وصف المساقات لقسم الهندسة المدنية/إدارة التشييد

1. ENGC 6360 Construction Projects Management

Theory and practice of construction project management. Roles of designer, owner, general contractor and construction manager. Lecture, field trips.

2. ENGC 6361 Seminar in Construction Engineering and Management

Engineering and construction practitioners Present case studies and industry trends. Students and faculty discuss ongoing research in construction engineering and management. Weekly and public institutions. Normally taken by construction major students each semester.

3. ENGC 6362 Mathematical Programming.

Decision theory, linear programming applications, network models, computer simulation, waiting line models, forecasting.

4. ENGC 6363 Construction Contract Administration

Review construction contracts, administrative procedures of the general and subcontractors. Study documentation Survey, the claims, arbitration, litigation, bonding, insurance and indemnification, Discuss legal practice, licensing, codes, etc. Lecture and field trips.

5. SHAR 6303: دراسة فقهية معاصرة

ضوابط الربح في الفقه الإسلامي وتحديده، أعمال التمويل والاستثمار التي تتعامل بها البنوك الإسلامية نظام التأمين بأنواعه الخلوات (خلو الرجل) مستجدات فقهية في قضايا الزواج والطلاق اختيار عدد من القضايا المعاصرة المستجدة بشكل مستمر.

6. ENGC 6364 Safety and Health Construction.

Topics include safety awareness in construction, worker injuries, injury accidents and their causes, cost of construction, safety training programs, controls, safety culture safety in construction.

7. ENGC 6365 Construction Planning and Scheduling

Various network methods of project scheduling, such as AOA, AON, PERT, bar-charting, line-of-balance and VPM techniques. Planning, scheduling, and allocation of resources for construction projects. Simulation methods and optimization techniques Microcomputers used for scheduling, resource allocation, and time/cost analysis.

8. ENGC 6366 Construction Management Research

Research methodology applied to the construction industry. Topics include the design of research, the sources and data collection, Data analysis and presentation.The student, conducts research that is expected to lead to a specific project, report, or publication. Assignments might include data collection, experimental work, data analysis, or preparation of a manuscript.

9. ENGC 6366 Construction Productivity

Productivity concepts. Data collection. Analysis of productivity data and factors affecting productivity. Means for improving production and study of productivity improvement programs.

10. ENGC 6367 Financial Management

This course emphasizes concepts and current issues surrounding construction project evaluation and financing. Principles of financial management and project feasibility focus on project risk assessment and life-cycle analysis. Innovative financing approaches are defined and demonstrated by use of example applications. Significant current issues presented.

11. ENGC 6368 Strategies of Estimating and Bidding.

Estimating used by heavy, engineering, building and specially contractors; owners; and designers. Preparation of cost estimate including planning of methods and program evaluation of labor, material, equipment, subcontractors, and indirect costs. Rational assessment of risk and profit margin. Value engineering. Lifecycle costs Computer applications. Explore advanced concepts of the estimating process, such as modeling and statistical analysis, to improve bid accuracy.

12. ENGC 6369 Strategic Planning.

Provides a thorough understanding of business planning process applicable to the construction enterprise. Defines the difference between the publicly held company and the closely held business, which most construction enterprise are, and the exposure each has.

وصف المساقات لقسم الهندسة المدنية/إنشاءات

1. ENGC 6320 Finite Element Method.

Theory and application of the finite element method, stiffness matrices for triangular, quadrilateral, and isoperimetric elements, two-and three dimensional elements, algorithms necessary for the assembly and solution, direct stress and plate bending problems for static, nonlinear buckling and dynamic load conditions, displacement, hybrid and mixed models together with their origin in variational methods.

2. ENGC 6321 Structural Dynamics.

Vibrations and dynamic response of simple structures under timer dependent loads, dynamic analysis of single and multiple degrees of freedom systems, support motion, and response spectra.

3. SHAR 6303: دراسة فقهية معاصرة

ضوابط الربح في الفقه الإسلامي وتحديده، أعمال التمويل و الاستثمار التي تتعامل بها البنوك الإسلامية نظام التأمين بأنواعه الخلوات (خلو الرجل) مستجدات فقهية في قضايا الزواج والطلاق، اختيار عدد من القضايا المعاصرة المستجدة بشكل مستمر.

4. ENGC 6322 Theory of Elasticity.

Plan stress and plain strain, two-dimensional problems in rectangular coordinates, two-dimensional problems in polar coordinates, two-dimensional problems in curvilinear coordinates, analysis of stress and strain in three dimensions, elementary problems of elasticity in three dimensions, torsion, bending of bars and axisymmetric stress and deformation in a solid of revolution.

5. ENGC 6323 Earthquake Engineering.

The earthquake faulting, ground motion, study of past major earthquake, effect of earthquake on man-made structures, response spectra. Fourier spectra, structural dynamic, analysis and design of structures, building code, and current research in earthquake engineering.

6. ENGC 6325 Theory of Plates and Shells.

Basic equations governing plate theory, classical solutions for rectangular and circular plates, approximate methods, membrane theory of shells, and shallow shell theory.

7. ENGC 6327 Advanced Design of Structures.

General aspects of design, serviceability and failure criteria, types of loading, methods of design, structural systems for buildings, elastic and plastic analysis, design of high-rise buildings for gravity and lateral loads, earthquake resistant design, effects of dynamic loading on strength and ductility of structural elements. Laboratory experiments on structural elements and frame models.

8. ENGC 6328 Design of Prestressed Concrete Structures.

Behavior and design of statically determinate prestressed concrete structures under bending moment, shear, torsion and axial load effects.

Design of continuous prestressed concrete beams, frames, and slabs. Time-dependent effect and deflection of prestressed concrete structures.

9. ENGC 6329 Plastic Design of Steel Structures.

Topics related to inelastic behavior and plastic design of steel members and structures, Behavior of plastic hinges in members subjected to bending moment, axial force, shear, and other combinations. Collapse mechanism of steel members and structures such as moment frames and braced systems.

10. ENGC 6330 Advanced Soil Mechanics.

Theoretical analysis of problems in geotechnical engineering, fundamentals of continuum mechanics, statics, dynamics, Kinematics, and flow through porous media. Constitutive theories for geotechnical materials, elasticity, plasticity, cyclic loading and liquefaction models. Applications to consolidation theory, one-dimensional site amplification theory, limit equilibrium analysis.

11. ENGC 6331 Shearing Properties of Soil.

This course provides a thorough discussion of shearing properties of soils, including use of effective versus total stresses, effects of drainage, use of modified failure envelopes, failure and yield criteria, properties of both saturated and partially saturated soils, sensitivity and thixotropy, and critical state soil mechanics, Laboratory experiments allow students to perform direct shear and triaxial shear tests.

12. ENGC 6333 Ground Improvement.

Preloading vertical drains, deep compaction of cohesionless soils: vibrofloatation, vibratory probes, compaction piles, dynamic compaction blasting, grouting, compaction groutiong, chemical grouting, jet grouting. Soil reinforcement: soil nailing, micro piles, reinforced earth, stone columns, lime columns, geotextiles, freezing, and electro osmsis.

13. ENGC 6334 Design of Earth Retaining Structures.

Analysis and design is covered for such earth retention systems as retaining walls, free-standing sheet pile walls, braced excavation, slurry walls, tide-back retention system, reinforced earth, frozen soil walls, anchored bulkhead, and cellular cofferdams. The problems involved with the interaction of the structures with soil are studied. Both classical and more refined methods of analysis are included and considerable attention is directed towards field observation.

14. ENGC 6335 Behavior and Design of Deep Foundations.

Ultimate capacities and load-deflection of piles and drilled shafts subjected to compressive loads, tensile loads, effects of duration of load, soil-structure interaction, two-and three-dimensioal analysis of pile groups with closely spaced piles, effects of installation, inspection of deep foundations and full-scale field tests.

15. ENGC 6338 Geotechnics of Waste Management.

Geotechnical aspects for the containment and remediation of waste. Fluid flow through porous media, including saturated, unsaturated, multiphase and gas flow, contaminant transport across soil barriers, clay mineralogy and chemical interactions with soil liners, field performance of compacted soil liners and composite liners, drainage layer design and performance, water balance evaluations for covers. Laboratory experiments.

وصف المساقات لقسم الهندسة المدنية/البنى التحتية

1. ENGC 6303 دراسات فقهية معاصرة

ضوابط الربح في الفقه الإسلامي و تحديده, أعمال التمويل و الإستثمار التي تتعامل بها البنوك الإسلامية, نظام التأمين بأنواعه, الخلوات (خلو الرجل), مستجدات فقهية في قضايا الزواج و الطلاق, عدد من القضايا المستجدة الأخرى

2. ENGC 6310 Engineering Statistics

Probability in Civil Engineering, Fundamentals of Probability, Probability Distributions for Discrete Random Variables, Probability Distributions for Continuous Random Variables, Multiple Random Variables, Statistics Analysis, Regression Analysis.

3. ENGC 6333 Ground Improvement

Introduction to Mechanical Modification, Principles of Soil Densification, Properties of Compacted Soil, Compaction Control Tests, Specifications of Compaction Requirements, Introduction to Hydraulic Modification, Hydraulics of Slots and Wells, Design of Dewatering Systems, Filtration, Drainage and Seepage Control, Preloading and the Use of Vertical Drains, Electro kinetic Dewatering and Stabilization, Modification by Admixtures, Modification at Depth by Grouting, Thermal Modification, Evolution of Soil Reinforcement, Mechanical Models of Soil Reinforcement, Flexible Geosynthetic Sheet Reinforcement, In Situ Ground Reinforcement: Ground Anchorage, Rock Bolting and Soil Nailing, Soil Confinement by Formwork.

4. ENGC 6340 Traffic Management and Control

Introduction; Background and Traffic Survey Methods, Transport Planning, Urban Traffic Flow, Traffic Management, Geometric and Traffic Design of Road Intersections, with emphasis on the design of traffic signals, Highway Capacity and Level of Service, Design of Car Parks, Road Signing and Road Markings, Computer Applications.

5. ENGC 6341 Infrastructure GIS/DSS

Infrastructure Definition, Infrastructure Assets, Terminology and Definitions, Key Issues for Infrastructure Management, Inventory, Historical and Environmental Data, Geographic Information System (GIS), Data Bases, GIS Tools, Initiating GIS Decision Support System (DSS), Organization, Communication and DSS, GIS/DSS in the Utilities, GIS/DSS in Telecommunication, GIS/DSS for Transportation, GIS/DSS in Emergency Management, GIS/DSS in Land Administration, GIS/DSS in Urban Planning.

6. ENGC 6343 Pumping Station Design

Hydraulic and Mechanical Design of Pumps: Types of Pumps, Selection of Pumps, N.P.S.H, Pumps in Series/Parallel, Case Study. Sewerage Pumping Stations: Layout, Pre-Design Studies, Design, Case Study. Water Hammer: Basic Principles, Method of Characteristics, Water Hammer Due to Pump Start/Shutoff, Case Study. Operations and Maintenance of Pumping Stations.

7. ENGC 6344 Water Distribution Networks

Pipe Flow Characteristics. Water Network: Network Elements, Reservoirs, Tanks, Valves, Control Switches, Pumps, Models Requirement. Water Demand. Testing Water Distribution System: Testing Fundamentals, Head Loss Tests, Pump Performance Test. Modeling for Water Distribution Systems Design. Operation Issues.

8. ENGC 6345 Road Maintenance and Design

Asphalt Technology and Asphalt Pavements. Pavement Design. Bearing Capacity of Pavement. Damage Analysis and Road Maintenance: evaluation and causes of roads damage, Damage types and maintenance procedures, Maintenance equipment. Pavement Management and Monitoring Systems.

9. ENGC 6353 Infrastructure Planning

Types of Infrastructure, Infrastructure Development and Process, Role of Infrastructure in developing countries, Infrastructure and Economic Growth, Infrastructure in Palestine. Strategic Planning. Provisions of Integrated Infrastructure. Resource Development for Infrastructure Planning in Developing Countries. Development of Various Networking Services, Strategic Implementation of Infrastructure Projects. Application of Quantitative and Statistical Methods and Techniques in Infrastructure Planning, Decision Analysis and Prioritization Techniques, Case Studies.

10. ENGC 6364 Construction Safety Management

Injury Accidents and Their Causes, The True Costs of Construction Workers Injury, Problem Areas in Construction Safety, Elements of an Effective Safety Program, Job-Site Safety Assessment, Safety Meetings and Safety Incentives, Safety in Construction Contracts, Safety Record Keeping, Safety Culture and Safety workers, Safety and First Line Supervisors and Middle Managers, Top Management Practice, Safety Personnel and Subcontractor Safety, Project Coordination and Construction Safety, Owners and Construction Safety, Designer Influence on Construction Worker.

وصف المساقات لقسم الهندسة المدنية/تصميم وتأهيل المنشآت

1. ENGC 6310 PROBABLISTIC APPROACHES IN ENGINEERING

Types of uncertainty and introduction to simulation. Data description and treatment. Fundamentals of probability. Probability distributions for discrete random variables. Probability distributions for continuous random variables. Multiple random variables. Simulation. Fundamentals of statistical analysis, Hypothesis testing. Confidence Intervals and sample size determination. Regression analysis.

2. ENGC 6336 EARTHQUAKE DESIGN

Basic earthquake principles. Common earthquake effects. Earthquake structural damage and ways of protection. Site investigation to geotechnical earthquake engineering. Liquefaction. Earthquake-resistant design of buildings in seismic regions according to the UBC Code. Detailing of reinforcement for earthquake design. Design of shear walls and moment resisting frames. Introduction to structural dynamics and earthquake engineering. Research topics and case studies.

3. ENGC 6351 ADVANCED TOPICS IN STRUCTURAL CONCRETE

Structural concrete and the unified design approach. Multiaxial behavior and strength of concrete. Design approaches for shear, Kani’s valley, conventional design methods, compression field theory, compression force path theory and flexure-shear interaction design model. Strut and tie modeling for structural concrete design. Design of anchorage to concrete. Design for flexural ductile behavior. Design of higher strength concrete beams. Design of serviceability limit state. Detailing of reinforced concrete structures and reinforcement development. Special research topics.

4. ENGC 6352 ASSESMENT OF DAMAGES IN STRUCTURES

Assessment scope, importance and difficulties. Rehabilitation needs in Palestine. Characteristics of construction materials: constituents, testing and deficiencies. Types and causes of damages. Structural faults and failures; modes, causes and responsibilities. Diagnoses of damages. Assessment of strength and characteristics of existing material. Monitor of damages. Assessment of structural behavior and strength of existing structures. Forensic engineering. Real-life case studies. Research topics.

5. ENGC 6353 DESIGN OF SPECIAL CONCRETE STRUCTURES

Design of shells of different geometries and chapes. Design of domes and folded plates. Design of pile caps. Design of structural walls. Miscellaneous topics in concrete design.

6. ENGC 6354 ADVANCED STEEL DESIGN

Plastic analysis of steel structures.. Analysis of torsional sections. Design of braced and unbraced structures subjected to gravity, wind, and seismic loads with emphasis on p-delta effects. Miscellaneous topics in structural steel construction and design.

7. ENGC 6355 REHABILITATION OF STRUCTURES

Reasons for rehabilitation. Advantages and limitation of rehabilitation. Types and levels of rehabilitation. Aspects of structural rehabilitation Functional life-span requirements and the availability of cost-effective upgrading solutions. Repair materials. Rehabilitation procedures, types and techniques for different structural elements and substructures. Assessment of structural behavior and strength of strengthened elements and structures. Management of rehabilitation works.Extension of lifespan of structures. Real-life case studies. Research topics.

8. ENGC 6321 FINITE ELEMENT METHOD

Matrix Algebra and Methods of solution for Simultaneous Equations. Introduction to the Stiffness. Stiffness equations: 2D-Truss, Beam, Frame, and Grid. Review of the Basic Theory in 2-D Elasticity. Stiffness Equations for: Plane Stress/Strain problems and Axisymmetric Elements and Plate Analysis. Using the MATLAB technical programming language, special-purpose computer programs are developed for the listed topics.

9. ENGC 6334 DESIGN OF RETAING STRUCTURES

Rigid and flexible earth retaining structures. Analysis and design of retaining walls, anchored bulkheads, braced cuts, tie back cuts, mechanically stabilized earth, and slurry trench walls. Lateral earth pressure due to soil, water, surcharge loads, etc., local and overall stability and the design of anchorage and bracing systems. Introduction to seismic design.

10. ENGC 6357 BRIDGE DESIGN

Modern approach to highway bridge analysis. Types of Bridges, General Site Design, Highway Bridge Loading, Bridge Analysis, Bridge Deck Slabs, Steel Bridge Design, Prestressed Concrete Bridge Design, Substructure Design, Fatigue, Bridge Rating, and Testing and Evaluation.

11. ENGC 6328 PRESTRESSED CONCRETE DESIGN

Basic concepts and technologies of prestressing. Design of members to resist flexure, shear and bond. Determination of prestress losses, and deflection of prestressed members. Application of design concepts to complex concrete structures. Analysis and design of prestressed concrete bridges.

12. ENGC 6359 ADVANCED FOUNDATION DESIGN

Special cases of shallow foundations. Drilled Piers and caissons. Abutments. Cofferdams. Braced excavations. Research topics.

وصف المساقات لقسم الهندسة الكهربائية

1. EELE6310 Linear Dynamic Systems

State–space description of linear time-invariant (LTI) and Time-varying (LTV) systems in continuous. Linear algebra concepts such as eigenvalues and eigenvectors, singular values, Cayley/Hamilton theorem, Jordan form; Solution of state equations: stability, controllability, observability, realizability, and minimality. Stabilization design via state feedback and observes separation principle. Connections with transfer function techniques.

Prerequisite: Computer Controlled System (B.S)

2. EELE6311 Optimal and Quadratic Control

Application of variation methods. Pontryagin maximum principle, Hamilton/Jacobi/Bellman equation (dynamic programming) to optimal control of dynamic systems modeled by nonlinear ordinary differential equations. Linear Quadratic control & Gaussian Quadratic Control.

Prerequisite: Computer Controlled System (B.S)

3. EELE6312 Multivariable Control

Feedback performance analysis, robustness and stability margins, sensitivity, disturbance attenuation, design tradeoffs, singular value, characteristic locus, and inverse Nyquist array design methods.

Prerequisite: EELE 6310

4. EELE6314 Robust and Optimal Control by Convex Method

Multivariable robust control, including H2 and H-infinity optimal control and robust performance analysis and synthesis against structured uncertainty. Emphasis on convex methods for analysis and design, in particular linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach to control.

Prerequisite: EELE 6311

5. EELE6316 Nonlinear Dynamic Systems

State-space techniques for studying solutions of time-invariant and time-varying nonlinear dynamic systems with emphasis on stability. Liapunov theory (including converse theorems), invariance, center manifold theorem, input-to-state stability and small-gain theorem.

Prerequisite: Computer Controlled System (B.S)

6. EELE6318 Intelligent Control

Introduction to intelligent control systems with emphasis on the relationships of intelligent control schemes with classical adaptive control. Topics include: adaptive control schemes, expert control, knowledge-based control, neural networks based control, fuzzy linguistic control.

Prerequisite: Computer Controlled System (B.S)

7. EELE6319 Chaos Theory

Advance difference equations & chaos theory, paradigms of nonlinearity, deterministic chaos, coherent structures, pattern formulation, completion and selection, and adaptive and evolving systems.

Prerequisite: EELE 6311

8. EELE6321 Stochastic Control & Estimation

Estimation and control of linear discrete-time and continuous-time stochastic; separation theorem and applications; Kalman filtering.

Prerequisite: Computer Controlled System (B.S)

9. EELE6322 H-infinity Control Theory

Lebesgue and Hardy functional spaces, linear operators and norms; time and frequency domain representations of linear systems, internal stability, performance measures and their limitations; structured uncertainty and mu-synthesis; H-2 and H-infinity optimal control; H-infinity loop shaping; Gap metrics, nu-gap metrics and extended loop-shaping design;

Prerequisite: EELE 6314

10. EELE6323 Computer Communication Networks

Basic concepts in networking, the OSI model, error detection codes, flow control, routing, medium access control, and high-speed networks.

Pre requisite: Computer Networks (B.S)

11. EELE6324 LMI Control Systems

Linear Matrix Inequalities: Introduction. History. Algorithms for their solution. The role of Lyapunov functions to ensure invariance, stability, performance, robust performance. Considered criteria: Dissipativity, integral quadratic constraints, H 2 -norm, H 8-norm,upper bound of peak-to-peak norm. LMI stability regions. Frequency domain techniques for the robustness analysis of a control system. Integral Quadratic Constraints. Multipliers. Relations to classical tests and to µ-theory. A general technique to proceed from LMI analysis to LMI synthesis. State-feedback and output-feedback synthesis algorithms for robust stability, nominal performance and robust performance using general scalings.

Prerequisite: EELE 6314

12. EELE6325 Advance Digital Control Design

Analysis and design of digital control systems. Basic concepts of linear discrete-time systems. Norms of signals and systems. State-space models. Discretization of analog systems. Internal stability and stabilization. Parametrization of all stabilizing controllers. H-2 and H-infinity optimal control. Digital design by fast discretization. Direct digital design.

Prerequisite: EELE 6314

13. EELE6326 Systems Identifications

Non-parametric identification; identification of frequency responses. Parametric (prediction error) identification methods - model sets, identification criterion, bias and variance. Parametric (prediction error) identification methods - model validation, experiment design and approximate modelling. Closed-loop identification , Control-relevant models, Iterative performance enhancement; handling model uncertainty.

Prerequisite: EELE 6310

14. EELE6328 Control of Discrete-Event Systems I

This course is an introduction to the control of discrete, asynchronous, nondeterministic systems like manufacturing, traffic and communication systems. Architectural issues (modular, decentralized and hierarchical control) are emphasized. The theory is developed in an elementary framework of automata, formal languages and Petri nets, and is supported by a software package for creating applications.