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Civil Engineering| Course Code | Course Name | Credit Hours | Course Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| B-057 | Introduction to the Humanities | 6 Credits | View Details |
| AAS-085 | Social and Cultural Geography | 6 Credits | View Details |
| B-158 | English Composition | 6 Credits | View Details |
| B-200 | College Algebra | 6 Credits | View Details |
| B-336 | World Religions | 6 Credits | View Details |
| AAS-370 | Ethics | 6 Credits | View Details |
| B-460 | Art Appreciation | 6 Credits | View Details |
| AAS-584 | Pre-Calculus | 6 Credits | View Details |
| B-825 | Human Biology | 6 Credits | View Details |
| AAS-902 | World History | 6 Credits | View Details |
| Courses Code | Courses Name | Credit Hours | Course Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ENG-062 | Basics of industrial engineering | 6 Credits | View Details |
| ENG-114 | Introduction to engineering | 6 Credits | View Details |
| ENG-163 | Latest developments in engineering | 6 Credits | View Details |
| ENG-178 | Introduction to E-engineering | 6 Credits | View Details |
| ENG-195 | Advanced fields in engineering | 6 Credits | View Details |
| ENG-239 | Introduction to electrical engineering | 6 Credits | View Details |
| ENG-427 | Introduction to civil engineering | 6 Credits | View Details |
| ENG-612 | Foundations of mechanical engineering | 6 Credits | View Details |
| Courses Code | Courses Name | Credit Hours | Course Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIE-141 | Structure Basics | 6 Credits | View Details |
| CIE-232 | Fundamentals of Transportation Engineering | 6 Credits | View Details |
| CIE-257 | Construction planning | 6 Credits | View Details |
| CIE-537 | Introduction to Civil Engineering Materials | 6 Credits | View Details |
| MEE-709 | Introduction to Finite Elements | 6 Credits | View Details |
| CIE-748 | Principles of Engineering Mechanics | 6 Credits | View Details |
Introduction to the Humanities
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- The art of thinking critically.
- Apollonian reason, dionysian intuition.
- Myth.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Literature.
- Art.
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Music.
- The theater.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- The musical stage.
- Television.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- The cinema.
- Religion.
- Happiness.
- Morality.
- Life and death.
Social and Cultural Geography
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Mash-ups using google maps hand-held navigation devices
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Mexican perspectives on undocumented immigration
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Building barriers in the middle east
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Using air photos to make the case for war applying the concept of scale to war in iraq
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Wal-mart in china
- Locating car parts plants
- Market segmentation
English Composition
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Writing to learn
- Critical thinking, reading, and viewing.
- Preparing.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Composing.
- Rewriting.
- Formulating arguments.
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Using the internet for research
- Evaluating electronic and print sources.
- Apa documentation format.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Cms and cse formats.
- Writing in the disciplines
- Writing in the humanities.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Writing in the natural sciences.
- Writing in the social sciences
- Design principles
College Algebra
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Review of the real number system
- Linear equations, inequalities, and applications
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Graphs, linear equations, and functions
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Systems of linear equations
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Exponents, polynomials, and polynomial functions
- Factoring
- Rational expressions and functions
- Roots, radicals, and root functions
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Quadratic equations and inequalities
- Additional graphs of functions and relations
- Inverse, exponential, and logarithmic functions
- Polynomial and rational functions
- Conic sections and systems of inequalities
- Further topics in algebra
World Religions
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Characteristics of basic religions
- Native american religions
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- African religions
- Hinduism
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Jainism
- Buddhism
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Sikhism
- Chinese religions
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Shinto
- Zoroastrianism
- Judaism
- Christianity
- Islam
Ethics
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- What is morality?
- Consequentialist -teleological- theories of morality
- Nonconsequentialist -deontological- theories of morality
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Virtue ethics
- Absolutism versus relativism
- Freedom versus determinism
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Reward and punishment
- Setting up a moral system: basic assumptions and basic principles
- The taking of human life
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Allowing someone to die, mercy death, and mercy killing
- Abortion
- Lying, cheating, breaking promises, and stealing
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Morality, marriage, and human sexuality
- Bioethicsethical issues in medicine
- Business and media ethics
- Environmental ethics
Art Appreciation
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Understanding art
- Visual elements
- Organizing principles of design
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Drawing
- Painting
- Printmaking
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Graphic design
- Photography and filmmaking
- Digital art
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Sculpture
- Crafts
- Product and clothing design
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Architecture
- Designed settings
- Historical styles in western art
- Understanding art on all levels
Pre-Calculus
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Graphs
- Function and models
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Polynomial and rational functions
- Exponential and logarithmic function
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Trigonomatic function
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Analytic trigonometry
- Polar coordinates; vectors
- Analytic geometry
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Systems of equations and inequalities
- Sequences; induction; the bionomial theorem
Human Biology
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Why study biology?
- Basics of biology, anatomy, and physiology.
- Determinism, biology, culture, and the ecological perspective.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Biological development and the human lifespan.
- Genetics, evolution, and human behavior.
- Human biology and intellect.
- The human genome project.
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- The biology of disability, health, illness, and treatment.
- Biology and mental illness
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Biological elements of drugs, alcohol, and tobacco
- Human sexuality and sexual orientation.
- The biology of aging.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Public health and biology.
- Critical thinking and human biology
World History
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- From human prehistory to the rise of agriculture
- Early civilization
- Nomadic societies
- Classical civilization:china
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Classical civilization: india
- Classical civilization in the mediterranean: persia, greece and rome
- TThe classical period: directions, diversities, and declines by 500 c.e.
- The rise of islam: civilization in the middle east
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- India and southeast asia under the impact of islam
- Africa and islam
- East european civilization: byzantium and russia
- Western civilization: the middle ages
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics
- The spread of east asian civilization
- Centers of civilization in the americas
- The mongol interlude and the end of the postclassical period
- The west and the world: discovery, colonization, and trade
- Western civilization changes shape in the early modern centuries
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- The rise of eastern europe
- The ottoman and mughal empires
- East asia: vital trends in politics and trade
- The first industrial revolution: western society, 17801914
- World economy and western imperialism: africa and south asia
- The settler societies: the west on frontiers
- The development of latin american civilization
- The middle east and china in the imperialist century
- Russia and japan: industrialization outside the west
- World war i and the end of an era
- The west in the contemporary period
- Eastern european civilization
- East asia in the 20th- 22nd centuries
- India and southeast asia
Basics of industrial engineering
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- History of engineering and development of industrial engineering.
- Industrial and systems engineering.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Manufacturing engineering.
- Facilities location and layout.
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Material handling, distribution, and routing.
- Work design and organizational performance -- work measurement.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Operations planning and control.
- Quality control.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Financial compensation.
- Cad/cam, robotics, and automation.
- Human factors.
- Resource management.
- Financial management and engineering economy.
- Probabilistic models.
- Simulation.
- Project management.
- Systems concepts.
- Management systems design.
Introduction to engineering
Topics Covered in This Course:
In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Engineering and society
- Organization and representation of engineering systems
- Learning and problem solving
- Laws of nature and theoretical models
- Data analysis and empirical models
- Modeling interrelationships in systems: lightweight structures
- Modeling interrelationships in systems:digital electronic circuits
- Getting started with matlab
- Vector operations in matlab
- Matrix operations in matlab
Latest developments in engineering
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Introduction.
- Vectors and tensors.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Stress.
- Principal stresses and principal axes.
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Analysis of deformation.
- Velocity fields and compatibility conditions.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Constitutive equations.
- Isotropy.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Mechanical properties of real fluids and solids.
- Derivation of field equations.
- Field equations and boundary conditions in fluid mechanics.
- Some simple problems in elasticity.
- Stress, strain, and active remodeling of structures.
Introduction to E-engineering
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Physics for electronics.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Mathematics for electronics.
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Electrical quantities and measurements.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Ohm's law and watt's law.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Combinational series/parallel circuits.
- Magnetism and magnetic circuits.
- Motors and generators.
- Alternating current.
- Capacitors.
- Inductors.
- Series ac circuits.
Advanced fields in engineering
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Equations of motion, problem statement, and solution methods.
- Free vibration.
- Response to harmonic and periodic excitations.
- Response to arbitrary, step, and pulse excitations.response to arbitrarily time-varying forces.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Numerical evaluation of dynamic response.
- Earthquake response of linear systems.
- Earthquake response of inelastic systems.
- Generalized single-degree-of-freedom systems.
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Equations of motion, problem statement, and solution methods.
- Free vibration.
- Damping in structures.experimental data and recommended modal damping ratios.
- Dynamic analysis and response of linear systems.two-degree-of-freedom systems.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Earthquake analysis of linear systems.response history analysis.
- Reduction of degrees of freedom.
- Numerical evaluation of dynamic response.
- Systems with distributed mass and elasticity.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Introduction to the finite element method.rayleigh-ritz method.
- Earthquake response of linearly elastic buildings.
- Earthquake response of inelastic buildings.
- Earthquake dynamics of base-isolated buildings.
- Structural dynamics in building codes.
Introduction to electrical engineering
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Introduction
- Resistive circuits
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Inductance and capacitance
- Transients
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Steady-state sinusoidal analysis
- Frequency response, bode plots, and resonance
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Logic circuits
- Microcomputers
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Computer-based instrumentation
- Diodes
- Amplifiers: specifications and external
- Field-effect transistors
- Bipolar junction transistors
- Operational amplifiers
- Magnetic circuits and transformers
- Dc machines
- Ac machines
Introduction to civil engineering
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Introduction.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- History of the use of biological, chemical, and radiological agents.
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Safe operations at terrorist incidents.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Affects of biological, chemical, and radiological agents.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Terrorism emergency response scenarios.
Foundations of mechanical engineering
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Statically determinate force systems.
- Statically determinate stress systems.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Stress-strain relations.
- Torsion.
- Bending stress.
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Bending: slope and deflection.
- Statically indeterminate beams.
- Energy methods.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Buckling instability.
- Yield criteria and stress concentration.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Application of the equilibrium and strain-displacement.
- Elementary plasticity.
- Thin plates and shells.
- Finite element method.
- Fracture mechanics.
- Fatigue.
Structure Basics
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Introduction
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Design loads
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Statics of structures-reactions
- Beams and frames
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Cables
- Arches
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Live load forces: influence lines for determinate structures
- Work-energy methods for computing deflections
- Analysis of indeterminate structures by the flexibility method
- Moment distribution
- Approximate analysis of indeterminate structures
Fundamentals of Transportation Engineering
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Transportation basics.
- Traffic flow: theory and analysis.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Highway design for performance.
- Modeling transportation demand and supply.
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Planning and evaluation for decision-making.
- Safety on the highway.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Highway design for safety.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Design of intersections for safety and efficiency.
- Highway design for rideability -pavement design-.
- Public mass transportation.
- Air transportation and airports.
- Moving freight.
- Toward a sustainable transportation system.
Construction planning
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Introduction
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Precedence diagrams
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Determining activity durations
- Time in contract provisions
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Resource allocation and resource leveling
- Project monitoring and control
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Computer scheduling
- Earned value: a means for integrating costs and schedule
Introduction to Civil Engineering Materials
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Introduction.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- History of the use of biological, chemical, and radiological agents.
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Safe operations at terrorist incidents.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Affects of biological, chemical, and radiological agents.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Terrorism emergency response scenarios.
Introduction to Finite Elements
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Fundamental concepts.
- Matrix algebra and gaussian elimination.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- One-dimensional problems.
- Trusses.
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Two-dimensional problems using constant strain triangles.
- Axisymmetric solids subjected to axisymmetric loading.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Two-dimensional isoparametric elements and numerical integration.
- Beams and frames.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Three-dimensional problems in stress analysis.
- Scalar field problems.
- Dynamic considerations.
- Preprocessing and postprocessing.
Principles of Engineering Mechanics
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Introduction.
- Vectors.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Forces.
- Systems of forces and moments.
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Objects in equilibrium.
- Structures in equilibrium.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Centroids and centers of mass 316.
- Moments of inertia.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Friction.
- Internal forces and moments.
- Virtual work and potential energy.