Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 2 2013

Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.

Rationale

All disciplines involved in construction have a requirement for appropriate, timely and reliable spatial information within a broad engineering construction context. Professional surveyors usually provide this service. Engineering Surveying is a core activity for many professional surveyors and as such is an essential element of the course.

Aims

The aims of the unit are to consolidate and extend students practice abilities within the context of modern Engineering Surveying.

These include:
1. Provision of high fidelity Digital Terrain Models as a basis for design.
2. Spatial information for setting out and control of construction through design, execution and assessment of surveying data structures.
3. The estimation of the variability and reliability of results derived from basic surveying data.

Objectives

Upon completion of this unit you should be able to:

1. Solve problems using co-ordinate geometry applicable to construction and engineering surveying
2. Collaborate in a team to perform a field survey using a modern total station to locate data for surface modelling and process electronically recorded field data through software to produce a specified contour and detail plans
3. Solve problems associated with the horizontal and vertical alignment of roads including computing, set out and checking specified alignment centreline and batter reference points.
4. Apply error propagation techniques to estimate the precisions of survey outcomes and introductory knowledge of least squares adjustment approaches.
5. As part of a team produce a route location report on a given road re-alignment, considering road design issues and survey standards applicable to roadway surveys.

Content

- Applications of geometric problem solving using co-ordinate geometry applicable to construction and engineering surveys.
- Contour and detail surveys by surface modelling and string surveying.
- Introduction to field practice for electronic recording.
- Route location, planning and design, with emphasis on horizontal and vertical alignment, sight distance and cross-sections.
- Volume calculations and earthworks. Setting out for alignments.
- Software interaction for surface modelling, alignment design, computations and output.
- The stochastic nature of surveying measurements, need for analysis and adjustment, error propagation and simple least square adjustment processing.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

Teaching Mode: 5 hours per week
Lectures: 2 Hours per week
Tutorial/Practical: 3 Hours per week

Students will explore the theoretical concepts that underpin the engineering and construction surveying through lectures and develop key skills through real-world practical exercises. This unit will also include supervised practical exercises in an off-campus environment. The online learning and teaching environment, including Blackboard resources, will contain a number of related reading programs in support of the theory and practice relating to this unit.

The unit will be taught by a series of lectures, computer laboratory sessions and field practicals, any of these may contain a tutorial component including computational tools with examples for formative learning, demonstration software with examples and a series of selected readings.
The basic group size is 2-3 people for the collaborative components.

Learning approaches will include (but are not limited to) Problem based, Self-learning, Individual learning, Team based learning and Reflective learning.

Assessment

QUT's Assessment Policy is located at MOPP c/5.1.Assessment will be formative involving an emphasis on constructive and progressive feedback using a criterion referencing approach. Students performance in the unit will be assessed through three items of assessment to be completed during the semester and submitted at the specified times in the semester. The assignments will contribute to the overall summative grade for the unit.

Feedback to students:

Formative feedback will be offered during the semester at key times to assist students in development of their submissions. Students will have the opportunity to practise some of their skills and explore their understandings in the key learning outcomes areas during tutorials/ lab sessions. They will be provided formative feedback on their learning progress during these tutorial/ lab sessions, which will help them to plan their future learning and will also enhance their chances of achieving well in summative assessment pieces.

Assessment name: Problem Solving Task
Description: :Students will be required to submit an assignment based on computational problem solving applicable to the unit.
Relates to objectives: 1. Solve problems using co-ordinate geometry applicable to construction and engineering surveying
3. Solve problems associated with the horizontal and vertical alignment of roads and railways including computing, set out and checking specified alignment centreline and batter reference points.
4. Apply error propagation techniques to estimate the precisions of survey outcomes and introductory knowledge of least squares adjustment approaches.
Weight: 30%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Week 6

Assessment name: Portfolio
Description: Students will be required to submit a portfolio of their work on problem solving plus pre-planning, processing and outcomes from practical engineering surveying exercises.
Relates to objectives: 1. Solve problems using co-ordinate geometry applicable to construction and engineering surveying
Collaborate in a team to perform a field survey using a modern total station to locate data for surface modelling and process electronically recorded field data through software to produce a specified contour and detail plans
2. Collaborate in a team to perform a field survey using a modern total station to locate data for surface modelling and process electronically recorded field data through software to produce a specified contour and detail plans.
3. Solve problems associated with the horizontal and vertical alignment of roads including computing, set out and checking specified alignment centreline and batter reference points.
4. Apply error propagation techniques to estimate the precisions of survey outcomes and introductory knowledge of least squares adjustment approaches
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Week 10

Assessment name: Project (applied)
Description: Students will be required to set out the location of house in the simulator and carry out the route re-alignment and road design using 12 Model software.
Relates to objectives: 1. Solve problems using co-ordinate geometry applicable to construction and engineering surveying
3. Solve problems associated with the horizontal and vertical alignment of roads including computing, set out and checking specified alignment centreline and batter reference points.
5. As part of a team produce a route location report on a given road re-alignment, considering road design issues and survey standards applicable to roadway surveys
Weight: 30%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Week 13

Academic Honesty

QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.

A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.

Resource materials

A range of journal articles and book chapters will be provided plus computational tools and other formative material. These will be provided in an online environment.

Text:

Qld Road Planning and Design Manual Main Roads, Qld, available from website:
http://www.mainroads.qld.gov.au

Qld Main Roads Surveying Standards, Main Roads, Qld available from website:
http://www.mainroads.qld.gov.au

References:

Schofield W. and Breach M. (2007) Engineering Surveying, Oxford ; Burlington, MA : Butterworth-Heinemann.

Adjustment Computations: Spatial Data Analysis (2006), Ghilani, Charles D and Wolf, R., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New Jersy

Kennie TJM and Petrie G(eds), , (1990) (1990) Engineering Surveying Technology, Glasgow; Blackie; New York: Halsted Press.

Bannister A., Raymond S., and Baker R. (1993 or more recent edition) Surveying, Longman Scientific & Technical, John Wiley &Sons, New York.

Additional Costs:

There are no foreseen additional costs for the unit.

Risk assessment statement

You will be required to have completed a Construction Site Safety (white card) induction course. The fieldwork sites have been subjected to a risk assessment and any specific site requirements will be communicated to you. You will need to provide your own sunscreen, long-sleeve shirt and broad-brimmed hat for outdoor fieldwork practicals including enclosed footwear.

You will also be required to undertake practical sessions in the Spatial Sciences computer laboratory under the supervision of the lecturer and laboratory supervisor of the School. The Faculty's health and safety policies and procedures will apply to these sessions. For the laboratory practical sessions, you will be advised of the requirement to wear closed footwear.

Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Last modified: 06-Feb-2013