Comprehensive Design Electives

What is a CDE?

CDE stands for Comprehensive Design Elective. Each student is required to take a CDE course prior to graduation. Students will= not be allowed to take any portion of the CDE until they have completed all the 3000 level courses in Civil Engineering.

Every CDE is designed to meet the following criteria:<= /p>

= Students must be pre= pared for engineering practice through the curriculum culminating in a major desi= gn experience based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier coursework= and incorporation engineering standards and realistic constraints that include = most of the following considerations: economic; environmental; sustainability; manufacturability; ethical; health and safety; social; and political. 2002-2003 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs. ABET.

The following are the characteristics of a CDE:

1) It should be a group project, however there may be specific opportunities in which individual ef= fort may be appropriate as in a student initiated project. It should specifically exclude situations in which students are using work previously performed before the= CDE course or being performed concurrently as on a job. Consideration should be given to A= BET Criterion 3(d) - an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams.

2) It should deal with mo= re than one area of interest.

3) It must be open-ended.=

4) There must be some practitioner involvement, with a minimum involvement including review of project work and some form of feedback.

5) There must be a written report and an oral presentation, both at a professional level and quality.<= o:p>

6) The student workload s= hould range over approximately 40 to 50 hours per hour of design credit for each student working on the project.

7) There should be a real= istic costing of the project, using Means, ENR or some other appropriate cost estimate.

8) Should be taken after = Junior level courses are completed.<= /p>

Since all CDEs are designed to have the same core components, the actual field doesn’t matter too much. As you will see in the schedule be= low, you usually have three choices of CDE within a one year span. Thus we strongly encourage you to = take one of these CDEs rather than some workaround. In addition to the guaranteed CDEs= listed below there is almost always some other supplemental CDE being offered.

Current CDE Options =

Below is a summary of current CDE options.

Group	Course	Frequency	Prerequisite Stream
Environmental	CE 4900-4, Environmental CDE	Every Three Semesters	CE 3400
Geotechnical	CE 5820, Design of Small Earth Dams	Every Three Semesters	CE 3600, CE 3300 & CE 4800 coreq<= /p>
Structural	CE 5260, Prestressed Concrete	Every Three Semesters	CE 4260, CE 3600, CE 3100
Transportation	CE 4900-5, Transportation CDE	Every Year in Spring-Fall	CE 3500
Water Resources	CE 4900-3, Water Resources CDE	Every Year in Spring	CE 4800, CE 3300

The prerequisite for CE 4260 is CE 3200. CE 4260 is offered every semester.=

The prerequisite for CE 4800 is ES 2330. CE 4800 is offered in the Fall.

CDE Rotation

Below is the future rotation for CDE options.

Group	Course	Sp 08	Fa<= span style=3D'color:white;mso-themecolor:background1'> 08	Sp 09<= /b>	Fa<= span style=3D'color:white;mso-themecolor:background1'> 09	Sp 10<= /b>	Fa<= span style=3D'color:white;mso-themecolor:background1'> 10
Environmental	CE 4900-4	<= /p>	<= /p>	<= /p>	<= /p>	<= /p>	<= /p>
Geotechnical	CE 5820
Structural	CE 5260	<= /p>	<= /p>	<= /p>	<= /p>	<= /p>	<= /p>
Transportation	CE 4900-5	Part 1	Part 2	Part 1	Part 2	Part 1	Part 2
Water Resources	CE 4900-3	<= /p>	<= /p>	<= /p>	<= /p>	<= /p>	<= /p>

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Advising Issues for Spring 2008

· The word “by” implies the course= can be taken in either Fall or Spring.

· The word “in” implies the course= can only be taken in the specified semester.

· Any issues that need to be addressed by Spring 2008 are in bold.

Environmental CDE

Semester you are graduating=	What you need to do
Spring 2008	Have ta= ken CE 3400 by Fall 2007. Take thi= s CDE in Spring 2008.
Fall 2008	Have taken CE 3400 by Fa= ll 2007. Take this CDE in Spri= ng 2008.
Spring 2009	Have ta= ken CE 3400 by Fall 2007. Take thi= s CDE in Spring 2008.
Fall 2009	Take CE 3400 by Spring 2= 008. Take this CDE in Fall 2009.=
Spring 2010	Take CE= 3400 by Spring 2008. Take this C= DE in Fall 2009.

Geotechnical CDE

Semester you are graduating=	What you need to do
Spring 2008	Can’t take this CDE.
Fall 2008	Can’t take this CDE
Spring 2009	Take ES= 2330 by Spring 2008. Take CE 4800 in Fall 2008. Take CE 3300 and CE 3600 by Fall= 2008. Take this CDE in Spring 2009.
Fall 2009	Take ES 2330 by Spring 2= 008. Take CE 4800 in Fall 2008. Take CE 3300 and CE 3600 by Fall 2008. Take this CDE in Spring 2009.
Spring 2010 = ; &n= bsp; = ;	Take ES= 2330 by Spring 2008. Take CE 4800 in Fall 2008. Take CE 3300 and CE 3600 by Fall= 2008. Take this CDE in Spring 2009.

Structural CDE

Semester you are graduating=	What you need to do
Spring 2008	Can’t take this CDE.
Fall 2008	Have taken CE 3200 by Fa= ll 2007. Take CE 3100, CE 3600 an= d CE 4260 by Spring 2008. Take this CDE in Fall 2008. &nbs= p;
Spring 2009	Have ta= ken CE 3200 by Fall 2007. Take CE= 3100, CE 3600 and CE 4260 by Spring 2008. Take this CDE in Fall 2008. = ;
Fall 2009