Course Title: Design road and railway
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2011
Course Code: CIVE5710C
Course Title: Design road and railway
School: 130T Vocational Engineering
Campus: City Campus
Program: C5236 - Diploma of Surveying
Course Contact: Program Manager
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4468
Course Contact Email: engineering-tafe@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Thierry Demathieu
+61 3 9925 8359
William Ntuwah
+61 3 9925 4445
Nominal Hours: 100
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
NONE
Course Description
This unit of competency specifies the outcomes required to design and set out basic roads, railways and associated engineering structures. It requires the ability to undertake all aspects of survey design from understanding client and registered surveyor requirements and the special characteristics of a given site, to applying relevant legal and statutory requirements to the design. The selection of appropriate equipment and procedures is essential to performing the task safely and efficiently. Functions would be carried out within organisational guidelines.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
CPPSIS5026A Design road and railway |
Element: |
1 Organise resources. |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Characteristics of the operating environment and any |
Element: |
2 Follow specifications to design roads and railways. |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Objectives, principal work activities and constraints |
Element: |
3 Conduct the design of a road or railway. |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Appropriate calculations are conducted according to |
Element: |
4 Discuss design report with work team. |
Performance Criteria: |
4.1 Feedback on surveying data components provided |
Element: |
5 Complete project to clients’ requirements. |
Performance Criteria: |
5.1 Completed work is checked against clients’ |
Learning Outcomes
Refer to elements
Details of Learning Activities
Teacher led:
Classroom &/or tutorial instruction specifying the outcomes required to design and set out basic roads, railways and associated engineering structures. and tasks associated with the elements above including the use of computers and relevant software/s, capabilities of survey methodologies and technologies in a simulated workplace environment.
Student managed:
Develop data management strategies to determine suitable sources of information for the creation of new spatial data sets to industry standards.
Participation in group activities based on simulated workplace exercises. Individual exercises carrying out research, computations, data compilation and appraisal.
Compilation of Portfolio of examples of work, client reports, management reports and data management records.
Teaching Schedule
This is an indicative teaching schedule, refer to the Blackboard for any changes or announcements.
Week No | Topic delivered | Assessment/Task |
1 | Grid Levelling &Contouring | |
2 | Volume from spot heights | |
3 | Trig heighting & Feature survey | |
4 | Horizontal Circular curves | |
5 | Horizontal Circular curves | Assignment 1 |
6 | Setting Out Hz Circular curves Craigieburg Bypass Ring Road Interchange (Vic Roads design of Hume Highway) M31 |
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7 | Horizontal Circular Curve | |
8 | Compound & Reverse Curves | |
9 | Compound & Reverse Curves | |
10 | Vertical Curves | |
11 | Vertical Curves | |
12 | Vertical Curves | Assignment 2 |
13 | Cross sectional area & Volume | |
14 | Cross sectional area & Volume | |
15 | Revision | |
16 | Test | |
17 | ||
18 |
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
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Other Resources
Overview of Assessment
A person who demonstrates competency in this unit must be able to provide evidence of:
• matching objectives with resources to ensure the design of a road or railway proceeds in an organised and timely manner
• ensuring that achievement of required accuracy has been attempted by:
• accessing and interpreting design information to identify the components to be measured and monitored
• applying solutions to a range of problems
• documenting and reporting
• organising and prioritising activity
• performing measurements
• planning resources
• reducing and manipulating survey data
• ensuring that non-conformity aspects are recorded and reported
• taking responsibility for own outputs in work and learning.
Assessment Tasks
Observation, using a skills checklist of performance of elements of competence as designated for this unit to the required standard during practical field work exercises within a simulated workplace project; including collection methods and techniques related to the project objectives..
Assessment Matrix
Element 1 | Organise resources. | Assignment 1 |
Element 2 | Follow specifications to design roads and railways |
Assignment 1 |
Element 3 | Conduct the design of a road or railway. |
Assignment 2 |
Element 4 | Discuss design report with work team. |
Assignment 2 |
Element 5 | Discuss design report with work team.. |
Assignment 2 |
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