UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

CEE365: CEE Laboratory Fall 2004

Course website homepage: /cee/rees/CEE365.htm

Lectures: TuTh 1:00-1:50, Holdsworth 305

Laboratories: M-W 2:30-5:30 (see below for location by week)

Instructors:

Alexander Chajes

Structures

232 Marston Hall

chajes@ecs.umass.edu

Office Hours:

Tu/Th 2:00 – 3:30

Paula L. Sturdevant Rees

Environmental/Hydraulics

12B Marston, 577-2337

rees@ecs.umass.edu

Office Hours:

Tu/Th 11:00-12:00, 2:30 – 3:30

F 11:00 – 12:00

Jason T. DeJong

Geotechnical Engineering 27 Marston Hall dejong@ecs.umass.edu Office Hours:

W 10:00 – 11:45 pm

F 10:00 – 11:15 am

Teaching Assistants (office hours by appointment)

Judd Galloway

Structural Engineering

18 Gunness, 545-2862

jgallowa@ecs.umass.edu

Dan Buttrick

Environmental Engineering

12 Marston, 577-1484

dbuttric@ecs.umass.edu

Geoffrey Christoph Geotechnical Engineering 42 Marston Hall

ggchristoph@hotmail.com

Course Objectives:

The objective of this course is to introduce students to the principles and techniques of conducting laboratory experiments common in Civil and Environmental Engineering practice. The course will provide students with a hands-on experience in conducting laboratory experiments. Students will gain experience in writing through the preparation of professional engineering reports.

Course Format:

The course will be presented in two 50-minute lectures and one laboratory session per week. Lectures will emphasize the objectives of laboratory experiments, background information, and data interpretation and analysis. There will be twelve sets of experiments that will be conducted in small teams. Six engineering reports on the experiments are required. Three will be prepared individually and three in teams.

Course Outcomes:

Projected outcomes of the course are:

1. An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering to Civil and Environmental Engineering measurements.

2. An ability to conduct laboratory experiments, and to collect, analyze, interpret, present, and discuss data.

3. An ability to work effectively in a team.

4. An ability to communicate effectively through professional engineering reports.

5. Ability to apply graphical, mathematical, statistical and computation methods to the solution of Civil and Environmental Engineering problems.

Course Outcome Measures and Assessment:

Measures and assessment of the outcomes will be made by:

1. Preparation of six professional engineering reports; three individually and three in teams.

2. Twelve laboratory outlines to provide feedback on lab preparation.

3. Three half-hour exams to provide individual assessment on comprehension of course material.

4. Course and instructor evaluations to provide student feedback on the perceived quality of the course and effectiveness of the instructors.

Textbooks:

Laboratory Manual for CEE 365: CEE Laboratory, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Available through the textbook annex.

Portland Cement Association (1999). Design and Control of Concrete Admixtures, Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Illinois. Will be handed out by Dr. Chajes.

References:

Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, 19^th Edition, (1995) American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C.

ASTM Standards (1999), American Society for Testing and Materials, West Conshohocken, PA.

Holtz, R.D. and Kovacs, W.D. (1981). An Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

Lardner, T.J. and Archer, R.R. (1994), Mechanics of Solids, McGraw-Hill, NY.

Masters, G.M. (1998). Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science 2^nd edition, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.

White, F.M. (1999). Fluid Mechanics 4^th Edition, WCB McGraw-Hill, Boston.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:

CEE320 Soil Mechanics

CEE357 Elementary Fluid Mechanics

CEE370 Environmental Engineering Principles

English 351 (CEE Section strongly advised)

Grading:

1. 6 laboratory reports* 70%

2. Laboratory preparation^† 10%

3. Three midterm exams^‡ 20%

*Laboratory reports are to be prepared in accordance to the Report Guidelines detailed in the CEE365 Laboratory Manual. Report due dates are shown on the next page.

^†Students must come to each lab with a typed one-page lab preparation statement containing (1) the objectives of the laboratory activity and (2) an outline of the procedure to be used in lab. Lab preparation statements must be handed in at the beginning of the lab.

^‡An exam will be held at the conclusion of each segment of the course.

Attendance:

Students are expected to attend all classes and to be on time. Attendance at laboratories is mandatory (attendance will be taken). Poor attendance will negatively affect your grade. You also will be required to schedule time to work with other students outside of regular class time.

Academic honesty:

We operate on the assumption that all students are inherently honest, however we are cautious in this area. Any student observed perusing another student's work will not have his/her work graded. Any student who plagiarizes material is being academically dishonest. If this situation comes to our attention with sufficient evidence, we will not grade the report, homework or exam. The University Academic Honesty Policy applies and can be found in the undergraduate calendar. This policy covers plagiarism, cheating, fabrication, and facilitating dishonesty.

Email:

All students are required to send Professor DeJong an email message by February 5, 2004. Include your name, preferred email address and a brief statement of your background and what you hope to learn in this course. Also include whether you have already taken or are currently taking CEE320, CEE357, CEE370 and Engl 351. We will use the email addresses to compile a class list. Periodically, we will announce schedule changes, homework, and send laboratory data via email. Students are responsible for information sent to them by email. Feel free to contact us by email with any questions you may have.

Lab Safety Sign Off:

All students are required to read the lab safety manual, sign the form on page 2.9 of the lab manual and bring the signed form to their first lab meeting.

Lecture Topics:

Laboratory Locations:

1. Introduction, Lab Safety, Report Preparation

2. Structural Engineering

a) Stress-Strain Behavior of Metals

b) Aggregate properties

c) Concrete Mix Design

d) Mechanical Properties of Concrete

3. Geotechnical Engineering

a) Soil Classification

b) Compaction

c) Consolidation/Hydraulic conductivity

d) Shear Strength

4. Hydraulics

a) Flow in Closed Conduits (pipes)

b) Open Channel Flow

5. Environmental Engineering

a) Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)

b) Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)

c) Solids

Discipline Location

Structural Engineering 18 Gunness

Geotechnical Engineering 28 Goessmann &

32 Marston

Engineering Hydraulics 30 Goessmann

Environmental Engineering 28 Goessmann

Report Formats

1. Stress-Strain Behavior of Metals - letter report - individual (rewrite)

2. Concrete properties - full lab report - group

3. Hydraulics - technical note - group

4. BOD, COD, suspended solids - full lab report - individual (rewrite)

5. Soil classification/compaction - technical note - individual (rewrite)

6. Soil consolidation/shear strength - full lab report - group

Lecture/Laboratory Schedule and Report Due Dates

week	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
1	26 January	27	28	29 All / Chajes
1			no lab
2	2 February	3 Chajes	4	5 Chajes
2	Metals	Metals	Metals
3	9	10 Chajes	11	12 Chajes
3	Aggregates Structures 1 due	Aggregates Structures 1 due	Aggregates Structures 1 due
4	16 – Presidents Day	17 Chajes	18 (Monday Schedule)	19 Chajes
4	no lab	no lab	no lab
5	23	24 Chajes	25	26 Chajes
5	concrete mix 7 day	concrete mix 7 day	concrete mix 7 day
6	1 March	2 Rees	3	4 Rees
6	concrete	concrete	concrete
7	8	9 Rees	10	11 Rees
7	pipes & pumps Structures 2 due	pipes & pumps Structures 2 due	pipes & pumps Structures 2 due
8	22	23 Chajes-Struct exam	24	25 Rees
8	open channel flow	open channel flow	open channel flow
9	29	30 Rees	31	1 April Rees
9	BOD₇ & COD Hydraulics due	BOD₇ & COD Hydraulics due	BOD₇ & COD Hydraulics due
10	5	6 Rees	7	8 DeJong
10	BOD₇ / Solids	BOD₇/Solids	BOD₇/Solids
11	12	13 DeJong	14	15 DeJong
11	soil classification EVE due	soil classification EVE due	soil classification EVE due
12	19 – Patriot’s Day	20 Rees – EVE Exam	21	22 (Monday Schedule) DeJong
12		compaction	compaction	Compaction (Monday Group)