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Comprehensive Design Experience (CDE)

Each student is required to take a Comprehensive Design Experience (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.

Note that the course descriptions have been placed here prior to the semester(s) in which the courses are actually being offered. This information is being provided to give you ideas of what the CDE's are and what semesters they will likely be offered. Details of each course may vary each time the course is offered. Ask the course coordinators for specific details of their courses.

Each student will work as part of a team to produce a written report and an oral presentation of their work. Guidelines for CDE Presentations.

Comprehensive Design Experience (CDE's) by Area

Area	Course No./Section	Hours Fall	Hours Spring	Pre-Reqs.	Coordinator
Structures	CE4900-2	2		CE4260	Barker

A lecture format will be used to present the theory, conceptual understanding and practical application of steel bridge design. Homework assignments and computer applications will be used to develop capabilities. Economical steel bridge design will be emphasized. The students will complete the superstructure design, including optimization and costs, for a comprehensive bridge project.

Area	Course No./Section	Hours Fall	Hours Spring	Pre-Reqs.	Coordinator
Structures	CE5260	3		C or Better in CE4260 CE3600 CE3100	Dolan

1) Students must complete a beam design project to meet the requirements of the PCI BIG BEAM national competition. 2) Students must complete preliminary design of a specified building structure (2005 will be a Press Box for War Memorial Stadium)

Area	Course No./Section	Hours Fall	Hours Spring	Pre-Reqs.	Coordinator
Water Resources	CE4350-1 CE4900-3		3+1	CE3300 CE4800	Tuttle

Students in this CDE (1 hr) are required to design common components of any urban land development project. The students in will work in teams with the students in CE4350 (Hydraulic Design of Engineering Systems) as project engineers to design four engineered water conveyance systems. In addition to the design performed as a part of CE4350, the students enrolled in CDE (CE4900-3) will have additional tasks including cost estimating, writing a project report, giving an oral presentation, major drainage system evaluation and design, and field verification.

Area	Course No./Section	Hours Fall	Hours Spring	Pre-Reqs.	Coordinator
Environmental	CE4900-4	1 - First Semester	2	CE3400	Urynowicz

Students compete in the WERC Environmental Design Contest (www.werc.net) held at New Mexico State University. Students compete in several tasks representing real-world environmental problems. Student teams design and engineer solutions for each task and present their results to judges in written, oral, poster and bench-scale formats. In the Fall, the students will review the projects and select one on which to work. In the Spring, they will complete their design and present their findings at the WERC Competition. (* - First Semester)

Area	Course No./Section	Hours Fall	Hours Spring	Pre-Reqs.	Coordinator
Transportation	CE4900-5	2	1 - First Semester	CE3500	Kladianos/Young

In the Spring semester students will attend a seminar style course to gain background knowledge in an real world transportation project. Seminar topics include design process, geometric design, traffic, pavement design, hydrology and culvert design, environmental considerations, planning, construction/field engineering, Microstation and GeoPak civil software, and cost estimating. The course will meet once per week for the length of the semester. Students will form teams and finish the semester by preparing a project proposal for work to be completed in the Fall Semester. Teams will select design tasks that best suit the team members backgrounds and interests. In the Fall Semester students will earn two credits for the design effort proposed the previous semester. Students will work in teams to complete the design and will be mentored by WYDOT personnel and University faculty. The majority of class time will be spent doing group work with project mentors. The class will culminate in a final report and presentation at the Engineering Design Symposium.

Area	Course No./Section	Hours Fall	Hours Spring	Pre-Reqs.	Coordinator
Geotechnical	CE5820	3*	3*	CE3600, CE3300, CE4800 (Coreq)	Edgar

This is the traditional Design of Small Earth Dams course. It has an embedded report and presentation within the class structure which must be completed by everyone. (Note: This is a graduate level course and is taught as such. Students should only take the course if they are otherwise qualified for admittance to graduate school and have the time to participate at a graduate level.) (* - Course is taught every third semester.)