Changes in CE 571 Course Schedule

                                                                                 Engineering Faculty Document No. 25-05

                                                                                                                   February 24, 2006

TO:                 The Faculty of the College of Engineering

FROM:           The Faculty of the School of Civil Engineering

RE:                 Changes in CE 571 Course Schedule

From:              CE 571 – Earthquake Engineering

Sem. 1, Class 3, Cr. 3

Prerequisite: CE 573.   Authorized equivalent courses or consent of instructor may be used in satisfying course prerequisites.

The objectives of the course are to: (1) expose the fundamentals of structural design in earthquake regions; (2) explain the functions of linear, nonlinear, and limit analyses with respect to design; (3) describe the complex relationships between ground motion models and structural response models in the linear and nonlinear response ranges; and (4) provide the students perspectives about the behavior of building structures in the earthquake environment.

To:                  CE 571 – Earthquake Engineering

Sem. 2, Class 3, Cr. 3.

No changes to prerequisite or description

Reason:          To provide an updated course offering schedule.