Civil Engineering (C E )  Department Info

C E 194 -- Practicum  (1-3 units)
Description:  The practical application, on an individual basis, of previously studied theory and the collection of data for future theoretical interpretation.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 199 -- Independent Study  (1-3 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 204 -- Computer Programming and Numerical Analysis in CE  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to computer programming, IO interfacing, looping, conditional statements, subprograms, and algorithmic development. Use of programming to develop approximate solutions in various fields of civil engineering.
Prerequisite(s):  ENGR 102; Concurrent registration, MATH 254.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 210 -- Engineering Graphics  (3 units)
Description:  Representations and analysis of systems of orthographic projection and graphical methods used in engineering design and production, correlated with technical sketching.
Course is available:  by special exam for a grade and credit.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 214 -- Statics  (3 units)
Description:  Equivalent force systems; equilibrium; geometric properties of areas and solids; friction; virtual work; potential energy. Honors section is available.
Prerequisite(s):  PHYS 141, MATH 129.
Course is available:  by special exam for a grade and credit.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 215 -- Mechanics of Solids  (3 units)
Description:  Material behavior; relationship between external forces acting on elastic and inelastic bodies and the resulting behavior; stress and deformation of bars, beams, shafts, pressure vessels; stress and strain; combined stresses; columns. Honors section is available.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 214.
Course is available:  by special exam for a grade and credit.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 218 -- Mechanics of Fluids  (3 units)
Description:  Hydrostatics, continuity, irrotational flow, pressure distributions, weirs and gates, momentum and energy, surface drag, pipe friction, form drag, pipe fitting losses.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 214, MATH 223.
Course is available:  by special exam for a grade and credit.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 251 -- Elementary Surveying  (3 units)
Description:  Theory of measurements and errors; vertical and horizontal control methods; topographic, public land and construction surveys; use of surveying instruments.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 210, MATH 111.
Course is available:  by special exam for a grade and credit.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 299 -- Independent Study  (1-3 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 299H -- Honors Independent Study  (1-3 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 301 -- Engineering Communications  (2 units)
Description:  Elements of written and oral communications for engineers including technical writing skills for proposal and report preparation, delivery techniques for oral presentations, and the effective use of audio/visual aids.
Prerequisite(s):  UDWPE.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 310 -- Probability Statistics in Civil Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Statistical decision theory and its application in civil engineering. Identification and modeling of non-deterministic problems in civil engineering and the treatment thereof relative to engineering design and decision making. Statistical reliability concepts.
Prerequisite(s):  MATH 254.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 323 -- Hydraulic Engineering and Design  (4 units)
Description:  Open channel flow, natural streams and waterways, hydrologic analysis and design, pressure flow, analysis and design of pipe networks and pump systems.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 218.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 329 -- Fluid Mechanics Laboratory  (1 unit)
Description:  Open-channel and closed conduit studies of basic flow phenomena, with emphasis on continuity, conservation of momentum, and exchange of energy; calibration of flow-measuring devices.
Prerequisite(s):  Concurrent registration, C E 218.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 333 -- Elementary Structural Analysis  (3 units)
Description:  Analysis of Structures: beams, frames and trusses. Statically determinate structures; influence lines; deflections by the virtual work method. Statically indeterminate structures using the superposition method.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 215.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 334 -- Structural Design in Steel  (3 units)
Description:  Design of steel members, connections and simple structures, ; introduction to load and resistance factor design concept, including tension members, laterally supported and unsupported beams, columns, bolted and welded connections.
Prerequisite(s):  Concurrent registration, C E 333.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 335 -- Structural Design in Concrete  (3 units)
Description:  Analysis and design of reinforced concrete members subjected to flexure, shear and axial loads; deflection of beams; bond and development of reinforcement.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 333.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 343 -- Geotechnical Engineering and Design  (4 units)
Description:  In this course, we will discuss the fundamental physical and mechanical properties of soils and use them in the design of simple foundation and earth retaining systems. We will use certain fundamental principles of solid mechanics and fluid mechanics to describe the mechanical behavior of soils.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 215, CHEM 103B.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 349 -- Soils Laboratory  (1 unit)
Description:  Conduct and interpret soil test results. Test include water content, particle size, permeability, consolidation and shear strength.
Prerequisite(s):  Concurrent registration, C E 343.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 363 -- Transport Engineering and Pavement Design  (4 units)
Description:  Basis for planning, design, and operation of transportation facilities. Driver and vehicle performance characteristics, highway geometric and pavement design principles; traffic analysis and transportation planning.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 251.
Usually offered:  Fall.

C E 370 -- Water Supply and Wastewater Systems  (3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Prerequisite(s):  CHEE 203 or C E 321.
Credit for:  1.5 units engineering science, 1.5 units engineering design.
Course is available:  by special exam for credit only.
Identical to:  CHEE 370; CHEE is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

C E 370L -- Water Supply and Wastewater Systems Lab  (1 unit)
Description:  The course is supplementary to ChEE/CE 370R, the three-unit introductory environmental engineering course. Basically, it consists of a 1-unit, problem-oriented lab that meets two hours per week to provide supplementary material for non chemical engineers taking the introductory course. Emphasis will be on introducing chemistry and biochemistry concepts that support environmental engineering operations for water and wastewater treatment. Basic problem solving skills in these areas will also be developed. this course is designed to support the ChEE/CE 370R efforts of engineers without a strong chemistry and biology background. There will be brief supplementary lectures and problem-solving sessions in the following subject areas: 1. Chemistry concepts 2. Acid-base equilibrium 3. Carbonate system -- alkalinity 4. Metal-lingand complexes, precipitation reactions 5. Redox reactions 6. Basic chemical kinetics 7. Models for microbiological growth kinetics 8. Introduction to reactor performance -- mass balances 9. Water and wastewater quality characteristics 10. Basic microbiology 11. Enzymes and enzyme kinetics 12. Mass transfer kinetics - Fick's Law, aeration 13. Adsorptions reactions
Prerequisite(s):  not for Chemical Engineering students.
Identical to:  CHEE 370L; CHEE is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

C E 389 -- Materials Testing Laboratory  (1 unit)
Description:  Selected testing of steel, concrete, wood, and bituminous materials according to standard test procedures.
Prerequisite(s):  Concurrent registration, C E 334 or C E 335 or C E 363.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 399 -- Independent Study  (1-3 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 399H -- Honors Independent Study  (1-3 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 402 -- Introduction to Finite Element Methods  (3 units)
Description:  Theory and formulation procedures: energy and residual. One-dimensional problems: stress analysis in axial structures, steady and transient fluid and heat flow, consolidation, wave-propagation, beam-column. Two-dimensional problems: field and plane/axisymmetric, use of computer codes for solution to typical problems.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 204.
May be convened with:  C E 502.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 408 -- Issues in Civil Engineering Practice  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to non-technical issues impacting the practice of design professionals in the private and public sectors including: types of organizations; income, expenses, and profit; quality-based selection for obtaining and performing work; contracts; dispute resolution methods; professional ethics.
Prerequisite(s):  UDWPE, C E 301, and at least two (2) of the following: C E 323, C E 334 or C E 335, C E 343, C E 363, C E 373.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 410 -- Probability in Civil Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Outlines the extent of uncertainties under which civil engineering designs and decisions are made. Theory and application. Advanced topics in risk-based engineering design. System reliability concepts. Statistical decision theory and its application in civil engineering. Identifying and modeling, nondeterministic problems in engineering in understanding many recently issued engineering codes.
Prerequisite(s):  MATH 254.
May be convened with:  C E 510.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 423 -- Hydrology  (3 units)
Description:  Discussion and analysis of major topics of the hydrologic cycle and their interrelationship, such as rainfall, infiltration, evaporation, and runoff. Statistical and probabilistic methods in water supply and flood hydrology.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 218.
Identical to:  HWR 423.
May be convened with:  C E 523.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 426 -- Soil and Water Conservation Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Methods for estimating runoff from croplands, Universal Soil Loss Equation, design of terraces, waterways, small earth dams, erosion control structures.
Prerequisite(s):  ABE 406 or C E 218 or A ME 331.
Credit for:  1.5 units engineering science, 1.5 units engineering design.
Identical to:  ABE 426; ABE is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring, Summer.

C E 427 -- Computer Applications in Hydraulics  (3 units)
Description:  Computer modeling of surface water hydrology, flood plain hydraulics and water distribution systems. Theoretical basis. Application and design studies.
Identical to:  HWR 427.
May be convened with:  C E 527.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 432 -- Advanced Structural Design in Steel  (3 units)
Description:  Advanced problems in the analysis and design of steel structures including beam columns, plate girders, composite construction, multi-story buildings; static and dynamic lateral and vertical loads; connections; computer applications.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 336.
May be convened with:  C E 532.
Usually offered:  Fall.

C E 433 -- Advanced Structural Analysis  (3 units)
Description:  Analysis of Structures: beams, frames and trusses. Statically indeterminate structures with stiffness methods: slope-deflection and moment distribution. Energy methods. Matrix structural analysis and computer applications. Qualitative influence lines and approximate solutions of statically indeterminate structures.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 333.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 434 -- Design of Wood and Masonry Structures  (3 units)
Description:  Determination of gravity and lateral loads on structures. Design of wood structures for axial load and bending; structural wood panels, diaphragms and shear walls. Types of masonry construction. Design of masonry structures for gravity and lateral loads.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 331; Concurrent registration, C E 337.
May be convened with:  C E 534.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 435 -- Prestressed Concrete Structures  (3 units)
Description:  Behavior, analysis and design of statically determinate and indeterminate prestressed concrete structures; calculation of loss of prestress.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 333, C E 335.
May be convened with:  C E 535.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 437 -- Advanced Structural Design in Concrete  (3 units)
Description:  Advanced problems in the analysis and design of concrete structures, design of slender columns and one- and two-way slabs; lateral and vertical load analysis of bridges and multistory buildings; introduction to design for torsion and seismic forces; use of structural computer programs.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 337.
May be convened with:  C E 437.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 440 -- Foundation Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Settlement and bearing capacity of shallow and deep foundations; beam on elastic foundation; design of footings and pile foundations; foundations on metastable soils; the use of computer codes for foundation problems.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 340.
May be convened with:  C E 540.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 441 -- Earth Structures in Geotechnical Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Stability analysis for earth slopes, including planar, circular piecewise-linear, and composite-surface methods: analyses for static and steady-flow conditions; earth pressure theories and calculations for generalized conditions; design of rigid and flexible retaining structures; design of braced and tie-back shoring systems; design of reinforced earth walls; computer-aided analysis and design.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 340.
May be convened with:  C E 541.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 444 -- Special Topics In Geomechanics  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to geoenvironmental engineering; physiochemical and microstructural behavior of geomaterials, effect of pollutants, design of waste disposal systems; advanced laboratory testing, geotextiles, space geomechanics, etc.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 340 or consent of instructor.
May be convened with:  C E 544.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 445 -- Geoenvironmental Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Waste generation and disposal regulations; types and characterization of wastes, engineering properties of soil-water-contaminants; use of earth and geosynthetic materials in waste containment applications; evaluation, design and construction of liner and leachate collection systems used in landfills and heap leach mining; remediation of contaminated sites.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 343; Concurrent registration, C E 218.
May be convened with:  C E 545.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 455 -- Soil and Water Resources Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to soil and water relationships, irrigation systems, irrigation water supply, and irrigation management; basic designs.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 218 or A ME 331.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering design, 2 units engineering science.
Identical to:  ABE 455; ABE is home department.
May be convened with:  C E 555.
Usually offered:  Spring.

C E 456 -- Irrigation Systems Design  (3 units)
Description:  Design and operation of surface, sprinkler, and trickle irrigation systems based on economic and environmental criteria.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 218.
Credit for:  2 units engineering design, 1 unit engineering science.
Identical to:  ABE 456; ABE is home department.
May be convened with:  C E 556.
Usually offered:  Fall.

C E 458 -- Agricultural Drainage and Effluent Treatment  (3 units)
Description:  Water quality and system design for agricultural drainage and waste-water systems.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 218 or A ME 331.
Credit for:  1.5 units engineering design, 1.5 units engineering science.
Identical to:  ABE 458; ABE is home department.
May be convened with:  C E 558.
Usually offered:  Spring.

C E 461 -- Highway and Airport Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Materials, construction and structural design of highways and airports.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 340.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 463 -- Traffic Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Methods for the efficient and safe operation of transport facilities through analysis of capacity, safety, speed, parking, and volume data.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 363.
May be convened with:  C E 563.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 465 -- Project Planning and Modeling  (3 units)
Description:  Use of systems analysis in contemporary planning, including consideration of social, environmental and physical constraints; study of general and special purpose manual and computer-based simulation and gaming as an engineering and planning tool.
Prerequisite(s):  senior status in civil engineering or consult department before enrolling.
May be convened with:  C E 565.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 468 -- Urban Transportation Planning  (3 units)
Description:  Transportation planning in relation to urban development; techniques and procedures for developing long-range regional plans.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 360 or consult department before enrolling.
Identical to:  PLN 468.
May be convened with:  C E 568.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 476 -- Water and Wastewater Treatment System Design  (3 units)
Description:  Application of theory and engineering expereince tothe design ofphysical, chemical and biological processes for the treatment of potable and nonpotable water.
Prerequisite(s):  CHEE 370.
Identical to:  CHEE 476; CHEE is home department.
May be convened with:  C E 576.
Usually offered:  Fall.

C E 478 -- Introduction to Hazardous Waste Management  (3 units)
Description:  Management, planning, legal and engineering aspects of liquid and solid hazardous waste treatment and disposal.
Prerequisite(s):  CHEE 370 or consult department before enrolling.
Identical to:  CHEE 478; CHEE is home department.
May be convened with:  C E 578.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

C E 484 -- Fundamentals of Industrial and Environmental Health  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to the principles of occupational and environmental health, with emphasis on industrial hygiene aspects of recognition, evaluation, and control of environmental and industrial health hazards.
Identical to:  CPH 484; CPH is home department.
May be convened with:  C E 584.
Usually offered:  Fall.

C E 493 -- Internship  (1-5 units)
Description:  Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 494 -- Practicum  (1-3 units)
Description:  The practical application, on an individual basis, of previously studied theory and the collection of data for future theoretical interpretation.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 498 -- Senior Capstone  (1-3 units)
Description:  Integration of accumulated background in civil engineering course work for application to specific design projects. Interaction with practicing engineers to develop design methodologies.
Prerequisite(s):  at least four of C E 323, C E 334, C E 335, C E 343, C E 363, C E 373.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 498H -- Honors Thesis  (3 units)
Description:  An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis.
May be repeated:  for credit 2 times (maximum 3 enrollments).
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 499 -- Independent Study  (1-5 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 499H -- Honors Independent Study  (1-3 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 502 -- Introduction to Finite Element Methods  (3 units)
Description:  Theory and formulation procedures: energy and residual. One-dimensional problems: stress analysis in axial structures, steady and transient fluid and heat flow, consolidation, wave-propagation, beam-column. Two-dimensional problems: field and plane/axisymmetric, use of computer codes for solution to typical problems. Graduate-level requirements include research on a single aspect of the finite element method.
Identical to:  E M 502.
May be convened with:  C E 402.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 503 -- Subsurface Fluid Dynamics  (3 units)
Description:  Dynamics of immiscible fluids in porous and fractured media; anisotropy and scale; advective solute transport; consolidation and land subsidence; multiaquifer systems; free surface flow and salt water/fresh water interfaces.
Prerequisite(s):  MATH 223 or (preferably) MATH 322 or MATH 422A or MATH 422B; C E 218.
Identical to:  HWR 503; HWR is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall.

C E 504 -- Numerical Methods in Subsurface Hydrology  (4 units)
Description:  Finite difference, finite element and boundary integral methods for subsurface fluid flow and mass transport; applications to aquifers, unsaturated soils, earth structures.
Identical to:  HWR 504; HWR is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

C E 510 -- Probability in Civil Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Outlines the extent of uncertainties under which civil engineering designs and decisions are made. Theory and application. Advanced topics in risk-based engineering design. System reliability concepts. Statistical decision theory and its application in civil engineering. Identifying and modeling, nondeterministic problems in engineering in understanding many recently issued engineering codes. Graduate-level requirements include a project paper.
May be convened with:  C E 410.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 522 -- Open-Channel Flow  (3 units)
Description:  Continuity, energy and momentum principles applied to unsteady flow in open channels. Numerical solutions of kinematic, diffusion and dynamic waves. Applications to dam break problem, overland flow and border irrigation.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 322 or consult department before enrolling.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 523 -- Hydrology  (3 units)
Description:  Discussion and analysis of major topics of the hydrologic cycle and their interrelationship, such as rainfall, infiltration, evaporation, and runoff. Statistical and probabilistic methods in water supply and flood hydrology. Graduate-level requirements include a project paper.
Identical to:  ARL 523, HWR 523.
May be convened with:  C E 423.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 525 -- Water Quality Modeling  (3 units)
Description:  Deterministic and stochastic modeling of surface water systems with particular emphasis on water quality management functions. Applications and modifications of Streeter-Phelps technique for predicting oxygen levels in streams.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 218.
Identical to:  HWR 525.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 526 -- Water Quality Management  (3 units)
Description:  Optimization and systems analysis techniques used in modeling; current models used in formulation and implementation of water quality policy.
Prerequisite(s):  HWR 525.
Identical to:  HWR 526; HWR is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

C E 527 -- Computer Applications in Hydraulics  (3 units)
Description:  Computer modeling of surface water hydrology, flood plain hydraulics and water distribution systems. Theoretical basis. Application and design studies. Graduate-level requirements include a research paper or project.
Identical to:  HWR 527.
May be convened with:  C E 427.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 532 -- Advanced Structural Design in Steel  (3 units)
Description:  Advanced problems in the analysis and design of steel structures including beam columns, plate girders, composite construction, multi-story buildings; static and dynamic lateral and vertical loads; connections; computer applications. Graduate-level requirements include a comprehensive design project.
May be convened with:  C E 432.
Usually offered:  Fall.

C E 533 -- Plastic Analysis and Design  (3 units)
Description:  Material and member behavior to full plastification; redistribution of forces; plastic design of continuous beams and frames; influence of axial and shear forces; deflections and rotations; alternating plasticity; shakedown analysis.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 432 or consult department before enrolling.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 534 -- Design of Wood and Masonry Structures  (3 units)
Description:  Determination of gravity and lateral loads on structures. Design of wood structures for axial load and bending; structural wood panels, diaphragms and shear walls. Types of masonry construction. Design of masonry structures for gravity and lateral loads. Graduate-level requirements include a comprehensive design project.
May be convened with:  C E 434.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 535 -- Prestressed Concrete Structures  (3 units)
Description:  Behavior, analysis and design of statically determinate and indeterminate prestressed concrete structures; calculation of loss of prestress. Graduate-level requirements may include a research paper or a comprehensive design project.
May be convened with:  C E 435.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 537 -- Advanced Structural Design in Concrete  (3 units)
Description:  Advanced problems in the analysis and design of concrete structures, design of slender columns and one- and two-way slabs; lateral and vertical load analysis of bridges and multistory buildings; introduction to design for torsion and seismic forces; use of structural computer programs. Graduate-level requirements may include a research paper or a comprehensive design project.
May be convened with:  C E 437.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 540 -- Foundation Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Settlement and bearing capacity of shallow and deep foundations; beam on elastic foundation; design of footings and pile foundations; foundations on metastable soils; the use of computer codes for foundation problems. Graduate-level requirements include the development of computer codes for the solution of specified foundation problems or an in-depth research paper on a specific aspect of foundation engineering.
May be convened with:  C E 440.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 541 -- Earth Structures in Geotechnical Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Stability analysis for earth slopes, including planar, circular piecewise-linear, and composite-surface methods: analyses for static and steady-flow conditions; earth pressure theories and calculations for generalized conditions; design of rigid and flexible retaining structures; design of braced and tie-back shoring systems; design of reinforced earth walls; computer-aided analysis and design. Graduate-level requirements include a research paper and/or a comprehensive design project.
May be convened with:  C E 441.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 544 -- Special Topics In Geomechanics  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to geoenvironmental engineering; physiochemical and microstructural behavior of geomaterials, effect of pollutants, design of waste disposal systems; advanced laboratory testing, geotextiles, space geomechanics, etc. Graduate-level requirements include a research paper and/or a comprehensive design project.
May be convened with:  C E 444.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 545 -- Geoenvironmental Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Waste generation and disposal regulations; types and characterization of wastes, engineering properties of soil-water-contaminants; use of earth and geosynthetic materials in waste containment applications; evaluation, design and construction of liner and leachate collection systems used in landfills and heap leach mining; remediation of contaminated sites. Graduate-level requirements include separate exams and term projects that involve the evaluation and design of a landfill expansion and a landfill cover system for closure.
May be convened with:  C E 445.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 548 -- Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Brief statements and applications of numerical methods based on closed-form solutions, finite difference, finite element and boundary element methods for problems involving soil structure interaction such as piles, retaining walls, group piles, underground works; seepage; and consolidation.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 402, C E 340.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 555 -- Soil and Water Resources Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to soil and water relationships, irrigation systems, irrigation water supply, and irrigation management; basic designs. Graduate-level requirements include a special project on a current irrigation topic.
Credit for:  2 units engineering science, 1 unit engineering design.
Identical to:  ABE 555; ABE is home department.
May be convened with:  C E 455.
Usually offered:  Spring.

C E 556 -- Irrigation Systems Design  (3 units)
Description:  Design and operation of surface, sprinkler, and trickle irrigation systems based on economic and environmental criteria. Graduate-level requirements include a special project.
Credit for:  1 unit engineering science, 2 units engineering design.
Identical to:  ABE 556; ABE is home department.
May be convened with:  C E 456.
Usually offered:  Fall.

C E 558 -- Agricultural Drainage and Effluent Treatment  (3 units)
Description:  Water quality and system design for agricultural drainage and waste-water systems. Graduate-level requirements include a special project.
Credit for:  1.5 units engineering science, 1.5 units engineering design.
Identical to:  ABE 558; ABE is home department.
May be convened with:  C E 458.
Usually offered:  Spring.

C E 563 -- Traffic Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Methods for the efficient and safe operation of transport facilities through analysis of capacity, safety, speed, parking, and volume data. Graduate-level requirements include a research paper or project.
May be convened with:  C E 463.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 565 -- Project Planning and Modeling  (3 units)
Description:  Use of systems analysis in contemporary planning, including consideration of social, environmental and physical constraints; study of general and special purpose manual and computer-based simulation and gaming as an engineering and planning tool. Graduate-level requirements include a research paper or project.
May be convened with:  C E 465.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 568 -- Urban Transportation Planning  (3 units)
Description:  Transportation planning in relation to urban development; techniques and procedures for developing long-range regional plans. Graduate-level requirements include a research paper or project.
Identical to:  PLN 568.
May be convened with:  C E 468.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 573 -- Biodegradation of Hazardous Organic Compounds  (3 units)
Description:  Thermodynamic, kinetic, and microbiological principles of biochemical treatment of hazardous organic compounds. Emphasis on biotransformations of chlorinated compounds.
Prerequisite(s):  CHEE 577 or consult department before enrolling.
Typical structure:  2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory.
Identical to:  CHEE 573; CHEE is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall.

C E 574 -- Environmental Transport Processes  (3 units)
Description:  Engineering concerns in toxic and hazardous waste management with focus on aspects of chemical transport between air, water and soil systems, and microbial degradation processes in natural and engineered environment.
Identical to:  CHEE 574; CHEE is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall.

C E 576 -- Water and Wastewater Treatment System Design  (3 units)
Description:  Application of theory and engineering expereince tothe design ofphysical, chemical and biological processes for the treatment of potable and nonpotable water. Graduate-level requirements include additional homework problems, an enhanced course paper and additional exam questions.
Identical to:  CHEE 576; CHEE is home department.
May be convened with:  C E 476.
Usually offered:  Fall.

C E 577 -- Microbiology for Engineers and Others  (3 units)
Description:  Principles of bacterial physiology including morphology, metabolism and genetics. Applications of importance to waste treatment and environmental quality.
Prerequisite(s):  CHEE 370 or consult department before enrolling.
Identical to:  CHEE 577; CHEE is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall.

C E 578 -- Introduction to Hazardous Waste Management  (3 units)
Description:  Management, planning, legal and engineering aspects of liquid and solid hazardous waste treatment and disposal. Graduate-level requirements include a report on an in-depth review of interdisciplinary aspects of an existing project (with a non-university project engineer).
Identical to:  CHEE 578; CHEE is home department.
May be convened with:  C E 478.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

C E 584 -- Fundamentals of Industrial and Environmental Health  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to the principles of occupational and environmental health, with emphasis on industrial hygiene aspects of recognition, evaluation, and control of environmental and industrial health hazards. Graduate-level requirements include a comprehensive paper detailing hazards associated with a particular health hazard.
Identical to:  CPH 584; CPH is home department.
May be convened with:  C E 484.
Usually offered:  Fall.

C E 593 -- Internship  (1-5 units)
Description:  Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 594 -- Practicum  (1-3 units)
Description:  The practical application, on an individual basis, of previously studied theory and the collection of data for future theoretical interpretation.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 596A -- Research Topics  (1 unit)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Identical to:  E M 596A.
Usually offered:  Spring.

C E 599 -- Independent Study  (1-5 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 606 -- Wave Propagation in Solids  (3 units)
Description:  Stress (acoustic wave propagation and dispersion in infinite solids and finite wave guides), application of wave propagation theory in destructive and nondestructive evaluation of materials and structures; dynamic failure behavior of materials.
Prerequisite(s):  E M 603 or A ME 564A; A ME 564B.
Identical to:  E M 660, A ME 660.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 621 -- Sediment Transportation  (3 units)
Description:  Erosion, transportation and deposition of sediments by flowing water; sediment properties and their measurement; bed load and suspended load movement; river behavior and control.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 218.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 622 -- Open-Channel Flow  (3 units)
Description:  Continuity, energy and momentum principles applied to unsteady flow in open channels. Numerical solutions of kinematic, diffusion and dynamic waves. Applications to dam break problem, overland flow and border irrigation.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 322 or consult department before enrolling.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 632 -- Infrastructure Rehabilitation  (3 units)
Description:  Status of infrastructure and causes of deterioration of constructed facilities. Strengthening of bridges and buildings. Application of advanced modern materials such as fiber composites in new structures and for rehabilitation of existing structures.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 331, C E 336, C E 337.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 633 -- Reinforced Concrete  (3 units)
Description:  Inelastic behavior of beams and columns; short- and long-term beam deflections; combined bending, shear, and torsion in beams; behavior under load reversals; analysis and design of beam to column connections and shear walls.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 437 or consult department before enrolling.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 638 -- Advanced Structural Stability  (3 units)
Description:  The course covers stability theory as it pertains to structural engineering. The lectures will primarily involve theoretical derivations of stability behavior and how this theory is translated into design rules. Course coverage begins at the structural member level, including the examination of in-plane elastic stability, in-plane inelastic stability, and three-dimensional elastic stability. The course concludes with an examination of two-dimensional structural stability, including elastic-plastic collapse of frames.
Usually offered:  Spring.

C E 645 -- Geoenvironmental Engineering  (3 units)
Description:  Interaction of environmental and geo-technology; physiochemical properties and mechanism of pollutant transport; effects on soil and foundation behavior and ground water, analytical and numerical modeling, design of geotechnical structures and waste contaminant systems.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 340 or C E 544 or consent of instructor.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 648 -- Constitutive Laws for Engineering Materials  (3 units)
Description:  Statement of axioms of continuum mechanics. Strain, stress and nonlinear behavior. Laboratory testing including hyperelasticity, hypoelasticity, rate type models, plasticity review, hardening, volume change and dilatancy, softening, inherent and induced anisotropy, laboratory testing and implementation.
Prerequisite(s):  C E 603, E M 505 or consult department before enrolling.
Identical to:  E M 648.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 655 -- Stochastic Hydrology  (3 units)
Description:  1999-2000 only [Taught Fall and Spring semesters, alternating Academic Years; Fall odd numbered, Spring even-numbered years] Advanced application of statistics and probability to hydrology. Topics/applications may vary with instructor, e.g., time series analysis and synthesis, and artificial neural network methods, as applied in the modeling of hydro-climatic sequences or Bayesian and other analyses in the decision making process of water resources. A combination of theory and application to the fields of hydrology, environmental and water resources engineering, climatic modeling, and other related natural resource modeling.
Prerequisite(s):  HWR 545.
May be repeated:  for credit 1 time (maximum 2 enrollments).
Identical to:  HWR 655; HWR is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

C E 665 -- Quick Response Transportation Planning Methods  (3 units)
Description:  Quick response transportation tools for subarea, problem and policy analysis, and strategic planning in the urban setting.
Identical to:  PLN 665.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 673 -- Advances in Water and Waste Reclamation and Reuse  (2 units)
Description:  Theory, application, and evaluation of currently developing techniques in water and waste reclamation and reuse.
Prerequisite(s):  CHEE 675.
Identical to:  CHEE 673; CHEE is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall.

C E 675 -- Wastewater Treatment  (3 units)
Description:  Theoretical and applied principles of aerobic and anaerobic wastewater treatment systems.
Prerequisite(s):  CHEE 370.
Identical to:  CHEE 675; CHEE is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall.

C E 676 -- Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment  (3 units)
Description:  Advanced design for water and wastewater treatment. Emphasis on modern environmental engineering processes for water and wastewater treatment.
Identical to:  CHEE 676; CHEE is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

C E 900 -- Research  (1-3 units)
Description:  Individual research, not related to thesis or dissertation preparation, by graduate students.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 909 -- Master's Report  (1-3 units)
Description:  Individual study or special project or formal report thereof submitted in lieu of thesis for certain master's degrees.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 910 -- Thesis  (1-6 units)
Description:  Research for the master's thesis (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or thesis writing). Maximum total credit permitted varies with the major department.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 920 -- Dissertation  (1-9 units)
Description:  Research for the doctoral dissertation (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or dissertation writing).
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

C E 930 -- Supplementary Registration  (1-9 units)
Description:  For students who have completed all course requirements for their advanced degree programs. May be used concurrently with other enrollments to bring to total number of units to the required minimum.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.