Dr. Ali Shehadeh

This course is designed to expose the students to the basic understanding of technical and engineering drawings. It will cover the aspect of understanding and interpretation of the element of drawings.  The concept of orthographic and isometric projection will be discussed and applied in the hands-on session with Computer Aided Drawing (CAD). Students will also be exposed to the civil works drawings, i.e. the earthworks, reinforced concrete detailing and structural steel detailing drawings. Several exercises are performed with the use of CAD to get the students acquaintance of the software. During this session, students will be asked to draw and submit group projects that are given to them. After completing this course students should be able to produce civil engineering drawings using CAD.

This course covers the role of statistics in engineering, probability, discrete random variables and probability distributions, continuous random variables and probability distributions, joint probability distributions, random sampling and data description, point estimation of parameters, statistical intervals for a single sample, and tests of hypotheses for a single sample.

This course is designed to enable students to read engineering plans, estimate quantities, and calculate costs for engineering projects. This course enhances the skills of writing technical engineering reports as well as reading and understanding structural plans. At the end of the course, the students should be able to estimate the quantities and costs for the major construction works including: excavations, concrete, reinforcements, wood, masonry, tiles, plastering, sanitary, and painting. The students will also be introduced to the principles of mechanical and electrical works in engineering projects.