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D.1 Civil Engineering Systems

CVEN4007W is a Master's level module in Civil Engineering Systems focusing on systems analysis, decision-making, and optimization in engineering contexts. Students will learn to assess design alternatives, model systems, and apply computational tools to solve engineering problems. The module includes continuous assessment through group projects, presentations, and an end-of-trimester exam, and is exclusively for CDIC students at UCD's overseas campus in Xi'an, China.

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D.1 Civil Engineering Systems

CVEN4007W is a Master's level module in Civil Engineering Systems focusing on systems analysis, decision-making, and optimization in engineering contexts. Students will learn to assess design alternatives, model systems, and apply computational tools to solve engineering problems. The module includes continuous assessment through group projects, presentations, and an end-of-trimester exam, and is exclusively for CDIC students at UCD's overseas campus in Xi'an, China.

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CVEN4007W
Academic Year 2022/2023

Civil Engineering Systems (CVEN4007W)

Subject: Civil Engineering

College: Engineering & Architecture

School: Civil Engineering

Level: 4 (Masters)

Credits: 5

Module Coordinator: Dr Rui Teixeira

Trimester: Autumn

Mode of Delivery: Online

Internship Module: No

How will I be graded? Letter grades 

Curricular information is subject to change.

This module introduces students to the need to think civil engineering also at system level, with civil engineering infrastructures as a
part of a larger context or whole that encloses multiple interrelated variables, and that defines informed engineering decision-
making schemes. It emphasizes the role of optimality in achieving highly efficient engineering systems, and enabling sustainable
development. It also emphasize also the roles of engineering management at system level as an enabler of fully functional and
optimal systems. Students in CVEN4007W will become aware of the role of describing systems, and finding its interdependencies,
including mathematical form description, such that it can be solved with the support of computational tools.

What will I learn?


Learning Outcomes:

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On completion of the course a student will be able to:

1. Understand how engineering design decisions should be performed and the need for a rationale of assessment for engineering
decisions;
2. Understand how a wide range of factors and decision makers may have influence on the performance of engineering systems;
3. Construct robust and appropriate criteria for assessing design alternatives;
4. Construct extensive lists of possible alternative solutions for a given design problem;
5. Construct and implement simple models of dynamical systems representing design alternatives from verbal descriptions to
quantitative predictions of performance;
6. Calculate optimal solutions to engineering problems using both linear and nonlinear methods as applicable;
7. Assess and apply appropriate multi-criteria decision methods and understand the need of a decision-maker to work with multiple
indicators;
8. Understand when the tools of systems analysis are appropriate and have the confidence to apply them.
9. Understand the importance of systems analysis in the achievement of the SDGs.
10. Be able to characterize a systems problem, and solve it using adequate computational-aided techniques.

Students in CVEN4007W will also learn the importance of computational tools in the management of engineering systems. Students
will be introduced to the importance of mathematical modelling and coding in the analysis of engineering systems, and development
of decision-making schemes.

Indicative Module Content:

A student of Civil Engineering Systems will study:

1. Introduction to Systems Analysis.


2. Decision makers and the importance of measures of effectiveness;
3. Assessment criteria;
4. Generation of alternative solutions and the role of probability and statistics;
5. Mathematical characterization of a systems problem;
6. Modelling and Simulation;
7. Linear and nonlinear optimization;
8. Modelling of discrete and continuous systems
9. System dynamics
10. Multi-criteria decision analysis;

In Civil Engineering Systems, a system of interest will be evaluated in the module through group work, where the knowledge
acquired should be applied in the evaluation of this system.

How will I learn?


Student Effort Hours:

Student Effort Type Hours

Lectures
36

Autonomous Student Learning


120

Total 156

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:


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CVEN4007W is a modulus completed through Continuous Assessment.

Group work feedback on the preliminary analysis of system of interest;


Peer-review feedback on the system of interest;
Lectures and group discussions;
Critical writing;
Am I eligible to take this module?
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Learning Requirements:
This module is for CDIC students only.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Required:
CDIC1023W - English 1, CDIC1028W - English 2, CDIC2016W - English 3, CDIC2020W - English 4, OVSE1003W - English 1,
OVSE1008W - English 2, OVSE2007W - English 3, OVSE2014W - English 4

Additional Information:
This module is for CDIC students only. This module is delivered in UCD's overseas Campus in Xi'an, China.

How will I be assessed?


Assessment Strategy

Open % of In Module
Book Component Must Pass Final Component
Description Timing Exam Scale Component Grade Repeat Offered

Group Project: Group- Throughout the n/a Graded No 15 No


peer Review and Self- Trimester
Assessment Report

Presentation: Throughout the n/a Graded No 10 No


Presentation of Trimester
preliminary system of
interest.

Examination: 1 hour End 1 hour End of No Graded No 30 No


of Trimester MCQ Exam Trimester Exam

Group Project: Analysis Throughout the n/a Graded No 45 No


and reporting of system Trimester
of interest.

Carry forward of passed components

No

What happens if I fail?

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Remediation Type Remediation Timing

In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing.
Assessment feedback
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Group/class feedback, post-assessment


• Peer review activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Group feedback lectures will be organised during the semester in order to guide the development of each group's system of interest.

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