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Course objective This course arose from the collaboration of a number of nationally important railway companies and organisations through the Cooperative Research Centre for Railway Engineering and Technologies. The course, BX30 - Master of Engineering (Railway Infrastructure) addresses the main concepts and methodologies of the design, construction and maintenance of railway infrastructure. It aims to advance your skills in and understanding of the diverse types of railway infrastructure assets, including technical, environmental and institutional assessments and offers both theoretical understanding and practical applications of associated professional practice. An early exit with BX31 - Graduate Certificate in Engineering (Railway Infrastructure) is an available option. Career outcomes The course is designed particularly to help you become a railway civil engineer within a track-owning organisation, with responsibilities for managing sections of a rail corridor, or an engineer within a consultancy with responsibility for developing, managing or supervising construction and maintenance contracts and activities. Entry requirements Entry to this course is restricted to employees of companies conducting business in the railway industry and whose employer is prepared to sponsor or support their study of this course If you are such a person, you will also need a four-year full-time bachelor degree in a civil engineering related field or a three-year full-time diploma and three or more years of relevant professional experience in the railway industry. You will also need a grade point average of 5.0 or more on a 7-point scale in that study, or an equivalent qualification determined by the Faculty. English language requirements for the course are an English Language Proficiency level in accordance with QUT requirements (IELTS score of 6.0 with no sub-band below 6.0) if English is not your first language. Enrolment numbers will be limited to a maximum of 25 in 2008 and will run subject to 25 enrolments being finalised .
Duration Up to 4 years part time. The course is offered entirely by Distance Education mode, that is, there are no on-campus classes; you will study using a combination of online, CD and print material and submit assignments for assessment. Cutoff date for enrolment applications is 18 June 2008. For fee information, please contact us. Course Structure Elective If you have a limited background in the railway industry, you will be encouraged to choose for your elective one of the two postgraduate level introductory CPE (Continuing Professional Education) units currently on offer through QUT, namely “Railway Business and Engineering” and “Railway Management, Operations and Safety”. Upon satisfactory completion of one of those CPE units, you will be granted credit for your elective. Alternatively you may choose any postgraduate unit at QUT or at another university for your elective subject to the approval of the coordinator of this Masters degree.
UDN500 Ballast, sleepers and fasteners This unit will help you to competently interpret and prepare specifications for ballast, analyse below-rail track superstructure problems as well as determine appropriate rectification procedures, and determine appropriate sleeper maintenance strategies based on life-cycle costing developed from available economic models.
UDN501 Rail and related track structures This unit will help you to develop your knowledge of the characteristics of rails and principles of the selection and maintenance of rails and apply it towards the safe operation of trains; you will also be able to describe the operation of rail related track structures and determine their maintenance requirements.
UDN502 Track stability, design and formation This unit will help you to explain and apply geotechnology theory as it refers to the rail permanent way and track substructures, undertake an economic assessment of the selection of track structures, evaluate and mitigate the likelihood of track instability, and undertake a first order track design by applying track design processes and theories incorporating the effect of individual parameters.
UDN503 Track geometry and train interaction This unit will help you to assess the significance of geometry imperfections in track and deduce appropriate remedial measures, describe the physical characteristics and key elements of track and vehicles insofar as they affect track-train interaction, explain the theoretical bases for development of wheel-rail forces and the influence of vehicle and track parameters on those forces, and assess the impact of design parameters for and deterioration processes within wheels and track on the operation of trains.
UDN504 Track construction, civil structures This unit will help you to contribute to the management of track construction projects, recommending appropriate construction methodologies and monitoring tools, describe and assess the maintenance needs of civil structures within the rail corridor, and investigate, evaluate and mitigate the risks of geotechnical hazards in the corridor.
UDN505 Assets, environment and safety This unit will help you to apply appropriate tools, concepts and life cycle evaluations to the management of railway infrastructure assets at an introductory level, assess and monitor the parameters associated with safe operation of the rail corridor and its interfaces with the rail track, and evaluate environmental assessment plans and their implementations with respect to operations and construction within the rail corridor.
BEN910 Integrated Project The aim of this unit is to provide you with research skills that acknowledge prior learning and that can develop further through an authentic learning project of relevance to your career aspirations and to your employer.
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