Tackling the most challenging problems in infrastructure

This course focuses on the core civil engineering materials, primarily steel and concrete but also timber and asphalt, their properties, and their application to civil infrastructure. The work of this class will emphasize general knowledge about these material systems as well as practical experiments in a laboratory environment.  The core competencies you develop in this class will help you build necessary foundations for your future as a civil engineer, and the practical experience you gain in the lab will facilitate a deeper understanding of the materials common to most civil engineering projects and structures.

This course provides civil and structural engineers with a general introduction to dynamic behavior in single- and multi-degree-of-freedom structures. This course emphasizes the fundamental aspects of structural dynamics, including derivation of the equations of motion, analysis of time-dependent loading, numerical evaluation of dynamic response, modal analysis, and spectral responses.

This course provides civil and structural engineers with a general introduction to dynamic behavior in structures followed by design applications of seismic hazard analysis, earthquake loading, and nonlinear behavior incorporating the standards of ASCE 7 and ASCE 41. This course emphasizes the fundamental aspects of structural dynamics, including derivation of the equations of motion, response of single- and multiple-degree-of-freedom systems to dynamic excitation, modal analysis, and spectral responses.