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UnderGraduate Certificate in Civil Engineering

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Undergraduate Certificate

Courses Offered in CIVIL ENGINEERING

The following courses are available for your Associate's degree. Each course provides you a unique educational experience. Each course is developed by an international staff of highly skilled instructors. The course material is updated to provide students with the latest current information in the subject.

Specialized Course

  • Course Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Structure Basics

  • This course introduces you to the basic engineering and architectural techniques for analyzing the most common structural elements, including beams, trusses, frames, cables, and arches.

  • 6 Credits

  • Fundamentals of Transportation Engineering

  • This course provides a strong emphasis of the relationship between the phases of a transportation project. The volume familiarizes you with the standard terminology and resources, involved in transportation engineering, provides realistic scenarios for you to analyze and offers numerous examples designed to develop problem solving skills.

  • 6 Credits

  • Construction Planning

  • Offering broad coverage of all major scheduling subjects, this course is a comprehensive resource designed for construction management, planning and scheduling. It follows a logical progression, introducing precedence diagramming early and following with chapters on activity durations, resource allocations, network schedules and more.

  • 6 Credits

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
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