Civil and Infrastructure Engineering at RMIT

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Civil and Infrastructure Engineering at RMIT
Assoc. Prof. Roger Hadgraft Teaching and Learning
Director
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What do Civil Engineers do?

• Provide community infrastructure, eg
• Structures
• Earth structures
• Water
• Transport

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Major structures and their foundations
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Water supply, dams, spillways, flood management,
water treatment
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Transport rail, roads, airports
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Who employs Civil Engineers?

• Consulting engineering companies
• Government
• Contractors
• Mining companies
• Non-engineering organisations, eg banks
• Worldwide accreditation of engineering degrees

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What skills do Civil Engineers need ?

• Graduate capabilities
• Problem solver/decision maker
• Technical analyst (quantifier)
• Mathematical ability
• Communicator
• Team player (and leader)

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Within a Sustainability context

• Socially relevant and inclusive (the need)
• Technically sound
• Economically justifiable
• Environmentally sensitive
• The Sustainable Engineer!

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Why RMIT ?

• New Civil Infrastructure Degree in 2004
• Follows no intake in 2003 during development
  phase
• Focus on the whole life cycle of an
  infrastructure facility
• Planning, Design, Construction, Operations,
• Graduate capabilities developed in consultation
  with industry

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Year Themes

• Connection to Self, the Staff, other Students (as
  collaborative learners), the Profession
• The Big Ideas of the discipline structures,
  water, geo, transport
• Key application areas (earlier)
• Connecting to the workplace specialisation and
  work placement

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What can we offer?

• Engage students in real projects
• Blend of practical and theoretical
• Project/problem-based learning (PBL)
• Flexible learning through the Learning Hub
• Teaching to suit range of learning styles (eg
  4MAT)

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Support for graduate capabilities

• http//www.dlsweb.rmit.edu.au/eng/BENG0001/

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Student website
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Pre-requisites

• English, Maths Methods
• Chemistry (2004 only)
• Middle band
• 1 point bonus for Specialist Maths
• 1 point bonus for Physics
• Clearly in for 2002 was 82.

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More information
Click on a discipline area

• http//www.rmit.edu.au/ENG/CIVIL-CHEM

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Other Resources

• Engineering in Schools (IEAust)
• http//www.ieaust.org.au/careers/schools.html
• Kids Careers (ASCE)
• http//www.asce.org/kids/think_career.cfm
• Education Zone (ICE, UK)
• http//www.ice.org.uk/educationzone/
• Building Big
• http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/

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Contact me

• Assoc. Prof. Roger Hadgraft
• Teaching and Learning Director
• School of Civil Chemical Engineering
• Phone [phone]
• Email Roger.Hadgraft_at_RMIT.edu.au
• Morning tea, Lunch today

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Sustainable Engineering
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Where do Civil Engineers work?

• Big companies
• Small companies
• Shell, Safeway, BHP
• RACV, VicRoads, PTC, EPA
• Melbourne Water, Eastern Energy
• Reebok, NASA
• Banks, Management consultants

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Pipelines
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Transport - roads
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Acknowledgements

• Special thanks to Peter Daly (now at RACV) who
  created some of these slides