Graduate Courses

Introduction of fundamentals and recent advancements in concrete technology. Fundamental aspects of concrete constituent materials (cements, pozzolans, water, aggregates, and admixtures) and their effects on the engineering properties of fresh and hardened concrete, long-term performance, and durability. Nanocements and nanomaterials. Special concretes such as SCC, RCC, Porous concrete, and others, concrete degradation, NDT/NDE methods, and repair methods.
Credits: 3

Selected topics include plastic design of frames; design of space structures; computer aided design; bridge design; conceptual preliminary, and final design; economic and practical considerations; detailing Design project.
Credits: 3

Limit states and ultimate load theory in flexure, shear, diagonal tension, and torsion of symmetrical and non-symmetrical member brackets, corbels, and deep beams; biaxial bending and buckling behavior of compression members; serviceability behavior and theories for deflection and cracking of one-dimensional and two-dimensional elements; frame analysis of two-way slabs and plates for flexural strength and deflection wind analysis and continuity in floor systems and frames; hinge field theory for the design of two-way floor systems, failure mechanisms in two-way plates, energy solutions for strength evaluation; seismic design of structures.
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: 14:180:406,407, or equivalent
Advanced techniques for financial and management control of construction projects; construction company financial control and accounting; project cost control; estimating and bid preparation; equipment management; computer and expert system applications to construction financial control.
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: 16:180.406,407, or equivalent. 
Analytical techniques for control of construction operations; network scheduling techniques (CPM and PERT); computerized scheduling linear programming applied to construction; simulation of construction operations; decision and risk analysis.
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: 16:180:535
Knowledge, tools, and methods to assess, maintain, rehabilitate, and manage transportation infrastructure systems, such as pavement, bridge, and pipeline. Pavement condition evaluation and performance prediction, life-cycle cost analysis, and selection of maintenance strategy.
Credits: 3

Model authoring, green BIM, energy simulation, sustainability study, structural design, collaborative design, model-based estimation, spatial coordination, 4D simulation and sequencing, BIM execution planning, information modeling, interoperability, facility management, legal aspects.
Credits: 3

The course contents include: general concepts of sustainability; sustainability rating tools for transportation infrastructure projects; life-cycle assessment approach and its limitations and challenges; and case studies of pavement LCA for material, design, construction, maintenance, and use phases.
Credits: 3

Resilience of building and infrastructure systems through the lens of infrastructure design, construction, maintenance, computational science, and social science. Modeling approaches for modeling, evaluating, and predicting the resilience of civil infrastructure systems as well as for understanding how individual systems interact with each other. Survey of literature in disaster resilience, a rapidly growing field; lessons learned from past natural disasters about various building and infrastructure systems; in-depth analysis of resilience measurement metrics, agent-based simulation, and several emerging statistical learning methods that have been successfully applied in the domain of infrastructure resilience.
Credits: 3

Development of sources of water supply; information analysis; design of collection, transmission, and distribution systems. Hydraulics and design of sewers.
Credits: 3

Functional study of plant loadings in relation to degree of treatment desired; layout, analysis, and design of treatment process units; mechanical and thermal energy requirements and equipment.
Credits: 3

Earth pressure theories; stability of natural slopes and open cuts; stability of built embankments, earthquake effects, rapid drawdown and seepage problems, slope-stabilization techniques; retaining walls; computer application in slope stability.
Credits: 3

Lecture 2 hours, Design lab. 3 hours
Subsurface investigations; site preparation and improvement; flexible retaining structures; caissons; drilled shafts; underground structures; pile foundations; foundations subjected to dynamic loads; marine structures; environmental effects of construction. 
Credits: 3

Introduction to civil plans then function, alternatives, design, & construction of infrastructure such as stormwater management, grading, earthwork, erosion control, wet & dry utilities, roadways, field conditions & infrastructure rehabilitation.
Credits: 3

Land Development Management processes – identifying & evaluating land opportunities, approvals & entitlements, estimating, budgeting, sequencing, bidding, contracting, consultant & contractor management, financial modelling (cashflow/proforma), value engineering, homeowner associations, project close-out.
Credits: 3

This course focuses on the delivery and contracting process of capital projects. Course topics include project life-cycle and stakeholders, alternative delivery methods, procurement procedures, contract types, multi-attribute decision-making for funding and delivery, financial models for Private Public Partnerships (PPPs), and implementation examples. 
Credits: 3

Pavement design principles for new and rehabilitated pavements. Material characterization, flexible and rigid pavement design, laboratory and field data collection and analysis, pavement-management practices. Deflection back calculation and pavement-design software.
Credits: 3

Mechanical behavior of pavement materials, including laboratory characterization methods, constitutive models, and field testing and assessments. Modeling approaches used to predict pavement responses and performance under traffic and environmental loading.
Credits: 3

Identification of sustainable geotechnical and environmental properties of the solid waste; geotechnical and environmental design techniques, and their application in constructing a sustainable disposal site to enhance the environment and benefit society. Reduction, reuse and recycling of waste; site selection methodologies; the principles of decomposition of the waste, long term settlement and stability of waste materials; mass balance computational procedures assessment of natural attenuation and gas migration and gas collection and recovery.
Credits: 3

Elasticity and plasticity models; stress-strain relations for soils; failure criteria; elastic solutions for half-space and layered systems; one- and three-dimensional consolidation theory; computer applications.
Credits: 3

Earth pressure theories; stability of natural slopes and open cuts; stability of built embankments, earthquake effects, rapid drawdown and seepage problems, slope-stabilization techniques; retaining walls; computer application in slope stability.
Credits: 3
 
 

Site evaluation and design of excavation support systems and earth retaining structures, including site and subsurface conditions, earth and rock pressures, stability of slopes, quality control, and construction monitoring.
Credits: 3

Porous media; fundamental equations of groundwater flow; confined flow; unconfined flow; hydraulics of wells; numerical methods; groundwater contamination; investigation; remediation and cleanup; monitoring; computer applications.
Credits: 3
 

Prerequisite: 16:180:574
Solute and particle transport; dissolution of nonaqueous phase liquids; aqueous geochemistry; chemical property estimation; numerical modeling and analysis; analytical and stochastic techniques; computer applications.
Credits: 3
 

Lecture 2 hours, Design lab. 3 hours
Subsurface investigations; site preparation and improvement; flexible retaining structures; caissons; drilled shafts; underground structures; pile foundations; foundations subjected to dynamic loads; marine structures; environmental effects of construction. 
Credits: 3

Review of basic vibration theories as applied to soil dynamics; elastic wave propagation in soils; elements of seismic soil explorations; dynamic soil properties; laboratory evaluation of dynamic soil properties; liquefaction; machine foundations; fundamentals of soil-structure interaction; earthquake engineering; computer applications.
Credits: 3
 

Navigational engineering, maritime construction, and port development. Emphasis on dredged material management and regulation, fate and transport of sediment and contaminants in relation to dredging and dredged material management, and use of dredged materials in remedial design. Aspects of sediment characterization, estuarine dynamics, and environmental modeling.
Credits: 3

Methods of rock exploration, physical and mechanical properties of rocks; deformation; in situ strength; hydrothermal effects on rocks; stability of rock masses; state of stress and strain around tunnels, shafts, and domes; stabilization of rocks.
Credits: 3
 

Relationship between physical properties and selected chemical and mineralogical characteristics emphasizing fine-grained and colloidal fractions; problems affecting site use, including weak, compressible soil; high shrink-swell potential and erodibility; stabilization techniques, including compaction, earth reinforcement, drainage and erosion control, admixture stabilization, precompression, grouting.
Credits: 3

Seismicity; size of earthquakes; estimation of ground motion parameters; seismic hazard analysis; site response analysis; design ground-motion building-code provisions; soil-structure interaction effects and formulation; simplified models; solutions in frequency and time domains.
Credits: 3

Geosynthetic design has undergone a rapid advancement in technology in response to regulatory concerns and the need for sustainable designs. Economical civil and environmental projects can utilize geosynthetics in sustainable compliant designs.
Credits: 3

Introduction of fundamentals and recent advancements in concrete technology. Fundamental aspects of concrete constituent materials (cements, pozzolans, water, aggregates, and admixtures) and their effects on the engineering properties of fresh and hardened concrete, long-term performance, and durability. Nanocements and nanomaterials. Special concretes such as SCC, RCC, Porous concrete, and others, concrete degradation, NDT/NDE methods, and repair methods.
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: 14:180:243
Fundamental aspects of composites and their practical applications; design guidelines and methodologies for structural shapes and for reinforcement of concrete, steel, and timber structures. FRP rebars, bonded plates, bonded fabrics, and fiber wraps. Application exercises for conventional products that combine material fabrication and design concepts.
Credits: 3

Principle of superposition as applied to statically indeterminate structures; energy methods; approximate methods for the analysis of trusses and frames; failure theories; plastic analysis; introduction to matrix methods for structural analysis; analysis of composite structures.
Credits: 3

Selected topics include plastic design of frames; design of space structures; computer aided design; bridge design; conceptual preliminary, and final design; economic and practical considerations; detailing Design project.
Credits: 3
 

Analysis of structural members and systems subjected to dynamic loads; single-degree-of-freedom and multi-degree-of-freedom analytical models of civil engineering structures; free vibrations, harmonic and transient excitation, foundation motion, response spectrum, Lagrange's equation; modal superposition and direct integration methods; response by a general purpose dynamic computer code.
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: 16:180:517, 14:180:413, or equivalent
Fundamentals of seismic analysis and design of buildings and bridges; earthquake ground motion, earthquake characterization response spectra, time history, inelastic response of structures, and ductility demands; modeling and analysis of structures, structural systems, performance-based design, and seismic design codes; design of shear walls, moment connections, bracings, deep foundations, and isolation bearings; seismic detailing; seismic retrofit and earthquake protection systems; introduction to wind load design.
Credits: 3

Rigorous matrix formulation of the stiffness and flexibility method of structural analysis applied to skeletal structures. Development of computer programs for the analysis of space and plane trusses and frames.
Credits: 3

This course covers fatigue and fracture characteristics of steel structures from metallurgical, mechanical and structural engineering viewpoints. Both theoretical and experimental backgrounds to design guidelines and application examples are provided.
Credits: 3

General finite element formulation of two- and three-dimensional boundary value problems; advanced finite element techniques; finite element formulation problems in continuum mechanics; applications in civil engineering problems.
Credits: 3

Developments in optimal structural design. Optimality criteria methods. Formulation of structural design problems as optimization problems using special techniques, linear and nonlinear optimization methods. Fully-stressed design versus optimum design.
Credits: 3

History, development, and classification of bridges; use of LRFD-AASHTO specifications for the design of basic straight-girder type bridges, including composite and noncomposite I and box girders; simple and continuous spans; substructure design; field testing and monitoring; and repair and rehabilitation.
Credits: 3

Elements of probability theory and its application to structural engineering, statistical distributions of load, probable strength of structural elements, safety analysis and reliability prediction of structural systems, and reliability-based designs.
Credits: 3

Elastic and inelastic buckling of members under pure compression pure moment, and combined compression and moment; local buckling; buckling of frames, plates, and shells.
Credits: 3

Advanced bridge-analysis methods, such as the grillage analogy, semicontinuum method, and orthotropic-plate method; design of cable-stayed bridges; dynamic analysis of bridges; bridge testing, monitoring, and instrumentation techniques; nondestructive testing of bridges; bridge inspection and rehabilitation.
Credits: 3

Limit states and ultimate load theory in flexure, shear, diagonal tension, and torsion of symmetrical and non-symmetrical member brackets, corbels, and deep beams; biaxial bending and buckling behavior of compression members; serviceability behavior and theories for deflection and cracking of one-dimensional and two-dimensional elements; frame analysis of two-way slabs and plates for flexural strength and deflection wind analysis and continuity in floor systems and frames; hinge field theory for the design of two-way floor systems, failure mechanisms in two-way plates, energy solutions for strength evaluation; seismic design of structures.
Credits: 3

Limit theory of indeterminate reinforced concrete frames and continuous beams; moment redistribution and ductility of joints; plastic hinging and rotational capacities of confined concrete members and structural systems; membrane and bending theories for the design and analysis of reinforced concrete shells and folded plates; buckling of concrete shells; design project of a total floor shell roof system.
Credits: 3

Theory of prestressed concrete; partial losses in prestress and long term effects due to creep, shrinkage, and relaxation; service load and ultimate load evaluation of pretensioned and post-tensioned elements in flexure, shear, and torsion; deflection and flexural cracking hypotheses of prestressed elements; and post-tensioned liquid- and gas-retaining circular tanks; prestressed shells and domes of circular tanks.
Credits: 3

Review of elastic equations; Kirchoff-Love and Mindlin plate theories; classical and numerical solutions; dynamic analysis of plates; theory and applications of shells; composite plates.
Credits: 3

Supply-demand; liner shipping industry; management and operation of the port sector, environmental aspects, including dredged material management, and ship-generated marine pollution; security problems and initiatives in maritime transportation. 
Credits: 3

Techniques and hardware used for real-time traffic-data collection, sources of errors and sample-size determination; design parameters, including economic and human factors, as well as environmental constraints; experiment design for model-development and transportation-operations analyses; deterministic and stochastic models of traffic processes including queuing theory, headway distributions, and gap acceptance; stream-flow characteristics including car-following and multilane models, bottleneck, fuel consumption, and noise models; models for automatic vehicle control; network operations; models for modes of traffic; traffic control, short-term planning, and system evaluation.
Credits: 3

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) projects in the United States, Europe, and Japan; advanced traveler-information systems; advanced traffic-management systems; automated highway systems; commercial vehicle operations; operational field tests; system architecture; human factors; safety; institutional and legal issues; multimodal ITS applications; modeling ITS as hybrid systems; evaluation and selection of candidate ITS.
Credits: 3

Real-time transportation operations; transportation-system evaluation; demand modeling; time-sensitive transportation problems including real-time traffic control and networkwide feedback control; linear and nonlinear network optimization; deterministic and stochastic queuing models of the control of rush-hour traffic, traffic-signal timing, and ramp metering; incident management; operations; strategic versus tactical transportation infrastructure planning; operation of parking facilities; congestion management strategies; automatic vehicle control.
Credits: 3

Software and hardware to design, test, and evaluate transportation systems; field studies, development and use of computer models, and instrumentation of small- and full-scale hardware models; geographic-information systems, artificial intelligence, and computer graphics for design and evaluation; optimization software for vehicle scheduling and routing and traffic assignment; visual-simulation development tools for rapid prototyping of selected transportation systems; simulated life-cycle analysis and validation techniques; data acquisition and control; advanced data-visualization tools to test and evaluate developed models.
Credits: 3

Pavement design principles for new and rehabilitated pavements. Material characterization, flexible and rigid pavement design, laboratory and field data collection and analysis, pavement-management practices. Deflection back calculation and pavement-design software.
Credits: 3

The course is designed to provide students with knowledge and skills needed for conducting comprehensive analysis of transportation systems. Topics to be covered in this course include traffic impact analysis, transportation supply models, travel demand models, discrete choice models, and transportation project evaluation.
Credits: 3

Focuses on Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) and advanced traffic-management components of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Students also learn about Commercial Vehicle Operations (CVO), Advanced Vehicle Control Systems (AVCS), and Advanced Rural Transportation Systems (ARTS).
Credits: 3

This graduate-level course provides an introduction to multimodal (rail, road, waterway) freight transportation systems. This course comprises three inter-connected parts: 1) introduce basic modal-specific concepts and industry development; 2) explain widely used modeling techniques used in freight transportation and logistics; 3) apply the methodologies to an emerging high-profile transportation research topic.
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: 16:180:535
Knowledge, tools, and methods to assess, maintain, rehabilitate, and manage transportation infrastructure systems, such as pavement, bridge, and pipeline. Pavement condition evaluation and performance prediction, life-cycle cost analysis, and selection of maintenance strategy.
Credits: 3

Mechanical behavior of pavement materials, including laboratory characterization methods, constitutive models, and field testing and assessments. Modeling approaches used to predict pavement responses and performance under traffic and environmental loading.
Credits: 3

As the first rail-dedicated transportation graduate course at Rutgers, this course will focus on teaching principal elements of railroad transportation, engineering and operations. The topics will include railroad efficiency and economics, track infrastructure, rail vehicle, traffic control system, highway-rail grade crossing, and railroad safety. This course is beneficial and useful for graduate students in several civil engineering majors such as transportation, geotechnical, and structure.
Credits: 3

Fundamentals of engineering risk analysis in multimodal transportation systems. The topics include probabilistic risk analysis, Bayesian approach, multi-attribute decision analysis, transportation safety, quantitative risk communication, and risk visualization.
Credits: 3

The course contents include: general concepts of sustainability; sustainability rating tools for transportation infrastructure projects; life-cycle assessment approach and its limitations and challenges; and case studies of pavement LCA for material, design, construction, maintenance, and use phases.
Credits: 3

Course topics include rails, ties, track layout, and geometry; ballast and subgrade; ties; fastenings; track analysis and design; special trackwork; grade crossings; track standards; and inspection, condition assessment, and life cycle asset management. There may be field trip(s) to observe railroad track and components.
Credits: 3

Navigational engineering, maritime construction, and port development. Emphasis on dredged material management and regulation, fate and transport of sediment and contaminants in relation to dredging and dredged material management, and use of dredged materials in remedial design. Aspects of sediment characterization, estuarine dynamics, and environmental modeling.
Credits: 3

Transportation, energy generation, and manufacturing are three sectors the course examines in detail along with Air Quality Management Plans (AQM) required at the State level.  The course integrates a systems-based approach focused on these major sources. It introduces GIS modeling and analysis tools for current and advanced air quality management practice.
Credits: 3

Development of sources of water supply; information analysis; design of collection, transmission, and distribution systems. Hydraulics and design of sewers.
Credits: 3

Functional study of plant loadings in relation to degree of treatment desired; layout, analysis, and design of treatment process units; mechanical and thermal energy requirements and equipment.
Credits: 3

Hydrologic processes and modeling evapotranspiration, infiltration, precipitation and snow melt, overland flow subsurface and surface flow relations, channel and watershed routing hydraulic flood routing, numerical methods; watershed modeling; stochastic processes in hydrology; flood and drought risks, flood plain analysis and management.
Credits: 3

Theory and laboratory experiments demonstrating the design requirements associated with unit processes in water and sewage treatment. Advanced methods of analysis such as spectroscopy, potentiometry, polarography, conductivity, and chromatography.
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: 01:160:159-160, 161-162
Transformation of organic chemicals in sediments (marine, estua-rine) and freshwater environments; roles of microorganisms highlighted in examples of biogeochemical processes occurring in environmental matrices. Chemical processes and physical environment in natural (unperturbed) and polluted systems along with the degradation of biogenic and anthropogenic organic compounds. Molecular tracers specific to biogeochemical process as part of contemporary case studies.
Credits: 3

Erosion, transport, and deposition of sediment within a watershed and, especially, the fluvial network; flow resistance in natural channels; suspended load, bed load, and total load; noncohesive vs. cohesive sediment; sedimentation; sediment transport as an index of pollutant movement; numerical modeling and field monitoring.
Credits: 3

Introduction to mathematical modeling of water quality well- versus partially-mixed water bodies; turbulent diffusion, velocity-induced dispersion; reaction kinetics; biological processes, growth kinetics, BOD, dissolved oxygen, photosynthesis; development of water quality models.
Credits: 3

Modes of heat transfer, energy equation; heat balance in well-mixed water bodies; heat exchange between atmosphere and water body; temperature dynamics in well-mixed bodies; thermal stratification in streams and reservoirs; heat dispersion; thermal jets and plumes; cooling ponds; temperature effects on water quality parameters.
Credits: 3

The use of sensor networks for understanding and managing large-scale environmental systems. Topics include environmental information systems, data-driven modeling, geostatistics, and real-time decision making. Prerequisities: Familiarity with basic statistics and with Matlab or similar program.
Credits: 3

Identification of sustainable geotechnical and environmental properties of the solid waste; geotechnical and environmental design techniques, and their application in constructing a sustainable disposal site to enhance the environment and benefit society. Reduction, reuse, and recycling of waste; site selection methodologies; the principles of decomposition of the waste, long-term settlement and stability of waste materials; mass balance computational procedures assessment of natural attenuation and gas migration and gas collection and recovery.
Credits: 3

Porous media; fundamental equations of groundwater flow; confined flow; unconfined flow; hydraulics of wells; numerical methods; groundwater contamination; investigation; remediation and clean-up; monitoring computer applications.
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: 16:180:574
Solute and particle transport; dissolution of nonaqueous phase liquids; aqueous geochemistry; chemical property estimation; numerical modeling and analysis; analytical and stochastic techniques; computer applications.
Credits: 3

Navigational engineering, maritime construction, and port development. Emphasis on dredged material management and regulation, fate and transport of sediment and contaminants in relation to dredging and dredged material management, and use of dredged materials in remedial design. Aspects of sediment characterization, estuarine dynamics, and environmental modeling.
Credits: 3

Basic laws and equations of fluid flows; exact and approximate solutions; potential flows; boundary layer flows; turbulent flows in pipes and open channels; free turbulent jets and wakes; turbulence and transport phenomena; transient flows.
Credits: 3

Geometric, kinematic, and dynamic similarity between prototype and models. Similarity laws; Model techniques; undistorted and distorted models; models for hydraulic structures, free-surface flows, flows over erodible beds, and hydraulic machinery. Environmental applications.
Credits: 3

This course introduces the students to the use of remote sensing for monitoring hydrological variables and estimate changes in their spatiotemporal patterns. Furthermore, students learn how to integrate remote sensing data to hydrological models to study hydrologic response of catchments during floods and droughts. 
Credits: 3

Generation and propagation of tides; salinity intrusion, pollutant flushing, and sedimentation in estuaries; circulation in the coastal ocean; coastal water quality modeling; coastal wetlands; gravity waves; coastal erosion; coastal structure design.
Credits: 3

Application of fundamental principles of environmental microbiology to bio-electrochemical systems, nutrient removal and recovery, biogas production, biofiltration, disinfection, and microbially influenced corrosion.
Credits: 3

Green infrastructure using both natural and engineered systems to sustain ecological health, minimize environmental impacts, reduce energy consumption, and conserve resources for future generations. Stormwater management, low-impact development, wastewater management, sustainable water supply, minimizing disruption of the environment by built structures, and harnessing energy from existing water infrastructure.
Credits: 3

Application of quantitative microbial risk assessment and One Health framework for problems at the intersection of public, animal, and environmental health and engineered systems. Case studies of classical and current issues (e.g., antimicrobial resistance).
Credits: 3