Curriculum : Railway Transportation System

A new Master of Engineering programme in Railway Transportation System (International Program) at Mahidol University is a 2-year programme delivered in English. Each course is designed as a 2-week block delivered by CLARE’s team and international guest lecturers. Built around the core of railway planning, operation and management, the program offers courses on railway topics with different emphasis including transportation engineering, industrial and material engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering.

MASTER OF ENGINEERING PROGRAM IN RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM (INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM)

Total credits : At least 36 credits

Curriculum Structure :

Course	Credits
Course	Plan A2	Plan B
Mandatory Courses	15	15
Elective Courses (no less than)	9	15
Thesis	12	6
Total (not less than)	36	36

General Rubric

Criteria	Skills	Fail (Unsatisfactory)	Pass (Need improvement)	Credit (Average)	Distinction (Above average)	Higher distinction (Excellent)
Engineering morals and ethics in managing scientific and professional projects demonstrated	Ethics and morals (e.g. plagiarism, referencing)	Plagiarism issue, no referencing, lack of understanding of engineering morals and ethics	Various plagiarism and referencing issues occur, low level of understanding of engineering morals and ethics	Some plagiarism and referencing issues occur, sufficient level of engineering morals and ethics	Minor plagiarism or referencing issues, very good level of engineering morals and ethics demonstrated	No plagiarism or referencing issues, excellent ethics and morals demonstrated
	Professionalism (e.g. advisors guidance, independence, subject standards)	Poor level of professionalism, lack of standards and no independence demonstrated	The level of professionalism needs improvement due to low standards and low independence	Above average level of independence and subject standards demonstrated	Minor plagiarism or referencing issues, very good level of engineering morals and ethics demonstrated	Excellent demonstration of guidance, independence and application of standards
Rail system planning and management knowledge to solve railway problems applied	Application of subject knowledge	Unsatisfactory level of subject knowledge applied	Level of knowledge applied is low and needs a serious improvement	Average level of subject knowledge applied	Very good level of subject knowledge (as delivered in the course) applied	Excellent level of subject knowledge applied with some elements of additional knowledge presented
Research skills in developing further rail knowledge and proposing inventive ideas with positive impact on society displayed	Demonstration of research skills	Very poor research skills displayed, lack of understanding of subject knowledge	Quality of research skills is low and needs a serious improvement	Basic research skills demonstrated	Very good research skills and understanding of subject knowledge	Excellent research skills with some new applications and novelty demonstrated
	Generation of inventive ideas	Lack of attempt to generate new ideas	Some ideas generated but of poor quality, not inventive	Some basic new ideas generated, but no innovation	Some new innovative ideas demonstrated but with limitations	New innovative ideas generated with confidence
Independent and team work skills in applying analytical thinking to efficiently manage rail transport systems demonstrated	Independent work	Lack of independent analytical thinking related to the subject, various different issues occur unconsciously	Demonstration of independent analytical thinking related to the subject needs improvement, various issues occur	Average demonstration of independent analytical thinking related to the subject, some issues occur	Above average demonstration of independent analytical thinking related to the subject, minor issues	Excellent demonstration of independent analytical thinking related to the subject, no issues
	Team work	Lack of team work effort and analytical thinking demonstrated, very poor division of tasks, no sense of a team work	Poor quality of team work demonstrated, e.g. various issues with communication, division of tasks and their delivery	Average team work skills demonstrated, some issues with communication, division of tasks and tasks’ delivery occur	Very good team work skills demonstrated, with clear division and delivery of tasks, but some minor issues occur	Excellent team work skills demonstrated, good division of tasks and excellent execution
Effective communication of rail transport systems knowledge using variety of verbal and writing techniques addressed to different audiences	Effective verbal communication of subject knowledge	Very poor quality communication, e.g. unsatisfactory oral presentation	Verbal communication needs improvements, e.g. reading from slides, lack of clear explanations and logic, poor Q&A session	Average verbal communication skills with some issues related to e.g. reading from slides or lack of eye-contact with audience or some difficulty to handle Q&A session	Above average verbal communication with very good presentation and speaking skills but minor issues with clear explanations, contact with audience or handling Q&A session	Excellent verbal communication skills, including speaking skills, contact with audience, and Q&A session
	Effective writing communication of subject knowledge	Very poor quality of written communication, e.g. very poor quality of a subject report , various different issues (e.g. no formatting, typos, different styles) occur unconsciously	Written communication needs serious improvements, various different issues (e.g. poor formatting, lack of logic, poor explanations, poor overall quality)	Average written communication skills with some issues related to e.g. formatting, style, work-flow	Above average written communication with very good writing skills but minor issues with e.g. formatting, style or work-flow	Excellent written communication skills, no issues