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ENCE210  Surveying Lab. I: (for Architectural Engineering only)

  Practical training on the use of surveying equipment: distance measurements using taping and electronic devices, elevation measurements, measurements of horizontal and vertical angles, transverse surveying, and preparing contour maps using tacheometric surveying.(prerequisite: ENCE220 or concurrent)

ENCE220  Surveying I: (for Architectural Engineering only):

 Introduction to surveying, theory of errors, distance measurements, elevation measurements and related applications, tacheometry, angle measurements using theodolite, traversing, areas and volumes, and introduction to geodetic surveying.(prerequisite ENME121)

ENCE223 Mechanics I: (for Architectural Engineering only)

Stress and strain of axially loaded members, stresses in flexure and torsion, shear stress, deflection of simple beams, buckling of columns.(prerequesite: ENCE232)

ENCE231 Engineering Geology:  

Geology and civil engineering, history of the Earth and its internal structure ,  minerals versus rocks, composition and structure of minerals, physical features of the Earth, composition and structure of rock, composing the Earth, weathering and soils, geological maps and their engineering applications, ground water, earthquakes and Earth’s interior, plate tectonics.

ENCE232  Statics:

  Vectors, equilibrium of static particles, resolution and resultant of forces, center of gravity and moment of inertia, equilibrium of structural systems, forces in beams and frames, force and moment diagrams, friction.(prerequisite: PHYS131)

ENCE233  Mechanics of Materials:

  Stress and strain resulting from axial force, stress and strain relationship, stress and strain resulting from torsion, shear and flexure, compound stresses, Mohr’s circle, introduction to deflection in beams and column stability.(prerequisite: ENCE232)

ENCE311  Civil Engineering Laboratory 3:  

Laboratory test and report preparation, determination of water content, sieve analysis, hydrometer analysis, specific gravity, liquid limit test, plastic limit test, shrinkage limit test, determination of field unit weight, standard Proctor compaction test, modified Proctor compaction test, constant head permeability test, falling head permeability test, consolidation test, direct shear test, unconfined compression test, triaxial tests.(prerequisite: ENCE331).

ENCE314 Civil Engineering Laboratory I:

 Properties of materials including stone, aggregates, cement, lime, gypsum, bitumen, asphalt mixes, steel reinforcement, wood, aluminum, and plastics.(prerequisite: ENCE324 or concurrent)

ENCE315 Civil Engineering Laboratory II :

Properties of concrete and factors affecting it that includes tests on aggregates, cement, water.  Properties of fresh concrete, workability tests, strength of concrete, non-destructive tests on concrete, concrete job-mix design.  Laboratory project on a specified subject. (prerequisite: ENCE325 or concurrent)

ENCE320  Drawing for Civil Engineering: 

Basic components of civil engineering constructions, steel connection (e.g. beam-column and truss connections), brick, stone, and concrete walls (interior and exterior walls, and retaining walls), reinforced concrete footings, details of reinforced concrete sections, stairs, details of bridges and water canals, wood constructions, use of computer drawing packages.(prerequisite ENME121, one lecture and three hour laboratory).

ENCE323  Mechanics II (for architectural engineering only): 

Structural behavior under loads, simple and continuous beams, arches, cables, and trusses; internal forces in beams, trusses, and simple frames, introduction to determinate and indeterminate structures, selecting the suitable structural system, introduction to three-dimensional structural systems. (prerequisite: ENCE223)

ENCE324  Building Materials: 

Rock and its suitability for aggregates and building stone production, binding materials: cement, lime, gypsum, bitumen. Introduction to asphalt mixes, cement mortars, concrete blocks, tiles, clay products, metals in construction, glass, wood, plastics, insulation materials for water, heat, and sound, rehabilitation materials. (prerequisite: ENCE233 or concurrent)

ENCE325 Concrete Technology: 

Materials used in concrete production: aggregates, cement, and water, concrete additives, properties of fresh and hardened concrete and factors affecting it, methods of testing fresh and hardened concrete, concrete production, transport, casting, compacting, and curing concrete, concrete job-mix design, durability of concrete, creep and shrinkage of concrete. (prerequisite: ENCE314 or concurrent)

ENCE330  Surveying I: 

Introduction to surveying, theory of errors, distance measurements, elevation measurements and related applications, tacheometry, angle measurements using the theodolite, traversing, areas and volumes, introduction to geodetic surveying, practical training involving distance measurements, mapping, leveling, angle measurements, traverse surveying, contouring, and total station measurements. (prerequisite: ENME121, 2-hour lectures and 3-hour laboratory)

ENCE331 Soil Mechanics: 

Soil formation, weight-volume relationships, plasticity and structure of soil, classification of soil, flow of water in soil (permeability and seepage), capillary action, effective stress concepts, stresses in soil, compressibility of soil, shear strength of soil, soil compaction, slope stability, subsoil exploration.(prerequisite: ENCE231 and ENCE233).

ENCE332  Surveying II: 

Route surveying, design and layout of vertical and horizontal curves, longitudinal and transverse profiles, earthwork calculations and mass diagram, and construction surveying, introduction to photogrammetric surveying, a surveying project which requires preparation of a topographic map for an assigned area and concentrates on the applications of route surveying.(prerequisite: ENCE330, and COMP230 or concurrent)

ENCE333 Structural Analysis I: 

Analysis of statically determinate structures: beams, trusses, frames, cables, and arches, influence lines, moving loads on beams and trusses, deflection of statically determinate structures, moment-area methods, conjugate beam, virtual and real work, analysis of indeterminate structures using approximate methods. (prerequisite: ENCE233)

ENCE336 Concrete Technology and Principles of Reinforced Concrete Design (for Architectural Engineering only): 

Basic properties of concrete constituents, workability and fresh concrete admixtures, transport, cast, and curing of concrete, compression strength test, principles of reinforced concrete design: rectangular sections under flexure and shear, introduction to one- and two-way slabs, details of reinforcement in beams and slabs, short columns under concentric loads.(prerequisite: ENCE323).

ENCE401 Field Training:

Practical training in an approved engineering consulting or contracting office for a minimum period of six weeks, a typed report which includes description of the nature of training activities carried out by the student must be submitted towards the end of training.(prerequisite: third/fourth-year level and Department approval).

ENCE419 Civil Engineering Laboratory IV: 

Water and wastewater characteristics, turbidity, pH, color odor, suspended solids, nitrogen, phosphate, dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, bacteria (fecal coliform, total coliform).

ENCE431 Transportation Engineering:

 The importance and needs of transportation in the society.  Transportation mode review with concentration on highways, railroads, airports, and seaports, the effects of transportation on the social, economical, and environmental aspects of communities, introduction to traffic engineering and urban public transport.(prerequisite:  ENEE331 or concurrent)

ENCE432 Foundation Engineering: 

Types of foundations, bearing capacity of shallow foundations, stress distribution, site improvement for foundation, isolated footing, combined footing, mat foundations, settlement of foundation, lateral earth pressure, introduction to deep foundation, design project.(prerequisite: ENCE331 and ENCE433). 

ENCE433 Reinforced Concrete I:  

Introduction to reinforced concrete, design approaches and codes, sections under flexure and shear, design and detailing of beams and one-way slabs, stairs, design of columns under concentric loading, design project.(prerequisite: ENCECE 333 and ENCE 315).

 ENCE434 Structural Analysis II: 

Analysis of statically indeterminate structures: force and displacement methods, flexibility and stiffness matrices, three moment equations, moment distribution. (prerequisite: ENCE333).

ENCE435 Hydrology:

  Hydrological cycle, precipitation, evaporation and evapo-transpiration, unsaturated zone, groundwater, surface water, stream flows, runoff, rainfall-runoff relationships, flood hydrology, urban hydrology, stochastic hydrology.

 ENCE436 Reinforced Concrete II:  

continuous beams, two-way slabs, columns under combined axial load and bending moments, slender columns, reinforced concrete frames, design project.(prerequisite ENCE433 and ENCE434).

 ENCE437 Steel Structures I: 

Properties of structural steel, design philosophies, bolted and welded connections, tension members, compression members, rolled beams, design project.

ENCE438  Highway Engineering: 

Basic principles of roadway design, route location, economy visibility studies of recommended design alternatives, geometric design involving vertical and horizontal alignment, highway capacity, roadway drainage design,  design of flexible and rigid pavements,  and asphalt concrete mix design. (prerequisite: ECE311 and ENCE431)

 ENCE439 Sanitary and Environment Engineering:

 Hydraulic design of water distribution and waste water networks, pumps and pumping stations, sources of environment pollution, chemical and biological properties of sewage, introduction to water and waste water treatment, introduction to environmental impact assessment.(prerequisite: ENCE435)

 ENCE511 Seminar Studies in Civil Engineering: 

A study of  selected topics in a panel form with the participation of students, faculty, and visiting scholars. (prerequisite:  ENCE 520 or concurrent)

ENCE520 Introduction to Graduation Project:  

Preparatory studies of the literature and data collection for the graduation project in a particular area of concentration and under the supervision of one or more faculty members.(prerequisite:  ENCE401 and fifth year level, must be registered in the semester before last) 

ENCE530 Graduation Project:  

continuation of the graduation project that started in the ENCE520 course.  One or more faculty members supervise the graduation project.(prerequisite: ENCE520)

 ENCE532 Construction Management (for Architectural Engineering only):

The importance of planning and management in project construction, definition of activities and calculation of execution time periods, relationship between cost and logical time of project execution, linear and grid planning, reserve time periods, Critical Path Method, quantity survey, financial and feasibility issues.(prerequisite: ENAR332 and ENCE336).

ENCE533 Construction Management

The importance of planning and management in project construction, definition of activities and calculation of execution time periods, relationship between cost and logical time of project execution, linear and grid planning, reserve time periods, critical path method, quantity survey, financial and feasibility issues.(prerequisite: ENCE436).

 ENCE5350 Traffic Engineering: 

Elements of traffic engineering, the principles of speed, traffic volume, accident studies, parking studies, capacity studies.  Traffic signs, marking, and intersection signal timing design.(prerequisite:  ENCE438) 

ENCE5351 Pavement Design:

  Analysis of pavement loads, stresses, and deflections using the elastic theory approach for a multi-layer pavement system, design of flexible and rigid pavements for roads and airports, properties and specifications of pavement materials, and introduction to pavement maintenance and rehabilitation. (prerequisite: ENCE438)

ENCE5352  Transportation Planning:

 factors that influence transportation planning techniques, social and environmental factors that influence transportation demand, the influence of existing and future transportation modes and quality on the transportation demand, statistical analysis and prediction models for trip generation, distribution, modal split and traffic assignment, methods for regional and local transportation planning.(prerequisite: ENCE 431)

ENCE5353  Urban Public Transportation:  

Type and development of urban public transport, public transport features, and design performance criteria for modes of various urban settings, management of public transport networks and selection of service efficiency criteria.(prerequisite:  ENCE 431)

ENCE5354 Photogrammetric Surveying:

Basic principles of photogrammetry, basic characteristics of aerial photos, stereoscopic vision and parallax, measurements and mapping from aerial photos using parallax and stereoscopic views, general principles of remote sensing, and introduction to geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS). (prerequisite: ENCE332)

 ENCE5355 Pavement Management and Maintenance:

Pavement testing and evaluation, maintenance treatments and rehabilitation strategies, performance trends and prediction models, life-cycle cost analysis, priority maintenance schedules based on a defined decision policy, and design of a pavement management system (PMS). (prerequisite: ENCE438)

ENCE5361 Reinforced Concrete III:

Basic properties of ordinary and confined concrete, triaxial state of stress and strains, concrete confinement, ductility and deflection of beams, deep beams, multistory high-rise buildings: serviceability requirements, shear walls for wind and earthquake resistance, members under torsion moments, corbels, frame connections, research problem. (prerequisite: ENCE436).

ENCE5362  Steel Structures II:  

Behavior and design of bolted and welded moment resistant connections, design of plate girders and composite steel-concrete beams.(prerequisite: ENCE437).

ENCE5363 Prestressed Concrete: 

Introduction to prestressed concrete and production technology, different prestressing methods, properties of materials used, prestress losses, analysis of sections under bending and shear, design of simple and continuous beams, slabs, practical lab applications. (prerequisite: ENCE436) 

ENCE5364 Special Concrete Structures: 

Shells, different geometric shapes and uses of shells, design of cylindrical shells, domes, and folded plates, water tanks. (prerequisite: ENCE436)

ENCE5365 Finite Elements Analysis: 

Fundamentals of theory of elasticity, variational principles, one- two-, and three dimensional elasticity finite element, interpolation methods, numerical integration, convergence criteria, stress interpolation. (prerequisite: ENCE5360)

ENCE5370 Groundwater Engineering

Characteristics of groundwater aquifers, groundwater flow in aquifers, groundwater flow to wells, pumping tests, hydrochemistry: analysis, presentation of data and interpretation; introduction to groundwater modeling; groundwater pollution: sources, mechanisms, protection and remedy; groundwater resources management.

ENCE5371 Wastewater Engineering:

Methods of wastewater treatment, sludge treatment, introduction to industrial wastewater treatment, low cost wastewater treatment, wastewater reuse in agriculture and artificial recharge.(prerequisite: ENCE439)

ENCE5372 Water Resources Management and Planning: 

Assessment of surface and groundwater resources, supply and demand management, unconventional water resources, water resources information systems, optimisation methods in water resources management and planning, hydraulic analysis of water distribution systems, application of optimisation in water supply systems.

 ENCE5373 Hydraulic Construction: 

Design principles for reservoirs, storage tanks, and dams, recharge groundwater wells, open channel, conveyance and energy dissipation structures. (prerequisite: ENCE435 and ENCE432)

ENCE5374 Solid Waste

Sources of solid waste, composition and characteristics of solid waste; collection, storage, transport and treatment of solid waste;  principles of burying solid waste, design, operation and management of landfills, treatment of leachate, methods for protection from solid waste pollution, benefits from gases released from solid waste, solid waste re-use.(prerequisite: ENCE439 and ENCE 331)

5375 Irrigation and Drainage Engineering:

 Irrigation and drainage structures, principles of design of the variant conveyance and regulatory structures, quantities of storm water, design of storm water sewers, plant-soil relationship, crop water demands, irrigation methods, design of irrigation systems by sprinklers, furrows, canals, and drip irrigation,  design and management of irrigation networks.

ENCE5381 Selected Topics in Civil Engineering: 

Courses will be offered in different subjects in civil  engineering based on the need of the civil engineering students  and  the  approval of the Civil Engineering Faculty.(prerequisite: consent of Department)


 

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