Graduate Course Offerings in Transportation Engineering at Villanova University

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1 Graduate Course Offerings in Transportation Engineering at Villanova University Civil and Environmental Engineering Department 800 Lancaster Ave. Villanova, PA Dr. Leslie McCarthy, PE Dr. John McFadden, PE Dr. Seri Park Students interested in transportation engineering engage in interdisciplinary programs that combine the core transportation graduate courses with courses in geotechnical and structural engineering, leading to a Master of Science in Civil Engineering or Doctorate in Engineering. This evening graduate program provides practicing professionals an opportunity to pursue advanced study on either a part-time or fulltime basis. Thirty credits are required to earn a MSCE or Ph.D. and part-time students typically earn all 30 credits through course work (10 classes). At least one course per semester will be offered with an accompanying Distance-Learning section available for attending remotely online. Research Students pursuing full-time study perform research that culminates in the submission of a thesis. Full-time students usually earn 24 credits through course work and 6 credits through research. Transportation graduate students will likely perform research on context sensitive solutions in infrastructure, mechanistic-empirical pavement design (MEPDG), retroreflectivity of traffic signs and pavement markings, nondestructive pavement testing, or establishing pavement performance targets for highway construction contracts. Courses All of the transportation courses are offered in the evenings to accommodate both full and part time students. All of these courses have undergraduate Civil Engineering Materials and/or Transportation Engineering (or equivalent) as a prerequisite.

2 The transportation courses, which are all 3 credits, are listed below. These classes are typically held on Tuesday or Wednesday evenings from 6:15 pm to 9:15 pm in Fall/Spring semesters and from 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm in Summer semesters. Course Title Instructor number CEE 7303 Pavement Design & Dynamic Response Dr. McCarthy CEE 8201 Urban Transportation Engineering Dr. McFadden, Dr. Park CEE 8202 Transportation Planning & Operations Dr. McFadden CEE 8203 Traffic Engineering Dr. McFadden, Dr. Park CEE 8205 Highway Safety Dr. Park, Dr. McCarthy CEE 8206 Construction Project Management Dr. McCarthy, Dr. Park CEE 8207 Design of Sustainable Transportation Systems * Dr. Park CEE 8303 Urban Planning * Dr. McCarthy, Dr. McFadden CEE 8439 CE Materials * Dr. McCarthy CEE 8208 Sustainable Pavement Systems * Dr. McCarthy CEE 7300 Railway Engineering * Dr. McCarthy * included as part of the Masters in Sustainable Engineering track Who should take these courses? What are they about? CEE 7300 Railway Engineering - This course would be of interest to students specializing in transportation, structural, or sustainable infrastructure and built environment programs. Mechanical and electrical engineering students with an interest in Railroad Engineering are also encouraged to participate in this course. Topics include introduction to railroads, infrastructure, track geometry, power and energy, intermodal operations, signaling and control. CEE 7303 Pavement Design & Dynamic Response - This course would be of interest to students specializing in transportation and geotechnical engineering. Rigid and flexible pavement design, bituminous materials and mixture design, 3Rs of pavement structures will be taught. CEE 8201 Urban Transportation Engineering - This course would be of interest to students specializing in transportation with emphasis in urban planning. Transit and other mode characteristics and transportation network analyses through trip generation and traffic assignment covered. CEE 8202 Transportation Planning & Operations - This course would be of interest to students specializing in transportation engineering with emphasis in planning. Planning and operations will be included, based on recently developed capacity analyses of transportation facilities and networks. CEE 8203 Traffic Engineering - This course would be of interest to students specializing in transportation engineering. Road user and vehicle characteristics, stream flow characteristics, freeway operations, speed studies, traffic control and management will be covered. CEE 8205 Highway Safety - This course would be of interest to students specializing in transportation engineering. Course includes factors that contribute to highway crashes, techniques to improve roadway safety, geometric design elements, and accident reconstruction techniques. CEE 8206 Construction Project Management - This course would be of interest to students specializing in transportation, structural, and geotechnical engineering. Course includes scheduling, changes/delays/claims management, systematic design review, value engineering, quality control/quality

3 assurance, and innovative contracting. Emphasis is on highway construction with some inclusion of architectural construction. CEE 8207 Design of Sustainable Transportation Systems - This course would be of interest to students specializing in transportation or sustainable infrastructure and the built environment programs. Environmental consequences and transportation systems, asset management, context sensitive solutions, intelligent transportation systems, livable communities, and design of public mass transit, bike and pedestrian systems, will be the emphasis in this course. CEE 8208 Sustainable Pavement Systems - This course would be of interest to students specializing in transportation, geotechnical engineering, or sustainable infrastructure and built environment programs. Pavement preservation, accelerated construction techniques, intelligent compaction, recycled and waste products in asphalt/concrete mixtures, energy translation from pavements, noise reducing pavements, and the use of innovative materials in highway construction will be presented. CEE 8303 Urban Planning - This course would be of interest to students specializing in transportation engineering. Structure and history of urbanization in the United States will be studied. The current problems of cities and suburbs, and how they have evolved, will be the subjects of student projects. Will Philadelphia survive? Proposed solutions involving community activism, urban renewal, fiscal reform and new towns will be examined and evaluated. The design professional's role in the planning team is defined. CEE 8439 Civil Engineering Materials - This course would be of interest to students specializing in transportation, structural, and geotechnical engineering. Durability, fracture, fatigue, corrosion, nondestructive tests and properties of masonry, concrete, asphalt, and wood will be taught with discussion of laboratory testing, specifications, and quality assurance (QA) data analysis. Transportation Focus in CEE Graduate Program at Villanova University - Planned Course Offerings Fall 2010 Fall 2015 Semester Transportation Courses Other Elective Courses Fall 2010 Spring 2011 Summer 2011 Fall 2011 Spring 2012 CEE Highway Safety CEE 8303 Urban Planning CEE Traffic Engineering CEE 8202 Transportation Plan & Ops CEE 7303 Pavement Design & Dyn Res CEE 8103 Geosynthetics CEE 8424 Seismic Design & Retrofit CEE 8442 Advanced Structural Mechanics ME 8350 Applied Fracture Mechanics

4 Summer 2012 Fall 2012 Spring 2013 Summer 2013 Fall 2013 Spring 2014 Summer 2014 Fall 2014 Spring 2015 Summer 2015 Fall 2015 CEE Railway Engineering CEE 8303 Urban Planning CEE Highway Safety (with DL section) CEE 8202 Transportation Plan & Ops (with DL section) CEE 7303 Pavement Design & Dyn Res CEE Railway Engineering CEE Highway Safety CEE 8303 Urban Planning CEE Sustainable Pavement Systems CEE Traffic Engineering CEE 7403 Green Building Design CEE 8438 Structural Connections CEE 8103 Geosynthetics CEE 8424 Seismic Design & Retrofit CEE 8442 Advanced Structural Mechanics ME 8350 Applied Fracture Mechanics CEE 7403 Green Building Design CEE 8438 Structural Connections Note: Additional course offerings in the Mechanical Engineering Department (ME 7040, ME 8350) may be counted toward a degree as electives, upon prior approval by academic advisor. Contact Mechanical Engineering Department for scheduling information. Additional course offerings in the Mathematics Department (MAT 7404, MAT 7405, MAT 8435) may be counted toward a degree as electives, upon prior approval by academic advisor. Contact the Mathematics Department for scheduling information. Runs in the Fall MAT 7404: Statistical Methods I - Data summarization and display, distributions; binomial, Poisson, normal, t, chisquare and F, estimation, hypothesis testing, linear regression, correlation, statistical software packages. Runs in the Spring MAT 7405: Statistical Methods II - ANOVA: multiple comparison procedures, contrasts, random and fixed effect models, transformations, experimental design, nested designs, randomized blocks, factorials, latin squares, analysis of covariance, multiple regression, correlation, statistical software packages.

5 MAT 8435: Mathematical Modeling - Model construction, Markov chains, game theory, networks and flows, growth processes and models for epidemics and queues with an emphasis on model construction.