ELECTIVE IV Course Content & Grade. MECTM 1131(i)

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1 ELECTIVE IV ME CTM Transportation Engineering 1131(i) Unit 1. Traffic Flow Characteristics : a) Nature of Traffic Flow b) Various Parameters e.g speed, rate of flow, density, spacing and headway, lane occupancy, clearance etc. c) Categories of traffic flow, uninterrupted and interrupted flow. d) Analysis of speed, flow and density relationship. e) General Model of Vehicle stream flow. Unit 2. Highway Capacity : a) Highway Capacity and level of Service b) Basic Freeway Capacity Studies c) Level of Service d) Criteria and Different Levels of Service e) Determination of level of Service f) Use of Highway Capacity Manual. Unit 3. Intersection Control and Design : a) Design & Installation of Road traffic signals as per IRC : 93 b) Road Rail Level Crossing IRC : 39 c) Accommodation of underground utility services along and across roads in Urban Areas as per IRC : 98 d) Interchanges in Urban Areas as per IRC : 92 Unit 4. Urban Highway Utilities : a) Design and layout of Cycle Tracks as per IRC : 11 b) Recommended practice for Traffic Rotaries as per IRC : 65 c) Provision of speed Breakers for Control of Vehicular speeds on Minor Roads as per IRC : 99 Unit 5. Environmental Impact Assessment of Highway Projects as per IRC : 104

2 References Books 1. IRC : 93 - Design and Installation of Road traffic Signals 2. IRC : 39 - Road-Rail Level Crossing 3. IRC : 98 - Accommodation of underground utility services along and across roads in Urban Areas 4. IRC : 92 - Interchanges in Urban Areas 5. IRC : 11 - Design and layout of Cycle Tracks 6. IRC : 65 - Recommended practice for Traffic Rotaries 7. IRC : 99 - Provision of Speed breakers for Control of Vehicular speed on Minor Roads 8. IRC :104 - Environmental Impact Assessment of Highway Project 9. Khanna & Justo Highway Engineering ;Nem Chand & Brothers, Roorkee 10. L.R.Kadiyali Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning, Khanna Publishers, Delhi. 7l, S.K. Sharma Principles, Practice and Design of Highway Engineering S.Chand & Company Ltd., New Delhi. 12. Khisty, CJ and Lall B Kent, Transportation Engineering -An Introduction.

3 ELECTIVE IV ME CTM Technology Management 1131(ii) Unit 1. Introduction to Technology Management Business Strategy for New Technologies: adding value, gaining competitive advantage, timing and capability development Unit 2. Technology Forecasting: Techniques of Forecasting, Technology Forecasting- Relevance, Strategic alliance and Practicality, and Technology transfer. Unit 3. Management of Research, Development and Innovation: Technology mapping, Comparison of types of R& D Projects and development approaches- radical platform and incremental projects, innovation process. Management of Intellectual Property Rights Strategic value of patents, trade secrets and licensing Unit 4. Managing scientist and Technologists: Identification, Recruitment, Retention, Team work and Result Orientation. Management Roles and Skills for New Technology Unit 5. Technology for Managerial Productivity and Effectiveness, Just-in-Time Venture Capital & Technology Development Practice Tasks: - Technology forecasting and Technology mapping - Technology Strategy Development - Exercise on Just-in-Time - Cases on Venture Capital Reference Books: 1. Technology and Management, Cassell Educational Ltd., London 2. John Humbleton Elsevier ; Management of High Technology Research and Development 3. Charles W.L. Hill/Gareth R. Jones, Strategic Management, Houghton Mifflin Co. 4. S.A. Bergin R&D Management, Basil Blackwell Inc. 5. Richard M.Burton & Borge Obel Elsevier Innovation and Entrepreneurship in organizations 6. Spyros Maksidkis & Steven C Wheelwright The Handbook of Forecasting-A 7. Management Guide, John Wiley & Sons 8. C. Marle Crawford IRWIN,. New Product Management USA 9. David Hutchin Just-in-Time, Grover Technical Press

4 ELECTIVE IV ME CTM Construction Disaster Management 1131(iii) Unit 1. Nature Disasters Natures and extent of disasters, natural calamities such as earthquake, floods, coasts hazards, landslides etc. Unit 2. Manmade disasters such as chemical and industrial hazards, nuclear hazards, fire hazards etc. Unit 3. Disaster Management Financing relief expenditure, legal aspects, rescue operations. Casually management, risk management. Unit 4. Emergency Management Programme Administrative setup and organization. Hazard analysis, training of personnel, information management, emergency facilities and equipment necessary. Unit 5. Public awareness & Management- creation, preparation and execution of the emergency management programme. Reference books 1 Construction Engineering and Management Seetharaman 2 Project Management K Nagarajan (New Age International Ltd.) 3 Different sites on internet on disaster management 4 NICMAR Publications 5 CECR s Journals ELECTIVE IV

5 ME CTM Human resource management 1131(iv) Unit 1.Principles of Management Philosophy of Management, Nature & Role of Management, Management Process, Evolution of Management, Briefing of Managerial Process, Planning organizing, Directing, Staffing, Coordination, Objectives of Business. Unit 2.Organizational Structure & HRM Definition, Types of forms of organization, Principles of Organization structures, Centralization & Decentralization, Delegation, Authority, Responsibility, Communication scopes & types in management. Motivation Theory : Meaning of motivation, Kinds of motivation, Hawthorn exp., theory X & y. Motivation techniques, Concept of leadership in management, leadership styles, Type of leaders, Function & qualities of Leadership. Unit 3.Financial Management Meaning and importance of F.M., Financial Planning, Capitalization, Comparative merits & demerits of different securities. Break even point in operations, Types of Budgeting. Introduction to fixed & working Capital : Meanings, Classification of fixed & working Capital Balancing between F.C. & W.C. Importance of W.C., Factors affecting W.C., Break even analysis, Depreciation interpretation of financial statement & Ratios. Unit 4.Marketing & Sales Management Introduction to M.M : Scope of marketing, company orientation towards the market place, marketing environment, Elements of marketing mix : 4P s Product positioning, Product life cycle, New product development, Managing retailer, wholesaler and marketing logistics. Identify market segment and selecting target market. Unit 5.Project Management Project management concepts, S/W project planning, Quality management and risk analysis in S/W project, Project scheduling and tracking, S/w configuration management, A case on project management : (Time scheduling & tracking) using some S/W tools like MS-Project. Reference books:

6 i) Introduction to Management by Koontz ii) Marketing Management by P. Kotler iii) Organization Behaviour by Fred Luthans iv) Financial Management by V.K. Bhalla v) Financial Management by Khan & Jain vi) Business Administration & Management by S.C. Saxena vii) S/W Engg. - A practitioners Approach by Roger S. Pressman ELECTIVE V

7 ME CTM Infrastructure Development 1132(i) Unit 1. Construction Industry Nature, characteristics, size and structure Role of infrastructure development in employment generation and improving of the National economy. Unit 2. Various Agencies associated with infrastructure development in India as regards various sectors. Unit 3. Status of Infrastructure in India- Indian government policy, Roads and buildings, communication, water supply, irrigation, power energy sectors, ports and aviation, health and educational services, rural development. Unit 4. Issues related to infrastructure development pre requisites necessary to ensure success for switching over from public sector management to private sector management, issues in developing, Unit 5. Funding and managing infrastructure projects, role, and responsibility of project management consultants. Reference Books 1 India Infrastructure Report Rakesh Mohan 2 Infrastructure Today - Magazine 3 Document of five year plans, published by Govt. of India 4 CE & CR Magazine. 5 Construction World Magazine. ELECTIVE V

8 ME CTM Environmental Impact Analysis and Management 1132(ii) Unit 1.Environment and Human Activity : Resources, pollution, reuse and environmental management. Unit 2.Management of Aquatic Environment : Water quality controls, Drainage basin activities and water pollution. The impact of human activity on quatic resources. The control measures. Regional planning. Unit 3.Air Quality Management : Atmosphere, Effect of human activity on air quality. Waste disposal alternatives. Optimization, planning of waste disposal. Unit 4.Waste Management : Impact, waste disposal on human activity. Land Use Management : Impact of land use on human life. Control of hazards in land use, management of land use. Unit 5.Environmental Assessment : National environmental policy, Implication of environment assessment in design process. Preparation of assessment Qualification. General requirements of Environmental standards. Techniques of setting standards. Impact studies for some specific cases. ELECTIVE V

9 ME CTM Repairs, Rehabilitation & Retrofitting of Structures 1132(iii) Unit 1. Importance of rehabilitation as a part of construction engineering. Unit 2. Rehabilitation studies of buildings, underground construction, bridges, streets & highways, Unit 3. Steel Structures - Types of distress. Numerical condition surveys for foundation, structural and functional deterioration, design criteria, materials and techniques. Unit 4. Predictive performance models, evaluating alternatives based on technical, commercial, management, financial feasibilities, data collection and database management, maintenance of rehabilitated structures. Procedure adopted by BIFR (Board of Industrial and Financial Reconstruction) Unit 5. Earthquake damages of buildings, their retrofitting, restoration, effects of earthquakes, response of buildings to earthquake motion, factors related to building damages due to earthquake, methods of seismic retrofitting, restoration of buildings. Reference books 1 Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering N. W. Newman & E. Rosen Blueth. 2 Masonry & Timber Structures including Earthquake Resistant Design - A. S. Arya. 3 Earthquake Engineering R. L. Wieegel. 4 Deign of Multistoried Buildings for Earthquake Ground motions - Blume, Newmark & Corning. 5 Structural dynamics Mario Paz. 6 Earth Quake Engineering Agrawal & Shrikhande ELECTIVE V

10 ME CTM New Construction Materials & Techniques 1132(iv) Material composition and properties, production, storage, distribution, testing, acceptance criteria, applications, limitations of use, economic consideration, and recent development related to the following materials to be studied. Unit 1. Industrial Waste - Fly Ash, Blast furnace slag, Red mud, Waste glass, etc. Unit 2. Agricultural Waste - Rice husk, Banana leaves, Sisal fibers, Coconut wastage, etc. Unit 3. Concrete Construction Technology a. Silica fume concrete b. Self compacting concrete Properties, testing, etc. c. Smart materials d. Materials used in nuclear-containment structures e. Glenium Concrete Unit 4. Properties and technique of construction for concrete, Fiber reinforced concrete, Light Weight concrete, Heavy weight concrete, Foam concrete, High performance Concrete. Unit 5. Special concrete operations shortcrete, grouting, grunting, under water concreting, hot and cold weather concrete, pumpabale concrete. Reference Books 1 New Building Materials and Construction World magazine 2 Concrete Technology - Neville 3 Civil Engineering and Construction Review magazine 4 Building Materials - Ghosh 5 Concrete Technology - M. S. Shetty 6 Concrete Technology M. L. Gambhir 7 New building material & cost effective construction techniques Published magazines

11 ME CTM inar 1133 Each student will select a topic in the area of Civil Engineering and related area in the state of art area & technical development. The topic will be decided by the student, guide and departmental research committee. Each student will make seminar presentation with audio/ video aids, for the duration of 45 minutes and seminar work shall be in the form of report to be submitted by the students at the end of the semester. The report copies must be duly signed by guide and Head of department. (One copy for institute, one copy for guide and one copy for candidate for certification). Attendance of all students for all seminars is compulsory.

12 ME CTM Pre dissertation (Literature Review/ Problem Formulation / Synopsis ) 1134 The project work will be a live problem in the industry or macro-issue having a bearing on performance of the civil engineering construction industry and should involve scientific research, design, collection, and analysis of data, determining solutions and must preferably bring out the individuals contribution. The dissertation should be presented in a standard format. The term work should be continuously evaluated as per the norms/guidelines.

CVL 37 Civil Engg. Material

CVL 37 Civil Engg. Material No Title SCHEME OF TEACHING & EXAMINATION BE CIVIL ENGINEERING III SEMESTER hours /week Th. Pr. I.A. Theory/ Pract. 1 10 MAT 31 Engineering 4 -- 3 5 100 15 Maths Mathematics III 10 CV 3 Building Materials