Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2009-2010 (archived)

Module ENGI3381: DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING

Department: Engineering

ENGI3381: DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING

Type	Tied	Level	3	Credits	20	Availability	Available in 2009/10	Module Cap	None.	Location	Durham

Tied to	H100

Prerequisites

Corequisites

Excluded Combination of Modules

Aims

To provide coverage of theory and methods required for financial management, quantitative decision making in management science, and strategic entrepreneurship.
To introduce the principles of structural steelwork and reinforced concrete design.

Content

Management (Entrepreneurship, Finance, Quantitative Decision Science)
Civil and Structural Design

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

Students will learn how to effectively integrate economic issues into the management of engineering design and operations.
Students will gain an appreciation of how companies make financing and investment decisions in pursuit of corporate goals.
Students will acquire knowledge of how decision making problems can be modelled mathematically, and solved using appropriate quantitative methods.
Students will be able to perform fundamental analyses for decision science problems.
Students will gain an understanding of the issues involved in entrepreneurship in terms of style, approach and management.
Understanding of the principles of structural elements in structural steelwork and reinforced concrete.

Subject-specific Skills:

The application of specialised management knowledge in an engineering context.
Ability to design structural elements in structural steelwork and reinforced concrete.

Key Skills:

Communicate effectively.
General problem solving skills that can be applied in a novel context.
Capacity for self-learning in familar and unfamiliar situations

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

The course in Management is taught by lectures leading to the aquisition of the appropriateed subject-specific skills and knowledge. Assessment is through written examination, which enables each student to demonstrate subject knowledge and an ability to analyse and solve new problems.
The course in Civil and Structural Design is taught by lectures and assessed by a problem sheet based on the lecture course. This allows students to demonstrate subject knowledge and design skills.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Activity	Number	Frequency	Duration	Total/Hours
Lectures	47	2 or 3 per week term 1, 2 or 3 per week term 2, 2 lectures term 3.	1 hour	47
Office Hours	8	0,1 or 2 per week	students sign up for appropriate time	4
Preparation and reading				149
Total				200

Summative Assessment

Component: Examination		Component Weighting: 60%
Element	Length / duration	Element Weighting	Resit Opportunity
Management 3	2 hours	100%	none
Component: Continuous Assessment		Component Weighting: 40%
Element	Length / duration	Element Weighting	Resit Opportunity
Civil and Structural Design Exercise		100%

Formative Assessment:

Problem Sheets for lecture courses.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University