Courses

An introduction to methods, processes, and techniques for planning a total transportation system.

Students will explore operational issues pertaining to the transportation critical and unique features and stakeholders that have an impact on maintaining resilient learn the tools to understand threats, conduct assessments, engage in planning transportation sector.

Students examine a wide range of facets that comprise the field of transportation and vulnerabilities of the transportation network as well as explore the agencies gain an understanding of the various transportation systems (road, rail, maritime, understanding the role of government and the private sector in securing the

This course is an examination of the evolution of urban transportation systems, policies, institutions, and methods in the United States. Principles, procedures, and techniques of transportation planning in the State of Texas are covered and students are introduced to the literature in transportation geography and methods of transportation analysis.

This course introduces key concepts and methods of transportation geography and transportation planning. Topics include, among others, the spatial structure of transportation systems, transportation economics, and logistics. Various methods, techniques, and technologies for transportation analysis, particularly Geographic Information Systems (GIS), will be explored and applied as part of the course.

Transportation systems including land and air transportation for passenger movement; functions of transportation systems; vehicles and controls; transportation system planning, operation, maintenance, safety and transportation material testing are addressed in this course.

This course will give junior & senior level students a working knowledge of conservation equations for mass, momentum and energy with application to steady-state chemical processes. Computer proficiency is required for a passing grade in this course. Computer Science

Definition of viscosity, elements of laminar and turbulent flow, and overall mechanical energy balance. Thermal conductivity, steady and transient conduction problems, forced and natural convection, heat transfer, and radiative heat transfer. Definition of binary diffusivity, convection mass transfer, and mass transfer coefficient. The application of the principles covered in the design of specific metallurgical systems.

Basic principles governing transport of energy and mass; application of these principles to analysis and design of processes involving biological, environmental and agricultural systems.

Basics and applications of fluid mechanics including statics, mass, energy, momentum balances, laminar and turbulent flow, Reynolds number, Moody diagram, non-Newtonian fluid flow, multi-phase flow, flow in porous media, non-Darcy flow; heat transfer, heat conduction, convection and heat exchangers; emphasis on analogies and similarities within mass, energy and momentum transport.