2011-2012 Bulletin – PDF - SEAS Bulletin - Columbia University

and leadership on the part of engineers. This
course is designed to expose the students to
this environment by having them undertake the
complete design of a large structure from initial
design concepts on through all the major design
decisions. The students work as members of a
design team to overcome the challenges inherent
in major projects. Topics include overview of
major projects, project criteria and interface with
architecture, design of foundations and structural
systems, design challenges in the post 9/11
environment and roles, responsibilities and legal
issues.
CIEN E4241x Geotechnical engineering
fundamentals
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Mohammad.
Prerequisite: CIEN E3141 or instructor’s
permission. Bearing capacity and settlement of
shallow and deep foundations; earth pressure
theories; retaining walls and reinforced soil
retaining walls; sheet pile walls; braced excavation;
slope stability.
CIEN E4242x Geotechnical earthquake
engineering
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Ling.
Prerequisite: CIEN E3141 or equivalent.
Seismicity, earthquake intensity, propagation
of seismic waves, design of earthquake
motion, seismic site response analysis, in
situ and laboratory evaluation of dynamic soil
properties, seismic performance of underground
structures, seismic performance of port and
harbor facilities, evaluation and mitigation of
soil liquefaction and its consequences. Seismic
earth pressures, slopes stability, safety of dams
and embankments, seismic code provisions and
practice. To alternate with E4244.
CIEN E4243x Foundation engineering
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Brant.
Prerequisite: CIEN E3141 or equivalent.
Conventional types of foundations and foundation
problems: subsurface exploration and testing.
Performance of shallow and deep foundations
and evaluation by field measurements. Case
histories to illustrate typical design and
construction problems. To alternate with CIEN
E4246.
CIEN E4244x Geosynthetics and waste
containment
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Brant.
Prerequisite: CIEN E4241 or the equivalent.
Properties of geosynthetics. Geosynthetic design
for soil reinforcement. Geosynthetic applications
in solid waste containment system. To alternate
with CIEN E4242.
CIEN C4245x Tunnel design and construction
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Munfakh.
Engineering design and construction of different
types of tunnel, including cut and cover tunnel,
rock tunnel, soft ground tunnel, immersed tub
tunnel, and jacked tunnel. The design for the
liner, excavation, and instrumentation are also
covered. A field trip will be arranged to visit the
tunneling site.
CIEN E4246x Earth retaining structures
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Leifer.
Prerequisite: CIEN E3141. Retaining structures,
bulkheads, cellular cofferdams, and braced
excavations. Construction dewatering and
underpinning. Instrumentation to monitor actual
performances. Ground improvement techniques,
including earth reinforcement, geotextiles, and
grouting. To alternate with CIEN E4243.
CIEN E4250y Waste containment design
and practice
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Prerequisites: ENME E3161 and CIEN E3141,
or equivalents. Strategies for the containment
of buried wastes. Municipal and hazardous
waste landfill design; bioreactor landfills;
vertical barriers, evapotranspiration barriers
and capillary barriers; hydraulic containment; in
situ stabilization and solidification techniques;
site investigation; monitoring and stewardship
of buried wastes; options for land reuse/
redevelopment.
CIEE E4252x Environmental engineering
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Chandran.
Prerequisites: CHEM C1403 or equivalent;
ENME E3161 or the equivalent. Engineering
aspects of problems involving human interaction
with the natural environment. Review of
fundamentals principles that underlie the
discipline of environmental engineering, i.e.,
constituent transport and transformation
processes in environmental media such
as water, air and ecosystems. Engineering
applications for addressing environmental
problems such as water quality and treatment,
air pollutant emissions, and hazardous waster
remediation. Presented in the context of
current issues facing practicing engineers
and government agencies, including legal
and regulatory framework, environmental
impact assessments, and natural resource
management.
CIEN E4253y Finite elements in geotechnical
engineering
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Prerequisites: CIEN E3141 and E4332. Stateof-the-art
computer solutions in geotechnical
engineering; 3D consolidation, seepage flows,
and soil-structure interaction; element and mesh
instabilities. To be offered in alternate years with
CIEN E4254.
CIEE E4257x Contaminant transport in
subsurface systems
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Mutch.
Prerequisites: CIEE E3250 or equivalent. Single
and multiple phase transport in porous media;
contaminant transport in variably saturated
heterogeneous geologic media; physically based
numerical models of such processes.
CIEN E4260x Urban ecology studio
4 pts. Lect: 3. Lab: 3. Professor Culligan.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and instructor’s
permission. Conjoint studio run with the
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and
Preservation (GSAPP) that explores solutions
to problems of urban density. Engineering and
GSAPP students will engage in a joint project
that address habitability and sustainability
issues in an urban environment, and also
provides community service. Emphasis will be
on the integration of science, engineering and
design within a social context. Interdisciplinary
approaches and communication will be stressed.
CIEN E6131x Quantitative infrastructure risk
management
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Prerequisites: IEOR E4003, CIEN E4133 or the
equivalent. Core concepts of risk analysis, risk
mitigation, and quantitative risk management
applied to civil infrastructure systems. State
of art of simulation applied to infrastructure
risk management during construction and
operation. Public Private Partnership (PPP)
risk management: identification, quantification,
mitigation of risks in transportation and energy
PPP systems. Risk management during
construction using the envelop method.
CIEN E6132y Advanced systems and
technologies for global project collaboration
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Prerequisite: CIEN E4129 or the equivalent.
Systems and technologies that support
collaborative work in global projects. Information
technologies for design, visualization, project
management, and collaboration in globally
distributed networks of design, fabrication, and
construction organizations, including Web-based,
parametric computer-aided modeling, project
organizational simulation, and other emerging
applications. Global team project with students at
collaborating universities abroad.
CIEN E6133y Advanced construction and
infrastructure risk management using real
options
Not offered in 2011–2012.
Prerequisite: CIEN E6131. Advanced concepts
of risk analysis and management applied to civil
engineering systems. Identifying and valuing
flexibility in construction and operation. Tools to
perform risk analysis in flexible civil infrastructure
systems. Valuation methods for real options.
Risk flexibility analysis; integrating real
options analysis with quantitative risk analysis.
Applications to case studies on construction
management, life-cycle cost analysis for
infrastructure assets, public-private partnerships
projects, real estate developments, and
renewable energy infrastructure projects.
CIEN E6232x Advanced topics in concrete
engineering
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Prerequisite: CIEN E3125 or the equivalent.
Behavior of concrete under general states of
stress, numerical modeling of steel and concrete,
finite element analysis of reinforced concrete,
design of slabs and their shell concrete structures.
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