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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Development of professional practice including: professionalism, practice organization, marketing, contracts, proposals, management, ethics, communications, insurance, loss prevention, and dispute resolution. Topics presented and discussed by Professional Engineers from Nevada. Emphasis on Professional Engineering Registration. Prerequisite: EGG 307. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Solar observations, public land system, public land surveys, mineral surveys, vertical and horizontal curves, electronic distance measurements. Utilization of computers in survey calculations. Three hours laboratory. Prerequisites: CEE 121, CEE 301. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Continuation of off-campus individual learning experiences in Civil Engineering. Students continue to apply engineering concepts and theories in work-related settings. Students in the Co-op Program(s) are required to make a written engineering report on the work they do. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing in engineering. 1 credit.
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2.00 Credits
Incorporation of geologic factors in civil engineering works. Engineering properties of rocks and soils; engineering implications of geologic structure and processes; geologic hazards; geologic/geotechnical site investigations, including engineering geophysics. Two credits lecture, one credit laboratory. Prerequisites: Admission to civil engineering or construction management major. GEOL 101, CEE 370 or ME 302/302L. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Mechanical behavior of rock with engineering and geologic application; basic solid mechanics and rheology of rocks; rock testing; theories of failure; Griffith theory, McClintock-Walsh theory; scale effects and creep. Engineering applications in tunneling and dam foundations. Geologic applications in faulting, folding, isostasy, igneous intrusion, and petroleum formation. Prerequisites: CEE 334. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Site investigations, footings, slope stability, rock and soil foundations, piles. Prerequisite: CEE 334. 3 credits.
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2.00 Credits
Introduction to geophysical methods used in shallow earth explorations for engineering purposes, such as site characterization and waste site investigations. Emphasis on seismic and electrical/electromagnetic methods. Laboratory experience includes hands-on use of state-of-the-art equipment. Appropriate for students in Civil Engineering, Geoscience, and Physics. Two credits lecture, one laboratory. Prerequisite: PHYS 180 and 181, or PHYS 151 and 152; advanced standing. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to design of structural systems in steel; LRFD method. Design of tension members, beams, columns and beamcolumns. Design of connections, welded and bolted. Introduction to torsion. Prerequisites: CEE 346, CEE 381, MATH 431. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Water, wastewater system design overview. Water demand, wastewater generation. Water quality criteria. Mass balances, kinetics, reactor design. Coagulation, sedimentation, filtration, disinfection. Suspended, attached processes. Sludge and residual management. Measurements of solids, pH, alkalinity, hardness, DO, BOD, COD, SVI, turbidity, MPN, chlorine residual, nitrogen, phosphorus. Three hours lecture and three hours laboratory. Prerequisites: CHEM 121, CEE 367. MATH 431. 4 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Instrumental and wet chemical laboratory methods commonly used for characterization of water and wastewater. Measurements of solids, pH, alkalinity, hardness, dissolved oxygen, BOD, COD, SVI, turbidity, chlorine residual, MPN, nitrogen and phosphorus. Three hours laboratory. Corequisite: CEE 450. Prerequisite: Admission to major in construction management, civil, mechanical or electrical engineering. 0 credit.
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