This course introduces students to programming and computational thinking for design and engineering work and scientific research. This course utilizes Python as the programming language for its widespread use in scientific computing as well as design, architecture, and engineering disciplines. Prerequisite knowledge of Python is not required. By the end of this course, students will be able to utilize this robust platform to address real-world design and engineering problems. The course comprises three main sections: fundamentals; data structure and object-oriented programming; and algorithms.

This course introduces students to industrial robotic arms and their application for digital fabrication and construction automation. This course utilizes Robot Operating System (ROS) and Python to plan, visualize, simulate, and control industrial robotic arms. ROS and Python are both widely used in robotics research and development. Prerequisite knowledge of ROS and Python is not required. By the end of this course, students will be able to utilize this platform to develop robotic processes for digital fabrication and will be familiar with state-of-the-art research on robotic fabrication and construction automation.

Objective/Overview: Analysis of fundamental processes in the hydrologic cycle, including precipitation, evapotranspiration, infiltration, streamflow and groundwater flow. The class focuses on exercises using observational data. There is a modeling and data analysis component using Python and Jupyter Notebooks, readings on flood and drought, and a forecasting competition.

Designed to teach experimental measurement techniques in environmental engineering and their interpretations. General considerations for experimental design and data analysis will be covered. Key techniques used to measure the physical, chemical, and biological attributes of environmental media will be taught through various hands-on modules that cover flow and transport of contaminants in the atmosphere, hydrologic measurements of soil-moisture dynamics in response to precipitation events, and measurements of solar and wind energy resources.

Students will study the chemical and physical processes involved in the sources, transformation, transport, and sinks of air pollutants on local to global scales. Societal problems such as photochemical smog, particulate matter, greenhouse gases, and stratospheric ozone depletion will be investigated using fundamental concepts in chemistry, physics, and engineering. For the class project, students will select a trace gas species or family of gases and analyze recent field and remote sensing data based upon material covered in the course. Environments to be studied include very clean, remote portions of the globe to urban air quality.

Develops notions of internal forces and displacements, and instructs students how to design and analyze structures. Presents the fundamental principles of structural analysis, determination of internal forces, and deflections under the static load conditions, and introduces the bending theory of plane beams and the basic energy theorems. The theory of the first order will be developed for continuous girders, frames, arches, suspension bridges, and trusses, including both statically determinate and indeterminate structures. Basic principles for construction of influence lines and determination of extreme influences will be presented.

Over the next several decades environmental sustainability will be a major challenge for engineers and society to overcome. This course is an introduction to environmental biotechnology focusing on how the applications of biotechnologies are impacting sustainability efforts in a variety of sectors including water systems, food and chemical production, and infrastructure construction. This course will provide a broad background in biological design concepts across scales from molecules to ecosystems, how bioengineering enables the design of new biotechnologies, and the ethical implications of engineering biology for use in the environment.

This course examines a collection of critical global environmental issues. For each issue the scientific basis is covered first, and the past, present and possible future policy responses follow. Topics include global population growth, climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, air pollution, energy supply and demand, biodiversity and sustainable development. Problem sets, policy memos, projects, news blogs, and presentations are included.

An introductory course on materials used civil and environmental engineering. Lectures on structure and properties of construction materials including concrete, steel, glass and timber; fracture mechanics; strength testing; mechanisms of deterioration; impact of material manufacturing on the environment. Labs on brittle fracture, heat treatment of steel, strength of concrete, mechanical properties of wood.

Part-1 Classical Soil Mechanics: Physical and engineering properties of soils; soil classification and identification methods; site exploration; sampling; laboratory and in-situ testing techniques; shear strength; bearing capacity; earth pressure; slope stability; permeability and seepage. Part-2 Application of Soil Mechanics in Civil Engineering: Earth retaining structures; deep foundations, ground improvement; tunneling; levees; and construction and contracting implications.

Independent research in the student's area of interest. The work must be conducted under the supervision of a faculty member, and must result in a final paper.

Fundamentals of probabilistic risk analysis. Stochastic modeling of hazards. Estimation of extremes. Vulnerability modeling of natural and built environment. Evaluation of failure chances and consequences. Reliability analysis. Decision analysis and risk management. Case studies involving natural hazards, including earthquakes, extreme winds, rainfall flooding, storm surges, hurricanes, and climate change, and their induced damage and economic losses.

This course will focus on the structural design of buildings and is open to students of engineering and of architecture who meet the prerequisites. The course will culminate in a major building design project incorporating knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work. Structural design is considered from concept development to the completion of detailed design while incorporating appropriate engineering standards and multiple realistic constraints.

The course presents the fundamentals of wave propagation in structures and materials with special emphasis on an emerging class of structural systems known as acoustic or elastic metamaterials. The course blends theory, simulations and laboratory testing to bridge between the fundamentals of wave mechanics and the creativity-driven design principles of metamaterials engineering. The theory section is presented through an intuitive, yet rigorous approach that combines physical arguments and mathematical modeling. To enhance concept retention, the concepts are visualized by numerical simulations and selected laboratory demonstrations.

Students will navigate the complexities of urban water and wastewater infrastructure design. Students will apply concepts from process engineering, energy analysis, economics, climate resilience, and life cycle assessment to problem sets and two design projects inspired by real-world scenarios. Assignments will cover the entire project lifecycle, and will explore the different constraints encountered in new ("greenfield") facilities vs. upgrading of existing facilities. Schedule permitting, it will include perspectives from public and/or private sector guest speakers and a field trip to water / wastewater treatment facility.

A formal research proposal need to involve analysis, synthesis, and design, directed toward improved understanding and resolution of a significant problem in civil and environmental engineering. The research is conducted under the supervision of a faculty member, and the thesis is defended by the student at a public examination before a faculty committee. The senior thesis is equivalent to a two-semester study and is recorded as a double course in the Spring.

Under the direction of a faculty member, each student carries out independent study. Prior to course registration, students must complete a departmental Graduate Independent Study form that describes the work being undertaken, and have the form approved by the supervising faculty member and the Director of Graduate Studies.

Under the direction of a faculty member, each student carries out independent study. Prior to course registration, students must complete a departmental Graduate Independent Study form that describes the work being undertaken, and have the form approved by the supervising faculty member and the Director of Graduate Studies. Usually taken in the Spring semester.

Under the direction of a faculty member, each student carries out research and presents the results. Directed research is normally taken during the first year of study. The total grading of the course will be 25% poster presentation and 75% submitted work.

This is a continuation of CEE 509. Each student carries out research, writes a report and presents the research results. Doctoral candidates must complete this course one semester prior to taking the general examination. The total grading of the course is based 10% on oral presentation and written "poster" communication skills and 90% based on advisors evaluation of the semester's work.

This course will focus on the structural design of buildings and is open to students of engineering and of architecture who meet the prerequisites. The course will culminate in a major building design project incorporating knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work. Structural design is considered from concept development to the completion of detailed design while incorporating appropriate engineering standards and multiple realistic constraints.

Networks matter! This holds for technical infrastructures, information systems and social media in the WWW, but also for various social, economic and biological systems. What can we learn from data that capture the topology of such complex systems? How can we discover significant patterns in the structure of networks? This course equips you with the analysis techniques needed to answer such questions based on network data across different disciplines. You learn how networked systems can be modeled, how patterns in their topology can be characterized quantitatively, and how complex macroscopic features emerge from simple processes.

This course explores material and optical design strategies for thermal management of buildings. In the first part of the course, we cover fundamental aspects of thermal radiation and light-matter interactions in built and natural environments. The second part covers traditional and emerging materials and strategies for radiative thermoregulation of buildings. Specific topics include traditional designs such as cool-roof films and low-E coatings, emerging materials like radiative coolers, and adaptive coolers/heaters, and their impact within buildings and the broader environment.

The course focuses on the linear and non-linear rheology of colloidal materials and materials processing and solidification mechanisms. The rheological sections of the course focus on the fundamentals of rheological properties, viscoelasticity, flow, and constitutive models. The materials processing sections focus on chemistry, physics, and mechanics principles governing the behavior of materials and particulate. The course objective is to teach a framework for quantitative analyses of materials' rheological responses and processes and help students understand materials' capabilities and limitations.

This course presents an overview of current research on the behavior of interfacial waters in natural systems. Sub-topics include adsorption at water-solid and water-air interfaces, the thermodynamics of adsorbed water films, interfacial mass transfer, interfacial energy and wetting, colloidal aggregation in saturated and unsaturated soils, surface waters, and the atmosphere. The course focuses particularly on insights gained from the combination of experiments, atomistic simulation, and geochemical models.

Research project designed in conjunction with the student's advisor and an industrial, NGO, or government sponsor that provides practical experience relevant to the student's research area. A final paper is required.

The course examines turbulence in geophysical systems. We review the classic theories of turbulence and vorticity dynamics in neutral non-rotating media. We then introduce rotation into the problem and examine the transitions between 2D and 3D turbulence. The genesis of buoyancy forces and their influence on turbulence are then examined, from the free convection unstable limit to the highly-stratified stable limit. The interacting effects of rotation and buoyancy are then reviewed. Finally, we examine turbulence states far from equilibrium.

This class will teach you about optical and photonic sensing technologies and their applications to environmental monitoring. The course will contain elements of atmospheric science and Earth observation, fundamentals of optics, photonics and laser physics, as well as a survey of modern optical and spectroscopic sensing applications. In this course students will be asked to prepare two oral presentations and there will be three laboratory assignments focused on fundamentals of optical sensing

The course will focus on emerging science and technologies that enable the transition from our traditional linear economy (take, make, waste) to a new circular economy (reduce, reuse, recycle). It will discuss the fundamental theories and applied technologies that are capable of converting traditional waste materials or environmental pollutants such as wastewater, food waste, plastics, e-waste, and CO2, etc. into valued-added products including energy, fuels, chemicals, and food products.

This interdisciplinary seminar explores freshwater use, its present-day impacts, and possible future trajectories. We will examine various modes of seeing interconnections in freshwater resources through diagrams, maps, models, and photographs, and look at pressures through multiple conceptual frameworks such as water footprints and planetary boundaries. We also engage approaches for calculating, performing, and imagining alternative water futures. The course aims to provide students a supportive space to think and learn together about pathways for addressing grand water challenges.

Humans increasingly dominate environmental systems throughout the world. To understand human impacts on the environment, quantitative modeling tools are needed. This course introduces quantitative modeling approaches for different environmental systems, including global models for carbon cycling; local and regional models for water, soil, and vegetation; models for transport of pollutants in water and air; and models for the spread of infectious disease. Students will develop simple models for all these systems and apply the models to a set of practical problems.

Fundamentals of seismology and seismic wave propagation. Introduction to acoustic and elastic wave propagation concepts, observational methods, and inferences that can be drawn from seismic data about the deep planetary structure of the Earth, as well as about the occurrence of oil and gas deposits in the crust. Offered every other year.

This class addresses the practical aspects, theory, implementation and utilization of optimization in conjunction with analysis tools. It aims to acquaint the student with the state-of-the-art optimization techniques and their application to engineering problems. Besides traditional methods, it introduces the modern and powerful topology optimization method together with its application to material and structural systems. In this context, it also introduces rapid prototyping and 3D/4D printing techniques at different scales.