MASTER OF ENGINEERING PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

Course Title: CE 320 - 10, Design of Transportation Structures for Extreme Events, LRFD
Time: Mondays 5:00 to 8:00PM
Professor(s): Michael P. Culmo, P.E., Vice President of Transportation and Structures, CME Associates, Inc.
Course Description: The FHWA has mandated that as of this year, all new bridges be designed using the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications. This specification requires that transportation structures be designed for extreme events. These events are loadings that rarely occur, however may subject the structure to its highest loading during its life. The design of structures for these conditions requires a different approach than with traditional LRFD loadings. The course will focus on extreme events such as seismic, hurricanes, flooding, truck collisions and ship collisions. Course work will include studies of code provisions for these loadings and case studies of various transportation structures such as bridges and sign supports. Specialized features to be studied include behavior of bridges during seismic events, design of parapets for truck impacts including crash testing criteria, ship collision criteria, and wind loading provisions for bridges and sign supports. In 2007, the AASHTO Bridge Subcommittee voted in a complete revision to the LRFD seismic design specifications. This new revision (to be published in 2008) will be covered.
Text: ISBN 1-56051-332-2 AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications, Customary U.S. Units, Third Edition OR
ISBN 1-56051-354-3 AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications, Customary U.S. Units, Fourth Edition**

Course Title: CE 320 - 11, Advances in Underground Pipeline Design, Construction and Management
Time: Tuesdays 5:00 to 7:30PM
Professor(s): Jey K. Jeyapalan, P.E., Ph.D. Dr. Jeyapalan & Associates, New Milford, CT
Course Description: The primary goal of this new course is to familiarize owners, utilities, regulatory officials, pipe manufacturers, pipe trade associations, engineers and contractors interested in pipeline design, construction and asset management with the recent body of knowledge and to alert them to common problems. It is not easy to select the most suitable type of pipe for a particular project because of the following reasons:

This course is arranged in the order in which the instructor taught the material around the world during 1984-97 in hotels and in the conference rooms of leading utilities to more than 5,000 owners, utilities, regulatory officials, pipe manufacturers, pipe trade associations, engineers and contractors. To protect the integrity of the content, the course is being offered truly independently of any vendor participation or sponsorship. This was the only course of this type in the world providing information on underground pipelines, year after year, and often, the same engineer attending it more than once still gained enormous value, due to the evolving nature of the content. Unlike seminars by pipe interest groups where what you see on the screen is often printed in their seminar notes, here in this course the instructor has included material which will require the readers to think on their own, and rely on their own engineering judgment to question what they have been doing for years and what they have been told by others. This course will cover 15 chapters and 10 appendices of excel sheets of pipe designs and sample full length technical specifications.
Text:“Advances in Underground Pipeline Design, Construction and Management” by Jey K. Jeyapalan.