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CIV 343 - Hydraulics CIV 352 - Fundamentals of CIV 398i - Internship in Civil
Environmental Engineering Engineering 1
Credit Hour: 3 (2 lecture + 1 lab
Prerequisite: CIV 242 Credit Hour: 3 Credit Hour: 1.5
Prerequisite: CHE 205 + CIV 104 Prerequisite: Completion of 60
This is the second course in Water Credit Hours
Resources Engineering. It is an This course provides the scientific,
applied course of the fundamentals regulatory, financial, social, and CIV 399i - Internship in Civil
Engineering 2
given in the perquisite fluid design aspects of solid and
mechanics course. The course liquid waste engineering and Credit Hour: 1.5
covers the following topics: laminar management. The technologies, and Prerequisite: Completion of 105
and turbulent flows; surface and form the management and regulatory Credit Hours
resistance; flow in pipes; hydraulic components of landfill, waste-to-
machinery, unsteady flow; flow in energy, and wastewater treatment This course’s goal is to involve civil
open channels. facilities are presented with emphasis engineering students in real-life
on the multi-disciplinary nature projects and to expose them to
In addition to the lectures, the course and complexity of the problems. civil engineering work conditions,
includes also laboratory experiments Special topics include, among professional behavior, short-and-
to demonstrate various phenomena others, nuclear waste disposal and long term tasks and needs, and
encountered in the hydraulics. These grey water utilization to familiarize the opportunity to grow in the civil
include the following experiments: engineering profession. This is done
students with advanced issues where by placing students for a period of six
Lab-1: the Osborne-Reynolds laminar addressing the concerns of diverse weeks in engineering firms, agencies,
– turbulent flow to observe the stakeholders and knowledge from and/or organizations, where they
laminar, transitional and turbulent multiple disciplines is required, participate in day-to-day operations
flow in a test pipe and to observe the and where engineering decision- and tasks in civil engineering
velocity profile; making can have significant public projects. Students follow a well-
health and social consequences.
Lab-2: the broad crested weir to The course includes elements planned course of action during the
determine the relationship between of decision-tree analyses and an period of training, devised jointly by
upstream head and discharge for introduction to Bayesian decision the site and faculty supervisor. The
water flowing over a long base theory to familiarize students with course’s aim is to provide students
weir and to estimate the discharge the uncertainty encountered in with the experience of working in a
coefficient and observe the most complex civil engineering. The civil engineering professional work
developed flow pattern; teaching material is supplemented environment, to expose them to
Lab-3: the crump weir to determine by case studies that emphasize the work culture and the relation
of taught theory to practice, and
the relationship between upstream civil engineering solutions to familiarize them with the nature of
head and discharge for water flowing contemporary issues in the UAE and their chosen profession and the
over a crump weir and to estimate the broader Gulf region career challenges, opportunities and
the discharge coefficient and observe CIV 362 - Construction requirements.
the developed flow pattern; Management
Lab-4: the sharp crested weir to Credit Hour: 3 CIV413 - Structural Steel Design
determine the relationship between Prerequisite: ENG 200 Credit Hour: 3
upstream head and discharge Prerequisite: CIV 314
for water flowing over a sharp This course offers insight into A course that covers the design and
crested weir and to estimate the the best practices in managing behavior of structural steel members
discharge coefficient and observe the construction projects both buildings and their connections subjected to
developed nappe and flow pattern; and heavy civil engineering projects.. moment, shear, and axial forces. It
It covers a project’s life cycle,
Lab-5: the hydraulic jump to organization, contract administration, is a typical first course on design of
investigate the characteristics of a scheduling, budgeting, financing, steel structures with emphasis on
standing wave (the hydraulic jump) and controlling. Discusses also safety Load and Resistance Factor Design
produced when water flows under and the risks involved in construction Method.(LRFD)
a sluice gate and to observe the activities
developed flow pattern.

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