Competencies and objectives
- Course context for academic year 2023-24
- Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)
- Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
- Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2023-24
Course context for academic year 2023-24
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, workshops, laboratory and computer practice. These classroom activities are focused on providing the future graduate scientific and technical training in the field of conception, design, construction and operation of highways, traffic networks and its 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.
RELATION TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs):
DIGITALIZATION:
- Programming of various practical exercises with calculation tools.
- Use of professional traffic microsimulation software (AIMSUN Next)
- Use of BIM professional software for highway design (CLIP, Autoturn, Autodesk)
Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)
UA Basic Transversal Competences
- CT-10 : Capacity to confront, plan and solve real problems demanded by society in the field of engineering.
- CT-12 : Capacity to assimilate and adapt to the permanent evolution of technology when developing one's professional career.
- CT-13 : Capacity to adopt the scientific method when planning and carrying out different academic and professional tasks.
- CT-7 : Capacity for oral and written exposition.
- CT-8 : Capacity to plan tasks and commit oneself to satisfying goals and deadlines.
- CT-9 : Capacity for group work.
Specific Competences (Specific Technology):>>Civil Construction
- CEC-4 : 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
- CEH-3 : Knowledge of urban services projects related to water distribution and sanitation works.
Specific Competences (Specific Technology):>>Transit and Urban Services
- CET-1 : 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
- CB-2 : 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.
- CB-3 : Students should have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within their field of study) to give opinions that include a reflection on important, social, scientific, ethical matters, etc.
- CB-5 : Students should have developed the necessary learning skills to undertake later studies with a high level of autonomy.
Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
No data
Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2023-24
- Acquisition and use of specific vocabulary and regulations used in this technical field.
- Knowledge, understanding and application of the various concepts and terminology used in Highway Engineering.
- Knowledge of the basic characteristics of the supply and demand of road transport and the main actors involved in such 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.
- Ability and skills to project urban and interurban road segments, specifically including its geometric design, pavement design, connections and road junctions.
- Knowledge of the fundamental characteristics of air transport and aircraft for use in the design of airport infrastructure.
- Acquisition of critical capacity, scalability and deepening of the developed concepts, and analysis skills applied to this Civil Engineering discipline.
;