1997 QUT Handbook

Industrial Experience Handbook.
Courses: CE42, CE43, IF42 Contact Hours: 5 weeks
■ CEB201 STEEL STRUCTURES
Structural behaviour and limit state design of steel structures,
first as structural elements such as beams, columns, beamcolumns
and ties, then their connections (bolted and welded)
and simple assemblies. Practical details and economy are discussed.
Site visit and laboratory testing may be included.
Courses: CE42, CE43, IF42 Prerequisites: CEB185
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3.5 per week
■ CEB202 CONCRETE STRUCTURES 1
Basic principles involved in the limit state design of reinforced
concrete structures. The determination of size and reinforcement
to resist shear and bending in beams. Anchorage and detailing
of reinforcement. Deflections in concrete structures and
the analysis of long and short columns in uniaxial bending.
Courses: CE31, CE42, CE43, IF42 Prerequisites: CEB185
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3.5 per week
■ CEB203 CAD FOR CIVIL ENGINEERS
Using personal computers and networks for civil engineering
drafting and design. Software packages such as Autocard, Civil
Cad, Micro-station or their equivalents will be used to prepare
plans and designs for engineering projects.
Courses: CE31
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CEB204 COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
The use and management of information technology related
to civil engineering. Information system design and delivery
mechanisms for the systems. The use of computing systems
for the acquisition, analysis and presentation of data.
Courses: CE31
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CEB211 HIGHWAY ENGINEERING
Highway geometry including vehicle performance and human
factors as they relate to road geometry, geometric design, geometric
coordination and use of computer-aided design. Highway
pavements including pavement materials and construction
processes, pavement cross-sections and drainage, pavement
theory and pavement analysis methods. Construction
sites will also be visited.
Courses: CE42, CE43, IF42, CE31
Prerequisites: CEB293, PSB907
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ CEB221 ENGINEERING INVESTIGATION
ANALYSIS & REPORTING
Recording, analysing and presenting data are important facets
of modern civil engineering practice. Not only do engineers
use rapidly changing, microcomputer-based technology
to access and analyse data, but they must be able to explain
the results of their work in clear reports to their peers and to
the public. Skills are developed in these aspects of engineering
practice, emphasising the use of microcomputers. Microcomputers
and their application in civil engineering; investigation
and reporting, and the use of wordprocessors,
spreadsheets, databases and computer graphics; development
of student confidence and ability in keeping up with this changing
technology. Verbal and written presentation techniques of
civil engineering investigation topics. Skills taught in this unit
will also aid students in most units taught in the curriculum.
Courses: CE42, CE31, CE43, IF42Prerequisites: MEB181
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ CEB224 COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
The applications of computers in civil engineering will be studied
with emphasis on software packages. This unit will establish
the tools essential for CEB225 and CEB226 Civil Projects
A & B.
Courses: CE31
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CEB225 CIVIL PROJECTS A
These units will integrate the skills and knowledge developed
in earlier units by applying the basic engineering science and
technology to complete specific engineering design projects.
The objectives of this problem-based learning include both
the development of specific design skills and the development
of generic skills such as professional problem solving, group
management, presentation and communication and professional
practice issues such as ethics and social effects.
Courses: CE31
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ CEB226 CIVIL PROJECTS B
These units will integrate the skills and knowledge developed
in earlier units by applying the basic engineering science and
technology to complete specific engineering design projects.
The objectives of this problem-based learning include both
the development of specific design skills and the development
of generic skills such as professional problem solving, group
management, presentation and communication and professional
practice issues such as ethics and social effects.
Courses: CE31
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ CEB227 CIVIL INVESTIGATION PROJECT
This will involve a small investigation of an area of civil engineering
technology. The unit is designed to develop a student’s
ability to learn independantly and to compile and present verbal
and written reports on the results of their investigation.
Courses: CE31
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ CEB240 SOIL MECHANICS 1
Description and classification of soil for engineering purposes;
moisture/density relationships; compaction; pore pressure,
effective stress and suction; shear strength of cohesionless and
cohesive soils; lateral earth pressure; earth retaining structures
design.
Courses: CE42, CE43, IF42, CE31 Prerequisites: CEB185
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3.5 per week
■ CEB241 SOIL MECHANICS 2
Bearing capacity of shallow foundations; permeability and
seepage; surface loading on an elastic medium; pore pressure
parameters; consolidation; settlement and design of shallow
foundations; computer applications in seepage and consolidation.
Courses: CE31, CE42, CE43, IF42 Prerequisites: CEB240
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CEB254 STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING 1
Determination of forces and/or bending moment distribution
in simple determinate structures, stress distributions and transformation
of stresses, strain and second moments of area, deflections
of beams by the virtual work method and
unsymmetrical bending.
Courses: CE42, CE43, IF42, CE31 Prerequisites: CEB185
Corequisites: MAB487
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3.5 per week
■ CEB255 STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING 2
Analysis of simple determinate structures by moment distribution
and sway settlement and temporary affect, plastic analysis
of beams, influence line diagram for beam frames and
trusses, tension on members and deflections of frames and
trusses by virtual work method.
Courses: CE42, CE43, IF42
Prerequisites: CEB254, MAB487
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3.5 per week
■ CEB260 FLUID MECHANICS
Fluid mechanics; its relationship to civil engineering practice;
fluid properties; fluid statics, pressure, forces, buoyancy
and stability; continuity, energy and momentum applied to
steady one-dimensional flows; viscosity, turbulence, boundary
layers and fluid dynamics forces; dimensional analysis.
Courses: CE42, CE43, IF42, CE31
Prerequisites: CEB185, MAB187, MAB188
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3.5 per week
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