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CE 421 Pavement Analysis and Design
Prerequisite: CE 323 with instructor permission
This is co-listed with the graduate level CE 614.
Professor Brian Diefenderfer bkd5y@Virginia.edu

This course covers historical developments of pavement structures and different types of pavements. Additionally, it covers basic stresses, strains, and deflections in rigid and flexible pavements; traffic loading; and material characterization. Drainage design, pavement performance, and reliability concepts are discussed. Current design methodologies (i.e., empirical design methodologies) for both rigid and flexible pavements and design of overlays are covered, discussed and practiced. This course also discusses the influence of climatic and traffic loading on pavement performance and life-cycle cost analysis concepts.

CE 430 Environmental Engineering: Wastewater Engineering
Prerequisite: CE 315 Fluid Mechanics
Professor Vinka A. Craver, Lecturer in CE vac4n@virginia.edu

Wastewater engineering is a branch of environmental engineering in which the basic principles of science and engineering are applied to solving the issues associated with the treatment and reuse of wastewater.

Every community produces solid, liquid and air emissions. The liquid waste, wastewater, is essentially the water supply of the community after it has been used in a variety of applications. Untreated wastewater causes major damages to the environment and to human health. Wastewater should be treated in order to reduce the transmission of pathogenic organisms, water pollution and the consequent damage to the aquatic biota.

This course will focus on wastewater engineering design with a particular emphasis on biological treatment and environmental biotechnology. Topics will include:

1) the origin and components of wastewater,
2) environmental and health impacts of contaminated discharges,
3) physical and chemical treatment,
4) biological treatment,
5) advanced treatment,
6) water reuse and
7) emerging contaminants.

Each topic will be approached from the two perspectives of developed and developing countries.

See Toolkit (under CE 430) for Additional Information
(including objectives, outline, required text, grading, and additional reference articles)

CE 451/452-000x/691-000x: Environmental Microbiology for Engineers
Prerequisite: Third, Fourth, and Fifth Years or Graduate Standing
Prerequisite: College chemistry and calculus
Professor Lisa M. Colosi lmc6b@virginia.edu

This course serves as a general introduction to the principles of applied and environmental microbiology for advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate engineering students. Specifically, we will assess the ways in which human activities impact microbial systems and vice versa. Special consideration will be given to microbe-mediated cycling of organic materials (i.e. pollutants) in a variety of natural and engineered systems.

CE 451/452-000x/691-000x: Hydraulics of Streams, Rivers and Channels
Prerequisite: Third, Fourth, and Fifth Years or Graduate Standing
Professor Joanna Crowe Curran curran@virginia.edu

The course covers application of the principles of fluid mechanics to flow in open channels. The analysis of flow patterns of water surface shape, velocity, shear stress and discharge through a stream reach falls under the heading open channel flow.

This course covers geometric and hydraulic properties of open channels, conservation laws as applied to open channel flow, principles of critical, uniform and gradually varied flows, design of channels for capacity and erosion resistance, flow profile computations, hydraulic routing, and open channel flow applications. Consideration will be given to the analysis and characteristics of flow in open channels (natural and artificial); channel design considerations including uniform flow (rivers, sewers), flow measuring devices (weirs, flumes), gradually varied flow (backwater and other flow profiles, flood routing), rapidly varied flow (hydraulic jump, spillways), and channel design problems (geometric considerations, scour, channel stabilization, sediment transport).

CE 451-000x /CE616 Advanced Geotechnical Engineering
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or CE 316 with instructor permission
Professor M. Shabbir Hossain sh2qg@virginia.edu

This course is an introductory graduate level course for pavement engineering. It intends to cover the topics related to geotechnical engineering in pavements such as stress-strain, shear strength, soil improvement techniques and pavement foundation.

It also includes bearing capacity and basic foundation design, lateral earth pressure and retaining structures, slope stability and soil stabilization in the course content. These topics have not been covered in CE 316 but they are included in FE exam syllabus. The "Soil Mechanics and Foundations" section carries the highest percentage of marks (15%) in afternoon session of FE exam.

CE 453/ CE611 Asphalt Materials
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or For undergraduates: CE323
Instructor Stacey Diefenderfer sdr8w@virginia.edu

This course will investigate the properties of asphalt materials, including binders, aggregates, and mixtures. The origin, types, and properties of bituminous materials will be covered. Material selection and evaluation, design, testing, production, and placement practices and issues will be discussed. Treatment of material properties will include binder and mixture rheology, and relationships between properties and performance. Practical applications will include design methodology and modern construction techniques. Special mixtures, recycling, and additives will be addressed.