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Sediment properties, initiation of sediment motion, suspended load, bed load, total sediment load, bed forms, resistance of movable beds, flow in alluvial channels, stability to alluvial channels, aggradation and degradation, instrumentation and measuring techniques, modeling of fluvial processes, reservoir sedimentation, sediment transport in closed conduits.

Introduction to coastal engineering, coastal environment and coastal structures. Fundamental properties of waves, tides and tidal currents, their analysis, predictions and transformations. Short- and long-term wave analysis, and design waves. Coastal structures: types, functionality, limitations, and design factors. Waves. forces and moments on structures: interia/drag forces and moments; breaking, broken, and non-breaking wave forces and moments. Design of coastal structures: design water levels and wave heights; siting and layout; design of seawalls, breakwaters and groins. Design considerations for harbors and marinas. Modeling and scaling laws in coastal engineering.

Review of basic concepts of steady uniform flow, the energy and momentum concepts in open channel, flow resistance for uniform and non- uniform flow conditions, gradually varied flow, rapidly varied flow, spatially varied flow, gradually varied unsteady flow, rapidly varied unsteady flow, spatially varied unsteady flow, flood routing, channel routing, reservoir routing, method of characteristics, finite difference formulation, computer applications.

Hydrologic proccesses, precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, infiltration, stream flow, hydrograph analysis, flood routing, urban hydrology, statistical concepts and stochastic hydrology, hydrologic design.

Principles of water chemistry: chemical equilibrium; acid-base reactions; oxidation- reduction reaction; colloidal system; chemical precipitation. Basic concepts from Water Microbiology: microbial growth; aquatic food chains; indicator organisms. Water and Wastewater analysis. Water quality standards. Fundamentals of process kinetics: reaction; catalysis, materials balance, biological kinetics.

Theory and application of biological treatment methods, microbiological fundamentals, process kinetics and reactor design, suspended and attached growth systems, aerobic and anaerobic processes, oxygen transfer, soil systems, sludge processing. Laboratory assignments and design projects for selected unit processes.

Reactor dynamics and mass transport processes; theory and design of treatment systems for phase and species transformation processes, particulate separation processes, and solute separation processes; laboratory assignments and design projects for selected unit processes.

Solid waste generation, handling, storage, collection, transfer and transport, processing techniques and ultimate disposal. Engineering systems for materials and energy recovery. Administration of solid waste systems.

Examination of alternative choices for the management of environmental problems. Ecological systems, natural processes, data analysis. Legal, economic and planning techniques. Decision making, measurements of benefits and costs, normative evaluation techniques, environmental risk analysis. Preparation of environmental impact statements. Lectures and seminars are presented by staff, visiting speakers and students and case studies are discussed.

Comprehensive overview of transport and fate of pollutants in natural surface waters. An introduction to modeling fundamentals along with in-depth descriptions of how a variety of pollutants move and react within a variety of water bodies. A coverage of advanced modeling topics such as protozoan pollution and sediment processes.

An upper division of graduate technical elective treating topics in Engineering mostly not covered in other courses, chosen at the discretion of the Graduate Program Committee.

Introduction to construction management concept, analytical techniques for bringing a project to completion within budget, on time and according to the specifications, including study of cost engineering and control, schedule and resource control, procurement and quality control.

Seminar dealing with the problems of working and communicating with individuals and groups.

A survey of classical and modern organization theory; concepts and functions of management, the behavior of the individual, the work group, and the organization, all linked to construction problems.

Introduction to cost estimating, cost budgeting, cost accounts, CPM cost loading, cost controlling, cost forecasting, and cost accounting of construction and engineering projects. The course also covers feasibility studies, level of influence, cost engineering, cost optimization, cash-flow analysis, cost-schedule compression, and life cycle costing.