Morning Study

Traffic engineers are transportation engineers who specialize in the design and maintenance of safe roads and highways. They determine what kinds of roads are needed to make traffic flow smoothly and then find the most economical ways to build and maintain them.

Many engineers work in the highway or street departments of state or city governments; others work for federal highway agencies or county highway departments. Engineers can also work for private consulting firms, educational institutions, or industries.

Traffic engineers who work for state governments are mainly concerned with interstate highways or primary state roads, which carry heavy traffic over long distances. They do "need studies" to determine how many trucks, buses, and cars can be expected to use new roads and then work with highway engineers and location engineers to figure out the safest, most economical paths for them. Interstate turnpikes require careful planning of overpasses, exits, cloverleaves, and rest areas.

Traffic engineers who work for city governments try to solve parking problems and traffic jams and to choose the best public transit routes. In some large cities, several traffic engineers may have the sole responsibility of timing the traffic lights.

Irrigation and agricultural drainage engineering - called irrigation engineering for short - is the science that is concerned with providing agricultural areas with the water needed for agricultural uses in a way that is accurately calculated on the basis of climate, topography and the nature of the soil (acidity degree, grain gradation,...). Providing the soil with water maintains the moisture content necessary for plant growth, and washes the soil from excess salts, to maintain an acceptable concentration of salinity in the root zone of the plant. (Saline lands can be cultivated with rice, which needs large amounts of water, and at the same time, the soil is washed from salts)

In this module students learn a wide range of construction management principles introduced to enable them to understand the basic concepts of construction management theories. This starts with definitions, explanation of performance targets, then we carry on to introduce critical path method, line of balance, delivery methods and others. The module is also expected to focus on monitoring construction management principles and techniques such as building information modelling (BIM), construction sustainability, and industrialised construction.

A major specialty area within civil engineering, geotechnical engineering focuses on how soil and rock support and affect the performance of structure built on or below the earth’s surface. Also, soil may be used as construction material. This course will be introducing the student to the basic principles that govern the behavior of soils, geotechnical properties of soil and other geotechnical works. The topics to be covered in this course are: An understanding of these basic concepts is essential in the design of foundations for structures, retaining walls, tunnels, excavations, earth fills, stability of earth slopes, sanitary landfill, and environmental remediation projects. Specifically, a student completing this course will:  Understanding the basic principles of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering.  Learn the relevant terms and soil tests needed to describe and predict the behavior of a soil, permitting the student to work effectively with specialist in geotechnical engineering.

Reinforced Concrete is the common term given to a concrete member (or slab) that contains steel reinforcement (usually in the form of steel bars) to increase the strength of the structure. The material that results from the combination of concrete and reinforcing bars is called Reinforced Concrete (RC). During construction, the reinforcement steel is placed in the formwork first, either in the form of a prefabricated steel cage or steel rebars that are fastened together and wired in-situ. Then concrete is poured into the formwork and vibrated using adequate devices so as to guarantee a high level of collaboration between the two materials.

Theory of structures

Lecturer:  Dr. Wail Asim Mohammad Hussain

Academic Level: Third level 

 Aims

To introduce the students with the basics of structural analysis and the different methods used in analysing determinate and indeterminate structures.

 Learning Outcomes

After completing the module the student should be able to:

1.Learn different methods for structural analysis

2. Give a comprehensive description of the behaviour of the structural elements under the influence of different loads.

3. Gaining experience in using the best methods for structural analysis.

4. Calculating the value and effect of deformations occurring in the structural elements.

The course is concerned with studying and solving mathematical equations as it is an important requirement for various branches of science especially in the field of civil engineering applications. Solutions to some problems are derived using  Engineering analysis and Numerical methods. These solutions were often helpful and provided excellent insight into the behavior of some systems.