Courses

Biological Wastewater Treatment

Students will learn principles of biological wastewater treatment, nutrient removal and resource recovery in wastewater, and modern biotechnologies for wastewater treatment.

Data Science for Smart Cities

The availability of low cost and ubiquitous sensors in city infrastructure provides high granular data at unprecedented spatio-temporal scales. Smart Cities envision to utilize this data to provide a resilient and sustainable urban ecosystem by integrating the information and communication technology (ICT), Internet of things (IoT) and citizen participation to effectively manage and utilize city's infrastructure and services. Data Science provides fast and efficient ways to analyze heterogeneous data to understand the current dynamics of cities and ways to improve different services. This course will introduce scientific techniques that will allow the analysis, inference and prediction of large scale temporal data (e.g. GPS vehicular data, social media data, mobile phone data, individual social network data etc.) that are present in city networks. A special focus will be on data driven methods for problems that have a network structure. The course will focus both on the methods and their application to smart-city problems. Python will be used to demonstrate the application of each method on real world datasets available to the instructor. Examples of problems that will be discussed in class include: ridesharing platforms, smart and energy efficient buildings, evacuation modeling, decision making during extreme events & urban resilience.

Design of Urban Water Infrastructure

Geographic Information Systems

The course will cover a broad spectrum of theories and practices in geographic information systems. It starts with the fundamental concepts and elements in geographic science and technology. Data modeling and integration methods will then be discussed, followed by various geospatial analysis approaches for both vector and raster data. The course will highlight terrain, watershed, viewshed, site selection and network analyses. Both 2-D and 3-D mapping and visualization will be practiced. Finally, geographic database design will be elaborated with emphasis on various applications.

Geospatial Data Analytics

Global Sustainable Engineering

Economic globalization is often mentioned as both an important opportunity and threat to business and industry today. However, knowledge and understanding about additional intrinsically linked phenomena is required to fully capitalize on the opportunities of globalization. The world's human population is expected to reach approximately 10 billion people by the year 2050. Concurrent with population growth and globalization the world is undergoing urbanization at an unprecedented rate. In 1900 only 10% of the less than 2 billion people lived in cities, whereas by 2050 projections suggest that 80% of 10 billion people will live in cities. Urbanization and globalization provide the greatest opportunity to improve the quality of life of more people, achieve the best value for investment in infrastructure, attenuate over consumption of resources and to produce the most efficient and sustainable public service systems. Moreover, fossil energy supply challenges, ecological degradation and rapid economic development in Asia require a paradigm shift to a new "sustainable" economic outlook. This course will provide a unique perspective for considering individual or institutional strategic plans with a triple bottom line approach.

Smart Logistics

Network Models for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV)

Plastics in Infrastructure and the Environment

Smart Building Systems Modeling

UAS Based LiDAR Mapping

This 1-credit module covers the principles and mathematical details of laser scanning-based 3D reconstruction using ranging sensors onboard UAVs

UAS Based Mapping: Basic Principles

This 1-credit module covers the fundamentals of UAS-based mapping form imaging and ranging systems - Including system integration, calibration strategies, and 3D reconstruction techniques.

UAS Based Photogrammetric Mapping

This 1-credit module covers the principles and mathematical details of photogrammetric 3D reconstruction from imaging systems onboard UAVs.

Water Chemistry for Environmental and Ecological Engineering

Advanced Concrete and Aggregates

This course will cover the physico-chemical and engineering properties of concrete at an advanced level by examining the influence of constituent materials (cements, aggregates and admixtures) on the properties and behavior of fresh and hardened concrete under various types of physical and chemical environments

Accounting and Finance for Managing Construction

Construction Productivity

The construction industry is one of the largest industries; it is vital to the economics and growth of a nation. However, productivity increases have lagged other industries. In this course you will learn the importance of increases in productivity to the profitability of the construction firm as well as the value of the project to the project owner. You will learn methods of improving job site productivity via quantitative methods as well as risk or variation analysis, benchmarking, productivity defect reduction, resource utilization methods, as well proven personnel management non-quantitative methods. The course entails an all-encompassing approach to the measurement and improvement of job site productivity. Application of productivity measurement and quantification for construction change order and disputes are included. New technology applications to include AI, data management, and virtual reality are included via examples.

Development of Underground Space

This course has been designed to support students with civil engineering and construction engineering and management background. New underground construction projects are planned all over the world, and the course equips students to contribute to these exciting developments. This course includes an overview of the application for tunneling and underground space as well as construction methods. The course will cover various sizes of underground opening from small diameters built by microtunneling to common tunnels used in civil and mining applications to large caverns, often found in different end uses such as storage or hydropower construction.

Requirements and Implementation of ISO 41001

Management system standards provide a way to manage the interrelated parts of a business in order to achieve the business objectives and increase its capability to deliver consistently high-quality services and products and added value for customers and stakeholders.

Temporary Structures - Vertical Construction Module

This class will provide construction and design professionals the skills to understand construction loads and their combinations, wind loads and their impacts, timber design, bracing and guying design, vertical forming systems, and shoring analysis for vertical construction.