Civil and Environmental Engineering (CIV ENG)

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
An introduction to key engineered systems (e.g., energy, water supply, buildings, transportation) and their environmental impacts. Basic principles of environmental science needed to understand natural processes as they are influenced by human activities. Overview of concepts and methods of sustainability analysis. Critical evaluation of engineering approaches to address sustainability.
Engineered Systems and Sustainability: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019
The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
Freshman Seminars: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
A review of equilibrium for particles and rigid bodies. Application to truss structures. The concepts of deformation, strain, and stress. Equilibrium equations for a continuum. Elements of the theory of linear elasticity. The states of plane stress and plane strain. Solution of elementary elasticity problems (beam bending, torsion of circular bars). Euler buckling in elastic beams.
Introduction to Solid Mechanics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2021 8 Week Session, Summer 2020 8 Week Session, Summer 2019 8 Week Session
A review of equilibrium for particles and rigid bodies. Application to truss structures. The concepts of deformation, strain, and stress. Equilibrium equations for a continuum. Elements of the theory of linear elasticity. The states of plane stress and plane strain. Solution of elementary elasticity problems (beam bending, torsion of circular bars). Euler buckling in elastic beams.
Introduction to Solid Mechanics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Introduction to structure and properties of civil engineering materials such as asphalt, cements, concrete, geological materials (e.g. soil and rocks), steel, polymers, and wood. The properties range from elastic, plastic and fracture properties to porosity and thermal and environmental responses. Laboratory tests include evaluation of behavior of these materials under a wide range of conditions.
Structure and Properties of Civil Engineering Materials: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Principles of physical and structural geology; the influence of geological factors on engineering works and the environment. Field trip.
Engineering Geology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017
In this course, we will pursue analysis of long-term records of coastal water levels in the context of sea level rise. We will cover the collection, evaluation, visualization and analysis of time series data using long-term records of sea levels from coastal sites around the world. Specific topics will include extreme events and distributions, frequency-based descriptions, averaging, filtering, harmonic analysis, trend identification, extrapolations, and decision-making under uncertainty.
Time Series Analysis: Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
Cities become more dependent on the data flows that connect infrastructures between themselves, and users to infrastructures. Design and operation of smart, efficient, and resilient cities nowadays require data science skills. This course provides an introduction to working with data generated within transportation systems, power grids, communication networks, as well as collected via crowd-sensing and remote sensing technologies, to build demand- and supply-side urban services based on data analytics.
Data Science for Smart Cities: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
A course designed to familiarize the entering student with the nature and scope of civil and environmental engineering and its component specialty areas.
Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2020
Hands-on engineering design experience for creating future infrastructure systems. Intelligent infrastructure systems leverage data and computational to enhance sustainability and resilience for smart cities of the future. Student teams identify a challenge with current transportation, energy, water, waste, and/or the built infrastructure. Student teams design and prototype an innovation that solves this problem using maker resources, e.g. 3D printing, laser cutters, and open-source electronics. The project will be executing via the "Design Sprint" process, which is popular in agile development and Silicon Valley. Students present projects to guest judges from industry. Course is an introductory design experience for first-year students.
Design for Future Infrastructure Systems: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023
This course introduces students to conceptual structural design, fabrication, and testing. The course aims to provide a hands-on structural engineering design experience and to inspire creativity. Students will learn the design process as well as fundamental principles of structural analysis. Student teams will be given a design challenge with performance objectives and practical constraints that emphasize sustainable design practices. Student teams will use maker space resources (e.g. 3D printing, laser cutting, CNC router, woodshop) to fabricate their structures, which will be tested to failure in the Structural Engineering Lab in Davis Hall.
Cornerstone Structural Design: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Application of the concepts and methods of probability theory and statistical inference to CEE problems and data; graphical data analysis and sampling; elements of set theory; elements of probability theory; random variables and expectation; simulation; statistical inference. Use of computer programming languages for analysis of CEE-related data and problems. The course also introduces the student to various domains of uncertainty analysis in CEE.
Engineering Data Analysis: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Supervised group study and research by lower division students.
Supervised Group Study and Research: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022
Supervised independent study by lower division students.
Supervised Independent Study and Research: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Fluid statics and dynamics, including laboratory experiments with technical reports. Fundamentals: integral and differential formulations of the conservation laws are solved in special cases such as boundary layers and pipe flow. Flow visualization and computation techniques are introduced using Matlab. Empirical equations are used for turbulent flows, drag, pumps, and open channels. Principles of empirical equations are also discussed: dimensional analysis, regression, and uncertainty.
Elementary Fluid Mechanics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
A quantitative introduction to the hydrology of the terrestrial environment including lower atmosphere, watersheds, lakes, and streams. All aspects of the hydrologic cycle, including precipitation, infiltration, evapotranspiration, overland flow, streamflow, and groundwater flow. Chemistry and dating of groundwater and surface water. Development of quantitative insights through problem solving and use of simple models. This course requires one field experiment and several group computer lab assignments.
Terrestrial Hydrology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 1998
This course aims to introduce students to the debates and discussions about the impact of increasing human resource consumption, increasing population, and increasing human prosperity on the planet’s environmental systems that support human societies.
Planetary Boundaries and the Anthropocene: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2022
Student teams will design strategies to address critical global challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, and related issues, with the potential for transformational change. Project topics will vary. Students will explore global to local scales using principles and practices from design science, systems thinking, regenerative design, circular economy, environmental justice, science communication, data visualization, and numerical modeling, among other disciplines.
Design for Global Transformation: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
This course is an introduction to air pollution and the chemistry of earth's atmosphere. We will focus on the fundamental natural processes controlling trace gas and aerosol concentrations in the atmosphere, and how anthropogenic activity has affected those processes at the local, regional, and global scales. Specific topics include stratospheric ozone depletion, increasing concentrations of green house gasses, smog, and changes in the oxidation capacity of the troposphere.
Air Pollution: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Assessment of technological options for responding to climate change. Overview of climate-change science; sources, sinks, and atmospheric dynamics of greenhouse gases. Current systems for energy supply and use. Renewable energy resources, transport, storage, and transformation technologies. Technological opportunities for improving end-use energy efficiency. Recovery, sequestration, and disposal of greenhouse gases. Societal context for implementing engineered responses.
Climate Change Mitigation: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2022
In this course, we will examine the local manifestation of global climate change and consider interventions and responses that anticipate long-term change in communities. The course will integrate environmental sciences, civil and environmental engineering, and the social sciences to both understand the impacts of global change and to quantitatively evaluate possible adaptation interventions. Upon completing the course, you will have a holistic perspective on the challenges associated with climate change adaptation, an understanding of the wide range of potential solutions and interventions that may be possible, and an awareness of the strengths and weaknesses of those solutions.
Climate Change Adaptation: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This course will familiarize students with the complex infrastructure used to meet human water demands; competing uses and demands; water and wastewater infrastructure; technologies to enable recovery of water, energy, and other resources from wastewater; supply planning; trends and forecasting; costs, pricing and financing; environmental justice; methods to assess sustainability; regulatory, policy and institutional challenges; and water's contribution to other sectors (e.g., energy, food, buildings). Innovation, both barriers and opportunities, will be highlighted. California and the U.S. will be emphasized but global challenges will be discussed. Students will study, critique, and recommend improvements for a real-world system.
Water Systems of the Future: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Quantitative overview of air and water contaminants and their engineering control. Elementary environmental chemistry and transport. Reactor models. Applications of fundamentals to selected current issues in water quality engineering, air quality engineering, air quality engineering, and hazardous waste management.
Environmental Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This laboratory course is designed to accompany the lecture topics in Civil Engineering 111. Each laboratory activity will provide an opportunity to understand key concepts in water and air quality through hands-on experimentation. Laboratory topics include phase partitioning, acid/base reactions, redox reactions, biochemical oxygen demand, absorption, gas transfer, reactor hydraulics, particle destablization, disinfection, and combustion emissions.
Water and Air Quality Laboratory: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Water and wastewater systems serving communities are complex, large, and were built and expanded over many decades. The infrastructure includes a network of reservoirs, pipelines, pump stations, treatment plants, and other facilities that are connected to natural systems such as watersheds, rivers, groundwater basins, and bay and ocean environments. The planning, design, operation, and maintenance of urban water and wastewater systems require balancing many factors including aging infrastructure, changing regulations, climate change, costs, and community impacts.
One of the greatest challenges facing civil engineers in the 21st century is the stewardship of the infrastructure to protect public health and the environment. Existing systems r
Water & Wastewater Systems Design and Operation: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2017
Ecological engineering approaches for treating contaminated water using natural processes to improve water quality. Emphasis on combining basic science and engineering approaches to understand the fundamental processes that govern the effectiveness of complex natural treatment systems. Applications include constructed wetlands, waste stabilization ponds, stormwater bioretention, decentralized wastewater management, ecological sanitation. Laboratory sessions will consist of design and monitoring of laboratory and full-scale natural treatment systems, including a range of water quality measurements.
Ecological Engineering for Water Quality Improvement: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014
The scope of modern environmental engineering requires a fundamental knowledge of microbial processes with specific application to water, wastewater and the environmental fate of pollutants. This course will cover basic microbial physiology, biochemistry, metabolism, growth energetics and kinetics, ecology, pathogenicity, and genetics for application to both engineered and natural environmental systems.
Environmental Microbiology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
The application of principles of inorganic, physical, and dilute solution equilibrium chemistry to aquatic systems, both in the aquatic environment and in water and wastewater treatment processes.
Water Chemistry: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2018
Chemical mechanisms of reactions controlling the fate and mobility of nutrients and pollutants in soils. Role of soil minerals and humus in geochemical pathways of nutrient biovailability and pollutant detoxification. Chemical modeling of nutrient and pollutant soil chemistry. Applications to soil acidity and salinity.
Chemistry of Soils: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Not yet offered
Python analysis of datasets that are relevant to today's grand challenges in environmental engineering. Topics include, but are not limited to, human exposures, water resources, solid waste, water quality, energy equity, and coastline resilience. Discussion of datasets through the lens of socioeconomic equity and historical unintended consequences of environmental engineering decisions.
Data and Equity in Environmental Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Introduction to design and analysis of structural systems. Loads and load placement. Proportioning of structural members in steel, reinforced concrete, and timber. Structural analysis theory. Hand and computer analysis methods, validation of results from computer analysis. Applications, including bridges, building frames, and long-span cable structures.
Structural Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
A first course in steel design focusing on basic principles. Introduction to materials and methods of steel construction; behavior and design of tension members, compression members, flexural members and beam-columns; design of welds, bolts, shear connections, and moment connections. Includes laboratory sessions to illustrate member behavior. By the end of the course students should be able to design simple steel structures subjected to static gravity and lateral loads. Design teams will conceive, determine design loads, and conduct a preliminary and final design of a structural system and its foundation. Teams will prepare a report containing project description, design criteria, structural drawings, and supporting calculations.
Design of Steel Structures: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Introduction to materials and methods of reinforced concrete design and construction; behavior and design of reinforced concrete beams and one-way slabs considering deflections, moment, shear, and reinforcement development requirements; behavior and design of columns; design of spread footings; design of earthquake-resistant structures; laboratory sessions to illustrate member behavior, to solve problem sets, and to develop and present the preliminary designs for a design project.
Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Characteristics and properties of wood as a structural material; design and detailing of structural elements and entire structures of wood. Topics include allowable stresses, design and detailing of solid sawn and glulam beams and columns, nailed and bolted connections, plywood diaphragms and shear walls. Case studies.
Structural Design in Timber: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Introduction to the dynamics of particles, rigid bodies, and deformable solids in civil engineering. Newtonian and Lagrangian formulations. Vibration of particles and rigid body systems: natural frequencies and mode shapes, free and forced vibration. Vibration of continuous systems: bars, strings, beams. Modeling and numerical simulation methods..
Engineering Dynamics and Vibrations: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Concepts of theory of solid mechanics: three dimensional stress, strain, and material response; elastic and inelastic boundary value problems; fracture, fatigue, and geometric instability. Problems in advanced strength of materials; thin plate and axis-symmetric shell theory.
Applied Structural Mechanics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This is an introductory course on the finite element method and is intended for seniors in engineering and applied science disciplines. The course covers the basic topics of finite element technology, including domain discretization, polynomial interpolation, application of boundary conditions, assembly of global arrays, and solution of the resulting algebraic systems. Finite element formulations for several important field equations are introduced using both direct and integral approaches. Particular emphasis is placed on computer simulation and analysis of realistic engineering problems from solid and fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and electromagnetism. The course uses FEMLAB, a multiphysics MATLAB-based finite element program that possesses a wide array of modeling capabilities and is ideally suited for instruction. Assignments will involve both paper- and computer-based exercises. Computer-based assignments will emphasize the practical aspects of finite element model construction and analysis.
Engineering Analysis Using the Finite Element Method: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025
This course introduces engineering students to the analysis and design of load-bearing components of flight structures, ranging from subsonic aircraft to rockets. Emphasis is placed on the quasi-static and dynamic analysis of structural components which are prevalent in aerospace engineering. Attention is also devoted to a comprehensive design roadmap of flight vehicle structures from the full system- to the individual component-level
Flight Vehicle Structures and Aeroelasticity: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2013, Spring 2010, Spring 2009
The failure mechanisms in civil engineering materials (cement-based materials, metallic- and polymer-based materials) are associated with processing, microstructure, stress states, and environmental changes. Fracture mechanics of brittle, quasi-brittle, and ductile materials; cracking processes in monolithic, particulate, and fiber reinforced materials; examples of ductile/brittle failure transitions in civil engineering structures; retrofitting of existing structures; non-destructive techniques for damage detection.
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Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
A capstone class with the objective to design transportation facilities based on operational capacity, site constraints, and environmental design considerations. Emphasis on airports, including landside and airside elements, and environmental assessment and mitigation techniques.
Transportation Facility Design: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Operation, management, control, design, and evaluation of passenger and freight transportation systems. Their economic role. Demand analysis. Overall logistical structure. Performance models and modeling techniques: time-space diagrams, queuing theory, network analysis, and simulation. Design of control strategies for simple systems. Feedback effects. Paradoxes. Transportation impact modeling; noise; air pollution. Multi-criteria evaluation and decision making. Financing and politics.
Transportation Systems Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2023
The course will be centered around analyses of a set of aviation data sets and will enable the students to become familiar with data science applications to aviation. Aviation topics to be covered include fundamentals of air traffic control, models of aviation operations, aircraft trajectory prediction and optimization, data sources in aviation, overview of data science methods, role of data science in solving problems in aviation operations such as conflict detection and resolution, traffic flow management, arrivals management and surface operations, airline operations, fuel efficiency, global aviation.
Data Science in Aviation: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2020
Concrete materials: cements, supplementary cementitious materials, water, and admixtures. Sustainability analysis of concrete materials and mixtures. Development of special concretes: self-leveling concrete, high-performance concrete, and mass concrete. Consideration of sustainability of concrete construction methods used for buildings, highways, airfields, bridges, dams and other hydraulic structures. Non-destructive methods. Discussion of long-term durability. Comprehensive group projects.
Concrete Materials, Construction, and Sustainability: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Introduction to construction engineering and field operations. The construction industry, construction methods and practice, productivity improvement, equipment selection, site layout formwork, erection of steel and concrete structures. Labs demonstrate the concepts covered. Field trips to local construction projects.
Construction Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Principles of economics, decision making, and law applied to company and project management. Business ownership, liability and insurance, cash flow analysis, and financial management. Project life-cycle, design-construction interface, contracts, estimating, scheduling, cost control.
Engineering Project Management: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Introduction to sensing and modeling of infrastructure system; Imagery analysis (point clouds, lidar, structure for motion, satellite); Geophysics (Synthetic-aperture radar analysis, time histories analyses); Sensor systems (distributed fiber optics, wireless sensor network, MEMS, conventional); Structural health monitoring and analysis; Infrastructure network analysis (graph theory, GIS, simulations); entrepreneurship in infrastructure and smart cities industry.
Infrastructure Sensing and Modeling: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2020
Geological and geophysical exploration for structures in rock; properties and behavior of rock masses; rock slope stability; geological engineering of underground openings; evaluation of rock foundations, including dams.
Rock Mechanics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
The course will introduce junior/senior undergraduate students to the basic physical concepts of remote sensing as they relate to different earth surface processes. It will introduce students to a variety of recently developed ground, airborne, and satellite instruments and their applications to monitor and analyze environmental processes. These include active (e.g., Lidar), and passive (radiometers) sensors, optical (e.g., Landsat, MODIS), microwave (e.g., SMAP), and gravitational (e.g., GRACE) satellites.
Remote Sensing of the Environment: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Introduction to principles of groundwater flow, including steady and transient flow through porous media, numerical analysis, pumping tests, groundwater geology, contaminant transport, and design of waste containment systems.
Groundwater and Seepage: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2015 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2014 10 Week Session, Summer 2014 First 6 Week Session
Engineering Geomatics is a field that integrates collections, processing, and analysis of digital geospatial data. This new field is anchored in the established field of geodetics that describes the complex shape of the Earth, elements and usage of topographic data and maps. Basic and advanced GPS satellite mapping. Digital globe technology. Advanced laser-LIDAR mapping. Quantitative terrain modeling, change detection, and analysis. Hydrogeomatics-seafloor mapping.
Engineering Geomatics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Soil formation and identification. Engineering properties of soils. Fundamental aspects of soil characterization and response, including soil mineralogy, soil-water movement, effective stress, consolidation, soil strength, and soil compaction. Use of soils and geosynsynthetics in geotechnical and geoenvironmental applications. Introduction to site investigation techniques. Laboratory testing and evaluation of soil composition and properties.
Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
Principles of environmental geotechnics applied to waste encapsulation and remediation of contaminated sites. Characterization of soils and wastes, engineering properties of soils and geosynthetics and their use in typical applications. Fate and transport of contaminants. Fundamental principles and practices in groundwater remediation. Application of environmental geotechnics in the design and construction of waste containment systems. Discussion of soil remediation and emerging technologies.
Environmental Geotechnics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021
The theory and practice of geophysical methods for determining the subsurface distribution of physical rock and soil properties. Measurements of gravity and magnetic fields, electrical and electromagnetic fields, and seismic velocity are interpreted to map the subsurface distribution of density, magnetic susceptibility, electrical conductivity, and mechanical properties.
Applied Geophysics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
Geosystem engineering design principles and concepts. Fundamental aspects of the geomechanical and geoenvironmental responses of soil are applied to analyze and design civil systems, such as earth dams and levees, earth retention systems, building and bridge foundations, solid-waste fills, and tailings dams. Students form teams to design geotechnical aspects of a civil project and prepare/present a design document. Field trip to a project site.
Geosystems Engineering Design: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Course encompasses two design aspects of a civil and environmental engineering system: 1) Design of whole system, component, or life-cycle phase, subject to engineering standards and constraints, and 2) production system design (e.g., cost estimation and control, scheduling, commercial and legal terms, site layout design). Students form teams to address real-life projects and prepare project documentation and a final presentation.
Life-Cycle Design and Construction: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
Hands-on engineering design experience for creating cyber-physical systems, or more colloquially, "internet-of-things (IoT) systems" for smart cities. Projects overlay a software layer onto physical infrastructure to produce one integrated system. Student teams will identify a challenge with current urban systems, e.g. mobility, energy & environment, water, waste, health, security, and the built environment. Student teams design and prototype an innovation that addresses this challenge using maker resources, e.g. 3D printing, laser cutters, and open-source electronics. The project will be executing via the "Design Sprint" process, which is popular in agile development and Silicon Valley. Students present projects to industry judges.
Design of Internet-of-Things for Smart Cities: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024
Carbon capture and storage and its role in reducing carbon emissions, Fossil fuels and concentrated emissions sources. Chemistry, physics, and engineering principles of pre and post combustion carbon capture technologies. Principles of underground sequestration. Geology of storage zones, physical and chemical properties of pore fluids. Principles of subsurface CO2 flow. Drilling, wellbore construction, and characterization of deep injection boreholes. Injection and monitoring. Political and socio-economic drivers and constraints for carbon capture and storage.
Carbon Capture and Storage: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
This course covers current topics of interest in civil and environmental engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester depending upon the instructor
Special Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
This course covers current topics of interest in civil and environmental engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester depending upon the instructor.
Special Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This course is organized around five real-world large-scale CEE systems problems. The problems provide the motivation for the study of quantitative tools that are used for planning or managing these systems. The problems include design of a public transportation system for an urban area, resource allocation for the maintenance of a water supply system, development of repair and replacement policies for reinforced concrete bridge decks, traffic signal control for an arterial street, scheduling in a large-scale construction project.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Systems Analysis: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
A series of lectures by distinguished professionals designed to provide an appreciation of the role of science, technology, and the needs of society in conceiving projects, balancing the interplay of conflicting demands, and utilizing a variety of disciplines to produce unified and efficient systems.
The Art and Science of Civil and Environmental Engineering Practice: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023
Applications of probability theory and statistics in planning, analysis, and design of civil engineering systems. Development of probabilistic models for risk and reliability evaluation. Occurrence models; extreme value distributions. Analysis of uncertainties. Introduction to Bayesian statistical decision theory and its application in engineering decision-making.
Engineering Risk Analysis: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Supervised research. Students who have completed 3 or more upper division courses may pursue original research under the direction of one of the members of the staff. A final report or presentation is required. A maximum of 4 units of H194 may be used to fulfill the technical elective requirement.
Honors Undergraduate Research: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Supervised experience in off-campus companies or tutoring/mentoring relevant to specific aspects and applications of civil engineering on or off campus. Written report required at the end of the semester.
Field Studies in Civil Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Group study of a selected topic or topics in civil engineering.
Directed Group Study for Advanced Undergraduates: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Supervised independent study.
Supervised Independent Study: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Fundamental fluid mechanics with application to the environment. Analytical solutions and numerical modeling of advection-diffusion and Navier-Stokes equations, with a focus on understanding both the numerical techniques needed to predict environmental flow and transport and the underlying physical processes described by the mathematical equations. Fluid kinematics, scalar transport, numerical error and stability analysis, scaling analysis, channel flows, Stokes flows, and introduction to turbulence.
Environmental Fluid Mechanics I: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Fundamental fluid mechanics with application to the environment, including turbulent channel flows and boundary layers, surface waves, and sediment transport. Turbulence modeling and development of analytical and numerical solutions for the equations governing flow and transport in the environment. Scaling analysis and numerical techniques applied to examples from surface water and atmospheric flows.
Environmental Fluid Mechanics II: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2014
Application of fluid mechanics to transport and mixing in the environment. Fundamentals of turbulence, turbulent diffusion, and shear dispersion in steady and oscillatory flows and the effects of stratification. Application to rivers, wetlands, lakes, estuaries, the coastal ocean, and the lower atmosphere.
Transport and Mixing in the Environment: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
Course addresses fundamental and practical issues in flow and transport phenomena in the vadose zone, which is the geologic media between the land surface and the regional water table. A theoretical framework for modeling these phenomena will be presented, followed by applications in the areas of ecology, drainage and irrigation, and contaminant transport. Hands-on applications using numerical modeling and analysis of real-life problems and field experiments will be emphasized.
Vadose Zone Hydrology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Course addresses topics of surface water hydrology, such as processes of water in the atmosphere, over land surface, and within soil; advanced representation and models for infiltration and evapotranspiration processes; partition of water and energy budgets at the land surface; snow and snowmelt processes; applications of remote sensing; flood and drought, and issues related to advanced hydrological modeling. Students will address practical problems and will learn how to use the current operational hydrologic forecasting model, and build hydrological models.
Surface Water Hydrology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 1999
This course aims to introduce students to the debates and discussions about the impact of increasing human resource consumption, increasing population, and increasing human prosperity on the planet’s environmental systems that support human societies.
Planetary Boundaries and the Anthropocene: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2007, Fall 2000
Processes and procedures to define and determine the demands and capacities of the structures and hardware elements of engineered systems during their life-cycles: margins of quality. The objective of this course is to provide students with the knowledge and skills to define and evaluate system demands, capacities, and reliabiltity targets to be used in design, requalification, construction, operation, maintenance, and decommissioning of engineered systems.
Margins of Quality for Engineered Systems: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
The course provides a framework to address contemporary water-resources problems, and to achieve water security for local areas and broader regions. Students will become aware of critical water-resources issues at local, national and global scales, and learn to formulate solutions for water-resources problems using engineering, natural-science and social-science tools. The main focus is on California and the Western United States, with comparative analysis for other regions.
Water Resources Management: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
This course provides conceptual and hands-on experience in design and implementation of innovative products or processes for improving the sustainability of resource-constrained communities (mostly poor ones in the developing countries). Teams of students will take on practical projects, with guidance from subject experts.
Design for Sustainable Communities: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2018
Comprehensive strategies for the assessment and control of water-related human pathogens (disease-causing microorganisms). Transmission routes and life cycles of common and emerging organisms, conventional and new detection methods (based on molecular techniques), human and animal sources, fate and transport in the environment, treatment and disinfection, appropriate technology, regulatory approaches, water reuse.
Control of Water-Related Pathogens: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
The fundamental concepts of physical, chemical, and microbiological processes that affect water quality in natural and engineered environmental systems. Focus is on developing a qualitative understanding of mechanisms as well as quantitative tools to describe, predict, and control the processes that effect water quality. The class consists of three main parts: (1) Physical Processes: mass balance, chemical kinetics, reactor hydraulics, reactor models; (2) Biological processes: microbiological principles, pathogens, and microbial transformations; (3) Chemical contaminants: properties, partitioning and reactivity.
Water Quality Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Fundamental concepts of biological processes that are important in natural and engineered environmental systems, especially those affecting water quality. Incorporates basic fundamentals of microbiology into a quantifiable engineering context to describe, predict, and control behavior of environmental biological systems. Topics include the stoichiometry, energetics and kinetics of microbial reactions, suspended and biofilm processes, carbon and nutrient cycling, and bioremediation applications.
Environmental Biological Processes: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 1996
Overview of approaches used by engineers to preserve or improve water quality at the watershed scale. Characterization and modeling of nutrients, metals, and organic contaminants in watersheds. Application of ecosystem modification and pollutant trading to enhance water quality. The course emphasizes recent case studies and interdisciplinary approaches for solving water quality problems.
Watersheds and Water Quality: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
Overview of technological development to address global challenges on water-energy nexus and water scarcity. Introduction to emerging technologies, such as membrane filtration, thermal processes, and nanotechnology. Their applications in water purification, wastewater reuse, desalination, and renewable energy production. Quantitative understanding of energy efficiency, transport mechanisms, and interfacial phenomena involved in the above engineered systems. Group projects on selected topic.
Emerging Technologies for Water Sustainability: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2022
Kinetic aspects of chemical fate and transport in aquatic systems. Quantitative descriptions of the kinetics of intermedia transport and pollutant transformation by abiotic, photochemical, and biological reactions. Techniques for the estimation of environmental reaction rates. Development of models of pollutant behavior in complex natural systems.
Environmental Chemical Kinetics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Quantitative overview of the characterization and control of air pollution problems. Summary of fundamental chemical and physical processes governing pollutant behavior. Analysis of key elements of the air pollution system: sources and control techniques, atmospheric transformation, atmospheric transport, modeling, and air quality management.
Air Quality Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2013, Fall 2008, Spring 2006
Nature, behavior and signifance of airborne particulate matter. Size distributions. Transport phenomena and deposition processes. Light scattering, visibility impairment, and climate consequences. Aerosol thermodynamics and kinetics of phase-change processes, including nucleation. Phase partitioning of semivolatile species. Coagulation. Atmospheric sources including primary and secondary particle formation. Loss mechanisms including wet and dry deposition. Technological controls.
Atmospheric Aerosols: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
Theory and practice of mathematical air quality modeling. Modeling atmospheric chemical transformation processes. Effects of uncertainty in model parameters on predictions. Review of atmospheric diffusion theory and boundary layer meteorology. Dispersion modeling. Combining chemistry and transport.
Air Pollution Modeling: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
Transport and mixing of solutes in water. Focus on rivers, lakes, estuaries, and wetlands, with some discussion of groundwater and the atmosphere. Basic equations of fluid motion will be used to contextualize and/or derive applied empirical equations for use in specific cases of applied environmental engineering practice. Example applications include outfalls, total maximum daily loads, residence time, and longitudinal dispersion.
Fluid Flow in Environmental Processes: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Theory and applications of modern structural analysis. Direct stiffness method. Matrix formulations. Virtual work principles. Numerical solution methods. Modeling and practical analysis of large frame structures. Elastoplastic analysis of frames. P-delta effects.
Structural Analysis Theory and Applications: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
Theory, modeling, and computation for analysis of structures with material and geometric nonlinearities. Sources of nonlinearity. Solution strategies for static and dynamic loads. Modeling of inelastic materials and members. P-Δ analysis and large deformation theory. Elastic stability. Nonlinear dynamic analysis. Time integration methods. Practical applications.
Nonlinear Structural Analysis: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Theory, modeling, and computation for analysis of structures with material and geometric nonlinearities. Sources of nonlinearity. Solution strategies for static and dynamic loads. Modeling of inelastic materials and members. P-delta and large deformation theory. Analysis of stability. Practical applications.
Nonlinear Structural Analysis: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Approximation theory for analysis of deformation and stress in solids. Finite element formulations for frame, plane stress/strain, axisymmetric, torsion, and three-dimensional elastic problems. The isoparametric formulation and implementation. Plate and shell elements. Finite element modeling of structural systems.
Finite Element Methods: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
Earthquake protective systems including seismic isolation and energy dissipating devices. Behavior and
modeling of rubber and sliding seismic isolation bearings, hysteretic dampers, fluid viscous dampers, buckling
restrained braces, and self-centering systems. Linear and nonlinear response analysis and design of structures
with earthquake protective systems.
Earthquake Protective Systems: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Evaluation of deformations and forces in structures, idealized as single-degree of freedom or discrete-parameter multi-degree of freedom systems, due to dynamic forces. Evaluation of earthquake-induced deformations and forces in structures by linear response history analysis; estimation of maximum response by response spectrum analysis; effects of inelastic behavior. Laboratory demonstrations.
Dynamics of Structures: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2012
Introduction to the theory of probability and random processes. Correlation and power spectral density functions. Stochastic dynamic analysis of single- and multi-degree-of-freedom structures subjected to stationary and non-stationary random excitations. Time- and frequency-domain analyses; modal cross-correlations. Response to multi-support excitations. Level crossings, envelope process, first-excursion probability, and distributions of peaks and extremes. Introduction to nonlinear stochastic dynamic analysis. Applications in earthquake, wind, and ocean engineering.
Stochastic Structural Dynamics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Design of structures to resist earthquakes and other dynamic excitations. Characterization of earthquakes for design. Development of design criteria for elastic and inelastic structural response. Seismic performance of various structural systems. Prediction of nonlinear seismic behavior. Basis for code design procedures. Preliminary design of steel and reinforced concrete structures. Evaluation of earthquake vulnerability of existing structures and rehabilitation of seismic deficiencies.
Earthquake-Resistant Design: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2015, Spring 2013
Advanced topics in time-domain dynamic analysis of structures. Frequency-domain analysis of dynamic response; discrete Fourier transform methods. Earthquake analysis of structures including structural-foundation-soil interaction, and of structures interacting with fluids.
Advanced Earthquake Analysis: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2020
Review of probability theory. Multivariate distribution models. Review of classical methods for characterization of systems and assessment of system reliability. Formulation of structural reliability for components and systems. Exact solutions for special cases. Computational reliability methods, including first- and second-order reliability methods (FORM and SORM), response surface, Monte Carlo simulation, and importance sampling. Bounds on system reliability. Reliability sensitivity and importance measures. Bayesian updating and reliability analysis under statistical and model uncertainties. Introductions to reliability-based optimal design, time- and space-variant reliability analysis, and finite-element reliability methods.
Structural System Reliability: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Mechanical response of materials: Simple tension in elastic, plastic and viscoelastic members. Continuum mechanics: The stress and strain tensors, equilibrium, compatibility. Three-dimensional elastic, plastic and viscoelastic problems. Thermal, transformation, and dealloying stresses. Applications: Plane problems, stress concentrations at defects, metal forming problems.
Mechanics of Solids: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2020
The goal of this course is to study the theories of structural mechanics within the framework of nonlinear continuum mechanics of solids. Finite elasticity; invariance. Energy principles: principles of virtual and complementary virtual work; primary and mixed variational principles. Theory of stability: Euler method; stability under follower loads. Classical theories of beams: planar, torsional, and lateral buckling. Plate theories. Invariant theories of structural mechanics: directed continua; Cosserat theories of rods.
Structural Mechanics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2021
Computational methods for solution of problems in structural mechanics. Finite-element methods for displacement and mixed variational solutions of problems in elasticity and inelasticity. Treatment of constraints arising from near incompressibility in solids, transverse shear effects in beams, plates, and shells, and/or contact between structures. Programming methods for finite-element implementations.
Computational Mechanics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2011, Fall 2007, Fall 2005
Computational methods applied to inelastic deformations of solids; 1, 2, and 3-D large and small-deformation continuum plasticity and viscoelasticity models and their algorithmic approximations; viscoplastic regularizations and softening; thermodynamics and its relationship to algorithmic stability; return mappings, closest-point projections and operator splits; application to metals, soils, concrete, and polymers and incorporation into finite element codes.
Computational Inelasticity: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2020, Spring 2017
Introduction to statistical mechanics for engineers. Basics of ensembles, phase spaces, partitions functions, and free energies. Analysis of expectation values and fluctuations in system properties. Applications to the study of elementary gases, phonons in solids, polymer chains and networks, harmonic and quasi-harmonic crystalline solids; limitations of classical methods and quantum mechanical influences; molecular dynamics simulations for solids.
Introduction to Statistical Mechanics for Engineers: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2018
Basic theories, analytical techniques, and mathematical foundations of micromechanics. It includes 1. physical micromechanics, such as mathematical theory of dislocation, and cohesive fracture models; 2. micro-elasticity that includes Eshelby's eigenstrain theory, comparison variational principles, and micro-crack/micro-cavity based damage theory; 3. theoretical composite material that includes the main methodologies in evaluating overall material properties; 4. meso-plasticity that includes meso-damage theory, and the crystal plasticity; 5. homogenization theory for materials with periodic structures.
Micromechanics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Basic statistical thermodynamics foundations, physical models, computational formulations, algorithms, and software that are used in nanoscale simulations and modellings. They include (1) Molecular dynamics; (2) Monte Carlo methods; (3) Coarse-grained molecular dynamics, and (4) Multiscale methods including coupling between molecular dynamics and finite element methods.
Computational Nano-mechanics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021
Microstructures of concrete, wood, and steel. Differences and similarities in response to loading and environmental effects on these materials, with emphasis on strength, elastic properties, creep, shrinkage, thermal stresses, and failure mechanisms.
Civil Engineering Materials: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2015, Spring 2013
Properties of fresh and hardened concrete; strength, elastic behavior, creep, shrinkage, and durability to chemical and physical attacks. New concrete-making materials. Recent advancements in concrete technology: high-strength, high-workability, and high-performance concrete; fiber-reinforced concrete, and roller-compacted concrete.
Concrete Technology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Analysis and design of reinforced concrete elements and systems that are common in building and bridge structures, with an emphasis on seismic response and design; structural design methods; reinforced concrete materials; confined concrete; line elements under axial, flexural, and shear loadings; bond, anchorage, and development; seismic design principles; earthquake-resistant building frames, walls, diaphragms, and foundations; earthquake-resistant bridges.
Reinforced Concrete Structures: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2011
Advanced topics in reinforced concrete construction, including inelastic flexural behavior; applications of plastic analysis to reinforced concrete frames; behavior in shear and torsion; yield-line analysis of slabs; behavior under cyclic and reversed loading; seismic rehabilitation.
Behavior of Reinforced Concrete: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
Behavior and design of statically determinate prestressed concrete structures under bending moment, shear, torsion and axial load effects. Design of continous prestressed concrete beams, frames, slabs, and shells. Time-dependent effects and deflections of prestressed concrete structures. Applications to the design and construction of bridges and buildings.
Prestressed Concrete Structures: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Behavior and design of steel plate girders and shear walls. Design of bracings for stability. Design of members subjected to torsion. Design of composite beams, columns, and beam-columns. Behavior and design of shear, semi-rigid and moment connections. Concepts used in design of gusset plates and base plates. Selection and design of steel and composite systems.
Design of Steel and Composite Structures: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2012, Fall 2010
Topics related to inelastic behavior and plastic design of steel members and structures. Behavior of plastic hinge in members subjected to bending moment, axial force, shear, and their combinations. Collapse mechanisms of steel members and structures such as moment frames and braced systems. Inelastic cyclic behavior of steel components. Introduction to fracture and fatigue of steel components.
Behavior and Plastic Design of Steel Structures: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This course covers the following topics: similitude laws, design of structural models, instrumentation and measurement techniques; use of computers to acquire data and control tests; pseudo-dynamic testing method; standard proof-testing for capacity assessment; non-destructive testing for condition assessment, and virtual experimentation. Upon completing this course, the students will be able to use experimental methods to investigate the behavior of a structure and to evaluate its condition.
Experimental Methods in Structural Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Policy issues in urban transportation planning; measuring the performance of transportation systems; the transportation policy formulation process; transportation finance, pricing, and subsidy issues; energy and air quality in transportation; specialized transportation for elderly and disabled people; innovations in transportation policy.
Transportation Policy and Planning: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
The management of vehicle flows and fleets. Traffic stream properties and their measurement. Theories of traffic flow. Capacity analysis and queueing. Flow control and fleet scheduling.
Operation of Transportation Facilities: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
The systems approach and its application to transportation planning and engineering. Prediction of flows and level of service. Production functions and cost minimization. Utility theory and demand modeling. Transportation network analysis and equilibrium assignment. Decision analysis and evaluation of transportation projects.
Systems Analysis in Transportation: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2017
The use of advanced surveillance, navigation, communication, and computer technology to monitor, analyze, and improve the performance of transportation systems. Enabling technologies. Application to monitoring, analysis, evaluation, and prediction of transportation system performance and behavior. Intervention strategies. Feasibility studies. Human factors and institutional issues. Case studies. In the laboratory, students carry out a term project under the supervision of an ITS researcher.
Intelligent Transportation Systems: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2019, Spring 2010
Application of micro- and macro-economic concepts to transportation systems. Urban and interregional travel demand analysis. Freight demand. Project and program evaluation. Social welfare theory. Analysis of social cost. Investment analysis and pricing theory. Economic impact analysis. Role of economic analysis in decision making.
Transportation Economics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Implications of increasing urbanization are widespread: from environmental challenges, to segregation, to new political and social movements. This course provides an overview of different disciplinary approaches to understanding urban systems, drawing on engineering, the social sciences, urban planning, and the natural sciences. Students will learn from other disciplines to enrich the study of cities within their own field and be better prepared for interdisciplinary collaborations.
Global Metropolitan Studies: Introduction to Theories, Histories & Methods: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021
Operational planning and management of the highway transportation system. The highway system is presented as a set of operating environments with each having its unique analytical framework. Major topics to be covered include policy and institutional issues, selection of strategies and tactics, evaluation of objectives and measures of effectiveness.
Highway Traffic Operations: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This multi-disciplinary course is intended to introduce students to the fundamentals of sustainable transportation, with an emphasis on: 1) current trends, climate and energy science, and the policy context; 2) methodological and analysis techniques; 3) vehicle technology, fuels, and intelligent transportation systems (ITS) solutions (supply side); and 4) land use, public transportation, and demand management.
Transportation Sustainability: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2022
Principles of “green” and “sustainable” aviation, and analysis methods for evaluating aviation sustainability metrics and measurements. Aircraft operations and airport systems in the context of global warming, aviation noise, local and global emissions, third-party risk, environmental economics and resilience. Models of carbon reduction, and technology and operations alternatives are studied. Future concepts, such as urban and regional air mobility using electric aircraft and vertiports.
Sustainable Aviation and Infrastructure: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2013, Fall 2011, Fall 2010
Vehicle routing. Transportation-inventory-production interrelationships, physical distribution networks, many-to-many networks (airlines, postal, etc.), the role of transshipments and terminals in logistic systems for the transportation of goods and passengers, public and private transportation system design. Relevant methodologies.
Logistics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
Supply chain analysis is the study of quantitative models that characterize various economic trade-offs in the supply chain. The field has made significant strides on both theoretical and practical fronts. On the theoretical front, supply chain analysis inspires new research ventures that blend operations research, game theory, and microeconomics. These ventures result in an unprecedented amalgamation of prescriptive, descriptive, and predictive models characteristic of each subfield. On the practical front, supply chain analysis offers solid foundations for strategic positioning, policy setting, and decision making.
Supply Chain and Logistics Management: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Analysis of mass transit systems, their operation, and management. Technology of transit vehicles and structures. Public policy and financing.
Public Transportation Systems: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Nature of civil aviation; structure of the airline industry; aircraft characteristics and performance; aircraft noise; navigation and air traffic control; airport planning and design; airline operations; aviation system planning.
Air Transportation: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2023
The course will be centered around analyses of a set of aviation data sets and will enable the students to become familiar with data science applications to aviation. Aviation topics to be covered include fundamentals of air traffic control, models of aviation operations, aircraft trajectory prediction and optimization, data sources in aviation, overview of data science methods, role of data science in solving problems in aviation operations such as conflict detection and resolution, traffic flow management, arrivals management and surface operations, airline operations, fuel efficiency, global aviation.
Data Science in Aviation: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2011
Integrated treatment of quantitative and analytical methods for the management of infrastructure facilities over their life. The focus of the course is on statistical modeling and numerical optimization methods and their application to managing systems of civil infrastructure, with an emphasis on transportation facilities.
Infrastructure Systems Management: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Probabilistic models in transportation. The use of field data. Data gathering techniques, sources of errors, considerations of sample size. Experiment design for demand forecasting and transportation operations analysis. Analysis techniques.
Analysis of Transportation Data: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023
Techniques for analyzing individual daily activities and travels both at urban and at global scale. The course is designed for graduate students interested in methods to analyze human dynamics, and their interactions with the built and the natural environment. Course covers five units each of which is centered in a seminal research paper. Students learn to reproduce the results of the selected paper in the classroom via computer labs, and through a related data analysis and modeling assignments.
Human Mobility and Network Science: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
Introduction to modern methods of data analysis, spatial data handling and visualization technologies for engineers and data scientists. Theoretical coverage includes a selection of methods from spatial statistics, exploratory data analysis, spatial data mining, discriminative and generative approaches of machine learning. Projects and assignment tasks are targeted at real-world scalable implementation of systems and services based on data analytics in environmental remote sensing, transportation, energy, location-based services and the domain of “smart cities” in general
Scalable Spatial Analytics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
Many aspects of engineering, planning, and policy involve a human element, be it consumers, businesses, governments, or other organizations. Effective design and management requires understanding this human response. This course focuses on behavioral theories and the use of quantitative methods to analyze human response. A mix of theory and practical tools are covered, with applications drawn from infrastructure investment and use, urban growth and design, health, and sustainability.
Behavioral Modeling for Engineering, Planning, and Policy Analysis: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This course applies principles of engineering, behavioral science, and vision science to preventing traffic collisions and subsequent injury. A systematic approach to traffic safety will be presented in the course, and will include (1) human behavior, vehicle design, and roadway design as interacting approaches to preventing traffic crashes and (2) vehicle and roadway designs as approaches to preventing injury once a collision has occured. Implications of intelligent transportation system concepts for traffic safety will be discussed throughout the course.
Traffic Safety and Injury Control: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2021
Inspired by the "lean" resolution in manufacturing, production management concepts and methods are woven into a lean project delivery system. Key concepts include flow, value, variability, and waste. Key methods include proecution system design, target costing, value stream mapping, and work flow control. Student teams apply concepts and methods in field studies of real project management processes and construction operations. The course includes a tour of the NUMMI Auto Plant in Fremont.
Lean Construction Concepts and Methods: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Principles and practices of "lean" production are applied to project delivery in the AEC industry. Case studies illustrate the concepts. Project delivery is viewed holistically with a focus on work structuring and supply chain management. Topics include systems dynamics, uncertainty, and variation; materials management; logistics; e-commerce; building information modeling (BIM); and integrated product and process design. Students use process simulation to assess performance of different system configurations and develop a case study applying concepts on a real project.
Lean Construction and Supply Chain Management: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Engineering involves many parties with diverse interests. Legal principles form the framework for their interaction. Contracts for engineering services establish both risk allocation and reciprocal liabilities. Issues of contract formation, performance, breach, and remedy are covered in detail. Standard of care and professional negligence are emphasized during the discussion of tort law. Other topics include regulation, legal relationships, litigation, and alternative dispute resolution.
Law for Engineers: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021
Methods and tools of environmental life-cycle assessment (LCA, an international standard), especially as applied to infrastructure, but also applicable to other products, processes, services, and systems. Focus on design, management, and supply chains of the entire life cycle: manufacturing, construction, transportation, operation and maintenance, and end of life. Economic life-cycle cost analysis. Models and tools for life-cycle environmental inventory, impact, and improvement analysis.
Environmental Life-Cycle Assessment: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Cost and time estimating and controlling techniques for projects. Evaluation of labor, material, equipment, and subcontract resources, scheduling techniques, earned value concepts. Measuring project percent complete. Contractual risk allocation. Project investment analysis techniques.
Advanced Project Planning and Control: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
This course will provide a broad survey of management practices critical to starting and managing a business in the engineering and construction industries. Topics that are covered include the entrepreneurial process; organizing and staffing; establishing and applying production control systems; means of protecting products and services from competitive threat; and financial management.
Business Fundamentals for Engineers: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Fall 2009
This course addresses human and organizational factors in development of desirable quality and reliabiltiy in engineered systems during their life-cyles (concept development through decommissioning). Applications tested and verified proactive, reactive, and interactive approaches are developed and illustrated.
Human and Organizational Factors: Quality and Reliability of Engineered Systems: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018
Overview of what makes buildings and their systems “green” and “sustainable," and analysis throughout their life cycle (design, materials, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation, end of life) and in interaction with infrastructure systems (energy, transportation, water, waste management), the economy, natural environment, society. Innovative approaches, expectations for future developments. Cost-benefit analysis. Life-cycle management. Net-zero buildings. Case studies.
Buildings and Sustainability: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Advanced treatment of topics in soil mechanics, including state of stress, consolidation and settlement analysis, shear strength of cohesionless and cohesive soils, and slope stability analysis.
Advanced Geomechanics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
An introduction to the fundamentals of sensor usage and signal processing, and their application to civil systems. In particular, the course focuses on how basic classes of sensors work, and how to go about choosing the best of the new MEMS-based devices for an application. The interpretation of the data focuses on analysis of transient signals, an area typically ignored in traditional signal processing courses. Goals include development of a critical understanding of the assumptions used in common sensing and analysis methods and their implications, strengths, and limitations.
Sensors and Signal Interpretation: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Constitutive laws for geotechnical materials including inelastic hyperbolic and elasto-plastic Cam-clay; soil behavior and critical-state soil mechanics; application of the finite element method to static analysis of earth structures; the Discontinuous Deformation Analysis method.
Numerical Modelling in Geomechanics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Field and laboratory testing of soils to support analysis and design of earth structures. In situ field testing, including SPT, CPT, and vane shear, undisturbed sampling of soil, and laboratory testing of soil, including advanced equipment, instrumentation, data acquisition, and measurement techniques. Consolidation and static and cyclic triaxial and simple shear testing under stress- and strain-control with pore pressure measurements. Preparation of an engineering report.
Advanced GeoEngineering Testing and Design: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Seismicity, influence of soil conditions on site response, seismic site response analysis, evaluation and modelling of dynamic soil properties, analysis of seismic soil-structure interaction, evaluation and mitigation of soil liquefaction and its consequences, seismic code provisions and practice, seismic earth pressures, seismic slope stability and deformation analysis, seismic safety of dams and embankments, seismic performance of pile foundations, and additional current topics.
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2019
Deterministic and probabilistic approaches for seismic hazard analysis. Separation of uncertainty into aleatory variability and epistemic uncertainty. Discussion of seismic source and ground motion characterization and hazard computation. Development of time histories for dynamic analyses of structures and seismic risk computation, including selection of ground motion parameters for estimating structural response, development of fragility curves, and methods for risk calculations.
Seismic Hazard Analysis and Design Ground Motions: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Advanced treatment of topics in foundation engineering design, including earth pressure theories, design of earth retaining structures, settlement, bearing capacity, analysis and design of shallow and deep foundations.
Advanced Foundation Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024
The future of infrastructure relies on smarter information; the rich information obtained from embedded sensors within infrastructure and large-scale computer simulations will act as catalysts for new design, construction, operation and maintenance processes for integrated infrastructure systems linked directly with user behavior patterns. This course will teach the fundamentals of various sensing and modeling tools used for infrastructure engineering and present case studies. The trend in entrepreneurship for emerging technologies in infrastructure and smart cities industry will be discussed.
Infrastructure Sensing and Modeling: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Influence of geologic origin and history on the engineering characteristics of soils and rocks. Application of geology in exploration, design, and construction of engineering works.
Engineering Geology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2011, Spring 2006, Spring 2002
This course gives an overview of seismic methods used to image the subsurface. Acquisition, processing, and interpretation of seismic data are discussed, with application to petroleum production, environmental site characterization, earthquake engineering, and groundwater.
Seismic Methods in Applied Geophysics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2019
Considerations for digital signal processing and data analysis. Fourier Transforms, convolution and correlation. Discrete linear systems, Z tranforms. Digital processing of seismic reflection data, deconvolution and migration. Introduction to 3-D seismic data.
Digital Data Processing: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2016
Principles of embedded system design. Focus on design methodologies and foundations. Platform-based design and communication-based design and their relationship with design time, re-use, and performance. Models of computation and their use in design capture, manipulation, verification, and synthesis. Mapping into architecture and systems platforms. Performance estimation. Scheduling and real-time requirements. Synchronous languages and time-triggered protocols to simplify the design process.
Cyber Physical System Design Prinicples and Applications: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
This course covers current topics of interest in civil and environmental engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester depending upon instructor.
Advanced Special Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Examination of the interactions between transportation and land use systems; historical perspectives on transportation; characteristics of travel and demand estimation; evaluation of system performance; location theory; models of transportation and urban structure; empirical evidence of transportation-land use impacts; case study examinations.
Transportation and Land Use Planning: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2018, Spring 2016
Active areas of research in applied seismology. Subjects include: anisotropic and viscoelastic wave propagation, borehole seismology, crosswell seismology, including crosswell seismic tomography, vertical seismic profiling, reservoir monitoring including passive seismic methods.
Advanced Topics in Seismology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Mathematical methods and information technologies for controlling CEE systems. Emphasizes designing component organizations that interact with the world in real-time to control a large system. Methods applied to transportation operations, supply chains, and structures. Management of design complexity by hierarchical specification, systematic use of simulation and verification tools, semantics, polymorphism,information management services, and compilation from high-level design languages.
Civil Systems: Control and Information Management: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2009, Spring 2007
Advanced treatment of developing areas of geomechanics and geotechnical earthquake engineering, including the development of generalized nonlinear soil constitutive models, new developments in soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake engineering, soil improvement, geosynthetics and earth structures, and case studies of geotechnical problems.
Advanced Topics in Geotechnical Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
Selected topics in the mathematical analysis of transportation systems. Topics will vary from year to year.
Advanced Topics in Transportation Theory: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014
Distributed systems and PDE models of physical phenomena (propagation of waves, network traffic, water distribution, fluid mechanics, electromagnetism, blood vessels, beams, road pavement, structures, etc.). Fundamental solution methods for PDEs: separation of variables, self-similar solutions, characteristics, numerical methods, spectral methods. Stability analysis. Adjoint-based optimization. Lyapunov stabilization. Differential flatness. Viability control. Hamilton-Jacobi-based control.
Control and Optimization of Distributed Parameters Systems: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 1995
Introduction to current areas of research at the intersection of machine learning and control with application to civil systems. Investigations of
machine learning and data-driven algorithms that interact with the physical world. Topics of study will include learning models of dynamical systems, using these models to represent civil systems, and machine learning techniques to manage and control civil applications spanning from energy systems to water networks, to transportation and supply chains. The course will introduce students to methods to either infer dynamics from data with the goal of using classical control algorithms or develop model-free control strategies starting from data.
Data-driven Control Methods for Civil Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course will cover advanced methods in estimation, control, and optimization of distributed parameter systems (partial differential equations in particular). The course builds on 291 and covers discrete methods relying on finite differencing such as quadratic programming for optimal control and variational data assimilation, (ensemble, extended) Kalman filtering. The course covers distributed transfer function analysis and frequency responses of PDEs, and characteristics-based stability analysis.
Advanced Estimation, Control, and Optimization of Partial Differential Equations: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016
Exploration of selected important technologies that serve major societal needs, such as shelter, water, food, energy, and transportation, and waste management. How specific technologies or technological systems do or do not contribute to a move toward sustainability. Specific topics vary from year to year according to student and faculty interests.
Technologies for Sustainable Societies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024
In this course, students develop real-world engineering and design skills to address the effects of climate change. The semester teaches design solutions based on planned and implemented projects to address sea level rise, extreme flooding and other climate risks. Students will explore applications to real-world sites in a project-based format. Topics include engineering tools, high performance landscapes, sustainable infrastructure, urban design, equity and social justice, and resilience of critically impacted built and natural infrastructure systems.
Climate Resilient Infrastructure Design Studio: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025
This course introduces modern models and methods of uncertainty quantification through their applications to engineering problems. The course consists of four components: (i) probabilistic models, (ii) forward uncertainty quantification, (iii) sensitivity analysis, and (iv) inverse uncertainty quantification. Students will use computer codes to apply the concepts learned to homework problems and a term project. A basic knowledge of probability theory is required, but a brief review of fundamental concepts will be offered at the beginning of the course.
Uncertainty Quantification for Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024
Coverage of urban risks to natural hazards such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods; fundamental concepts in hazards,
infrastructure vulnerability, and risk; disaster risk modeling with rigorous statistical methods and large datasets; and network
modeling to assess the cascading effects of infrastructure failures. Designed for graduate students interested in risk and
resilience for practice and research. Course includes software development and utilization of research software for regional
risk modeling of the impacts of natural hazards.
Disaster Risk Analysis of Infrastructure Systems: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of data science methods for the design and operation of energy systems. The course is oriented towards students pursuing a technical career in cleantech, or a PhD in the energy sciences and engineering. Course contents include: mathematical modeling & analysis, state estimation, optimization, machine learning, and optimal control. Homework assignments are designed around case studies, including lithium-ion batteries, oil & gas systems, renewable power systems, smart buildings, and electrified transportation. Student teams also execute a self-defined project.
Data Science for Energy: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Summer 2024 10 Week Session, Spring 2024
Supervised experience in off-campus companies relevant to specific aspects and applications of civil and environmental engineering. Written report required at the end of the semester. Course does not satisfy unit or residence requirements for a master's or doctoral degree.
Field Studies in Civil and Environmental Engineering: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Advanced studies in various subjects through special seminars on annually selected topics, informal group studies of special problems, group participation in comprehensive design problems, or group research on complete problems for analysis and experimentation.
Group Studies, Seminars, or Group Research: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024 8 Week Session
Research or investigation in selected advanced subjects.
Individual Research: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
The course will include supervised teaching of laboratory sections of civil engineering courses, group analysis of videotapes, reciprocal classroom visitations, and an individual project.
Workshop for Future Civil and Environmental Engineering Teachers: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024 10 Week Session
Individual study for the comprehensive or language requirements in consultation with the major field adviser. Units may not be used to meet either unit or residence requirements.
Individual Study for Master's Students: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Individual study in consultation with the major field adviser, intended to provide an opportunity for qualified students to prepare for the various examinations required of candidates for doctoral degrees. May not be used for unit or residence requirements.
Individual Study for Doctoral Students: Read More [+]