Online Course Catalog
CEE 415 - Geometric Design of Roads
Spring 2023
Title | Section | CRN | Type | Hours | Times | Days | Location | Instructor |
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Geometric Design of Roads | ONL | 60850 | ONL | 4 | - | Arthur R Schmidt Alireza Talebpour Katy Solak |
Course Description
This combined course (415/453) will cover the geometric design of roadway and associated drainage. The topics to be covered in the combined course are vehicle-driver characteristics, safety and sight distances, horizontal and vertical alignment, interchanges, earthwork and mass-haul, hydrologic computations, design of various hydraulic structures, flood-plain computations, scour and erosion control design, and storm-water best management practices. A major component of the class is a semester long, team-oriented design project of a roadway including drainage calculations and hydraulic structures. (Credit is not given for both CEE 415 and CEE 453.)
Credit Hours
4 hours
Prerequisites
A course in Transportation Engineering (CEE 310).
Subject Area
- Civil and Environmental Engineering