismic remote sensing, and direct measurement techniques. Earthquake hazard assessment including liquefaction, ground failure, and site amplification. Techniques for evaluating the susceptibility, potential, and severity of the hazards and other science and engineering applications. Prerequisite: senior/ graduate standing. This course is the same as G 475/575; course may be taken only once for credit.

CE 444 Geotechnical Design (4)

Effect of soil conditions upon the behavior and choice of type of foundation; study of earth pressure theories; design of foundations and earth- retaining structures. Prerequisite: CE 341.

CE 445 Geo-Environmental Engineering with Geosynthetics (2)

Application of polymer-based geosynthetic products for geo-environmental and municipal engineering including landfills, soil erosion control, filters and drains. Testing, design and product selection for hydraulic, degradation and chemical stability properties. Introduction to reliability, endurance and design life with reference to RCRA, ESA and EPA laws. Prerequisite: CE 341.

*CE 448 Earthquake Accommodation and Design (4)

Effects of earthquake shaking in the design of buildings, pipelines, bridges, and dams. Incorporating the earthquake hazard assessment for a project in the design process. The goal of this course is to allow geologists, geotechnical engineers, structural engineers, and architects to see how their particular tasks are impacted by the earthquake effects. Types of analysis used to evaluate earthquake design requirements in several disciplines, including: geology, geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, and architecture. Prerequisite: CE 443/543 or G 475/575. This course is the same as G 477/577; course may be taken only once for credit.

CE 451 Traffic Control and Analysis (4)

Traffic control principles; maintenance and responsibility for traffic control devices; choice of traffic control; signs, markings and signals; low-volume roads, temporary control and school areas; traffic control for highway-rail grade crossing, bicycles and transit; warrants for control; control techniques and analysis, advanced technologies. Prerequisite: CE 351.

CE 450 Transportation Safety Analysis (4)

Incorporating safety in highway engineering and transportation planning that includes highway design, operation, and maintenance, as well as human factors, statistical analysis, traffic control and public policy. Design concepts of intersections, interchanges, signals, signs and pavement markings; analyzing data sets for recommendations and prioritization; principles of driver and vehicle characteristics in relation to the roadway.

CE 453 Freight Transportation and Logistics (4)

Components and performance characteristics of the U.S. freight transportation system, with emphasis on data needs, planning, design and operation of the entire supply chain. Discussion of impact of freight on passenger transportation system and economy. Modal emphasis includes freight rail, motor freight, ocean freight and air freight. Terminal operations. Roles of public and private actors in freight system.

CE 454 Urban Transportation Systems (4)

Urban street patterns and transportation demand, highway capacity analysis, process of urban transport planning, travel-demand forecasting and its application to traffic studies. Development of transport models, multiple regression analysis, models of land use and trip generations, stochastic trip distribution models, applications and case studies. Route assignment analysis and traffic flow theory. Prerequisite: CE 351.

CE 455 Intelligent Transportation Systems (4)

Introduction to intelligent transportation systems, including enabling surveillance, navigation, communications and computer technologies. Application of technologies for monitoring, analysis, evaluation and prediction of transportation system performance. Intervention strategies, costs and benefits, safety, human factors, institutional issues and case studies. Prerequisite: CE 351; CE 454 recommended.

CE 456 Traffic Engineering (4)

Traffic system components, traffic stream characteristics, traffic studies and data collection, volume studies, speed, travel-time, delay and pedestrian studies, capacity analysis, freeway systems, weaving sections, ramp junctions, rural highways, signalized and unsignalized intersections, signal coordination, arterial operations, and access management. Prerequisite: CE 454.

*CE 457 Pavement Design (4)

Pavement structure classification and components, wheel loads and design factors, stresses in flexible pavements, subgrade strength and evaluation, design methods, material characteristics, stresses in rigid pavements, design of concrete pavements, joints and reinforcement, condition surveys. Prerequisite: CE 351.

CE 458 Public Transportation Systems (4)

Performance characteristics of public transportation systems, with emphasis on urban systems. Planning, design and operational issues related to public transportation systems. Emerging technologies. Prerequisite: CE 351; CE 454 recommended.

CE 459 Transportation Operations (4)

Operation, modeling and control of unscheduled and scheduled transportation modes; elementary traffic flow concepts; flow, density and speed; scheduling; route and bottleneck capacities; networks; data interpretation; analysis techniques; diagrams; simulation queuing; optimization. Prerequisite: CE 351; CE 454 recommended.

CE 460 Access Management Transportation Systems (4)

Access management issues; geometric design, roadway operation and access; safety and other benefits; access design concepts; functional integrity of highway; driveway and intersection spacing; functional area of intersection, turn lanes; median openings; access management techniques; regulations and policy; case studies; research issues. Prerequisite: CE 351.

*CE 464 Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling (4)

Development and application of deterministic and statistical models for hydrologic and hydraulic analysis and design. Presentation of hydrologic processes and development of hydrologic models related to rainfall-runoff including precipitation, infiltration, evapotranspiration, watershed and channel routing. Statistical analysis procedures for hydrologic data including estimation of rainfall and flood frequency. Application of HEC-HMS to model streamflow including model calibration and verification. Modeling steady flow in rivers using HEC-RAS. Prerequisite: CE 362.

*CE 467 Hydrologic and Hydraulic Design (4)

Application of hydrologic and hydraulic principles to selected topics in hydrologic and hydraulic design. Topics include risk-based design of hydraulic structures, design of culverts, flood profile computation and flood plain management, design of reservoirs. Design of spillways including development of design flood hydrograph and hydraulic design, design of energy dissipation works. Prerequisite: CE 464/564 or knowledge of HEC 1 and HEC 2.

CE 474 Unit Operations of Environmental Engineering (4)

Unit operations of water and wastewater treatment; pretreatment; sedimentation, filtration, aeration, disinfection, sludge treatment and disposal, advanced waste-water treatment processes. Prerequisite: CE 371.

*CE 477 Solid and Hazardous Waste Management (4)

Systematic approach to the complex technical, political, and socio-economic aspects of managing, handling, and disposal of spent solid materials and hazardous wastes. Prerequisite: senior/graduate standing in civil engineering or consent of instructor.

CE 484 Civil Engineering Project Management and Design I (3)

Engineering process including owner-design professional-constructor relationships, procurement procedures, project evolution; contracts, dispute resolution, bonds, warranties; construction documents, including specifications; cost estimating, planning, and scheduling; construction administration; group process, diversity, and leadership. Two lectures, one three-hour design project lab. Prerequisites: CE 444, CE 454, CE 364, CE 325 and CE 434 or CE 333.

CE 494 Civil Engineering Project Management and Design II (3)

Synthesis of civil engineering specialties in a diverse multi-disciplinary project. Teamwork approach in design of components and systems to meet stated objectives. Consideration of alternative solutions, methods, and products including constraints such as economic factors, safety, reliability, and ethics. Preparation of design documents, including: memoranda, computations, drawings, cost estimates, specifications, bidding materials; written and oral presentations. Two lectures, one 3-hour design project laboratory period. Prerequisite: CE 484.