Geosystems Courses
CEE6402 - Soil Mechanics - (3-0-3) Fundamental concepts related to the mechanical behavior of soils, including: effective stress, strength, stiffness, permeability, time-dependent behavior.
CEE6403 - Environmental Geotechnic - (3-0-3) Evaluation of equilibria and partitioning as applied to site assessment techniques including soil gas data, monitoring wells, soil samples, and direct-push technology.
CEE6421 - Lab Charact-Geomaterials - (2-3-3) Instruction in the procedures, methods of interpretation and apparatus limitations and influences for geotechnical laboratory index, strength, deformation, and permeability tests.
CEE6422 - Soils& Experimental Meth - (2-3-3) Macrobehavior and microlevel phenomena in particulate media are experimentally studied. Topics in experimental research include: scale effects, similarity, falsification, errors, transducers, design of experiments.
CEE6423 - In-Situ Testing - (3-0-3) Field testing and sampling of geomaterials, primarily soils and rocks. Introduces methods of drilling, probing, and in-situ measurement of soils for determining stratigraphy and engineering parameters for analysis, including soil borings, cone penetration tests, pressuremeter, dilatometer, and other tests.
CEE6424 - Engineering Geophysics - (2-3-3) Geophysical techniques used to characterize near-surface soils and rocks including seismic, magnetic, electromagnetic, radar, and resistivity methods.
CEE6441 - Analysis-Earth Structure - (3-0-3) Instruction in techniques for assessing the stability of earth-retaining structures including unreinforced slopes, reinforced slopes, free-standing retaining structures, and reinforced retaining structures.
CEE6442 - Dyn Analy-Geotech Engr - (3-0-3) Dynamic soil properties; response of foundations to dynamic loads; construction and blast vibration criteria; dynamic analysis of pile driving; introduction to liquefaction potential.
CEE6443 - Foundation Systems - (3-0-3) Evaluation and design of foundations for civil engineering structures, including the settlement and bearing capacity of shallow spread footings, mats, and deep foundations. Footings, driven piles, bored piles, and drilled shafts analyzed using elastic continuum theory, limit plasticity, and cavity expansion solutions, supplemented with numerous case studies. Ancillary topics include axial load transfer, pile group interaction, lateral and moment loading, and pile dynamics.
CEE6444 - Geosynthetics in CE - (3-0-3) Development, fabrication, design, and applications of geotextiles, geogrids, geonets, and geomembranes.
CEE6445 - Geotech Earthquake Engr - (3-0-3) Earthquake magnitude and intensity, seismic hazard evaluation using deterministic and probabilistic approaches, site response analyses and ground motion amplification liquefaction, and response of earth structures.
CEE6446 - Geotech Seepage Analysis - (3-0-3) Seepage and its effects on engineering behavior of soils and its consequences for design of geoinfrastructure.
CEE6447 - Ground Modification - (3-0-3) Methods for improving marginal construction sites for geotechnical engineering projects and rehabilitation of geoinfrastructure.
CEE6448 - Landfill Design & Mgt - (3-0-3) The course deals with geomaterial selection and characterization, chemical compatibility, placement procedures (including compaction), design strategies, seepage issues, instrumentation, and environmental monitoring.
CEE6449 - Remediation Systems - (3-0-3) Design of remediation systems and management approaches for the petrochemical, power generation, metals finishing, and mining industries are emphasized. Risk analysis and case histories are presented.
CEE6450 - Pavement Design - (3-0-3) Analysis and design of flexible and rigid pavement for highway and airfield runway, evaluation of pavement performance and distress, and pavement rehabilitation strategy and techniques.
CEE6451 - Rock Mechanics - (3-0-3) Rock characterization, scale effect, in-situ stresses, mechanisms of rock deformation and fracture, rock engineering; special attention to common principles unifying presented set of topics.
CEE6461 - Math Applications in CEE - (3-0-3) Engineering Mathematical techniques are reviewed in the context of CEE problems. The simplified yet mathematically rigorous approach highlights the internal mathematical connections between different engineering problems.
CEE6462 - Signals&Inverse Problems - (3-0-3) Civil engineering signals and systems. Discrete time and frequency domain operations. Nonlinear and nonstationary systems. Inverse problems. Matrix-based and other solutions. Tomography. Civil engineering examples.
CEE6463 - Constitutive Model-Soils - (3-0-3) Fundamental concepts in modeling behavior of soils. Implementation of models into numerical solution codes. Evaluation of models used in practice.
CEE6481 - Unsaturated Soil Mech - (3-0-3) This course presents many of the fundamental concepts behind the mechanical behavior of unsaturated soils.
CEE6482 - Applied Fracture Mech - (3-0-3) Application of fracture mechanics toward practical problems. General fracture behavior studied in the context of a variety of applied topics. Computer and experimental demonstrations.
CEE6483 - Geo Spatial Image Analy - (3-0-3) Presentation of techniques for spatial and image processing and analysis of subsurface data at micro and macro scales.
CEE6484 - Industrial Byproduct - (2-3-3) Explores more fully the interface between geotechnology, geochemistry, and sustainable engineering to develop new applications using industrial byproducts.
CEE6485 - Waves&Particulate Mater - (3-0-3) Characterization of materials with mechanical and electromagnetic waves. Emphasis on particulates with extensions to other materials. Laboratory and field applications.