Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering
An overview of the profession of civil and environmental engineering, including the major elements of the profession, a basic understanding of the core disciplines, and ideas surrounding design.

Statics
Forces, moments, couples, and resultants; static equilibrium and statically equivalent force systems, center of gravity and center of pressure; free body method of analysis; friction; internal forces in members, concept of stress and strain; Hooke's law, application to problems in tension/compression, shear torsion, and bending.

Dynamics
Kinematics and kinetics of particles and rigid bodies, including: position, velocity, acceleration, moving frames of reference, Newton's laws, conservation of energy and momentum, impact, and an introduction to vibrations.

Strength of Materials
Shear and bending moment in beams, torsion of circular and noncircular sections, bending and shear stresses in beams, deflection of beams, statically indeterminate members and structures. Failure criteria, stress concentrations, column buckling. Laboratory in mechanical behavior of materials and stress analysis included.

Thermodynamics/Heat Transfer
Thermodynamic properties, open and closed systems, equations of state, heat and work, first law of thermodynamics, second law of thermodynamics, Carnot cycle, introduction to pwer and refrigeration cycles. Basic mechanisms of heat transfer, law of conservation of energy, conduction, convection, radiation, heat transfer with change of phase, heat exchangers.

Environmental Engineering
Overview of the environmental engineering profession, environmental quality measurements, regulatory overview, water and wastewater quality, environmental chemistry, air quality, design of municipal water treatment systems.

Geotechnical Engineering
An introduction to the fundamental geologic and engineering properties of soils and basic soil mechanics. Topics include geologic soil processes, phase relations, grain-size distribution, clay mineralogy, clay-water interaction, consistency limits, fabric and structure, classification, compaction, swelling, shrinkage, slaking, collapse, permeability, one- and two-dimensional flow, liquefaction, consolidation and settlement, and shear strength of cohesionless soils.

Hydraulics
Hydrostatics, kinematics, energy and momentum principles, flow through pipes and networks, water hammer, pumps, open channel flow, sewer design, and hydraulic structures.

Hydrology
Hydrologic cycle and its elements including precipitation, interception, infiltration, evapotranspiration, runoff; flood and drought analysis; unit-hydrographs, probability and frequency analysis, routing methods; ground water, hydrologic design procedures, watershed models.

Structural Analysis
Structural loads, influence lines, simple arches, basic cable theory, deflections, analysis of indeterminate structures, virtual work, force method, slope-deflection, moment distribution, matrix methods.

Transportation Engineering
Introduction to the design, analysis, and planning of road transportation systems. Highway surveys, location, and plans; geometric design; drainage systems. Fundamentals of traffic engineering; introduction to traffic flow theory; transportation planning, and traffic operations.

Water Resource Engineering
Flood and drought frequency analysis, reservoir and hydroplant design, operation and management of water resource systems, regional resource development, conjunctive use, planning of urban water supply, GIS applications.

Design
Team solutions to specific design problems. Design teams will be formed for the initial design process. After preliminary designs are completed, a competitive evaluation of each design will be made. The entire class will further optimize the best design and prepare a technical paper on it, including entire construction specifications, shop drawings, and connection details for the project.

Seminar
Selected presentations from individuals who deal with different aspects of the practice of civil and environmental engineering.