Buet Wre Syllabus

Courses Offered by the Department of Water Resources Engineering effective from L1T1, 2009-2010

WRE 100: Engineering Drawing-I 1.50 Credit, 3hrs. /week Introduction - lettering, numbering and heading; plane geometry pentagon, hexagon, octagon, ellipse, parabola, hyperbola. Projection (Solid Geometry) - cube, triangular prism, square prism, pentagonal prism, hexagonal prism, cone, cylinder. Development - cube, pyramid, cone, prism; section and true shape-cube, pyramid, cone, prism. Isometric Drawing - cube, pyramid, cone. Oblique Drawingcube, pyramid, cone. Interpretation of Solids. Plan, elevation and section of simple hydraulic structures. WRE 101: Analytical Mechanics 4.00 Credit, 4 hrs/week Resultants and Components of forces; coplanar concurrent forces; moments and parallel coplanar forces; non-concurrent non-parallel coplanar forces; friction; non-coplanar forces. Centroids; moments of inertia of areas; moments of inertia of masses; plane motion; force systems that produce rectilinear motion; kinetic energy, power; impulse and momentum. WRE 102: Engineering Drawing-II 1.50 Credit, 3hrs. /week Plan, elevation and sections of regulator, bridges, siphon, aqueduct and other hydraulic structures with reinforcement details; layout and cross sections of irrigation canals and embankments; plan, elevation and sections of buildings; reinforcement details of beams, columns, slabs, stairs etc. WRE 103: Surveying 4.00 Credit, 4 hrs/week Types of surveying; chain surveying; traverse surveying; leveling and contouring; calculation of areas and volumes; problems of heights and distances; curves and curve ranging; uses of modem surveying equipments. Tachometry: theory, field procedure, errors in tachometry. Astronomical surveying: astronomical terms, co-ordinate systems, astronomical corrections, and systems of time. Photogrametry: definitions related to photogrametry, terrestrial

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