Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and respond appropriately to real-life engineering ethics cases relevant to co-op work
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Synthesize and apply appropriate technical education to real world technical work
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Communicate effectively in writing and speaking with a range of audiences in the workplace, including those without disciplinary expertise
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Develop professional and transferable habits like time management skills, collaborative problem-solving skills, and research skills for learning new information
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Examine architectural design as a theoretical practice and the use of visual representation to successfully communicate ideas.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Effectively communicate in a group and participate in constructive criticism and discussion about the presented ideas and work.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Demonstrate comprehension of historical, philosophical, theoretical, and an aesthetic perspective commonly used in the discussion of architecture.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Apply knowledge of artistic/design principles, conventions, methods, and practices through the creation of works of art/design.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Compare and contrast the expressive and formal features of different artistic media and/or cultural traditions through both analytical studies and original artistic/design work.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate knowledge of basic concepts in architecture and related disciplines.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Strategize a solution to a fundamentally simple design problem based on a design precedent.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Research design methodology for proposed a program and employ skills in scale and proportion, composition and form in 2D imagery.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Employ skills in scale and proportion, composition and form in 3D.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Demonstrate diagramming and journaling skills based on course content.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate knowledge of basic concepts in architecture and related disciplines.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Strategize a solution to a fundamentally simple design problem based on a design precedent.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Research design methodology for a proposed program and employ skills in scale and proportion, composition and form in 2D imagery.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Employ skills in scale and proportion, composition and form in 3D.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Demonstrate diagramming and journaling skills based on course content.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Visually recognize and identify major architectural modes of representation.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Using formal and technical vocabulary, describe the defining characteristics of buildings.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Distinguish and develop a working knowledge of significant developments in architectural thinking across time and in a cross-cultural context.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Apply critical thinking to ideas and theories in the history of architecture.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Use basic drafting tools to create scaled images of civil and environmental engineering designs
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Use computer-aided design tools to create scaled images of civil and environmental engineering designs
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Strategically deploy representational strategies with a range of tools available.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Explain techniques of 2D and 3D representation.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Explain history, theory, and contemporary application of representation strategies.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Explain the techniques and tools available to produce them.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Use spreadsheet software to perform fundamental civil, environmental, and geological engineering calculations, analyze datasets using logical filters, and interpret numeric data meant to represent time and text values
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Use computer programming as a tool to streamline engineering data analysis tasks, create visualizations, obtain numerical approximations, and retrieve data from local and remote (web-based) data sources
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Use automatic levels, total stations, and aerial photography to conduct land surveying operations and collect the type of geospatial data required for creating drawings that support engineering design
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Explain how measuring devices (data acquisition systems and sensors) work, use measuring devices to record/monitor the physical properties of a system, and use sensor readings as the foundation to control devices in the physical world
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Conduct and report on independent civil or environmental engineering research
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recall properties of fluids in relation to natural and engineered flows
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Explain how pressure varies in static and moving fluids
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Use conservation of mass, momentum, angular momentum, and energy to analyze flows in natural and engineered settings
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Use dimensional analysis to reduce the number of parameters in analysis of flows and to develop prototype-model relationships
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Assess the functioning of natural and engineered flow systems and determine appropriate analysis tools to achieve desired outcomes
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Design and conduct experiments to understand fluid flows and determine quantitative relationships between dimensionless variables
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. List and explain the fundamental processes of the hydrologic cycle
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Explain the importance of hydrology and water resources in society
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Use hydrologic principles to address engineering problems related to water supply, flooding, and environmental quality
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Derive and use quantitative relationships to describe hydrologic behavior
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Examine the causes of and solutions for the sustainability challenge of water availability under conditions of changing land use, climate, and demand and environmental issues.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenges of water management and identify potential tradeoffs and interrelationships among these dimensions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Synthesize the connections to and importance of hydrological processes and methods in broader contemporary interdisciplinary water resources and environmental issues
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify major issues pertaining to water and air quality, and general ecosystem quality
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Describe the roles and responsibilities of environmental engineers and scientists in society
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Carry out material and energy balances within a standard problem solving framework
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Derive and solve mathematical expressions to describe simple transformation and transport process that occur in environmental media
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Perform computations related to concepts and processes within the fields of water supply, wastewater treatment, solid waste, and air quality engineering
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Conduct experiments appropriate to environmental engineering
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Use statistics to analyze uncertainties and interpret experimental results
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Design an experiment to test a specific hypothesis
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Design an experiment to establish engineering design criteria (e.g., estimate a required chemical dose, estimate a required reactor size)
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Function in an environmental engineering team to conduct experiments and interpret results
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Organize and deliver effective written and graphical communications
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the first and second laws of thermodynamics and their applications to environmental engineering problems
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Formulate energy balances to solve environmental engineering problems in flowing and non-flowing systems
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Apply the relationship between energy, heat and work to environmental engineering problems
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Conduct performance and design calculations based upon thermodynamic principles
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply knowledge of materials behavior to select, specify, and monitor materials used in the treatment and conveyance of water and air
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Conduct and/or monitor standardized testing protocols, interpreting test results, and preparing technical reports
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Conduct forensic studies to determine role of material properties in treatment or conveyance failures
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Practice skills in teamwork and communication relevant to materials selection and monitoring
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the physicochemical characteristics of soils and their importance to the engineering behavior of soils.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Define the factors which control the physical, mechanical and hydraulic behavior of soils.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Run the laboratory tests used for the determination of physicochemical properties of soils, the engineering classification of soils, hydraulic properties, and the stiffness and shear strength properties.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Perform analyses in each area described in the course and understand the limitations to these analyses.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. List basic problems in Soil Mechanics design and describe how these problems are tackled.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Experimentally assess the interaction of multiple parameters controlling the physical, mechanical and hydraulic behavior of soils; perform more advanced 2D or 3D analyses in one area described in the course and understand the limitations of these analyses; or summarize the state of the art in one research or engineering-applied area described in the course.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Compute the internal forces (axial, shear, and moment) applied to determinate structural systems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Construct shear and moment influence lines for patterned loads
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Compute the deflections of a linear elastic structural system
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Compute the internal forces (axial, shear, and moment) applied to simple indeterminate structural systems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Compute the internal forces (axial, shear, and moment) applied to any indeterminate structural system by computer code-based matrix method.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate knowledge of Human Cultures and the Natural World by studying the arts and sciences of other cultures.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply Critical and Creative Thinking Skills, including inquiry, problem solving, and qualitative reasoning.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Demonstrate effective Communication Skills in reading, visual communication, and information literacy.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain many different design and construction of building systems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Identify types of systems visually on site
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Evaluate which type of each system may be best for the design
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Evaluate the cost, schedule, and procurement implications of designs
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Work effectively in a design team and create an operations plan for a project
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Analyze systems more deeply through research
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe the basic elements of the transportation delivery system
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Use quantitative and computerized techniques for planning, designing, and operating transportation systems
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Describe and critique theoretical design and operations issues
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Explain the need for highway design standards and how the political process, economics, and new technologies affect transportation decision making
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Explain how travel mode characteristics influence demand and mode choice; and how multiple modes of transportation interact
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Use the principles of transportation engineering and highway design standards to solve a specific problem
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Examine, design, optimize, simulate, and present, in both written and oral formats, a thorough description of their analysis procedure
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify, formulate, solve complex wastewater management and engineering problems by applying engineering and science principles to design a complete residential onsite wastewater treatment system.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Use engineering design to produce wastewater management solutions that meet treatment goals with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Communicate effectively with the instructor and other students during in-class discussions.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in onsite wastewater management and engineering situations and make informed design assumptions/judgments, which must consider the impact of wastewater management solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal context.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Analyze and interpret data related to wastewater flow, source, and characteristics, soil/site characteristics, and use engineering judgement to select appropriate design solutions.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Acquire and apply new knowledge regarding advanced treatment processes for residential wastewater treatment.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify concepts and principles of building information modeling
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Explain construction management with 3-dimensional (3D) and 4D building information models
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Use computer tools to model a building
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Use communication and teamwork skills in multi-disciplinary building design modeling
Audience: Undergraduate

5. List, examine, and critique modeling challenges
Audience: Graduate

6. Develop innovative solutions to modeling challenges so that construction inefficiencies are minimized
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Use knowledge of construction materials behavior to select and specify materials for construction of civil engineering facilities
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Use knowledge of construction materials behavior to monitor construction of civil engineering facilities
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Conduct experiments with standardized testing protocols, interpret test results, and communicate results and interpretation in technical reports
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Design and conduct forensic studies to determine the role of material properties or construction methods in facility failures
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Use teamwork and communication skills relevant to the selection, specification, monitoring, and testing of construction materials
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Quantitatively and qualitatively assess, estimate, and communicate the hydraulic performance of pressure-flow conveyance systems, including pumps, pipes, pipe grids, valves, storage tanks, and flow meters
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Select a pipe material and pipe diameter to meet a specified objective
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Describe the purpose of different valve types and select a valve to meet a specified objective
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Select a pump and pump material to meet a specified objective
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Estimate the performance of a pump operated at different speeds and against changing resistance to flow
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Use hydraulic modeling software to simulate a drinking water distribution grid and to evaluate alternative solutions to meet changing objectives
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Describe alternative ways of recovering energy from hydraulic systems and estimate return on investment for such systems
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Conceptualize groundwater flow systems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Develop and apply 2-D, steady-state, analytical models of groundwater flow
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Explain and use equations describing transient groundwater flow
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Apply hydraulic testing methods
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Develop and use a basic numerical model of groundwater flow
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Explain contemporary groundwater issues and their societal relevance
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Differentiate between representations of runoff, streamflow, evapotranspiration, precipitation, infiltration, soil moisture, and snowpack based on physical principles and empirical simplifications
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Derive quantitative relationships describing terrestrial water and energy fluxes
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Formulate mathematical models of the water terrestrial water cycle at point and watershed scales
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Identify the strengths and weaknesses of hydrologic predictions for addressing real-world water resources challenges, including in a changing climate
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Contrast water resources engineering methods with more complex hydrologic and hydraulic methods
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Identify the geophysical conditions under which specific hydrologic assumptions are valid
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Characterize planning, design, and management objectives in water systems
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Formulate, design and solve optimization models of water systems
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Integrate systems outputs into decision-making models
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Apply basic fundamentals of economic theory to water resources problems
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Articulate current issues in water resource management
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Write codes to perform statistical analyses
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Determine multiple performance metrics and subsequently draw suitable conclusions
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Articulate why sustainability is important and relevant within the practice of engineering
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Apply sustainability tools such as industrial ecology, life cycle assessment, economic assessment, material flow analysis, and criticality to inform engineering decisions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Analyze sustainability issues and/or practices using a systems-based approach
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of engineering and identify potential trade-offs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Identify and critique recent peer reviewed sustainability literature
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe methods used to characterize risks associated with chemical toxins and microbial pathogens
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe the contributions of exposure and potency/virulence to risk and calculate risks
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. List alternative routes of exposure and estimate the contribution of different sources to overall exposure
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Explain how regulatory standards are derived from risk estimates
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. List the technologies that environmental engineers can design, build, and operate to limit exposure to a specified chemical toxin or microbial pathogen
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Connect the topics of this course with their graduate research work
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the roles of engineers and scientists in managing air quality
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Classify the breadth of air pollution problems into the following scales: indoor residential air quality, indoor industrial air quality, urban air pollution, regional air pollution, and global climate change
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Describe the sources, transformations, fates, and impacts of key priority air pollutants at the scales noted above
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Derive and use mass balance and reactor model calculations to estimate concentrations, and to identify fates and sources of air pollution at the scales noted above
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Estimate transport and thermodynamic properties related to the formation, destruction, and removal of air pollutants
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Explain the key technologies and processes used to prevent air pollution formation, transform air pollutants and remove air pollutants
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Develop a basic design to mitigate an air pollution problem
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Predict which kinds of organisms will be found in different ecosystems using quantitative reasoning when possible
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe research tools and applications in environmental microbiology as well as their limitations
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Critically evaluate published research carried out in the field and think creatively about new potential research questions and applications
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Work collaboratively in a team to enhance learning and solve complex problems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Synthesize and condense complex concepts into a form that is accessible to peers
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Find regulatory requirements for effluent permits, design, and operation of wastewater treatment plants and incorporate them as constraints when developing design solutions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Develop technically feasible alternative solutions, compare the alternative solutions, and recommend one of the solutions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Create plans and specifications that allow construction of a portion of the recommended solution
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Design experiments necessary to gather data and create information for use in design
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Implement measures to consider risk, reliability, and uncertainty in wastewater treatment
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Use the skills and expertise of multiple disciplines on a design team to address complex engineering problems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of wastewater treatment
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

8. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of wastewater treatment
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

9. Manage a group of undergraduate students through the design process
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Find regulatory requirements for design and operation in solid and hazardous waste engineering and incorporate them as constraints when developing design solutions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Develop technically feasible alternative solutions, compare the alternative solutions, and recommend one of the solutions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Create plans and specifications that allow construction of a portion of the recommended solution
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Address professional and ethical issues in environmental engineering
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Implement measures to consider risk, reliability, and uncertainty in hazardous waste management
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Use the skills and expertise of multiple disciplines on a design team to address complex engineering problems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to address energy and resource use in solid and hazardous waste engineering design and operation
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

8. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of solid and hazardous wastes engineering
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

9. Manage a group of undergraduate students through the design process
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Find regulatory requirements for water quality, operation, and design, and incorporate them as constraints when developing design solutions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Develop technically feasible alternative solutions, compare the alternative solutions, and recommend one of the solutions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Create plans and specifications that allow construction of a portion of the recommended solution
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Implement measures to consider risk, reliability, and uncertainty in water treatment plant design
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of drinking water treatment
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of drinking water treatment
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Manage a group of undergraduate students through the design process
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Calculate the factor of safety of natural or engineered slopes
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Design simple earth retaining structures
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Perform additional design strategies to design complex slope or retaining structures
Audience: Graduate

4. Lead a team of undergraduate students for the final design project exercise
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply methods and requirements of a subsurface investigation program
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Collect sufficient information to design basic shallow or deep foundation systems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Fulfill the design criteria for different structures and facilities
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Design shallow and deep foundation structures
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Perform additional design strategies to design the foundation of a soil retaining structure
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Predict stress concentrations around underground openings
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Identify weak points around underground openings in conjunction with the rock mass type information
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Design openings to minimize hazard
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Design reinforcement strategies
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Perform advanced design strategies
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Model a structure, including boundary conditions and loading, for analysis using the stiffness method
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Solve for unknown joint displacements, reactions, and member actions using the stiffness method
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Use energy concepts for the determination of deflections, member stiffness/flexibility matrices, and equivalent joint loads
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Account for material and geometric nonlinearities in the analysis of simple two-dimensional frame structures
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate a working knowledge of the typical strength limit states of a tension member and simple bolted tension connection, including gross yielding, fracture of an effective net section, and block shear
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Demonstrate a working knowledge of the typical strength limit states of a compression member, including gross yielding, elastic and inelastic flexural buckling, and local web buckling
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Demonstrate a working knowledge of the typical strength limit states of a flexural member, including yielding, elastic and inelastic lateral-torsional buckling, and local flange buckling
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Demonstrate a working knowledge of the typical strength limit states of a member subjected to the combined effects of flexure and axial force, including yielding, lateral-torsional buckling, and local buckling
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Check, proportion and design structural steel members subjected to tension, compression, or/and flexure to satisfy the requirements of the AISC Specification for Structural Steel Buildings using the Load and Resistance Factor Design method
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Develop technically feasible alternative solutions to a problem, compare the alternative solutions, and recommended one of the solutions as the preferred option
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Compute required strengths for flexure, shear, and axial load, as well as moment and shear envelopes of design using the load factors and load combinations specified by the current building code requirements for structural concrete
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Perform a structural analysis and design of reinforced concrete members with rectangular and T-shaped sections subjected to flexure and shear (beams)
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Perform a structural analysis and design of reinforced concrete members subjected to combined flexure and axial loads (columns)
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Develop technically feasible alternative solutions to a problem, compare the alternative solutions, and recommend one of the solutions as the preferred option
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Compute required and design strengths for flexure, shear, and axial load for reinforced concrete members using commonly available structural analysis and design software
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the social, formal and spatial context of buildings and urban sites and how they are used to configure building design solutions.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Use architectural precedent (formal, spatial, organizational, typological and historical) for design direction on current project.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Identify a building’s integrated system of components, assemblies and sub-systems, including: structure, enclosure, internal finishing and furnishing, circulation and conveyance and environmental control and servicing.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Identify and incorporate in design projects, critical health and life safety concerns and as exemplified in (building and zoning) codes, including; egress / exiting, accessibility, construction type, fire resistance and separation / isolation.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Apply appropriate software to the architectural design process to develop, assemble, dimension and annotate a comprehensive set of architectural design documents in conventional formats.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe challenges related to data sensing and analysis in construction
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Use computer tools to analyze and visualize construction project data and models
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Identify, formulate and solve construction engineering and management problems with remote sensors
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Critically evaluate sensing technologies and actively develop innovative solutions to improve construction safety, productivity and quality
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Measure basic index properties for rock mass classification
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe stress and strain in continuums
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Describe the factors which control the mechanical behavior of rocks
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Apply basic concepts of rock mechanics and rock physics to analyze basic geomechanical engineering problems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Prepare rock samples for mechanical testing, conduct experiment, and analyze experimental data to obtain rock strength properties
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Describe analytically time-dependent rock behaviors
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Conduct and report on independent civil or environmental engineering research
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Independently develop civil or environmental engineering research questions
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Appropriately use online and library resources
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize and describe the core components of construction estimating, planning, and scheduling
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. List the steps needed to develop a cost estimate for a real-life project, then create a construction cost estimate using industry-appropriate software
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. List the steps needed to develop a time schedule for a real-life project, then create a construction schedule with a critical path plan using industry-appropriate software
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Interpret construction blueprints
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Integrate estimating and scheduling as a function of construction planning
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Prepare and develop a contractor’s bid document and deliver quantitative information in an organized manner to clients
Audience: Graduate

7. Work in a collaborative environment; lead and guide undergraduate students throughout the development of a scheduling and estimating project
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Summarize planning, design, and management objectives in civil and environmental systems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe and solve fundamental engineering economics problems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Explain optimization concepts and modeling
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Formulate, design, and solve linear optimization models
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Describe and execute scheduling and critical paths methods
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Explain decision theory, methods, and criteria
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Define ethical responsibility in engineering
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

8. Analyze sustainability issues and/or practices using a systems-based approach
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

9. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenges of engineering decision making
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

10. Apply tools and methods to research analysis
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenges of building and infrastructure projects to the general public
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of material use in construction and identify potential trade-offs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Explain the principles and functions of common sustainability rating programs used for construction projects
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Analyze sustainability issues and/or practices using a systems-based approach.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Interpret electrical construction documents
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Find project-specific requirements in the National Electrical Code and interpret differences between common codes and standards used for electrical design of commercial, industrial, and institutional building systems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Design layouts for lighting and power devices
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Size electrical feeders and building services using appropriate calculations, then draft and interpret electrical drawings based on these calculations
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Describe key design considerations for fire alarm, telecommunications, and security systems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. List advantages and disadvantages of different electrical construction materials according to their intended use
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Perform quantity takeoffs and cost estimates of electrical components in construction
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Explore the Building Information Modeling (BIM) interface and BIM360 interface
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Draft a 3D building model to explain how information is inter-related throughout the BIM model
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Develop a project which includes stairs and “feature architectural designs”, structural and MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing) components to strengthen BIM modeling skill sets
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Integrate architectural, structural and MEP building components into a 3D model and avoid clashes between the building systems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Extract construction document sheets from the 3D model
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Collaborate with multiple users across a wide area network and save their work to a central file
Audience: Graduate

7. Streamline data management and work from remote locations using a local server
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Define "ethical management practice", "personal development" and describe their personal commitment to each
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Define the terms “empathy” and “human capital” and describe their personal commitment to having empathy for human capital
Audience: Undergraduate

3. List and describe the core competencies of leadership and describe their personal commitment to leadership principles
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Identify and manage uncertainty and change in construction project management
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Use fundamentals of construction project management and its processes and/or components to solve real-life complex problems; define and distinguish construction project delivery systems and successful outcomes
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Use basic construction planning, cost management and contracts assessment skills
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify important types of aqueous-phase chemical reactions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Use thermodynamic concepts to determine whether aqueous-phase chemical reactions can proceed and, if so, the extent to which they can proceed
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Use graphical methods to solve ionic equilibrium problems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Use modern numerical tools to solve water chemistry problems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Explain the relevance of water chemistry concepts to their thesis research
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the need for progressive development of water quality analyses to respond to emerging water quality issues
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe principles of physical, chemical and biological techniques for assessing water quality and discuss analytical procedures, results, and interpretations of data
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Use knowledge of water quality analyses to assess real-world environmental issues
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Evaluate raw data to progressively determine factors influencing water quality in contrasting environments
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Use appropriate techniques to address drinking water and wastewater engineering issues
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Take on leadership roles in group projects and discussions relevant to pertinent water quality issues
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. List the different types of composite materials and describe their manufacturing processes
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe the mechanical behavior of various composite materials under different types of loading conditions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Derive mathematical models and solve them for engineering stresses and deformations in a composite structure
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Describe special theories for heterogeneous and non-isotropic materials and solve boundary value problems associated with composite structures
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Use the knowledge acquired in this class to design and conduct a complex analysis, design, and/or experiment to address key challenges relevant to composite materials
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recall the principles of conservation of mass, advective mass flux and Fick’s law for diffusive mass flux
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Apply the fundamental solution to the diffusion equation and use the principle of superposition to construct new solutions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Calculate the diffusivity given data of concentration distribution over time, and conversely, calculate the concentration distribution over time given the diffusivity
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Calculate new solutions to advection-diffusion equation by modifying known solutions to include first-order reactions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Explain the differences between molecular diffusion, turbulent diffusion and shear flow dispersion
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Apply models of mass transfer at boundaries to compute interfacial mass exchange between air-water and sediment-water interfaces
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Evaluate the importance of mixing and transport processes in environmental processes and assess the utility of different types of solutions.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify present to future and local to global hydroclimatic challenges
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Perform diagnostics and attribution regarding the influence of climatic variables and phenomena on hydrologic variables
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Design and verify probabilistic statistical and dynamical hydroclimatic forecasts
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Explain the complexities of forecast communication
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Explain the state and complexities of climate change science and modeling as it relates to water management
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Write codes to perform statistical analyses
Audience: Graduate

7. Use multiple performance metrics and subsequently draw suitable conclusions
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate data literacy in the context of temporal and geospatial hydrologic and environmental datasets
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Employ modern statistical software to analyze and model hydrologic and other environmental phenomena
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Detect trends, relationships, and patterns in temporal and spatial hydrologic and environmental datasets using regression, extreme value analyses, and other popular hydrologic statistical techniques
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Derive and interpret predictions, parameters, confidence levels, uncertainties, and sensitivities in the context of common hydrologic applications such as rainfall/flood frequency, hydropower, streamflow forecasting, and water quality
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Identify applications of data analysis methods to specific water resources engineering and other civil and environmental engineering applications
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Identify and apply appropriate statistical analysis methods to novel environmental datasets and problems
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify major issues pertaining to energy and environmental science and engineering, and evaluate the sustainability of technologies grounded in the science of material and energy balances and reaction kinetics
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Derive and solve mathematical expressions to describe energy and material transformations
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Critically evaluate and present their analysis and synthesis of literature in this area of energy and environment
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Evaluate and propose novel technological solutions grounded in the fundamentals of thermodynamics of kinetics
Audience: Graduate

5. Analyze and defend emerging technologies in the area of energy and environment
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Find regulatory requirements for hazardous waste management, remediation, and water quality, and incorporate them as constraints when developing design solutions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Develop technically feasible alternative solutions, compare the alternative solutions, and recommend one of the solutions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Create plans and specifications that allow construction of a portion of the recommended solution
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Design experiments necessary to gather data and create information for use in design
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Implement measures to consider risk, reliability, and uncertainty in hazardous waste management
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Use the skills and expertise of multiple disciplines on a design team to address complex engineering problems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of energy and resource use in hazardous waste remediation
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

8. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of hazardous waste management
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

9. Manage a group of undergraduate students through the design process
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate a working knowledge of relevant sustainability principles and definitions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Critically evaluate the application and achievement of sustainability goals by real-world project case studies in the context of natural resource capacity and limits
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Demonstrate how engineers can apply authentic sustainability goals into both large and small engineered works
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Describe how engineers can act as citizens in developing sustainability policy as well as engineers designing a sustainable project
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Critically evaluate the sufficiency of the sustainability goals that were defined for a project
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Characterize and classify slope failure
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Identify stability risk factors in generalized slope design
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Apply soil and rock mechanics and strength principles in the context of slope stability investigation and design
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Determine strength parameters of soil materials under saturated and unsaturated conditions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Understand pore fluid pressure in underground environments and its effect on manmade structures integrated within the soil as well as the failure potential of differing geometries
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Design slope remedial plans for earth structures subjected to varying physical properties, overburden and pore pressures, and restrictive geometries
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Act as leaders of the small groups they have been assigned for the mini design project
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Provide examples of when and where to consider shallow foundation systems in lieu of deep foundation systems and where stone columns or rammed aggregate piers are appropriate
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Scope and Prepare a Foundation Investigation, including the equipment and standards used for subsurface exploration and the advantages/disadvantages therein
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Calculate Allowable Bearing Pressure using (a) presumptive values, (b) the bearing capacity equation and (c) in situ approaches
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Design a safe spread foundation system where structural capacity exceeds demand
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Design a drilled shaft and a driven pile for axial loading considering vertical loading and a settlement estimate
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Prepare a bid sheet, plan set, and set of specifications for a successful foundation design
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Use soil moduli in the application of a laterally loaded deep-foundation system using an appropriate software program with a hand-calculated backcheck
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe multiple nondestructive evaluation (NDE) testing methods and their applications
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Characterize flaws within Civil and Geological Engineering materials
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Determine source locations of flaws or damage within a structure based on NDE data
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Characterize both active and passive elastic wave observations in rock
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Apply seismological principles to observed acoustic emissions for determining source locations of microcracks and infer the mechanism of failure
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Analyze fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to find earthquake events within timeseries data
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Apply artificial intelligence techniques to analyze fiber optic sensing data
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Provide the necessary steps to evaluate the wind resource at a prospective site by characterizing and correlating (vertically and horizontally) the wind speed distribution functions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Translate (forward and backward) wind power: kinetic to mechanical to electrical and select appropriate wind turbine given site wind resource and turbine power curve
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Demonstrate knowledge of the mechanics and principles of the tower load document, shallow and deep foundation designs, transportation logistics, geotechnical investigation and reporting, thermal resistivity and collection system design, and interconnection
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Develop civil balance-of-plant engineering calculation design bases for access roads, stormwater control, turbine foundations, and crane pads and electrical balance-of-plant engineering calculation design bases for the collection system, grounding, substation design, and interconnection
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Analyze sustainability issues and/or practices using a systems-based approach.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of wind energy and identify potential tradeoffs and interrelationships among these dimensions at an intermediate level.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Prepare an economic Pro Forma for a successful distributed wind project and calculate Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) and environmental Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) of green-house gasses, water use, and CO2 per kW h.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Check, proportion, and design structural steel built-up plate girders to satisfy the requirements of the AISC Specification for Structural Steel Buildings using the Load and Resistance Factor Design method
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Demonstrate a working knowledge of the Direct Analysis Method and the Advanced Analysis Method in the AISC Specification for Structural Steel Buildings to obtain the capacities of structural steel systems accounting for second order effects, geometric imperfections, and residual stresses
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Check, proportion, and design for strength and stability limit states of structural steel braced and moment frames to satisfy the requirements of the AISC Specification for Structural Steel Buildings using the Load and Resistance Factor Design method
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Check, proportion, and design composite structural steel and concrete beams to satisfy the requirements of the AISC Specification for Structural Steel Buildings using the Load and Resistance Factor Design method
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Check and proportion a steel member subjected to an advanced topic loading which may include torsion, seismic, fire, or advanced topic scenario which may include slender members or connections, or another acceptable advanced topic
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Critique current research and issues discussed in the professional literature of the discipline related to course topics
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Compute required strengths for flexure, shear, and axial load using the load factors and load combinations specified by current building code requirements for structural concrete
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Compute bar development lengths of straight and hooked bars to determine bar cutoff locations in reinforced concrete beams and slabs
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Compute immediate and long-term deflections under sustained loads for beams and slabs of reinforced concrete
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Perform a structural analysis and design of slab structural systems of reinforced concrete including flat plates, flat slabs, and two-way slabs
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Develop technically feasible alternative solutions to a problem, compare the alternative solutions, and recommend one of the solutions as the preferred option
Audience: Graduate

6. Compute required and design strengths for flexure, shear, and axial load for reinforced concrete members using available structural analysis and design software
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Communicate using connected vehicle (CV) and automated vehicle (AV) technology terms and concepts
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Design operations of traffic containing connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs)
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Incorporate CAVs in planning
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Identify policy issues related to connected and automated vehicles
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the underlying traffic principles and CAVs’ implications in real-world scenarios
Audience: Graduate

6. Quantitatively analyze CAV models based on real trajectory data
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe principles of planning, evaluation, selection, adoption, financing, and alternative urban transportation systems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Formulate community goals and objectives, inventory of existing conditions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Implement algorithms of transportation modeling–trip generation, distribution, and modal choice
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Describe technological characteristics and operation of modern transit and other movement systems
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze operational characteristics of transportation systems using graphical tools (time-space diagram and cumulative curve)
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Analyze vehicular traffic flow using advanced traffic models in different analysis scales: microscopic (vehicle-level), macroscopic (aggregate-level), and network-level scales
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Characterize uncertainty in transportation systems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Analyze transportation data based on probability and statistics theories
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Design traffic control strategies considering various uncertainties in traffic flow
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and characterize the key attributes of the vehicles, operators, and highway systems that affect geometric design
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe human behavior and accommodation of driver attributes in design
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Describe highway design objectives, constraints, and controlling factors
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Identify the basic parameters and constraints for the design of rural and urban alignments, vertical profiles, cross sections, and intersections
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Design a highway from terrain to complete highway in a 3D computer-aided design package
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Use design theory concepts and highway design knowledge in a real-world design project
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of highway design
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

8. Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of building highways in urban and rural areas
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

9. Describe highway design theory concepts regarding your area of research
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Use knowledge of highway materials behavior to select and specify materials used for highway construction
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Interpret results of standardized and advanced testing of highway materials
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Use material properties to optimize pavement layer thicknesses according to commonly used design methodologies
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Identify and describe requirements for inspection and Quality Control/Quality Assurance of highway materials
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Use knowledge of mechanics of materials and structural analysis of pavements to determine stresses and strains in highway pavements caused by traffic and climate changes
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Use knowledge of highway materials behavior for selecting materials to meet damage resistance requirements and estimate service life of pavements
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Conduct life cycle cost analysis of pavements and provide methodologies for maintenance and rehabilitation of pavements
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Use best practices to monitor pavement surface and structural conditions to enhance pavement service life
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze vehicular traffic flow using advanced models and numerical techniques in different analysis scales: microscopic (vehicle-level), mesoscopic (platoon-level), macroscopic (aggregate-level), and network-level scales
Audience: Graduate

2. Design traffic control strategies to improve efficiency and/or stability of traffic flow
Audience: Graduate

3. Design traffic control strategies considering various uncertainties in traffic flow
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Integrate and apply the knowledge gained in prior coursework into a simulated real-world design environment
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Use open-ended problem-solving skills
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Work effectively in a multidisciplinary team environment
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Use oral and written communication skills to articulate proposed and completed work
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Explain basic concepts in management, business, and public policy
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Explain the importance of professional licensure
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Identify common failure mechanisms of a component, process, or system and their causes and prevention
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate awareness of historic and/or current advances in transportation engineering research, practice, policy and/or professional conduct
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Connect the topics of this course with their graduate research work
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe key theories, concepts, and methods in environmental chemistry
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Use appropriate tools, processes, and/or software to apply key theories, concepts, and methods in environmental chemistry
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Use appropriate tools, processes, and/or software to apply, analyze, and/or evaluate advanced theories, concepts, or methods in environmental chemistry
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify, describe, and quantify ecohydrologic processes
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Build and use models for simulating hydrologic processes, ecologic structure and vegetation composition
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Work effectively and collaborate in groups to communicate ecohydrologic concepts
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Critically evaluate the ecohydrologic literature
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe key theories, concepts, and methods in hydraulics and fluid mechanics
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Use appropriate tools, processes, and/or software to apply key theories, concepts, and methods in hydraulics and fluid mechanics
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Use appropriate tools, processes, and/or software to apply, analyze, and/or evaluate advanced theories, concepts, or methods in hydraulics and fluid mechanics
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe key theories, concepts, and methods in hydrology
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Use appropriate tools, processes, and/or software to apply key theories, concepts, and methods in hydrology
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Use appropriate tools, processes, and/or software to apply, analyze, and/or evaluate advanced theories, concepts, or methods in hydrology
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Configure wastewater treatment plant processes and input data utilizing a commercial modeling program for design
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Define the wastewater characterization requirements for calibrating a model for a given treatment scenario
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Utilize models for planning, design, and operations problem statements
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Utilize a model to evaluate alternatives for treatment considering carbon availability, chemical use, energy requirements, and sludge production
Audience: Graduate

5. Analyze possibilities for new and innovative control strategies
Audience: Graduate

6. Determine the most significant factors affecting plant design and use the model to do a sensitivity analysis for changes in these factors
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe key theories, concepts, and methods in environmental engineering
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Use appropriate tools, processes, and/or software to apply key theories, concepts, and methods in environmental engineering
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Use appropriate tools, processes, and/or software to apply, analyze, and/or evaluate advanced theories, concepts, or methods in environmental engineering
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe key theories, concepts, and methods in geotechnical engineering
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Use appropriate tools, processes, and/or software to apply key theories, concepts, and methods in geotechnical engineering
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Use appropriate tools, processes, and/or software to apply, analyze, and/or evaluate advanced theories, concepts, or methods in geotechnical engineering
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
Audience: Graduate

2. Use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice
Audience: Graduate

3. Determine the required number and layout of prestressing strands in a prestressed concrete beam based on allowable stresses
Audience: Graduate

4. Analyze and design a prestressed or partially prestressed concrete beam for ultimate flexural strength
Audience: Graduate

5. Design a prestressed concrete beam for shear
Audience: Graduate

6. Estimate immediate and time-dependent prestress losses
Audience: Graduate

7. Estimate short-term and time-dependent deflections of a prestressed concrete beam
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
Audience: Graduate

2. Use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice
Audience: Graduate

3. Calculate the moment versus curvature response of reinforced concrete flexural members with or without axial force
Audience: Graduate

4. Design reinforced concrete members for combined flexure, shear and torsion under gravity-type loading
Audience: Graduate

5. Describe the influence of various design/loading parameters on the flexure and shear behavior of reinforced concrete members when subjected to monotonic and reversed cyclic loading
Audience: Graduate

6. Design reinforced concrete beams, columns, joints, and structural walls for earthquake motions
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe key theories, concepts, and methods in structural engineering
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Use appropriate tools, processes, and/or software to apply key theories, concepts, and methods in structural engineering
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Use appropriate tools, processes, and/or software to apply, analyze, and/or evaluate advanced theories, concepts, or methods in structural engineering
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe key theories, concepts, and methods in construction engineering and management
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Use appropriate tools, processes, and/or software to apply key theories, concepts, and methods in construction engineering and management
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Use appropriate tools, processes, and/or software to apply, analyze, and/or evaluate advanced theories, concepts, or methods in construction engineering and management
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply theoretical and practical perspectives of traffic flow modeling, with a focus on micro-simulation analytical methods
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Use proficiently at least one major simulation software package for traffic flow modeling
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Apply advanced vehicle-based microscopic traffic flow models and emerging theoretical concepts to analyze complex multi-modal conditions
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe key theories, concepts, and methods in transportation and city planning
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Use appropriate tools, processes, and/or software to apply key theories, concepts, and methods in transportation and city planning
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Use appropriate tools, processes, and/or software to apply, analyze, and/or evaluate advanced theories, concepts, or methods in transportation and city planning
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Conduct and report on independent civil or environmental engineering research
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Appropriately use online and library resources
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Communicate research clearly to other researchers in their field of study
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply fundamental aquatic chemistry topics to understand major global chemistry cycles
Audience: Graduate

2. Critically review submitted and published manuscripts
Audience: Graduate

3. Compile information from peer-reviewed articles in the form of a term paper
Audience: Graduate

4. Succinctly and clearly present findings to others
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and respond appropriately to real-life engineering ethics cases relevant to co-op work
Audience: Graduate

2. Synthesize and apply appropriate technical education to real world technical work
Audience: Graduate

3. Communicate effectively in writing and speaking with a range of audiences in the workplace, including those without disciplinary expertise
Audience: Graduate

4. Develop professional and transferable habits like time management skills, collaborative problem-solving skills, and research skills for learning new information
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the relationship of environmental reactions to kinetic and thermodynamic parameters
Audience: Graduate

2. Identify important biogeochemical reactions controlling nutrient and contaminant dynamics in aqueous systems
Audience: Graduate

3. Recognize factors controlling solid-phase mineralogy and reactivity with respect to engineered systems
Audience: Graduate

4. Incorporate biological reactions into a geochemical model of environmental systems
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Predict the environmental fate of organic compounds based on their structure
Audience: Graduate

2. Estimate partitioning between air, water, organic phases, particles, and biota
Audience: Graduate

3. Use the steady-state assumption to estimate reaction half-lives
Audience: Graduate

4. Predict the kinetics and mechanisms of nucleophilic attack and hydrolysis reactions
Audience: Graduate

5. Describe how temperature and ionic strength affect rate constants
Audience: Graduate

6. Describe direct and indirect photolysis reactions
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe how microorganisms gain energy from organic and inorganic contaminants
Audience: Graduate

2. Perform calculations to determine whether a specific chemical reaction would support microbial growth
Audience: Graduate

3. Perform calculations to quantitatively estimate the rates at which microorganisms transform chemical contaminants
Audience: Graduate

4. Describe different types of waterborne pathogens
Audience: Graduate

5. Describe how microorganisms are used to produce biofuels
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Use basic principles of general, physical, equilibrium, colloid, and biological chemistry to solve water chemistry problems related to environmental engineering
Audience: Graduate

2. Use conservation of mass and energy principles to solve water chemistry problems related to environmental engineering
Audience: Graduate

3. Describe the risks to public health and welfare associated with chemical contaminants and greenhouse gases and explain how these risks are used to develop environmental policies and regulations
Audience: Graduate

4. Describe the basic biochemical reactions important to environmental engineering (aerobic, anoxic, anaerobic, photosynthetic), and estimate the enthalpy of reactions when the formulation of reactants and products are known
Audience: Graduate

5. Explain the roles of nutrients and organic carbon in water quality, and their relative concentrations in oligotrophic waters, eutrophic waters, and typical wastes; discuss anthropogenic sources of nutrients and policies for their control
Audience: Graduate

6. Explain connections between environmental chemistry principles and processes used in environmental engineering
Audience: Graduate

7. Review viable options and complete the preliminary design of a solution to an identified environmental engineering problem using at least two areas of environmental chemistry
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the sources and limitations of renewable and non-renewable energy
Audience: Graduate

2. Describe options to minimize the use of energy and maximize its production from renewable resources
Audience: Graduate

3. Describe important environmental consequences of energy production and consumption
Audience: Graduate

4. Prepare process flow diagrams and perform relevant energy balance calculations for an environmental engineering system or process
Audience: Graduate

5. Estimate the performance efficiency of a process or component from thermodynamic principles and size a pump, compressor, or other machine based on these principles
Audience: Graduate

6. Estimate heat transfer, heat losses, and heating demand for a system or process
Audience: Graduate

7. Using at least two energy principles, complete a preliminary design of an environmental engineering system, process, or component to meet stated needs
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Define a question to answer using life cycle assessment
Audience: Graduate

2. Determine the relevant goal and scope, and boundaries for a life cycle assessment
Audience: Graduate

3. Determine and quantify the relevant inputs and outputs of a product system or process
Audience: Graduate

4. Determine the most relevant functional unit for a life cycle assessment
Audience: Graduate

5. Conduct a life cycle assessment on a product or process using appropriate software
Audience: Graduate

6. Interpret a life cycle assessment on a product or process in order to evaluate the environmental sustainability of the system
Audience: Graduate

7. Analyze sustainability issues and/or practices using a systems-based approach.
Audience: Graduate

8. Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of selected term project topic and identify potential trade-offs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the physicochemical characteristics of soils and their importance to the engineering behavior of soils
Audience: Graduate

2. Define the factors which control the hydraulic and mechanical behavior of soils
Audience: Graduate

3. Evaluate how engineering classification of soils capture fundamental responses
Audience: Graduate

4. Run and interpret laboratory tests used to characterize how physical and chemical properties of particles affect the behavior of soil masses, including hydraulic properties and the stiffness and shear strength properties
Audience: Graduate

5. Explain models that describe the behavior and properties of soils
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Define properties of unsaturated soils
Audience: Graduate

2. Use principles of interfacial physics, hydrology, and soil mechanics to interpret unsaturated soil behavior
Audience: Graduate

3. Use results from measurement methods to characterize unsaturated soil properties
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Characterize properties of soils that consist partly or wholly of clay
Audience: Graduate

2. Define the composition and fabric of natural soils, their surface and pore-fluid chemistry, and the physical and chemical factors that govern fine-grained soil behavior
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Estimate the dynamic response of single- and multi-degree of freedom systems subjected to arbitrary loads
Audience: Graduate

2. Develop closed-formed and numerical solutions to compute the time-history response of single- and multi-degree of freedom systems
Audience: Graduate

3. Estimate the earthquake-induced ground motions that can be expected to occur at a given site
Audience: Graduate

4. Estimate the response of single- and multi-story buildings subjected to earthquakes
Audience: Graduate

5. Given a site and predicted ground motions, establish the layout of the structure to resist earthquake-induced loads and displacements
Audience: Graduate

6. Determine the response of the structure to design earthquake ground motions by computing displacements, forces, stresses, deformations, and estimating damage
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe key theories, concepts, and methods in structural engineering
Audience: Graduate

2. Use appropriate tools, processes, and/or software to apply, analyze, and/or evaluate advanced theories, concepts, or methods in structural engineering
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Present and discuss research in Construction Engineering Management
Audience: Graduate

2. Formulate problem statement and methodology
Audience: Graduate

3. Give and receive constructive feedback
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the physics and mathematics of turbulence theory and modeling
Audience: Graduate

2. Describe general features of turbulence
Audience: Graduate

3. Use analysis tools to solve problems and process data related to turbulence
Audience: Graduate

4. Use turbulence concepts to understand and explain turbulent behavior in more complex systems
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Integrate knowledge from multiple disciplines to address a civil or environmental engineering research question
Audience: Graduate

2. Conduct a research study using experimental, computational, and/or theoretical approaches
Audience: Graduate

3. Communicate research results in written and verbal formats
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe flow measurement and conveyance piping, equipment, and appurtenances commonly used for fluids in environmental engineering
Audience: Graduate

2. Describe and use concepts of conservation of mass and energy for fluid flow
Audience: Graduate

3. Estimate energy losses in a given flow system for water, sludge/biosolids mixtures, other liquids, and gases under steady flow conditions
Audience: Graduate

4. Describe problems of unsteady flow and transient flow conditions that may be encountered in environmental engineering and how such problems may be addressed by design
Audience: Graduate

5. Examine and design full pipe flow and open channel flow systems, including pumping and blower/compressor systems, hydraulic control structures, piping and channels for fluids normally encountered in environmental engineering problems
Audience: Graduate

6. Use modern engineering tools to solve hydraulics and applied fluid mechanics problems in environmental engineering
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe how microbial communities work in synergistic ways to remove organic and inorganic contaminants from wastewater
Audience: Graduate

2. Describe the specific microbial metabolism associated with nitrogen and phosphorus removal in wastewater treatment plants
Audience: Graduate

3. Perform calculations to estimate the efficiency of different wastewater treatment processes
Audience: Graduate

4. Use computer simulation tools for analysis of wastewater treatment processes
Audience: Graduate

5. Examine data from biological treatment processes to identify causes of poor performance
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the fundamental physical and chemical mechanisms that drive the performance of phase transfer processes, chemical transformation processes, and physical separation processes
Audience: Graduate

2. Describe the influence of physical and chemical mechanisms on performance of the above processes
Audience: Graduate

3. Describe the fundamental hydraulic mechanisms of batch and flow-through reactors and the influence of these mechanisms on performance of the above processes
Audience: Graduate

4. Draw process flow diagrams and use them in deriving mathematical models that predict reactor performance
Audience: Graduate

5. List assumptions used in the derivation of mathematical models and list the limitations of the resulting models
Audience: Graduate

6. Conduct experiments and interpret results using derived mathematical models combined with statistical analysis methods such as nonlinear regression
Audience: Graduate

7. Describe limitations in experimental design and their effect on interpretation of data
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Use teamwork and leadership skills needed to plan and design solutions to open ended problems in environmental engineering
Audience: Graduate

2. Perform problem formulation and analysis of an environmental engineering problem
Audience: Graduate

3. Use modern engineering tools to analyze and solve an environmental engineering problem
Audience: Graduate

4. Use knowledge and experience gained during the course and in prior coursework to analyze and solve an environmental engineering problem
Audience: Graduate

5. Use written and verbal communication skills necessary to gain technical and public input to the analysis and understanding of the recommended solution
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate broad knowledge of civil or environmental engineering
Audience: Graduate

2. Integrate knowledge from multiple disciplines to independently develop civil or environmental engineering research hypotheses
Audience: Graduate

3. Design and conduct preliminary research to iteratively test and finalize hypotheses
Audience: Graduate

4. Communicate research results in written and verbal formats
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate awareness of historic and/or current advances in environmental chemistry and technology research, practice, policy and/or professional conduct
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate awareness of historic and/or current advances in hydraulic engineering and fluid mechanics research, practice, policy and/or professional conduct
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate awareness of historic and/or current advances in environmental engineering research, practice, policy and/or professional conduct
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate awareness of historic and/or current advances in geotechnical engineering research, practice, policy and/or professional conduct
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate awareness of historic and/or current advances in structural engineering research, practice, policy and/or professional conduct
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Integrate knowledge from multiple disciplines to independently develop civil or environmental engineering research hypotheses
Audience: Graduate

2. Design and conduct fundamental research tasks to test hypotheses
Audience: Graduate

3. Interpret the results of the research, then communicate the interpretation in both written and verbal formats
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Conduct and report on independent civil or environmental engineering research
Audience: Graduate

2. Independently develop civil or environmental engineering research questions
Audience: Graduate

3. Appropriately use online and library resources
Audience: Graduate