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CIV3204 - Engineering investigation

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Engineering

Organisational Unit

Department of Civil Engineering

Coordinator(s)

Dr Valentijn Pauwels

Offered

Clayton

Second semester 2016 (Day)

Malaysia

Second semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

Systematic approaches to engineering data collection, analysis and interpretation. The Scope covers data description and presentation, randomness, discrete probability, continuous probability, conditional probability, Bayes' Theorem, normal distribution, sampling distributions, point estimation, interval estimation, hypothesis testing, linear regression.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

apply statistical theory to problems frequently encountered by engineers
arrange and interpret large data sets and compute summary statistics
plan experiments and draw conclusions in a correct manner
formulate hypotheses to analyse data sets
predict random processes through time series analysis

Assessment

Continuous assessment: 30%
Final Examination: (3 hours) 70%
Students are required to achieve at least 45% in the total continuous assessment component (assignments, tests, mid-semester exams, laboratory reports) and at least 45% in the final examination component and an overall mark of 50% to achieve a pass grade in the unit. Students failing to achieve this requirement will be given a maximum of 45% in the unit.

Workload requirements

2 hours lecture, 2 hours practical and 8 hours private study per week.

Chief examiner(s)

Professor Jeffrey Walker

Prerequisites

ENG1091 or MTH1030 or MTH1031 or ENG1005