Syllabus Highway Engineering

1	Course number		CVL315
2	Course Title		HIGHWAY ENGINEERING
3	Credits		4
4	Contact Hours (L-T-P)		4-0-0
5	Course Objective		To develop knowledge of Highway Geometric Design and to formulate the fundamental principles of traffic flow, traffic characteristic measurements and their interpretation for infrastructure changes or development. To develop an understanding of highway materials, including basic test on bitumen and design of highway pavements.
6	Course Outcomes		On successful completion of this module students will be able to 1.       Understand different road development plans; 2.       select the appropriate materials for use in different road layers; 3.       Interpret geometric design fundamentals in relation to safety and driver comfort, focusing on horizontal and vertical alignment; 4.       Design the geometric curves of a road pavement. 5.       performing the traffic studies necessary before making changes to or designing new road infrastructure;; 6.       designing traffic signal timings for junctions; 7.       assessing and conceptualising driver behaviour when developing engineering solutions to improve road safety; 8.       perform test on stone aggregate and bitumen; 9.       design highway pavements
7	Outline syllabus
7.01	CVL315.A		Unit A		Introduction
7.02	CVL315.A1		Unit A Topic 1		Overview of transportation system, Transportation modes, importance of roads,
7.03	CVL315.A2		Unit A Topic 2		scope of highway engineering, importance of transportation planning,
7.04	CVL315.A3		Unit A Topic 3		Development of transportation in India and different road plans, introduction to highway elements
7.05	CVL315.B		Unit B		Highway Geometric Design
7.06	CVL315.B1		Unit B Topic 1		Cross sectional elements, traffic separators, road margins,
7.07	CVL315.B2		Unit B Topic 2		sight distance, break distance, stopping distance, overtaking zones,
7.08	CVL315.B3		Unit B Topic 3		super elevation, transition curves, design of vertical element;
7.09	CVL315.C		Unit C		Traffic engineering
7.10	CVL315.C1		Unit C Topic 1		vehicle characteristics, human characteristics, traffic studies, presentation of traffic volume data, speed studies, spot speed studies, speed and delay studies, o&d studies,
7.11	CVL315.C2		Unit C Topic 2		traffic manoeuvres, traffic capacity studies, PCU, parking studies, accident studies and records,
7.12	CVL315.C3		Unit C Topic 3		relationship between travel time-capacity-volume-density-speed, road markings and signings, signal design
7.13	CVL315.D		Unit D		Highway Materials
7.14	CVL315.D1		Unit D Topic 1		Soil classifications, evaluation of soil strength,
7.15	CVL315.D2		Unit D Topic 2		stone aggregates, tests on bitumen,
7.16	CVL315.D3		Unit D Topic 3		design of bitumen mixes;
7.17	CVL315.E		Unit E		Design of Highway Pavements
7.18	CVL315.E1		Unit E Topic 1		Types of pavement structure, design factors
7.19	CVL315.E2		Unit E Topic 2		Design of flexible pavements, California bearing ratio method
7.20	CVL315.E3		Unit E Topic 3		Design of Rigid Pavements
8	Course Evaluation
8.1	Course work: 30 marks
8.11	Attendance	None
8.12	Homework	Three best out of 4 assignments: 20 marks
8.13	Quizzes	Two 30-minutes surprise quizzes in lecture hours: 10 marks
8.14	Projects	None
8.15	Presentations	None
8.16	Any other
8.2	MTE	One, 20 marks
8.3	End-term examination: 50 marks
9	References
9.1	Text book			Highway Engineering by Khanna and Justo
9.2	other references			The Handbook of highway engineering–T.F.Fwa (Editor), National University of Singaopre, Singapore, CRC Press 2.       Transportation Engineering: An Introduction 3rd Edison, C. Jotin Khisty and B Kent Lall 3.       American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (1990), A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, AASHTO, Washington, DC.

InfraBlitz 2016 || Event Details

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FYI!!!!

INFRABLITZ’ 16

According to the International LPI Global Ranking of 2015-16, India stands at 35^th position amongst the 160 countries showing its growth in last few years. Recently, Arvind Panagariya mentioned the turnaround changes in infrastructure department like road, railways, power and energy etc. and many more to ad on. There are lot of opportunities for young minds to come up with new ideas.

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Eligibility Criteria-

Ø  B.Tech 3^rd and 4^th year – Civil, Mechanical & Electrical Engineering students

The competition details are –

Ø  Online Quiz- 20 questions for 10 minutes ( Basic domain concepts and General Awareness)

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The registration windows are opening from 22^nd August 2016 to 1^st September 2016.

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Price Money

The price money details –

Ø  Winner –              Rs. 20,000.

Ø  1^st Runners up – Rs. 15000.

Ø  2^nd Runners up – Rs. 5000.

Students who qualify for the 2^nd and final rounds will get Certificates of Participation.

Announcements and Updates

All announcements and competition related updates will be posted on Facebook including the winners’ names of various levels.

The Registration Timeline-

DATE	ACTIVITY	DETAILS
22nd August 2016	Registration starts	Registration starts from 11 am
1st September 2016	Registration ends	Registration ends at 11:59pm
3rd September 2016	1st Round	Round 1- Online Quiz-20 questions for 10 minutes

Further dates of Rounds will be communicated via Facebook and email to respective shortlisted participants.

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CVL308 Lecture Plan

CVL308 Lecture Plan

Term Paper details

You are advised to fill the form below for the details of the Term Paper.

Form for the Detail

TERM PAPER

3rd and 5th term students, Civil Engineering

The third and fifth term students have a course called as "term paper". I am elaborating the procedure for the submission of term paper,

1. Select a broad subject area of your interest from the courses that are available to you in the current term
2. Select of Supervisor from the faculty teaching in your section
3. Submit the topic and the supervisor name to the section co-ordinator. If this is not done within the specified time, on or before the last date, a penalty of -10 marks shall be imposed. 
4. You shall be given three weeks time to source material on the selected topic, understand the topic and submit a synopsis. If the synopsis is not submitted, you loose another 10 marks.
5. Get the same approved by your supervisor and get his signature on the synopsis. Keep a copy with you and submit another copy to the supervisor
6. You will get another two weeks to submit the rough draft of the report. If you fail to submit the draft report, you loose another 20 marks
7. The report shall be evaluated by your supervisor and shall be returned back with the comments, within next two weeks (maximum.
8. You are supposed to submit the final draft of the report within a week's time of getting back the evaluated report. If this is not submitted, you loose 20 more marks.
9. Prepare a presentation on your topic and present the same to the panel of examiners (supervisor and another faculty member. The date shall be informed to you by the supervisor. If the presentation is not done on the date specified date, you stand to loose another 10 marks.
10. Note: One faculty teaching in your section shall be taking a maximum of 10-12 students under him, not more.

Format of a Term Paper Report:

Basic Requirements for the Report:

• Number of Pages: In general between 5-10.
• At least 1 self made (using excel or any other software) graph and 1 additional graph.
• Referencing must be correctly done (you may want to check: http://www.citationmachine.net/)
• You are asked to read at least one research paper very critically.

Format of the report:

1. Title

2. Introduction (General statements of the topics, focused statements of the problem and the objective of the report)

3. Methods that are adopted (here you may include how you intend to meet your objective)

4. Results and Discussion (here you may include graphs, your findings and discussions of them)

5. Conclusions and Recommendation (here you briefly summarize your findings and based on that you make recommendations)

6. References (the way you find it in any one of the paper you have critically read.)

NO PLAGIARISM please. 
Any report found to have been plagiarised,  shall be awarded ZERO and no second chance shall be given.

Deadlines:

Topic finalization and initial works (-10): 26th August, 2016

Draft Report Preparation and Progress (-10): 16th September, 2016

Draft Report Submission (-20): 7th October, 2016

Final Report Submission (-20): 12th Nov, 2016

Presentation (-10): between 15-25th Nov, 2016

The above deadlines are the last dates. They can be submitted before the above dates. The value in the bracket indicates that you would loose that many marks, if you do not meet the deadline. These dates are flexible and the supervisor can advance or delay them, as long as the final presentation is completed by 25th Nov, 2014. Contact your supervisor for exact dates.