Postgraduate Courses
CIVL
Civil and Environmental Engineering
- CIVL 5110Engineering Risk, Reliability and Decision[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 581Prerequisite(s)CIVL 2160 or equivalentExclusion(s)CIEM 5810DescriptionAdvanced reliability methods in engineering decision; Bayesian methods, system reliability and design, risk analysis, probabilistic observational method, Markov and availability models, random field, large-scale system simulation, decision with multiple objectives.
- CIVL 5120Natural Hazards Mitigation and Disasters Prevention[3-0-0:3]BackgroundCIVL 2160, CIVL 4330DescriptionIntroduce physical mechanisms of major natural hazards in areas of hydro-climatic, geotechnical, seismic, and wind. Methods to analyze the occurrence frequency of different severities of natural hazards and risk management are discussed. In addition, measures and schemes for natural hazards mitigation and disasters prevention are described and discussed.
- CIVL 5210Principles of Project Finance[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 501, CIVL 609CExclusion(s)CIEM 600FDescriptionIn-depth discussion of principles, techniques, and models of project finance in capital-intensive infrastructure projects, including international infrastructure markets; project bankability; project agreement and ancillary contracts; risk analysis and management; financial structuring, modeling and evaluation; outsourcing; case studies of various public-private partnerships in infrastructure development.Intended Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- 1.Explain the essential issues in infrastructure development and management.
- 2.Analyze risks in infrastructure project finance and development.
- 3.Conduct value for money assessment for public-private partnership projects.
- 4.Perform project appraisal from financial and economic perspectives.
- 5.Design and analyze concession agreement.
- CIVL 5220Construction Information Technology[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 6100BBackgroundCIVL 3210DescriptionThis course covers the principles and applications of information technology for construction management. Topics include building information modeling, database management and implementation, web-based communication and project management technologies, decision support systems, knowledge management, and data processing and analysis.
- CIVL 5230Finance and Operations in Civil Engineering[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 6100EDescriptionThis course introduces essential knowledge and skills in engineering financial management. Topics cover interactions of engineering, business and society, analysis of financial statements of engineering and technology companies, engineering investment, and financial and operational management.Intended Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- 1.Describe the key features in the interactions of engineering, business and society.
- 2.Conduct financial and economic analysis of engineering investments.
- 3.Analyze the financial statements of engineering and technology companies.
- 4.Evaluate the financial management performance of engineering and technology companies.
- 5.Evaluate the operational management performance of engineering and technology companies.
- CIVL 5310Structural Analysis and Design of Tall Buildings[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 531Exclusion(s)CIEM 5310DescriptionIntegrated treatment of analytical methods and technical aspects in design of tall building structures; includes structural modeling, frames, shear walls, outrigger-braced systems, core-walls, tubular structures, and special topics.
- CIVL 5340Optimal Structural Design[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 534DescriptionPresents advanced theories for design optimization; linear and nonlinear mathematical programming techniques, approximation concepts, sensitivity analysis, optimality criteria method for large-scale structures, evolutionary optimization using genetic algorithms and simulated annealing.
- CIVL 5350Bridge Engineering[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 603CDescriptionThis course introduces the limit states design method for bridges, discusses the design philosophy and code requirements and presents examples of analysis and design of bridge super-structure components (using the limit states design method).
- CIVL 5361Seismic Design of Concrete Structures[3-0-0:3]Exclusion(s)CIEM 5361DescriptionIntroduction to seismic engineering and seismic design and analysis of concrete structures, including seismology, seismic hazards, dynamics of SDOF and MDOF systems, seismic response spectrum, conceptual design of concrete buildings for seismic resistance, capacity design principles, seismic design of reinforced concrete beams, columns, walls and beam-column joints.Intended Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- 1.Conduct the dynamic analysis of structural systems.
- 2.Analyze the response of structures to earthquake ground motions.
- 3.Use seismic spectra for the analysis of seismic actions.
- 4.Apply the seismic design concepts and methodology to concrete structures.
- 5.Conduct seismic design of concrete members and buildings.
- CIVL 5370Wind Effects on Buildings and Structures[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 537Exclusion(s)CIEM 5370DescriptionWind structures; wind loads; wind induced vibrations; wind codes; wind tunnel test techniques; structural monitoring; and vibration control.
- CIVL 5380Computer Aided Design Optimization of Tall Buildings[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 538Exclusion(s)CIEM 5320BackgroundCIVL 3310DescriptionConsolidated theoretical background and practical knowledge on the analysis, computer aided modeling and design optimization of modern tall building structures. Topics include behavior of different forms of tall building structures; finite element modeling and analysis; principles and practice of structural optimization for tall building design.
- CIVL 5390Finite Element Methods[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 512Co-list withMECH 5930Prerequisite(s)CIVL 5830 or MECH 5010 or equivalentExclusion(s)AESF 5930, MECH 5930, MESF 5930DescriptionFEM formulation; variational and Galerkin principles for continuum; element technology; numerical integration scheme; solution of large systems of linear equations; applications to structural mechanics; fluid flow and heat transfer problems.
- CIVL 5410Physical-Chemical Water/Wastewater Treatment[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 541Prerequisite(s)CIVL 3420Exclusion(s)CIEM 5460, JEVE 5460DescriptionPrinciples of treatment for removing contaminants from drinking water and municipal wastewaters; includes equalization, neutralization, precipitation, coagulation and flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, air stripping, carbon adsorption, disinfection.
- CIVL 5420Biological Waste Treatment[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 542Prerequisite(s)CIVL 3420Exclusion(s)CIEM 5420, JEVE 5420DescriptionPrinciples of secondary, biological treatment processes; includes sewage sand filters, trickling filters, activated sludge plants, lagoons, ponds, rotating biological contactors, aerobic and anaerobic digesters, and biological nutrient removal.
- CIVL 5430Aquatic Chemistry[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 543Prerequisite(s)CIVL 2410DescriptionChemistry applied to reactions occurring in water and wastewater, includes inorganic solution chemistry, chemical equilibrium, acids/bases, coordination chemistry, chemical kinetics, colloid chemistry, solubility and precipitation, oxidation-reduction potential.
- CIVL 5450Hazardous Waste Treatment and Site Remediation[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 545Prerequisite(s)CIVL 2410Exclusion(s)CIEM 5410, JEVE 5410DescriptionRegulatory aspects of the handling and disposal of hazardous wastes, and innovative technologies for hazardous wastes treatment and contaminated soils such as bioremediation, and soil washing will be included.
- CIVL 5460Landfill Engineering and Design[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 546Prerequisite(s)CIVL 2410DescriptionPractical aspects of solid waste collection methods and equipment, current available disposal techniques with emphasis on complete engineering design of landfill systems, and landfill leachate treatment will be included.
- CIVL 5470Industrial Wastewater Treatment[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 547Prerequisite(s)CIVL 3420Exclusion(s)JEVE 5470DescriptionProcedures for industrial surveys; includes waste sampling, waste characterization, treatability studies, selection of treatment methods for achieving cost effective operation, case studies of selected types of industrial waste treatment.
- CIVL 5520Water Resources Systems Analysis[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 552BackgroundECON 2113DescriptionSystems approach to the area of water resources management; includes water resources systems within the context of public investment systems, criteria and design of water management schemes.
- CIVL 5530Turbulence Processes in Hydrosystems[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 6100A, CIVL 609HDescriptionAn introduction to turbulence, including the nature of turbulence, governing equations of turbulent flow, structure of turbulence, turbulence modeling, experimental measurements of turbulence and an introduction to computational fluid dynamics.
- CIVL 5550Modeling Fluid Systems[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 555DescriptionThe course focuses on the physical processes in fluid systems and their mathematical representation; includes the fundamental laws of classical mechanics and thermodynamics and how these principles are applied to fluid flow problems. The processes of waves and mixing in fluids are emphasized. The type of fluid systems to be studied varies from year to year depending on the students’ interest and can range from natural to engineered systems including fluid based renewable energy systems.
- CIVL 5610Urban Transportation Networks Analysis[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 561BackgroundCIVL 3610 AND IEDA 3010DescriptionReviews transportation planning models and traffic analysis; examines the assignment of traffic flow on a network according to user-equilibrium and system optimal objectives; addresses formulation methods and solution techniques.
- CIVL 5620Travel Demand Analysis[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 562Exclusion(s)CIEM 5620BackgroundCIVL 3610DescriptionOverview of transportation planning process; population/employment forecasting techniques; discrete choice models; simplified transportation demand models.
- CIVL 5630Traffic Control Fundamentals[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 563Exclusion(s)CIEM 5630BackgroundCIVL 3610DescriptionTraffic flow fundamentals; microscopic and macroscopic traffic flow characteristics; principle and theory of traffic signals; essential modeling techniques; various traffic signal control models.
- CIVL 5710Advanced Soil Mechanics[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 571BackgroundCIVL 3740DescriptionSelected topics from recent advances in theoretical and experimental development in soil mechanics; includes stress-strain behavior of soil, consolidation settlement, drained and undrained strength slope stability problems.
- CIVL 5720Advanced Foundation Design[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 572Exclusion(s)CIEM 5720BackgroundCIVL 3740DescriptionCurrent practice of foundation design and analysis; includes design and analysis of bulkheads, deep excavation, tieback systems, tunneling in soft ground, buried conduits, lateral pile loading, pier foundations.
- CIVL 5730Theoretical and Computational Soil Mechanics[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 573BackgroundCIVL 3740DescriptionAdvanced soil models and recent developments in numerical methods in geotechnical modeling, including constitutive laws, critical state soil mechanics, multiple yield surface models, finite elements for boundary value problems, diffusion and consolidation problems.
- CIVL 5750Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 575BackgroundCIVL 3740DescriptionEarthquakes and characterization of ground motions, seismicity assessment, soil dynamics and site response analysis, soil liquefaction assessment and post-liquefaction analysis, seismic analysis of slopes and embankments, lateral earth pressures and retaining systems, dynamic soil-structure interaction.
- CIVL 5760Geotechnical Site Characterization[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 576, CIVL 607DBackgroundCIVL 3720 (prior to 2018-19)DescriptionPresents state-of-the-art geotechnical site characterization methodologies; includes basic principles of site characterization planning, drilling and sampling, soil and rock description, cone penetration test, standard penetration test, pressuremeter test, dilatometer test, geophysical methods, permeability and ground water monitoring, and fundamentals of geostatistics.
- CIVL 5770Unsaturated Soil Mechanics and Engineering[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 577Prerequisite(s)CIVL 3740 or equivalentExclusion(s)CIEM 5770Backgroundfirst degree in Civil EngineeringDescriptionFundamental principles, stress state variables, steady-state and transient flows, theory of shear strength and its measurements, soil stiffness, plastic and limit equilibrium analyses of earth pressures, slope stability and bearing capacity, critical state framework, instrumentation, engineering applications on slopes including static liquefaction of loose fill slopes, foundations, forensic studies such as slope failures.
- CIVL 5780Soils and Waves[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 578Prerequisite(s)CIVL 3720 (prior to 2018-19) AND CIVL 4700DescriptionFundamentals of soil behavior including the clay minerals will be revisited. The basics of both mechanical and electromagnetic waves will be briefly introduced first, followed by a particular emphasis on the relevant applications to characterizations of particulate material's behavior.
- CIVL 5830Advanced Mechanics of Materials[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 533Exclusion(s)CIEM 5330DescriptionAnalysis of stress and strain; elastic and inelastic behavior of materials; formulation of BVP; beam on elastic foundations; torsion of noncircular thinwalled members; deformation of cylinders and spheres; inelastic analysis.
- CIVL 5840Advanced Concrete Technology[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 524Exclusion(s)CIEM 5240, CIVL 4810BackgroundCIVL 2120 and CIVL 2810 or equivalentDescriptionFundamental concepts (workability, strength, dimension stability, and durability); updated concrete technology (micro structural engineering, development of special concretes); concrete fracture and modeling; nondestructive evaluation methods for concrete structures.
- CIVL 5850Renovation Engineering[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 525Exclusion(s)CIEM 5250DescriptionReinforced concrete durability; damage caused by natural and human-being disaster; Infrastructure degradation, inspection; non-destructive evaluation; Conventional repair techniques; Composite materials; Steel plate or composite strengthening, beam and column retrofitting.
- CIVL 6010Directed Studies[1-3 credit(s)]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 610DescriptionSpecialist courses where instruction is generally on a one-to-one basis. Graded P or F.
- CIVL 6050Civil Engineering Seminar I[1-0-0:0]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 680DescriptionDiscussion of current research by faculty members, and guest lectures on recent advances in civil engineering. Graded P or F.
- CIVL 6060Civil Engineering Seminar II[1-0-0:0]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 681DescriptionPresentation of current graduate research by postgraduate students. Graded P or F.
- CIVL 6100-6190Special Topics[3-0-0:3]Previous Course Code(s)CIVL 600-609DescriptionSelected topics of current interest. May be repeated for credit if different topics are covered.
- CIVL 6770Professional Development in Civil and Environmental Engineering[0-1-0:1]DescriptionThis one-credit course aims at providing research postgraduate students with basic training in teaching skills, research management, career development, and related professional skills. This course consists of a number of mini-workshops. Some department-specific workshops will be coordinated by Department of CIVL. Graded PP, P or F.
- CIVL 6990MPhil Thesis ResearchPrevious Course Code(s)CIVL 699DescriptionMaster's thesis research supervised by a faculty member. A successful defense of the thesis leads to the grade Pass. No course credit is assigned.
- CIVL 7990Doctoral Thesis ResearchPrevious Course Code(s)CIVL 799DescriptionOriginal and independent doctoral thesis research. A successful defense of the thesis leads to the grade Pass. No course credit is assigned.