Abstract: The profession of civil engineering needs graduates with many technical and generic skills. A program of peer instruction and peer mentoring within courses taken by first-year students at Queensland University of Technology ...

Abstract: Track roughness describes in part the up and down waves in the longitudinal geometry of a railway track. A train passing over rough track experiences a degree of bouncing that generates oscillations in the forces exerted ...

Abstract: New knowledge has raised a concern about the cost-ineffective design methods and the true performance of railroad prestressed concrete ties. Because of previous knowledge deficiencies, railway civil and track engineers ...