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 there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2023 Units. All assessment changes will be published by 20th February 2023. All students are reminded to check the handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Transportation Engineering
  • Unit Code

    ENS5214
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Sanjay Kumar SHUKLA

Description

This unit provides an introduction to the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of highway and airport pavements. An overview of railway track engineering, and the economic and environmental aspects of transportation engineering is also included.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ENS5242, ENS6148, ENS3242

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse pavements and railway tracks incorporating geosynthetics.
  2. Describe appropriate construction and maintenance techniques for various pavement types.
  3. Describe geometries for typical highway and airport pavements and design them to meet required performance and safety standards.
  4. Interpret the appropriate design standards and codes of practice related to pavement construction.
  5. Model and analyse traffic flow models and highway capacity.
  6. Research technological developments in transportation engineering and reflect on their significance to engineering practice.
  7. Specify the technical details of railway tracks.
  8. Work with appropriate software tools to assist in the design and construction of pavements.

Unit Content

  1. Design of flexible highway and airport pavements.
  2. Design of rigid highway and airport pavements.
  3. Economic and environmental aspects of transportation engineering.
  4. Geometric design standards.
  5. Pavement construction and maintenance.
  6. Pavement drainage systems.
  7. Pavement materials and their properties.
  8. Pavements and railway tracks with geosynthetics.
  9. Railway track engineering.
  10. Soil subgrade and stabilised soil pavements.
  11. Traffic engineering elements and facilities.
  12. Traffic flow models and highway capacity analysis.
  13. Transportation development, planning and route selection.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectDesign exercise50%
Laboratory Work ^Laboratory work and reports20%
Examination ^End of semester examination30%

^ Mandatory to Pass


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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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.

  • Unit Title

    Transportation Engineering
  • Unit Code

    ENS5214
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Sanjay Kumar SHUKLA

Description

This unit provides an introduction to the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of highway and airport pavements. An overview of railway track engineering, and the economic and environmental aspects of transportation engineering is also included.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ENS5242, ENS6148, ENS3242

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse pavements and railway tracks incorporating geosynthetics.
  2. Describe appropriate construction and maintenance techniques for various pavement types.
  3. Describe geometries for typical highway and airport pavements and design them to meet required performance and safety standards.
  4. Interpret the appropriate design standards and codes of practice related to pavement construction.
  5. Model and analyse traffic flow models and highway capacity.
  6. Research technological developments in transportation engineering and reflect on their significance to engineering practice.
  7. Specify the technical details of railway tracks.
  8. Work with appropriate software tools to assist in the design and construction of pavements.

Unit Content

  1. Design of flexible highway and airport pavements.
  2. Design of rigid highway and airport pavements.
  3. Economic and environmental aspects of transportation engineering.
  4. Geometric design standards.
  5. Pavement construction and maintenance.
  6. Pavement drainage systems.
  7. Pavement materials and their properties.
  8. Pavements and railway tracks with geosynthetics.
  9. Railway track engineering.
  10. Soil subgrade and stabilised soil pavements.
  11. Traffic engineering elements and facilities.
  12. Traffic flow models and highway capacity analysis.
  13. Transportation development, planning and route selection.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectDesign exercise50%
Laboratory Work ^Laboratory work and reports20%
Examination ^End of semester examination30%

^ Mandatory to Pass


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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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