Module Code - Title:
CE4045
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PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 1
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
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Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
The objective of this module is to engage the student in professional practice skills through the medium of problem-based learning. The module involves an overview of Health and Safety in the construction industry and project work integrates core skills in CAD and land surveying in advance of cooperative education in semester 6.
The module is 100% continually assessed and non-repeatable.
Syllabus:
The Planning System: Making a simple planning application.
Health & Safety: Overview of health & safety in the construction industry. Statutory framework for the construction industry. Roles and responsibilities of the civil engineer. Processes and procedures, risk assessments.
Computer Aided Drafting: Overview of current industry practice and trends in drawing and integration of CAD with the design process. Operate a proprietary 2-D CAD system to produce survey and planning drawings. Operate a proprietary 3-D CAD system to produce a rudimentary 3D model and associated plan and sections.
Land Surveying: Overview of land surveying methods and principles. Overview of GIS. Surveying and setting out using total station and levelling equipment operation, data recording and production of a topographical survey drawing. Setting out of a simple building.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Describe the key provisions of Health and Safety Regulations and associated roles and responsibilities.
Prepare a simple risk assessment.
Create for a simple project, a set of planning application documents (team exercise).
Describe 3 representative CAD systems for civil engineering applications currently available together with their typical functionality.
Describe the place of CAD within the overall design process.
Describe current methodologies for land and infrastructural surveying.
Describe the place of land surveying within the wider context of Geographical Information Systems (GIS).
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
N/A
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
Carry out as part of a team a topographical survey using a total station of a site and produce the corresponding CAD drawing.
Set out a building outline on a selected site.
Prepare a simple Planning application including one of a set of 2-Dimensional CAD drawings.
Produce a rudimentary 3-D CAD drawing and generate a plan and sections from it.
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Health & Safety Authority (2006)
Guidelines on the Procurement, Design and Management Requirements of the Safety Health and Welfare at Work (Construction) Regulations
,
Health & Safety Authority (2009)
Understanding Construction Risk Assessment
,
Uren, J., Price, W.F, (2005)
Surveying for Engineers, 4th Ed
, Palgrave Macmillan
Bertoline G. R., (1994)
AutoCAD for Engineering Graphics, 2nd Edition
, Macmillan, New York
Other Relevant Texts:
International Centre for Local & Regional Development ()
The Irish Planning System: an overview
, http://www.iclrd.org/documents/The%20Irish%20Planning%20System%20(with%20tables).doc
Bannister, A., Raymond, S., and Baker, R., (1998)
Surveying
, Longman
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Module Leader:
Ross.Higgins@ul.ie