Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
CEEN 173 Airport Planning and Design
| 2006-2007 Catalog Description | #CEEN 173. Airport Planning and Design 3 sem. hrs. Introduction to airport planning and design parameters, aircraft characteristics, payload versus range, runway length requirements, air traffic control, wind analysis, airside capacity and delay, airside separation criteria, terminal analysis and delay, airport access flow and capacity, ramp charts. Economic analysis of facility improvements. Offered fall term. Prereq: CEEN 170 or cons. of instr. This course is a design elective. Also carries graduate credit. |
| Prerequisites by topic: | Mathematics 082. |
| Course Materials: | Course student notes. |
| References: | 1. Robert Horonjeff, Francis X. McKelvey, "Planning & Design of Airports,"
McGraw-Hill, Inc., Fourth Edition, 1994 2. References from various FAA publications. 3. Handouts. 4. Course web site "Class Notes," updated after each lecture. |
| Coordinator: | Dr. Alexander Drakopoulos, Associate Professor. |
| Objectives: | Upon completion of the course students will be familiar with: Airport Planning and Design Parameters, Aircraft Characteristics Related to Airport Planning, Runway Length Requirements, Air Traffic Control, Air Space Requirements in the Vicinity of Airports, The Analysis of Wind, Airport Airside Capacity and Delay Analyses, Queuing Theory for Capacity and Delay, Annual Service Volume Applied to Runway Systems, Airport Geometric Design, Airside Separation Criteria, the Design of Apron Areas, the Terminal System at an Airport, and Ramp Charts. |
| Topics: | a. Airside Capacity and Delay b. Runway Design c. Air Traffic Control d. Design of Apron Areas e. Terminal Building Design |
| Homeworks: | Weekly homeworks adress discussed topics. |
| Class Schedule: | Approximate Schedule for Course:
In-class meetings: 29 In-Class examinations: 2 Final examination: 1 (Each meeting is 75 minutes-final examination: 100 minutes) |
| Contributions to Professional Component: | The course contributes to the engineering topics part of the professional component by providing an appropriate Engineering Design experience for the students, using the industry standard design references. Students are required to present reasonable and practical solutions to homework problems. The final examination is comprehensive and involves analysis and design decisions. |
| Assessment Procedures: | Assessment occurs at two levels: (a) inside the University and (b) outside the
University. Both assessment sources are used to improve course content.
(a) Inside the University: i) student performance assessment is based on homework problems, two in-class examinations, and a comprehensive final examination, ii) course content and pace of instruction (students' perspective ) are evaluated based on Instructional Asessment System (IAS) forms filled out by students at the end of the semester. (b) Outside the University: i) the opinion of former students who have taken the course and are currently working in Airport Engineering will be sought using a survey-the outside survey will collect opinions about the current content of the course and the need to update materials, in order to keep course content current, ii) a web page listing former student current employer and e-mail addresses serves as a means to keep the instructor in touch with former students in order to gather feedback: http://www.eng.mu.edu/~drakopoa/students/transpo.htm |
| Relationship of Course to Program Objectives: | The course requires students to use current design standard references to solve homeworks and address the comprehensive final examination; it cultivates engineering judgement by requiring students to identify appropriate realistic solutions. Students are required to provide full explanations of their thinking in addition to numerical calculations. |
| Prepared By: | Dr. Alexander Drakopoulos, Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering August 2006. |