MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL CONSTRUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

CEEN 4630 AIRPORT PLANNING AND DESIGN

DAILY CLASS SCHEDULE/DEADLINES FALL 2017

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Tue Aug 29

 Syllabus, guidelines for success, class web page, class schedule, test dates.

Reading: Chapter 10 pp. 383-386; be familiar with figures 10-1 to 10-6.  

Check your email

Would you, the Serious Engineer, consider something like that to improve your Level of Service at the airport?  Copenhagen Airport at the beginning of the busy summer season (video)

Thu Aug 31

 Reading: Chapter 10 pp. 386-398

Mon Sep 4

Labor Day holiday

Tue Sep 5

 

Thu Sep 7

 What if we had this at an airport?

Tue Sep 12

 Airport piano!  Airport piano with a touch of traffic!  A threesome!

Thu Sep 14

Level of service criteria, Terminal planning process, Space programming. Example curbfront length calculation--see ACRP Report below.

Related reading: Airport Passenger Terminal Planning and Design, (Source: Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Reports.) ACRP Report #25, Volume 1: Guidebook pp. 286-291

Reading: Chapter 10 pp. 398-404

Homework #1 assigned: Curbfront Length and Ground Circulation.  Follow homework presentation guidelines distributed on the first day of class.

Tue Sep 19

A special flight!   How can you not like Southwest Airlines?

Reading: Chapter 10 pp. 426-434

Thu Sep 21

Homework #1 due beginning of class

Reading: Chapter 10 pp. 434-438;  example homework handouts

Homework #2 assigned: Analytical Model Application in Calculating Pax Delay and Queue Length

Tue Sep 26

Reading: The Apron-Gate System pp. 442-449

Thu Sep 28

Homework #2 due beginning of class

Homework #3 assigned: Future Airline Schedule

Homework #4 assigned: Ramp Charts

Reading: pp. 449-458

Tue Oct 3

Reading pp.458-461 and 173-177 and 214-215

Thu Oct 5

Homework #3 due beginning of class

Homework #4 due beginning of class

Reading:  pp. 229, 250-254

Homework example problem 6-4 from your handouts, not the book

Homework #5 assigned: Apron Dimensions 

Test 1 Review Guide

Tue Oct 10

Test 1  

Thu Oct 12

Homework #5 due beginning of class

Homework #6 assigned: Runway Orientation

Reading: pp. 186-191

Tue Oct 17

Presentation by Mr. Craig Pierce, Assistant Dean of the Graduate School (ret.) and Navy Aviator "An Overview of U.S. Navy Aircraft Operations."

Thu Oct 19

Sun Oct 22

Midterm break

Tue Oct 24

Reading: pp. 191-201 Runway length 

Thu Oct 26

 Advising week for Spring semester Oct 30 to Nov 3

Homework #6 due beginning of class

Reading: pp.201-205  &  213-221

Homework #7 assigned: Piper Tomahawk flight

Tue Oct 31

Homework #8 assigned: Runway Length MTOW more than 60,000 lbs

Reading pp. 177-181 Runway configurations

Thu Nov 2

Homework #7 due beginning of class

Reading pp. 181-186 & 49-61

Tue Nov 7

Homework #8 due beginning of class

Homework #9 assigned: Imaginary surfaces

Reading: pp.61-63 Example problem Payload & Range

Thu Nov 9

Reading: pp. 63-79

Tue Nov 14

Homework #9 due beginning of class

Homework#10 assigned: Displaced Runway Threshold

Reading: 79-90 & 483-488

Thu Nov 16

Presentation by Mr. James Zsebe, P.E. Principal Engineer-Airports, General Mitchell International Airport (MKE)

Test 2 Review Guide

Fri Nov 17

Final day to withdraw with “W”

Tue Nov 21

Test 2

Homework#10 due beginning of class

Thu Nov 22

Sun Nov 26

Thanksgiving holiday

Tue Nov 28

 

Thu Nov 30

Presentation by Captain Scott Berg, SouthWest Airlines

Tue Dec 5

 

Thu Dec 7

Last day of class

Mon Dec 11

10:30 am to 12:30 pm Final exam Traffic Characteristics & Design EH Rm 221

Tue Dec 12

10:30 am to 12:30 pm Final exam Airport Planning & Design EH Rm 221

Sun Dec 17

Sun Jan 14

Christmas holiday

Mon Jan 15

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Mon Jan 16

Spring Semester begins