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Faculty of Engineering

Civil Engineering (Ceased Enrollment)

164 Credit Hours 80% Minimum Grade

Department Welcome

Dr. Mwafak Shakoor

“ Welcome to the Civil Engineering (Ceased Enrollment) department! ”
Mwafak Shakoor

Civil Engineering is the driving force behind the infrastructural design, development and operation of our communities.  Students will be guided through major aspects of this invaluable science  including structure environment geotechnics,  and transportation. Civil Engineering provides graduates with career   opportunities in domestic and commercial design and  supervision, urban traffic planning,  .pavement design, environmental risks management;. Water and water treatment plants project management.

Study Plan

Details about the study plan and curriculum.

Course Curriculum: 164 Credit Hours

Guidance Plan

Guidelines and plan for student guidance.

Course Curriculum: 164 Credit Hours

List of Competencies

Civil Engineering (Ceased Enrollment) - List of Competencies

Specific intended learning outcomes grouped by knowledge and skills

  1. Knowledge Intended Learning Outcomes 
    1. A1. Understanding the main physical principles related to static and dynamic mechanics.
    2. A2. Understanding the analysis of stress and strain in various structural members under different types of loading.
    3. A3. Understanding the engineering concepts behind the design procedures in several civil engineering systems (i.e. trusses, footings, wastewater treatment plant, highway intersection, landfills, etc.)
    4. A4. Understanding the management aspect of any civil engineering project and acquiring an engineering sense related to the economic value of structural projects of different scopes.
    5. A5. Understanding the value of the interactions of other sciences with the civil engineering world (i.e, chemistry, biology, statistics, calculus, computer programing, etc.) 
  2. Skills Intended Learning Outcomes 
    1. B1. Designing reinforced concrete buildings, steel structures, footings, highways, etc.
    2. B2. Environmentally assess the impacts of various engineering projects.
    3. B3. Planning a civil engineering project and calculating its cost.
    4. B4. Using a computer programming language to solve engineering problems.
    5. B5. The ability to construct a mathematical model that simulates the reality of an engineering problem. 
  3. Thinking Skills Intended Outcomes 
    1. C1. Ability to provide solutions to civil engineering problems
    2. C2. Relying on well-established logical algorithms in tackling any engineering or (non-engineering) problem. 
  4. Other skills intended outcomes 
    1. D1. Becoming accustomed to building complicated and evolved levels of physical understanding (of engineering behaviors) over simpler more basic physical concepts.
    2. D2. Enhancing the communication skills among other team members, and understanding the importance of organized documentation and referencing. In addition, becoming accustomed to civil engineering terminology.

Course Description

Detailed descriptions of the courses offered.

102100 2 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
2 0 _ _
The civil engineering student will be introduced to the main four specialties of civil engineering; structural, environmental, geotechnical, and transportation engineering. Students will learn about planning an engineering project, basics of quantity survey and managing the various stages of it. A simple design project will be assigned to be solved through working within a team.?

102201 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 0903101+0904101 _
Students will learn in this course about the equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies. The course covers the structural analysis of different beams, trusses, and frames, by obtaining their reactions, axial forces, shear forces, and bending moments with the corresponding diagrams. The course also covers the calculations of the center of area and moment of inertia for different geometries.

102204 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 _ _
This course will help students to develop fundamental concepts of procedural programming. Topics include data types, control structures, functions, arrays, files, and the mechanics of running, testing, and debugging. This course covers introductory programming and problem-solving in MATLAB, C++, or FORTRAN.

102205 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
1 3 _ _
This course introduces students to drawing sketches of various engineering subjects, dimensioning and proportioning, line types, scales, engineering construction and geometry, theory of orthographic projection and views, drawing sections, and basic use of computer aided drafting (AutoCAD).

102231 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 902101 _
This course aims to provide students with basic information about fundamentals of geology applied to civil engineering problems, minerals and matter, material properties of rocks, rock masses and soils, engineering geological and geotechnical investigations, and classification of rocks. use of rocks as construction materials, active tectonics and earthquake, groundwater, and mass waste.

102251 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 903101 -
This course presents the fundamentals of land surveying, field practice, and calculations. Includes equipment, horizontal, vertical, angular measurements, error, traversing, leveling, profiles, cross-sections, mass diagram, contour lines construction, and several methods for the computation of areas and volumes.

102252 1 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
0 3 _ 102251
In this course students perform field exercises to conduct the practical work to cover the following measurements: taping and pacing (procedures, errors, and adjustments); leveling and its application in contouring; electronic theodolite and its application in angles measurements, and total station and its application in height measurements.

102271 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 0104212+ 0102231 _
The course is designed to provide an in-depth understanding of the production, types, properties and uses of cementitious materials and aggregate. fresh and hardened concrete properties, concrete testing, effects of admixtures, and destructive and non-destructive testing of existing concrete structures. concrete production, transport, casting, compacting, and curing concrete, design of concrete mixes, the durability of concrete, creep, and shrinkage of concrete.

102273 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 0104212+ 0102231 _
The course is designed to provide an in-depth understanding of the production, types, properties and uses of cementitious materials and aggregate. fresh and hardened concrete properties, concrete testing, effects of admixtures, and destructive and non-destructive testing of existing concrete structures. concrete production, transport, casting, compacting, and curing concrete, design of concrete mixes, the durability of concrete, creep, and shrinkage of concrete.

102311 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 104212 _
In this course, students will learn how to analyze determinate structures and their influence lines, deflections, analyze trusses, draw shear and bending moment diagrams for beams and frames; and introduce students to basic methods of analyzing statically indeterminate structures.

102312 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102311 -
This course aims to teach students how to analyze statically indeterminate structures using various methods. Students will also be introduced to the matrix and approximate methods, and the use of computer applications.

102313 1 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
0 3 _ 102312
Students will be introduced to the instrumentation and testing techniques measuring equilibrium of forces, Equilibrium of parallel forces, Forces in a truss, Bending moment in a beam, Shear force in a beam, Continuous and indeterminate beams, Beam and cantilever deflection, Bending moment influence lines, Bending stress in a beam, Two hinged arch, Deflection of frames, Reinforced concrete beam.

102321 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 0102251+0903281 _
This course covers the basic principles of geometric design for various transportation facilities, design of at-grade and grade-separated intersections along with the design of drainage facilities, urban planning, traffic volume and flow, and critical issues in transportation.

102322 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102321 _
This course covers the basic principles and techniques of highway design based on the AASHTO design procedure. This includes laying out potential routes, design of the alignment and intersections, pavement widths, horizontal and vertical alignment, slopes channelization, intersections, and other features that can significantly affect the operations, safety and capacity of the roadway network.

102331 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 0104212+ 0102231 _
This course is to provide engineering students with basic information about soil origin and physical characteristics and behavior. The course content includes an overview of the basic concepts of the mechanics of soils and fundamentals of application in engineering practice including soil composition and texture; soil classification; compaction; permeability and seepage; stresses in soils; consolidation; settlement and shear strength of the soil.

102341 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102201 _
In this course, students will learn about the physical properties of fluids, fluid statics, pressure and its measurements, forces on plane and curved submerged surfaces, buoyancy & floatation, fluids in motion, flow kinematics and visualization, basic control volume approach, differential and integral continuity equation, pressure variation in flowing fluids, Euler?s and Bernoulli?s equations, applications of Bernoulli equation, momentum principle and its applications, Navier-stokes equations. energy equation, hydraulic and energy grade lines, dimensional analysis and similitude, surface resistance and introduction to boundary layer theory, flow in conduits, laminar and turbulent flows, frictional and minor losses, piping systems.

102342 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102341 _
In this course, students will learn about steady flow in open channels, gradually varied flow in open channels, steady flow in pressure conduits, fluid measurements. hydro machinery: pumps and turbines.

102343 1 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
0 3 _ 102342
In this lab, students will learn to measure various fluid properties and flow characteristics, center of pressure, triangular and rectangular notches, venturi and orifice meters, impact of a jet, head loss in pipes, critical depth, turbulent pipe flow, centrifugal pumps, axial flow pumps, hydraulic jump, Pelton wheel, radial flow fan.

102372 1 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
0 3 102271 _
The student will be familiar with the major tests run on fresh and hardened cement and concrete. Experiments include consistency and setting time of cement past, properties of mortar, Sieve analysis, specific gravity and unit weight of aggregate, abrasion test of aggregate, mechanical properties of hardened concrete.

102374 1 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
0 3 _ 102273
This lab includes the major tests run on fresh and hardened cement and concrete. Experiments include consistency and setting time of cement paste, properties of mortar, sieve analysis, specific gravity and unit weight of aggregate, abrasion test of aggregate, and mechanical properties of hardened concrete.

102411 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 0102311+ 0102273 _
This course will introduce students to the limit-state design of reinforced concrete structures, materials behavior, loads, and load combinations acting on reinforced concrete structures. This course also covers the analysis and design of rectangular beams, one-way slabs, T-beams, doubly reinforced beams, shear and diagonal tension, bond, and development length of reinforcement. In addition to the design and analysis of short columns.

102412 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102411 _
This course includes a review of the design basis, ultimate strength versus unified design approaches, tension- and compression-controlled members, and strain limits. Serviceability analysis, deflection and cracking control, shrinkage, and creep deflection. Analysis and design for torsion. Slender columns. Analysis of building frames, simplifications, idealization. Two-way slabs, column-supported slabs, direct design method, equivalent frame method, and design of stairs.

102413 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102312 _
This course introduces students to steel material properties and design, specification and codes, material behavior in structures, design and behavior of tension members, bolted connections, welded connections, and flexural behavior of stable beam systems. axial stability, torsional stability, behavior of bracing systems, design of structural steel elements found in bridges and building structures, including plate girders, other built-up members, beams, and slender columns, detailing of steel structures, design sessions (computer applications).

102421 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102322 _
This course covers different types of flexible pavements as well as rigid pavements, engineering properties and characteristics of the different materials that concern the pavement engineer, testing and evaluation of soil, granular, and bituminous materials for pavement analysis and design, analysis of flexible pavements for stresses, strains, and deflections in one-, two-, and three-layered systems, analysis of rigid pavements for stresses, strains, and deflections, design flexible and rigid pavements using the AASHTO design procedure.

102422 1 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
0 3 _ 102421
In this course, students perform field exercises to conduct the practical work to cover the following measurements: Properties of highway materials, including aggregates, asphalt binder, and mixtures. Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) aggregate gradation, blending procedure, volumetric, Marshall testing, and specifications.

102432 1 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
0 3 _ 102331
In this lab, students will be able to classify soil and run several experiments: moisture and organic content, specific gravity, size distribution through sieve analysis and hydrometer analysis; Atterberg limits; compaction; hydraulic conductivity and permeability; consolidation; direct shear; unconfined compression test; triaxial compression test.

102433 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102331 _
This course aims to provide students with the geotechnical properties of soils. Exploration, sampling, and in-situ soil measurements. Bearing capacity of foundations. Foundation settlements, factors to consider in foundation design. Spread footing design: structural design of spread footings. Rectangular, eccentrically loaded spread footings, wall footings, design of spread footings with the overturning moment. Special foundations: rectangular combined footings, trapezoid-shaped footings, strap footings, mat foundations, design of retaining walls, and piles.

102441 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102342 _
This course covers the fundamentals of environmental engineering, including the physical, chemical, and biological processes used in pollution control with an emphasis on, air and noise pollution, and water and wastewater treatment.

102442 1 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
0 3 _ 102441
In this Lab, students will learn how to measure the various properties of drinking and wastewater through volumetric and spectrophotometric analytical methods. Parameters evaluated include PH, alkalinity, acidity, hardness, salinity and solids, BOD, and COD.

102460 2 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
2 0 903101 _
The students will be exposed to the concept of the time value of money and methods to utilize the cash flow in engineering projects. The course introduces students to the concepts of economic feasibility of engineering activities, interest rates, present, future, and annual worth analysis, rate of return, payback period, depreciation, replacement, economic life, benefits /costs analysis, economic risk analysis, and economic optimization.

102463 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 0102411+0102202 _
The course covers principles of specification writing; the process of quantity take-off and estimating costs for various types of construction projects; performing construction contracts and bidding procedures; FIDIC and the Jordanian legal conditions of contracts; detailed estimates of direct and indirect construction costs; work breakdown for each major construction discipline; claims and dispute resolutions; introduction to value engineering and quality control; and considerations in construction and risk management.

102480 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 115CH _
Students will train for eight weeks in any civil engineering company approved by the department.

102511 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102412 _
This course aims to introduce students to the long-term properties of constituent materials, partial prestressing. flexural behavior, analysis and design of prestressed concrete beams, classes, cracking, pre-tensioning, post- tensioning, service load design, load balancing, strength design, strain limits, flexural efficiency.

102514 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 0102411+0104211 _
In this course, students will learn about tectonics, ground motion characterization, probabilistic hazard analysis, response spectra, inelastic structural analysis, and performance-based earthquake-resistant design.

102515 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 0102412+0102312 _
This course covers the analysis and design of beams and frames with non- prismatic members, conjugate structure & elastic center, the column analogy, moment distribution method, influence lines of indeterminate structures, analysis and design of arches and composite structures, analysis and design of water tanks and box culverts, analysis and design of thin cylindrical shells, domes, cones, analysis of plates and folded plates dynamics of structures, plastic analysis.

102521 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102321 _
This course introduces the fundamentals of traffic engineering with reference to the urban scene. Topics include in this course are traffic flow theory; volume, speed, and delay studies; capacity analysis of signalized and un- signalized intersections; capacity analysis of basic freeway segments, two- lane highways, and multilane highways; traffic safety studies.

102542 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102342 _
In this course students will learn about the hydrologic cycle and its components, precipitation, evaporation and transpiration, infiltration, stream flow, rainfall-runoff analysis and its application, peak flow calculations, flood routing, design floods, hydrologic forecast and design criteria, and groundwater hydrology and well hydraulics.

102547 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102441 _
The course gives students an introduction to the basic theories for water, wastewater, and storm water. Water and wastewater systems, storm water calculations, treatment of drinking water and wastewater, and applying a selected set of methods for design and analysis.

102548 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102441 _
The course gives students an introduction to the basic theories for water, wastewater, and stormwater. Water and wastewater systems, stormwater calculations, treatment of drinking water and wastewater, and applying a selected set of methods for design and analysis.

102561 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102463 _
In this course students will introduce the basic concepts of construction project management, construction planning, project scope, time, cost, quality, risk and human resources management, construction and personnel safety, value engineering and project life cycle, construction process optimization, in addition to computer applications in project planning and control.

102562 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102413 _
This course will help students to develop a graphical analysis of engineering drawings, computer-aided drafting and work drawing, and applications: RC slabs, beams, stairs, retaining walls, footing, RC bridges, earth slopes, roads, interchanges, and hydraulic structures such as weirs, box and pipe culverts, and dams using AutoCAD Applications

102571 1 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
1 0 102480 _
Students will work under the supervision of an academic faculty member to solve a well-defined engineering problem. During this stage of the project, a plan should be established and scheduled and well presented in a final report.

102572 2 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
2 0 102571 _
The student will continue to solve the engineering problem described in the previous Graduation Project (1) report. A complete design of the solution that encompasses the previous theoretical knowledge should be orally presented at the end of this course. A full comprehensive report will be submitted also at the end of the course, showing the appropriate plans and design calculations.

102574 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102321 _
This course offers variety of the latest, complex and advanced topics in transportation engineering. In this course transportation topics are presented in practical way to give students the initial steps toward the real world. This course contains the following topics: traffic safety, mass transit projects, transportation planning, traffic simulation, inelegance transportation systems, accidents, parking system.

102576 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102332 _
The special topics in geotechnical Engineering course intends to give the student a comprehensive idea about the soil stabilization and reinforcement materials and techniques. The concept and analysis of sheet piles and their types. Soil nailing analyses, design and methods. Landslides and it occurrence together with safety measures. Piles, its type and analysis.

102577 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102321 _
This course will cover the evolution and history of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), as well as its current engineering applications. Students will master the fundamentals of spatial analysis through collecting, entering, storing, and analyzing GIS data. Coordinate reference systems and map projections will also be covered.

102578 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102342 _
This course will introduce students to the hydraulic aspects of the theory and design of hydraulic structures, such as design discharge, run-off, design flood and estimation of peak flood, seepage and uplift pressure, Bligh?s creep and lane?s weighted creep theory, hydraulic jump and energy dissipation devices, normal and sequent depths, forms, energy dissipaters and stilling basin, control structures, diversion works, weirs, sediment control devices, falls and transitions. cross drainage works, siphon, aqueduct, culverts and outlet work.

102579 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102412 _
This course includes design problems and existing bridge examples, this course illustrates basic bridge knowledge from preliminary design to the final design of major structural components. The course covers conventional bridges and other bridge types, including concrete segmental box girders, arch bridges, and cable-stayed bridges.

102580 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102561 _
This course will introduce primary aspects of sustainable and smart buildings. Students will discover the core concepts and standards related to high- performance building systems and learn from case-study examples of high- performance buildings.

102583 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102331 _
This course will introduce the concepts and principles of soil stabilization and soil improvement that represent the current state of practice. The course covers clay mineralogy, mechanical stabilization, stabilization with additives (lime, cement, asphalt, etc), collapsible soils and their stabilization, swelling- shrinking soils, foundation heave prediction and method of soil treatments, preloading and methods of stabilizing highly compressible soils, vertical sand drains, reinforced earth and reinforced earth retaining walls, thermal stabilization, electro kinetic processes and their use in soil remediation and improvement.

102585 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102561 _
This course will give students a solid foundation across the concepts and techniques of quality control and safety and apply basic engineering principles and technical skills to support students in maintaining health and safety standards.

102586 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102561 _
This course covers Building Information Modeling (BIM), including its use and application for small- and large-scale building construction projects. Students will learn terminology associated with buildings, the theory and evolution of BIM, and how to develop BIM models using Autodesk Revit.

102587 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102331 _
This course is focused on the analysis and design of deep excavations and retaining structures including gravity and cantilever walls, sheet piles, soldier piles, anchored walls, and braced excavations. A review of the soil mechanics concept and site investigation procedures required for these structures will also be included.

102588 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 120 CH _
This course provides topics of special interest in Civil Engineering, which may vary each time the course is offered. Course content may be engineering science, engineering design, or a combination of both.

102589 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102548 _
The course aims to enhance understanding of the multidisciplinary approaches to water management problems. Topics covered include the design and management of facilities for river basin development, flood control, water supply, and groundwater remediation, Simulation models, and optimization methods.

102594 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 102321 _
This course will help students to understand the need to address road maintenance issues to enable the reduction of lifecycle costs of the road network and infrastructure

102595 3 CH. Prerequisite Co-requisite
3 0 120 CH _
This course will help students to develop solutions to a variety of civil engineering problems using application programs. Emphasis is made on a problem-solving approach and structured programming with software tools useful to civil engineering computation and design.

Program Learning Outcomes

Civil Engineering (Ceased Enrollment) Program Learning Outcomes

Student learning outcomes describe what students are expected to know and be able to do by the time of graduation. By the time of graduation, the Civil Engineering (Ceased Enrollment) Department's program must enable students to attain an ability to:

 

  • PLO1. An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics
  • PLO2. An ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet
    specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as
    global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors
  • PLO3. An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences
  • PLO4. An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering
    situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of
    engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts
  • PLO5. An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide
    leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan
    tasks, and meet objectives
  • PLO6. An ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and
    interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions
  • PLO7. An ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate
    learning strategies.