Civil Engineering (C E)
85. Civil Engineering and Society (1)
Introduction to the civil engineering profession. This course must be completed
before the end of the second semester of attendance as a civil engineering
major.
120. Strength of construction Materials (3)
Not open to civil engineering majors. Prerequisite: Phys 2A. Stress and
deflections in steel and wood structures and in formwork for concrete structures.
120L. Strength of Construction Materials Laboratory (1)
Prerequisite: C E 120 (or concurrently). Application of testing procedures
to determine and verify limitations on the use of construction materials.
(3 lab hours)
123. Soil Engineering (3)
Prerequisites: C E 121, E E 70. Physical and mechanical properties of soil
as an engineering material; studies and design applications in permeability,
one and two dimensional flows, seepage through earth dams and coffer dams,
porewater pressure and excess porewater pressure; compressibility, stress-strain
relationships and strength characteristics; computer-aided analysis case
histories.
123L. Soil Engineering Laboratory (1)
Prerequisite: C E 121L, 123 or concurrently. Experiments to illustrate and
amplify the principles of soil mechanics. (3 lab hours; field trips required)
124. Concrete Laboratory (1)
Prerequisite: C E 121L. Proportioning of concrete mixes; admixtures; workability
tests; compressive, flexural, and tensile strength tests; reinforced concrete.
(3 lab hours; field trips required)
130. Theory of Structures (3)
Prerequisite: C E 121. Trusses and frames analyzed by algebraic and graphic
procedures; influence lines and live loading analysis; riIDH frames analyzed
by slope deflection and moment distribution. Introduction to matrix methods.
131. Intermediate Theory of Structures (3)
Prerequisite: C E 130. Analysis of statically indeterminate beams, trusses,
and frames; advanced topics in slope deflection and moment distribution;
matrix methods.
132. Reinforced Concrete Design (3)
Prerequisite: C E 130. Design of reinforced concrete structural elements
using the Ultimate Strength Design Method. Introduction to the Alternate
Method. Introduction to prestressed concrete. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours; field
trips required)
133. Design of Steel Structures (3)
Prerequisite: C E 130. Design of steel members and systems for buildings.
Design areas include: tension members, compression members, beams, beam-columns,
connections and plate girders. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours)
134. Foundation Design (3)
Prerequisites: E E 70, C E 123, 132 or concurrently. Design and theory of
spread and continuous wall, rectangular, cantilever and trapezoidal footings;
earth pressures and cantilever as well as gravity retaining walls; pile
foundations; pile driving; construction considerations; load tests; subsurface
investigations; case histories; and computer-aided design of foundations.
(2 lecture, 3 lab hours)
135. Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete Design (3)
Prerequisite: C E 132. Design of typical reinforced concrete and prestressed
concrete structures. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours; field trips required)
136. Design of Timber Structures (3)
Prerequisite: C E 130. Design of timber members and systems for buildings.
Design areas include: loads, properties of wood, tension members, beams,
columns, beam-columns, connections, diaphragms, shear walls, and glued laminated
arches.
137. Seismic Analysis of Structures (3)
Prerequisite: C E 130, M E 112. Analysis of response of structures to dynamic
loads with emphasis on response to earthquake ground motion. Basic concepts
in design of earthquake-resistant buildings. (Field trips) required)
140. Hydrology (3)
Prerequisites: E E 70, C E 128 or concurrently. The hydrologic cycle, atmospheric
conditions, precipitation, infiltration, ground water, soil moisture, evaporation,
runoff, streamflow, hydrographs, flood routing, hydrologic statistical analysis;
applications to water resources planning and management. (Field trips required)
141. Water Resources Engineering (3)
Prerequisites: C E 140. Design of water distribution, sewerage, pavement
and other drainage systems, and selected water resource projects. (Field
trips required)
142. Water Supply and Wastewater Engineering (3)
Prerequisite: M E 116. Introduction to water supply, urban water distribution,
storm drainage, and sanitary sewer systems. Study of water purification
methods and wastewater treatment processes.
142L. Water Quality Laboratory (1)
Prerequisite: C E 142 or concurrently. Study and analysis of physical, chemical,
and biological characteristics of raw and waste waters. (Field trips required)
143. Engineering Hydraulics (3)
Prerequisite: C E 128. Design of pressure-conduit and open-channel flow
systems with applications to hydraulic structures and control works, hydraulic
power conversion, sediment transport, and channel stabilization.
144. Water Quality Control (3)
Prerequisites: C E 142 or senior-level chemical or biological science. Physical,
chemical, and biological operations and processes in water quality control.
Process and hydraulic design of water purification and wastewater treatment
facilities. (Field trips required)
145. Unit Operations and Processes (3)
Prerequisite: C E 142L. Analysis of the unit operations and unit processes
used In the physical, chemical, and biological control of raw and waste
waters quality. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours)
150. Transportation Planning and Design (3)
Prerequisite: S & P 15. Transportation as a multimode system: functions,
development, elements, and characteristics. Transportation planning; design
of geometric elements of route and terminal. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours)
151. Pavement and Drainage Design (3)
Prerequisite: C E 123 (or concurrently). Factors affecting drainage and
loadbearing elements of transportation facilities. Capacity design of drainage
facilities. Structural design of flexible and riIDH highway and airfield
pavements. Pavement overlays, recycling and management system.
152. Transportation Engineering Materials (2)
Prerequisite: C E 123. Properties, design, and testing of bituminous paving
mixtures for pavement construction. (3 lab hours; field trips required)
153. Traffic Operations and Control (3)
Prerequisite: C E 150 or concurrently. Highway traffic characteristics and
studies; comprehensive transportation planning; traffic regulation and control;
environmental considerations; traffic engineering administration.
161. Construction Engineering I (3)
Prerequisite: C E 123. Basics of civil engineering contracting, organization
of construction firms, legal structures, project funding, cash flow, equipment
costs, labor relations, and safety.
180. Senior Project (1)
Prerequisite: senior standing in civil engineering or permission of
Instructor; approved subject; I E 182W or concurrently. Study of a problem
under supervision of a faculty member; final typewritten report required.
Individual project except by special permission.
185. Civil Engineering Practice (1)
Prerequisites: senior standing in civil engineering. Practice of civil engineering;
opportunities in civil engineering; transition from student to professional
engineer; engineering ethics. (Field trips required.)
190. Independent Study (1-3; max see reference)
See Academic Placement -- Independent
Study.
191T. Topics in Civil Engineering (1-3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Investigation of selected civil
engineering subjects not in current courses.
193. Internship in Civil Engineering (2-4; max total 4)
Prerequisite: permission of adviser. Engineering practice in a consulting,
industrial, or government work setting. Each cooperative internship period
usually spans a summer-fall or spring-summer interval. This course cannot
be used to meet graduation requirements. CR/NC grading only.
Surveying and Photogrammetry (S &
P)
11. Plane Surveying (2)
Prerequisite: Math 5. Principles of surveying measurements; distances, directions,
elevations, reduction of surveying data; planimetric mapping.
11L. Plane Surveying Laboratory (1)
Prerequisite: S & P 11 or concurrently. Field practice in measurements
of distance and use of level, transit, and tape in solution of practical
problems. (3 lab hours; field trips required)
12. Advanced Plane Surveying (2)
Prerequisite: S & P 11L. Principles of engineering mapping, curve design,
construction surveying; introduction to land surveying, description writing.
(Former S&P 12)
12L. Advanced Plane Surveying Laboratory (1)
Prerequisite: S & P 12 (or concurrently). Field practice in land surveying,
mapping, earthwork and route layout. (3 lab hours; field trips required)
(Former S&P 12L)
21. Photographic Processes in Engineering (3)
Theory of photographic processes, optics, lenses, emulsions, and developers.
Photographic systems in photogrammetry and remote sensing; digital image
processing. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Former S&P 21)
23. Photogrammetry (2)
Prerequisite: S & P 11, L or 12L; S & P 23L concurrently. Theory
of photographic processes, optics, lenses, emulsions, and developers. Image
quality control. Characteristics of metrical photography; extraction of
metrical data from single and overlapping photographs. Flight planning.
23L. Photogrammetry Laboratory (l)
Prerequisite: S & P 23 concurrently. Planning photography for extraction
of metric data. Photographic measurements. Orientation and use of stereoplotters.
(3 lab hours; field trips required)
34. Survey Computations (3)
Prerequisites: S & P 16, L; S & P 61, Math 76. Probability, error
theory, adjustment of simple survey networks, and matrix methods; digital
computer solutions of surveying computation and adjustment problems.
41. Route Surveying (2)
Prerequisite: S & P 12L. Computations and theory covering surveys for
highway, irrigation, construction, and other kinds of engineering projects.
Includes computer solutions. (Field trips required)
41L. Route Surveying Laboratory (1)
Prerequisite: S & P 41 or concurrently. Survey for highway location,
stakeout of roads and intersections from plans. Collection of digital survey
data for computer processing. (3 lab hours; field trips required)
102. Geodetic Surveying (2)
Prerequisite: S & P 34, 108 (or concurrently). Triangulation, trilateration,
and traverse; adjustment of geodetic figures, precise leveling; astronomy
for azimuth; map projections and state plane coordinates. (2 lecture hours)
102L. Geodetic Surveying Laboratory (1)
Prerequisite: SE 102 (or concurrently). Field applications and practice
with triangulation, trilateration, traverse, precise leveling and astronomy
for azimuth. (3 lab hours; field trips required)
108. Geodesy (3)
Prerequisites: Math 77, Phys 5A, permission of instructor. Size and shape
of the earth; three-dimensional coordinate systems; computations on the
spheroid; introduction to gravity measurements; reduction to plane coordinates.
109. Surveying Astronomy (3)
Prerequisite: S & P 108. Celestial sphere, star, and earth coordinates;
altitude and hour-angle methods of solar observation; astronomical and instrumental
corrections to observations; time systems; determination of latitude, longitude,
and azimuth. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours)
123. Photogrammetric Instrumentation (3)
Prerequisite; S & P 23, 34 (or concurrently). Applications of theory
of optics to photogrammetric and surveying instruments. Theory of stereoorientation;
theory of optical and optical-mechanical plotting instruments;.calibration
and maintenance of plotting instruments; mapping with stereo-plotting instruments,
orthophoto mapping. (1 lecture, two 3-hour labs; field trips required) (Former
S&P 123)
125. Advanced Photogrammetry (3)
Prerequisites: S & P 123, 135. Introduction to analytical photogrammetry;
strip and block aerial triangulation. Design and operating principles of
analytical plotters. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Former S&P 125)
126. Map Design and Reproduction (3)
Prerequisite; S & P 21, 123. Cartographic color separation, scribing,
line and hall-tone copy, single and multicolor photolithographic reproduction;
edge enhancement and photo-tone techniques. Theory of map projections. (2
lecture, 3 lab hours) (Former S&P 126)
135. Advanced Survey Computations (3)
Prerequisites: S & P 34, 102. Statistics, propagation of errors, advanced
theory of least squares optimization algorithms. Computer programming for
complex surveying and photogrammetry adjustment applications. Project design.
(Computer lab fee, $15)
140. Earth Resources Surveying (3)
Prerequisite: S & P 125 (or concurrently.) Extraction of quantitative
data from aerial and space imagery for monitoring environment and management
of earth resources. Data input for Geographic Information Systems.
145. Electronic Surveying (3)
Prerequisite: Phys 5B, S & P 108 (or concurrently). Applications of
electronic principles for establishing geodetic locations on land and water.
Satellite and inertial positioning systems. (Field trips required) (Former
S&P 145)
147. Electronic Distance Measurements (3
Prerequisite: S & P 145. Introduction to electronic surveying systems.
Analysis of main elements in electronic surveying instruments; geometrical
concepts in electronic measurements. Use of electronic distance measurements
in surveying, traverse and trilateration. Navigation systems. (2 lecture,
3 lab hours; field trips required) (Former S&P 147)
151. Boundary Control and Legal Principles (3)
Prerequisite: S & P 50 or permission of instructor. Legal principles
that control the boundary location of real property.
152. Surveying Systems (3)
Prerequisite: S & P 151. Concepts of property, land tenure, land ethics;
property description and recording systems; water boundary systems, tidelands,
the California Coastal Act, hydrographic surveys.
159. Subdivision Preparation (2)
Prerequisites: S & P 151. Subdivision map act, title search, zoning
study. Tentative and final subdivision layout, map drafting; environmental
impact study. (1 lecture, 3 lab hours)
180. Senior Project (1)
Prerequisites: senior standing in surveying engineering; approved subject;
I E 182W (or concurrently.) Study of a problem under supervision of a faculty
member; final typewritten report required. Individual project except by
special permission. (Former S&P 180)
186. Surveying Engineering Practice (1)
Prerequisites: senior standing in surveying engineering. Introduction to
contract law; professional registration, organization, conduct and ethics.
(Field trips required)
190. Independent Study (1-3; max see reference)
See Academic Placement -- Independent Study.
191T. Topics in Surveying Engineering (1-3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Investigation of selected surveying
engineering subjects not in current courses.
193. Internship in Surveying Engineering (2-4; max total 4)
Prerequisite: permission of adviser. Supervised professional practice in
a private firm or public agency.