School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Civil Engineering Design
  • Unit Code

    ENS5190
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Alireza MOHYEDDIN KERMANI

Description

This unit covers advanced structural analysis and design topics, with a strong focus on major design tasks for real-world civil engineering projects. The chosen projects will include the holistic design of structures involving a variety of construction materials. The projects will also have an emphasis on environmental sustainability and societal impacts.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from ENS6149, ENS5243, ENS3243 AND Students must pass 1 unit from ENS6151, ENS5245, ENS3244 AND Students must pass 1 unit from ENS6152, ENS5246, ENS3245

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Select appropriate sections for timber, post-tensioned concrete and pre-stressed concrete elements under tension/compression/bending.
  2. Apply the principles of structural dynamics to structural analysis and design.
  3. Select appropriate components and design advanced structural connections.
  4. Analyse and design structures by utilising appropriate structural finite-element software tools.
  5. Devise solutions for a real-world civil engineering project as a member of a project team with due consideration of issues of environmental sustainability and societal impacts.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to structural dynamics.
  2. Design of timber structures in accordance with AS 1720.
  3. Design of pre-stressed/post-tensioned concrete structures in accordance with AS 3600.
  4. Design of structural anchors in accordance with AS 5216.
  5. Application of appropriate software tools to analyse and design structural systems.
  6. Sustainability considerations in design.
  7. Integration of design theories and techniques in a multi-faceted civil engineering project.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 2 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students in this unit will work collaboratively in groups on an authentic industry based civil engineering design project supported, where possible, by feedback from practising engineers in industry. Standard lectures and tutorials will also be delivered to provide students with the necessary analysis and design skills to support the project work.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectProject65%
Examination ^End of semester examination35%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

  • Warner, R. (1998). Concrete structures. Longman. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/222759435

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Civil Engineering Design
  • Unit Code

    ENS5190
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Alireza MOHYEDDIN KERMANI

Description

This unit covers advanced structural analysis and design topics, with a strong focus on major design tasks for real-world civil engineering projects. The chosen projects will include the holistic design of structures involving a variety of construction materials. The projects will also have an emphasis on environmental sustainability and societal impacts.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from ENS6149, ENS5243, ENS3243 AND Students must pass 1 unit from ENS6151, ENS5245, ENS3244 AND Students must pass 1 unit from ENS6152, ENS5246, ENS3245

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Select appropriate sections for timber, post-tensioned concrete and pre-stressed concrete elements under tension/compression/bending.
  2. Apply the principles of structural dynamics to structural analysis and design.
  3. Select appropriate components and design advanced structural connections.
  4. Analyse and design structures by utilising appropriate structural finite-element software tools.
  5. Devise solutions for a real-world civil engineering project as a member of a project team with due consideration of issues of environmental sustainability and societal impacts.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to structural dynamics.
  2. Design of timber structures in accordance with AS 1720.
  3. Design of pre-stressed/post-tensioned concrete structures in accordance with AS 3600.
  4. Design of structural anchors in accordance with AS 5216.
  5. Application of appropriate software tools to analyse and design structural systems.
  6. Sustainability considerations in design.
  7. Integration of design theories and techniques in a multi-faceted civil engineering project.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 2 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students in this unit will work collaboratively in groups on an authentic industry based civil engineering design project supported, where possible, by feedback from practising engineers in industry. Standard lectures and tutorials will also be delivered to provide students with the necessary analysis and design skills to support the project work.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectProject65%
Examination ^End of semester examination35%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

  • Warner, R. (1998). Concrete structures. Longman. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/222759435

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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