Schedule

This is a strictly tentative schedule. Consider it to be a sequential listing of topics that we plan to complete in the course of the semester. Please keep checking this page on a weekly basis. I will try to keep it up to date and help you trace the class.

Table 1: Tentative Plan

Week	Topic	Readings/	Comments
Starting		Chapters
09/01	Introduction	In-class Survey New to AutoCAD?	Homework 1 Due 09/15/08 Workbook: lab 2 - Exercise 4 (Sidewalk, figure 3) Workbook: lab 3 - Figures 5, 6 (Foundation plan) Relevant files: Template file Foundation Elements Pile Group No class on the 5th
09/08	Revision: AutoCAD Basics Classwork Classwork	Revision of AutoCAD	Quiz 1 on Friday 19th
09/15	Basics of Civil3D Classwork Classwork Field book	Chapter 1	Homework 2 Due 09/22/08 Create a Template file (.DWT) in Civil3D to reflect the following: (i) Layer setup reflecting NCS for points, surfaces and alignments (ii) Drawing Scale 1" = 100' (iii) Appropriate datum information (iv) Ensure that all points are marked with a '+' symbol (v) Ensure that when this template is used all surfaces created will ignore all points with elevation greater than 900ft. The template file is for the City of Houghton
09/22	Survey Continued Introduction to Surfaces Classwork	Chapter 3	Guest lecture by Dr. Jake Hiller
09/29	Points: Importing Points Creating Points Creating Surfaces from Points Classwork Point Data More Point Data	Chapter 2,4
10/06	Surfaces: Creation, Editing, Analysis Classwork-pre Classwork	Chapter 5	Monday: Guest lecture by Mr. Mark Harrison, Kiewit Engineering Services
10/13	Creating and editing Parcels, Classwork Introduction to Alignments Classwork Classwork	Chapter 6,7	Homework 3 Due 10/29/08 The goal of this homework is to develop surfaces and analyze them. Please run the following analysis: Contours, Elevations, Slopes, Watershed, for each surface and write a brief report commenting on the analysis and the data. Develop a surface and analyze it from: (i) A DEM file for Oskar, MI. Consider this data. Please see Resource page (ii) A contour file for Oklahoma. (iii) Include (Block? Xref?) this feature layout file and overlay it on the surface developed for Oklahoma, and add relevant feautres as breaklines. (iv) Consider this data while preparing the Oklahoma surface.
10/20	Profiles Classwork	Chapter 8
10/27	Assemblies and Sub-Assemblies Revision exercise Classwork	Chapter 10
11/03	Corridor design	Chapter 11	Test 2
11/17	Sections, Feature lines	Chapter 13
12/01	Grading Classwork from 11/19 Grading Exercise from Text Book Map: Data	Chapter 16
12/08	MERL	Handouts
12/15	Final Projects Due	Presentation	Report