Course Title: Design road and railway

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C6129 Advanced Diploma of Surveying

Course Title: Design road and railway

Portfolio: SEH Portfolio Office

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.

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

Course Contact: Program Manager

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4468

Course Contact Email: vocenengineering@rmit.edu.au



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.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Nil



National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

CPPSIS5056A Design road and railway

Elements:

1.Organise resources.

2.Follow specifications to design roads and railways.

3.Conduct the design of a road or railway.

4.Discuss design report with work team.

5.Complete project to clients’ requirements.

Learning Outcomes

Refer to Elements


Overview of Assessment

The assessment is conducted in both theoretical and practical aspects of the course according to the performance criteria set in the National Training Package. Assessment may incorporate a variety of methods including written/oral activities and demonstration of practical skills to the relevant industry standards. Participants are advised that they are likely to be asked to personally demonstrate their assessment activities to their teacher/assessor. Feedback will be provided throughout the course. To successfully complete this course you will be required to demonstrate competency in each assessment task detailed under Assessment Tasks:

Students must pass each of the following assessment tasks to demonstrate competent.

 

Assessment

Weight

Task 1

Assessment - Horizontal & Circular curves

30%

Task 2

Practical Test

40%

Task 3

Portfolio

20%

 

These tasks assesses the following Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs):

 Assessment Mapping Matrix

Elements/Performance Criteria

Task 1

Task 2

Task 3

1.1

x

 

x

1.2

x

 

x 

1.3

x

 

x 

2.1

x 

x

 

2.2

 x

x

 

2.3

 x

x

 x

2.4

 x

x

x 

3.1

x

 x

 

3.2

x

 x

 

3.3

 

 

 x

3.4

x

 

 x

3.5

x

x

 

3.6

x

x

 

3.7

  x

x

 

3.8

 x 

x

 

3.9

 

 

x

4.1

 

 x

x

4.2

 

 x

x

5.1

 

 x

x

5.2

 

 x

x

5.3

 

 x

x

5.4

 

 x

x

 

To be deemed competent you must demonstrate an understanding of all aspects required of the competency. Assessment methods have been designed to measure your achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over multiple tasks.

Graded Assessment

You will need to obtain Satisfactory (S) in all assessment tasks before grading can occur. Marks from assessments will count towards a final grade only if the individual assessment result is satisfactory (S)