BUK Home Department Faculty Syllabus Undergraduate Programmes
 

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TEC 3101:  Engineer in Society
 

Business organisation, industrial combination, public utilities and finance, industrial concentration and Government Control.  The location of West African industry and trade.  The background of the West African economy, planning of development, financing of development.  The banking system, money and capital markets, inflation, cost benefit analysis, Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP).

   

TEC 3102: Technical Writing and Presentation
 

Principles of effective communication.  Professional use of English language.  Principles of technical writing.  Oral presentation of technical ideas.
   

TEC 3201:  Computer Applications
(Pre-requisite 2201: Computer Programming)
 

  1. Programming Techniques: Revision of operating systems and computer programming concepts, Algorithms, flow charts and pseudocodes.  Programming languages, Revision of FORTRAN. Details of BASIC and Introduction to PASCAL.

  2. Introduction to Computer Usage: Details of MSDOS, Creation of Batch files.  The AUTO EXEC.BAT and CONFIQ SYS files.

  3. Data Processing: Definition - Date, Metadata, Database, Fields and Records DBMS (Detabase Management Systems).  Types of Files Import and Export.  Details and application on DBASE.  Introduction to Macro programming.

  4. Word Processing: Definitions - WYSIWYG  formating, Spell checking.  theseaurus and Mail margins.  Details and applications on WORDPERFECT V.5: Desk top Publishing including use of SCANNER and Laser Printers.

  5. Exercise: Programming Techniques and numerical calculations: Introduction, sorting, Marging, Searching, Updating, Horner's Method.  Solution of certain Equations, Numerical integration, vectors and Matrices, Linear Equations, Graphing.
   

TEC 3301: Engineering Mathematics
(Pre-requisite TEC 2302: Math. IB)
 

First order equations, special types of second order equations.  High order linear equation with constant coefficients. Partial differential equation. Poisons and Laplace's equation. Simple solutions, Legendre functions and Hermite functions. Application problems in heat transfer (parabolic equations) wave propagation (hyperbolic equations), steady-state (elliptic equation. problems in different coordinate systems, boundary values problems Laplace and Fourier Transforms.
   
TEC 3302: Computer Techniques

(Pre-requisite TEC 2302: Math. IB)
 

Numerical analysis: Linear and non-linear equations.  Finite differences operators.  Flow diagrams and charts.  solution of simple algebraic and transcendent equations.  Direct methods for the solution of linear equations.  Iterative methods of matrix inversion.  Numerical integration and differentiation - Newton Coates formulae.  Introduction to linear programming.  Polynomials and other zero - methods of bisection.  Newton, Biarstow, synthetic division and Linear and Convergence.  The Eigenvalue problem, solution of ordinary differential equation methods of Taylor, Euler, Predicator-corrector and Runge-Kutta.
   

CIV 3301: Principles of Construction
  PART A: Introduction to Civil Engineering Procedure
 

Definition and functions of civil engineering procedure.  The design and construction terms. Introduction to the principles of civil engineering influence of erection procedure on design. Operation and maintenance of civil engineering facilities.
  PART B: General Considerations in Civil Engineering
  Site investigation, site organization, materials, temporary works earth works, construction machinery and equipment.
  PART C: Elements of  Construction
  Domestic, industrial and multi-storey buildings, construction of foundations, floors, walls, staircases, roofings and covering frames and space construction, fire protection.  Elements of construction, roadwork’s, subways, railways, air fields, hydraulic and liquid retaining structure, dams, harbours, docks, jetties etc., Dredging and reclamation, rigation and river works, pipe lines for water, gas and sewage. Concept of appropriate technology in civil engineering.
   

CIV 3302: Civil Engineering Materials
(Pre-requisite MEC 2202: Material Sciences I Cement and Concrete)
  Cement: manufacture, properties, types and uses, products Aggregates: sources, types properties and uses.
  Admixtures: sources, types properties and uses
  Concrete: light Concrete, Fibre reinforced Concrete, Reinforced cement Concrete, Pre/stressed Concrete. Properties of fresh. Concrete Properties of hardened Concrete. Strength Band failure criteria. Non-destructive testing. Creep and shrinkage. Design of Concrete mixes. Quality control, Form work, finishes and durability.
  Ceramic Materials: Clay products, glasses, bricks, manufacture and properties.
  Polymer Materials: Classification of polymers. Manufacture, physical and mechanical properties. Application of polymers in civil engineering works; pipe work, fluid sealing, vibration isolation, reinforced plastics. Rubbers.
  Bituminous Material: Bituminous binders Manufacture, properties and uses viscosities. penetration index. Bitumen and Asphalt mixes. Workability, strength and durability. Specifications and standard tests. Bituminous material for roads, hydraulic works and flat roofs.
  Steel Technology:  Production, fabrication and properties of steel, types, Corrosion of steel and its prevention, Tests on steel and quality control measures.
   

CIV 3303:  Fluid Mechanics II
(Pre-requisite TEC 2201: Fluid Mechanics I)
 

Introduction:  The momentum equation and forces due to fluid in motion.  Application of momentum equation in solution of pipe-  line problems e.g forces due to change in direction size,   etc., thrust blocks, anchorages etc and open channels. Introduction to boundary layer theory, formation and separation of eddies, skin friction and drag.
 

Dimensional  Analysis: Derivation of  relationships involving different fluid flow problems using mathematical models viz Raleigh method, Buckingham PI theorems, Applications of dimensional analysis.
 

Hydraulic Machinery: Turbines: Pelton wheel, Francis axial flow, Characteristic of turbines; velocity diagrams, power developed, efficience.Draft tubes and diffusers. Pumps: Characteristics of reciprocating and rotodynamic pumps, specific speed, efficiencies, power, etc.
 

Flow in Open Channels: Non-uniform flow and unsteady  flow in channels eg. rivers, canals, drainage channels etc.Design of channels viz erodible and non-erodible channels.
   
CIV 3304: Soil Mechanics I
 
  1. Classification and properties of engineering soils (Grain size analysis and Atterberg limits).
  2. Phase relationships - void ratio, porosity, specific gravity, density and unit weight.
  3. Seepage, permeability and groundwater flow; flow nets.
  4. Shear strength of soils - the Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion, shear strength tests.
  5. Elements of stress analysis (principles of effective stress, stresses at a point in a soil mass stresses due to self-weight and stresses due to applied loads.
  6. Stresses and Displacements - Influence charts,  Displacements  from the theory.
   

CIV 3307: Design of Structural Elements I
(Pre-requisite CIV 3309: Structural Analysis I)
  Introduction to Reinforced Concrete Design
  • Design Theories and materials
  • Analysis of frames for vertical loads
  • Analysis of frames for horizontal and vertical loads
  • Analysis of sections in bending
  • Shear, Bond and Torsion
  • Deflection and cracking
   

CIV 3308:  Strength of Materials

 

Advanced topics in Bending moment and shear force in Beams. Theory of bending of beams. Deflection of beams Unsymmetrical bending and shear centre applications strain Energy. Biaxial and  triaxial state of stress, Transformation of stresses. Mohr's circles. Springs Creep, fatigue, fracture and stress concentration. Betti and  Maxwell's theorems castigliano's theorem.
   

CIV 3309: Structural Analysis I

 

Determinate structures: Simple beam analysis, Bending moment, axial force and shear force diagram.  Graphical methods of determining reaction forces and resultant force. Determination of section properties. Analysis of simple frames and arches
   

CIV 3401: Engineering Geology
 

Relevance and importance of Engineering Geology to Civil Engineers. Geology, surface and structure of the earth. Surface processes (weathering, erosion, transportation, deposition and formation of soils)
 

Mineralogy - study of types, character and properties of minerals Petrography - study of types, character and properties of rocks Geological structures and mapping. Geophysical techniques
  Stratigraphy - time scale, fossils and their importance with special reference to Nigeria.
  Introduction to the geology of Nigeria
 

Engineering applications to design and construction of engineering works such as dams, tunnels, excavations, stability of slopes and occurrence of groundwater.
   

CIV 3402:  Civil Engineering Drawing
(Pre-requisite TEC 2203:  Eng. Drawing I)
 

Geometrical Drawing: The vertical and the horizontal plane, representation of a point and line, determination of the true length of a line, representation of a solid, auxiliary projections, construction of conic sections and common curves.

Elements of Architecture: Dimensional awareness, graphic communication and relation to environment.  Free hand drawing, form in terms of shade, light and shadows.  Othographic diametric, perspective projections.
Building and structural Drawings
  1. Building  Drawings: Block plan, site plan, floor plans, elevations, cross-section, typical details. Study of specific examples
  2. Structural drawing (steel structures): Representation of steel sections, rivets and bolted connections, welded joints, butt and fillet welds, beam-beam and column-beam connections, splicing and column bases.
  3. Structural drawings (reinforced concrete structures): Introduction to reinforcement bars, and archorages of reinforcement, U and L hooks, notations and identification of bars on drawings.  Detailed reinforcement drawings, sectional views of members and bar scheduling.  Specific cases of beams, one-way slabs, two-way slabs, columns, stair case, footings and foundation details
Presentation of Road Designs and other Civil engineering Drawings

Layout plans showing proposed road, existing structures; horizontal alignment of the proposed road, drains, location of bridges and railway crossings, horizontal curves; longitudinal section showing datum, the existing ground level, proposed longitudinal profile of the road, vertical curves, drainages , the proposed invert levels of drains and culverts.  Cross-sections consisting of the extent of the road reserve, the road pavement, (showing base, subgrage, base course and wearing course), drains and culverts, cross-slop and super-elevation, contours, representation of earthwork, cut and fills. Retaining walls; design and uses.

Methods of Support (Bearing): Journal, Roller and Ball Bearing - technical representation. Presentation of Water Resources / Environmental Engineering Structures. Sections of earth, gravity, arch-dams; reservoirs, water tanks, pipe-layouts, manholes, septic tanks and suck away pit, sewers.
   

CIV 3403: Engineering Surveying I

 

Introduction to Surveying Instruments: Types. Adjustments. Uses. Theory of Errors. types. Detection and elimination. Chain surveying. Compass surveying.  Plane Table surveying. Levelling. Tacheometric. Trigonometric. Altimetric. Geometric. Theodolite Traversing. Laboratory works. Chain Surveying. Compass Surveying. Plane Tabling. Perimeter Levelling. Grid Levelling. Profile Levelling. Cross Sectioning. Traversing (4th Order).
   

TEC 4201: Engineering Statistics
 

Sampling, frequency tables and their graphs, centre of distribution, spread of distribution, outcomes and their probabilities, conditional probability, Independence and standard deviation, Random variables, Expectation, variance, specific discrete and continuous distributions, Higher dimensional random variables, Multinomial and Bivariate normal probability distributions, Correlations and regression, Law of large numbers and central limit theorem, Sampling and sampling distributions, Test hypothesis and quality control.
   

CIV 4201: Highway Engineering
(Pre-requisite: CIV 3403 Engineering Surveying I)
 

Highway Location:Classification of highways, Expressways, Design elements; elevated, ground, depressed expressways, weaving, ramps. Interchanges: Types, design considerations Highway economics Highway design elements: Speed, sight distance, horizontal alignment, vertical alignment, Major cross section elements; other intersection elements, Pavements: Types of Pavements, Structure of Pavements. Pavement design methods, Pavement maintenance, Highway construction materials
   

CIV 4202: Structural Analysis II
Pre-requisite: CIV 3309  Structural Analysis I & TEC 3301 Engineering Mathematics
 

Indeterminate Structure: Difference between determinate and indeterminate structures. The test for statical indeterminacy for plane structures.  Unstable plane structures.  The three moment equation, The method of cross, The use of Mohr's theorems, Deflection caused by temperature changes, Deflections and general expression for flexibility coefficients, Deflection curves for beams and frames,  the Williot - Mohr diagram for truss deflections, Analysis of fixed beams, Beams of Variable cross-sections, The slope-deflection equations, Moment-Area method; influence lines.
   

CIV 4203: Soil Mechanics II
(Pre-requisite: CIV 3304 Soil Mechanics I)
 

Consolidation Theory - Consolidation test, compressibility characteristics, coefficient of consolidation. Settlement Analysis - Settlement of a foundation, immediate settlement, consolidation settlement, stress paths. Compaction and soil Mechanics aspects of highway design. Lateral earth Pressure and Retaining Walls (Rankie and Coulomb's theory graphical methods).
   

CIV 4304: Civil Engineering Practice
 

Civil Engineering Contracts: Nature and types of Civil Engineering works, The nature and form of contracts.  Enforcement of contracts, Validity of contract and remedies for Breach of Contract, Civil Engineering Contracts: types and scope, Contract Documents, including reference to appropriate clauses in Civil Engineering conditions of contract.
 

Civil Engineering Works and Method of Measurements: Introduction to the development of civil engineering codes of measurement, scope of Civil Engineering Works, comparison  of   civil engineering and building methods of measurement, General arrangement  and  contents  of  Civil  Engineering  Bills  of   Quantities, method related charges and pricing and measurement of Civil Engineering work including reference to relevant clauses in the CESMN, Preparation of Bills of Quantities, Specification writing.
 

Estimating and Valuation: Estimating and costing of civil  engineering works: Fixed method and time related costs.  Estimating  for labour, plant materials and overheads, valuation for interim certificates and final payments, introduction to financial control of construction works, Variations and disputes.
 

Construction Machinery and Equipment: Application of various techniques to live civil engineering projects: Dams, Foundations, Bridges, Highways, Industrial buildings, sewage works, pipeline works etc.
CIV 4205: Design of Structural Elements II
 

Introduction to  Structural Steel Design: Properties of steel.  Tension members, Beams in bending and shear.  Deflections, Bearing plates for beams. Compression members, stanchion and Column Bases. Connections. Composite construction.  The continuous beams. Design Projects.
   

CIV 4302:  Hydraulics/Hydrology.
Pre-requisite: CIV 3303 Fluid Mechanics II
  Meteorology: The basis concepts, instrumentation and measurement of physical meteorological parameters viz solar radiation, wind, temperature, sunshine, pressure, rainfall, humidity, weather systems and climate.
  Hydrology: The Hydrological cycle and the water balance equation.  Measurement and or estimation of the various components in the cycle i.e. precipitation, evapotranspiration, surface runoff, groundwater etc., surface runoff and subsurface flow.
  Hydrograph Analysis: Components of hydrograph base flow separation volume of runoff estimation, Concept of unit hydrograph, Rainfall - runoff relationships
  Flow in Pipes: Pipe network analysis e.g. Hardy Cross, Equivalent pipe, Electric analogue etc, Hydraulic design of pipelines and distribution systems; the use of standard design charts and tables e.g. Hazen-Williams nomagraph, Manning's Charts, Colebrook white etc.
  Compressible Flow: Selected topics viz pressure transient problems i.e. water hammer, surge tanks, valve closures, etc.
  Open Channel Flow: The dynamic equations for gradually varied flow and their solution for some common problems, Analysis for flow through hydraulic structures viz spillways, weirs, sluices flumes, Energy control, wave motion and flow in non-prismatic channels, spatially varied flow.

Analysis of Experiments: Hydraulic model laws, Hydraulic simulation and model studies, Application of model laws to design of hydraulic structures and system.

 

  

CIV 4303:  Engineering Surveying II
Pre-requisite: CIV 3403 Engineering Surveying I
  Geometric Horizontal Alignment: Simple Curves. Compound Curves. Reverse  Curves. Transition  Curves. Vertical Alignment: Summit  Curves. Sag Curves. Setting-Out Curves: Methods of Setting-out. Computation of  Setting out. data.  Photographer in Highway and Engineering Surveying:  Triangulation: Minor triagulation. Bridge triangulation. Hydrographic Surveying: Mean Sea Level. shore Line surveys.
Laboratory Works: Setting out curves, drainages and buildings Minor Triangulation.
   

CIV 5201:  Construction Management and Economics I
 

Organisational/Personnel Management work study and production processes.  Industrial Psychology.  Application of computers in Construction Management Techniques of time and motion studies.

   

CIV 5401:  Construction Management and Economics II
Pre-requisite: CIV 4204  Civil Engineering Practicals
  Resources Management and Economic Assessments.
Materials management; purchasing methods, Contracts, Interests formula, Rate of Return, Methods of economic evaluation, Selection between alternatives, Activity sampling, Cash flow and interim valuations.
Site Management and Construction Planning. Project planning and scheduling techniques; Bar chart, Network analysis; CPM (Critical Path Method); PERT (Project Evaluation and Resources Techniques), Optimization, Linear Programming as aid to decision making policies under risk and uncertainties including the use of available computer softwares. Tendering Evaluation and Contract Administration.

The Estimating and Tendering process within a Contractor's organisation, Planning and Estimating, The calculations and decisions in tendering, Post contract administration, Financial Management.
   

CIV 5402:  Geotechnical Engineering
Pre-requisite: CIV 4203 Soil Mechanics II
 

Stability foundations (Bearing capacity of shallow and deep foundation types) Stability of slopes (infinite slopes, cuttings, embankments and earth dams stability), Site Investigation methods, Methods of Ground Improvement, Identification, Classification and Geotechnical properties of tropical soils (Special reference to Nigeria).
 

CIV 5403:  Water Resources Engineering
Pre-requisite: TEC 4301 Eng. Statistics
 

 
   

CIV 4302:  Hydraulics/ Hydrology
 

Statistics and Probability methods in Hydrology: Hydrological Forecasting, Reservoir and Flood routing, Design of urban storm drainage systems, Groundwater Hydraulics and Groundwater exploration.

Hydraulic Structures: Functional design of service and impounding reservoirs. Sedimentation control in reservoirs, The design of earth dams, rock fill dams, concrete dams and associated components e.g. spillways, stilling basing, outlet works, sluice ways etc.

Water Resources Management: National legislation in water resources, Integrated planning of river basins, Economic analysis of water resources projects, Environmental impact of water resources projects: Social Ecologic, Health aspects.
   

CIV 5404:  Transportation & Highway  Engineering
(Pre-requisite:  CIV 4201 Highway Engineering)
 

Driver, vehicle and road characteristics, curvature, super elevation and side friction, speed volume relationships, factors that reduce capacity, capacity of intersection, capacity of interchanges, Weaving sections, Ramps and their terminals, Highway Design, Highway standard, Design speed, Design of cross-sections, Design of grade line alignment design, Design of intersection at grade, Channelization, Rotrory intersections, intercharge, types and characteristics, Traffic control devices, freeway and expressway operations, Operation in highways and streets in urban areas, Parking and rest areas, Highway drainages, culverts, bridges, Highway and the environment, highway construction materials, Flexible pavements, Bitumious pavements, Rigid pavements other types of pavements, Failure of pavements and detailed methods of improvements of defects.

 

  

CIV 5405:  Design of Struct. Elements III
(Pre-requisite:  CIV 4205 Design of Structural Elements II)

 

Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures: Design of Beams. Design of slabs and stairs.  Design of columns and walls.  Design of foundation and Retaining walls.  Design projects
   

CIV 5406:  Structural Analysis III
Pre-requisite: CIV 4202 Structural Analysis II and TECH 3302 Computational Technology
  Indeterminate Structures: Energy and virtual work method, flexibility method, the method of kani (including side sway of frames), moment distribution (Hardy cross methods), Matrix formulation of the stiffness method.
 

Influence lines: Yield line analysis and strip method for slabs.  Introduction to simple plastic theory or bending, collapse loads.   Introduction to structural dynamics
   

CIV 5601:  Final Year Project
   
 

CIV 5602:  Laboratory Practical
 

 
 

CIV 5202:   Public Health Engineering
 

The work of the Sanitary engineer, water use, water related diseases.  Physical, chemical and biological characteristics of water and wastewater, water quality and pollution control.  Water supply, treatment and design. Waste water collection treatment, disposal and design.  Solid waste collection treatment, disposal and design of systems.  Appropriate technology of water supply, waste water treatment etc. should be highly emphasized.  air pollution and control.
   

CIV 5301:    Advanced Public Health Engineering
 

Introduction:  The composition and characteristics of domestic, industrial and agricultural waste water and natural waters: Advanced laboratory analysis - BOB, DO, metals, Non-metals. etc.
Water and Waste Water Systems:  Theories behind the physical, chemical and biological treatment processes. Unit operations, processes and design: physical screening, sedimentation, filtration, chemical-floculation, precipitation, disinfection etc.  Biological - Aerobic, Anaerobic, oxidation and facultative.
Water treatment system; waste water treatment systems, stabilization ponds, trickling filters, activated sludge.
Introduction to tertiary treatment, removal of metals and non-metals NO3, SO4, Mg, Pb, Fe, CA, etc. water and waste  water treatment model studies.  Stream pollution control and effluent re-use; Do, light and heavy pollution.
Management of solid wastes; collection, treatment and disposal systems.
 

CIV 5302 - Drainage and Irrigation Engineering
 

Soil-Plant-Water Relations: Physical properties of soil and water; water retention and availability in soils; soil water movements; crop-water relations; salinity; evapotranspiration and crop water requirements.  Saturated and unsaturated flow; flow equation and numerical solution of boundary problems in irrigation and drainage
Crop Production: Basic introduction to crop classification; environmental crop physiology and crop agronomy of selected tropical crops.
Irrigation: Irrigation need; Irrigation methods - furrow, border, ponding etc; design of surface, sprinkler and trickle Irrigation systems; land grading on farm and scheme water requirements; scheduling and managing the distribution of water; design of canals and hydraulic structures.

Drainage: Drainage need for both humid and irrigated land; Drainage design theories; drain spacing and depth requirements for humid-irrigated and dry irrigated areas; methods and materials system monitoring, problem soils. Design and installation of surface, sub-surface, pipe and mole drainage systems; drain maintenance.
 

CIV 5303 - Rock Mechanics
 

  1. Rock as a foundation and constructional material, Engineering properties of rocks.

  2. Types of rocks - rock minerals, classification, description, planes of discontinuity, weathering of rocks and effects of defects.

  3. Engineering behaviour of rock masses and classification of weathered rocks and rock masses.  Improvement of rock engineering properties.

  4. Foundation on rock - bearing capacity - foundation of buildings, industrial structures, roads and railways, tunnels and hydraulic structures.

  5. Exploration of rocks, reconnaissance, surface investigations in-situ testing of rocks, geophysical techniques.
 

CIV 5304 - Advanced Foundation and underground Construction
 

  1. Foundation construction - Site preparation, temporary roads, site drainage, site preparation building areas.  Deep trench and deep basement excavations. Bulk excavation and rock excavation.  Stability of slopes to open excavations. support of excavation by timbering and sheet piling.  Retaining walls and sheet pile design.

  2. Shorting and Underpinning: requirements for shorting and underpinning.  Methods of shoring of Underpinning

  3. Tunnelling: Tunelling in touch, medium-tough and soft rocks. Tunnelling by borls shield tunelling

  4. Underground Construction: Culverts and conduits

  5. Deep foundation design and Construction: Design of piles, pile load tests. Foundation design for dynamic conditions.
   

CIV5305:   Prestressed Concrete Design
  Material, Prestressing systems, loss of prestress.  Analysis and design of sections in bending, shear, bond and bearing.  Partial prestress and non-prestressing reinforcement.  Compression members.  Designing project.
   

CIV 5306:  Analysis and Design of Timber Structures
 

Properties of timber, Analysis and design of flexural and compressive members.  Axial load and bending connections, Design projects.
   

CIV 5307:   Advanced Construction Technology
 

  1. Concrete production, mix design and quality control.

  2. Advance concrete technology Concrete pavements, precast concrete - prestressed concrete, mass concrete - massive construction and underwater concreting.

  3. Advanced construction plants and equipment General consideration, classification of plants and equipment.  Characteristics of plants and equipment, performance calculations.

  4. Elevated constructions Silos, water tank and bunkers.  Formwork and scaffloding.

  5. Suspended floors Functional requirements of floors.  Types of suspended floor.

  6. Roof structures Functional requirements of roofs, choice of roof structure and types of roof construction.

  7. Stairs Construction of concrete and metal stairs.
   

CIV 5308:   Rural and Urban Transportation Planning
  Transportation Systems: Characteristics, survey, analysis and planning, Traffic theory:  Trip generations, growth and attraction, highway capacity. Planning theories, factors affecting land use. Environmental planning,  Urban and rural traffic, Transportation development and growth in Nigeria and future developments.
 

CIV 5309:   Advanced Traffic Engineering
  Traffic elements.  Urban and rural traffic.  Traffic theory; traffic flow and control, highway capacity, volume, level of service, introduction to traffic signal control, parking, traffic signs and markings; traffic safety engineering.