McKinney | CE374L | Civil Engineering | UT Austin
This course will give the senior Civil Engineering undergraduate and graduate Environmental and Water Resources Engineering and Geotechnical Engineering students a quantitative understanding of the hydraulics of subsurface fluid flow and its engineering applications.
This includes:
•Civil Engineering program objectives addressed in this course:
1. Employ mathematics, science, and computing techniques to solve CE problems.
2. Undertake laboratory, field and other data collection efforts using commonly used measurement techniques to support the study and solution of civil engineering problems
3. Design elements of CE systems, components and processes
4. Develop teamwork skills.
5. Synthesize results to provide solutions that reflect social and environmental sensitivities.
7. Oral, and written presentation of technical solutions.
8. Identify broad context of CE problems
9. Understand the constantly evolving nature of CE, and recognize the need to stay abreast of the latest developments in the field.
The student is expected to have a working knowledge of the basic principles of fluid mechanics and engineering hydraulics, and facility with the use of spreadsheets for performing advanced analyses including writing of modules. Thus, the student must have completed the following University of Texas at Austin courses or their equivalent:
Homework will consist of lecture assignments. The assignments will be assigned by the instructor and due on the date posted in the syllabus on the World Wide Web at the address: http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/mckinney/ce374l/assign.html or as modified from time to time by the instructor. The homework assignments that you turn in are intended to represent just your own work. We encourage you to work together in terms of understanding problems, and helping each other learn the material. The actual work should be yours alone.
Late homework assignments will be penalized 20% per day late. Once a homework assignment has been graded and returned, no further homework will be accepted for that assignment. Assignments will be graded based on solution procedure, numerical results, clarity, and appearance of the report.
The instructor may assign a failing grade to any student not turning in 75% of the homework assignments for this course.
Attendance is expected.
The teaching assistant or the instructor should be consulted for problems involving the lecture assignments. My office hours are listed on the WWW home page for the course. In addition to my posted office hours, I am available at other times to discuss the course material or other topics of interest to students. Please feel free to come to my office, call me on the telephone (471-5644), or send me E-mail: daene@aol.com. Please feel free to send me email at any time. I will respond promptly. I expect to be off campus at the Center for Water Research in Water Resources (CRWR) at the Pickle Research Campus on Mondays and Fridays, so don't expect to find me in my campus office (ECJ 8.6) during those times. However, please feel free to call me at CRWR (same phone # as above) or send me an email message during those times that I am not on campus.
All students registered in this course should obtain a University Email account. We will be communicating electronically on a regular basis in this course. You are free to use your own computers, if you have them, or computers found in various dormitories and University computer laboratories. The Civil Engineering Department has a microcomputer laboratory, the Learning Resources Center (LRC) on the third floor of ECJ. The LRC is available for your use. Assistants in the LRC are there to operate the lab and respond to specific hardware and software problems. Typically, they do not have detailed knowledge of our course material, so don't expect them to be much help with that topic.
There will be two exams, each 75 minutes long, during the semester. The exams will be open book and open notes. Conversion factors, physical properties of fluids and trigonometric formulas will be provided to you on the exam paper as needed. You will be required to perform calculus level mathematics on each exam.
Prior to the end of an exam the time remaining will be announced. You must submit your exam paper at the end of that time. At the end of the exam period the instructor or proctor will leave the room with all submitted exam material. Absolutely no exam material of any kind will be accepted by the instructor or proctor after leaving the exam room.
Makeup exams will not be given. Medical illness (or other comparable situation) will be the only excuse for being given credit for a missed exam. If you miss an exam during the semester for a medical reason, you will be assigned a grade for the exam based on the exams which you have taken as follows: A grade for the exam that you missed will be estimated based on how you did on the other exams during the semester relative to the rest of the class. If you miss an exam due to an illness, you will be asked to present definitive evidence that you were, in fact, ill. You must inform the instructor in advance that you are ill, unless there are compelling reasons why you cannot do so. If you miss an exam for reasons other than illness or other valid excuse, you will be assigned a grade of zero.
If, after an exam has been graded and returned, you have questions about the grading of the exam, please write your questions or comments on a separate sheet of paper and turn this in to the instructor with the exam paper. Exam papers will be accepted for re-evaluation for only one week after the exam has been returned because of the difficulty in remembering exactly how partial credit was assigned.
The basis of grading for this course will consist of the following components with the indicated weights:
Exams: 50% (2 @ 25% )
Homework: 20%
Final Project: 30%
Grade Ranges
| A | 89 - 99 % |
| B | 81 - 88 % |
| C | 70 - 80 % |
| D | 60 - 69 % |
| F | 0 - 60 % |
Students may not drop a course after the 4th class day of the semester for academic reasons.
Standard approved MEC form (Electronic I hope!) will be used.
The University of Texas at Austin provides, upon request, appropriate academic adjustments for qualified students with disabilities.
See the WWW home page for the course: CE374L