Course Name: "Advanced Soil Mechanics"
Course Description and Info:
This class presents the application of principles of soil mechanics. It considers the following topics: the origin and nature of soils; soil classification; the effective stress principle; hydraulic conductivity and seepage; stress-strain-strength behavior of cohesionless and cohesive soils and application to lateral earth stresses; bearing capacity and slope stability; consolidation theory and settlement analysis; and laboratory and field methods for evaluation of soil properties in design practice.
Instructors:
Prof. Charles Ladd
Dr. Lucy C. Jen 

Course Name: "Probability and Statistics in Engineering"
Course Description and Info:
This class covers quantitative analysis of uncertainty and risk for engineering applications. Fundamentals of probability, random processes, statistics, and decision analysis are covered. Along with random variables and vectors, uncertainty propagation, conditional distributions, and second-moment analysis, there is an emphasis placed on real-world applications to engineering problems.
Instructor:
Prof. Daniele Veneziano 

Course Name: "Transportation Flow Systems"
Course Description and Info:
Focus of this design course, would be on the design, operation, and management of traffic flows over complex transportation networks. Transportation concepts are illustrated through various applications and case studies. This is a half-term subject offered during the second half of the semester, MIT.
Board of Instructors:
Prof. Ismail Chabini
Prof. Amedeo R. Odoni 

Course Name: "Carrier systems"
Course Description and Info:
This subject provides an introduction to the courier systems that involve the design, operation and management of transportation networks, assets, personnel, freight and passengers. In this course, the instructors will present models and tools for analyzing, optimizing, planning, managing and controlling carrier systems.
Board of Instructors:
Prof. Cynthia Barnhart
Prof. Nigel Wilson 

Course Name: "Building Technology III: Building Structural Systems"
Course Description and Info:
This course addresses advanced structures, exterior envelopes and contemporary production technologies. It continues the exploration of structural elements and systems, and expands to include more complex determinate, indeterminate, long-span and high-rise systems. It covers topics such as reinforced concrete, steel and engineered wood design, and provides an introduction to tensile systems. Lectures also address the contemporary exterior envelope with an emphasis on their performance attributes and advanced manufacturing technologies. This course is required of MArch students.
Instructor:
Prof. John Fernandez

Course Name: "Building Technologies III: Building Structural Systems II"
Course Description and Info:
Building Technologies III: Building Structural Systems II covers advanced topics in structures, exterior envelopes and contemporary production technologies. It continues the exploration of structural elements and systems; expanding to include more complex determinant, indeterminate, long-span and high-rise systems. This course is the second of two graduate structures courses,
Instructor:
Prof. John Ochsendorf  

Course Name: "Building Technology I: Materials and Construction"
Course Description and Info:
This course offers an introduction to the history, theory, and construction of basic structural systems as well as an introduction to energy issues in buildings. It emphasizes basic systematic and elemental behavior, principles of structural behavior, and analysis of individual structural elements and strategies for load carrying. The course also introduces fundamental energy topics including thermodynamics, psychrometrics, and comfort. It is also a required class for M. Arch. students.
Instructor:
Prof. John Fernandez

Course Name: "Ocean Wave Interaction with Ships and Offshore Energy Systems"
Course Description and Info:
The subject introduces the principles of ocean surface waves and their interactions with ships, offshore platforms and advanced marine vehicles. Surface wave theory is developed for linear and nonlinear deterministic and random waves excited by the environment, ships, or floating structures.
Instructor:
Prof. Paul D. Sclavounos

Course Name: "Transportation Systems Analysis: Demand and Economics"
Course Description and Info:
This course introduces the microeconomic concepts central to transportation systems. Topics covered include economic theories of the firm, the consumer, and the market, demand models, discrete choice analysis, cost models and production functions, and pricing theory. Application to transportation systems include congestion pricing, technological change, resource allocation, market structure and regulation, revenue forecasting, public and private transportation finance, and project evaluation; covering urban passenger transportation, freight, aviation and intelligent transportation systems.
Instructors:
Michael Frumin
Prof. Moshe Ben-Akiva 

Course Name: "Ship Structural Analysis & Design"
Course Description and Info:
This course is intended for first year graduate students and advanced undergraduates with an interest in design of ships or offshore structures. It requires a sufficient background in structural mechanics. Computer applications are utilized, with emphasis on the theory underlying the analysis. Hydrostatic loading, shear load and bending moment, and resulting primary hull primary stresses will be developed.
Instructor:
Prof. David Burke 

Course Name: "Structural Analysis and Control"
Course Description and Info:
This course uses computer-based methods for the analysis of large-scale structural systems. Topics covered include:
modeling strategies for complex structures;
application to tall buildings,
cable-stayed bridges,
tension structures;
introduction to the theory of active structural control;
design of classical feedback control systems for civil structures;
and simulation studies using customized computer software.
Instructor:
Prof. Jerome Connor 

Course Name: "Principles of the Global Positioning System"
Course Description and Info:
The aim of this course is to introduce the principles of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and to demonstrate its application to various aspects of Earth Sciences. In all cases, we concentrate on the fundamental issues so that students should gain an understanding of the basic limitations of the system and how to extend its application to areas not yet fully explored.
Instructor:
Prof. Thomas Herring 

Course Name: "Site and Infrastructure Systems Planning"
Course Description and Info:
This course is a client-based land analysis and site planning project. Students will review land inventory, analysis, and planning of sites and the infrastructure systems that serve them. They will also examine spatial organization of uses, parcellization, design of roadways, grading, utility systems, storm-water runoff, parking, traffic and off-site impacts, as well as landscaping. Lectures will cover analytical techniques and examples of good site-planning practice. Requirements include a series of assignments and a client-based project.
Board of Instructors:
Prof. Eran Ben-Joseph 

Course Name: "Motion Based Design"
Course Description and Info:
This course presents a rational basis for the preliminary design of motion-sensitive structures. Topics covered include: analytical and numerical techniques for establishing the optimal stiffness distribution, the role of damping in controlling motion, tuned mass dampers, base isolation systems, and active structural control. Examples illustrating the application of the motion-based design paradigm to building structures subjected to seismic excitation are discussed. 
Board of Instructors:
Prof. Jerome Connor