Undergraduate

For students majoring in “Environmental Engineering”, this course deals with basic concepts of environmental research fields, such as air, water, soil, waste and microbiology.

The aim of this course is to comprehensively understand various environmental problems, such as geophysical and chemical phenomena, on the basis of earth and environmental sciences. Human influences such as urbanization, industrialization and the increased use of fossil energy will be studied as major causes of global warming, environmental pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion and the desertification process. Students are encouraged to participate in the class by group or individual presentation of their own research on selected problems.

This core course introduces the oldest interdisciplinary engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the natural and built environment. The topics covered here include structural engineering and materials, geotechnical engineering, hydraulics and hydrology. In addition, engineering mechanics with emphasis on statics will be discussed.

This course is an introduction to the methods and history of urban planning. Students will learn the methods used in various sub-fields of planning and will develop an ability to critically evaluate different techniques and approaches used within these disciplines.

This course provides students with the causes and effects of natural disasters such as typhoon, heavy rainfall, flooding and drought, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunami, landslides. In particular, the physical and dynamical aspects of severe and hazardous disasters are examined. Also, some cases studies will be used to investigate human, economic, and environmental consequences of destructive natural hazards.

This course starts from being interested in crisis of our planet from the climate change and with problems in our society. We understand we have been doing our best to solve the issues in scientific and political ways but those seem to come up with something ineffective. Thus, I suggest we discuss in somewhat different ways, including both science and humanities. I would have subtopic of “Science Walden” that we are performing the project, with the problems of our era, including climate chang, inequality, and many others.

The goal of this course is to study basic knowledge of chemistry to identify natural phenomena in air, water and soil systems and to develop students’ ability to apply this knowledge for the remediation of the environment contaminated by toxic chemical compounds.

The reasons for water pollution and the characteristics of water pollutants will be studied. On the basis of this knowledge, the analytical methods for various water pollutants and removal mechanisms will be discussed.

The environmental colloids Science includes both science and mathematics of colloids in environmental engineering. Colloids range in size from macromolecules to colloidal particles. Colloids move in different patterns, such as diffusion and convection, thus, we try to reveal the colloidal behaviors with both physico-chemical scientific and mathematical ways. Through the course, we are expected to understand those behaviors of various colloids with respect to control ot colloids.

The physico-chemical characteristic of air pollutants, long-range transport, hazardous effects and emission reduction will be studied.

This course is an introduction to the dynamics and phenomenology of Earth’’s atmosphere and ocean circulations. Special emphasis is placed in understanding how energy and momentum transports are effected in the atmosphere and oceans, and how they influence Earth’’s climate.

This course provides students theory and principle of atmospheric radiation, relating to the absorption, reflection, and scattering by the atmospheric compositions. It provides the basic theory of radiative transfer in the atmosphere. In addition, the application of radiative transfer theory will be introduced to the remote sensing observation and climate change studies.

The aim of this course is to understand the chemical composition and fate of gases and particulate matters in the atmosphere. This course focuses on various environmental issues such as acid rain, photochemical reactions, ozone depletion, and air pollutants associated with climate change.

This course introduces a branch of engineering mechanics that focuses on the internal effects of stress and strain in a solid body subjected to external loads. It covers critical fundamentals for the strengths of materials and the deformations of solid bodies, which include stress and strain; mechanical properties of materials; various external actions such as axial load, torsion, bending, and shear; stress and strain transformations; and stability problems for axially loaded members.

This course covers fundamental theoretical knowledge relevant to the development and use of geographic information systems, including data models, spatial representation, and cartographic principles. The course will expose students to a wide-spread GIS software and will provide hands-on practice in database development, data retrieval, and analysis.

This course will provide comprehensive coverage of water treatment facility design emphasizing coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, disinfection, redox reactions and adsorption.

This course discusses the potential of (waste) biomass as a renewable source of energy and commodity chemicals for a sustainable future and introduces the principles and applications of different biomass conversion technologies.

This course covers basic principles and laboratory techniques for the analysis of fresh water, contaminated waters and waste waters, with an emphasis on instrumental techniques.

This course delivers the basic knowledge on environmental data analysis and provides some practices using MATLAB. This course begins with basic MATLAB techniques to visualize statistical results, including very basic elements of environmental statistics. I welcome anyone who is interested in environmental data analysis.

In this course, the principle of instrumental analysis for various pollutants from different environmental media will be studied. Furthermore, experimental skills for the analysis of pollutants will be obtained.

This course provides a qualitative and quantitative introduction to the fundamentals of acquiring, analyzing and utilizing remote sensing data in the performance of environmental monitoring and natural resource inventories. This course introduces key applications of remote sensing as well as basic digital image processing techniques (e.g. image enhancement, image classification). The students will use the state-of-the-art software and hardware to examine satellite and airborne remote sensing data.

Atmospheric dynamics is the study of large-scale atmospheric motions associated with weather and climate. Atmospheric dynamics is the study of large-scale atmospheric motions associated with weather and climate. A basic assumption for describing such motions is to regard the atmosphere as a continuous fluid medium and apply the fundamental conservation laws of mass, momentum, and thermodynamic energy, which are expressed in terms of partial differential equations over space and time. Solving those differential equations with some systematic simplifications based on observations, the students will obtain physical insights to the role of atmospheric motions in determining the observed weather and climate. The class will cover in depth the Chapters 1-6 of An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology written by James R. Holton. The presented topics include fundamental and apparent forces, basic conservation laws, circulation and vorticity, atmospheric motion in the presence of friction, and the quasi-geostrophic analysis of large-scale atmospheric motion.

This course offers the basic understanding of thermodynamics relating to environmental and atmospheric fields and covers the fundamental laws of thermodynamics, properties of fluids, heat effects, and phase equilibrium.

This cThis course is intended to provide students with the theory and application of modern structural analysis as it applies to trusses, beams, and frames. Particular emphasis is placed on developing the students’ intuition to understand how structures react with applied loadings and the abilities to model and analyze civil and architectural structures.

This course is designed to provides students with fundamental concepts in the methods of matrix structural analysis used in current practice. This covers the formation of global analysis equations, member force-deformation relations, virtual work principles, and introduction to nonlinear analysis.

This course discusses the material properties, strength, behavior, and design of reinforced and prestressed concrete members subjected to moment, shear, axial, and torsional forces, and also introduces domestic and international design code provisions applying to concrete structures.

Concrete is one of the most important building materials. In lectures and labs, the students will learn concrete mixture proportioning and the mechanical behavior of concrete including strength, cracking, creep and shrinkage.

This course provides a general introduction to the mechanical properties of soils and geotechnical engineering. Soil properties, identification/ classification, groundwater within soils, and soil’s behavior under applied stress are emphasized. Geotechnical design applications such as earthworks, slope stability, and foundations are also discussed.

The course aims to develop an integrated diagnosis platform for enhancing the safety and assessing the health state of civil infrastructure. Relevant principles of mechanics of materials, structural dynamics, finite element method (FEM), and chemistry in concrete will be covered. Integrated with the principal methods used for non-destructive evaluation (NDE) and structural health monitoring (SHM) of structural components, data acquisition, early-stage damage evaluation, digital signal processing, life-cycles assessment will be addressed. Laboratory demonstrations will be given on each topic. The topic is extremely relevant to solving the current issues in civil engineering, particularly maintaining in-service structures in a smart way and to understanding the aspects of future urban infrastructure. It will also help students broaden their horizons in civil engineering.

This course discusses fundamental characteristics of the urban transportation system as a component of urban structure, methodologies for the analysis of transportation problems, planning urban transportation, and the transportation planning process.

This course introduces fundamental concepts and theories applied to local economic development including growth, trade, product-cycle, flexible specialization, and entrepreneurship theories.

The aim of this course is to identify and model non-deterministic engineering problems using probability theories. This course focuses on the introduction of stochastic concepts and simulation models, and their applications to real decision-making problems in various engineering disciplines including civil engineering.

The goal of the course is to provide understanding of the general principles of management and their specific applications in the field of disaster management. The objective is to identify and examine the essential and fundamental elements of disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery within an inclusive management policy framework.

This course introduces the basics concept of numerical modeling and provides students with numerical methods. In addition, students have experience of numerical modeling and analysis in MATLAB.

This course covers fundamental hydraulics related with pipe flows and the design of water and wastewater systems by estimating demand capacity and the optimal operations of the systems.

This course examines biological wastewater processes used to remove organic materials and nutrients from various wastewater. Sorption of pollutants using microorganisms and plants, aerobic and anaerobic degradation of organic contaminants, sludge treatment and the production of biofuels will be studied.

This course provides the principles and fundamental theories related to the mechanical properties of liquids based on fluid mechanics. It focuses on various engineering applications of fluids and their properties.

This course delivers the basic principles on chemical and biological water treatments with its modeling practices. In this class, we will be using the modeling software (Comsol Multiphysics) to simulate water flow and the fate and transport of pollutants in a water treatment facility.

The goals of this course are to provide a working knowledge of the basic methods of objective analysis of meteorological, oceanographic, and related data. The topics concentrate on techniques for extracting information from data directly, such as compositing, time series analysis, singular value decomposition, principal component analysis, and filtering. Both theories and application skills via a computer program such as Matlab, Fortran, Grads will be covered.

This course covers diverse topics on the causes, effects, and mitigation methods of global warming. For this purpose, we will focus on recent technologies for carbon dioxide capture and storage, clean use of fossil fuels, and new and renewable energies.

The purpose of the course is to present geographical, temporal, environmental modeling concepts using GIS-based modeling languages and techniques. Practical laboratory experience with state-of-the-art software and hardware will be used. At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to make informed decisions about the transformation of conceptual models to mathematical models using GIS components. This course includes various modeling concepts and techniques such as spatial interpolation, suitability/capability modeling, terrain form modeling, hydrologic modeling, diffusion modeling, calibration modeling, accessibility modeling, optimization modeling, and rainfall-runoff modeling.

Earth and Environmental Sciences often deal with huge data collected from observations and model simulations. A careful application of statistical methods to the data leads to comprehensive descriptions of geophysical phenomena or processes, validations of existing theories, and new findings of nature. This course is aimed for junior and senior students who completed the basics of statistics. The course will review the basics of statistics first, and cover the various statistical methods frequently used in the modern research, such as the regression, time series analysis, and the principal component analysis.

This course introduces the design of steel structures and the behavior of steel members and their connections, when subjected to axial load, bending, shear, torsion, and combined loads. Theoretical, experimental, and practical principles for proportioning members (e.g., beams, girders, columns) and their connections (bolted, welded) are discussed. Emphasis is given to the design of plate girders, composite beams, slender columns, and eccentric shear connections.

This introductory course is designed to provide students with fundamental concepts in structural dynamics and its application to civil engineering. The students gain a basic understanding of vibration characteristics of single and multi degree-of-freedom systems. This course includes hands-on experiments for students to better understand theories of structural dynamics in physical systems.

The selection of proper construction materials is essential to build sustainable and resilient infrastructures. This course is designed to provide integrated knowledge of the properties of construction materials with emphasis on two major construction materials (i.e., steel and concrete) covering from elastic, plastic and fracture properties to porosity and thermal and environmental responses.

This course presents analysis, design, and constructive aspects of shallow and deep foundations for complex or unusual soil conditions, and earth retaining structures including retaining walls, and sheet pile bulkheads. The main objective of this course is to enable students to select the best foundation solution for different types of civil engineering problems. After completing the course, students are able to design deep and shallow foundations.

Introduction of fundamental urban design theory and practice will be offered in this course. Students are expected to critically look at built environment and how architecture defines and delimits physical space, and to study local and historical examples of urban design.

This course deals with the basic principle of remote sensing and its applications for environmental science and engineering. Among remote sensing methods, satellite remote sensing will be focused.

All UEE students must conduct research on a topic related to urban and environmental engineering, and submit a thesis under the supervision of advisors as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Urban and Environmental Engineering.

This course introduces new research topics in Urban and Environmental Engineering

This course introduces new research topics in Urban and Environmental Engineering

This course introduces new research topics in Urban and Environmental Engineering

This course introduces new research topics in Urban and Environmental Engineering

This course introduces new research topics in Urban and Environmental Engineering