Semester 1 (ONC)Toowoomba (EXT)Toowoomba
Units 1.0 (Structural Engineering) Band 2
Pre-requisite: CIV3506
This final year design Course represents the end point of many other Courses including particularly, Engineering Statics, Stress Analysis, Structural Design 1, Concrete Structures and Structural Analysis 1. There is little new theory developed in this Course but rather it makes use of the knowledge and skills developed in those earlier Courses and applies them to the design of some standard structural systems and building types. The work covered in this Course is very similar to that which you could expect to be doing in your early years as a graduate engineer. To prepare you for such work the Course makes extensive use of computer packages to assist with estimating loads, analysing structures and estimating their capacity to carry the design loads. The Course material is presented in parallel to two major design projects. In both cases you will start by considering a set of client requirement and work through to a complete building design. You will find that the challenge in this Course is in developing an appreciation of the overall design process rather than focussing on specific aspects as is the case with most earlier Courses. While this is a structural engineering design Course you should find that the overall design process as developed is largely applicable to any other civil design process.