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equirements and underlying principles in the regulations
and acts pertaining to building control. This subject coven:
administration aspects, functions of building survqrors, acts
and regulations together with plan checking related to
industrial and commercial buildings.
Textbooks
Building Code of Australia
Building Control Act 1981
Victoria Building Regulations
References
Relevant Australian standards
CE294B Town Planning
No. of hours per week: two hours
Prerequisite: CE192 Statutory Control
Instruction: lectures, tutorials
Assessment: examination 70%, assessed work,
assignments 30%
Subject aims and description
A second-year subject of the Degree in Building Surveying,
which introduces students to problems in planned
development in urban and rural environments-.
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. lntroduction to
data bases for planning purposes.
References
Hall, P. (1975) Urban & Regional Planning. Harmondsworth: Rnguin,
1975
McHarg, I.L. Design with Nature. Gordon City. New York: Natural
History Press for the American Museum of Natural History, 1969
CE295 Engineering Management
No, of hours per week: three hours
Assessment: written work 40%, oral presentation
40%, activity participation 20%
Subject aims
To introduce students to autonomous learning, problem
solving, communication and basic management skills. To
facilitate students' practice of these skills.
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Subject description
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Management practice
Students will be encouraged, through active participation, to
acquire and develop the following basic management skills:
problem analysis and problem solving,
(independent) learning,
time management,
material comprehension and critical assessment of
information:
- asking questions,
- reading drawings,
- reading technical information,
- note taking,
- listening,
- library information sources,
teamwork and individual contributions,
written and oral communications,
preparation for and review of lecture material,
interview.
Management theory
introduction to industrial organisations and organisation
management systems,
engineering in conjunction with business management,
people management and personal relations.
CE297 Management
No. of hours per week: two hours for two
semesters
Prerequisite: CE196 Communications
Instruction: lectures, tutorials and field work
Assessment: examination 70%. assessed work
30%
Subject aims and description
A second-year subject of the Degree in Building Surveying,
which 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.
References
Bird, R.G., McDonald, M.G., McHugh, A.J. Management Accounting
Processing, Evaluation and Using Cost Data. Butterworth, 1982
Swinburne Institute of Technology and Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology. lntroductoiy Accounting and Finance for Management.
1985
CE301 Engineering Computing
No, of hours per week: two hours
Assessment: examination 30%, assignment 70%
Subject aims
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.
Subject description
Introduction to microcomputers: basic architecture, local area
networks, terminology.
Microcomputer hardware: CPU evolution, storage mediums,
graphics cards, peripheral dwices such as plotters and
printers.
Operating systems: role and function, rwiew of MS-DOS,
graphical user interfaces.
Programming: computer programming techniques, structured
programming and program documentation. Programming
BASIC, including inputloutput routines, control procedures,
sub-program procedures, mathematical and string functions,
file handling. Overview of other programming languages,
introduction to Fortran.
References
Jamsa, K.A. MS-DOS QBasic. Microsoft Press, 1991
Robertson, L.A. Simple Program Design. Nelson. 1990
Schneider, D.I. QBasic Programming. Brady, 1991
The Waite Group. Microsoft QuickEasic Bible. Micromh Press, 1990
CE311 Structural Mechanics
No. of hours per week: three hours
Assessment: examinationllaboratory
Subject aims
To develop an understanding of structure behaviour in
skeletal frame systems with an emphasis on computer
methods, balanced with approximate methods of analysis.
Subject description
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.