Behavioral models and nonlinear analysis. Structural design of transportation structures. Capstone design experience. Integrates all design fundamentals employed by a typical urban systems design team. Major team efforts include land use, transportation, water and sewerage, stormwater, site analyses, economic considerations, regulatory considerations, sectioning, grading, and siting.
Students focus on teamwork, interdisciplinary interaction, and tradeoff decision making.
Design team analyzes all aspects of a major urban project, develops solutions to design problems, produces a project report and verbal presentation. The design effort proposed is completed and a report prepared, presented, and evaluated. The primary goal of the course is to produce a design for a contemporary urban systems project. May be repeated for maximum of 6 credits if the topics are substantially different. Topics of special interest to undergraduates.