2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

CENG 420 Transportation Engineering

Traffic flow principles, planning, and design; capacity and design constraints; pavement design; highway engineering; levels of service; introduction to multimodal transportation.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

CENG 210; ENGR 461

Offered

Fall

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Explain fundamental transportation engineering concepts.
  2. Ability to design a system, component, or process in Transportation Engineering.
  3. Ability to include principles of sustainability in design of traffic facilities.
  4. Ability to apply modern tools and computing resources to solve problems in Transportation Engineering.
  5. Ability to apply knowledge in the following civil engineering areas: Transportation Engineering, Surveying, Environmental Engineering, Structural Engineering.
  6. Explain the necessary elements in traffic engineering, public transportation, transportation planning, and pavement engineering.
  7. Solve analysis and design problems in transportation engineering.
  8. Evaluate and recommend improvements to the traffic facilities of a municipality.
  9. Ability to apply knowledge of mathematics through differential equations and calculus- based physics.
  10. Ability to apply probability and statistics to address uncertainty.
  11. Ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences.
  12. Ability to identify, formulate, and solve civil engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
  13. Ability to function on multidisciplinary teams.