Civil and Architectural Engineering

Psychrometrics, human thermal comfort in the internal environment, basic heat transfer in buildings, heating and cooling load calculation, introduction to computerized cooling load calculation, air-c…

This course conveys the fundamentals of photogrammetry. The objective is to supply students with the principles and applications in photogrammetry through image acquisition and measurements. Topics c…

This is an advanced course introducing the basic principles of membrane technology as well as its applications.  Topics covered include membrane materials and their properties, preparation and charac…

AREN6222 – Materials and Technologies of Conservation in Hot regions   Course Description: This course addresses the practical conservation challenges of historic built environments in Oman and the r…

This course concentrates on the Vernacular Architecture in Oman. It aims at introducing in general the typologies of settlements and buildings developed by Omanis through their traditional know-how. …

The course helps to set the stage for student understanding of sustainable building construction: its origins and engineering principles as well as an overview of current design and construction deli…

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 This course covers several geotechnical applications and design of foundations, retaining walls, sheet piles, braced cuts and site investigation. The lectures are supplemented with handouts, tutoria…

This intermediate course introduces the basic concepts of the moment-distribution method and its applications to structures. This is followed by the matrix-flexibility and matrix-stiffness methods fo…

Analysis of structures subjected to dynamic loads. Theory developed for single degree of feedom system and generalized to multiple degree of freedom and continuous systems. Analytical and numerical t…

This intermediate course will cover the design of structural members made of steel. Emphasis will be on the application of the limit state design method of EC3 in the design of Ties, Columns, Beams, …

An advanced course in the concepts of harbor design: coastal zone processes, wave and tide prediction, circulation, on/offshore sediment motion and the general concepts of numerical modeling. Design …

This intermediate course aims to teach the design principles for engineering water works such as pipelines, open channels and turbomachinery. Lectures are supplemented by class tutorials and computer…