CE361: Introduction to Transportation Engineering

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
School of Civil Engineering

CE361 is normally taught in the Fall Semester by Professor Jon D. Fricker.
It may be taught in the Spring Semester by someone else.

During the Era of COVID, Prof. Fricker's office hours will be conducted by Zoom videoconferencing Mon-Fri 5:30-6:30PM.
Other times can be arranged by email: fricker@purdue.edu.

The T.A. is Yunchang Zhang. During the Era of COVID, his office hours will be conducted by Zoom videoconferencing Mon-Fri 5:30-6:30PM.
Other times can be arranged by email: zhan2854@purdue.edu.


What's new? (as of 5:00PM 22 August 2020):

  1. The initial schedule of topics has been posted on Brightspace. The schedule may be changed as circumstances require.
  2. The textbook for CE361 is the 7th Printing of Edition 2 of Fundamentals of Transportation Engineering by Fricker and Whitford.
    • Because tests in CE361 are open book, each student needs his/her own copy.
    • The printed textbook is available at University Bookstore -- in The Village and (maybe) at 720 Northwestern Avenue. The text's format is coil bound, two volumes, shrink wrapped.
    • You may also order the textbook directly from the publisher. I will send instructions on how to do this to students registered for CE361. The digital version of the textbook must be ordered directly from the publisher.
    • Do not buy the hard cover 1st edition or any printing of the coil-bound second edition older than the 7th printing. The 7th printing of the 2nd edition contains significant changes from previous printings.
    • When you buy the book, compare its price with the price of books -- new, used, and rented -- immediately adjacent to it on the bookstore shelves. I have.
  3. To let you know what other students think about CE361 when I teach it, I have posted the Fall 2019 course evaluation on Brightspace.



Introduction and Overview
Course Syllabus -- see Brightspace
Student Comments on Course Evaluation -- see Brightspace
Guidelines for Written Work
Classes
Schedule of Classes -- see Brightspace
Assignments
Initial HW Rubric for CE361
HW0 online as Qualtrics survey. See Brightspace.
Assignments and solutions will be posted on Brightspace.
Tests
  • Clues
  • Old tests
  • New solutions
Test design paradigm

Solutions to old and recent tests will be posted on Brightspace
Grade Info
Editing Marks
Other Stuff
Transportation Links
Transportation Movies



Special thanks to David Yang for getting this Web Page started in 1996.