Graduate courses

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Graduate courses
Current and upcoming course offerings
CEE policy for audits

Graduate Courses

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers a broad range of courses, three semesters per year, spanning across all four of our research disciplines. Below is a selection of some of our popular 500-through 700-level courses.

Note: Course offerings vary by year and by term. Please see the below chart for a current list of course offerings.

Structures, Mechanics, and Construction Engineering

CIVE 505: Structural Dynamics
CIVE 507: Building Science and Technology
CIVE 512: Rehabilitation of Structures
CIVE 596: Construction Engineering

CIVE 601: Engineering Risk and Reliability
CIVE 603: Mechanics of Structural Concrete
CIVE 604: Advanced Structural Steel Design
CIVE 610: Elasticity
CIVE 611: Finite Element Analysis
CIVE 614: Structural Dynamics

CIVE 700: Topics in Structural Engineering
*recent topics include: Advanced Structural Timber Design; Smart Structure Technology; Glass Structures and Facades; The Circular Economy; Wood Design; HVAC Systems, Equipment, and Energy Efficiency
CIVE 701: Topics in Mechanics
CIVE 702: Topics in Construction Engineering
CIVE 710: Advanced Project Management
CIVE 711: Computer-Aided Project Organization and Management

Transportation Engineering

CIVE 542: Pavement Structural Design

CIVE 640: Urban Transportation Planning Models - Principles and Applications
CIVE 641: Pavement Design and Management
CIVE 643: Fundamentals of Traffic Flow Theory
CIVE 644: Innovative and Sustainable Infrastructure Materials
CIVE 645: Modeling Transportation and Spatial Economics
CIVE 646: Computer Applications in Transportation Engineering

CIVE 740: Topics in Transportation Engineering

Geotechnical Engineering

CIVE 554: Geotechnical Engineering 3

CIVE 653: Numerical Methods in Geomechanics

CIVE 750: Topics in Geotechnical Engineering
*recent topics include: Design of Water Pipelines; Non-Destructive Evaluation of Civil Infrastructure
CIVE 753: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

Environmental and Water Resource Engineering

CIVE 583: Design of Urban Water Systems

CIVE 670: Physio-Chemical Processes of Water and Wastewater treatment
CIVE 671: Acquatic Chemistry
CIVE 680: Water Management
CIVE 681: Surface Water: Theory and Modelling

CIVE 770: Topics in Environmental Engineering
*recent topics include: Organic Contaminants; Ecohydrological Modelling
CIVE 771: Biological Wastewater Treatment - Theory and Practice
CIVE 781: Principles of Hydrologic Modelling

You can view a course description of the above courses and many more via the library of courses in the Graduate Studies Academic Calendar; however, not all the courses listed in this calendar are offered each year. Please refer to the Schedule of Classes for current upcoming course offerings.

Current and Upcoming Course Offerings

Spring 2022

Please note that the offerings below are tentative and subject to change.

Course Number	Title	Instructor	Time/Day(s)	Location
CIVE 602	Prestressed Concrete	Trevor Hrynyk	W 1:00-4:00	E2-2350
CIVE 604	Advanced Structural Steel Design	Lei Xu	W 9:00-12:00	E2-2350
CIVE 610	Elasticity	Stan Potapenko	M 2:00-5:00	E2-2350
CIVE 640	Urban Transportation Models	Liping Fu	T 10:00-12:30	E2-2350
CIVE 700	Circular Economy for the Built Environment	Carl Haas and Sheida Shahi	TH 9:00-12:00	E2-2350
CIVE 700	Earthquake Engineering	Eugene Kim	T TH 1:00-2:30	E2-2350
CIVE 700	Building Energy Analysis	Ned Huang	TH 2:20-5:20	DWE 2402
CIVE 770	River Mechanics	Bill Annable	T TH 10:00-11:30	E2-3356
CIVE 781	Principles of Hydrologic Modeling	James Craig	TBD *contact instructor if interested	TBD

Fall 2022

Please note that the offerings below are tentative and subject to change

Course Number	Title	Instructor	Time/Day(s)	Location
CIVE 643	Fundamentals of Traffic Flow Theory	Bruce Hellinga	W 1:30-4:30 PM	E2-2350
CIVE 700	Building Energy Analysis	David Mather	T 6:30-9:30 PM	TBD
CIVE 653	Numerical Methods in Geomechanics	Shunde Yin	F 9:30-12:30 PM	E2-2350
CIVE 750	Advanced Mechanics of Soils	Dipanjan Basu	M 11:00-2:00 PM	E2-2350
CIVE 646	Computer Apps in Transport Tech	Liping Fu	W 9:30 AM-12:00 PM	E2-2350
CIVE 722	Intermed Finite Element Analysis	Rob Gracie	T 1:00-4:00 PM	E2-2350
CIVE 700/CIVE 495	Timber Design	Cory Zurell	TBD	TBD
CIVE 700	Design of Structural Concrete Systems	Trevor Hrynyk	M 2:00-5:00 PM	E2-2350
CIVE 671	Aquatic Chemistry	Peter Huck	T 11:00-12:30 PM, TH 1:30-3:00 PM	E2-2350

CEE Policy for Audits

For a student to receive an "AUD" credit for a graduate course within the Department of Civil of Environmental Engineering, the following criteria must be met:

The student must attend at least 10 weeks of class
The student must complete the equivalent of at least 30% of the graded items with a grade of at least 70%