Apr 29, 2024  
2016-2017 Graduate Catalog 
    
2016-2017 Graduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses


 

Civil and Environmental Engineering

  
  • CIVE 6338 - Advanced Steel Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 4364.

    Plastic analysis of indeterminate structures; design of beams, columns, and beam-columns using the Load and Resistance Factor Design (LFRD) method.
  
  • CIVE 6341 - Bridge Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 4363 or equivalent and CIVE 4364 or equivalent and consent of instructor.

    History, aesthetics, and classification of highway bridges. Bridge loads and load combinations. Design of deck slabs, concrete and steel girders.
  
  • CIVE 6349 - Structural Reliability

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: CIVE 6349 - Reliability and Safety of Structures
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

    Review of probability theory; mathematical background of reliability theory; component and system structural reliability; reliability under model and statistical uncertainties; simulation methods and uncertainty quantification; applications.
  
  • CIVE 6350 - Adv Mechs of Matls

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 2332 and MATH 3331.

    Stress and strain at a point; failure criteria; energy principles and their application in structural mechanics; theories of torsion, unsymmetrical bending, shear center, curved beams, and beams on elastic foundation.
  
  • CIVE 6353 - Beh-Dsn Prestress Concr

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 4363 and consent of instructor.

    Prestressing systems and materials; loss of prestress; analysis and design for flexure, shear, and bond; anchorage zone; continuous beams; columns.
  
  • CIVE 6355 - Intro-Dynamics of Struc

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CIVE 6361 - Engineering Hydrology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in civil or environmental engineering.

    Distribution and flow of water in the hydrosphere. Engineering methods to quantify and model rainfall, runoff, recharge, and groundwater flow. Conceptual models and application of computer methods for hydrological analysis and design problems.
  
  • CIVE 6362 - Water Quality Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 3331 and 3434 or permission of instructor.

    Environmental chemistry and biology applications and implications to engineered and natural waters.  Emphasis on physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of water and analytical methods for water quality management.
  
  • CIVE 6363 - Eval-Watr Qual-Nat Watr

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Water quality management planning for rivers, lakes, and tidal estuaries; mixing and diffusion phenomena; biologic productivity; mineral, chemical, and oxygen utilization and equilibria; photosynthetic light transfer and sediment transport.
  
  • CIVE 6364 - Project Control for Constructn

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in civil engineering.

    Cost estimating fundamentals; cost control systems in construction; profitability analysis; management of construction equipment fleet; international and location factors; Lang factors and application; single and multi-project scheduling; safety and security issues related to construction; optimum scheduling; developing and budgeting a cohesive construction program.
  
  • CIVE 6365 - Claims Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in civil engineering.

    Definition and situation leading to claims; relationships among parties in construction projects; settlement of claims by alternate dispute resolution; court procedures to establish causes and determine damages; arbitration and litigation; mediation and negotiation; liens; international arbitration; case studies.
  
  • CIVE 6366 - Constructn Project Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in civil engineering.

    Construction site organization-facilities design and control; fundamentals of planning and scheduling information for construction projects; control of activity sequence, time, resources and cost; the impact of quality, cost, schedule and productivity; coordination among stakeholders; international and large scale construction projects; construction interface; case studies in construction engineering.
  
  • CIVE 6368 - Hr Management in Construction

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in civil engineering.

    Decision making in construction industry; relationship between controls and behavior; construction productivity; corporate identity and reputation management; communication in construction engineering; client relationship marketing; span of control and liaison; reward policies, motivation and commitment; conflict management; job design, specialization and decentralization in construction engineering; managing international cultural differences.
  
  • CIVE 6370 - Environmental Fluid Mechanics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 3434 (or equivalent) and consent of instructor.

    Mechanics of fluid motion in natural systems such as rivers, estuaries, and turbidity currents; transport of scalar quantities in these settings.
  
  • CIVE 6371 - River Mechanics and Sediment Transport

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

    Physical processes related to the dynamic feedback between flowing water and movable sediment in riverine and estuarine systems.
  
  • CIVE 6372 - Hydrodynamics of Offshore Structures

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

    Analysis of motion of surface waves, including linear, nonlinear, and random waves; wave transformation; wave forces; wave­ structure interaction; rigid body dynamics; wave-induced motions of floating bodies and compliant structures.
  
  • CIVE 6376 - Physical Geodesy

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

    This course provides a solid foundation for students pursuing studies in the Geosensing Systems Engineering program. Physical geodesy, concerned with determining the physical shape of the Earth, interacts with many other disciplines. A fundamental understanding of this core component is necessary for graduate studies of advanced Geosensing techniques.
  
  • CIVE 6377 - Environmental Chem

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: CHEM 1331, CHEM 1332, CHEM 1111, and CHEM 1112; and graduate standing in civil engineering or graduate standing in environmental engineering.

    Aqueous environmental chemistry in natural waters and wastewaters: ionic equilibria, solubility, hardness, alkalinity, buffering, and the carbonate system; theory and practice of quantitative water and wastewater analysis.
  
  • CIVE 6378 - Principles Enviromntl Modeling

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Introduction to momentum mass conservation and chemical transformations in natural and engineered systems. Applications to reactor engineering and environmental systems modeling with emphasis on water and wastewater systems.
  
  • CIVE 6379 - Stochastic Hydrology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 4332 and INDE 6361 .

    Advanced hydrology oriented toward probabilistic computer applications of rainfall and runoff, including Stanford Watershed Model, single-multiple site streamflow generation, stochastic reservoir analyses.
  
  • CIVE 6380 - Introduction to Geomatics/Geosensing

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

    Introduction to horizontal and vertical curves computation; Fundamentals of geodesy, geodetic reference systems and map projection; introduction to Global Positioning System (GPS); principles of LiDAR technology; digital imaging and mapping.
  
  • CIVE 6381 - Biol Proc Wstwtr Trtmnt

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Prerequisite or corequisite: CIVE 6391 or CHEE 6360 .

    Theory and practice of biological wastewater treatment including aerobic and anaerobic processes in suspended and attached growth reactors, treatment models, advanced treatment, sludge handling, and treatment plant design.
  
  • CIVE 6382 - Lidar Systems and Applications

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

    Principles of LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging).  Spaceborne LiDAR, airborne topographic, bathymetric, mobile terrestrial and static LiDAR systems.  Full Waveform LiDAR. Boresight calibration.  Filtering and Classification.  Multi-Sensor Fusion.
  
  • CIVE 6383 - Adv Desgn Water Res Sys

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Conventional and computer solutions to the economical planning and design of single- and multiunit, multipurpose water resources systems.
  
  • CIVE 6384 - Satellite Altimetry and INSAR

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: CIVE 6384 - Satellite Altimetry and InSAR
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

    Radar measurement principles. Range estimation and corrections. Precise orbit determination. Applications in geodynamics, ocean and ice surface monitoring, and hydrology. Formation of SAR images. Procedures of InSAR.
  
  • CIVE 6385 - Stability of Structures

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MATH 3363 and CIVE 4364.

    Elastic and inelastic buckling of columns, beams, frames, and plates; classical and work-energy methods; background of AISC specifications.
  
  • CIVE 6386 - Survey Measurements and Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

    Introduction to matrices; non-linear equations and Taylor’s theorem; random vs. systematic errors; propagation of errors; weights; principle of least squares, adjustment of a 1D, 2D, and 3D network; error ellipses; optimization.
  
  • CIVE 6387 - Physicochemical Treatment Processes

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 6377 and , or consent of instructor.

    Theory and practice of physicochemical processes for water and wastewater treatment: reactors, membrane processes, adsorption, and disinfection.
  
  • CIVE 6388 - Hazardous Waste Processes

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: 6361 or equivalent preferred and CIVE 6387 .

    Physical and chemical principles of solid and hazardous waste treatment processes; mass conservation equations, transport phenomena, phase equilibria, fluid flow in porous media with applications to soil vapor extraction, soil vapor extraction, soil leaching/flushing, stabilization, and bioremediation processes.
  
  • CIVE 6390 - Municipal Drinking Water Treatment

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 6377 and  , or consent of instructor.

    Theory and design of unit processes used in conventional drinking water treatment:  coagulation, rapid mix, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, and disinfection.  Source water control and regulatory issues are also studied.
  
  • CIVE 6391 - Envrn Engr Microbiology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in environmental engineering.

    Fundamental aspects of microbiology and biochemistry as related to environmental pollution and water quality processes, engineering energetics and kinetics of microbial growth, and biological fate of pollutants.
  
  • CIVE 6392 - Mass Transfer in Environmental Systems

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and/or consent of instructor.

    Principles of mass transfer; mass conservation equations, diffusivities, mass transfer coefficients, mass transfer with chemical reaction with applications to multi-phase chemical transport, water and wastewater treatment, and soil remediation.
  
  • CIVE 6393 - Geostatistics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

    Characterization of spatial and spatiotemporal datasets.  Random variables, probability and statistics, parameter estimation, inferential statistics, time series analysis and kriging.
  
  • CIVE 6396 - Master’s Research Project

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: None

    Enables students that are non-thesis to work with faculty on a project. The student will write a paper/report.
  
  • CIVE 6398 - Msce Research Project

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CIVE 6399 - Masters Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CIVE 6498 - Research

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CIVE 6598 - Research

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CIVE 7332 - Groundwater Contam Transport

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 6361 or equivalent and graduate standing in civil engineering, environmental engineering or consent of instructor.

    Principles of contaminant transport in soils and aquifers. Mathematical modeling of underground contaminant transport. Numerical modeling using existing and student developed computer software.
  
  • CIVE 7336 - Finite Element Mthds

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 6377 or consent of instructor.

    Elasticity and energy principles; shape functions; isoparametric elements; nonconforming elements; plate elements; hybrid formulation.
  
  • CIVE 7337 - Advanced Environmental Engineering Microbiology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: CIVE 6391 .

    Theory and practice of key biotechnological techniques for environmental research, including PCR-based techniques for the identification of mixed microbial communities, microbial abundance, and gene expression.
  
  • CIVE 7338 - Dynamics of Structures

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CIVE 7340 - Earthquake Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 6355 or consent of instructor.

    Characteristics of earthquake waves and ground motion; review of structural dynamics; building responses; inelastic spectrum; foundation effect; various support motions; hazard analysis; design procedure and seismic codes.
  
  • CIVE 7342 - Engineer Geographic Info. Syst

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in civil or environmental engineering or graduate standing in geosciences or consent of instructor.

    Use of GIS in Engineering applications including hydrology, hydrogeology, water quality and environmental resources.
  
  • CIVE 7352 - Unified Theory of Concrete Structures

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 4363 or equivalent and/or consent of instructor.

    Unified theory applicable to the four basic actions in members and structures: bending, axial load, shear and torsion, rational models based on stress equilibrium, strain compatibility and constitutive laws of materials.
  
  • CIVE 7365 - Design of Offshore Structures

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 7364.

    Design of fixed, floating and compliant offshore structures; environmental loading; dynamic analysis; finite element applications; design of structural systems and components; fatigue analysis; safety and reliability analysis.
  
  • CIVE 7380 - GNSS/INS, Augmented Systems for Positioning and Navigation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

    Modeling INS errors by linear state equations. Multisensor integration of NGSS, INS and alternative aiding sensors. Practical aspects of inertial positioning and inertial error models. Navigation system fault detection and integrity monitoring.
  
  • CIVE 7397 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • CIVE 7399 - Masters Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CIVE 8198 - Doctoral Research

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CIVE 8298 - Doctoral Research

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CIVE 8311 - Organized Grad Res Discussions

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: doctoral standing.

    Group research discussions with the intent of broadening the education and background of the student by exposure to the related research activities in his/her field.
  
  • CIVE 8398 - Doctoral Research

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CIVE 8399 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CIVE 8498 - Doctoral Research

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CIVE 8598 - Doctoral Research

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CIVE 8699 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CIVE 8999 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 9.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0

Construction Management

  
  • CNST 6100 - Construction Management Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: None.

    This course covers areas of interests in construction management. Students are introduced to research methods and fields available in the MS program.
  
  • CNST 6199 - Thesis

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CNST 6305 - Construction Management Principles

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Principles common to construction management processes. Basic techniques for project control skills.
  
  • CNST 6306 - Construction Safety

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    A study of hazards, applicable regulations, and safe work procedures relating to construction activities.
  
  • CNST 6307 - Statistical and Optimization Methods in Construction Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Fundamental concepts and methods of statistics course that introduces the methods of optimization and covers formulating basic models using linear programming, dynamic programming, and genetic algorithms for decision problems.
  
  • CNST 6308 - Data Analysis in Construction Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Application of computational models in management science. Models include both statistics and optimization approaches using a variety of computer languages.
  
  • CNST 6310 - Construction Contract Administration

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Issues of administering construction contracts including: purpose of contract documents, legal hierarchy, interrelationships, liabilities, communications challenges, establishing chain of commands, warranties, and progress/final payments.
  
  • CNST 6320 - Cost Analysis and Bidding

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Preparation of parametric and definitive estimates, cost forecasts and variances, bid analysis, and use of estimating software.
  
  • CNST 6330 - Project Planning & Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Planning and scheduling techniques, including: bar charts, CPM network, resource loading and leveling, cost and schedule integration, time-cost tradeoff, schedule reduction, probabilistic scheduling, PERT and Monte-Carlo simulation.
  
  • CNST 6335 - Introduction to the Oil and Gas Industry

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    A comprehensive overview of the oil and gas industry, including production process and upstream, midstream, and downstream facilities.
  
  • CNST 6340 - Best Practices in Construction

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Current issues in the construction industry, including best practices developed at the Construction Industry Institute (CII) and critical issues facing the construction industry.
  
  • CNST 6350 - Decision Making and Risk Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Decision making, risk analysis, quantitative analysis applicable to construction projects.
  
  • CNST 6355 - Quality Assurance in Industrial Construction

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Concepts and structure of quality assurance, quality management systems, and statistical methods used in industrial construction projects.
  
  • CNST 6360 - Computer Applications in Construction Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Applications of software and Information Technology in the planning, organization, and control of construction projects.
  
  • CNST 6365 - Quality Control in Industrial Construction

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Concepts and applications of various quality control methods, design codes, and specifications used in industrial construction.
  
  • CNST 6370 - Quality Management & Six Sigma in Const Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Concepts, standards, and tools of quality management with emphasis on the Six Sigma methodology for construction projects.
  
  • CNST 6380 - Leed & Green Construction Principles in Const Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Green construction methods and benefits in applying the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) principles.
  
  • CNST 6390 - Leadership for Construction Managers

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Leadership theories and styles, motivation and management of a diverse construction workforce, and ability to succeed in a global/international market.
  
  • CNST 6395 - Construction Management Internship

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: At least 12 hours in the MS/CM program and prior written approval of the graduate faculty advisor.

    Work experience directly involved in Construction Management.
  
  • CNST 6396 - Master’s Project

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Master’s project.
    May be repeated for six semester hour credits.

  
  • CNST 6397 - Selected Topics in Construction Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and approval of department chair.

    May be repeated with approval of the department chair.

  
  • CNST 6398 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CNST 6399 - Thesis Research

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0

Communication Sciences and Disorders

  
  • COMD 6198 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of director.

    A course designed for graduate students who wish to pursue special studies for which a course is not organized.
  
  • COMD 6230 - Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Communication Sciences and Disorders or consent of the instructor.

    Study of the identifying characteristics, etiologies, prevalence, assessment, and treatment of individuals with autism spectrum disorders.
  
  • COMD 6240 - Augmentative and Alternative Communication

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Communication Sciences and Disorders and consent of the instructor.

    Overview of augmentative and alternate communication (AAC) with specific focus on access methods, message representation, and practical application for individuals with a variety of communication disorders.
  
  • COMD 6261 - Research Methods in COMD

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: COMD 6361 - Research Methodology Speech Pathology and Audiology.
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Communication Sciences and Disorders (COMD) or consent of the instructor.

    Overview of research methods in communication disorders.  Students learn critical thinking skills needed to develop questions and be effective consumers of research.
  
  • COMD 6298 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of director.

    A course designed for graduate students who wish to pursue special studies for which a course is not organized.
  
  • COMD 6321 - Swallowing Disorders

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMD 2376 and graduate standing in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

    Evaluation and management of swallowing disorders.
  
  • COMD 6325 - Professional Issues in Literacy for Speech Language Pathologists

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    This course is an in-depth analysis of the disorders of language that affect the development and maintenance of literacy across the lifespan.
  
  • COMD 6326 - Motor Speech Disorders

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

    Assessment and management of motor speech disorders in adults, including apraxia of speech and degenerative neurological disorders; physiological systems contributing to reduced intelligibility; and differential diagnosis of the dysarthrias.
  
  • COMD 6328 - Acquired Cognitive Disorders

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

    Study of the etiologies, prevention, assessment and treatment of acquired cognitive disorders such as those due to traumatic brain injury, right hemisphere stroke, aging and dementia.
  
  • COMD 6334 - Aphasia & Related Com Disorder

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

    Symptomatology, diagnosis and treatment of acquired neurogenic communication disorders including aphasia, alexia, agraphia and agnosia.
  
  • COMD 6372 - Remediation of Lang Dis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMD 3383 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.

    Principles, methods, and procedures in the assessment and treatment of school-age children with delayed language-based learning disabilities.
  
  • COMD 6387 - Voice Disorders

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMD 2376 and COMD 4385 or equivalents, or consent of instructor.

    Evaluation and management of vocal disorders including etiology, assessment, and treatment strategies.
  
  • COMD 6397 - Sel Topics in Comd

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    In-depth study of a specific area.
    May be repeated for credit with permission of program head.

  
  • COMD 6398 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of director.

    A course designed for graduate students who wish to pursue special studies for which a course is not organized.
  
  • COMD 6399 - Masters Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing. Master’s Thesis.

    May be repeated for credit.

  
  • COMD 6489 - Clinical Procedures

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in COMD and consent from the instructor.

    Capstone course for COMD, practical application of clinical skills, guided clinical observation of certified speech language pathologists and/or audiologists.
  
  • COMD 7170 - Graduate Seminar in Speech-Language Pathology

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Communication Sciences and Disorders and consent of instructor.

    Seminar will cover issues that impact the practice of speech-language pathology. Sample topics include cultural competence, use of technology, and use of interpreters and translators.
    Course may be repeated for credit.

  
  • COMD 7192 - Advanced Practicum in Speech & Language Disorders

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: completion of 175 hours of graduate practicum & consent of instructor.

    Supervised practicum in the diagnosis and treatment of speech-language disorders in an off-campus setting. Clinical clock hours are not awarded for grades below a “B”.
    May be repeated (two terms required for completion of the program requirement).

  
  • COMD 7199 - Thesis

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
 

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