CIVL 302 - Highway Engineering

Credit Hours: 3

Required of all Civil and Environmental Engineering juniors. Highway alignment, right-of-way and easements; earthwork and grading; road user benefits, traffic operations and capacity; design of intersections and interchanges; construction surveys; drainage design; highway materials, design of asphalt mixtures; pavement thickness design; and construction management, contracts, estimates and specifications. Preparation of plans and design documentation for a highway project including; horizontal alignment, vertical alignment, roadway cross-sections, storm water drainage, earthwork and mass diagram calculations, and construction materials.
Lecture: 3 hours
Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Transportation Engineering (CIVL 305)
Corequisites: Co-requisite: Asphalt and Concrete Laboratory (CIVL 327).