Teaches the equipment and methods used in construction. Includes principles and economics of construction, planning and management, and principles of estimating primarily using highway and building project examples. Co-requisite: MTH 115 or equivalent. Lecture 3 hours per week.

Presents the practical application of transportation design including administration, location studies, traffic surveys, alignment design, drainage design, intersection and interchange design, pavement types and pavement design. Co-requisite: MTH 115 or instructor’s approval. Lecture 3 hours per week.

Introduces surveying equipment, procedures, and computations, including adjustment of instruments, distance measurement, leveling, angle measurement, traversing, traverse adjustments, area computations, and introduction to topography. Prerequisite or co-requisite: MTH 115 or equivalent. Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.

Introduces surveys for transportation systems, including the preparation and analysis of topographic maps, horizontal and vertical curves, earthwork and other topics related to transportation construction. Prerequisite: CIV 171 or equivalent. Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.

Supervises on-the-job training in selected business, industrial or service firms coordinated by the college. Laboratory 15 hours per week.

Focuses on soil in its relationship to engineering construction. Includes soil composition and structure, weight-volume relationships, sampling procedures, classification systems, water in soil, stresses, strains, bearing capacity, settlement and expansion, compaction, stabilization, and introduction to foundations and retaining walls. Prerequisite: MTH 115 or equivalent. Lecture 2 hours per week.

Introduces practical soil sampling; classification of unified, ASTM and ASSHTO specifications; laboratory testing of soils to predict engineering performance. Co-requisite: CIV 225. Laboratory 2 hours per week.

Presents the basic fundamentals of hydrology and hydraulics to the practical problems of drainage design. Stresses the use of design aids with supportive theory to ensure an understanding of the background, the theory of development, basic assumptions and limitations of the various methods of estimating storm water run off, and hydraulic structure design. Prerequisite: MTH 116 or equivalent. Part I of II. Lecture 3 hours per week.

Presents the basic fundamentals of hydrology and hydraulics to the practical problems of drainage design. Stresses the use of design aids with supportive theory to ensure an understanding of the background, the theory of development, basic assumptions and limitations of the various methods of estimating storm water run off, and hydraulic structure design. Prerequisite: CIV 241. Part II of II. Lecture 3 hours per week.

CIV 245 Storm Water Management (3 cr.)

Focuses on hydrographic analysis and flood routing conforming to soil conservation techniques and applied methods of retention-detention design employed by various governmental agencies in Virginia. Prerequisite: CIV 242 or equivalent. Lecture 3 hours per week.

CIV 260 Surveying Exam Preparation ( 3 cr.)

Provides preparation for licensure of surveyors by explaining and practicing problems typical of those appearing in the surveyors' state board examination. Reviews state requirements for licensing of surveyors, including rules, regulations and ethics.  Prerequisites: CIV 171 and 172 or instructor approval. Lecture 3 hours per week.

Studies computations of simple, compound and transition curves: grades and vertical curves; earthwork and haul quantities. Prerequisite: CIV 172 or equivalent. Lecture 3 hours per week.

Introduces computer applications for conventional coordinate-geometry (COGO) calculations. Studies and evaluates numerous COGO software and their associated drafting packages. Includes calculations and drafting of traverse adjustment, subdivision, curves, and others. Prerequisite: CIV 172 or equivalent. Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 4 hours per week.

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