BAHÇEŞEHİR UNIVERSITY BİLGİ PAKETİ / DERS KATALOĞU
| URBAN SYSTEMS AND TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT (TURKISH, THESIS) | |||||
| Master | TR-NQF-HE: Level 7 | QF-EHEA: Second Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 7 | ||
Course Introduction and Application Information
| Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
| KSU5318 | Railway Superstructure Elements and Maintenance Basis | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
| This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
Basic information
| Language of instruction: | Turkish |
| Type of course: | Departmental Elective |
| Course Level: | |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Course Coordinator : | Assist. Prof. NİLGÜN CAMKESEN |
| Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
| Course Objectives: | To learn the railway track engineering, the parts of the superstructure, track types, track construction and maintenance |
Learning Outcomes
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The students who have succeeded in this course; Learning detailed information about: Railway history, railway structure, rail, sleeper, fastening systems, ballast, base, turnuout, crossings, slab track, track geometry, track defects, maintenance, corrugation, rail grinding, high speed railways |
Course Content
| Railway superstructure elements, meintenance, formulas between physical and geometric datas of railway tracks, implementations for formula determination, determination of effects of rail damages to resistance and inertia momentums, numerical implementations. Understanding meintenance importance in railways. |
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | Introduction | |
| 2) | Railway track | |
| 3) | Infrastructure | |
| 4) | Rail | |
| 5) | Sleeper | |
| 6) | Ballast | |
| 7) | Switc and crossing | |
| 8) | Slab track | |
| 9) | Track geomety | |
| 10) | Track loads and resistances | |
| 11) | Railway track problems | |
| 12) | Track maintenance | |
| 13) | Rail grinding | |
| 14) | High speed tracks |
Sources
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | Derste Verilen Notlar / Lecture Notes |
| References: | Demiryolu Mühendisliği Arlı V., Öztürk Z. 2009 978-605-60958 |
Evaluation System
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Attendance | 10 | % 0 |
| Quizzes | 4 | % 10 |
| Homework Assignments | 5 | % 20 |
| Midterms | 1 | % 30 |
| Final | 1 | % 40 |
| Total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
| Total | % 100 | |
ECTS / Workload Table
| Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
| Course Hours | 10 | 6 | 60 |
| Homework Assignments | 5 | 20 | 100 |
| Quizzes | 4 | 10 | 40 |
| Midterms | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Final | 1 | 40 | 40 |
| Total Workload | 270 | ||
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | Improving and enhancing information in expertise level on the concept of transportation licence level abilities in terms of transportation department and related departments. | 5 |
| 2) | Having detailed information about current technics, methods and their constraints in transportation engineering. | 5 |
| 3) | Estabilishing engineering problems, improving methods for solution, implementing new methods in solutions | 5 |
| 4) | Completing and implementing information with limited datas, integrating informations of different discipline datas | |
| 5) | Estabilishing engineering problems, improving methods for solution, implementing new methods in solutions | |
| 6) | New/origin idea and method implementing, improving new solutions in system, part and process designs. | |
| 7) | Understanding process and results of studies, presenting the datas oral and written in related department on national and international scales, understanding a foreign language, having speaking, writing and reading level at least Europan Language Portfolio B2. | |
| 8) | Understanding social and environmental phases of technological implementations. Listing ability of current technics, methods, effects, constraints and results of technological implementations. | |
| 9) | Considering social-scientific-ethic values in collecting-understanding-implementing-presenting phases and all activities. | |
| 10) | Having information detailed and deeply by implemented researching in technology, evaluating and implementing of information | |
| 11) | Developing method for defined technological problems and implementing innovative methods in solutions. | |
| 12) | Modelling and implementing of experimental investigations, solving of complex cases in this process |