1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

aspects of engineering practice and local industrial practice
covering some aspects of products or services.
To work as an engineering trainee under the direction of a
professional engineer and be an effective part of a multidisciplinary
team within the industry.
To develop and document professional engineering practice
for all industry assignments and to communicate
professionally in written and verbal forms.
To establish and refine personal development skills in
training in order to develop engineering competence
towards the professional level.
To implement and gain further understanding of engineering
management skills and practices operating within
engineering organisational structures.
To observe and appreciate significant trends in employment
work groups and industrial relations.
Content
Work requirements are established by the employer in
consultation with Swinburne University.
Recommended reading
As suggested by either the industry supervisor or the Swinburne
academic supervisor to support the student's work and personal
development.
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CE404
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li credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisite: CE204 Computw Applications Instruction:
lectures, laboratory work Assessment: assessed work 100%
This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Technology
(Building Surveying)
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Objectives
This subject is designed to enable students to be aware of
and use common programs for administrative and technical
areas of building surveying.
Content
The subject covers external data bases, administrative software,
technical software and decision support software.
It is expected that the activities undertaken in this subject
will be coordinated with other subjects in the course where
computer applications are the usual tool to assist in problem
solving.
Recommended reading
Zwart, P.R. Microcomputers in Local Government, 1986. ACADS
Code of Practice. CPI
CE406 Water and Transport Engineering
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8 credit points 4 hourspw week Hawthorn Assessment:
assignments and laboratoy reports
This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Civil)
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To extend students' knowledge and skills in the areas of
transport engineering and water engineering.
Content
Transport Engineering (28 hours)
Road traffic flow theories, human performance, vehicle
characteristics. Arterial road traffic management.
Signals saturation flow, calculation of signal timing, layout
of hardware, signal linking, traffic detection, filter turns,
layout of hardware.
Road materials properties of and tests for road building
materials, rheology of bitumens, skid resistance.
Railway engineering conventional railway track, track
design and geometry, track construction. Light rail design.
Water Engineering (28 hours)
Reservoir yield.
Potable water treatment methods, theory of sedimentation
and filtration.
Wastewater treatment and disposal methods and their
applications, loading rates.
CE415
Structural Engineering
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11 credit points 5 hours per week Hawthmn Assessment:
examination liO%, assessment by consultation 30%, laboratoy
and assimments 20%
This is :fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Civil)
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To further develop students' understanding of structural
mechanics. To extend students' knowledge of the principles
of structural design in prestressed concrete and steel design.
To introduce principles of masonry design. To provide
practice in the application of these principles.
Content
Theory
Stress analysis stress-strain relations and the general
equations of elasticity, plane strain and plane strain
problems, yield criteria (Tresca, Von Mises), torsion of open
cross sections.
Modelling of structures using finite element packages.
Influence lines.
Prestressed concrete analysis and design, including statically
indeterminate structures and losses of prestress.
Design of steel portal frames modelling, analysis and design
of elements and connections.
Masonry design plain and reinforced walls subject to vertical
and lateral loads.
Fire engineering fire loads and containment, performance of
structural materials, elements and systems under fire
conditions, methods of providing fire resistance.
Practice
Exercises in prestressed concrete, steel portal frame and
masonry design.
Use will be made of computer software where appropriate.
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