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Numbers and names of courses Terms and years Credits

1 EAP506 – Graduate communication in the Spring 2018 4 credits

disciplines 1 (4 credits)
2 EAP505 – Special Topics in Advanced English for Spring 2018 2 credits
Academic Purposes (2 credits)

3 Spring 2018 2 credits

PROV501 – Introduction to graduate study 1 (2
credits

4 CEIE636 – Sources of Geotechnical Engineering (3 Spring 2018 3 credits

credits) – Core 1
5  PROV502 – Introduction to graduate study Summer 2018 2 credits
2 (2 credits)

6  EAP507 – Graduate communication in the Summer 2018 4 credits

disciplines 2 (4 credits)

7  EAP510 – Linguistics Capstone (0 credit) Summer 2018 0 credits

8  CEIE605 – Risk Uncertainty System Analysis Fall 2018 3 credits

(3 credits)

9  CEIE535 – Engineering Geology (3 credits) – Fall 2018 3 credits

Elective 1

10  CEIE639 – Tunneling and Ground Fall 2018 2 credits

Improvement (3 credits) – Elective 2

11  CEIE795 – Seminars (0 credit) Fall 2018 0 credits

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Numbers and names of courses Terms and years Credits

12 CEIE601 – Infrastructure modeling (3 Spring 2019 3 credits

credits)

13 CEIE532 – Foundation design (3 credits) – Spring 2019 3 credits

Elective 3

14 CEIE799 - Research (3 credit) Spring 2019 3 credits

15 CEIE795 – Seminars (0 credit) Spring 2019 0 credit

16 CEIE638 – Advanced Foundations Design (3 Fall 2019 3 credits
credits) – Core 2

17 CEIE_*___ - Core 3 to be determined (3 Fall 2019 3 credits

credits)

18 CEIE799 - Research (3 credits) Fall 2019 3 credits

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Advisor’s name, telephone number, e-mail and signature:

Burak F. TANYU
Associate Professor, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering
Tel: (703) 993-9790
Email: btanyu@gmu.edu

Planlanan öğrenin seviyesi ve derece alınacak tarih : 22/12/2019

Öğrencinin adı-soyadı ve imzası

Muhammed Emin AYTEKİN

Öğrenim süreleri

Yüksek lisans öğrenimi için tanınan süre 2 yıl, doktora öğrenimi için tanınan süre ise 4 yıldır.
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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Course name Descriptions

1 EAP506 – Graduate Students develop strategies for completing research-based

communication in the writing and presentations in their field and review
disciplines 1 (4 credits) rhetorical structures and organizational strategies common
to US scholarly communications generally and in their
particular field. Students will practice strategies at the
sentence and discourse levels to increase the clarity,
precision, and appropriateness of their communication
skills. Group instruction will be supplemented by one-on-
one conferencing. Offered by INTO Mason. May not be
repeated for credit.
2 EAP505 – Special Topics This special topics course is tailored to international
in Advanced English for students who received their undergraduate degrees
Academic Purposes (2 outside the United States. The course provides intensive
credits) practice and individualized feedback in advanced
communication methods appropriate at the graduate level.
3 Designed particularly for the Graduate International Year
INYO 501: Graduate One program, this course is the first of a two-part
Transitions for transitional course series designed for international
International Students students who are studying abroad, emphasizing
I. development, readiness, and success for
Graduate/Professional school enrollment. This first course
covers U.S. educational systems, university policies and
procedures, writing skills and research resources, and
graduate school study skills and methods. Notes: This
course is for graduate students whose highest degree is
from a non-US institution. This course may not count
towards academic degree requirements at the graduate
level. Enrolled students are required to take INYO 502 the
following consecutive semester.
4 CEIE636 – Sources of Resources for conducting desk top studies; tools for field
Geotechnical investigations; subsurface investigations (options and
Engineering (3 credits) selection of techniques); laboratory testing of soil and
– Core 1 rock; accepted testing procedures; typical values;
empirical relationships between properties and testing
techniques; risk and uncertainty; use of lab testing, insitu
strength testing, and empirical methods in design;
identifying slickensides
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5  INYO 502: Designed particularly for the Graduate International Year One
Graduate program, this second of a two-part transitional course series is
Transitions designed for international students who are studying abroad,
for emphasizing development, readiness, and success for Graduate
school enrollment. This course covers cultural adjustment to life
International
and education in the U.S., program development, university
Students II resources, career planning as well as professional and personal
presentation skills. Notes: This course is for graduate students
whose highest degree is from a non-US institution. This course
may not count towards academic degree requirements at the
graduate level, depending on the pathway program.
6  EAP507 – The second course in a series that helps students develop strategies for
Graduate completing research-based writing and presentations in their field.
communication Students will review rhetorical structures and organizational strategies
in the common to US scholarly communications generally and in their particular
disciplines 2 (4 field. Students will also practice strategies at sentence and discourse levels
credits) to increase the clarity, precision, and appropriateness of their
communication skills.
7  EAP510 – Course builds on work in language support classes throughout
Linguistics the program and enables students to demonstrate acceptable
Capstone (0 mastery of their academic English language skills in reading,
credit) writing, speaking, listening, grammar, and vocabulary. Students
take proficiency assessment receive feedback on skills, and
review post-program language support resources.
8  CEIE605 – Risk Probability and statistics topics for analysis of infrastructure
Uncertainty systems. Includes Bayesian decision theory, decision trees,
System Analysis Monte Carlo analysis, stochastic models, simulation, and
(3 credits) economic analysis of infrastructure projects and systems.

9  CEIE535 – Introduction to formation and occurrence of earth materials -

Engineering rock and soil; weathering processes, geomorphology, structural
Geology (3 geology, interpreting topographic and geologic maps; field
credits) – investigation fundamentals, field engineering properties of soil
and rock; standards and terminology; rock mass engineering
Elective 1
classification systems; subsurface water control; rock as a
construction material; special case studies in foundations, such
as sinkholes, waste impoundments , dam failures, earth spillway
performance
10  CEIE639 – Advanced topics in recently developed areas of geotechnical
Tunneling and engineering
Ground
Improvement
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(3 credits) –
Elective 2


11  CEIE795 – Invited speakers, faculty, and CEIE graduate students
Seminars (0 lecture on current topics and research. Fulfills seminar
credit) requirement for MS in civil and infrastructure engineering.
Notes: Students must enroll in CEIE 795 each semester
(fall and spring) for the duration of their MS studies.

12 CEIE601 – Infrastructure Concepts of modeling for infrastructure engineering

modeling (3 credits) systems. Covers deterministic and stochastic modeling,
multi-objective decision-making, and solution algorithms
for civil infrastructure problems
13 CEIE532 – Foundation Introduction to various principles and practice of
design (3 credits) – geotechnical engineering including estimation of soil
Elective 3 properties using in-situ tests, laboratory tests, and
correlations. Course includes the study of earth pressure
theories as applied to the design of retaining walls,
anchored bulkheads, and excavation bracing. Additional
topics include retaining wall stability, bearing capacity
and settlement of shallow foundations on sands and clays
and design considerations for deep foundations.
14 CEIE799 - Research (3 Introduction to various principles and practice of
credit) Master thesis geotechnical engineering including estimation of soil
properties using in-situ tests, laboratory tests, and
correlations. Course includes the study of earth pressure
theories as applied to the design of retaining walls,
anchored bulkheads, and excavation bracing. Additional
topics include retaining wall stability, bearing capacity
and settlement of shallow foundations on sands and clays
and design considerations for deep foundations.
15 CEIE795 – Seminars (0 Invited speakers, faculty, and CEIE graduate students
credit) lecture on current topics and research. Fulfills seminar
requirement for MS in civil and infrastructure
engineering. Notes: Students must enroll
in CEIE 795 each semester (fall and spring) for the
duration of their MS studies. Offered by Civil, Environ &
Infrastr Engr
16 CEIE638 – Advanced Design of shallow and deep foundations for civil
Foundations (3 credits) engineering structures, including time rate of
– Core 2 consolidation settlement, stress distribution, elastic
settlement, and bearing capacity. Driven piles and drilled
shafts subjected to axial and lateral loading, both single
and group action
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17 CEIE_*___ - Core 3 to be
determined (3 credits)

18 CEIE799 - Research (3 Research project chosen and completed under guidance

credits) of graduate faculty member that results in technical
report acceptable to three-faculty-member committee,
and an oral defense.
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Adviser comments:

(Your ability to complete your degree plan in two years, strictly depends on you being able to
take these courses at the designated semesters and complete your research on time)

If the core 3 does not get offered in Fall 2019, then your graduation will have to be postpone to
the end of Spring 2020 (May 2020).

Same is true, if Into MASON does not allow you to take elective 2 in Fall 2018, then your
graduation will have to be postpone to the end of Spring 2020 (May 2020).

In these cases, you can take one or two of the courses below:

Spring 2020 – (3 credits)

 CEIE531 – Earth Retaining Structures and Slope Stability (3 credits) – Core 3
 CEIE634 – Groundwater and Geoenvironmental Design (3 credits) – Core 4