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EN-5-CEE Skyscrapers, Architecture, and Engineering. Skyscrapers are one of the landmarks of 20th century civilization. Architects, engineers, contractors, workers, and developers coordinate their time and resources to erect these landmarks designed to withstand earthquakes, hurricanes, and blizzards. Civil Engineering and Architectural aspects of structures will be discussed in terms of planning, design, construction, operation, maintenance, retrofit, demolition, and disposal. Students will work in groups to design various aspects of a high rise building. Designs will include: architectural, structural, geotechnical, environmental, and construction factors leading to an economical, functional, safe, and aesthetically pleasing structure. Spring. Sanayei.
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EN-5-CEE Skyscrapers: Architecture and Engineering. Skyscrapers as one of the landmarks of 20th century civilization. Coordinated activities of architects, engineers, contractors, workers and developers coordinate their time and resources in building structures to withstand earthquakes, hurricanes and blizzards. Architectural, structural, geotechnical, environmental, and construction factors considered for design of skyscrapers. Course project: students design the tallest building for Boston and build an architectural model.
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EN-20-CEE Clean Your Room. This course will explore the history and development of technologies currently in use to clean up environmental contamination in contaminated soil, sediment and ground water. Although current trends in environmental management are focusing on pollution prevention, there are still a lot of contaminated sites that require remedial action in order to prevent further contamination and to protect human health and the environment. The goal of the course will be to provide students with insight on how decisions are made. This course will explore how decisions are made to select various technologies, and how they work to clean up environmental contamination. Fall. Desmarais.
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EN-20-CEE Clean Your Room. History and development of technologies currently in use to clean up environmental contamination in contaminated soil, sediment and ground water. Emphasis on the many remaining contaminated sites that require remedial action in order to prevent further contamination and to protect human health and the environment.
Focus on gaining insight on how decisions are made in selecting various technologies and how they work to clean up environmental contamination
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EN-21-CEE The solution of most environmental problems requires the use of mathematical models and associated environmental data. This course will introduce students to concepts of exploratory data analysis (EDA) and environmental models using a variety of existing software packages. Students will use MATHCAD, EXCEL, MINITAB and NETSCAPE to explore environmental data such as water quality, rainfall, and stream flow for the purpose of solving problems related to floods, droughts, and the management of surface groundwater quality. Students will also learn how to download most sources of environmental data from the World Wide Web. Spring. Vogel.
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EN-21-CEE Computer and the Environment The use of mathematical models and associated environmental data in solving environmental problems. Exploratory data analysis (EDA) and environmental models introduced via existing software packages. Water quality, rainfall and stream flow data in solving problems related to floods, droughts, and surface groundwater quality management. A course project will use the World Wide Web as a data source.
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EN-23-CEE Building Big: Infrastructure Engineering. This course introduces systems, integral to modern life, which provide safe shelter, effective transportation, and a clean environment. What keeps a bridge from falling down? What does it take to build a 100-story skyscraper? How does a dome support itself? What keeps a tunnel from collapsing? How does a dam hold back a powerful river? What keeps the mountain from collapsing into the canal? Students will cover basic engineering concepts, such as stress and strain, materials behavior, the use of structural forms, and groundwater flow. Laboratories, design projects, and field trips
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EN-23-CEE Building Big: Infrastructure Engineering. Introduction to the systems that provide safe shelter, effective transportation, and a clean environment, and to the concepts that makes them work. Basic engineering concepts that keep bridges, domes, tunnels and dams from collapsing, and allow 100-story skyscrapers to be built. Laboratories and field trips. Design project.
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EN-38-CEE Environmental Measurements. “Is it safe?” should be a simple question to answer. Using local surface and ground water systems as examples, links between how information can (or cannot) be gathered and how such information can be used (or abused) will be explored. Other questions like “Is this sample a real representation of what we are examining?” and “How do these results affect decisions about quality?” will be examined in the context of environmental measurements done by the students. Fall. Chudyk.
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EN-38-CEE Environmental Measurements. Link between the gathering of information and its use (and misuse) will be explored. Adequacy of sampling in representing real system. Role of sampling of surface and ground water systems and decisions about water quality. Course project based on data obtained through environmental measurements made by students. Project based on sampling from the Mystic River.
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EN-39-CEE Bridge Design. Provides an introduction to bridge history, form, and the different disciplines involved in designing and constructing a bridge. The course will focus on bridge failures, structural analysis and design, engineering materials, engineering ethics, engineering process - plans and specs, and construction planning. The course includes bridge model building and testing, and a class visit to the Central Artery Project. Fall. Brenner.
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EN-39-CEE Bridge Design. An introduction to bridge history, form, and the different disciplines involved in designing and constructing a bridge. Focus on bridge failures, structural analysis and design, engineering materials, engineering ethics, engineering process - plans and specs, and construction planning. Class visit to the Central Artery Project. Course project involves bridge model building and testing,.
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EN-59-CEE Reality Simplified: Solving Using Computer Simulation. Models are problem-solving tools. Mathematical models, in particular, are important to engineers, scientists, and social scientists. All models, mathematical or otherwise, are simplified representations of reality. It is the problem to be investigated that determines how reality is to be simplified. In this course the focus will be on problems associated with dynamic systems, (i.e., systems that change in time). Reducing traffic congestion on a highway, predicting when lava flow from a volcano will bury a village, managing economic development of a city, and controlling pest insects through the introduction of predators, are but a few examples. Computer simulation is an increasingly important tool in investigating problems such as these. Simulations let us try out various problem solutions and strategies in ways we could not do in the real world. They also let us understand the role that chance has in the success (or failure) of our strategies. While many specialized computer tools exist for carrying out simulations of specific types, it is possible and productive to investigate many problems through the use of basic tools such as EXCEL. Fall Levine.
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EN-59-CEE Reality Simplified: Problem Solving Using Computer Simulation. Models, simplified representations of reality, as problem-solving tools. The role of problems in dictating simplifications. The implementation of chance in models. The role of computer simulation in exploring model behavior using existing software pakages. Applications in a wide range of engineering and non-engineering problems. Project involves developing computer simulation based on problem of student’s choice.
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EN-68-CEE Ecology of Business. The use of ecological models as both metaphors and analytical tools in two business related fields, industrial ecology and organizational ecology. Examination of the possible analogs between ecological systems and economic/industrial systems. Applications to environmental engineering and organizational theory. Project is to develop a case study illustrating the use of industrial and/or organizational ecology.
EN-75-CEE GeoHazards Engineering*. Introduction to earthquakes, landslides and floods using statistical and spatial analysis of data. Magnitude-frequency relationships for predicting extreme events and geographic information systems for predicting hazards spatially. Final project allows students to work on a team developing a spatial and/or statistical analysis of a specific hazard event.
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EN-76-CEE Climate Change Engineering. The role of engineering in causing climate change. Solving specific challenges posed by the Earth’s changing climate. Introduction to engineering design as applied to climate change. Interdisciplinary problems and solutions considered. Seminars, field trips, and applied learning experiences. Project based on consideration of alternative solutions to the design of specific technologies.
EN-80-CEE: Structural Art A study of structural engineering as a modern art form. Historical investigation of exemplary structures and their scientific, social and symbolic implications. Discussion of the relationships between engineering, politics, economics and art. Introduction to scientific and engineering knowledge as human creations that have developed historically in response to human needs and aspirations. Final project concerns the design and representation of a simple structure.