Transportation Engineering

This specialization focuses on the studies that involve transportation infrastructures such as highways, ports, and harbors.

Career Opportunities: Transportation Planner, Transportation Consultant

First Semester

CEnT 151 Transportation Systems Planning and Design

Lecture: 3 hoursNumber of units: 3Course Description:The course gives emphasis on the Transportation Sector of the Economy: Its Function, Its Players, Its Technologies, Its Policies, Its Information Sources; Planning and Analysis Tools of Transportation Demand and Investment; The Role of High Technology in Transportation; Current High Profile Transportation Policy & Planning Issues.

CEnT 152 Highway Engineering

Lecture: 3 hoursNumber of units: 3Course Description:This course deals with the development of highways in the Philippines, highway design, and the materials that are used in road construction and maintenance. The course includes highway administration; traffic, driver, pedestrian and vehicle characteristics; geometric design, roadside design, highway and related structures; intersection, interchanges, terminals; drainage structures; traffic engineering; asphalt and concrete pavements, survey, plans, estimates, contracts and supervision, earthworks, bases and sub-bases, highway maintenance and rehabilitation. The Standard Specification for Public Works and Highways will also be discussed and be given emphasis in the discussion.

Second Semester

CEnT 153 Airport Design

Lecture: 3 hoursNumber of units: 3Course Description:The course gives emphasis on the Air Transportation; history and airport planning; Aeronautical Requirements for Airport Design; Airside Operations - Navigation & Air Traffic Control; Airport Terminal LOS Standards; Simulation Modeling of Passenger Terminals and Airport Security Issues;;Air Traffic Flow Management; and Environmental Impact – Airport Noise

CEnT 154 Ports and Harbors

Lecture: 3 hoursNumber of units: 3Course Description:The course gives emphasis on the planning, development, design construction and operation of ports and harbors as modes of transportation It gives a thorough discussion of the types and classification of ports and harbors; theory and principle of oceanographic survey (tides, currents and waves); ports and harbors planning and development, hydraulics of river, its improvements and controls.

CEnT 155 Mass Transit Engineering

Lecture: 3 hoursNumber of units: 3Course Description:

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