COURSE UNIT TITLE

: AIRPORT DESIGN

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
INŞ 4186 AIRPORT DESIGN ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Civil Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ALI TOPAL

Offered to

Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering (Evening)

Course Objective

Students completing the course will have a background for further work on water management, including topics such as integrated water resources management, flood control, climate change mitigation on the hydrologic cycle, etc.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To recognize and classify aircrafts, air transport properties and activities
2   To describe necessary facilities and features for aviation infrastructure.
3   Airports capacities and specify the factors with main lines that affect the capacity
4   The airport site selection, layout, and runway orientation.
5   To compare runway pavement design methods.
6   To identify deformations in airport pavements, and to decide about maintenance and repair methods

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Air transportation, historical development of air transportation, characteristics and properties of air transportation
2 Aircrafts, classification of the aircrafts
3 Aircraft characteristics, performance of aircrafts, types and properties of axle and their effect to pavement
4 Aviation infrastructure
5 Design of airports, airports runways
6 Orientation of runways
7 Categories and orientation of runways
8 Planning of airports
9 Airports system, master plan and demand projections
10 Airport configuration, runway, taxiway and apron cross sections.
11 Manias and terminal buildings
12 Design of runway, taxiway and apron
13 Pavement design of airports, pavement deformations, maintenance and repair methods
14 Homework presentations and general discussion

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
Planning and Design of Airports, Robert Horonjeff, Francis X. McKelvey, William J. Sproule, McGraw Hill, New York, 2010 ISBN:9780071642552

Supplementary Book(s):
Havaalanı Mühendisliği ve Uygulamaları, Argun Tunç, Asil Yayın Dağıtım, Ankara, 2003 ISBN: 9758784145

Materials: Presentations used in lectures and lecture notes.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Visual presentations of the course, presentation slides and lecture notes (lecture notes and presentations will be sent to the students by debis e-mail before the lesson). The term paper and it's presentation related with airport vehicles, aviation infrastructure, and capacity etc.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 + ASG * 0.25 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 + ASG * 0.25 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

*** Term assignment and presentation will be evaluated together

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-3: it is evaluated with assignment/presentation
LO 4-6: it is evaluated with midterm exams and final questions

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

70% attendance to the course will be required. Writing instructions of the term paper and Topics will be send to students at the beginning of the term.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof.Dr. Ali TOPAL: ali.topal@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

When course schedule is announced, it will be announced by the instructor. Lecture notes, presentations and student term papers will be sending via DEBIS.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Student Presentations 1 2 2
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 2 12 24
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 90

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.14
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45
LO.55
LO.65

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