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CE496C Professional Project
No. of hours per week: six hours
Prerequisites: CE294 Statutory Control, CE496A
Statutory ControllPlan Checking 3, CE496B
Statutory Planning
Instruction: project work
Assessment: oral presentation 3090, final report
70%
Subject aims and description
A f~nal-year subject of the Degree of Building Surveying,
intended to develop students' initiative and self-education
skills through work in an investigations project in an area
relevant to the course.
References
As per other Statutory Control subjects
~€505 Investigation Project
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: poster paper and oral presentation
lo%, final report 90%
Subject aims
To develop students' initiatiw and self-education skills
through work on an investigation project in an area relevant
to the course.
Subject description
Students will work individually or in small groups on selected
projects under staff supervision and will be required to meet
regularly with their supervisor. In general, projects will be
staff initiated and may arise from staff research or from
proposals put forward by industry or by cooperative
employers. Students may also suggest projects which will
require departmental approval before proceeding.
Each project will require a literature survey and a theoretical
andlor experimental investigation. Results and conclusions
will be presented as a progress report in the form of a
poster paper and an oral presentation, and a final written
report at the conclusion of the project.
CE507 Municipal and Transport Engineering
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No. of hours per week: five hours
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P. To extend students' knowledge and skills in the areas of
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Transport Engineering (twenty-eight hours)
Freight transport: shipping, harbours, dredging, cargo
containers, inland waterways, belt conveyors, air freight,
solids pipelines, ore handling, freight terminals, capacity,
selection of mode, physical distribution.
Passenger transport: fixed guideway, APT proposals, metro,
airports, airport capacity, air traffic control, ferries, selection
of mode.
Road engineering: application of queueing theory, freeway
geometry, traffic law, road hierarchy, road construction,
signing, bikeways, traffic generation, parking, pedestrianised
streets, computer packages for transport analysis.
Environmental considerations: traffic noise, vehicle emissions.
Transport economics, transport administration, transportation
planning.
Municipal Engineering (forty-two hours)
Powers and duties of local government engineers:
responsibilities for new developments, roads and traffic.
transport management, local area traffic management, street
design, road maintenance, parking requirements and control,
property and equipment, solid waste management,
recreation, including consideration of financial planning and
constraints.
Planning: aspects of planning and building control relevant
to local government. Environmental effects statements.
Surveying: introduction to photogrammetry and remote
sensing.
CE516 Structural Engineering (Major Elective)
No. of hours per week: five hours
Assessment: assignmentsllaboratoty
Subject aims
To broaden the students' understanding of the theory of
structural behaviour and to consider some advanced topics
in structural engineering.
Subject description
Energy methods in structural analysis: work and energy,
principle of virtual work, theorem of minimum potential
energy, reciprocal theorems. Applications to buckling
problems.
The behaviour of plates and shells; yield line theory and strip
methods.
Advanced topics of structural engineering; structural
dynamics, earthquake loading and analysis, fire engineering,
floor systems, reinforcing systems, prestressing systems,
fou'ndation design, special structural forms.
References
Chajes, A. Principles of Structural Stability Theory. Englewood Cliffs:
Prentice Hall, 1974
Gordon, J.E. Structures or, why things don't fall down. New York:
Plenum Press. 1978
Smith, J.W. Vibration of Structure. London: New York: Chapman and
Hall, 1988
CE533 Water Engineering (Minor Elective)
No. of hours per week: three hours
Assessment: examination 60%, assignments 40%
Subject aims
To extend students' knowledge and skills into unsteady, nonuniform
flow phenomena. On completion, students should
be able to apply these principles to the solution of practical
problems.
Subject description
Flood estimation methods, flood routing through reservoirs
and retarding storages, streamflow routing, graphical
methods, application of computers in analysis and design.
Urban drainage: major and minor systems, hydrologic and
hydraulic performance of drainage systems for varying
treatments, effects of urban redevelopment, on-site
stormwater detention.
Underground water supplies: steady state hydraulics, safe
yield, artificial recharge, coastal groundwater hydro-dynamics,
non-steady state hydraulics. Theis' solution, degradation of
arable lands by saline groundwater intrusion.
CE553 Structural Design (Minor Elective)
No, of hours per week: three hours
Assessment: examination 60%, assignments 40%
Subject aims
To extend students' knowledge and skills into unsteady, nonuniform
flow phenomena. On completion, stddents should
be able to apply these principles to the solution of practical
problems.