Economics and Project
Evaluation
Public Transportation Systems
Airport Planning and Design
Planning for Traffic Safety and Injury
Prevention
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Design and Performance of Highway and Airport
Pavement
knowledge of transportation engineering with detailed and thorough understanding of the framework of transportation system and its basic characteristics to transportation students.
This course aims to provide students with the tools necessary to undertake transport project evaluation. These tolls comprises of microeco-nomics background, transport demand fore-casting, impact analysis and comprehensive judgment.
This course aims to present the various modes of public transportation from their historical development to their current operational situa-tions. Emphasis is placed on what to expect in the future from public transportation.
This course will provide students with the ex-perience and understanding of the procedures involved in airport planning and designs.
This course is designed to help students under-stand the patterns of traffic crashes, recognize sites and situations where traffic crashes are over-represented, learn safety treatments for such sites, as well as the causes of different accidents through reconstruction techniques.
This course provides an overview of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), which include a wide range of information technology applica-tions to surface transportation. The different categories of ITS to be covered include traf-fic management systems, traveler information systems, fleet control systems, commercial ve-hicle regulation systems, transit systems, rural systems, and vehicle control systems.
This course aims to help students understand the theory and concept of pavement design for highway airport infrastructure to endure the in-creasing volumes and loads of traffic. Construc-tion techniques for pavements are essential to the quality and performance of pavements in the long run, and highway engineers need to be equipped with basic knowledge of pavement construction techniques.
This course presents the different elements of pavement management systems, which encom-passes a wide spectrum of activities including planning, programming of investments, design, construction, maintenance, and periodic evalu-ation of performance. A number of case studies
ProGram
Field of Study — Transportation Engineering (TRE)
Field of Study — Transportation Engineering (TRE) ProGram
Code Course Description Semester Offered Prerequisite
CE73.35 Planning Methods and
Analysis
Traffic System Analysis and Control
Advanced Geometric Design and Highway
Safety Description: With the progress of
motoriza-tion, the environmental aspect of transporta-tion facilities has become very important even in developing countries and the focus of trans-portation is expanding to social and economic areas. On the ground, sustainability is now a top priority topic in the various fields. In this class, sustainability-related transportation issues will be discussed.
There are various mathematical analysis methods, which are utilized in transportation studies. Transportation engineers must under-stand these methods, especially statistics and probability concepts in engineering.
This aim of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the role of transporta-tion in urban development and planning, meth-ods of analysis and forecasting transportation demand, transportation systems management and transportation sustainability.
This course will provide students with an under-standing of the theoretical and practical aspects of several contemporary and advanced topics on actual logistics planning based on the funda-mental knowledge mathematical programming and transport systems.
Traffic Engineering is one of the core subjects in transportation engineering. The course provides basic knowledge derived from various traffic en-gineering subjects. It will equip students with the knowledge of traffic characteristics, traffic operations, analysis, procedures, and design considerations for traffic engineering problems.
The course aims to provide students with an understanding of the basic principles and techniques of highway design. In addition, the course will teach the theory and criteria of geo-metric design of rural urban and rural roads, and the safety aspects.
This course will provide students with an under-standing of the theoretical and practical aspects of several contemporary and advanced topics on actual logistics planning based on the funda-mental knowledge mathematical programming and transport systems.
Field of Study — Water Engineering and Management (WEM) ProGram
Code Course Description Semester Offered Prerequisite
CE74.11
Concepts in Water Modeling
Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Irrigation and Drainage Systems Management
Coastal and Estuarine Processes This course provides an understanding of the
circulation of water and its constituents through the hydrologic cycle, hydrologic data collection, analysis, forecasting and hydrologic design.
This course provides a review of fluid proper-ties, fluid pressure, and fluid forces; advanced knowledge in fluid flow hydrodynamics based macroscopic and microscopic analyses includ-ing hydrodynamic similitudes, flow boundary layers; applications on flow in pipes, open chan-nels, hydraulics structures and hydraulic ma-chinery.
This course aims to develop systems thinking as it relates to water resources planning and management and to provide deterministic sys-tems approach for analysis through case stud-ies.
This course provides basic knowledge and un-derstanding of mathematical modelling includ-ing numerical methods in modellinclud-ing of water resources engineering problems and computer hand-on experience.
The course is aimed at providing students some fundamental knowledge of soil physics and soil-water-plant relationships, which are essential in irrigation and drainage engineering. Advanced and innovative concepts on irrigation and drain-age planning and design are discussed; and theories are supported by fieldworks and labo-ratory exercises on soil characterization, soil water movement, crop-irrigation water require-ments modeling, and design/evaluation of irri-gation drainage systems.
The course aims to provide students with some innovative tools and modern approaches for ir-rigation and drainage systems operation and management and performance evaluation.
This course provides fundamental knowledge on waves and their actions on bed sediment as well as tide and tidal current and their actions on pollutants, siltation and salinity intrusion.
Field of Study — Water Engineering and Management (WEM) ProGram
Code Course Description Semester Offered Prerequisite
CE74.32
Water Supply and Sanitation
Urban Drainage Management
River Engineering and Modeling
Groundwater Development and
Management
Land and Water Conservation and
Management
Integrated Water Resources Management
Modeling of Water Resources Systems This course provide students with the knowledge
of coastal processes, planning and management strategies for the development of coastal zone ar-eas, including action plans with examples on dif-ferent approaches for coastal zone management.
This course aims to provide fundamental knowl-edge on the design and management of water supply system and sanitation facilities.
This course is aimed at providing fundamen-tal and advanced knowledge of the design and management of urban drainage.
This course is designed to provide knowledge on river flow hydrology, sediment transport, and in the mixing process of water quality; alluvial chan-nel roughness, river engineering works, river morphology; sedimentation in reservoirs; field measurement and case studies.
This course provides the fundamental know-how on groundwater flow and transport processes, sources of pollution, techniques for groundwater resources assessment, environmental issues of overcharging and overexploitation of groundwater development, management of groundwater re-sources development and groundwater pollution.
This course aims to provide a holistic understand-ing of soil and water conservation for watershed management. Emphasis is placed on technical, agronomic and biological approaches to soil and water conservation, conservation methods and the design of appropriate measures. The course will also highlight conservation strategies and conservation planning at the watershed level.
This course provides knowledge and under-standing of the multi-dimensional factors leading to effective water resources management; and to stress the interaction of factors within the frame-work of the institutional and the management system through case studies.
The course provides knowledge on modelling for the solution of complex environmental and water resources problems and an overview of several well-recognized and popular computer models for water resources development, planning, and management to the students. Hands-on practice
Field of Study — Water Engineering and Management (WEM) ProGram
Code Course Description Semester Offered Prerequisite
CE74.61
CE74.71
CE74.9001
CE74.9002
IN84.12
Flooding Modeling and Management
EIA GIS Applications in Water Resources
Research Design and Experimental Methods
Climate Change and Water Resources
Floods and Droughts
January
January
January
January
CE74.12
None
None The objective of this course is to provide
ad-vanced knowledge in flood hydrology, flood modelling; flood forecasting models, artificial neural network; flood control and management, flood risk analysis and mapping; flood plain development, flood damages and feasibility of flood control projects.
The course will provide students with the knowl-edge and understanding of approaches needed for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of water resource projects. The principles of Geo-graphic Information System (GIS) and its appli-cation procedures for EIA and for decisions in water resources planning and management will also be covered.
The course aims to train students in planning, designing and conducting a field research and how to write research proposals and reports especially for water resource development projects. The course is also envisioned to en-hance the students writing, communication and presentation skills. In addition, the course will provide the students hands-on experience on laboratory and in-situ measurements of hydrau-lic and soil hydrologic properties and processes as well as on sampling soil and water in the field and its analysis in the laboratory.
This course aims to provide the knowledge and understandings of climate change and its impact on water availability, use and demand;
environmental and socio-economic implica-tions; modeling tools and methods for climate change projections and impact assessment in water sectors; vulnerability assessment and cli-mate change adaptation strategies in managing water at regional, national and local level. Also current status of policies, laws and international climate change debates and negotiations, in particular to water resources management will be discussed.
Floods and droughts are one of the most de-structive natural phenomena in Asia and around the world. They can cause serious damage to life, properties, public utilities and infrastruc-tures. They hamper social and economic growth of developing countries. Knowledge on hydrol-ogy of floods and droughts; understanding on their causes, frequencies and magnitudes are required to achieve effective management and mitigation measures of floods and droughts.