CE 261 — Principles Of Design
BSc BSc Civil Engineering · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Various types of Civil Engineering works; Civil Engineering Materials for construction; Relevance of maintenance of civil engineering structures, facilities and projects: Considerations at design stage. Impact/Effect of design and construction on the environment; Infrastructure design and planning; Designs will include calculating volumes and densities of refuse, measurements of gradients of highways, hard shoulders, slopes, widths and depth of drains, sketches of these measurements and profiles. Using the various theories and analysis studied so far in design. Simple practical design and presentation: Simple group design projects and oral presentation/defence before a panel of examiners.
- Credits
- 2
- Level
- Year Two
Other courses on this programme
- CE 251 — Strength Of Materials
- CE 255 — Theory Of Structures
- CE 256 — Fluid Mechanics
- CE 257 — Computer Programming
- CE 260 — Soil & Rock Mechanics
- CE 263 — Computer Aided Design
- GE 282 — Large Scale Surveying
- MATH 253 — Mathematics III
- MATH 254 — Mathematics IV
- ARC 155 — Building Science and Services I
- CE 151 — Elementary Structures
- CE 153 — Engineering Technology
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