308867 (v.1) Civil Engineering Methods 267

Area:	Department of Civil Engineering
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	6.0
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Lecture:	1 x 4 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Practical:	1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly
Prerequisite(s):	307529 (v.2) Engineering Mechanics 100 or any previous version AND 307533 (v.2) Engineering Materials 100 or any previous version AND 307535 (v.2) Engineering Mathematics 110 or any previous version OR 307536 (v.2) Engineering Mathematics 120 or any previous version AND 307537 (v.2) Engineering Mathematics 130 or any previous version OR 307538 (v.2) Engineering Mathematics 140 or any previous version AND 307543 (v.3) Electrical Systems 100 or any previous version AND 310205 (v.1) Engineering Foundations: Design and Processes 100 or any previous version AND 310206 (v.1) Engineering Foundations: Principles and Communication 100 or any previous version AND 310207 (v.1) Engineering Programming 100 or any previous version
Syllabus:	Civil engineering analysis: use of visual basic programming language, spreadsheets and databases. Software for the solution of civil engineering problems. Civil engineering drawing: orthographic drawing. Fundamental viewpoints, line and plane. Piercing points and plane intersections. Perpendicular relationships: lines and planes, mining and civil engineering problems. Work drawings: detail and assembly drawing. Intersections and development of surfaces. Graphical statics. Civil engineering survey: use and adjustment of automatic, laser and digital levels; gridding, profiling, contouring and volume computations relating to earthworks. Use and adjustment of total stations; electronic distance measurement; traversing; circular, spiral and vertical curves; intersection and resection. Setting out of works. Mine surveying.
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Field of Education:	030903 Structural Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Supplemental *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2008	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2008	Miri Sarawak Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External