Courses
First Engineering Course
ME100 (Intro to Engineering)
Whos the director of our study?
Celal Cakiroglu
This civil engineering material is made from cement, water, and aggregates, and gains strength through hydration
concrete
At over 2,700 feet tall, this is the tallest building in the world
Burj Khalifa
How many Disciplines are there
6-7
Covers Soil classification tests, Atterberg limits, and compaction curves
Geotechnical Engineering
Low-key the Best
Dr Jarrah
This type of drawing shows the top-down view of a structure or site and is often the first sheet in a plan set
Plan view
Completed in 1937, this iconic red suspension bridge was once the longest suspension bridge in the world
Golden Gate Bridge
What Discipline covers Storm systems, Waste, and Water Treatment?
Environmental Engineering
Covers Froude number, Bernoulli’s equation, and pipe flow
Hydraulics
Also Low-key the Best
Dr Browning
Soil consolidation equation and the concept of “primary consolidation” are named after this Danish civil engineer
Karl Terzaghi (Father of Soil Mechanics)
Built to control the Colorado River and supplies power across the Southwest
Focuses on pavements, geometric roadway design, traffic signals, ITS systems, and intersection operations
Transportation Engineering
Covers Influence lines, deflection methods, and redundant frame analysis
Structural Analysis
Professors who continue practicing engineering while teaching are known as these
Practitioner-scholars
This federal agency is responsible for enforcing workplace safety standards on construction sites in the United States
OSHA
This ancient engineering marvel in Rome transported water over long distances using gravity alone
Aqueducts
Designing and analyzing steel, concrete, timber, and composite systems—ensuring buildings and bridges can safely resist loads such as wind, dead load, and live load.
Structural Engineering
Covers Mohr’s Circle, principal stresses, torsion in circular shafts, combined loading, and deflection of beams
Mechanics of Materials
Biggest Try-Hard Students
Dani Salha/ Palmer Weston
This engineer’s number, defined as V/sqrt(gL), is used to characterize open-channel flow regimes.
William Froude (Froude Number)
Completed in 2018, this bridge is the world’s longest sea-crossing, stretching over 34 miles with tunnels, artificial islands, and viaducts
Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge
This specialty deals with rivers, watersheds, stormwater modeling, infiltration, flood routing, and predicting runoff
Hydrology