60 courses with the subject CE, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Effective Date 08/01/2026 Student-led special topic courses which vary by semester
Effective Date 12/04/2023 Sustainability is the challenge of meeting today’s needs without impairing the needs of future societies. This course seeks to provide an integrated scientific foundation to understand the sustainability of environmental systems and of some science-based sustainable solutions. Sustainability science will draw from a spectrum of relevant sciences, including chemistry, biology, environmental science, and physics.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Development of fundamental civil engineering design knowledge and skills, with a focus on surveying, engineering graphics, and engineering economics. Emphasis on hands-on experience with the latest equipment and technology.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 This purpose of this course is to introduce and familiarize students with engineering economics. Students will apply the concepts of the time value of money to infrastructure management. Students will be able to compare cash flows using net present value, future value, and cost-benefit analysis. Students will use cost indices to complete cost estimations. Students will be able to make appropriate adjustments for depreciation and inflation.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 This course provides the essential aspects of the “Project lifecycle” process from the initial conception phase through the completion phase of a project. Specifically, by focusing on the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) projects, students will be introduced to important concepts related to planning and financing a project, budgeting and scheduling, and managing and controlling a technical engineering project.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Focuses on society’s interaction with water, air, and soil systems. Management of these major environmental components is examined, considering health and ecological needs and technical limitations. This course may stand alone as introduction to the current environmental challenges that we face, or as the foundation for further study in the field of environmental engineering.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Lab study/basic principles in environmental engineering inc. reactor theory, fate & transport in the environment, wastewater treatment unit operations, climate change dynamics, & life cycle assessment. Lab, field, & online simulations will be used to produce data for analysis. Opportunity to develop design/experiments methodologies and to work in teams on written reports. Corequisite CE 2100
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Basic concepts of mechanics: systems of forces and couples: equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies; analysis of structures: trusses, frames, machines; internal forces, shear and bending moment diagrams; distributed forces; friction, centroids and moments of inertia; principle of virtual work; and computer applications. Cross-listed as MAE 2300.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Normal stress and strain, thermal strain, shear stress, shear strain; stress and strain transformations; Mohr’s circle for plane stress and strain; stresses due to combined loading; axially loaded members; torsion of circular and thin-walled closed sections; deformation, strains and stresses in beams; beam deflections; column stability; energy concepts in mechanics. Cross-listed as MAE 2310.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Kinematics and kinetics of particles and kinematics of rigid bodies; translation and fixed-axis rotation relative to translating axes; general planar motion; fixed point rotation; general motion and the kinetics of rigid bodies, center of mass, mass moment of inertia, product of inertia, principal-axes, parallel axis theorems, planar motion, and the work-energy method. Cross-listed as MAE 2320.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Applies basic engineering principles, analytical procedures and design methodology to special problems of current interest in civil engineering. Topics for each semester are announced at the time of course enrollment. Check with the course instructor regarding any prerequisites.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Topics vary from semester to semester and will be announced.
Effective Date 08/01/2025 Building a concrete canoe offers students hands-on experience with concrete mix designs and project management. Annual design challenge, set by the ASCE, evolves each year. Students apply the engineering design process to research, design, build, test and race a full-scale concrete canoe. Course will be offered as CE2720 for non-engineering students, focusing on financial, management, communications, and other tasks appropriate to their skills.
Effective Date 01/01/2024 This course focuses on the analysis and management of large-scale civil engineering systems. Students will be introduced to problem formulation, linear programming, and decision analysis, with applications in structural optimization, traffic flow, resource allocation and environmental design.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Construction projects only occur when the needs of the market, sponsors, end-users, and society are sustainably met. In this course, students will learn how to: 1) plan successful business cases for construction projects considering technical, societal, financial, legal, environmental, and market limitations, 2) evaluate and select the best alternative, and 3) express it through a business plan while increasing their entrepreneurship competencies.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Through this course students will develop critical engineering skills for sustainable land development, including project procurement, road design, utility/stormwater design, site grading design, and construction. The course provides an experience similar to working in a professional site/civil engineering design firm. Project work will require the use of technology design tools (CAD), leadership, and problem solving.
Effective Date 12/09/2024 Course provides a hands-on overview in energy infrastructure as it relates to climate and the environment. Students will learn quantitative tools to analyze power, buildings, manufacturing, and transportation systems. The course will explore the broad impacts of the energy transition away from fossil fuels. Students will undertake an open-ended, team-based life cycle assessment project.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 This course will examine complex issues associated with providing potable water to the world’s population. Topics will include the use of surface and ground water as potable water supplies, fund. of water chemistry, the engineering principles used to design modern water treatment and distribution systems, and problems associated with providing potable water in developing global communities. Pre-reqs: CHEM 1410 or CHEM 1810, and APMA 2130 or MATH 3250 or APMA 2501 - Differential Equations & Linear Algebra. (CE 3210 recommended) Requisites Must have completed APMA 2130 or MATH 3250 or APMA 2501 - Differential Equations & Linear Algebra and ONE of the following: CHEM 1410 or CHEM 1610 or CHEM 1810
Effective Date 08/01/2025 This course introduces students to the methods used by today’s engineers regarding the management of solid waste. Specific topics include: solid waste management history and regulation; current issues regarding solid waste; planning, design, and operation of landfills; recycling facility operations; alternate solid waste disposal methods; and composting.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Studies the statics and dynamics of incompressible fluids, primarily water. The basic principles of fluid flow, energy equation, and momentum equation, are presented and applied to closed conduit flow, open channel flow, and problems of flow measurement pertinent to civil engineering practices.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Laboratory study of the flow of fluids. Uses laboratory data to quantify hydrostatic forces, flow rates in pipes and open channels, forces due to impact, and flow regimes in open channels. Students conduct experiments and prepare written reports.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Covers topics related to hydraulics and hydrology, including complicated pipes designs, pumps, open channel, rainfall, evaporation, and surface runoff applied to stormwater and bmp design. Applications include water supply, drainage, flood control, and water control, and computer modeling.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Introduction to computational tools and approaches common in water resource engineering. Topics include: geographic information systems (GIS) for water resources; software tools applied for hydrologic and hydraulic data analysis and visualization; and use of industry-standard hydrology and hydraulic models water resource system simulation and design. Pre/Coreq: Students must have completed or currently enrolled in CE 3220. Requisites Must have completed or currently enrolled in CE 3220
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Fundamentals of structural mechanics: equilibrium compatibility, determinacy, stability; mathematical models of structural elements: stress resultants in bars, beams, and framed structures; calculation of deflections; general analysis of structures: concepts of stiffness and flexibility, force and displacement methods of analysis.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Introduces physical properties of concrete and reinforcing steel. Design and analysis of basic structural elements of reinforced concrete including beams, slabs, columns, and footings. Consideration of construction practices and building codes.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Introduction of concepts, approaches, procedures, and codes for the design of civil structural systems with emphasis on the characterization of structural loads, structural systems and system behavior on structural systems constructed of steel and reinforced concrete. Topics to include engineering properties of materials, design and behavior of compression members, flexural members, and tension members.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 Fundamentals of transportation infrastructure design will be covered. Topics include: analysis of the characteristics of the driver, pedestrian, vehicle, and road; highway geometric design; intersection design and operations; highway drainage and drainage structures; highway pavement design.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Computer aided design applications of the fundamentals of transportation infrastructure design using real world scenarios. Application topics include: highway geometric design for highway facilities; intersection design including at-grade, roundabouts, and grade separated interchanges, and the transportation improvements associated with a new development.
Effective Date 08/01/2026 Applies basic engineering principles, analytical procedures and design methodology to special problems of current interest in civil engineering. Topics for each semester are announced at the time of course enrollment.
Effective Date 01/13/2023 Topics vary from semester to semester and will be announced.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Studies the properties and behavior of engineering materials, emphasizing construction materials, including metals, concrete, wood, and composites. Considers service conditions and underlying scientific principles related to applications and performance of materials.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Laboratory study of the macroscopic mechanical, thermal, and time-dependent properties and behaviors of typical civil engineering construction materials (metals, concrete, wood, plastics). Students plan and conduct experiments, and prepare written reports.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Introduces the fundamental principles of particulate mechanics with an emphasis on soil strength, consolidation behavior, and fluid flow. Concepts of theoretical soil mechanics and soil physics.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Laboratory study of soil properties. Students will gather and evaluate data to determine particle size, permeability, dry density, compressive strength, shear strength, and critical water contents of soil specimen. Students will conduct ASTM standard soil tests and prepare written reports. Pre-requisite CE 2310, Co-requisite CE 3710. Requisites Student must be enrolled in or previously taken CE 3710 AND must have completed CE 2310 OR MAE 2310
Effective Date 08/01/2025 Building a concrete canoe offers hands-on experience with concrete mix designs and project management. The annual ASCE design challenge evolves each year. Students apply the engineering design process to research, design, build, test, and race a full-scale concrete canoe, contributing based on their skills and interests; might perform concrete and buoyancy calculations, or hydrodynamic flume testing. For Engineering students only.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Students will be introduced to current civil engineering challenges and emerging solutions. Research and practical case studies will be included. Participants will summarize and explore implications of introduced topics.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Fundamentals of concrete: ingredients, hydration, and proportioning; production of concrete: batching, transport, finishing, curing, testing, and inspections; special types of concrete; high-performance, fiber-reinforced, roller compacted, polymer, shrinkage compensating, structural light-weight, and shotcrete; and design and code provisions: working stress and ultimate strength design, and provisions of ACI code.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 This course is co-taught in partnership with field engineers, project managers, subject matter experts, and executives from the top construction companies of the region, in a series of case-study sessions designed to bring CEM theory and practice into the same room. Prereq: Already taken CE 2030 or currently enrolled in CE 2030. Requisites Student must currently be enrolled in or previously taken CE 2030
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Introduces the concepts of design, performance, and analysis of rigid and flexible pavements. Focuses on: review of engineering materials used for pavement construction, empirical and mechanistic design methodologies for pavement construction and rehabilitation, influence of traffic loading on pavement performance, life-cycle cost analysis techniques, and pavement management. Taught concurrently with CE 6120
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Students will learn how to use Building Information Modeling (BIM) to 1) support the decision-making over a project life cycle and 2) improve coordination between stakeholders throughout the design and construction stages. With this hands-on course, students will learn how to integrate all models of a project to visualize construction processes and better predict, manage, and communicate project outcomes. Requisites 4th-year
Effective Date 08/01/2023 This course takes a systems perspective to study and design for sustainability in the built environment at various scales (e.g., materials, buildings, cities, and regions) and for different types of systems (e.g., physical, social, information). Students from SEAS, A-School, and other majors are welcome in this course, which emphasizes interdisciplinary design collaboration and diversity of thought.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Behavioral sciences offer rigorous and rapidly advancing insight into how people interact with their environments and with each other. This project-based course will expand students’ design repertoires by connecting to psychology and related fields. This course is for “designers” broadly construed: those who wish to influence areas such as architecture, engineering, policy, and business. Pre-reqs: CE2010 or SYS2001 or instructor permission. Requisites Must have completed CE 2010 or SYS 2001
Effective Date 08/01/2023 This course is an introduction to the theory, methods, and applications of risk analysis and systems engineering. The topics include research and development priorities, risk-cost-benefit analysis, emergency management, human health and safety, environmental risk, extreme events, infrastructure resilience, system interdependencies, and enterprise systems.
Effective Date 06/28/2024 This class focuses on the next generation of buildings where smart devices, Internet of Things (IoT) systems, machine learning applications, and simulations platforms will be utilized to contextualize the changes in indoor environments and occupants’ needs, allowing building systems (e.g., HVAC, lighting, blinds) to dynamically adjust themselves to enhance the indoor environmental conditions from the health, comfort, and energy perspectives.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 This course covers the basic principles of aquatic chemistry as applied to problems in natural and engineered waters. Four specific reaction types will be covered including 1) acid-base, 2) precipitation-dissolution, 3) complexation, and 4) oxidation-reduction. Problem solving skills will be developed using graphical and analytical techniques. Taught concurrently with CE 6220
Effective Date 08/01/2023 The course emphasizes the formulation of environmental management issues as optimization problems. Simulation models will be presented and then combined with optimization algorithms. Environmental systems to be addressed include stream quality, air quality, water supply, waste management, groundwater remediation, and reservoir operations. Optimization techniques presented include linear programming, dynamic programming, and genetic algorithms.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 We will explore terminology and concepts for characterizing and mathematically modeling human impacts on microbial systems and vice versa. Special consideration will be given to microbe-mediated cycling of organic materials (i.e., pollutants) in natural and engineered systems, including: conventional water and wastewater treatment, municipal landfills, pristine and contaminated groundwater and surface waters, etc.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Emphasizes the management of stormwater quantity and quality, especially in urban areas. Course includes impacts of stormwater on infrastructure and ecosystems, hydrologic and contaminant transport principles, stormwater regulation, structural and non-structural stormwater management approaches, and modeling tools for stormwater analysis and management.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Introductory course on coastal processes, and the fundamentals of coastal engineering. The aim of the course is to develop a basic understanding of the characteristics and physical behavior of the coastal environment in order to apply engineering principles and concepts to solve relevant problems.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 To provide students with a practical foundation in the hydraulics of open channel flow, so that they may apply their skills to design and analysis of man-made structures and natural rivers. To provide a theoretical underpinning on which students can develop research hypotheses related to open channel hydraulics.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Advanced topics in reinforced concrete design, including design of slender columns, deflections, torsion in reinforced concrete, design of continuous frames, and two-way floor systems. Introduction to design of tall structures in reinforced concrete, and design of shear walls.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Covers the methods for evaluating the impact on the quality of traffic operations due to the interactions of the driver, the vehicles, and the road. Includes the collection and analysis of traffic operations data, fundamentals of traffic flow theory, analysis of capacity and level of service and accident analysis. Taught concurrently w/ CE 6400
Effective Date 10/17/2024 Applies basic engineering principles, analytical procedures and design methodology to special problems of current interest in civil engineering. Topic for each semester are announced at the time of course enrollment.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 In this course, civil engineers learn to create resilient infrastructure that withstands climate impacts like floods, droughts, & heat. It covers risk assessment, managing uncertainty, and designing for climate adaptation, with a focus on water, energy, & transport systems. Students will use case studies to consider the effects on various communities, emphasizing equitable solutions, and complete a project on a climate challenge of their choice.
Effective Date 03/14/2024 Smart communities use technology to improve sustainability, resilience, & quality of life. Technology adoption depends on the specific needs & resources of a place. When done right, it can greatly benefit communities; if not, it can create inequality & privacy issues. This course gives students an understanding of advanced smart technology & hands-on experience to address community issues, showcasing technology’s role in community improvement.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Basic concepts of finite element analysis. Weighted residual (Galerkin) approach and variational (Rayleigh-Ritz) approach. One-dimensional and two-dimensional formulations; local vs. global coordinate systems; shape functions. Computational implementation and applications in the areas of structural analysis, steady-state fluid flow, and heat transfer.
Effective Date 03/25/2024 This course will broaden a student’s exposure to professional practice issues, including project planning and management, cost engineering, and leadership. The major focus of the course will be providing practical civil engineering design experience. Projects will address appropriate constraints and engineering standards.
Effective Date 01/01/2025 Team-based project course focusing on a design in a sub-discipline of civil and environmental engineering. Student participants will develop professional practice skills, such as project scoping, scheduling, cost-estimation, and appropriate technical communication, and visual representation of designs. Projects will continue in CE4992. Requisites: 4th-Year Standing in Civil Engineering Requisites 4th-year in Civil Engineering major
Effective Date 08/01/2023 This course will broaden a student’s exposure to professional practice issues, including project planning and management, financial and contractual relationships. The major focus of the course will be providing practical civil engineering design experience. Students will participate in one or more multi-disciplinary team design projects requiring integration of technical skills from sub-areas of Civil Engineering.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Study of a civil engineering problem in depth by each student using library, computer, or laboratory facilities. The project is conducted in close consultation with departmental faculty and involves survey, analysis, or project development. Progress reports and a comprehensive written report are required. May be repeated if necessary.
Source: University of Virginia-Main Campus's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
