This course introduces freshman students to poets with intrinsic literary merit. In addition to broadening the student’s understanding and appreciation of literature, the chief aim of the course is to develop the student’s critical thinking and analysis and to encourage original responses to literary expression in well-developed oral and written criticism.
Co-requisite: ENGL 210.
This course introduces literature through works of fiction, poetry, and drama. It introduces students to the pleasures of reading literature and to interpretative approaches to literature. It aims to provide students with competence in critical thinking and practice in close reading and analysis, knowledge of the formal characteristics of each genre, and appreciation of literary excellence. Readings include a variety of short stories, poems, and plays selected from a wide range of British, American, and World literature.
Students study Shakespeare's representative comedies, histories, and tragedies in this course. The plays are read intensively and understood in the context of the period's theatrical conventions, the culture of play in early modern England, and the social, cultural, religious, and intellectual history of the period.
This broad survey course provides a narrative of British history from 1066, including political, social, and cultural developments.
This is an elective course whose major objectives are to familiarize students with contemporary issues to enhance their level from historical and cultural points of view.
This course examines the ties between Europe and the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on the reaction of Middle Eastern societies to European intervention and influence.
This elective course aims to familiarize students with various events that shaped the evolution of social and economic developments in the Middle East to enhance their level from the historical and economic dimensions.
This is a study of some major topics in philosophy. The course emphasizes theory of knowledge, theory of mind, determinism and free will, and morality and ethical values. Along with some assigned readings, students will watch movies, the analysis of which will help them comprehend the content of the course better.
This course is a standard introduction to the formal techniques of argument analysis. Formal logic was invented to mirror and evaluate mathematical reasoning; however, this course will concentrate on the relationship between formal logic and everyday reasoning and language usage in general.
People often wonder about what makes good ways to live and the right ways to act. They also speculate about the best way of life, what action is right, and what authority moral claims have over us. The course introduces students to the major moral theories and thinkers addressing these questions.
This course introduces contemporary philosophical thinking on ethical issues in business. Students will be exposed to important ethical issues they might face, asked to give sound ethical judgment to problems they might face in their line of work, helped become armed with a set of codes that will prepare them to confront and resolve ethical dilemmas they might encounter at work, and enabled to apply the techniques for analyzing and resolving ethical problems when they arise.
This course introduces students to peace building and conflict prevention by examining the main theories on peace and security. It examines the ideas of Thucydides, Aristotle, Erasmus Grotius, Kant, Gandhi, and other thinkers who believed that the whole peace was of high value. It develops students’ critical skills and understanding necessary to translate their academic learning to specific practical situations, such as those posed by peace building either with the UN, governments, or NGOs. It helps understand the complex and interconnected challenges to peace and provides knowledge to meet them.
Fundamental elements of management of civil engineering projects; roles of all participants in the process: owners, designers, contractors, and suppliers; emphasis on contractual aspect, project estimate, planning and control of construction projects; management functions, network techniques (CPM), resource scheduling, construction financing and cost/schedule relationship.
Prerequisite: Senior standing. Annually.
Measurement and analysis of precipitation data, flood analysis, methods of estimation of evaporation and transpiration, streamflow measurement, groundwater hydrology, groundwater reservoirs, ground-water discharge, rainfall runoff relationship, statistical analysis in hydrology.
Prerequisite: CIVE 435. Annually.
Quality and control tests of water and wastewater, design principles of water and wastewater treatment plants, physical, chemical, and biological operation processes.
Prerequisite: CIVE 432, CIVE 435. Annually.
Venture and innovation opportunities; concept and strategy; the Technopreneur; planning; resource acquisition and organization; financing, marketing and sustainability of enterprise. Prerequisite: ENGR 300. Annually.
Statically indeterminate structures, force method (beams, trusses, and frames). Cable supported indeterminate structures. Temperature and settlement effects. Displacement methods: slope-deflection equations and moment distribution (beams and rigid frames). Qualitative influence lines for statically indeterminate beams.
Prerequisite: CIVE 312. Annually.
Elements of set theory, basic elements of probability theory, random variables, multiple random variables, function of random variables, probabilistic models, statistical inference, and formulation of the reliability problem.
Prerequisite: MATH 351.
Using the computer for analysis, design, and decision making in civil engineering. Conversion of CAD or REVIT elements to structural elements. Shop drawings. Value engineering. Applications.
Prerequisite: Senior Standing.
Problems of infrastructure, asset management principles, methods of inspection and monitoring of civil infrastructures, risk assessment, asset condition information and data, and replace/maintain decision.
Theory of the finite element method; spring, truss, and beam elements; constant strain elements; plane stress or strain for axisymmetric problems; plates and shells; introduction to non-linear material analysis; introduction to structural dynamic analysis; applications.
Prerequisite: CIVE 312. On demand.
Dynamic response of single, and multi-degree of freedom systems; modal analysis of lumped; continuous mass systems; Natural frequencies and modes shapes, deterministic time domain approach and design response spectra; seismic response of structures; peak response; seismic design principles.
Flexibility and Stiffness matrix methods for analysis of indeterminate trusses, beams, and frames. Grid beams and structures on elastic supports. Composite Structural systems. Influence lines of indeterminate structure utilizing concepts of virtual work and moment distribution methods – Qualitative and Quantitative approaches.
Prerequisite: CIVE 507. On demand.
Earthquake causes and measures, earthquake faults and waves, plate tectonics, structural dynamics of single and multi-degree of freedom systems, seismic hazard evaluation in engineering practice, response analysis of structures. Equivalent static lateral force method, lateral loads resistive systems, architectural consideration for earthquakes, mitigation of earthquake forces.
Definitions and Methods of prestressing. Materials and their properties. Discussion of losses in prestressing. Elastic behavior stress distribution under different load stages. Analysis and design of homogeneous sections. Shear cracking load. Behavior of beam. Load Balancing Procedures. Deflection. Stresses resulting from shrinkage and creep. Partial prestressing.
Prerequisite: CIVE 314. On demand.
Loadings; structural systems and analysis modeling; braced frames; rigid frames structures, stability of high-rise buildings, dynamic response, shear wall structures, coupled shear wall structures, wall-frames Dual structural systems.
Prerequisite: CIVE 413. On demand.
Design and characteristics of lightweight concrete, heavyweight concrete, self-consolidating concrete, fiber-reinforced concrete, mass concrete; concrete in hot weather, concrete in cold weather, high strength concrete, high performance concrete, roller compacted concrete and shrinkage compensating concrete.
Prerequisite: CIVE 321. On demand.
Definition and importance of durability; properties of main building materials (concrete, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, wood, building stones, clay bricks, gypsum, lime, plastics); factors affecting durability; mechanisms of decaying; precautions to increase durability; selection of durable material; tests for durability; economic aspects and impact of durability.
Conventional methods of investigation, nondestructive methods, structural health monitoring, corrosion risk evaluation, protection of reinforcing steel against corrosion, instrumentation techniques, repair materials and techniques, removal, and preparation of concrete for repair, crack repair, concrete patching, structure strengthening, case studies.
Overview on the different types of civil infrastructure, their problems and durability, use of nondestructive evaluation methods to assess their actual conditions, basic NDE methods, sonic and ultrasonic methods, ground penetrating radar (GPR), infrared thermography, electrical resistivity, radioactive and nuclear methods, sensing technologies, different instruments/sensors and their use, wireless technology, structural health monitoring. Case studies and laboratory demonstrations.
Cement and supplementary cementitious materials, mechanical behavior of concrete, properties and applications of various specialized concretes, hot weather concreting, cold weather concreting, chemical admixtures, concrete mix proportioning, deterioration mechanisms, environmental and physical causes of degradation, alkali-aggregate reaction, carbonation, chloride attack, sulfate attack, acid and seawater attack, freeze-thaw cycle.
Prerequisite: CIVE 321. Annually.
Review of basic cartographic principles and the use of geographic information systems for thematic mapping, spatial analysis, and application in the water resources sector. Laboratory emphasizes experience with GIS software.
Prerequisite: Senior Standing. On demand.
Analysis and design of flexible and rigid pavements; pavement type selection; loading; failure criteria and reliability; mechanistic pavement design; design exercises using existing methods.
Prerequisite: CIVE 423. On demand.
Types of bridges and influence lines. Loads and their distribution on bridges, serviceability of bridges, design of bridge deck, superstructure, and substructure. Prerequisite: CIVE 415. On demand.
Decision making, risk analysis, quantitative analysis, and application of quantitative methods to construction projects' environment. Prerequisite: Senior Standing.
Green construction methods and benefits in applying the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) principles.
Definition and classification of concrete admixtures; precautions in their use; chemical admixtures; mineral admixtures; miscellaneous admixtures; type and properties of admixtures; standard specifications; classification and purpose of use; beneficial and detrimental effects on the properties of fresh and hardened concrete; mechanism of action; advantages and disadvantages.
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