Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2010-2011 (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 2010/11 | Module Cap | None. | Location | Durham |
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| Tied to | H100 |
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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 | |
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| 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% | ||
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| 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