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