EGH472 Advanced Highway and Pavement Engineering

Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Gardens Point, Internal

Overview

Road planning and design and pavement design are prominent civil engineering activities for the safe, efficient and sustainable movement of people and goods. Civil engineers use knowledge and skills bases that you will learn in this unit to meet stakeholders' needs. You will learn road design, road safety, alignment and coordination, road drainage, basic intersection design, and road pavement design. You will further develop your personal and professional attributes, especially independent and collaborative strategies in team working, including reflective practice, to manage a civil infrastructure planning and design project in a timely manner with a focus on delivering outcomes. Emphasis is placed on your awareness of risk, ethics and socio-cultural perspectives in civil engineering practice.
This unit draws upon your learning in EGB272 Traffic and Transport Engineering. EGH479 Advances in Civil Engineering Practice will build upon this unit.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:

1. Evaluate components of a proposed highway engineering corridor system at a mastered level.
2. Design safe and effi cient highway / pavement engineering systems adhering to industry methodologies and applicable codes of practice at a mastered level.
3. Contribute to a highway / pavement engineering assessment, with evidence of working on agreed tasks as a team member and with peer to peer evaluation, at a mastered level.
4. Compose a structured technical report of a highway / pavement engineering project, including design calculations and drawings, at a mastered level.

Content

Learning Approaches

In this unit you can expect to experience the following timetabled activities:

• Formal lectures from experienced professional civil engineers to give you insight into knowledge, skills, and
  attributes that will assist you in completing your assessments. You have the opportunity to ask questions
  during these lectures.
• Tutorial classes that will give you the opportunity to work collaboratively with your team to complete your road
  design and pavement design projects. They will be facilitated by tutors and will provide an opportunity to test
  your understanding and gain feedback on your work.
• These activities will be detailed by week of semester on the unit schedule. You can also expect to be provided with
  learning resources including video presentations and readings on a unit Canvas site, which you can access
  flexibly to complete your learning in this unit.
• At the beginning of the unit, you will be made aware of the ways in which you can ask questions or seek clarification
  from the unit coordinator, lecturers and tutors.

You are expected to:

• Engage with timetabled learning activities on campus and ask questions.
• Engage with online resources outside of timetabled learning activities. They will be available on the unit Canvas site. You will receive regular email announcements regarding the release of these resources.
• Work in a cohesive, effective team to complete a road design and a pavement design. While there will be time during timetabled tutorial classes, you will also need to undertake independent work outside of that time to complete assessment tasks, including for areas of individual responsibility.
• Prepare for learning activities according to the unit schedule, and follow up on any work not completed.
• Complete assessment tasks by working consistently throughout the semester and meeting the due dates that are published via the unit Canvas site.

This unit will include content, case studies and examples of the ways in which the work of professional engineers connects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s status as First Nations owners of land and seas. This may include:

• partnership with Indigenous communities and Indigenous engineering businesses,
• connection with regulatory requirements such as the Cultural Heritage duty of care required under the Queensland Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2005, or
• engineering industry partners who have an organisational commitment through Reconciliation Actions Plans which bring responsibilities to engineers working with them.

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

During tutorial classes, you will share your formative ideas for your assessments and you will receive feedback from your tutor. As part of an effective team you will share the outcomes of your design tasks with your tutor for marking and feedback, and with students from other groups in your tutorial class. You are encouraged to view your team as a learning community and to share and discuss emergent ideas in the highway and pavement engineering analysis and design processes and your understandings of civil engineering professional practice. Each assessment submission will be graded against criteria and standards that will be shared with you at the beginning of semester through Assessment Task Descriptions and Marking Rubrics. Marked assessment will include feedback given by the markers against the criteria.

Assessment

Overview

Assessment in this unit has been designed to give you the opportunity to show your learning against the unit learning outcomes. You will work as a team member to prepare and submit your road design and pavement design assessments. You will deploy work practices that align to civil engineering professional practice (such as teamwork, project management, socio-cultural perspectives). You will be expected to work together with your team members and independently to make individual contributions to the assessments. You will sit an examination individually during the central examination period at the end of semester, where you will show your overall learning in the unit.

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Road Design

You will work as an effective member of a functional civil engineering team to prepare a road design that demonstrates your knowledge and skills attainment. You will communicate your work in a written technical report including design calculations and design drawings, which adheres to assessment requirements.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Assessment: Pavement Design

You will work as an effective member of a functional civil engineering team to prepare a pavement design that demonstrates your knowledge and skills attainment. You will communicate your work in a written technical report including design calculations and design drawings, which adheres to assessment requirements.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Assessment: Invigilated Written Examination

You will be required to analyse aspects of highway and pavement engineering systems. You will be presented with descriptions of the highway and pavement engineering systems and will need to diagnose the problem type, make use of appropriate theory or methods, demonstrate systems knowledge, show your working, and communicate a complete answerin writing and graphically.

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.

Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.

You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.

Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.

Resources

Resource Materials

Prescribed text(s)

Austroads 2006. Guide to Road Design, Sydney.

Austroads 2009. Guide to Pavement Technology, Sydney.

Risk Assessment Statement

Risks may be associated with you visiting study areas and/or project site vicinities. You are required to have completed a valid Workplace Health and Safety course. You shall not enter project sites without the Unit Coordinator's approval. You shall not contact members of the public, public officers or staff associated with any project withoupermission of the Unit Coordinator. Prior to any off campus class activities that you are required to undertake in this unit, a risk assessment will be prepared and made available to you at the MAPS (Management and Assessment of Project Safety) library or on the unit Canvas site. You will receive a briefing regarding any specific hazard and risk related instructions from your field leader before commencing the activity. More detailed information will be provided in your Week 1 information class.

Standards/Competencies

This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.

Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer

1: Knowledge and Skill Base

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   Relates to: Road Design, Pavement Design, Invigilated Written Examination
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2: Engineering Application Ability

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   Relates to: Pavement Design, Invigilated Written Examination
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   Relates to: Road Design, Invigilated Written Examination
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   Relates to: Road Design, Pavement Design

3: Professional and Personal Attributes

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   Relates to: Road Design, Pavement Design
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Course Learning Outcomes

EN01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)

1. Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
   Relates to: Road Design, Pavement Design
2. Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Road Design, Pavement Design
3. Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
   Relates to: Road Design, Pavement Design, Invigilated Written Examination
4. Engage with and apply regulatory requirements relating to safety, risk management, and sustainability in professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Road Design, Pavement Design, Invigilated Written Examination
5. Demonstrate a thorough understanding of one engineering discipline, its research directions, and its application in contemporary professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Road Design, Pavement Design, Invigilated Written Examination

EN55 Master of Professional Engineering

1. Apply advanced and specialist knowledge, concepts and practices in engineering design, analysis management and sustainability.
   Relates to: Road Design, Pavement Design, Invigilated Written Examination
2. Critically analyse and evaluate complex engineering problems to achieve research informed solutions.
   Relates to: Pavement Design, Invigilated Written Examination
3. Communicate complex information effectively and succinctly, presenting high level reports, arguments and justifications in oral, written and visual forms to professional and non specialist audiences.
   Relates to: Road Design, Pavement Design
4. Organise and manage time, tasks and projects independently, and collaboratively demonstrating the values and principles that shape engineering decision making and professional accountability.
   Relates to: Road Design, Pavement Design

EN60 Graduate Certificate in Communication for Engineering

1. Demonstrate and apply specialised knowledge and technical skills in at least one Engineering discipline.
   Relates to: Road Design, Pavement Design, Invigilated Written Examination
2. Critically investigate real world engineering issues and solve complex problems drawing on specialised creative skills, analysis, evaluation and synthesis of discipline knowledge, theory and practice.
   Relates to: Road Design, Pavement Design, Invigilated Written Examination
3. Employ effective written and oral professional communication skills across social, cultural and discipline domains.
   Relates to: Road Design, Pavement Design
4. Exercise responsibility and accountability in applying knowledge and skills for own learning and effective practice including working independently, ethically and collaboratively.
   Relates to: Pavement Design