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Degree Requirements:
• A total of 45 units is required, including at least 24 units
of graduate (500-level) courses and a thesis or comprehensive examination.
• MATH 402A is required of all students if not taken as part
of their undergraduate program. Students must attain at least a
3.0 grade point average in all courses in the approved degree program,
as well as in their area of specialization.
• The advice and approval of a civil engineering graduate advisor
must be obtained before enrolling in any course.
• A writing proficiency examination is required of all students.
The program is organized as follows:
Area of Specialization (24-41 units): Select a minimum of
24 units in 500-level engineering courses. At least 20 units must
be in civil engineering courses to comprise a coherent group of
courses that fulfills the student’s objectives.
Electives in Engineering (0-17 units) Selected from 400 and
500 level courses.
Electives in Related Fields (4-21 units) Select a minimum
of 4 units, other than civil engineering, related to this program.
MATH 402A (4 units) must be included in these electives unless already
completed.
Comprehensive Examination or Thesis (0, 4 units)
CE 596 Comprehensive Examination (0) or CE 599 Thesis (4)
Students who select the comprehensive examination (CE 596) should
expect to take it the quarter they complete all coursework in their
program, and must comply with school and departmental requirements.
Graduate Courses in Civil Engineering (CE)
Structural Engineering
560 Structural Mechanics III (4)
Prerequisites: CE 460. Column analogy, moment distribution applied
to non-prismatic members, elastic energy method applied to arches
and curved members, influence lines for indeterminate structures
and secondary stresses.
561 Advanced Steel Design (4)
Prerequisites: CE 460 and CE 461. Emphasis on LRFD method, Unsymmetrical
bending and torsion of beams, composite beams, nonprismatic beams,
plate girders, beam-columns, frames and connections.
562 Reinforced Concrete Design II (4)
Prerequisites: CE 462. Creep and plastic flow of concrete. Theory
and practice of ultimate strength design. Prestressed concrete structures.
563 Matrix Computer Analysis of Structures (4)
Prerequisites: CE 460. Matrix methods applied to statically determinate
and indeterminate structures, flexibility and stiffness methods,
digital computer applications.
564 Numerical Methods in Structural Analysis (4)
Prerequisites: CE 460 or 402. Finite difference and finite-element
methods for structures; free and forced vibrations; bending, buckling
of beams and plates; special applications.
565 Dynamics of Structures (4)
Prerequisites: CE 460 or ME 414. Free vibrations, forced vibrations
and transient response of structures and structural components having
one and many degrees of freedom; damping and inelastic action, earthquakes
and nuclear blasts; dynamic resistance of structures; limit design;
design for dynamic loads.
572 Plates and Shells (4)
Prerequisites: CE 402 and CE 460. Equations of bending of thin
elastic plates, energy method; approximate and numerical methods;
theory of shells with application to tanks, roofs, and pressure
vessels.
577 Bridge Engineering (4)
Prerequisites: CE 461 and CE 462. Design of steel, concrete,
and timber bridges, piers, and abutments; American Association of
State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) specifications;
criteria for earthquake resistant design of bridges; geometry, safety,
economics, and aesthetics.
Geotechnical Engineering
566 Soil Mechanics II (4)
Prerequisite: CE 467. Stress and strain in soil mass, equilibrium
and movement of soil water, soil consolidation, settlement, and
soil strength.
567 Foundations II (4)
Prerequisites: CE 467. Earth-pressure problems and problems of
deep excavation; design of anchored bulkheads, cofferdams, piles
under lateral loads, underpinning.
569 Earth Structures (4)
Prerequisites: CE 467. Factors influencing design, explorations
for foundations and construction processes, compactions, stability
analysis, seepage control, earth dams.
570 Soil Dynamics (4)
Prerequisites: CE 467. Dynamic properties of soils, vibratory
effects on foundations, earthquake effects on foundations, dynamic
stability of earth structures.
Highway and Transportation Engineering
571 Highway Design (4)
Prerequisites: CE 471. Practical application of American Association
of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) policy on
design controls; capacity analysis for uninterrupted flow, weaving
section and ramps; functional design procedures in development of
an interchange.
574 Traffic Flow Analysis (4)
Prerequisites: CE 370. Measurements and analysis of traffic flow
characteristics; speed, density, flow, headway; statistical data
analysis, time-space diagrams, traffic flow models, queuing theory,
shock wave analysis, traffic model's applications.
575 Urban Transportation Planning (4)
Prerequisites: CE 370. Travel forecasting, data requirements,
collection methods, trip generation and distribution models; modal
split analysis, trip assignment, plan alternatives, and evaluation
methodology.
Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering
581 Modeling Techniques in Hydraulic Engineering (4)
Prerequisites: CE/ME 303. Dimensional analysis: Similarity law
and hydraulic, coastal, and estuarine models; mathematical models.
582 Statistical Hydrology (4)
Prerequisites: CE 483, CE/ME 210, and CE/ME 211. Statistical
and probability analysis of hydrologic processes. Application of
correlation and regression method to hydrologic variables. Elementary
time series analysis of hydrologic data.
583 Hydrology II (4)
Prerequisites: CE 483. Space-time characteristics and mechanics
of rainfall, surface runoff and infiltration. Theory of drainage
basin dynamics. Low stream flow.
586 Open Channel Hydraulics (4)
Prerequisites: CE 387 and Math 215. Flow types, flow profile
computations; design of channels and transition structures; unsteady
flow.
587 Hydraulics II (4)
Prerequisites: CE 387. Unsteady flow in pipes, and sediment transportation.
588 Hydraulic Structures (4)
Prerequisites: CE 387. Hydraulic structures for impounding, conveying,
and controlling water.
589 Coastal Engineering (4)
Prerequisites: CE 387. Fundamentals of water waves and their
effects. Diffraction, reflection, and refraction; impulsively generated
waves; effect of waves on coastal structures.
Environmental Engineering
578 Environmental Fate of Organic Compounds (4)
Prerequisites: CE 384 or Equivalent. Study processes affecting
organic compounds in the environment. Topics include: transfer of
chemicals among environmental compartments (water, air, sediments,
and biota), chemical, photochemical, and biochemical transformations,
and environmental modeling techniques.
579 Environmental Mass Transfer (4)
Prerequisites: CE 384 or Equivalent. Study the fate of contaminants
in the environment. Emphasis on the fundamentals of mass transfer
including: sorption/desorption, contaminant retardation, vaporization
and dissolution of Nonaqueous Phase Liquids (NAPL), and other phenomena.
580 Environmental Transport (4)
Prerequisites: CE 384 or Equivalent. Transport in water and air
emphasizing exchanges across boundaries such as sediment-water and
air-water; particles, droplets, and bubbles; effect of reactions
on transport; linkages between physical, chemical, and biological
processes.
Comprehensive Examination, Thesis
596 Comprehensive Examination (0)
597 Graduate Research (1-5)
598 Graduate Directed Study (1-4)
599 Thesis (1-4)
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