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relationships, methods of comparing Water resources; environmental of global positioning systems and
alternatives using economic concepts engineering; geotechnical geographical information systems
such as: the rate-of return (ROR), the engineering; foundation design; and to civil engineering projects. Brief
present worth (PW), the future worth transportation principles. coverage of the fundamental
(FW), the annual equivalent (AE), concepts of the systems.
cost-benefit analysis and breakeven Introduction to the concepts of
and payback analysis. Other topics engineering design in the hot and CIV 206 - Mechanics of Materials
include replacement analysis, humid environment of the Gulf Credit Hour: 3
inflation and depreciation. The course region. Sample engineering design Prerequisite: CIV 201
enables students to make suitable project to understand the effect
decisions in their professional life of contemporary issues on civil The course presents elementary
when they have to make a decision engineering profession. analysis of deformable solids
on ethical and economical basis. CIV 201 - Statics subjected to force systems; concepts
of stress and strain; one, two and
Credit Hour: 3 three-dimensional stress- strain
Major Requirements Prerequisite: PHY 102 relationships for the linear elastic
The course introduces solid; statically determinate and
indeterminate axial force, torsion
undergraduate students to the and bending members; stress
CIV 102 - Computer Aided fundamentals of engineering transformations, pressure vessels,
Drawing problem solving. It utilizes vector combined loadings; and an
algebra and free body diagrams to
Credit Hour:3 solve statics problems. Students introduction to column buckling.
Prerequisite: No Prerequisite apply mathematics, calculus and CIV 242 - Fluid Mechanics
This course is an introduction to physics to solve engineering Credit Hour: 3
computer aided drawing utilizing problems such as, calculation of Prerequisite: CIV 201 + MTT 200
AutoCAD software to produce civil external and internal forces acting
engineering drawings. Students on rigid bodies (and particles) This is the first course in Water
will gain basic to intermediate under static equilibrium. The course Resources Engineering. Fluid
proficiency in AutoCAD, annotation, also enables students to analyze Mechanics encompasses a huge
geometric construction, and line distributed forces; locate centroid; range of topics which deal with the
conventions. The course will also find moments of inertia, and draw behavior of gasses and liquids under
introduce students to orthographic moment and shear diagrams.. static and dynamic conditions. The
projections, isometric view, sectional CIV 205 - Introduction to course covers the following topics:
views, and drawings of section views Geomatics fluid properties; fluid statics and
for civil engineering applications motion, pressure and force under
including structural, geotechnical, Credit Hour: 3 hydrostatic conditions, manometers,
transportation, etc., Examples Prerequisite: MTT 102 buoyancy and stability of floating
included are intended to improve and submerged bodies, mass,
student’s visualization. This course covers plane surveying, energy and momentum conservation
topographical surveying, horizontal laws; dimensional analysis and
CIV104 - Introduction to Civil and vertical curves, topographic modeling; friction factor and losses in
Engineering surveys, construction surveys, pipes; and fluid measurements.
earthwork, route surveying. Use of
Credit Hour:3 specialized software for earthwork Taken simultaneously with CIV242L (1
Prerequisite: No Prerequisite calculations, site grading, site layout, credit hour).
This course introduces students adjusting measured quantities,
to the study and practice of civil calculating coordinates and areas,
engineering; specialized sub- and locating points for design grades
disciplines of civil engineering; and planned roadways.
professionalism and professional Mathematical topics for surveying
registration; engineering ethics; andconstruction including
introduction to static and dynamic probability, error and precision;
equilibrium; mathematical matrix operations; allocation theory;
computing; exercises in engineering network analysis; and constraint
technical communications based optimization.Applications

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