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Academic Programs
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The following academic programs are proposed and will link the California Pavement Preservation Center with the CSU, Chico Department of Civil Engineering. New academic programs must go through their review process that involves the faculty and administration of the CSU. The first two programs listed here are extensions of existing academic programs and can be implemented fairly quickly. Programs to follow will require the ordinary academic review and development. Nevertheless, it is the intention of the California Pavement Preservation Center to propose the new programs and to do all that is necessary to have them established. The following are brief descriptions of the proposed programs: | |
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The California Pavement Preservation Center will offer a 12 unit graduate level certificate in pavement preservation. The first course offering in the pavement preservation graduate certificate program will be CIVL 698 and is planned to begin in spring semester 2008. The course titled, Strategies for Selecting Pavement Preservation Techniques, is a one semester unit, Web based offering. The course is a graduate level course and is intended for graduates in Civil Engineering or Construction Management. Others with appropriate backgrounds in related areas may take the course. Eleven additional one unit courses will be offered in subsequent semesters and will need to be completed to attain the certificate.
The course examines strategies for selecting pavements for preventive maintenance and selecting the appropriate treatments for those pavements. The course covers such topics as the identification of pavement conditions and other factors that suggest that preventive maintenance is appropriate for a given pavement, to identify feasible treatments for a given pavement, and to select the most appropriate treatment for a pavement. This courses target audience is maintenance engineers, planners, and field personnel in highway and public works agencies. There will be two web based exams as part of the course. Each student will be required to produce a Term Pavement Preservation Paper. Students will be required to review papers by other students and receive constructive comments on their paper prior to submitting a final paper. The course instructor is Mary Stroup Gardiner, formerly a Professor at Auburn University in Civil Engineering. Dr. Gardiner will begin her new position as a Senior Pavement Preservation Engineer at the Center on January 2, 2008. The course was developed by Dennis Gier, a registered civil engineer and member of the CSU, Chico Construction Management faculty. Students enrolling in the course will be able to work at their own pace on the Web. The course will begin on January 28 and end May 23, 2008. For instructions to enroll in the course contact Linda Farrell at lfarrell@csuchico.edu or Tom Ferrara, at tferrara@csuchico.edu. Most off campus students will enroll through the Regional and Continuing Education Open University program. The fee for the one unit course is $175. Students need to complete the enrollment process by February 1. Contact and initiation of paperwork should start two weeks earlier.
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The existing Bachelor of Science program in civil engineering contains patterns. Currently there are patterns in structures, water resources, transportation, construction engineering, and environmental engineering. It is anticipated that once the California Pavement Preservation Center is established, a pattern will be added in pavement preservation. The Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering is a general program that includes a wide range of mathematics, science, engineering science, and civil engineering practice oriented courses. The patterns allow students to select elective portions of the program in a specialty. The pavement preservation pattern would include a physical geology course, two civil engineering courses in the area of pavement preservation, and a technical course that supports the discipline of pavement preservation.
- The CSU, Chico campus currently offers a Masters of Science degree in interdisciplinary studies. Once courses have been established, students will be encouraged to develop individual programs that combine the discipline of pavement preservation with work in other applicable areas. Other areas of study that will augment detailed studies in pavement preservation may be mathematics, economics, geography, and geological and physical sciences as well as other courses offered in the College of Engineering such as Finite Element Analysis.
- A certificate program in pavement preservation will be developed in detail and proposed within one year of the establishment of a center. To obtain a certificate in pavement preservation, a student will be required to have completed a bachelor's degree in any subject area. The bachelor's degree would include studies in advance algebra, statistics, physics, chemistry, and geology. To obtain the certificate a student must complete 12 semester units in courses that focus upon pavement preservation. These courses would be offered on the internet. It would not be necessary for students earning the certificate to spend time in residence at CSU, Chico. Students would likely be required to take a written exam to earn the certificate.
- Within three years of the establishment of the center, a Master's of science in pavement preservation engineering will be developed. The degree requirements will be very similar in structure to the interdisciplinary Master's degree described in item two above, but the degree will have its own unique title and more specific requirements.
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| | All of the academic programs described here are to be offered through the Department of Civil Engineering at California State University, Chico. Funding for the specific courses will come from the California Pavement Preservation Center, its sponsors, and CSU, Chico. A series of stipends and scholarships will be established by the center to provide financial support to some or all the students enrolled in the pavement preservation courses and programs. The Department of Civil Engineering will assign an individual instructor to each course offered. The instructor may be the pavement preservation center director, the technical director, a member of the civil engineering faculty, or one of the full-time pavement preservation engineers employed at the center. Certainly, each course will be supported by others involved with the center in addition to the individual instructor assigned to the course.
Examples of course titles to be offered are provided below: - Asphalt Concrete Pavement Maintenance
- Portland Cement Concrete Pavement Maintenance
- Economics of Pavement Preservation
- Pavement Management Systems
- Pavement Engineering, CE 581 (Fall 2006, starting August 24)
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Continuing Education Units may be earned through the Center. Fees apply. Check back soon for more information, or contact the Center office. | |
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