Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2025-26

This subject belongs to the minor in Construction Technology. It is taught in the sixth semester (3rd year) of the Civil Engineering undergraduate degree.

The course is divided into the following activities: lectures, recitations (design case studies), laboratory and computer practice sessions. These classroom activities aim to equip the future graduates with scientific and technical expertise in planning, design, construction, and operation of highways, traffic networks and their related infrastructure.

Likewise, the training received by the student will prepare for the development and deepening of content on different disciplines belonging to Highway Engineering, which are studied in specific subjects of subsequent courses.

ALIGNMENT WITH SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs):

DIGITALIZATION:

  • Programming of various practical exercises with calculation tools
  • CAD/BIM professional software for highway design

 

 

Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2025-26

UA Basic Transversal Competences

  • CT10 : Capacity to confront, plan and solve real problems demanded by society in the field of engineering.
  • CT12 : Capacity to assimilate and adapt to the permanent evolution of technology when developing one's professional career.
  • CT13 : Capacity to adopt the scientific method when planning and carrying out different academic and professional tasks.
  • CT7 : Capacity for oral and written exposition.
  • CT8 : Capacity to plan tasks and commit oneself to satisfying goals and deadlines.
  • CT9 : Capacity for group work.

 

Specific Competences (Specific Technology):>>Civil Construction

  • CEC4 : Capacity to build and preserve roads, as well as the sizing, planning and building of the elements that make up highway equipment. Capacity to plan, build and preserve road transport infrastructures.

 

Specific Competences (Specific Technology):>>Hydrology

  • CEH3 : Knowledge of urban services projects related to water distribution and sanitation works.

 

Specific Competences (Specific Technology):>>Transit and Urban Services

  • CET1 : Capacity to build and preserve roads, as well as the sizing, planning and building of the elements that make up highway equipment. Capacity to plan, build and preserve road transport infrastructures.

 

Basic Transversal Competences

  • CB2 : Students should know how to apply their knowledge to their job or vocation in a professional manner and should have those skills that are usually reflected when preparing and defending arguments and solving problems in their field of study.
  • CB3 : That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make judgements that include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues.
  • CB5 : Students should have developed the necessary learning skills to undertake later studies with a high level of autonomy.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2025-26

  • Acquisition of specialized vocabulary and regulatory knowledge relevant to highway engineering.
  • Understand and apply core concepts, principles, and terminology in highway design and construction.
  • Knowledge of the basic characteristics of road transport supply and demand, and the main actors involved in this activity.
  • Ability and skills to analyse, quantify and correct the traffic states in rural and urban roads, as part of the usual techniques of Traffic Engineering.
  • Skills to design urban and rural road segments, specifically including geometric design, pavement design, connections and road junctions design.
  • Understanding of the fundamental characteristics of air transport and aircrafts for its use in airport infrastructure design.
  • Develop critical analysis capabilities, conceptual scalability, and depth of understanding applicable to this Civil Engineering specialization.

 

 

General

Code: 33529
Lecturer responsible:
Bañón Blázquez, Luis
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,20
Practical credits: 1,20
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: CIVIL ENGINEERING
    Area: INFRAESTRUCTURE AND TRANSPORT ENGINEERING
    Theoretical credits: 1,2
    Practical credits: 1,2
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.
  • Dept: GRAPHIC EXPRESSION, COMPOSITION AND PROJECTS
    Area: EXPRESSIO GRAFICA EN L'ENGINYERIA
    Theoretical credits: 0
    Practical credits: 0

Study programmes where this course is taught