1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

Recommended reading
Building Code of Australia 1990, 2nd edn, Canberra, Australian
Uniform Building Regulations Co-ordinating Council, 1990
Building Control Act 1981, Melbourne, Victorian Govt.
Publishing Office
Victoria Building Regulations
Relevant Australian standards
CE294B Town Planning
3 credit points 2 hours per week (sem. 2) Hawthorn
Prerequisite: CE192 Statutory Control Instruction:
lectures, tutorials Assessment: examination 70%, assessed
work, assignments 30%
This is a second year subject in the Bachelor of Technology
(Building Surveying)
Objectives
This subject introduces students to problems in planned
development in urban and rural environments.
Content
The planning process; the purpose of planning, historical
development of urban settlements, sociological effects of the
built environment. Administration of planning schemes.
Residential planning standards. Basic surveys of planning,
the use of remote sensing in urban planning. Introduction to
GIS Systems for planning purposes.
Recommended reading
Hall, P. (1975) Urban & Regional Planning. Harmondsworth,
I?enguin,'l975
McHarg, I.L., Design with Nature. Gordon City, New York,
Natural History Press for the American Museum of Natural
History, 1969
CE297 Management
5 credit points per semester 2 hours per week (sems 1 & 2)
Hawthorn Prerequisite: CE196 Communications
Instruction: lectures, tutorials and field work
Assessment: examination 70%, assessed work 30%
This is a second year subject in the Bachelor of Technology
(Building Surveying)
Content
This subject introduces students to accounting, financial
reports and project evaluation. This subject includes
introduction to accounting, - analysis and interpretation of
financial reports, cost accounting? project evaluation -
financial analysis techniques applicable to projects.
Recommended reading
Bird, R.G., McDonald, M.G., McHugh, A.J., Manugemat
Accounting Processing, Evaluation and Using Cost Data. Sydney,
Butterworths, 1982
Swinburne Institute of Technology and Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology. Introductov Accounting and Finance for
Management. 1984
CE301 Engineering Computing
fi credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: examination 30%, assignment 70%
This is a third year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Civil)
Objectives
To develop an understanding of the operation and use of
microcomputer systems in an engineering environment.
To introduce students to structured BASIC and Fortran
languages.
Content
Introduction to microcomputers, basic architecture, local
area networks, terminology.
Microcomputer hardware CPU evolution, storage mediums,
graphics cards, peripheral devices such as plotters and
printers.
Operating systems role and function, review of MS-DOS,
graphical user interfaces.
Programming computer programming techniques,
structured programming and program documentation.
Programming BASIC, including input/output routines,
control procedures, sub-program procedures, mathematical
and string functions, file handling. Overview of other
programming languages, introduction to Fortran.
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Recommended reading
Jamsa, K.A., MS.DOS QBasic. Redmond. Wash., Microsoft Press,
1991
Robertson, L.A., Simple Program Design. 2nd edn, South
Melbourne, Nelson, 1990
Schneider, D.I., QBasic Programming. New York, Brady, 1991
The Waite Groups. Microsoft QuickBasic Bible. Redmond, Wash.,
Microsoft Press, 1990
CE311 Structural Mechanics
7 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: exarnination/luboratory
This is a third year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Civil)
Objectives
To develop an understanding of structure behaviour in
skeletal frame systems with an emphasis on computer
methods, balanced with approximate methods of analysis.
Content
Statically determinate structures deflections, by virtual
work methods, due to axial force, bending, shear and
torsion;
statically indeterminate structures flexibility method of
analysis, applied to structures of one and two degrees of
statical indeterminacy, moment distribution method
applied to continuous beams and no-sway frames, effects
of temperature, support settlement, misfit of members,
approximate analysis, matrix analysis by the general
stiffness method;
plastic analysis of structures applications to beams and
frames;