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relationships, methods of comparing Water resources; environmental of global positioning systems and course teaches how to determine bridges and suspension bridges. The of highways; intersection design
alternatives using economic concepts engineering; geotechnical geographical information systems appropriate aggregates gradations courses emphasizes classical and and roundabouts. The second
such as: the rate-of return (ROR), the engineering; foundation design; and to civil engineering projects. Brief to meet desired specifications. The approximate methods of structural section covers pavement design and
present worth (PW), the future worth transportation principles. coverage of the fundamental manufacturing process of cement analysis for statically indeterminate management, including the design
(FW), the annual equivalent (AE), concepts of the systems. and basic raw materials used will be structural frames; computer methods of both flexible and rigid pavements,
cost-benefit analysis and breakeven Introduction to the concepts of covered. The design of a concrete for analysis of statically indeterminate design of overlays as well as drainage
and payback analysis. Other topics engineering design in the hot and CIV 206 - Mechanics of Materials mix to be given in the course structures. design. The students will also be
include replacement analysis, humid environment of the Gulf Credit Hour: 3 according to ACI to meet specific introduced to computer applications
inflation and depreciation. The course region. Sample engineering design Prerequisite: CIV 201 design requirements. . In addition, CIV 318 - Reinforced Concrete relevant to course materials.
enables students to make suitable project to understand the effect the course teaches the durability of Design I
decisions in their professional life of contemporary issues on civil The course presents elementary Portland cement concrete. In the Credit Hour: 3 CIV 332 - Fundamentals of
when they have to make a decision engineering profession. analysis of deformable solids course, there will be a term project Prerequisite: CIV 314 + CIV 313 Transportation Engineering
on ethical and economical basis. CIV 201 - Statics subjected to force systems; concepts with presentation. The students will Credit Hour: 3
of stress and strain; one, two and select the topic of the term project A course that teaches the behavior, Prerequisite: CIV 205
Credit Hour: 3 three-dimensional stress- strain with consultation and approval of the strength, and design of reinforced
Major Requirements Prerequisite: PHY 102 relationships for the linear elastic course instructor. concrete members subjected to This course provides the necessary
The course introduces solid; statically determinate and Taken simultaneously with CIV313L (1 moment, shear, and axial forces. skills needed to select different
indeterminate axial force, torsion
Emphasis is on applicable design
alternative solutions for the planning
undergraduate students to the and bending members; stress credit hour).
CIV 102 - Computer Aided fundamentals of engineering transformations, pressure vessels, standards such as ACI318. A and designing of land transportation
computer program is used to analyze
systems to meet public demand.
Drawing problem solving. It utilizes vector combined loadings; and an CIV 314 - Structural Analysis a structural system and design Topics covered include calibrating
algebra and free body diagrams to
Credit Hour:3 solve statics problems. Students introduction to column buckling. Credit Hour: 3 selected elements. models for trip generation, trip
Prerequisite: No Prerequisite apply mathematics, calculus and CIV 242 - Fluid Mechanics Prerequisite: CIV 206 CIV 324 - Geotechnical distribution, mode choice, and traffic
assignment. The course also covers
This course is an introduction to physics to solve engineering Credit Hour: 3 .This course is designed to train Engineering topics related to elementary traffic
computer aided drawing utilizing problems such as, calculation of Prerequisite: CIV 201 + MTT 200 students on fundamental concepts Credit Hour: 3 flow theories; queuing theories;
AutoCAD software to produce civil external and internal forces acting of structural analysis necessary Prerequisite: CIV 206 capacity analysis; level of service
engineering drawings. Students on rigid bodies (and particles) This is the first course in Water to analyze statically determinate Co-requisite: GOL 205 analysis; traffic impact studies and
will gain basic to intermediate under static equilibrium. The course Resources Engineering. Fluid structural systems. It also introduces emerging technologies related to the
proficiency in AutoCAD, annotation, also enables students to analyze Mechanics encompasses a huge students to the analysis of statically This course presents the description, field of transportation engineering
geometric construction, and line distributed forces; locate centroid; range of topics which deal with the indeterminate structures using identification, and engineering
conventions. The course will also find moments of inertia, and draw behavior of gasses and liquids under contemporary commercial software. classification of soils. The basic CIV 343 - Hydraulics
introduce students to orthographic moment and shear diagrams.. static and dynamic conditions. The Overview : Types of loads on principles and mechanics of flow of Credit Hour: 3 (2 lecture + 1 lab
projections, isometric view, sectional CIV 205 - Introduction to course covers the following topics: structures; calculation of reactions; water through soils, deformation Prerequisite: CIV 242
views, and drawings of section views Geomatics fluid properties; fluid statics and stability and determinacy of and strength of soils, and the
for civil engineering applications motion, pressure and force under structures, analysis of statically processes of consolidation and This is the second course in Water
including structural, geotechnical, Credit Hour: 3 hydrostatic conditions, manometers, determinate structures trusses, compaction are also presented, Resources Engineering. It is an
transportation, etc., Examples Prerequisite: MTT 102 buoyancy and stability of floating beams and frames; analysis of along with effective stress concepts, applied course of the fundamentals
included are intended to improve and submerged bodies, mass, basic cables and arches, influence stress and settlement analyses, and given in the perquisite fluid
student’s visualization. This course covers plane surveying, energy and momentum conservation lines and moving loads; deflection evaluation of shear strength. . Taken mechanics course. The course
topographical surveying, horizontal laws; dimensional analysis and covers the following topics: laminar
CIV104 - Introduction to Civil and vertical curves, topographic modeling; friction factor and losses analysis using geometric and simultaneously with CIV324L (1 credit and turbulent flows; surface and form
hour).
Engineering surveys, construction surveys, in pipes; and fluid measurements. energy approaches; analysis of resistance; flow in pipes; hydraulic
earthwork, route surveying. Use of Taken simultaneously with CIV242L (1 indeterminate frames using software CIV 331 - Highway Engineering
Credit Hour:3 specialized software for earthwork CIV 316 - Structural Systems machinery, unsteady flow; flow in
Prerequisite: No Prerequisite calculations, site grading, site layout, credit hour). Credit Hour: 3 open channels.
This course introduces students adjusting measured quantities, CIV 313 - Construction Materials Credit Hour: 3 Prerequisite: CIV 205 In addition to the lectures, the course
to the study and practice of civil calculating coordinates and areas, Credit Hour: 3 Prerequisite: CIV 314 The objective of this course is to includes also laboratory experiments
engineering; specialized sub- and locating points for design grades Prerequisite: CHE 205 + CIV 206 This course introduces students to provide basic understanding of to demonstrate various phenomena
disciplines of civil engineering; and planned roadways. the concept of load path and load highway design principles, including encountered in the hydraulics. These
professionalism and professional Mathematical topics for surveying The course introduces the physical distribution in structural systems; geometric design and pavement include the following experiments:
registration; engineering ethics; andconstruction including properties and mechanical gravity and lateral force resisting design and management. The Lab-1: the Osborne-Reynolds laminar
introduction to static and dynamic probability, error and precision; characteristics of major civil systems with emphasis on steel first section covers geometric – turbulent flow to observe the
equilibrium; mathematical matrix operations; allocation theory; engineering materials such as and concrete buildings; structural design of highways, including the laminar, transitional and turbulent
computing; exercises in engineering network analysis; and constraint concrete, steel, aggregates, wood, systemsfor different types of principles of horizontal and vertical flow in a test pipe and to observe the
technical communications based optimization.Applications plastic and bituminous materials. This structures such as cable-stayed alignments and cross-section design velocity profile;

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