Civil Engineering Systems - CE 399
Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering - Undergraduate, NC State University, 2017
A broad perspective, systematic approach to civil planning, analysis, evaluation and design for large scale projects in construction, structures, transportation, water resources and other civil engineering areas.
Offered during the following semester: Spring 2017
List of Tentative Topics:
1. Introduction
Administrative matters, course overview
2. Linear Programming
Optimization concepts and formulating linear programming problems, graphical solution techniques, the Simplex algorithm, sensitivity analysis
3. Networks
Graph theory, network flows and cut-sets, activity networks and critical-path scheduling, other network problems
4. Integer Programming
Formulating integer programming problems, branch-and-bound method for pure and mixed integer problems
5. Multi-Objective Programming
Formulating problems with multiple objectives, constraint and weighting methods
6. Nonlinear Programming
Convex and concave functions, unconstrained optimization, Lagrange multipliers, Kuhn-Tucker conditions