Course Number: 10130   

Course Title: English I

Prerequisite:  None

Language of instruction: English

Course Level:  First year

Credit Hours:   3

English I course introduces the students to the language encountered while studying in the academic fields. The course includes readings and vocabulary exercises designed to develop students’ skills in the English language in general and the language of the professions related to the study in academia, in particular.  

Course Number: 10131

Course Title: General English II

Prerequisite: 10130   

Language of instruction: English

Course Level: First year

Credit Hours: 3

General English 2 is a course that enables students to build a foundation of English Language by applying the step- by- step approach to gain skills and confidence. The course includes readings and vocabulary exercises designed to develop students’ skills in the English language. Students develop their writing skills utilizing the sentence and paragraph structure for a coherent writing.  

Course Number:  10140    

Course Title: Mathematics I

Prerequisite: None

Language of instruction: Arabic + English

Course Level: First year

Credit Hours: 3

The course is concerned with the study of groups – periods – variances – functions -endings – communication – differentiation – differential applications.

Course Number:    10141

Course Title: Mathematics II

Prerequisite: 10140

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: First year

Credit Hours: 3

This course focuses on

·      Definite integral, fundamental theorem of calculus.

·      Exponential and logarithmic functions, hyperbolic functions.

·         Techniques of integrations.

·         Geometrical and physical applications of the definite integral.

·         Functions of several variables, partial derivative.

·         Maxima and minima and Lagrange’s multiples

·         Line integrals.

·         Double integrals in rectangular and polar coordinates.

·         Series, power series, Taylor’s theorem.

Course Number:  13100

Course Title: General Chemistry I

Prerequisite: None

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: First year

Credit Hours: 3

This course includes

1. Definition of chemistry and its importance. 2. Substance: Definition: a. Forms: elements, compounds and mixtures. b. Her conditions: gas, solid and liquid.                 c. Chemical and physical properties. 3. Chemical Union Laws: Preservation

Article fixed proportions the law of multiple volumes. 4. Elements Definition. Elements names and symbols – Items and their equivalents. 5. Atomic weights.           6. Atom Molecule Molecular Weight Formula Weight. – 7. Atomic anions (atomic groups) and their equivalents. 8. Chemical formulas: primary (experimental) –

Structural molecular. 9. Valence writing molecular formula and its importance.              10. Chemical equations: writing – Equations and their weight. 11. Solutions.                       12. Gases: Theory and Kinetics of Gases.

Course Number: 13130

Course Title: Physics  I

Prerequisite: None  

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: First year

Credit Hours: 3

1. Dimensions, units, vectors, and basic physics such as velocity, acceleration, free fall, and vehicle analysis.

2.  Newton’s laws, work, energy, torque, movement, velocity, rotational acceleration, pressure and propulsion, and Archimedes rule.

3.Speed of sound in solid objects, in fluids, and Doppler effect.

Course Number: 13200

Course Title: General Chemistry II

Prerequisite: 13100

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Second Semester

Credit Hours: 3

This course deals with chemical bonds, classification of chemical compounds, thermochemistry and electrical chemistry, and organic chemistry.

Course Number: 13230

Course Title: Physics II

Prerequisite: 13130

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Second Semester

Credit Hours: 3

This course deals with

Electricity and magnetism: Charge, Coulomb’s Law, electric field.

Gauss’s Law, and its application, electric potential, capacitors and dielectrics, current and resistance EMF and circuits, and circuits, magnetic field, magnetic induction hall effect, Ampere’s Law, inductors and solenoids, self-induction, R-L and R-C circuits, magnetic properties of matter, Electromagnetic oscillators, E.M.W and Maxwell’s equations, transmission lines, traveling waves.

Alternating currents and voltages.

Waves and optics: Light waves, refraction and reflection of light, mirrors and lenses and their applications in optical instruments.

Course Number: 30110

Course Title: Introduction to Computer

Prerequisite: None

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: First year

Credit Hours: 3

The course introduces computer applications and programs, and how to use the operating system (Dos) (Windows), Microsoft word processor, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentation, the Internet and e-mail.

Course Number: 33111

Course Title: Engineering Drawing  I

Prerequisite: None  

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: First Semester

Credit Hours: 3

This course deals with the identification of drawing operations and the development of skills in the implementation, understanding and interpretation of engineering drawings, as well as developing thinking and visualizing things in a vacuum with its three dimensions and transforming it into two dimensions on the drawing paper in a way projected or vice versa, which is reflected in the ability of the trainee to understand the correct engineering methods.

Course Number: 33112

Course Title: Engineering Drawing  II

Prerequisite: 33111

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Second Semester

Credit Hours: 3

This course deals with the basic principles of assembly and structural drawing, types of structural plans and a system. The course also includes the study of numbering, plotting, construction, identification, understanding, and plotting of details for beams, columns, and tiles. Concrete of all kinds, bases, ground beams, electrical plans and structural structures are also included in the course.

Course Number: 31200

Course Title: Engineering Mechanics I Statics))

Prerequisite: 10141

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Third Semester

Credit Hours: 3

This course deals with the identification of the basic principles of static, which is dealing with the equilibrium state of bodies and means. In addition to the study of how objects remain in a state of stillness (without moving) or in a state of movement at a constant speed as a result being affected by the dominant forces.

Course Number:  31201

Course Title: Engineering Mechanics II Dynamics))

Prerequisite: 10141

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Fourth Semester

Credit Hours: 4

This course deals with the identification of the basic principles of dynamics and with the movement of accelerated objects (Increase or decrease in speed).

Course Number:  31210

Course Title: Differential Equations

Prerequisite: 10141

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Third Semester

Credit Hours: 4

This course deals with the identification of the basic principles of differentiation, as it explores the differential equations of degree, the first, second and top grades and methods of solving them as well as standard or classical equations and numerical methods.

Course Number: 31220

Course Title: Surveying I

Prerequisite: 10141

Language of instruction: Arabic

Course Level: Third Semester

Credit Hours: 3

This course covers the following topics:

·         Chain survey, leveling, contouring.

·         Traversing and its computations, theodolites.

·         Area and its computation; volumes from cross-sections and contours.

·         Tachometry system.

·         Plane table.

Course Number: 31221

Course Title: Surveying II

Prerequisite: 31220

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Fourth Semester

Credit Hours: 3

This course addresses the basic principles of curves (vertical transitional circular) and working principles, telemetry devices and introduction to astronomy, and aerial photography.

Course Number: 31222

Course Title: Surveying Lab. II

Prerequisite: 31221

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Fourth Semester

Credit Hours: 2

This course deals with the identification and training of surveying devices, the theodolite apparatus and the Checkerboard leveling apparatus.

Course Number: 31230

Course Title: Geology

Prerequisite: None

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Third Semester

Credit Hours: 4

This course deals with the identification of the basic principles of geology so that it studies the Earth’s formations of rocks, minerals, nature of their composition, deformations of rocks and phenomena resulting from earthquakes and their applications from dams and tunnels. The studies of landslides and the nature of surface and ground water are also included.

Course Number: 31240

Course Title: Building Construction

Prerequisite: None

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Fourth Semester

Credit Hours: 2

This course introduces the construction industry forms of business ownership; Legal contracts and relations – Concrete: foundational materials and properties, mix design, strength and durability, mixing and quality control Steel: Structure –

Characteristics, deformation properties, creep and fatigue cost accounting and financial evaluation of the proposed projects.

Course Number: 31250

Course Title: Strength of Materials

Prerequisite: 31200

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Fourth Semester

Credit Hours: 4

This course includes

•         Stresses and strains, linearly elastic material, axial forces, bending moment,          shear force and torsional moment.

•         Combined stresses.

•         Mohr’s circle.

•         Deflections of beams.

•         Buckling of columns.

Course Number: 31251

Course Title: Strength of Materials Laboratory

Prerequisite: 31250

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Fourth Semester

Credit Hours: 1

This course focuses on the following topics:

•         Tensile and compressive tests for ductile, semi ductile and brittle materials.

•         Bending tests for metallic and non-metallic beams.

•         Torsion tests of metallic shafts.

•         Tests for shear in connections.

Course Number: 31260

Course Title: Linear Algebra

Prerequisite: 10141

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Fourth Semester

Credit Hours: 4

•         Arabic +English Vector spaces, matrices and determinants, simultaneous linear equations, linear transformations, eigenvalue problems, canonical forms, numerical linear algebra, linear differential equations, linear programming, inner product spaces.

•         Applications in various areas such as control theory.

•         Statistics, linear circuit and vibration theory, etc.

Course Number: 31300

Course Title: Fluid Mechanics

Prerequisite: 10141

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Fifth Semester

Credit Hours: 3

This course focuses on the following topics:

•         Fluid properties.

•         Fluid statics.

•         Fluid flow concepts and equations.

•         Viscous effects-fluid resistance.

•         Compressible flow.

•         Ideal fluid flow.

•         Flow in closed conduits and open channels.

Course Number: 31301

Course Title: Fluid Mechanics Laboratory 

Prerequisite: 31300

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Fifth Semester

Credit Hours: 1

This Lab course investigates the following topics:

•         Fluid properties.

•         Center of pressure.

•         Metering hydraulic jump.

•         Hydraulic and energy grade lines in pipe flow.

•         Flow in pipe networks.

•         Potential flow.

•         Compressible flow.

•         Flow visualization.

•         Electric analogy.

•         Impulse turbines.

•         Hydraulic machinery.

Course Number: 31310

Course Title: Structural Analysis I

Prerequisite: 31250

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Fifth Semester

Credit Hours: 4

The course includes

•         Statical determinacy.

•         Analysis of beams, frames and trusses; shear and moment diagrams; influence lines.

•         Deflection analysis using moment area and conjugate-beam methods.

•         Use of moment distribution in indeterminate structures (without sway).

Course Number: 31311

Course Title: Structural Analysis II

Prerequisite: 31310

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Sixth Semester

Credit Hours: 4

This course further studies the following topics:

•         Statical determinacy.

•         Analysis of beams, frames and trusses; shear and moment diagrams; influence lines.

•         Deflection analysis using moment area and conjugate-beam methods.

•         Use of moment distribution in indeterminate structures (without sway).

Course Number: 31320

Course Title: Soil Mechanics

Prerequisite: 31250

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Fifth Semester

Credit Hours: 4

This course focuses on the study of simple soil properties, particle size distribution, sedimentation, atterberg limits, soil classification, permeability and seepage, flow nets, compaction of soils, stress in soils, consolidation and settlement, and shear strength of soils.

Course Number: 31321

Course Title: Soil Mechanics Laboratory

Prerequisite: 31320

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Fifth Semester

Credit Hours: 1

This Lab course investigates moisture content; relative density, in-situ density, atterberg limits, grain size analysis; standard and modified proctor test, California bearing ratio (C.B.R); and consolidation; shear strength of soils and field collection of samples.

Course Number: 31330

Course Title: Civil Engineering Materials

Prerequisite: None

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Fifth Semester

Credit Hours: 3

This course includes the following topics:

•         Concrete: Constituent materials and their properties, mix design, strength and durability, admixture and quality control.

•         Steel: Structure, properties, deformation characteristics, creep and fatigue.

Course Number: 31331

Course Title: Civil Engineering Materials Laboratory

Prerequisite: 31330

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Fifth Semester

Credit Hours: 1

This Lab course investigates the following topics:

•         Cement: Properties, tests, admixtures, and manufacture.

•         Aggregate: Sampling, fineness modulus, and surface chemistry and tests.

•         Concrete Mix: Design, slump, modulus of rupture, strength and durability and testing.

Course Number: 31340

Course Title:

Principles of Electrical Engineering

Prerequisite: None

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Fifth Semester

Credit Hours: 3

This course deals with getting to know the principles of Electrical Engineering and includes basic definitions (current, charge, voltage … etc.), Ohm’s Law, Kirchhoff’s law, Equivalent Resistance (respectively, Parallel), Division Current and voltage, analysis of simple and networked circuits, transmission of electric energy, electrical power and its parameters.

Course Number: 31350

Course Title: Design of Steel Structures

Prerequisite: 31310

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Sixth Semester

Credit Hours: 4

This course focuses on the following topics:

Uses (features, defects, structural sectors used in construction, necessary proofs, loads), Fastening devices (rivets, nuts, welds), tension members (central, decentralized, structural members exposed to torque  (pressure organs) central, decentralized, single pressure organs, compound pressure organs, buckling), Cameras (simple bending stresses, double bending stresses, twisting), wall brackets, design Full truss with graphics and details.

Course Number: 31360

Course Title: Hydrology

Prerequisite: 31300

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Sixth Semester

Credit Hours: 3

This course deals with the identification of: surface water, rain, evaporation, leaching, and runoff, hydroponic soil moisture, drainage of water resources, and systems of water sources.

Course Number: 31370

Course Title: Highway and Transportation

Prerequisite: 31221

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Sixth Semester

Credit Hours: 3

This course deals with the identification of:

Rout location, highway materials, drainage geometric design, traffic survey and control, bituminous and concrete pavement design, and environmental impact.

Course Number: 31380

Course Title: Environmental Engineering I

Prerequisite: 31300

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Sixth Semester

Credit Hours: 3

This course focuses on the following topics:

Estimate of water quantity. Design of water supply networks including pumping stations and storage capacity. Types of Water Pipes. Lifting pumps. Excavation and Backfill. Testing the new pipelines.

Course Number: 31390

Course Title: Concrete  I

Prerequisite: 31310

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Sixth Semester

Credit Hours: 4

The course includes the following topics:

•         Reinforced concrete: Behavior studies, introduction to working stress design, codes and specification requirements.

•         Ultimate strength design: Beams, one way slabs, columns to accommodate for flexure, shear, bond and development length and defecting.

Course Number: 31400

Course Title: Concrete  II

Prerequisite: 31390

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Seventh Semester

Credit Hours: 4

This course deals with the identification of: design of two-way slabs – design of single foundations – design connected piling – Retaining walls design, stairs design, and integrated building project.

Course Number: 31410

Course Title: Environmental Engineering II

Prerequisite: 31380

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Seventh Semester

Credit Hours: 3

The course includes the following topics:

Types of wastewater – Estimate the quantity of sewage and storm water -Storm water drainage design – Appurtenances sewer- Loads on buried pipes. Pumping sewage.

Course Number: 31420

Course Title: Quantities and Specification

Prerequisite: None

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Seventh Semester

Credit Hours: 2

This course includes the following topics:

•         Contract procedure and administration.

•         Inviting tenders.

•         Preparation of bills of quantities.

•         Quantities in geotechnical processes.

•         Concrete, piling, timber, steel, and other metals, roads and paving.

•         An integrated project that introduces the study of general and special specifications, bill of quantities and account papers, and calculate costs.

Course Number: 31430

Course Title: Foundation Engineering

Prerequisite: 31230

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Seventh Semester

Credit Hours: 4

This course includes the following topics:

•         Soil exploration.

•         Bearing capacity theories.

•         Field determination.

•         Theory of consolidation.

•         Settlement analysis.

•         General design criteria of footing and rafts.

•         Pile foundation.

•         Stability of slopes.

•         Earth pressure.

•         Retaining wall.

Course Number: 31440

Course Title: Highway  Laboratory

Prerequisite: 31370

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Seventh Semester

Credit Hours: 1

This Lab course deals with the identification of: Aggregates Tests – Sieve Analysis. Los Angeles Abrasion Test on Aggregates. Water Content. Asphalt Tests.

Course Number: 31450

Course Title: Introduction to The Graduation Project

Prerequisite: None

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Seventh Semester

Credit Hours: 3

The student submits three proposals for the graduation project, specifying the advantages and disadvantages of each proposal. The student is guided by the criteria for choosing proposals on the following basis:

• The project should be within the fields of civil engineering.

• The project should be vital and appropriate to the future needs of Libya.

After approving the proposal for each student of the project by the department council, the student will:

• The student studies design standards, design and construction systems, and mechanical services engineering and used in such a project.

• Through the student’s study of site conditions as well as similar examples and standards, the student will reach. A detailed design survey program showing the size of the project and the number and types of beneficiaries from it, as well It specifies the main components of the project and the functional relationships between these components.

• The stages of the research work are discussed by the course professors.

• A date for the final discussion, as well as the committee supervising the discussion, will be fixed by the department council for a purpose approving the program and the site of the project.

Course Number: 31451

Course Title: Graduation Project

Prerequisite: 31450

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Eighth  Semester

Credit Hours: 5

• Practical application to the subject of the study chosen during the preliminary studies course according to the work stages (Collect data and information on the current situation, analyze the current situation, find alternatives and the survey program – –

Final designs and final report).

• Discussing scientific methods in analyzing engineering problems and methods of treating them. Laboratory experiments, computer field visits, applications of practical use of devices and advanced technology in the field specialization.

Course Number: 31460

Course Title: Practical Training

Prerequisite: None

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Fourth Semester

Credit Hours:  3

The student is trained to field work and methods of work of the engineering sector by specialization chosen by the student or what he finds appropriate for him in terms of acquiring the necessary skills to get to know the way a sector works.

Course Number: 31441

Course Title: Engineering Management I

Prerequisite: None

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Seventh or Eighth  Semester

Credit Hours: 4

This course deals with the identification of: construction work – types of contracts and legal relations, structure organizational, work relationships and Incentives Planning Work Schedules Cost Accounting Financial Evaluation of the Project financial statements data.

Course Number: 31442

Course Title: Harbour Engineering

Prerequisite: 31230

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Seventh or Eighth  Semester

Credit Hours: 4

This course contains: wind analysis wave study sea level changes coastal currents and movement Sedimentary materials are an introduction to the beaches protection works. Ports design: (Elements and port planning Elements Port planning, wave barriers, docks, port facilities), harbor environmental impacts.

Course Number: 31443

Course Title: Airport Engineering

Prerequisite: 31370

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Seventh or Eighth  Semester

Credit Hours: 4

This course deals with the identification of the airport building planning, runway specifications and design, the design and installation of the wharf .The airport also studies internal traffic and airport capacity, and the design of airstrips and takeoff and environment features the basic airport.

Course Number: 31444

Course Title: Advanced Engineering Mathematics

Prerequisite: 31210

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Seventh or Eighth  Semester

Credit Hours: 4

This course covers parameters, laws, theorems and the different methods of solutions in advanced mathematics, and their application in the field of civil engineering. Topics

include Complex numbers and complex variables, Laplace and inverse Laplace transforms, Power series, Fourier series, Fourier transforms, Z-transforms, power series solution of ordinary differential equations, and partial differential equations.

Course Number: 31445

Course Title: Surface and Groundwater

Prerequisite: 31360

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Seventh or Eighth  Semester

Credit Hours: 4

Natural Processes of Ground-water and Surface-water Interaction. The Effect of Ground-Water Withdrawals on Surface Water. Water quality criteria and fundamentals of acceptability. Natural purification of surface waters. Processes employed in the treatment of water. Ground Water Under the Direct Influence of Surface Water. Groundwater and Surface Water Treatment Processes

Course Number: 31446

Course Title: Geodetic Surveying  

Prerequisite:31221

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Seventh or Eighth  Semester

Credit Hours: 4

The history of geodesy including measurement techniques, coordinate systems, ellipsoids, and datum is reviewed. The modern geodetic and Cartesian coordinates systems, as well as the differences between grid and ground coordinates systems, and the current geodetic and Cartesian coordinate systems available today are discussed.

Course Number: 31447

Course Title :Traffic and Transport 

Prerequisite: 31370

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Seventh or Eighth  Semester

Credit Hours: 4

This course deals with fundamental introduction of traffic engineering, such as human

factor design, geometric design and section design, traffic flow theory analysis,

capacity analysis, traffic count methods, signalized intersection analysis; introduction

of ITS Problems in modern transportation systems will be introduced. The course will cover transportation planning and traffic engineering issues on highways and urban streets, while traffic simulation and animation will be applied to help students identify the problems. The concepts of highway (e.g., freeways, arterials and urban streets) operations and capacity, speed-flow-density relationships, traffic flow theory, ramp and weaving sections will be introduced prior to computer simulation analysis. The concepts of bus transit capacity and service quality as well as bus transit scheduling problems will be introduced.

Course Number: 31448

Course Title: Advanced Soil Mechanics 

Prerequisite: 31230

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Seventh or Eighth  Semester

Credit Hours: 4

This course deals with: Elasticity, Plasticity, Yield and Basic Soil Models. Critical State Soil Mechanics (CSSM) ,  Shear Strength, Cam Clay Models, Applications of CSSM , Pile foundations. Underground Megastructures. Building pit. Walls and lateral stress. Anchors, struts and wales. Natural floor & heave. Failure modes.

Course Number: 31449

Course Title: Engineering Management II

Prerequisite: 31441

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Seventh or Eighth  Semester

Credit Hours: 4

This course introduces recognition:

• How to prepare a work environment in the Primavera program.

• How to prepare data in the form of planning documents for introduction to the program.

• How to prepare a schedule using Primavera program.

• How to analyze resource activities of project activities.

•How to estimate project cost and prepare cost schedule.

• How to prepare a plan to follow up the implementation of the project and update the schedule and cost schedule.

• How to prepare schedule and cost schedule reports.

Course Number: 31452

Course Title: Public Health Engineering I (Water Treatment)

Prerequisite: 31380

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Seventh or Eighth  Semester

Credit Hours: 4

This course introduces recognition:

• Water characteristics (Chemical, Physical and Biological).

• Water treatment processes Design (Sedimentation, Coagulation and Flocculation. Filtration)

• Water disinfection.

• Remove the salts dissolved in water (Desalination processes) .

•Water quality parameters.

• Water quality monitoring.

Course Number: 31453

Course Title: Public Health Engineering II (Wastewater Treatment)

Prerequisite: 31410

Language of instruction: Arabic +English

Course Level: Seventh or Eighth  Semester

Credit Hours: 4

This course introduces recognition:

• Definition of terms of Wastewater.

• Wastewater components and Characteristics (Physical, Chemical and Biological)

• Wastewater treatment processes.

• Design of Suspended and growth Wastewater treatment system.

•Sludge Digestion.

• Wastewater Disposal methods.