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The graduated assistance is an acknowledgment granted by the Department of Civil Engineering to outstanding students that allows them to participate in research processes. The objective of this subject is to assess the performance of students as graduated assistants in research projects.
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This is an acknowledgment granted by the Department of Civil Engineering to outstanding students that allows them to participate in scholar processes. The objective of this subject is to evaluate the performance of students as scholar-undergraduate monitors.
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Ramirez Rodriguez Fernando
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Ramos Juan
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The objective of this subject is to provide the methodology and the necessary guidelines to develop the research project. During the classes, there will be an introduction about the conferences the professors will give, in order to provide information about the topics of research.
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Ramirez Rodriguez Fernando
This subject takes place during the first part of the Dissertation cycle. The final outcome is a meaningful contribution to the global achievements of the research project. The objective of this course is that the student gets acquainted with the topic of the research project, revises the available bibliography for that topic, gets to know the required knowledge for the writing of the said project, performs laboratory essays that make him/her become familiar with the procedures, problems, result assessment and interpretation, should the investigation be experimental.
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Ramirez Rodriguez Fernando
Individual work done by the students of the master program on Civil Engineering. It consists on the research of community problems, under the guidance of a professor working under the resources and action lines of the department. It includes: revision of knowledge on the topic, theoretical bases, hypo Dissertation and original theories, experimental verification, conclusions and recommendations. Written document and oral defense before a qualifying jury
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Development and study of specialized topics, not included within regular courses of the master´s degree, with the guidance of professors working in the same area.
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Ramirez Rodriguez Fernando
Project on applied research that must be conducted by the students of the master´s degree. These projects do not require the development of a Dissertation. This work is done by the student under the guidance of a professor with specific knowledge in the area of work.
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Ramirez Rodriguez Fernando
Undergraduate students have the opportunity to take courses from the master´s degree as part of their elective courses. The level requirement allows filtering the students so that they comply with the prerequisites of the post-graduate studies they desire to take.
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Ramirez Rodriguez Fernando
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Ramirez Rodriguez Fernando
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This course focuses on the structuring of Construction Projects based on basic concepts of administration, studying different aspects involved in their development (feasibility, sales, construction, financing, closing, among others). An essential part of the course is the practical work carried out to apply the tools and concepts studied in class.
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General framework of this area, and the construction projects. Costs of the construction projects. Cost structure. Types of budgets. Direct and indirect costs. Analysis of retail prices. Software for the planning and control of budgets. Periods on construction projects. Schedule of activities. CPM networks and bar diagrams. Awarding of economic resources. Programming control. Software for the planning and control of the program. Unification of budgets and schedules: resource flow, cash flow, concept of attained value. Tools for the handling of uncertainty regarding costs and periods. Introduction to Lean Construction. Building information modeling.
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This course will give the student a critical perspective on the computational tools available for helping manage a construction project. It will provide the basis for the proper administration of information to manage organizations and construction projects. The course work focuses on research with exploration and practical work using different tools.
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This module seeks to familiarize the participants with the legal fundamental elements that belong to different areas of Law whose understanding is necessary for a better performance of professionals -not lawyers- who work in the field of construction.
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This course will develop the competencies necessary for an engineer to actively interact in investment decision-making processes in public and private organizations. The student will develop the skills and competencies to be able to evaluate the economic goodness and the implications of the uncertainty and risk in decisions and implementations of engineering projects. He or she will be capable of developing the dimensions of the financial and economic implications of an investment project with an emphasis on engineering projects.
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Villarreal Navarro Julio
Every year the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Universidad de los Andes organizes the Vacation Courses program, also known as the International Summer School. As part of this program we invite professors from foreign universities of recognized prestige to give specialized and advanced courses on topics not covered by the subjects regularly offered by the Department. In many cases the guest professors are world recognized researchers and scholars in their areas of work.
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Ramirez Rodriguez Fernando
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Ramirez Rodriguez Fernando
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The objective of the course is to train students in the management of the basic concepts that will allow them to understand the behavior of the most frequently used in civil works steel structures and to have the basics to perform a design of different types of elements put under different requirements including gravitational, static, dynamic loads and horizontal loads caused by wind and/or earth quakes. Participants study designs responding to tension, compression, and flexion and combined loads such as flexion-compression or shear-tension. Bolt and welded connections are reviewed. By the end of the course, the student will be able to develop a conceptual design of components and its connections applied to buildings, roofs or bridges. Special emphasis is given to seismic behavior of buildings built using steel structures and the special seismic requirements under the applicable regulation. Students will conduct a series of demonstrative experimental tests on different conditions and loads that happen in practice and that help illustrate the theoretical developments of the course. Students carry out a real structure design project.
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Reyes Juan
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Correal Daza Juan
Every year the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Universidad de los Andes organizes the Vacation Courses program, also known as the International Summer School. As part of this program we invite professors from foreign universities of recognized prestige to give specialized and advanced courses on topics not covered by the subjects regularly offered by the Department. In many cases the guest professors are world recognized researchers and scholars in their areas of work.
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4
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Ramirez Rodriguez Fernando
The objective of this course is to provide the bases and fundaments so that the student may understand the origin and evolution of the seismic phenomenon, its modeling, the assessment of threat and future effects, as well as the assessment of the effects they may have on the man-made structures, or upon natural formations with regards to the surface of the land. By the end of the course, the student will be able to handle the concepts associated to seismic engineering, create simplified models of seismic threats and understand the bases to apply different methodologies of analysis and design applied in other courses as structure design, structural dynamics, soils´ dynamics or any similar topic. Furthermore, the student will be taught on how to conduct research on seismic engineering through new and more complex models currently used in this field of science.
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Yamin Luis
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Basic characteristics of soils: the origin and nature of soils, mineralogy, activity, sensitivity, index properties, correlations. Hydrodynamics of porous medium: permeability, tubification, secondary and radial consolidation, drainage. plasticity, cut resistance, and plastic equilibrium: elements of plasticity, cut tests, stress tensors and deformation, theories of plastic equilibrium. Mechanics of partially saturated soils: water retention in soils (suction), permeability and water migration, deformation and cut resistance. Special techniques Compacting techniques.
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Introduction to stability. Economic aspects of landslides. Classification of slope movements. Reconnaissance and research of landslides. Fault systems. Shear resistance in soils with regards to stability. Methods to analyze the stability. Applications run on computers. Prevention, control and landslide correction.
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Lizcano Peñaez Arcesio
Foundation analysis frequently faces complex problems in that land stresses and deformations are the result of the interaction between the soil and the structure in media whose properties can be random. This course will teach the student how to analyze foundation or containment structures, bearing in mind the variables of the terrain and the stochastic variables. We will study diverse problems of interaction between the land and a foundation: foundation slabs with individual or group piles under generalized loads, pile slab systems, excavations with panels or sheet piles. We will also study foundations on complex soils such as compressible soils or expansive or collapsible soils. The course will also look at numeric or physical modeling techniques using geotechnical centrifuges.
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Caicedo Bernardo
Every year the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Universidad de los Andes organizes the Vacation Courses program, also known as the International Summer School. As part of this program we invite professors from foreign universities of recognized prestige to give specialized and advanced courses on topics not covered by the subjects regularly offered by the Department. In many cases the guest professors are world recognized researchers and scholars in their areas of work.
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Ramirez Rodriguez Fernando
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Modern tendencies in the designing of flexible and rigid pavements point at designs based on deformations and stresses in the different layers of the pavement. These design methodologies are known as mechanicist methodologies, to this end, we present first the main properties of the materials making up the pavement: materials with asphaltic or hydraulic binder, or unbinded materials. We also study the methodologies of stress analysis, and deformations in the layers of pavement. We also describe the procedures of design for different structures of pavement: flexible, with thick asphaltic layers, mixed, reversed and rigid. Finally, we present the fashion of involving within the designs the stochastic variables, and we present the methodologies of optimization that involve construction costs and pavement maintenance.
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Caicedo Bernardo
This course will provide the theoretical foundations, concepts, and cutting edge tools necessary to prepare a comprehensive design for a roadway project (rural, semi-urban, or urban) in any of its execution phases (planning, pre-feasibility, feasibility, and construction design). It will also provide the theoretical foundations, concepts, and tools for the comprehensive design of tunnels for roads, highways, and railroads (geometry, ventilation, illumination, traffic, and safety controls)
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Espejo Jairo
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Caro Silvia
The goal of this course is to provide the necessary concepts and methodology to conduct an adequate design of structures for the handling of water.
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Flow in pressure systems. Equations for designing piping. Colebrook-White equation. Design and design algorithms: simple pipes, simple pipes with high minor losses, pipes in series, parallel pipes. Design of main pipe systems. Rotodynamic pumps, designs for piping systems including pumps. Design of piping networks: basic principles, Hardy-Cross methods with flow correction, Hardy -Cross method with head correction, Newton-Raphson method, linear theory method. New methods for calculating and designing networks. Current research on friction factors in pipes. Design of pressure irrigation systems: spray, micro-spray, and drip, calculation of required flows, and required power and diameters.
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Elements of Hydrogeology. Analytic and numeric modeling of flow and contamination of groundwater. Well hydraulics. Design of pumping and monitoring wells. Multiphase flow. Vulnerability analysis. Forensic and hydrogeology risk. Groundwater in geotechnical problems.
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Friction equation in open channels, compound crossover sections, friction linearity. Features of the alluvial channel ways and mountain rivers. Fluvial geomorphology. Erosion and sediment production in basins. Hydraulic aspects of the flow in channels with moving contours. Features and types of sediments. Bed features. Turbulence. Mix length. Speed distribution. Non-permanent flow in channels. Diffusive processes in turbulent flow. Transport of suspended sediments. Transport of bottom-sediments. Modeling and measurement of transport in alluvial channels. Hydraulics and transportation of sediments in mountain rivers. Dynamic equilibrium and answers to channels in hydraulic structures. Fluvial works. Sediment depositing in reservoirs.
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The objective of the course is to analyze the specific problems of transport from a multidisciplinary perspective, making special emphasis in the provision of solutions. In this course we will present general methods of analysis of the supply and demand of transportation systems, as well as the general aspects of design of systems and modes. When the course ends, the students will be able to support a detailed analysis of a transportation system, identify problems, come up with and defend solutions. During the classes we will spark discussions aiming at enhancing the development of the oral skills.
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Lleras German
Why are some transportation plans implemented? But why do the majority of those plans just decorate bookshelves? What role do technicians play in the planning process? How can technicians have an influence on a technical and political process such as planning? How does a democratic society make collective decisions? This course will attempt to give a response to these questions by analyzing case studies, both Colombian and foreign. In addition, the course will look at recent developments in decision-making theory, and developments in the theories on design, analysis, and implementation of transportation plans. The basic objective is to understand the determining factors that lead to the implementation of a plan and lead to the plan meeting its objectives. The course has other objectives such as improving the student’s analytical capacity, his oral and written expression, and his tolerance for the ideas of others.
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Every year the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Universidad de los Andes organizes the Vacation Courses program, also known as the International Summer School. As part of this program we invite professors from foreign universities of recognized prestige to give specialized and advanced courses on topics not covered by the subjects regularly offered by the Department. In many cases the guest professors are world recognized researchers and scholars in their areas of work.
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Ramirez Rodriguez Fernando
This course focuses on the planning, management and operation of public and massive transportation systems. The course analyses the pros and cons of the main technologies of massive transportation with buses, and fast transportation with trains. The course analyzes the fashion to plan the service: how to calculate the size of the fleet, the design of schedules, appointing of drivers to vehicles, plans of operations and real-time operations, among other. The course is based on an real-life application, that will likely consist on studying a solution for public transportation in Bogota´s 7th avenue. Technical visits to the TransMilenio and to Medellin´s Subway (subject to availability of financial resources) will be arranged.
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The objective of this course is to present participants with a vision about inter urban freight transportation, concentrated in Colombia. General aspects connected to the role assigned to transportation within different development plans, the transportation plans and guidelines developed in the Country, the institutional framework, the role of the private sector, and topics such as operation conditions and perspectives towards the future in each of the models will be studied. The general methodology for project evaluation with emphasis in the application of NPV and IRR, including the guidelines of social evaluation of transportation projects will be reviewed. Different means of transportation (roads, fluvial, trains, ports, airports, and intermodal transportation) will be analyzed, pointing out infrastructure weaknesses and strengths, as well as different analysis and construction and maintenance costs evaluation, vehicular operation costs and their relationship with freight and fees for each mode. Existing operational norms and regulations.
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Ospina German
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