CIVE 590
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Master’s Thesis
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The student carries out research work under the guidance of his/her advisor, on a topic proposed by the advisor and approved by the Institute.
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CIVE 591
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Graduate Seminar
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Each student, before starting his/her thesis work, is assigned a topic by his/her thesis advisor in coordination with the coordinator of the seminar course. The student surveys the topic and presents it in the early stage of the thesis work.
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CIVE 500
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Proficiency Area Course
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Investigation on study fields and developments on these study fields of all students, under the supervision of an advisor, who are progressing their M.Sc. thesis.
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CIVE 501
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Advisorship
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It involves guidance in thesis process
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CIVE 592
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Scientific Research and Publication Ethics
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This course covers the principles of scientific method, the difference between laws and theories, characteristics of an ethical research project, the responsibilities of scientists and of the scientific community in relation to society at large.
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CIVE 511
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Advanced Materials Science
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For this course, atomic structure and interatomic bonding will be evaluated in advanced level. Elastic, plastic and viscoelastic behavior of engineering materials, relationship of mechanical properties to internal structures of ceramics, metals, polymers and composites will be thought. Applications of material behavior and properties to design of engineering systems are planned to be demonstrated with the help of experimental equipment.
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CIVE 512
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Durability of Concrete Structures
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In this course, mechanisms of concrete deterioration will be inspected through the semester. Inspection of concrete structures for both field and laboratory methods will be elaborated by making experiments. Planning and Design of Concrete Repair, Materials and Methods for Repair and Rehabilitation can be demonstrated by arranging field trips or the industry for the sake of understanding of students at an advanced level.
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CIVE 513
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Advanced Research Methods in Construction Materials
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Overview of research methodology and fundamental statistics will be in this course. Research methods interwoven with theory and the practice are planned show to the students. Standards and other documents related to practical studies will be helping for teaching. Mix design parameters. Mixing and forming. Determination of fresh state properties. Determination of hardened state properties could be shown with organized experiments in the laboratory.
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CIVE 521
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Advanced Fluid Mechanics
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Mathematical definitions, advanced level of equations in fluid mechanics will be thought in the course. Potantial Flow Theory, Turbulent Flow of Imcompressible Vicous Fluids, Theory of Boundary Layer, Diffusion and Dispersion are planned to be demonstrated through the semester. Additionally field trips could be organized in order to connect the industry and the understanding of students on the applications of the fluid mechanics systems.
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CIVE 522
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Infrastructure Planning
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This course aims at developing the knowledge related to the infrastructure planning and management in mega scale cities as to achieve the most sustainable service with the least resources. It offers the analytical methods, tools, data, technologies, and political and financial framework and constraints for managing infrastructure systems and facilities as assets. Topics covered include condition assessment, deterioration modeling, engineering economics, evaluation of infrastructure project alternatives, optimization and ranking, sustainability, and strategic environmental assessment for infrastructure decision-making. Some useful softwares will be offered during this course including DSS and MCA.
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CIVE 523
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Water Resources Management
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This course aims at educating the students on how to manage the water resources in case of limited scarce and over loaded ones. It will show the tools in managing water resources in extreme conditions. Understanding the Water resources problems, the conception, planning and design of functional elements and facilities to control and utilize water, basic to all water management is another part of the course. The course will also offer the global threat and risks to the water resources, the concept of water policy and water rights in shared streams.
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CIVE 524
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Advanced Contaminated Land
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This course provides the tools and possible techniques to manage contaminated land. It also introduces the risk-based approach to contaminated land. It will illustrate the up to date Innovative technologies for land and groundwater remediation, site investigation, risk assessment, and local case studies on land decontamination from different locations in the world. Of these technologies ump and treat, permeable reactive barrier and bioremediation. It will also explain the type of contaminants for soil and groundwater. The transport models and the main three pillars to any contamination including Source-Pathway and Receptor. It will show the innovative methods of site characterization and risk based models.
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CIVE 525
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Advanced Surface Water Hydrology
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The course aims at presenting the principles underlying surface water hydrology and the application of these principles to solve hydrologic problems. This will be through the presentation of the principles that control precipitation, evaporation, runoff generation, flow, geomorphology, and geochemistry in surface water environments. Characteristics of drainage basins, rivers, and the temporal and spatial variability of stream flow in natural and impacted environments. Anthropogenic impacts on fresh water systems and efforts to remediate damaged systems.
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CIVE 526
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Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment
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This course illustrates all innovative and up to date treatment techniques for both water and wastewater as per the latest standards and regulations. It aims at offering the main water and wastewater pollutants, the treatment facilities and the processes. The principles of coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, biological treatment, solids handling, disinfection, and advanced treatment processes are presented with some highlighted issues on the advance chemical processes.
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CIVE 527
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Environmental Impact Assessment
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This course explains the methodology of environmental impact assessment (EIA) as a vital tool for environmental management and decision-making. The course provides an overview of the concepts, methods, issues and various forms and stages of the EIA process. It examines the development of EIA in different areas with the focus on the EU-UK standards. It mainly draws on case studies from each but also focuses on the EIA process in other countries, including developing countries. Different levels and systems of EIA are examined to highlight the diversity of approach and impact of the EIA process. This will enable the students to decide on the decision supporting tools in the aspect of EIA.
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Sustainable Management of Infrastructure
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The course is structured to expose the students to modern professional practice and therefore benefit from practicing engineers. The course also explains the importance of communication skills and provides the students an opportunity to improve their research skills through conducting an interim paper and intensive research on the management of sustainable infrastructure from engineering and business point view. The course will be enriched by guest speakers from industry as to share their knowledge and experience and to enable the students to further involve in the industrial aspects. This course will also provide an opportunity for students to begin exploring sustainable development (SD) issues and to focus on the role and practices of engineers in creating a sustainable world. The course will provide a general perspective on civil engineering with the main focus on geoenvironmental and infrastructure engineering.
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Tools in Civil Engineering
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This course aims at providing an up to date tools in civil engineering as to enrich the students with the mains needed softwares and tools for the design and understanding. It will enable students to deal with large data sets and to analyze and process these data using up to date softwares especially the ones that follow an engineering problems and design. This include the WaterCad, SeweCad, GIS and the numerical modeling. The course could be shared input from another colleagues from civil engineering and other department where other softwares can be offered throughout this course as to extend the experience of the students and manage the large scale projects. Its computer laboratory based course.
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CIVE 531
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Advanced Foundation Engineering
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In this course, principles of foundation types and design, shallow foundations, general bearing capacity equations for vertical and inclined loads, settlement calculation, foundations in sand, rock and reactive clays are basically thought in advanced level. Earth pressures, retaining structures. Piles and advanced analysis of pile capacity, total stress analysis versus effective stress analysis, undrained and drained soil parameters, combined footings, raft foundations and floating foundation, axially and laterally loaded piles, pile groups, other considerations such as rock socketed piles, negative skin friction and effect of soil movements on piles, static and dynamic pile load test will be evaluated at an advanced level.
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CIVE 532
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Earthquakes and Seismology in Engineering
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Seismology and earthquakes, Intensity of shaking, acceleration of ground shaking, energy in earthquake, Seismic waves: Types of seismic waves in earthquake, measurement of dynamic soil properties/ Danger from earthquakes and mitigation of earthquake risks. In this course, simulated maximum shear deformations of hypothetical high rise steel buildings to ground motion simulations can be demonstrated using the shake table and its software.
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CIVE 533
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Site and Soil Improvement
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In this course, concepts of soil improvement, theory of compaction, modification of soils by admixtures such as lime, lime-fly ash, cement, asphalt, chemical additives, in-situ improvement of soil properties, dynamic compaction, vibroflotation, vibrodisplacement. Soil improvement in its broadest sense is the alteration of any property of a soil to improve its engineering performance. In this lecture, a process to permit the construction of a facility can be shown or may be a permanent measure to improve the performance of the completed facility can be evaluated.
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CIVE 561
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Advanced Highway Materials
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Bitumen, Bituminous material, Asphalt, Asphalt Cement, Liquid asphalts, Tar, Aggregates, Definitions related to flexible pavements, History, sources, structure, chemistry and composition of bitumen, Physical properties of bitumen, Rheology of bitumen, Liquid asphalts and their properties, Tests on asphalt, Liquid asphalts, Superpave binder and mixture testing, Types of aggregates, physical properties, related tests, Aggregate mix and gradations, Bituminous mixtures, mix properties, Mix design for asphalt concrete, Behavior of asphalt concrete under loading, Surface dressing and other mixes.
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CIVE 562
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Advanced Highway Design
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Introduction to highway design; Highway systems; Characteristics of vehicles and drivers; Characteristics of traffic; Highway capacity, Geometric characteristics of highways, Route choice, Sight distance criterion, Compound and reverse curves, Horizontal alignment, Transition length and superelevation, Vertical alignment, Climbing lanes; Cross section elements; Cross section calculations, Volume calculations; Mass diagram; Cost of hauling; Types of pavements; Material characteristics; AASHTO 2002 design method, Surface drainage; Culvert design
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CIVE 563
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Advanced Pavement Design
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Introduction to pavement design, Determination of vehicle loads, Performance of pavements, Introduction to theory of elasticity, Layered elastic systems, Analysis of one-layer and two layered
systems, Plate loading test, Three layer and multi-layer systems, Equivalent single wheel load concept, Westergaard analysis, Rigid pavement design, Stresses in rigid pavements, Joint types and construction, Dowel bars and dowel group action theory, California Design method, Asphalt Institute design method for flexible pavements, Shell flexible pavement design method, Corp's of Engineers design method for flexible airport pavements.
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CIVE 564
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Management and Operation of Public Transportation
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Demand for public transport and trends, role of public transport, issues in transportation and accessibility, issues of social exclusion, who are the public transport users, the economics and comparative performance of different modes. The regulatory and institutional framework, definitions and rationale, alternative market options and examples in practice are shown in this course. Additionally public transportation organizations could be invited or visited throughout the semester.
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CIVE 565
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Management of Urban Transport in Developing Countries
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Travel characteristics in developing cities and regions, mode demand for some time in the future by extrapolating present travel behavior mechanisms, city structures, socio-economic characteristics of travelers, transportation facilities available, developing urban forms and transportation applications could be available for teaching. Field trips can be arranged for students to visit local transportation management services.
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CIVE 566
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Geography of Transportation
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This course trains students to address the variety of technologies revolutionizing geographic analysis such as GIS, Global Positioning Systems. A review of the geography of transportation. Major sets of ideas such as spatial organization, network analysis, allocation can be discussed.
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CIVE 541
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Advanced Mechanics of Composite Materials
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Mechanics of composites is covered in detail. Essential topic are conveyed: polymer matrix composites, metal matrix composites, ceramic matrix composites, carbon-carbon composites, recyclingfiber-reinforced composites, macromechanical analysis of a lamina, strength failure theories, micromechanical analysis of a lamina, macromechanical analysis of laminates, analysis and design of laminates, and bending of beams.
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CIVE 542
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Advanced Structural Dynamics
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Characteristics of structures subject to earthquake are studied and seismic design is covered. The following topics are included: equations of motion, free vibration, numerical evaluation of dynamic response, earthquake response of linear and inelastic systems, damping, earthquake dynamics of base-isolated buildings, design of multistory buildings will be demonstrated in this course.
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CIVE 543
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Advanced Mechanics of Materials
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Deepened mechanics of materials is provided. Theories of stress and strain, stress-strain-temperature relations, inelastic material behavior, applications of energy methods, torsion, nonsymmetrical bending of straight beams, shear center for thin-wall beam cross sections, curved beams, elastic and inelastic stability of columns, flat plates, stress concentrations, fracture mechanics, contact stresses, and fatigue.
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CIVE 544
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Design of Pre-stressed Concrete Bridges
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Theory and design of pre-stressed concrete bridges are learned. Bridge design concepts, bending and cracking of reinforced concrete, pre-tensioning and post-tensioning, calculation of pre-stress force, cable profile, losses of pre-stress, anchoring, bonded and unbonded cables, pre-stress effect on shear force, pre-stressing for continuous beams, articulation of bridges and design of substructure, concrete deck design, precast beams, solid slabs, voided slabs, box girders, ribbed slabs, the effect of scale on the method of construction, and cable-supported decks.
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CIVE 545
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Matrix Methods in Structural Mechanics
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Matrix. Displacement Method, Application of Matrix Displacement Method on Truss Structural Systems, Analysis of Continuous Beams and Frames, Analysis of Structures Loaded perpendicularly to their plane, Computer applications.
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CIVE 546
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Behavior and Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures
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Moment-Curvature relationship, Yield-line theory, Plastic Analysis of Structures, Column Interaction (Bending and Axial) Diagrams, Design of Special Moment Frames, Damage analysis of reinforced concrete buildings, Strengthening of reinforced concrete structures
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CIVE 547
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Structural Optimization
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Basic Definitions of Optimization, Design Variables, Objective Function and Constraints, Mathematical modelling of Structural Optimization Problems, Graphical Method, Linear Programming, Simplex method, Optimality criteria method, Newton method, Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms and their applications.
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CIVE 551
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Design of Earthquake Resistant Steel Structures
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Description of the selected concepts of Earthquake Engineering, Structural Ductility, Seismic Response Modification Factors, Basic LRFD Methods for both element and global design of Moment Resisting, Concentrically Braced and Eccentrically Braced Frames, Earthquake Resistant Design and Capacity will be demonstrated with the help of simulations using the shake table.
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CIVE 502
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Advanced Topics in Civil Engineering
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Use of planning, negotiation, presentation, and communication techniques to develop and relay engineering ideas. Discussion on advanced projects and cases and their management, quantity take-off and general procedures to implement the engineering solutions. Field trips can be organized in order to improve the presentation skills and the communication techniques with the industry and the masters students.
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CIVE 503
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Directed Reading in Civil Engineering
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This course gives students space to study literature in civil engineering that explores the full theoretical and contemporary scope of readings pertaining to a proposed field of research. These studies and readings and evaluations will be in conjunction with coursework, class discussions, class participation and homework and field trips if organized by the lecturer.
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CIVE 504
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Special Studies in Civil Engineering
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Special topics in the wide areas of civil engineering such as structural, geotechnical and transportation engineering fields which could be selected according to the fitness of the main interests of the students. The course is designed to give students an opportunity to do independent research, field work, and office work at an advanced level.
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