Advanced Course offering in Civil Engineering:
CE 303 Structural Materials
Composition and properties of hydraulic
cements; characteristics of local aggregates and water mix; properties of fresh
concrete; production, handling and placement of cement and fresh concrete;
properties of hardened concrete; mix design; durability in the Gulf
environment; problems of hot weather concreting; introduction to repair
materials and techniques; types, engineering properties, and usage of
structural steel, aluminium, timber, glass and plastics. Laboratory sessions will concentrate on
various tests of concrete constituents, fresh and hardened concrete, aggregate
gradation and mix design; flexure behavior of reinforced concrete beams;
hardness test, tensile and compressive tests on metals, measurement of
Poisson’s ratio and stress concentration and bending tests on steel beams.
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305 Structural Analysis I
Shear force
and bending moment diagrams for frames; influence lines for beams, frames and
2D trusses; displacement of beams by moment area, and conjugate beam methods; displacements
of beams, frames and trusses by virtual work; analysis of statically
indeterminate structures; method of consistent deformation, energy methods,
slope-deflection and moment distribution; introduction to the flexibility and
stiffness matrix methods and computer applications.
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315 Reinforced Concrete I
Review of
properties of structural concrete and reinforcing steel; behavior and design of
reinforced rectangular and T-section in flexure; Use of computers in beam
design for flexure; behavior and design of beams for shear, bond, and
development length including splices and cut-off points; design; design of
one-way slab, design of continuous beams with computer application for
analysis; control of deflection and cracking; design of short columns; design
of single footing; design project of a simple multistory building with one-way
flooring system which integrates the design of the different structural
components.
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CE 317 Computer Methods in Civil Engineering
Introduction to numerical
methods; matrix algebra; solution of nonlinear equations; solution of system of
linear and nonlinear equations; numerical solutions of differential equations
by finite differences; error analysis; introduction to the finite element
method (FEM); modular programming
using finite elements and finite differences; application of developed finite
difference and finite element software problems in civil engineering;
introduction to linear programming.
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CE
331 Engineering Hydrology I
The
hydrologic cycle, precipitation, evaporation and transpiration, infiltration
streamflow, hydrograph analysis including unit hydrograph, occurrence of
groundwater, fundamentals of groundwater flow including Darcy’s Law and its
applications, steady and unsteady flow to wells, laboratory sessions include
experiments in fluid mechanics, surface and subsurface hydrology.
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CE 341 Transportation Engineering
Planning and evaluation of transportation
systems; transportation in Saudi Arabia; characteristics of transportation
systems and vehicles; introduction to design principles and transportation
facilities including roadways and airports; flexible pavement design;
application of computer software(s) related to transportation.
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CE 343 Transportation Engineering Laboratory
Field studies for speed, traffic volume
counts and delays; introduction and practice in capacity analysis, traffic
signal design, pavement material testing and design; intersection,
channelization and highway geometric design; introduction to transportation related softwares.
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CE 351 Continue Coop Work
A continuous period of 28 weeks is spent
in the industry to acquire practical experience in Civil Engineering under the
supervision and guidance of the employer and the academic advisor. During this period the student gains an
in-depth exposure and appreciation of the Civil Engineering profession. The student is required to write a
detailed report about his training period under the regulation of the CE department.
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353 Geotechnical Engineering I
Soil
formation and identification; index and classification properties of soils;
clay minerals; soil compaction; capillarity, swelling, shrinkage and effective
stresses; flow of water in soils; compressibility and consolidation; stress in
soils; shear strength of cohesive and cohesionless soils; introduction to
lateral earth pressure and shallow foundation.
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CE 370 Water and Wastewater Engineering
Analysis of water
distribution and wastewater collection systems, computer modelling of network
systems; water treatment including coagulation, flocculation, softening, sedimentation,
filtration, desalination and disinfection; water treatment, principles of
biological treatment systems including activated sludge, extended aeration,
aerated lagoons, and stabilization ponds.
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CE
408 Steel Design I
Properties of structural steel; steel
sections and introduction to load resistance factor design (LFRD), design of
tension members, compression members and capacity calculations; laced columns
width-thickness ratios; design of beams with and without lateral supports;
design of members under combined axial and bending loads; design and details of
simple bolted and welded connections, and an introduction to common building
connections; use of softwares for design of elements and overall design of
frames.
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CE
411 Senior Design Project
Students undertake
a civil engineering project under the supervision of a faculty member with the
aim of achieving a comprehensive design experience through a coherent study of
all applicable principles, strategies and methodologies of design, including
construction operation, and maintenance as and when applicable. The project should also take into
consideration other appropriate factors such as alternative designs, economic
feasibility and social and environmental impacts. The student is required to make an oral and written
presentation of the design project to an examining committee.
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CE 415 Reinforced Concrete II
Behavior and design of columns under
axial load and bending including slenderness effects; design of wall footings;
design of combined footings; ACI Code provisions for serviceability
requirements; deflection of flexural members; design of two-way slabs on beams
using the ACI Direct Design Method; analysis and design of frames and
continuous beams; design of one-way joist floor system; design of beam column
joints; design of stairs behavior and design of retaining walls; introduction
to prestressed concrete; design project of multistory building with two-way
flooring system which integrates the design of different structural components;
computer application in interactive design.
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CE
420 Construction Engineering
Construction
engineering environment and practices, contract documents, types of contract,
bidding strategies and professional liabilities; construction equipment and
methods, CPM, network analysis, scheduling and resource levelling; cost control
and project management with computer applications. Introduction to PERT.
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Civil Engineering (CE)
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Program ) Course offering in Civil Engineering ( Graduate Program )
: CE 504 Corrosion
and Corrosion Protection (2-3-3) Corrosion mechanisms including corrosion cells,
electrochemical reactions, polarization and passivity; forms of corrosion,
corrosion mechanisms of reinforcing steel in concrete structures;
environmental effects; effect of concrete properties; corrosion testing;
corrosion protection including cathodic protection, corrosion inhibitors,
chloride extraction, re-alkalization, and protective coatings. Back to Course Sponsorship program
CE 511 Advanced Structural Analysis (3-0-3) Matrix algebra, solution of equations, review of energy
principles, virtual work; degree of redundancy, choice of redundants,
flexibility method, kinematic indeterminacy, development of element stiffness
matrices, stiffness method of analysis of structures, computer applications
and software development, axial force effects and eigenvalue analysis,
introduction to the finite element method. Back to Course Sponsorship program
CE 517 Finite
Element Methods
(3-0-3) Basic equations of elasticity; virtual work; stiffness properties of structural elements; variational and weighted residual methods, applications to trusses, beams, plane frames, two-dimensional, axi-symmetric and three-dimensional solids; higher order and isoparametric elements; field and time-dependent problems of fluid and heat flow; software development. Back to Course Sponsorship program
CE 519 Boundary
Element Method
(3-0-3) Weighted residual methods; weak formulations; inverse
formulations, fundamental solutions; one-dimensional problems;
two-dimensional problems of steady state potential flow; two-dimensional
problems of elastostatics; time dependent problems; algorithm design and
software development; application in various engineering fields. Back to Course Sponsorship program
CE
533 Groundwater Flow &
Contaminant Transport
(3-0-3) Properties of porous media, fluid storage and flow in saturated media, transport equations in porous media, equation of motion, Darcy’s law, continuity & conservation equation, well hydraulics, principle of superposition, transport of contaminants by advection, modeling of advective transport. Back to Course Sponsorship program
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541 Chemistry in
Environmental Engineering (2-3-3) Environmental aspects of physical, organic, and inorganic chemistry including applications in environmental engineering of the phenomena of precipitation, buffering capacity, chemical equilibria, and adsorption. Back to Course Sponsorship program
CE 571 Urban
Transportation Planning & Modeling
Transportation planning processes, transportation land use
interaction, travel evaluation and demand estimation, traffic generation
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610 THESIS Back to Course Sponsorship program CE
618 Analysis of Bridge
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639 RISK ANAL IN WATR RES
& ENV SY Back to Course Sponsorship program CE
673 Optimization of Urban
Traffic Flows §
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