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~ ~ 2 9 7 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
This subject introduces students to accounting, financial
reports and project evaluation. This subject includes:
introduction to accountinq, 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. ManagementAccounting
Processing, Evaluation and Using Cost Data. Sydney, Butterworths,
1982
~hinburne Institute of Technology and Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology. Introductory Accounting and Finance for Management.
1984
c~3oi 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 devices such as plotters and printers.
Operating systems: role and function, review 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. Redmond, Wash., Microsoft Press, 1991
Robertson, L.A. Simple Program Design. 2nd edn, South Melbourne,
Nelson, 1990
Schneider, D.I. QBasic Programming. New York, Brady, 1991
The Waite Groups. Microsoft QuickBasic Bible. Redmond, Wash.,
Microsoft Press, 1990
CE~I 1 Structural Mechanics
No. of hours per week: three hours
Assessment: examination/laboratory
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.
Plastic analysis of structures: applications to beams and frames.
Elastic stability: fundamentals; stability of members (columns,
lateral buckling of beams, beam-columns).
lntroduction to structural dynamics: one degree of freedom
systems.
Textbook
Spencer, W.J. Fundamental Structural Analysis. Basingstoke, London,
Macmillan Educational, 1988
References
Chajes, A. Principles of Structural Stability Theory. Englewood Cliffs,
N.J., Prentice Hall, 1974
Coates, R.C., Coutie, M.G. and Kong, F.K. Structural Analysis. 2nd edn,
Surrey, Nelson, 1980
White, R.N., Gergely, P. and Sexsmith, R.G. Structural Engineering.
New York, Wiley, 1976
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Construction
No. of hours per week: six hours in first semester,
five hours in second semester
Instruction: lectures, tutorials, field inspections,
drafting classes
Assessment: examination 80%, diary, reports,
research project, folio of work 20%
Subject aims and description
This subject is intended to develop in students an
understanding of the general principles of construction of
single and double-storey residential buildings, and to teach the
rudimentary aspects of freehand sketching and drafting.
Textbook
Victorian Timber Framing Manual. Melbourne: Timber Promotion
Council, 1980
References
Australian Standard AS1 100 Technical Drawings
National Committee on Rationalised Building Australia. A Glossary of
Building and Planning Terms, 2nd edn, Canberra, Australian Publishing
Service, 1978
Notes on Science of Building V.G.P.S.
~ ~ 3 2 4 Urban Planning
No. of hours per week: two hours
Assessment: examination/assignments
Subject aims
To introduce students to urban planning and the role of the
civil engineer in urban planning.
Subject description
Land use planning: the purpose of planning, history of
settlements, urban and regional structure, land use planning
models, housing, planning schemes, residential planning
standards, physical and social surveys, planning legislation,
landscape planning, shopping trends, inner city development.
Transport planning: transport planning models, local area
traffic planning schemes, bicycle planning, parking, public
transport, freight transport, pedestrian traffic management.