Rowan UniversityDepartment of Civil and Environmental EngineeringTeaching
Courses
This course focuses on the analysis and design of building and bridge foundations using advanced soil mechanics. Students study compressibility, shear strength, bearing capacity, settlement, and foundation performance, with applications to shallow foundations and pile foundations for practical geotechnical engineering design.
This course introduces engineering geology, rock mechanics, and their applications in civil, energy, and subsurface infrastructure systems. Topics include geological structures and maps, rock types and minerals, laboratory and field testing, rock excavations, support systems, and rock structures such as slopes, foundations, caverns, and tunnels.
Courses
This course introduces the core principles of geotechnical engineering, with emphasis on soil properties and soil mechanics. Students study gradation, void ratio, porosity, water content, saturation, specific gravity, consistency, and classification, then apply these concepts to permeability, capillarity, seepage, and stresses in soils.
This course develops the fundamentals of engineering statics for particles, rigid bodies, and structural systems. Students analyze forces, moments, equilibrium, supports, internal reactions, and geometric properties, with applications to beams, trusses, frames, and other determinate civil engineering structures.
This course introduces systems thinking and decision-making tools for civil engineering planning, analysis, and design. Students work with optimization, linear programming, project scheduling, probability and statistics, and engineering economics, applying these methods to practical infrastructure and project-management problems.
Teaching
CEE PIPES gives junior and senior engineering clinic students the option to complete clinic work with an external engineering firm instead of a faculty-led project. Students apply with a description of the proposed work, receive department review and approval, coordinate with a company liaison, and complete the clinic through professional project work, presentations, and a technical report.
