Infrastructure Planning and Transportation Engineering Section, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Osaka City University

Civil engineering deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings. As one course in professional engineering discipline, Civil Engineering is offered to undergraduate students. It aims to let students know environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, geophysics, geodesy, control engineering, structural engineering, biomechanics, nanotechnology, transportation engineering, earth science, atmospheric sciences, forensic engineering, municipal or urban engineering, water resources engineering, materials engineering, coastal engineering, surveying, and construction engineering. It requires to be constructed to keep it up-to-date with current development of civil engineering. Based on analysis of the current conditions of this course and aims for construction, it describes a construction plan, including revision of the teaching content, compiling of the textbook, improvement of teaching methods and class modes, preparation of test database and exercise database.

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Assessment of Introductory Transportation Engineering Course and General Transportation Engineering Curriculum

Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board ◽

10.3141/2328-02 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2328 (1) ◽

pp. 9-15 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Rod E. Turochy ◽

Jon Fricker ◽

H. Gene Hawkins ◽

David S. Hurwitz ◽

Stephanie S. Ivey ◽

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Keyword(s):

Engineering Students ◽

Civil Engineering ◽

Relevant Literature ◽

Transportation Engineering ◽

Engineering Programs ◽

Course Content ◽

Credit Hours ◽

Introductory Course ◽

The Status ◽

Primary Focus

Transportation engineering is a critical subdiscipline of the civil engineering profession as indicated by its inclusion on the Fundamentals of Engineering Examination and overlap with other specialty areas of civil engineering and as recognized by TRB, ITE, and ASCE. With increasing transportation workforce needs, low numbers of students entering the pipeline, and limited hours within undergraduate civil engineering programs, it is important to ensure that civil engineering students receive adequate preparation and exposure to career opportunities in the transportation engineering field. Thus, investigations into the status of transportation engineering within civil engineering programs and specifically the introductory transportation engineering course are essential for understanding implications to the profession. Relevant literature and findings from a new survey of civil engineering programs accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology is reviewed; that survey yielded 84 responses. The survey indicates that 88% of responding programs teach an introductory course in transportation engineering, and 79% require it in their undergraduate programs. Significant variation exists in the structure of the introductory course (number of credit hours, laboratory requirements, etc.). Common responses about improvements that could be made include adding laboratories, requiring a second course, and broadening course content. In addition, nearly 15% of instructors teaching the introductory course did not have a primary focus in transportation engineering. This finding should be investigated further, given that the course may be an undergraduate civil engineering student's only exposure to the profession.

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SHARING OF GIS SPATIAL DATA IN TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

Jurnal Teknologi ◽

10.11113/jt.v78.9478 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 78 (7-2) ◽

Author(s):

Mohd Zulkifli Mohd Yunus

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

Spatial Analysis ◽

Spatial Data ◽

Civil Engineering ◽

Spatial Information ◽

Engineering Problem ◽

Transportation Engineering ◽

Public And Private ◽

Potential Activity ◽

Gis Software

Geographic Information System (GIS) is classified as an information technology to solve various spatial problems in civil engineering. GIS provides spatial information to the system and therefore, complex spatial analysis of problem could be carried out. The objective of this paper is to promote the use of GIS as a tool for civil engineering problem solving. This paper describes the work undertaken to demonstrate the potential use of GIS in civil engineering via a prototype project. The presentation of this article is mainly focused on the applications of GIS in transportation engineering including transportation, highway and traffic. Moreover, this study could also contribute relevant and benefit guidance to the public and private sectors with techniques in determining potential activity using the GIS software. The utilisation of GIS can prepare and contributes towards a profitable cost and effective service. The end product should be an effective information system and a final potential GIS map. With GIS support, it could assist user to make a more effective and efficient decision on any difficulties that will arise. Compared to the conventional methods, the system provides a proper and an effective, update and accessible result of spatial analysis.

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