Undergraduate Courses

This course is designed to promote a basic understanding of earth system science among engineering students. In addition to learning how to identify common rocks and minerals and how they are formed, students will learn about the earth’s interior, plate tectonics, how various geological processes contribute to environmental disasters, how humans impact natural cycles, and what kind of mitigation activities are available.

Principles of engineering hydrology, the hydrologic cycle, rainfall-runoff relationships, hydrographs, hydrologic and hydraulic routing; groundwater resources; planning and management of water resources; probabilistic methods in water resources, reservoir design, water distribution systems.

Introduction to AutoCAD and computer graphics. Introduction to SAP2000 finite element code.  Application of software and design codes to analyze and design full structure.  Case studies and projects taken from architectural drawings of real structures.

Fluid properties: fluid statics, stability of floating bodies, conservation of mass, Euler and Bernoulli equations, impulse-momentum principle, laminar and turbulent flow, dimensional analysis and model testing, analysis of flow in pipes, open channel flow, hydrodynamic lift and drag. Practical civil engineering applications are stressed.

Introduction to linear systems and eigenvalue problems. Matrix analysis of trusses and frames, stress analysis, free and forced vibrations of structures. Introduction to nonlinear ODEs and PDEs with applications to civil engineering problems.  Use of MATLAB or equivalent to simulate solutions.

Shear and bending moment diagrams for beams and frames. Statically determinate trusses influence lines and moving loads, deflection of beams using moment-area and conjugate-beam methods, introduction to energy methods, deflection of beams and frames using unit-load method, introduction to statically indeterminate structures, approximal methods, moment-distribution and slope-deflection methods.

At its best, creativity in structural engineering leads to forms that are notable for their sculptural and aesthetic quality as much as for their structural intelligence.  Structures that express this behavior clearly and elegantly achieve the highest levels of artistic creation, and become cultural symbols that exceed historical and cultural boundaries. This course explores Art in Structural Engineering as it evolves in modern history, beginning with the Cast Iron bridges of the Industrial Revolution.  It progresses through the works of Eiffel, Roebling, Freyssinet, and Maillart to modern day innovators like Menn, Khan, and Calatrava.  Students learn engineering concepts through technical presentations on structural landmarks like the Eiffel Tower, Guggenheim Museum, George Washington Bridge, and the Hearst Tower.    The course studies beautiful works of structural art and takes site visits in the metropolitan area to supplement the classroom material.  These trips will include the Brooklyn Bridge, Skyscraper Museum, Cast Iron District, Flatiron Building, Guggenheim Museum, and Hearst Building.  The course converges engineering, architecture, design, and art into one distinguished field.  It teaches the concepts and designs behind structural engineering, so high a quality in imaginative conception and execution, that the engineering itself takes on the aspects of art.

This course explores testing and measurement methods in Civil Engineering
including: land surveying, the experimental analysis to explore the
engineering properties of metals and concrete and nondestructive
evaluation techniques.  Students will gain a basic knowledge of drawing
in the digital environment using AutoCAD Civil 3-D, the engineering
industry design standard.

Description of design elements of system components of transportation, including the driver, vehicle, and roadway.  Traffic flow design elements including volume, density, and speed.  Intersection design elements including delay, capacity and accident counter-measures.  Terminal design elements.

Senior Design courses.  Complete design sequence with a required capstone project spanning two semesters.  While the focus is on the capstone disciplinary design experience, it includes the two-credit core module on Engineering Economic Design (E421) during the first semester.

Senior Design courses.  Complete design sequence with a required capstone project spanning two semesters.  While the focus is on the capstone disciplinary design experience, it includes the two-credit core module on Engineering Economic Design (E421) during the first semester.

Elementary concepts of engineering geology and solid mechanics: applications to the solution of design problems; classification of soils; theory of soil strength; lateral pressure and retaining walls; slope stability; stress distribution theory and settlement predictions; bearing capacity and design of shallow foundations; seepage analysis; consolidation theory; laboratory tests. The course is accompanied by concurrent weekly laboratory sessions where students are introduced to the basic concepts of geotechnical testing in a hands-on fashion.

Ultimate strength design for bending and shear of rectangular sections, slabs, "T" sections and continuous beams, girders, columns, retaining walls and footings.  Code requirements.

ASD and LRFD design for tension members, beams and columns. Design of steel frame systems. Code requirements.

Topics in biology are discussed from a quantitative point of view to develop an appreciation for biology and mathematics and the connections between them. Living systems are viewed through an engineering perspective as open systems using descriptive and quantitative models. Mathematical approaches are taken to heredity and genetics, cellular organization, transport and metabolism, human physiology, ecology, and toxicology. These are presented as applications of probability, linear algebra, ordinary differential equations, and other methods. The relevant mathematical principles are introduced as needed in each module.

This course examines the global environmental and resource issues that we face as a result of human actions, in particular those to which engineering has been a contributor and also for which it can offer the potential for solutions that move us along the path to a sustainable future. A variety of techniques and paradigms will be studied that can make production, use and disposal of our engineered products sustainable. These include industrial ecology, life cycle analysis, green engineering, and design for the environment.

 Introduction to AutoCAD and computer graphics.   Introduction to SAP2000 finite element code.  Application of software and design codes to   analyze and design full structure.  Case studies and projects taken from   architectural drawings of real structures.

Incorporation of fundamental phenomena into mass balances to describe the fate and transport of contaminants in lakes, rivers, estuaries, groundwater, the atmosphere, and in pollution control processes.  Several computer projects involving numerical solutions of models are required.

An introduction to environmental engineering, including: environmental legislation; water usage and conservation; water chemistry including pH and alkalinity relationships; solubility and phase equilibria; environmental biology; fate and transport of contaminants in lakes, streams and groundwater; and design and analysis of mechanical, physicochemical, and biochemical water and wastewater treatment processes.

An introduction to environmental engineering, including: environmental legislation; water chemistry including pH and alkalinity relationships, solubility and phase equilibria; environmental biology; fate and transport of contaminants in lakes, streams and groundwater; design and analysis of mechanical, physicochemical and biochemical treatment processes.

An introduction to environmental engineering through laboratory experiments, including: principles of laboratory methods, including common instrumental methods of analysis; application of experimental results to the design of environmental treatment processes.

Senior design courses. Complete design sequence with a required capstone project spanning two semesters. While the focus is on the capstone disciplinary design experience, it includes the two-credit core module on E 421 Engineering Economic Design during the first semester.

Senior design courses. Complete design sequence with a required capstone project spanning two semesters. While the focus is on the capstone disciplinary design experience, it includes the two-credit core module on E 421 Engineering Economic Design during the first semester.

This course is intended to teach modern systematic design techniques used in the practice of naval engineering. The emphasis is placed on usage of CAD tools for ship hullform design and development. Methodology for the development of design objective(s), literature surveys, base case designs, and design alternatives are given. Students are encouraged to select their senior capstone design project near the end of the course, form teams, and commence preliminary work.

Senior design courses. Complete design sequence with a required capstone project spanning two semesters. The capstone design project will use the entire range of knowledge and skills acquired in earlier courses. The project will include extensive instruction in, and incorporation of, engineering standards, professional ethics, environmental impacts, and economics. These aims will be accomplished by providing students with realistic ship design performance requirements, and instruction and advice from practicing ship design professionals.

Senior design course.  Complete design sequence with a
required capstone project spanning two semesters.  The capstone design
project will use the entire range of knowledge and skills acquired in earlier
courses.  The project will include extensive instruction in, and incorporation
of, engineering standards, professional ethics, environmental impacts, and
economics.  These aims will be accomplished by providing students with
realistic ship design performance requirements, and instruction and advice from practicing ship design professionals.

Review of basic concepts of fluid flow, Navier-Stokes equations, introduction to fluid turbulence, inviscid incompressible flow, introduction to airfoil theory, compressible fluid flow and applications.