ENCN261-11S1 (C) Semester One 2011

Transport and Surveying

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 21 February 2011
End Date: Sunday, 26 June 2011
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 6 March 2011
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 22 May 2011

Description

Introduction to transportation engineering. Geometric design of roads. Surveying fundamentals. Surveying camp.

- The basics of surveying (levelling, traversing, mapping and setting out);
- The fundamental concepts of transportation, driver behaviour and traffic flow; highway capacity and level of service
- The principles of geometric design for roads and railways;
- Basic principles of teamwork and leadership;
- The interaction between traffic and field surveying and their application to transport projects

Learning Outcomes

This course is expected to develop student skills to the level where the student can handle plans and complete or oversee an engineering survey, and understand the basic principles of geometric design and the importance of human factors.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Dean of Engineering and Forestry

Restrictions

ENCI262

Course Coordinator

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Assignment - Surveying (x 4) 15%
Assignments - transport (x2) & traffic lab 15%
final exam - surveying 20%
final exam - transport 30%
Test - (transport) 15%
Test - surveying 5%

Textbooks / Resources

A Course Reader: The course reader materials are available in PDF format on the course webpage on Moodle/learn and students can print them at their own cost if they wish.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $747.00

International fee $3,975.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .

All ENCN261 Occurrences

  • ENCN261-11S1 (C) Semester One 2011
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