Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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1 Department of Civil and Environmental The Department of Civil offers a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil. Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil The Department of Civil and Environmental offers an ABETaccredited bachelor s degree that, in terms of graduating class size, ranks in the 80th percentile nation-wide. The Department is committed to providing a learning environment which encourages discovery and advancement for the betterment of its students and the community. Through its research, public service, and instructional programs, the Department seeks to serve the needs of San Antonio and South Texas by providing educational and research opportunities contributing to the technological and economic development of the region. Civil Educational Objectives The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) defines Civil as The profession in which a knowledge of the mathematical and physical sciences gained by study, experience, and practice is applied with judgment to develop ways to utilize, economically, the materials and forces of nature for the progressive well-being of humanity in creating, improving, and protecting the environment; in providing facilities for community living, industry, and transportation; and in providing structures for the use of humanity. The faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental has established a specific set of program objectives to support the mission and the goals of the Department and to meet the requirements of ABET accreditation under the Criteria for Accrediting Programs (2009). The educational objectives of the Civil undergraduate program are to produce Bachelor of Science graduates who: meet the expectations of their employers, will endeavor to become licensed professional engineers, and are able to pursue graduate studies, if so desired. The minimum number of semester credit hours required for the Bachelor in Civil is 28, including at least 9 at the upper-division level. All candidates for this degree must fulfill the Core Curriculum requirements, the General requirements, and the Civil degree requirements prior to graduation. Each is explained next in detail. Core Curriculum Requirements (42 semester credit hours) Students seeking the Bachelor of Science degree in Civil must fulfill the University Core Curriculum requirements in the same manner as other students. If courses are taken to satisfy both degree requirements and Core Curriculum requirements, then students may need to take additional courses in order to meet the minimum number of semester credit hours required for this degree. Core Curriculum Component Area Requirements ( catalog.utsa.edu/undergraduate/bachelorsdegreeregulations/ degreerequirements/corecurriculumcomponentarearequirements) First Year Experience Requirement Communication 6 Mathematics Life and Physical Sciences 6 Language, Philosophy and Culture Creative Arts American History 6 Government-Political Science 6 Social and Behavioral Sciences Component Area Option Total Credit Hours 42 General Requirements In addition to the Core Curriculum requirements, all degree-seeking Civil students must complete the following 25 semester credit hours: CHE 0 General Chemistry I EGR 22 Applied Analysis I EGR 7 Economic Analysis MAT 24 Calculus I 4 MAT 224 Calculus II 4 or EGR 24 PHY 94 & PHY 95 PHY 96 & PHY 97 Calculus II for Engineers Engineers I and Engineers I Laboratory Engineers II and Engineers II Laboratory Total Credit Hours 25 Gateway Courses Students pursuing the Bachelor of Science degree in Civil must successfully complete each of the following Gateway Courses with a grade of C- or better in no more than two attempts. A student who is unable to successfully complete these courses within two attempts, including dropping a course with a grade of W or taking an equivalent course at another institution, will be required to change his or her major. EGR 22 MAT 24 Applied Analysis I Calculus I Civil Degree Requirements In addition to Core Curriculum and General requirements, students seeking a Bachelor degree in Civil are required to take 70 semester credit hours of Civil courses. Of these 70 credit hours, 64 are from required courses, while the remaining 6 can be satisfied from CE elective courses. A. Required courses CE 0 Introduction to Civil CE 20 Civil Measurements CE 26 Environmental 4 4

2 Department of Civil and Environmental CE 0 Mechanics of Solids CE Structural Analysis CE 7 Numerical Methods CE 2 Reinforced Concrete Design CE 2 Steel Design CE 24 Properties and Behavior of Materials CE 4 Geotechnical and Applications CE 60 Fluid Mechanics CE 42 Highway CE 4 Computer-Aided Design in Civil CE 454 Project Design and Construction Management CE 460 Water Resources CE 46 Water and Wastewater Treatment CE 48 Civil Design EGR 40 Technical Communication EGR 20 Statics EGR 25 Dynamics GEO 402 Geology STA 20 Applied Probability and Statistics for Engineers B. Civil technical electives Select two of the following. Alternatively, students with a grade point average of.0 or higher may choose to satisfy this requirement by taking graduate courses offered by the Department of Civil and Environmental (Department Chair approval required). CE 40 CE 40 CE 4 CE 45 CE 425 CE 429 CE 40 CE 440 CE 445 CE 446 CE 46 CE 472 CE 47 Civil Systems Analysis Advanced Steel Design Advanced Reinforced Concrete Prestressed Concrete Introduction to Masonry and Timber Design Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Hydrometeorology Advanced Characterization of Highway Materials Transportation Foundation Environmental Chemistry Hydraulic Systems Design Applied Hydrology Total Credit Hours 70 The elective courses allow some specialization in one of the traditional Civil areas, namely, Environmental, Geotechnical, Hydraulics, Structures and Transportation. Senior Civil students, in their last semester of study, are expected to take the Fundamentals of (FE) Examination as administered by the National Council of Examiners for and Surveying ( ncees.org). Graduates are expected to pursue life-long learning and obtain their Professional license. This curriculum is designed to meet the student learning outcomes defined by the Accreditation Board of and Technology and the American Society of Civil Engineers. More specifically, it integrates design throughout the curriculum starting with the freshman introductory course, CE 0 Introduction to Civil, and ending with the senior capstone Civil Design course CE 48. Design components are contained in most required Civil courses, such as CE 2 Reinforced Concrete Design, CE 2 Steel Design, 6 CE 4 Geotechnical and Applications, CE 46 Water and Wastewater Treatment, CE 42 Highway, and CE 460 Water Resources. Design elements are also included in many technical elective courses. The design experience culminates in the senior capstone design course, CE 48 Civil Design. In this course, students work in multidisciplinary teams involving three or more civil engineering areas and solve practical civil engineering problems drawing upon most of their prior coursework experience. These projects culminate in formal presentations evaluated by professional engineers. The following provides a summary table of the recommended courses by semester for the Bachelor degree in Civil. B.S. in Civil Recommended Four- Year Academic Plan First Year AIS 20 Academic Inquiry and Scholarship Credit Hours CE 0 Introduction to Civil CE 20 Civil Measurements CHE 0 General Chemistry I MAT 24 Calculus I (core and major) 4 WRC 0 Freshman Composition I (Q) CS 7 Data Analysis and Visualization EGR 40 Technical Communication MAT 224 Calculus II 4 PHY 94 PHY 95 Engineers I (core and major) Engineers I Laboratory WRC 02 Freshman Composition II (Q) Second Year EGR 20 Statics EGR 22 Applied Analysis I PHY 96 PHY 97 STA 20 Engineers II (core and major) Engineers II Laboratory Applied Probability and Statistics for Engineers American History core CE 26 Environmental CE 0 Mechanics of Solids CE 7 Numerical Methods ECO 20 or 202 Introductory Macroeconomics EGR 25 Dynamics Language, Philosophy & Culture core Third Year CE Structural Analysis 2 //6

3 CE 2 Steel Design CE 24 Properties and Behavior of Materials CE 60 Fluid Mechanics EGR 7 Economic Analysis American History core CE 2 Reinforced Concrete Design CE 4 Geotechnical and Applications CE 46 Water and Wastewater Treatment GEO 402 Geology POL 0 Fourth Year Introduction to American Politics CE 42 Highway CE 4 CE 454 Computer-Aided Design in Civil Project Design and Construction Management CE 460 Water Resources POL or 2 Texas Politics and Society CE 48 Civil Design CE Technical elective CE Technical elective Creative Arts core Students must take FE exam during this semester Total Credit Hours: 28.0 Civil (CE) Courses CE 0. Introduction to Civil. (-0) Credit Hour. Prerequisites: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in MAT 09 and WRC 0. as a career, engineering ethics, and approaches to engineering problem formulation and solution using principles of design and decision making. Generally offered:,. CE 20. Civil Measurements. (2-) Credit Prerequisites: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in MAT 24 and CE 0. Principles of measurement and error analysis; application of equipment to acquire, analyze, and control data in civil engineering systems; and introduction to plane surveying. Generally offered:,, Summer. CE 26. Environmental. (-0) Credit Prerequisites: CE 0 and CHE 0. Principles, analysis, and design related to environmental monitoring, protection, and remediation systems. Topics include environmental quality and legislation, modeling, water treatment, wastewater treatment, solid and hazardous waste management, air and noise pollution, and radioactive waste management. Generally offered:,. CE 0. Mechanics of Solids. (2-) Credit Prerequisites: EGR 20 and EGR 22. Internal forces and deformations in solids; stress, strain, and their relations; stresses and deflections in beams column theory and analysis; and engineering applications. Generally offered:,. CE. Structural Analysis. (-0) Credit Prerequisite: CE 0. Forces and deflections in structural systems; considers stationary and moving loads and exact and approximate methods. Generally offered:,. CE 7. Numerical Methods. (-0) Credit Prerequisite: EGR 22. Use of computing languages (Matlab and Visualbasic) and numerical methods in solving civil and environmental engineering problems. Techniques for computer solution of linear and nonlinear simultaneous equations; eigenvalues; finite differences; numerical integration; numerical solutions to ordinary differential equations. Case studies in various civil engineering areas. Generally offered:,. CE 2. Reinforced Concrete Design. (2-) Credit Prerequisites: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in CE and CE 24. Ultimate strength theory and design for reinforced concrete members. Generally offered:,. CE 2. Steel Design. (2-) Credit Prerequisites: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in CE and CE 24. Analysis and design of steel tension members, beams, columns, and bolted or welded connections. Generally offered:,. CE 24. Properties and Behavior of Materials. (2-) Credit Prerequisites: CE 0 and STA 20. Structure, properties, and behavior of engineering materials; measurement and analysis of material properties and behavior. Laboratory exercises illustrate typical material behavior and selected principles of mechanics. Generally offered:,. CE 4. Geotechnical and Applications. (2-) Credit Prerequisites: CE 0, and completion of or concurrent enrollment in CE 7 and GEO 402. Exploration, sampling, and in-situ measurements; laboratory testing; review of fundamental properties of soil and rock; flowthrough porous media; the effective stress principle and computation of in-situ stress distributions; shear strength of soils and one-dimensional consolidation settlement; introduction to slope stability. Generally offered:,. CE 60. Fluid Mechanics. (2-) Credit Prerequisites: EGR 20 and EGR 25. Fluid properties, fluid statics concepts, equations of fluid flow in pipes and open channels, and flowthrough porous media. Generally offered:,. CE 40. Civil Systems Analysis. (-0) Credit Prerequisite: EGR 7. Technical elective course. Systems approach to optimization and problem solving; operations research applications in civil engineering; mathematical modeling and analysis techniques including linear programming, dynamic programming, decision analysis and use of software to solve linear and nonlinear programming problems. (Formerly CE 7. Credit cannot be earned for both CE 40 and CE 7.). CE 40. Advanced Steel Design. (-0) Credit Prerequisite: CE 2. Technical elective course. Connection design, welded and bolted, moment-resistant connections, plate girders, column stability, bracing design, and seismic design of frames. CE 42. Highway. (-0) Credit Prerequisites: CE 20 and CE 24. General characteristics of highway design; horizontal and vertical alignment, cross-sections, earthwork, drainage, and pavement; and economic analysis. Generally offered:,.

4 Department of Civil and Environmental CE 4. Advanced Reinforced Concrete. (-0) Credit Prerequisite: CE 2. Technical elective course. Torsion design, design of stairs, bending of curved elements, biaxial loads on columns, slenderness effects, joint design, yield line theory, two-way slab systems, strut-and-tie methods, seismic detailing, relationship between research and building code. CE 45. Prestressed Concrete. (-0) Credit Prerequisite: CE 2. Technical elective course. Design of statically determinate and indeterminate structures, estimation of prestress loss, flexure and shear strength, deflections and stress control, composite construction, and continuous span theory. CE 425. Introduction to Masonry and Timber Design. (2-) Credit Prerequisites: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in CE and CE 24. Technical elective course. Design philosophy and methodology for masonry and timber structures. Flexure design, axial load design, and shear design of basic masonry and timber components. (Formerly CE 25. Credit cannot be earned for both CE 425 and CE 25.). CE 429. Geographic Information Systems (GIS). (-0) Credit Prerequisite: CE 20 or GEO 402. Technical elective course. Introduces vector, raster and tabular concepts, emphasizing the vector approach. Topics include: spatial relationships, map features, attributes, relational database, layers of data, data ingesting, digitizing from maps, projections, output, applications, and availability of public data sets. Focus will be placed on spatial/temporal data analyses using digitized maps and database information in an area of Civil specialization. CE 40. Hydrometeorology. (-0) Credit Prerequisite: CE 60. Technical elective course. The main objective of this course is to familiarize the student with topics related to local and global distribution of freshwater. Conceptualizations of the water balance/budget are developed using principles of physical hydrology and meteorology. Emphasis will be on recent research and modern methods for data analysis and modeling. Real-life events and phenomena will be discussed. In addition to the text, material will be presented from other sources. Guest instructors will give presentations on some case studies. CE 4. Computer-Aided Design in Civil. (-0) Credit Prerequisites: EGR 40, CE 20, and CE 60. Organization and programming of civil engineering problems for computer solutions; application of computer-aided design in civil engineering. Generally offered:,, Summer. CE 440. Advanced Characterization of Highway Materials. (-0) Credit Prerequisite: CE 24. Technical elective course. Basic and advanced level of the fundamentals of material response to static and repeated loading; emphasis on the deformation and fatigue behavior of asphalt mixtures, constitutive modeling for mixtures, microstructure characterization for mixtures, nondestructive testing of pavements, asphalt binder characterization, unbound materials (base and sub-base materials) evaluation and characterization. CE 445. Transportation. (-0) Credit Prerequisite: CE 42. Technical elective course. Study of the Highway Capacity Manual, traffic stream parameters and relationships, analytical techniques in traffic engineering such as capacity analysis, queuing theory, and traffic simulation. Design and operation of advanced traffic management systems including signalization, real-time motorist information, urban incident management, and ITS concepts. (Formerly CE 42. Credit cannot be earned for both CE 445 and CE 42.). CE 446. Foundation. (-0) Credit Prerequisite: CE 4. Technical elective course. Shallow and deep foundations including: footings, slabs on-grade, cofferdams, sheet-pile walls, drilled shafts, piles and retaining walls. (Formerly CE 44. Credit cannot be earned for both CE 446 and CE 44.) Generally offered:. CE 454. Project Design and Construction Management. (-0) Credit Prerequisites: CE, EGR 7, CE 2 or CE 2. Civil design process, project specifications, and construction management. Topics covered include design process/practices, project proposals, pricing, specifications, bidding strategies, project management/scheduling and project financing. The course forms the student teams for CE 48 Civil Design and identifies projects. Students are trained on how to write Request for Proposals (RFPs) for the identified projects and how to write engineering consulting proposals in reply to the RFP. Students are also trained on how to present proposals to a panel of senior engineers at the end of the semester. Course must be taken the semester prior to taking CE 48. (Formerly CE 54. Credit cannot be earned for both CE 54 and CE 454.). CE 460. Water Resources. (-0) Credit Prerequisites: CE 26 and CE 60; and concurrent enrollment in, or completion of, CE 46. Analysis and design of surface and subsurface water resource facilities. Design of water supply, wastewater collection, and storm water systems. Generally offered:,. CE 46. Environmental Chemistry. (-0) Credit Prerequisite: CE 46. Technical elective course. This course explores the chemistry of the environment, the chemistry underlying environmental problems and solutions to environmental problems. Emphasis is placed on thermodynamics and kinetics of reaction cycles; sources, sinks and transport of chemical species; and quantitation of chemical species. Examples are selected from the chemistry of natural and contaminated air, water, and soil. (Same as ES 5. Credit cannot be earned for both CE 46 and ES 5.). CE 46. Water and Wastewater Treatment. (2-) Credit Prerequisites: CE 26 and CE 60. The application of chemical, biochemical, and physical processes to water treatment, wastewater treatment, and pollution control. (Formerly CE 6. Credit cannot be earned for both CE 6 and CE 46.). CE 472. Hydraulic Systems Design. (-0) Credit Prerequisite: CE 60. Technical elective course. Analysis and design of water resource systems; dam and reservoir design for recharge, flood control, and water supply and demand forecasting, optimization of multiobjective systems, and allocations planning and management. 4 //6

5 CE 47. Applied Hydrology. (-0) Credit Prerequisite: CE 60. Technical elective course. Hydrologic cycle, precipitation, hydrologic abstractions, surface runoff; unit hydrographs; synthetic hydrographs; peak discharge relationships; flood frequency analysis; flood and reservoir routing; and groundwater hydrology. (Formerly CE 72. Credit cannot be earned for both CE 47 and CE 72.). CE 48. Civil Design. (-0) Credit Prerequisites: CE 2 or CE 2, CE 4, CE 60 and CE 454. Opportunity to apply design skills to execution of an open-ended integrated civil engineering design project, including field and laboratory investigations, numerical and scale modeling, design, and formal oral and written presentation of results. Considers safety, reliability, environmental, economic, and other constraints, as well as ethical and social impacts. Students must take the FE (Fundamentals of ) exam during the semester they take this course. Students that pass the FE exam during their last semester of study qualify for a Professional Alumni Award. Generally offered:,. CE 49. Independent Study. (0-0) Credit Hour. CE 492. Independent Study. (0-0) 2 Credit CE 49. Independent Study. (0-0) Credit CE 495. Special Studies in Civil. (-0) Credit Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. An organized course offering the opportunity for specialized study not normally or not often available as part of the regular course offerings. Special Studies may be repeated for credit when topics vary, but not more than 6 semester credit hours, regardless of 5