CET 1100-3 Civil Technology (3 + 0)

Prerequisite: MTH 1110 (may be taken concurrently)

This course is a cross section of topics in contemporary engineering disciplines, with emphasis on the tools of engineering problem solving. It includes discussion of the problem, the influencing factor, the analysis, and the creative design process itself.

CET 1200-3

(MET 1200) Technical Drawing I (1 + 4)

Prerequisite: MET 1200 or CET 1200

This course is mechanical drawing using AutoCAD and manual drafting, and includes orthographics, axiometric and oblique projection, sectioning, dimensioning, and tolerancing. The student is also introduced to fluid power diagrams, piping weldments, and electrical and electronic diagrams. The final project is an assembly drawing of a mechanical component or subsystem.

CET 1210-3

(MET 1210) Technical Drawing II (1 + 4)

Prerequisite: CET 1200

This course is mechanical drawing using AutoCAD and manual drafting, and includes orthographics, axiometric and oblique projection, sectioning, dimensioning, and tolerancing. The student is also introduced to fluid power diagrams, piping weldments, and electrical and electronic diagrams. The final project is an assembly drawing of a mechanical component or subsystem.

CET 2100-4 Structural Drawing (2 + 4)

Prerequisite: CET 1210

This course is designed to prepare the necessary drawings of structural members and connections, including engineering layouts and detail drawings. 

CET 2150-3

(MET 2150) Mechanics I-Statics (3 + 0)

Prerequisite: MTH 1410 (may be taken concurrently)

This course examines principles of statics, studies of vectors, their resolution and composition, forces and moments, force systems and their resultants. It also covers force systems in equilibrium, static friction, centroids, moments of inertia and radii of gyration of areas, shear and moment diagrams.

CET 3100-3 Construction Methods (3 + 0)

Prerequisite: junior standing

This course provides a basic understanding of the methods used by a general contractor to determine earthwork costs. The student is introduced to the application of engineering fundamentals for the analysis of heavy earth-moving equipment, as well as to the basic concepts of CPM. Also taught in this course is a basic understanding of cost estimating of reinforced concrete structures.

CET 3110-3 Construction Estimating (3 + 0)

Prerequisite: junior standing

This course provides a basic understanding of the methods used to prepare a building and/or bridge construction cost estimate. The students learn to do quantity survey utilizing plans and specifications, with emphasis on concrete.

CET 3120-3 Engineering Economy (3 + 0)

Prerequisite: junior standing

This course examines the "time value of money" as a basis for evaluating economic alternatives required in engineering decision-making.

CET 3130-3

(MET 3130) Mechanics of Materials (3 + 0)

Prerequisites: CET 2150 or MET 2150, MTH 2410 (MTH 2410 may be taken concurrently)

Corequisite: CET 3140 or MET 3135

This course introduces the theory of strength of materials; stresses and strains in members subjected to tension, compression, and shear; flexural and shearing stresses beams; deflection of beams; column analysis; principal stresses; and introduction to indeterminate structures.

CET 3140-1

(MET 3135) Mechanics of Materials-Laboratory (0 + 2)

Prerequisites: CET 2150 or MET 2150 and COM 2610

Corequisite: CET 3130 or MET 3130

This course is a laboratory course to accompany the lecture course CET 3130-3, Mechanics of Materials. This laboratory course is structured to give the student experience in the use of laboratory equipment for conducting torsion, shear and bending tests on various materials.

CET 3150-3

(MET 3110) Thermodynamics (3 + 0)

Prerequisites: MTH 1410 and PHY 2010 or PHY 2311

The fundamental laws of thermodynamics are studied. Basic concepts of energy, the thermodynamic system, dimensions and units, and the ideal-gas equation of state are treated. Closed and open systems are studied. Heat engines are introduced. Reversible and irreversible processes are investigated.

CET 3160-3

(MET 3160) Mechanics II-Dynamics (3 + 0)

Prerequisites: CET 2150 or MET 2150, MTH 2410 (MTH 2410 may be taken concurrently)

This course covers the principles of dynamics: kinematics, the study of the geometry of motion of a body without reference to the forces that cause the resulting motion; and kinetics, the study of the relation existing between the forces acting on the body, the mass of the body, and the motion of the body.

CET 3170-3 Introduction to Structural Analysis (3 + 0)

Prerequisite: CET 3130

This course presents first principles of structural analysis applied to statically determinate and indeterminate structures.

CET 3180-3

(MET 3185) Fluid Mechanics I (3 + 0)

Prerequisite: CET 3160 or MET 3160

This course covers physical properties of fluids, hydrostatics, kinematics, energy considerations, momentum, and incompressible flow in pipes. Compressible fluid flow will also be studied.

CET 3190-3 Fluid Mechanics II (3 + 0)

Prerequisite: CET 3180

This course focuses on the study of the hydrologic cycle, rainfall and runoff, water losses, snowmelt, groundwater, unit hydrograph, floods and flood routing, streamflow records, frequency duration, and water resources planning.

CET 3320-3 Environmental Impact Statements (3 + 0)

Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor

This course is a study of the physical and legal requirements of the environmental impact assessment process. Students will learn to do information research and prepare a draft environmental impact statement.

CET 3330-3 Environmental Technology Processes (3 + 0)

Prerequisites: CHE 1100, junior standing

This course covers chemistry basics, acid-base reactions, biochemical processes and reactions. Also included is an overview of water and wastewater process. The course introduces basic laboratory tests and introduces bacteria and microbes in waste treatment processes.

CET 4120-3 Concrete Design I (3 + 0)

Prerequisite: CET 3170

This course is a basic introduction to the fundamental principles of reinforced concrete design.

CET 4130-3 Soils Mechanics (2 + 2)

Prerequisites: CET 3130, CET 3180

This course covers soil properties and soil characteristics, as well as methods of sampling and analysis. Students will analyze variations in behavior under different loading conditions.

CET 4140-3 Concrete Design II (3 + 0)

Prerequisite: CET 4120

This course is a continuation of the fundamentals introduced in Concrete Design I, with an emphasis on the analysis and design of concrete structural members based on the latest editions of the American Concrete Institute Building Code requirements for reinforced concrete.

CET 4150-3 Highway Engineering (3 + 0)

Prerequisite: CET 4120

This course is a specialized course in requirements, functional characteristics, and system characteristics of highway design. Develops design methods, procedures, and analysis for pavement design, roadway alignment, and user information for freeways, city arterials, and rural roadways.

CET 4400-3 Steel Design I (3 + 0)

Prerequisite: CET 3170

This course focuses on the analysis and design of structural steel members, based on the latest edition of AISC design requirements and specifications for structural steel.

CET 4410-3 Steel Design II (3 + 0)

Prerequisite: CET 4400

This course is a continuation of the fundamentals introduced in Steel Design I, with emphasis on the analysis and design of structural steel members, connections, and composite members, based on the latest AISC design requirements and specifications for structural steel.

CET 4450-3 Timber Design (3 + 0)

Prerequisite: CET 3170

This course focuses on the analysis and design of wood structures based on the latest edition of the National Design Specifications for Wood Construction and Supplement.

CET 4570-3 Construction Law (3 + 0)

Prerequisite: CET 3100

This course provides the student with a basic understanding of contract laws and regulations, laws that govern the execution of the work being performed under the contract, laws that relate to the settling of differences and disputes, and licensing laws.