The University of
Central Florida offers a 5-year undergraduate program in Civil and Environmental
Engineering. The courses of the university's 5 year program deal primarily with the
following topics: Structures: Students will learn about the function of the steel structure. They will also learn about the utilities used within the structure in a variety of environments through some of the following courses: Structure Analysis, Steel Structures, Reinforcement of Concrete Structures, Boundary Element Civil Engineering, Dynamics of Structure, Advanced Structure Mechanism, Composite Steel/Concrete Structures. Geo-technical: The basis of geo-technics, design of structure foundations, soil dynamics, groundwater seepage and hydrology will be studied in this program. The discipline includes some of the listed courses: Geo-technical Design, Geo-Environmental Engineering, Solid Dynamics, Foundation Engineering, Engineering/Environmental Geology. Water Resources: This area emphasizes topics such as surface and groundwater (open channels) systems, closed conduits, modeling, storm water management, hydraulic designs, hydrologic characterization, and reservoir construction. The courses covering these curriculum are: Engineering Fluid Mechanism, Hydrology, Hydraulics, Water Resource Design, Hydraulic Engineering, Water Resource Engineering, Open Channel Hydraulics, River Engineering/Sediment Transport, and Modern Water Resource Systems. Transportation : This discipline covers areas such as planning, design, and operation of transportation facilities. It also covers traffic incident management, traffic safety, advanced traveler information systems, and efficiency of electronic toll collection systems. The topics, listed above, are taught in courses such as: Transport Engineering, Traffic Engineering, Traffic Safety, Traffic Operations, Mass Transport System, Mass Transport Systems. Air: In this area of air pollution control, atmospheric dispersion modeling and air quality modeling are taught to undergraduate students. The following courses include these topics: Air Pollution, Air Pollution Control Design and Atmospheric Dispersion Model. Potable Water: Students study water treatment plant design with a focus on the Safe Drinking Water Act, which emphasizes the need to remove contaminants, and the benefits in terms of cost and performance. The courses include biological as well as chemical processes occurring within the plant: Potable Water Treatment, Wastewater Treatment Process, Drinking Water Treatment, Phys./Chem. Treatment Systems, Biological Treatment System-Environment, Automatic Chemical Process. Solid Waste: The curriculum covers the behavior of municipal solid waste management, the design facilities, regulation and management of hazardous waste, the transport of subsurface contaminant and incineration hazardous waste. Some appropriate courses are: Solid Waste Design/Management, Environmental Process Design, Environmental Engineering Systems Design, Hazardous Waste Management, Sludge Management Operations, Physical/Chemical Treatment Systems, Membrane Mass Transformation, Industrious Waste Treatment. Wastewater : This course of studies emphasizes operations and biological processes occurring in the municipal and industrial wastewater management plant. Physical and chemical methods eliminating toxicity, strategies in wastewater management through water conservation, by-product recovery, material substitution, recycling, reuse and other product modifications are also discussed in some offered courses: Wastewater Treatment Process, Chemical Process Control, Biological Process Control, Sludge Management Operations. |
