64 / FIELDS OF INSTRUCTION


of strain consolidation, soil suction, permeability, and triaxial
testing.
ECI 5575-Remote Sensing Methods and Engineering Applica-
tions (3) Prereq: TTE 4104. Introduction into remote sensing
and imaging systems including photographic and digital process-
ing methods for image analysis. Emphasis on use of LANDSAT
imagery and aerial photography for engineering applications;
ECI 5625-Groundwater Flow I (3) Prereq: ECI 4214 or con-
sent of instructor. Porous media flow. Darcy's law. Conserva-
tion of mass. LaPlace equation. Flownets. Well hydraulics.
ECI 6045-Computer Applications in Geotechnical Engineer-
ing (2) Prereq: ECI 4041, 6316 or consent of instructor. Applica-
tion of computer solutions to geotechnical engineering
problems.
ECI 6153-Civil Engineering Practice (2; max: 4) Prereq:
graduate status. Problems and case histories of civil engineer-
ing projects including social, legal, environmental, and technical
aspects.
ECI 6154-Civil Engineering Operations (2; max: 4) Prereq:
graduate status. Applications of quantitative methods of deci-
sion making to major civil engineering problem areas.
ECI 6223-Numerical Models in Hydraulics (3) Prereq: ECI
4214 or consent of instructor. Application of numerical methods
to hydraulic engineering problems; dispersion, porous media
flow, river and estuarine mechanics, thermal diffusion.
ECI 6227-Diffusive and Dispersive Transport (2) Prereq: ECI
4214 or consent of instructor. Introduction to diffusive and
dispersive transport processes in flowing water. Fick's laW.
ECI 6228-Hydraulic Laboratory and Field Practice (3) Prereq:
ECI 4214 or consent of instructor. Hydraulic model laws and
their use in undistorted and distorted models with movable or
fixed beds. Instrumentation. Data acquisition system.
ECI 6233-Sediment Transport II (2) Prereq: ECI 6237 or con-
sent of instructor. Review of fundamental laws of scour initia-
tion and sediment transport. River morphology. Movable bed
hydraulic models.
ECI 6234-Hydraulics of Stratified Flow (2) Prereq: ECI 5235
or consent of instructor. Uniform and nonuniform flow in
multilayered systems. Oscillatory motion and interfacial mixing.
ECI 6237-Sediment Transport 1 (2) Prereq: ECI 5235 or con-
sent of instructor. Sediment properties. Scour initiation. Influence
of slope. Stable channels. Bed forms. Transport as bed load and
suspended transport.
ECI 6238-Transient Flow in Channels and Pipes (3) Prereq:
ECI 5235 or consent of instructor. Water hammers in singular
pipes and systems. Governing differential equations. Numerical
methods. Unsteady open channel flow equations.
ECI 6316-Advanced Soil Mechanics (3) Prereq: EC 4305, 4314,
or consent of instructor. Nature and origin of soil. Stresses within
a soil body. Stress-strain behavior and shear strength of dry,
saturated no flow, and saturated transient flow soils.
ECI 6317-Theoretical Soil Mechanics (2) Prereq: consent of
instructor. Nature of soil-water systems; analysis of stress, strains,
equations of states; theological behavior of soils; failure in soil
media.
ECI 6346-Soil Dynamics (2) Dynamic principles; lumped
systems; elastic half-space theory; soil behavior under dynamic
loading; foundation design problems; earthquakes.
ECI 6416-Properties, Design and Control of Concrete (3)
Prereq: ECI 3403. Portland cement and aggregate properties
relating to design, control, and performance of concrete. Con-
crete forming and construction methods. Laboratory testing and
analysis.
ECI 6426-Bituminous Materials (3) Prereq: TTE 4104. Analysis
of strength and deformation mechanism for asphalt concrete,
properties, and their effect on flexible pavement performance.
Pavement construction and quality assurance methods, testing
and evaluation of asphalts and mixture.
ECI 6436-Experimental Determination of Soil Properties II
(3) Prereq: ECI 5437 or consent of instructor. Factors influenc-
ing stress-deformation response, elastic-plastic constitutive rela-
tionships, failure criteria, centrifugal modeling, stress path effects.
ECI 6576-Air Photo Interpretation: Terrain Analysis (3) Prereq:
ECI 4314 or consent of instructor. Interpretive techniques used
to identify landforms, soils, rocks, and potential engineering
problems from aerial photography. Analysis for site selection
and planning of soil exploration programs.
ECI 6605-Rock Mechanics and Engineering Geology (2)


Prereq: ECI 4305. Behavior of rock subjected to stress. Applica-
tion of rock mechanics and geology to the planning, design and
construction of engineering structures.
ECI 6610-Groundwater Problems in Geotechnical Engineer-
ing (2) Prereq: ECI 4305, 4314 or consent of instructor. Darcy's
law, coefficient of permeability, flow nets; seepage forces.
Engineering applications-dewatering systems, slope stability,
filter design, earth dams, drainage.
ECI 6616-Groundwater Flow II (2) Prereq: ECI 5625 or con-
sent of instructor. Continuation of ECI 5625. Two- and three-
dimensional groundwater flow cases. Transient flow. Solute
transport in porous media. Saltwater intrusion.
ECI 6633-Evaluation of Groundwater Quality (2) Prereq: ECI
5625 or 6616 or consent of instructor. Characteristics of flow
in saturated and unsaturated zones; solute convection and
dispersion; effects of chemical reactions, and adsorption;
management of groundwater quality.
ECI 6645-Advanced Geotechnical Engineering I (4) Prereq:-
ECI 6316 or consent of instructor. Application of soil mechanics
to the design and analysis of settlement and slope stability
problems.
ECI 6646-Advanced Geotechnical Engineering II (3) Prereq:
ECI 6316 or consent of instructor. Application of soil mechanics
to the design and analysis of bearing capacity and earth pressure
problems.
ECI 6905-Special Problems in Civil Engineering (1-6; max:
10) Studies in areas not covered by other graduate courses.
ECI 6910-Supervised Research (1-5) S/U.
ECI 6940-Supervised Teaching (1-5) S/U.
ECI 6971-Research for Master's Thesis (1-15) S/U.
ECI 6974-Master of Engineering or Engineer Degree Report
(1-6) Individual work culminating in a professional practice-
oriented report suitable for the requirements of the Master of
Engineering or Engineer degree. Two credits only are applicable
toward the requirements of each degree. S/U.
ECI 7980-Research for Doctoral Dissertation (1-15) S/U.
ENV 5625-Water Resources Engineering Design (3) Prereq:
ECI 4214 or consent of instructor. Design oriented courses based
on methods developed in ECI 4214. Introduction to water
resources systems and management.
TTE 5006-Transportation Systems Planning (4) Prereq:
graduate standing or consent of instructor. Analytical techniques
for estimating future travel demands, planning, transportation
facilities and locations. Review of transportation technology and
future systems.
TTE 5105-Pavement Design (2) Prereq: TTE4104 or consent
of instructor. Design of flexible and concrete pavements.
TTE 5256-Traffic Engineering (4) Prereq: TTE4104 or equiva-
lent. Traffic studies, operations, flow, signals, signs and markings;
regulation of traffic, pedestrian and bicycle operation, parking
lot operations, highway lighting.,
TTE 5701-Geometric Design of Transportation Facilities (3)
Prereq: TTE 4104 or consent of instructor. Geometric design
criteria and controls of highways and intersections.
TTE 6106-Soil Stabilization (2) Prereq: graduate standing or
consent of instructor. Highway soil stabilization, methods of
stabilization and behavior of materials.
TTE 6107-Highway Safety Analysis (2) Statistics and
characteristics of accidents, accident reconstruction, accident
causation and reduction.
TTE 6257-Traffic Control Systems (4) Prereq: TTE 5256. Traf-
fic controller operation, computer controlled signal systems,
modeling and optimization of traffic control systems, system
selection implementation and management.
TTE 6267-Traffic Flow Theory (3) Prereq: TTE 5256. Opera-
tional techniques used to optimize traffic flow including con-
trol systems. Maintenance operations. Freeway operations and
control. Intersection channelization.
TTE 6307-Freeway Design and Operations (3) Prereq: TTE
5256. Operations of freeway systems, effects of design, advanced
analysis techniques, freeway optimization techniques.
TTE 6516-Transportation Planning Decisions (2) Prereq: ECI
4137 or equivalent. Decisions on public investment analysis
methods, cost-benefit and delphi techniques, identification and
assessment of physical, social, and. economic impacts of
transportation alternatives, costs of vehicle operations, accidents,
value of time, safety, other factors.
TTE 6526-Airport Planning and Operations (2) Prereq: TTE