GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

ADVANCED HIGHWAY MATERIALS/5991308

COURSE INFORMATION

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-- (TEXTBOOK)

-- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)

-- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- COURSE OBJECTIVES

-- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

To have full knowledge on highway materials, road pavement and design principles
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-- MODE OF DELIVERY

The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face

--WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week	Highway related concepts and introduction to road materials.
2. Week	Flexible pavements.
3. Week	Low quality flexible superstructures and pavement surface treatments
4. Week	High standard flexible pavements.
5. Week	Bituminous hot mixtures.
6. Week	Flexible pavement design
7. Week	Midterm exam
8. Week	Rigid pavements
9. Week	Design principles of rigid (concrete) pavements.
10. Week	Properties of Soil
11. Week	Soil improvement using compaction method
12. Week	Soil improvement using drainage techniques
13. Week	Soil improvement using stabilization techniques
14. Week	Sample applications
15. Week	Sample applications
16. Week	-

-- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS

-- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

	Quantity	Total Weighting (%)
Midterm Exams	2	40
Assignment	2	20
Application	0	0
Projects	0	0
Practice	0	0
Quiz	1	20

Percent of In-term Studies		60
Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score		40

-- WORKLOAD

Activity	Total Number of Weeks	Duration (weekly hour)	Total Period Work Load
Weekly Theoretical Course Hours	14	3	42
Weekly Tutorial Hours	0	0	0
Reading Tasks	14	1	14
Searching in Internet and Library	14	2	28
Material Design and Implementation	14	1	14
Report Preparing	14	1	14
Preparing a Presentation	14	1	14
Presentation	14	2	28
Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam	14	1	14
Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam	14	1	14
Other (should be emphasized)			0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			182
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			7.28
Course Credit (ECTS):			7.5

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

(Assoc.Prof. Dr. Mustafa Kürşat ÇUBUK)

-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)

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-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

(ckursat@gazi.edu.tr)

Gazi University