Civil & Geomatics Engineering
CE 1. Civil Engineering Orientation
An active learning orientation to the civil engineering profession and the role of engineers in each of its areas of specialization, engineering approach to problem solving including public welfare, environmental, social, and economic considerations, functioning on a team, ethical responsibilities of civil engineers, and best practices for success in the civil engineering degree program. Field trip required.
Units: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 2. Engineering Communication and Essentials
Prerequisites: CE 1 and at least 11 units of other coursework. Development of technical writing and oral communication techniques used by engineers. Graphical presentation of data. Reading of civil engineering work products including plans, specifications, and proposals. Review of mathematical concepts essential for performing civil engineering calculations. Field trip required.
Units: 1
CE 20. Engineering Mechanics: Statics
Prerequisites: PHYS 4A and MATH 76, both with "C" or better grade. Analysis of force systems, equilibrium problems, section properties; graphic, algebraic, and vector methods of problem solution. (2 lecture, 2 lab hours)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 29. Engineering Mechanics
Same as CE 29: Prerequisites: MATH 77 (or concurrently); PHYS 4A. Not open to mechanical or civil engineering majors. Study of fundamental principles of statics and dynamics by scalar and vector methods.
Units: 3
CE 80. Computer Applications in Civil Engineering
Prerequisite: MATH 76 with "C" or better grade. Use and modification of existing programs. Creation of new programs. Use of structured language, spreadsheets, and numerical solutions CAD. Term projects.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 121. Mechanics of Materials
Prerequisites: CE 20 with "C" or better grade, and MATH 77 with a "C" or better grade. Applications of principles of mechanics to find stresses and deformations in machine and structural members. G.E. Integration IB.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GE Area: IB
CE 121L. Mechanics of Materials Laboratory
Prerequisites: CE 121 or concurrently, and CE 2. Application of principles and methods of testing to verify theory and determine limitations of principles of mechanics of materials.
Units: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 123. Soil Engineering
Prerequisites: CE 121, CE 123L concurrently. Physical and mechanical properties of soil, lab and field testing, flow of water in soils including permeability and seepage, stree in soils, soil consolidation and settlement, earth pressure, slope stability, and introduction to foundation design.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 123L. Soil Engineering Laboratory
Prerequisite: CE 121L or concurrently, CE 123 concurrently. Soil properties and testing, grain size distribution and soil classification, water content, specific gravity, permeability, compression, consolidation, and stress-strain relationships.
Units: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 124. Concrete Laboratory
Prerequisite: CE 121L. Proportioning of concrete mixes; admixtures; workability tests; compressive, flexural, and tensile strength tests; reinforced concrete. (3 lab hours; field trips required)
Units: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 125. Geotechnical Engineering Design
Prerequisites: CE 123, CE 123L. Theory and design of earth retaining walls, filtration and drawing systems, excavation and supporting systems, soil improvement and ground modification, geosynthetics design and applications, introduction to geoenvironmental engineering. (2 lecture, 2 lab hours)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
CE 128. Civil Engineering Hydraulics
Prerequisite: CE 20 or concurrently. Fundamentals of civil engineering hydraulics with application to hydraulic structures. (3 lab hours)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 129. Engineering Hydraulics Lab
Prerequisite: CE 128 or concurrently. Experiments and demonstrations in fluid properties, flow management, pipe flow, open channel flow, pumps, and hydraulic scour. (3 lab hours)
Units: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 130. Theory of Structures
Prerequisite: CE 121. Trusses and frames analyzed by algebraic and graphic procedures; influence lines and live loading analysis; rigid frames analyzed by slope deflection and moment distribution. Introduction to matrix methods. FS
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 131. Intermediate Theory of Structures
Prerequisite: CE 130. Analysis of statically indeterminate beams, trusses, and frames; advanced topics in slope deflection and moment distribution; matrix methods.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 132. Reinforced Concrete Design
Prerequisite: CE 130. Design of reinforced concrete structural elements and simple structures using the Ultimate Strength Design Method. Introduction of prestressed concrete. (2 lecture, 2 lab hours)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 133. Design of Steel Structures
Prerequisite: CE 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, 2 lab hours)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 134. Foundation Design
Prerequisites: CE 123, CE 123L, CE 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; constructions considerations; load tests; subsurface investigations; case histories; and computer-aided design of foundations. (2 lecture, 2 lab hours).
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
CE 136. Design of Timber Structures
Prerequisite: CE 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.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
CE 137. Seismic Analysis of Building Structures
Prerequisites: CE 130 and ME 112 with a grade of "C" or better. Effects of earthquakes on structures. Introduction to structural dynamics. Response of structures. Seismic provisions of building codes. Basic concepts in seismic -resistant design. Detailing for seismic-resistant construction. Term project. (Field trips required)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
CE 150. Transportation Planning and Design
Prerequisite: GME 15, upper-division standing. Geometric design of land transportation facilities, primarily road/street systems. Traffic theory and analysis, including statistical analysis of traffic parameters. Freeway and intersection capacity. Simple transportation demand forecast.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 150L. Transportation Planning and Design Laboratory
Prerequisites: CE 150, or concurrently. This laboratory provides hand-on training to the planning and design of fundamentals of transportation engineering systems.
Units: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 151. Pavement Design
Prerequisite: CE 123 or concurrently. Analysis of pavement structures. Factors affecting pavement performance. Structural design of flexible and rigid highway and airfield pavements. Pavement rehabilitation and repair.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
CE 152. Trans Engr Mtlrs
Prerequisite: CE 123. Properties and durability of Portland cement concrete. Properties and testing of aggregates for asphalts concrete. Asphalt cements and asphalt concrete performance. Traditional and SUPERPAVE mix design and specification of asphalt concrete.
Units: 3
CE 153. Traffic Operations and Control
Prerequisite: CE 150. Transportation studies. Highway traffic characteristics. Highway system traffic analysis. Highway system capacity design. Traffic regulations and control.
Units: 3
CE 154. Airport Planning and Design
Prerequisites: CE 110 and CE 150. This course is designed for engineering students who would like to understand how airports are planned and designed. The course is suitable for civil, mechanical and aerospace students. The information provided in this course falls into three categories: 1) aircraft performance, 2) planning the airport system, and 3) use of codes and regulations to design the airport airside.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
CE 155. Transportation Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Prerequisite: grade of C or Better in CE 150. This course covers basic and advanced concepts of Transportation GIS, introduces basic applications of two ArcGIS extensions (spatial and network analysts), and enables advanced applications of user-defined functions through the usage of the Model Builder and Python scripting.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
CE 156. Railroad Engineering: An Introduction
Prerequisite: CE 20. This course is intended to give engineers a basic working knowledge of railway engineering, so that they can contribute positively to railway projects that they will encounter in their professional careers. It will also lay a foundation, so that students are prepared to take further, more specialized classes regarding railway equipment, infrastructure, and operations. Quantitative analysis of train resistance, such as at the wheel/rail interface followed by the system of railroad track components, roadbed considerations, route design, and track maintenance are covered
Units: 3
CE 157. Railroad and Highway Geometric Design
Prerequisite: CE 20. This course will provide students with an understanding of the basic principles and techniques of Railroad and Highway design. This will include laying out potential railroad routes, design of the alignment and yards. Highway routes and intersections, evaluation of earthwork requirements, and safety considerations, also will be covered. The student should be able to understand and apply these principles to railroad and highway design problems. The student will learn some software packages that are widely used in transportation engineering industry.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
CE 161. Construction Engineering I
Prerequisite: G.E. Foundation, Breadth Area D, PLSI 2 and GME 15. Engineering contracts and bids. Costs of construction & engineering. Societal, economic, environmental impacts on construction & engineering. G.E. Integration ID.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GE Area: ID
CE 170. Introduction to Water Resources Engineering
Prerequisites: CE 128 completed, and/or CE 129 (concurrently). Introduction to hydrologic and hydraulic processes, water use, and water excess management. Includes design, operation, and maintenance of basic hydraulic structures including pump stations, water distribution systems, reservoirs, wells, and storm and sewer collection systems.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 171. Engineering Hydrology
Prerequisites: CE 128 (or concurrently). Hydrologic processes, hydrologic analysis, and engineering applications of hydrologic science. The occurrence, distribution, and movement of water at and near the surface of the earth; physical processes involved in the land phase of the hydrologic cycle, applications of hydrologic analysis with statistical methods. (Formerly CE140)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
CE 172. Urban Stormwater Management
Prerequisites: CE 170 and CE 171 (or concurrently). An overview of stormwater management; specification of elements of urban stormwater design. Topics include urban hydrology and hydraulics, stormwater quality and receiving-water impacts, design of drainage systems and best management practices, and computer modeling techniques. (2 lectures, 2 lab hours) (Formerly CE 146)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
CE 173. Hydrologic and Hydraulic Engineering Design
Prerequisites: CE 170, CE171 (or concurrently). HEC-HMS modeling of watershed runoff, routing, open channel flows in streams and floodplains. (Formerly CE 191T)
Units: 3
CE 174. Water Distribution and Wastewater Collect Systems Design
Prerequisites: CE 170. This course is designed to enable students to learn hydraulic analysis and design of water distribution and sewerage collection systems. The applications of computer assisted pipe network design and analysis software and pump selection criteria are taught in this course. (Formerly CE 141). (2 lectures, 2 lab hours) (Formerly CE 141)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
CE 176. Environmental Engineering
Prerequisites: CE 128 or concurrently; CHEM 3A or CHEM 1A. Introduction to the principles and practices of environmental quality management, including water and air quality, waste management, and the environmental effects of engineered systems. (Formerly CE 142)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 176L. Environmental Quality Laboratory
Prerequisite: CE 176 or concurrently. Study and analysis of physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of air, water, and solid wastes. (Field trips required) (Formerly CE 142L)
Units: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 177. Water Treatment Process Design
Prerequisites: CE 176. Design of conventional water treatment systems for production of drinking water (2 lecture, 2 lab hours) (Field trips required) (Formerly CE 144)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
CE 178. Wastewater Treatment Process Design
Prerequisites: CE 176. Design of conventional wastewater treatment systems for production of reusable water (2 lecture, 2 lab hours) (Field trips required) (Formerly CE 145)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
CE 180A. Project Design
Prerequisites: Completion of Upper Division Writing Requirements, senior standing in civil engineering; permission of instructor. Co-requisites: CE 123/L; CE 124; CE 129; CE 132; CE 142/L; CE 150; or CE 161; Technical Area Courses (9 units). Civil engineering practice, ethical issues, project analysis and design. Student teams complete and orally defend proposal for a design project that includes several civil engineering specialties. Information gathering, time/resource management, and communication skills.
Units: 2
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 180B. Senior Project
Prerequisites: CE 180A; CE 123/L; CE 124; CE 129; CE 132; CE 142/L; CE 150; CE 161; Technical Area Courses (9 units); approved project proposal; permission of instructor. Co-requisites: CE 185; Technical Area Courses (12 units including 9 units Design Courses). Synthesis of previous coursework into a civil engineering design project under the supervision of a faculty member. Group projects except by special permission. (Former. (Formerly CE 180)
Units: 2
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 185. Civil Engineering Practice
Prerequisites: senior standing in civil engineering or permission of instructor. Practice of civil engineering; transition from student to professional engineer; engineering ethics. Business and public policy; administration fundamentals; leadership.
Units: 2
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 190. Independent Study
See Academic Placement -- Independent Study. Approved for RP grading.
Units: 1-3, Repeatable up to 6 units
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
CE 191T. Topics in Civil Engineering
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Investigation of selected civil engineering subjects not in current courses.
Units: 1-3, Repeatable up to 6 units
CE 193I. Internship in Civil Engineering
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.
Units: 2-4
CE 205. Computing in Engineering Analysis
(ENGR 205 same as CE 205). Prerequisite: graduate status in engineering. Solution of engineering problems using digital computation. Modeling of engineering systems for numerical analysis at the graduate level. Solution of engineering problems using digital computation. Modeling of engineering systems for numerical analysis.
Units: 3
CE 206. Engineering Environmental Impact
Evaluation of environmental impacts due to engineering projects. The incorporation of environmental considerations into engineering design. Alternative solutions to engineering problems. Case histories of selected engineering projects.
Units: 3
CE 210. Research Methods in Civil Engineering
Development of research and skills, understanding, and application of the scientific method in engineering research, and development of individual research topic and proposal. Discussion of new developments in civil engineering science, oral presentations, and submittal of research papers. A passing grade in the Graduate Writing Requirement component of CE 210 is required to receive a passing grade in CE 210.
Units: 3
CE 220. Advanced Foundation Engineering
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Design of cantilevered and anchored sheet-pile walls; axial- and lateral-loaded pile groups; drilled piers; pile driving stresses and wave equation analysis; beams on elastic foundations; footings on expansive and non-uniform soils and on rock; and case histories.
Units: 3
CE 223. Advanced Soil Mechanics
Prerequisites: CE 123, CE 123L, CE 125, and CE 134, or upon instructor's approval. The course covers in-depth discussion of soil aggregates and structures, pore water pressure, unsaturated soil mechanics, permeability and seepage, consolidation, and shear strength. Advanced soil testing (triaxial tests of shear strength and flexible-wall permeability tests) is conducted in class.
Units: 3
CE 225. Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering
Prerequisites: CE 123 and CE 123L, CE 125, and CE 134. Covers introduction to programming, principles of finite element method, and principles of probabilistic methods in geotechnical engineering. Students apply various numerical methods in geotechnical applications (e.g., slope stability, seepage, consolidation) by developing numerical programs and using existing FEM software.
Units: 3
CE 230. Advanced Theory of Structures
Prerequisite: graduate standing in engineering or permission of instructor. Analysis of indeterminate structures by force (flexibility) methods and by displacement (stiffness) methods; Matrix methods suitable for digital computer solutions. Virtual work, real and complementary energy. Classical structural theorems. Introduction to the finite element method.
Units: 3
CE 232. Prestressed Concrete Design
Prerequisite: graduate standing in engineering or permission of instructor. Structural behavior and design of prestressed concrete elements and systems - continuous beams, frames, slabs. Partial prestress. (Field trip[s] required)
Units: 3
CE 233. Advanced Behavior and Design of Steel Structures
Prerequisite: graduate standing in engineering or permission of instructor. Material behavior and design of basic structural units; plate girders; connections; inelastic buckling; composite design; plastic design; P effect. Analysis and design of continuous structures, braced and unbraced frames; stability of steel structures. Critical study of the AISC specifications.
Units: 3
CE 234. Theory of Plates and Shells
Prerequisite: graduate standing in engineering or permission of instructor. Methods of calculating stresses and deformations in plates and shells used in engineering structures. Bending of circular and rectangular plates under various conditions. Membrane and flexural analysis of shells of revolution.
Units: 3
CE 235. Finite Element Analysis
Prerequisite: graduate standing in engineering or permission of instructor. Theoretical and conceptual bases for formulation of finite element representations in solid mechanics. Development of element stiffness matrices for plane stress and plane strain probelms, bending of plates and deformation of shells.
Units: 3
CE 236. Reinforced Masonry Theory and Design
Un-reinforced and reinforced masonry. Current and historic design and analysis methods of buildings and their components using clay, brick and concrete masonry. Masonry beams, columns, walls, shear wall, and retaining structures.
Units: 3
CE 237. Dynamics of Structures
Analysis of structural members and systems subject to dynamic loads. Basic theory for single-degree-of-freedom and multi-degree-of-freedom analytical models; free vibration, harmonic and transient excitation, response spectrum, LaGrange's equations, earthquake analysis.
Units: 3
CE 238. Stability of Structures
Elastic buckling of bars; different approaches to stability problems; inelastic buckling of columns and beam columns; columns and beam columns with linear, nonlinear creep; combined torsional and flexural buckling of columns; buckling of plates.
Units: 3
CE 239. Advanced Reinforced Concrete Theory
Background and origin of modern reinforced concrete theory and procedures. Projection to anticipated future changes in design and construction practices. Application and extension of theory to include new and future construction materials such as high performance concrete and fiber reinforced polymers.
Units: 3
CE 240. Introduction to Urban & Industrial Water Systems
Prerequisites: MATH 5 or equivalent and CHEM 3A or equivalent. Introduction to urban and industrial water management systems. Includes basic concepts of water occurrence, use, transport, quality, treatment, and reuse or disposal. Water transport (hydraulics) is a major component of the course. (3 hours, hybrid of lecture and online delivery) (Formerly CE 242)
Units: 3
CE 241. Groundwater Engineering
Prerequisites: CE 128, CE 140. Fundamentals of groundwater flow. Topics include: Darcy's law, flow nets, mass conservation, heterogeneity and anisotropy, storage properties, governing equation of groundwater flow, regional circulation, unsaturated flow, recharge, stream--aquifer interaction, well hydraulics, slug test analyses, and contaminant transport processes and remediation. (Formerly CE 240)
Units: 3
CE 243. Surface Water Engineering
Prerequisites: CE 140 and CE 141. Students will learn to design a detention basin using the runoff and routing capabilities of the HEC-HMS software routing abilities. They will learn how to use HEC-RAS to model pre and post floodplains downstream of the detention basio. (Formerly CE 291T)
Units: 3
CE 244. Water Resources Systems Optimization
Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Theoretical background and practical approaches to solve optimization problems in the filed of hydrosystem engineering. Students will learn how to formulate an optimization problem to find the best alternative solution for planning, management, operation, and design. (Formerly CE 291T)
Units: 3
CE 245. Geoenvironmental Engineering
Prerequisites: BIOL 10, CHEM 3A, CE 123, CE 128, CE 129, CE 142, or upon approval from the instructor. Topics covered in the course include basic soil physics, principles of groundwater flow, mass transport and transfer in soils, non-aqueous phase liquid in soils, geosynthetics, basic soil microbiology and biochemistry, environmental regulations, solid waste landfills, site contamination and treatment techniques.
Units: 3
CE 246. Contaminant Fate & Transport Engineering
Prerequisites: CE 128 & CE 146. Introduction to modeling chemical transport in the environment, factors controlling multimedia contaminant, quantification of transport rate, and prediction of resulting concentrations in air, water, and soil. Mathematical treatment beyond the elementary level (up to partial differential equations). (Formerly CE 241)
Units: 3
CE 247. Water Treatment Processes
Prerequisites: MATH 77 or equivalent and CHEM 3A or equivalent. Theory and practice of selected physical/chemical water treatment operations and processes. (Formerly CE 246A)
Units: 3
CE 248. Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
Prerequisites: MATH 77 or equivalent and CHEM 3A or equivalent. Analysis of wastewater characteristics, flow rates, and constituent loadings; Process analysis and selection; Design of unit operations and processes. (Formerly CE 246B)
Units: 3
CE 249. Solid Waste Engineering
Planning and design of waste collection and disposal systems. Waste segregation and energy impact related to recovery and recycling practices. Environmental impact and institutional issues related to solid and hazardous waste systems.
Units: 3
CE 250. Transportation System Design
Prerequisite: CE 150 or permission of instructor. This course covers state-of-practice theories and models of travel demand; particularly, 4-step model. Topics include understanding, modeling and simulation of travel behavior; and evaluation of transportation system designs. Extensive hands-on activities offering students advanced knowledge, skills and experiences working with different state-of-the-art data sources (ex. NHTS), mathematical models, and computer software (Access, R, and VISUM).
Units: 3
CE 251. Advanced Boundary Law
Prerequisite: GME 151 or equivalent. Land and water boundary legal issues, both historical and new. Case investigations.
Units: 3
CE 261. Geoprocessing
Prerequisite: GME 173 or equivalent. Integration of computer technologies for gathering, analyzing, and displaying data associated with the earth's spatial features. Engineering design problems dependent on competing factors.
Units: 3
CE 271. Geodetic Systems Optimization
Prerequisite: GME 108 or equivalent. National geodetic networks; planimetric and vertical control systems; geodetic control densification; network optimization criteria and methodology.
Units: 3
CE 275. Satellite Surveying
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Discussion of GPS orbital theory, data collection and processing algorithms, network adjustments, project design and optimization techniques. Review of current research trends and applications. (Field trips required)
Units: 3
CE 276. GPS Theory and Application
Operational theory of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Applications to engineering practice.
Units: 3
CE 280. Geomatics Engineering Seminar
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Current California State University, Fresno surveying engineering research presented and discussed by faculty and graduate students. Oral presentation and written report documenting ongoing research activities required.
Units: 1, Repeatable up to 3 units
CE 283. Digital Remote Sensing
Prerequisite: GME 140 or equivalent. Quantitative approach in remote sensing; digital image characteristics, error correction, registration; geometric and radiometric image enhancement; image classi fication; system design; remote sensing and GIS.
Units: 3
CE 285. Advanced Analytical Photogrammetry
Prerequisite: GME 125 or equivalent. Mathematical models in photogrammetry; bundle block adjustment, self-calibration; close-range photogrammetry; real time photogrammetry and data snooping. System design; hardware and software considerations in photogrammetry.
Units: 3
CE 286. Geographic Information Systems Design
Prerequisite: GME 173 or equivalent. Data structures and algorithms, databases for GIS, error modeling and data uncertainty, visualization, data exchange and standards, the multipurpose cadaster, advanced analysis techniques.
Units: 3
CE 290. Independent Study
Prerequisite: graduate status in engineering. See Academic Placement -- Independent Study. Approved for RP grading.
Units: 1-3, Repeatable up to 6 units
CE 291T. Topics in Engineering
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Investigation of selected engineering topics. May be offered with a lab. (Formerly ENGR 291T)
Units: 1-3, Repeatable up to 6 units
CE 291T. Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
This course is concerned with the study of aspects of geotechnical engineering related to earthquakes and other dynamic effects. In this course, students will learn about: 1. earthquake motion sources, ground motion, time history, and response spectra, 2. Analysis of wave propagation through soil, 3. Analysis of soil liquefaction, and 4. Simplified analysis of underground structures. This topic may not be repeated for credit. (offered Spring 2023)
Units: 3
CE 291T. Railroad Engineering: An Introduction
Prerequisite: CE 20. The course serves an introduction to the field of railroad engineering. It begins with an overview of the railway industry. This is followed by study of the railway rolling stock and motive power that provides the tractive effort. Quantitative analysis of train resistance, such as at the wheel/rail interface follows. Then, the system of railroad track components, roadbed considerations, route design, and track maintenance are covered. The class then finishes with a discussion of passenger rail concerns and high-speed railway issues and distinctions. This topic may not be repeated for credit. (Offered Spring 2023)
Units: 3
CE 291T. Advanced Pavement Design
This course will offer methods of pavement structure response analysis under real traffic load, traditional AASHTO pavement design procedure, mechanisms of pavement distresses, and the asphalt and concrete performance models in Mechanistic Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG). Advanced materials characterization related to MEPDG design procedure will be offered as well. This topic may not be repeated for credit. (Offered Spring 2023)
Units: 3
CE 298. Project
Prerequisite: graduate status in engineering. Independent investigation of advanced character such as analysis and/or design of special engineering systems or projects; critical review of state of the art of special topics, as the culminating requirement for the master's degree. Abstract required. Approved for RP grading.
Units: 3
CE 298C. Project Continuation
Pre-requisite: Project CE 298. For continuous enrollment while completing the project. May enroll twice with department approval. Additional enrollments must be approved by the Dean of Graduate Studies.
Units: 0
CE 299. Thesis
Prerequisite: See Criteria for Thesis and Project. Preparation, completion, and submission of an acceptable thesis for master's degree. Approved for SP grading.
Units: 2-6
CE 299C. Thesis Continuation
Prerequisite: CE 299. For continuous enrollment while completing the thesis. May enroll twice with department approval. Additional enrollments must be approved by the Dean of Graduate Studies.
Units: 0
GME 1. Introduction to Geomatics Engineering
An introduction to geomatics engineering philosophical thought; geomatics engineering profession and career opportunities; professional ethics and safety; creative and critical thinking applied to the geomatics engineering decision-making process. (Formerly SE 1)
Units: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall
GME 5. Critical Reasoning
Fundamentals of analysis and evaluation in the context of technology. Evaluating the viewpoints of experts. Patterns of deductive and inductive arguments. Common fallacies of reasoning. (Formerly SE 5)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GME 15. Engineering Surveying
Prerequisite: MATH 5 or MATH 75. Principles of surveying measurements for distance, direction, elevation, topographic and planimetric mapping, horizontal curves, vertical curves, earthwork and engineering applications. (Formerly SE 15)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GME 15L. Engineering Surveying Laboratory
Prerequisite: GME 15 or concurrently. Field practice in geomatics measurement, construction stakeout, and curve alignment problems. (3 lab hours; field trips required) (Formerly S E 15L)
Units: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GME 16. Municipal Surveying
Prerequisites: GME 15 and GME 15L. Instrumentation; automated electronic survey data collection; land survey; introduction to photogrammetry, GPS, GIS, control surveys, and construction survey application, design, and implementation.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
GME 16L. Municipal Surveying Laboratory
Prerequisite: GME 16 or concurrently. Field and office practice in instrumentation: Automated electronic survey data collection; land survey, photogrammetry, GPS, GIS, and control surveys. Astronomy for azimuth applications. (3 lab hours; field trips required)
Units: 1
Course Typically Offered: Spring
GME 23L. Optics and Waves
Visual optics, prisms, lenses, and collimated light, electromagnetic spectrum and waves, wave properties and atmospheric interactions, optical and electromagnetic imaging systems. GPS, GIS, remote sensing, photogrammetric and EDM applications. (3 lab hours; field trips required)
Units: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall
GME 34. Adjustment Computations
Prerequisites: GME 15, GME 61, MATH 76. Error theory, adjustment of simple survey networks, and matrix methods; digital computer solutions of geomatics computation and adjustment problems. (Formerly SE 34)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
GME 40. Route and Construction Surveying
Prerequisites: GME 15, GME 15L or permission of instructor. Computations and theory covering surveys for highway, irrigation, rail, pipeline, and other transportation alignment projects. Includes computer solutions and applications. (3 lecture, 3 lab hours; field trips required) (Formerly SE 40)
Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall
GME 50. Land Surveying
Prerequisite: GME 15. The United States Public Land Survey System with special emphasis on California; introduction to the California Land Surveyors Act, Certified, A.L.T.A. and mortgage surveys; sectionalized land subdivision, corner restoration, resurveys, evidence, and descriptions. (Field trips required) (Formerly SE 50)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
GME 61. Microcomputers in Engineering
Prerequisite: GME 15 or concurrently. Microcomputer operating systems; introduction to high level computer languages, file processing, program documentation, testing, and debugging. (Formerly S E 61)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
GME 66L. Computer-Aided Mapping
Preparing transportation alignment, topographic, property boundary, environmental, cross section, structural and GIS maps and plans. Civil and Geomatics Engineering and Construction applications. Includes comprehensive computer mapping design experience.
Units: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GME 73. Geomatics
Introduction to Geographic and Land Information Systems; software and hardware issues; practical exercises. (Formerly S E 73)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
GME 102. Geodetic Surveying
Prerequisites: GME 16, GME 34. Horizontal and vertical geodetic networks for deformation, industrial tooling and local area applications; theory and application of State Plane Coordinate systems. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours; field trips required) (Formerly SE 101)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
GME 108. Geodesy
Prerequisites: MATH 77, PHYS 4A, PHYS 4AL, GME 34 or concurrently. Size and shape of the earth; three-dimensional coordinate systems; computations on the spheroid; reduction to plane coordinates; introduction to differential equations, gravity modeling and gravity measurements. (Formerly SE 108)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
GME 114. GPS Navigation
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Theory and concepts of navigation systems emphasizing real-time GPS. Design of air, sea, and land navigation applications, including automatic vehicle location and navigation (AVLN). (2 lecture, 3 lab hours; field trips required) (Formerly SE 114)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
GME 123. Stereo-Photogrammetry
Prerequisites: GME 15, GME 34 or concurrently. Imaging systems; image quality. Theory of stereo-photogrammetry; orientation of stereo-model. Design and operating principles of stereoplotters. Photogrammetric mapping; orthophoto mapping. Project planning. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours; field trips required) (Formerly SE 123)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
GME 125. Analytical Photogrammetry
Prerequisites: GME 123, GME 135. Introduction to analytical photogrammetry; strip and block aerial triangulation. Design and operating principles of analytical plotters. Introduction to soft-copy photogrammetry. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours; field trips required) (Formerly SE 125)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
GME 126. Digital Mapping
Prerequisites: GME 123, GME 173 or concurrently. Design of data input, editing, display and processing mechanisms for digital mapping applications; hardware considerations and software design for DTM applications. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours; field trips required)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
GME 135. Advanced Adjustment Computations
Prerequisites: GME 34, MATH 77. Statistics, propagation of errors, advanced theory of least squares optimization algorithms. Computer programming for complex surveying and photogrammetry adjustment applications. Project design. (Formerly S E 135)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
GME 143. Satellite Geodesy
Prerequisites: GME 102, GME 108, GME 135 or concurrently. Motion of a satellite, orbit geometry and perturbations; time measuring systems; global geodesy model; reduction and adjustment of GPS and other satellite observation data; differential equations of orbit relaxation; GPS network optimization; data transformation. (Field trips required) (Formerly SE 143)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
GME 145. Geopositioning
Prerequisites: GME 102, GME 108, GME 135. Design of planning, data collection, data processing and network adjustment applications; kinematic and real-time GPS applications; case studies. (Field trips required)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
GME 151. Boundary Control and Legal Principles
Prerequisite: GME 50 or permission of instructor. Legal principles that control the boundary location of real property. (Formerly S E 151)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
GME 152. Real Property Descriptions
Prerequisite: GME 151 or permission of instructor. Theory and practice of real property descriptions and recording systems; metes and bounds, United States Public Land Survey System, lot and block and other styles investigated; practical exercises and case studies. (Field trips required) (Formerly SE 153)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
GME 153. Boundary Survey Design
Prerequisite: GME 151 or permission of instructor. Design of evidence gathering, resurvey, retracement, and analysis techniques for complex United States Public Land Survey System, metes and bounds, riparian, mineral, land grant and fraudulent surveys; case studies. (Field trips required) (Formerly SE 153)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
GME 159. Subdivision Design
Prerequisites: GME 40, GME 151. Subdivision map act, local subdivision regulations, title search, zoning study. Tentative and final subdivision layout, map drafting, computerized subdivision design, and drafting; environmental impact study. Field trips required. (Formerly S E 159)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
GME 161. Data Interface Design
Prerequisites: GME 16, GME 135, Development and design of data collector software; file system generation, manipulation and transfer; microcomputer interface to data collector, electronic total station, digitizer, stereo/mono comparator and stereo-plotters. (Field trips required) (Formerly SE 161).
Units: 3
GME 173. Introduction to GIS
Prerequisites: GME 15 and GME 66 or permission of instructor. Data quality and accuracy, privacy, ethics, institutional, governmental and technological issues associated with GIS; hardware and software considerations for geodetically controlled cadastral, resource and environmental GIS applications; existing system case studies. (Field trips required) (Formerly SE 173)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
GME 174. GIS Applications
Prerequisite: GME 173. Use of available GIS. Applications software; spatial analysis, simulation modeling and system evaluation; practical applications to specific GIS scenarios; creation, manipulations, maintenance and analysis of geodetic, cadastral, administrative resource and environmental overlays. Field trips required. (Formerly S E 174)
Units: 3
GME 175. GIS Design
Prerequisite: GME 173. Application of data quality, accuracy, ethics and liability issues to the design of integrated Geographic Information Systems; integrated data structure, algorithm, and database considerations; major design team GIS development project required. Field trips required. (Formerly S E 175)
Units: 3
GME 180. Senior Design Project
Prerequisites: GME 181 or concurrently. UDWE or a W course. Study of a problem under supervision of a faculty member; final typewritten report required. Individual project except by special permission. GME 180 and GME 181 satisfy the senior major requirement for the B.S. in Geomatics Engineering. (Field trips required) (Formerly SE 181)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GME 181. Project Design
Prerequisite: GME 108, GME 123, GME 135, GME 151, GME 173. Design of control, boundary location, and photogrammetric systems. Evaluation of design requirements, economic, and social considerations. Case Studies. Student presentations. GME 180 and GME 181 satisfy the senior major requirement for the B.S. in Geomatics Engineering. (Field trips required) (Formerly SE 181)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
GME 190. Independent Study
See Academic Placement - [-LINK-]. Approved for SP grading. (Formerly S E 190)
Units: 1-3, Repeatable up to 6 units
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GME 193I. Internship in Geomatics Engineering
Prerequisite: permission of adviser. Engineering practice in a consulting, industrial, professional, or government work setting. A report will be required of the student at the termination of each implemented experience. This course cannot be uses to meed graduation requirements CR/NC grading only. (Formerly SE 193)
Units: 2-4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
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