Undergraduate Courses
Materials Engineering for Civil Engineers Junior Level (Texas A&M University)
Course Description: This course discusses scientific concepts and theoretical background of various civil engineering materials; relationship between microscopic material structures and macroscopic behaviors; physical, mechanical, surface, thermal, electrical, fracture, and rheological properties of civil engineering materials including metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites.
Course Description: This course discusses scientific concepts and theoretical background of various civil engineering materials; relationship between microscopic material structures and macroscopic behaviors; physical, mechanical, surface, thermal, electrical, fracture, and rheological properties of civil engineering materials including metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites.
Mechanics of Materials Junior Level (Texas A&M University)
Course Description: This course is to introduce students to applications of stress and deformation relationships for structural members subjected to axial, torsional, and bending loads, and thin-walled pressure vessels. Students will also study stress and deformation of structural members under combined loadings, stability of columns, including indeterminate members. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to analyze and design structural members subjected to tension, compression, torsion, bending, and combined forces using the fundamental concepts of stress, strain, and elastic behavior of materials.
Course Description: This course is to introduce students to applications of stress and deformation relationships for structural members subjected to axial, torsional, and bending loads, and thin-walled pressure vessels. Students will also study stress and deformation of structural members under combined loadings, stability of columns, including indeterminate members. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to analyze and design structural members subjected to tension, compression, torsion, bending, and combined forces using the fundamental concepts of stress, strain, and elastic behavior of materials.
Materials of Construction Junior Level (University of Nebraska)
Course Description: The goal of this course is to provide students with a clear understanding of the behavior of construction materials including steel, aggregates, concrete, asphalt, polymers, wood, and composites. This course discusses the following specific topics: Characteristics of Bonding in Materials, Structural States of Solid Materials, Microstructure of Materials and Surface Characteristics, Mechanical Responses of Materials, Failure Theories, Inelastic Material Behavior, Physical and Mechanical Properties of Steel, Corrosion and Oxidation of Steel, Aggregates, Portland Cement and Portland Cement Concrete, Mechanical Behavior of Portland Cement Concrete, Asphalt Cement and Asphalt Concrete, Mechanical Behavior of Asphaltic Materials, Structure and Mechanical Properties of Polymers, Structure and Mechanical Behavior of Wood, and Composite Materials.
Course Description: The goal of this course is to provide students with a clear understanding of the behavior of construction materials including steel, aggregates, concrete, asphalt, polymers, wood, and composites. This course discusses the following specific topics: Characteristics of Bonding in Materials, Structural States of Solid Materials, Microstructure of Materials and Surface Characteristics, Mechanical Responses of Materials, Failure Theories, Inelastic Material Behavior, Physical and Mechanical Properties of Steel, Corrosion and Oxidation of Steel, Aggregates, Portland Cement and Portland Cement Concrete, Mechanical Behavior of Portland Cement Concrete, Asphalt Cement and Asphalt Concrete, Mechanical Behavior of Asphaltic Materials, Structure and Mechanical Properties of Polymers, Structure and Mechanical Behavior of Wood, and Composite Materials.
Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering Junior Level (University of Nebraska)
Course Description: The goal of this course is to provide students with principles (the fundamentals of soil mechanics) and practices (the application of the principles to practical engineering problems). This course covers the following specific topics: Brief Introduction to Engineering Geology, Site Investigation, Soil Composition: Phase Relationships, Gradations, Atterberg Limits, Soil Classification, Soil Compaction, Groundwater Flow and Seepage, Stresses in Soil-Water System, Consolidation, Shear Strength of Soils, Slope Stability, and Lateral Earth Pressure and Retaining Walls.
Course Description: The goal of this course is to provide students with principles (the fundamentals of soil mechanics) and practices (the application of the principles to practical engineering problems). This course covers the following specific topics: Brief Introduction to Engineering Geology, Site Investigation, Soil Composition: Phase Relationships, Gradations, Atterberg Limits, Soil Classification, Soil Compaction, Groundwater Flow and Seepage, Stresses in Soil-Water System, Consolidation, Shear Strength of Soils, Slope Stability, and Lateral Earth Pressure and Retaining Walls.
Pavement Design and Evaluation Senior Level (University of Nebraska)
Course Description: The aim of this course is to provide students with thorough and general understanding in the concepts of the pavement design based on stress analyses of various types of pavement structures (e.g., flexible and rigid pavements). In particular this course highlights the clear understanding of each pavement design factor and its effects on pavement performance. Based on the understanding of design factors and mechanistic stress analyses of pavements, students would learn traditional (somewhat empirically developed) pavement design methods such as the AASHTO 1993 guide. A recently developed mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide (MEPDG) is also presented. Furthermore, fully mechanistic design-analysis methods, which need more time and efforts to be implemented for practices, are introduced at the later stage of this course.
Course Description: The aim of this course is to provide students with thorough and general understanding in the concepts of the pavement design based on stress analyses of various types of pavement structures (e.g., flexible and rigid pavements). In particular this course highlights the clear understanding of each pavement design factor and its effects on pavement performance. Based on the understanding of design factors and mechanistic stress analyses of pavements, students would learn traditional (somewhat empirically developed) pavement design methods such as the AASHTO 1993 guide. A recently developed mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide (MEPDG) is also presented. Furthermore, fully mechanistic design-analysis methods, which need more time and efforts to be implemented for practices, are introduced at the later stage of this course.
Highway Engineering and Design Senior Level (KHU)
Course Description: This course offers focused yet comprehensive coverage of the field of highway engineering through the latest standards and advances. Students explore the art of geometric design (horizontal and vertical) of highways and streets; learn modern knowledge of traffic characteristics and road‐vehicle performance; and examine the most widely used technologies for highway materials and construction. In addition, structural design methods for both flexible and rigid pavements are discussed. The new mechanistic‐empirical pavement design methods are also introduced at the end of semester.
Course Description: This course offers focused yet comprehensive coverage of the field of highway engineering through the latest standards and advances. Students explore the art of geometric design (horizontal and vertical) of highways and streets; learn modern knowledge of traffic characteristics and road‐vehicle performance; and examine the most widely used technologies for highway materials and construction. In addition, structural design methods for both flexible and rigid pavements are discussed. The new mechanistic‐empirical pavement design methods are also introduced at the end of semester.
Transportation Engineering Sophomore Level (KHU)
Course Description: This course offers comprehensive coverage of the field of transportation engineering. Students learn transportation basics of multi-modal systems (both private and public) with more emphasis on highway transportation. This course discusses fundamentals and general background on transportation planning, vehicle performance, traffic flow, traffic control, highway capacity analysis, and forecasting of travel demand and supply. In addition, other subjects such as the public mass transportation, air transportation, and movement of freight are also briefly introduced in this course.
Course Description: This course offers comprehensive coverage of the field of transportation engineering. Students learn transportation basics of multi-modal systems (both private and public) with more emphasis on highway transportation. This course discusses fundamentals and general background on transportation planning, vehicle performance, traffic flow, traffic control, highway capacity analysis, and forecasting of travel demand and supply. In addition, other subjects such as the public mass transportation, air transportation, and movement of freight are also briefly introduced in this course.
Advanced Engineering Mathematics Sophomore Level (KHU)
Course Description: This course targets providing students with fundamental applied mathematics and its applications to solve various engineering problems. During the first half of semester, this course provides an introduction to solving ordinary differential equations with the main focus being on first and second order linear equations. In addition, systems of first order linear equations are discussed and an introduction to the Laplace Transform is provided. For the later second half of semester, students learn linear algebra and vector calculus including matrices, vectors, matrix eigenvalue problems, and vector differential/integral calculus.
Course Description: This course targets providing students with fundamental applied mathematics and its applications to solve various engineering problems. During the first half of semester, this course provides an introduction to solving ordinary differential equations with the main focus being on first and second order linear equations. In addition, systems of first order linear equations are discussed and an introduction to the Laplace Transform is provided. For the later second half of semester, students learn linear algebra and vector calculus including matrices, vectors, matrix eigenvalue problems, and vector differential/integral calculus.
Graduate Courses
Inelastic Behavior of Infrastructure Materials
Course Description: This course provides students with general and broad understanding in the concepts of mechanistic analysis, characterization, and modeling based on analytically performed and/or computationally operated stress analyses of various types of inelastic-nonlinear infrastructure materials. Brief introduction to the continuum thermo-mechanics, elasticity, and viscoelasticity of materials will be provided, and then the understanding of elastic-viscoelastic constitutive theories will be applied to analytical and computational modeling of elastic-viscoelastic mixtures and structures. More advanced topics such as the Schapery’s nonlinear viscoelasticity, viscoplasticity, crack-associated damage modeling, and multi-scale modeling techniques are also presented.
Course Description: This course provides students with general and broad understanding in the concepts of mechanistic analysis, characterization, and modeling based on analytically performed and/or computationally operated stress analyses of various types of inelastic-nonlinear infrastructure materials. Brief introduction to the continuum thermo-mechanics, elasticity, and viscoelasticity of materials will be provided, and then the understanding of elastic-viscoelastic constitutive theories will be applied to analytical and computational modeling of elastic-viscoelastic mixtures and structures. More advanced topics such as the Schapery’s nonlinear viscoelasticity, viscoplasticity, crack-associated damage modeling, and multi-scale modeling techniques are also presented.
Physics and Mechanics of Transportation Materials
Course Description: This course is to provide students with a clear understanding of the physical and mechanical characteristics and practical applications of various civil engineering transportation materials including concrete, asphalt, aggregates, and stabilized soils. Fundamental mechanics for elastic and inelastic materials are presented and basic physical, chemical, and geometrical characteristics of each transportation material are covered. In addition, fracture and damage-associated theories and some of advanced topics such as micromechanical approaches, particulate composite principles, and multiscale concepts are presented.
Course Description: This course is to provide students with a clear understanding of the physical and mechanical characteristics and practical applications of various civil engineering transportation materials including concrete, asphalt, aggregates, and stabilized soils. Fundamental mechanics for elastic and inelastic materials are presented and basic physical, chemical, and geometrical characteristics of each transportation material are covered. In addition, fracture and damage-associated theories and some of advanced topics such as micromechanical approaches, particulate composite principles, and multiscale concepts are presented.
Advanced Mechanistic Analysis and Modeling of Infrastructure Materials
Course Description: The aim of this course is to provide students with thorough and general understanding in the concepts of mechanistic analysis, characterization, and modeling based on analytically performed and/or numerically operated stress analyses of various types of infrastructure materials and structures. Brief introduction to continuum thermo-mechanics, elasticity and viscoelasticity of materials is provided, and then the understanding of elastic-viscoelastic constitutive theories is applied to analytical and computational modeling of elastic-viscoelastic composites and structures. More advanced topics such as crack-associated damage modeling and multi-scale modeling techniques are also presented. This unique course is expected to be greatly helpful for students who are involved in research related to mechanistic materials modeling, advanced characterization, and design of mixtures and structures.
Course Description: The aim of this course is to provide students with thorough and general understanding in the concepts of mechanistic analysis, characterization, and modeling based on analytically performed and/or numerically operated stress analyses of various types of infrastructure materials and structures. Brief introduction to continuum thermo-mechanics, elasticity and viscoelasticity of materials is provided, and then the understanding of elastic-viscoelastic constitutive theories is applied to analytical and computational modeling of elastic-viscoelastic composites and structures. More advanced topics such as crack-associated damage modeling and multi-scale modeling techniques are also presented. This unique course is expected to be greatly helpful for students who are involved in research related to mechanistic materials modeling, advanced characterization, and design of mixtures and structures.
Bituminous Materials and Mixtures
Course Description: The primary aim of this course is to provide students with a working knowledge of the properties, behavior, and civil engineering applications of bituminous materials. More specifically, this course discusses traditional and state-of-the-art specifications and mix design procedures for asphalt paving materials, construction practices and quality control on the performance of asphalt paving products, and practical exposure to laboratory testing of asphalt paving materials and mixtures.
Course Description: The primary aim of this course is to provide students with a working knowledge of the properties, behavior, and civil engineering applications of bituminous materials. More specifically, this course discusses traditional and state-of-the-art specifications and mix design procedures for asphalt paving materials, construction practices and quality control on the performance of asphalt paving products, and practical exposure to laboratory testing of asphalt paving materials and mixtures.
Cementitious Materials
Course Description: The goal of this course is to provide students with a clear understanding of the physical and mechanical characteristics and practical applications of cementitious civil materials specifically including concrete, asphalt, and stabilized soil/aggregates. Fundamental mechanics for elastic and inelastic materials are presented and basic physical, chemical, and geometrical characteristics of each cementitious material are covered. Fracture and damage-associated theories and some of advanced topics such as micromechanical approaches and particulate composite principles are also presented.
Course Description: The goal of this course is to provide students with a clear understanding of the physical and mechanical characteristics and practical applications of cementitious civil materials specifically including concrete, asphalt, and stabilized soil/aggregates. Fundamental mechanics for elastic and inelastic materials are presented and basic physical, chemical, and geometrical characteristics of each cementitious material are covered. Fracture and damage-associated theories and some of advanced topics such as micromechanical approaches and particulate composite principles are also presented.
