Program Overview:

To address the future challenges onsustainability, resilience and intelligence in the construction industry, our civil engineering undergraduate program is designed to produce future leaders and innovators with high morality and accountability, a wide range of knowledge and polished skill sets, strong vision and the sense of globalization. Our students are required to complete fundamental courses in the first year and in the beginning of the second year they have the authority to choose one of four concentrations including: Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Water Resource Engineering, and Naval and Marine Engineering.  Our program prepares students for careers in fields as diverse as planning, development, design, construction, operation and management education, law, and public relation for large firms, start their own businesses, and hold leadership positions in government and nonprofit organizations, as well as for graduate study in engineering and science at top programs in China and abroad.

Education Characteristics:

Our undergraduate program provides a solid background in science and engineering fundamentals while emphasizing customized curriculum, multidisciplinary perspectives, hands-on design and real-world projects. Students have the opportunity to participate in cutting-edge research projects investigated by our first-class faculty within the State Key Laboratory of Subtropical BuildingScience, and have been trained with comprehensivehands-on experience through the Guangdong provincial experimental teaching demonstration center, off-campus collaborative industrial training camps, etc. 

Concentrations:

The students will enter the professional training stage after selecting one of four concentrations in civil engineering shown below:

1. Civil Engineering

2. Construction Management

3. Water Resource Engineering

4. Naval and Marine Engineering

Registration Form of Curriculum Credits

1. Courses Schedule

2. Educational plans after professional streaming

Full details are given in educational plans for each specialty.

Civil Engineering

Program Code:081001    Duration：4years

Educational Objectives:

To satisfy the future needs and emerging complex problems in the civil engineering industry, our civil engineering major is designed to cultivate students with combined skill and sense on innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship, to equipstudents with talents global perspective, excellent three powers (learning power, thinking power, action power), and comprehensive development of moral, intellectual, physical, and aesthetic skills. A civil engineering degree provides a foundation in civil engineering and related fields, basic skill sets for scientific research, a comprehensive ability to solve complex real-world problems, and lifelong learning and leadership. After the completion of their degrees, our students will move into careers but not limited to planning and design, construction, education, research and development, operations, and maintenance. They are expected to obtainthe engineering certificate and hold leadership positions in large firms or complete master’s degree or above.

Student Outcomes:

№1. Engineering Knowledge: An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, fundamental and advanced engineering to solve complicated civil engineering problems.

1.1An ability to have a good command of mathematics and related courses, and lay the solid foundation for solving complicated engineering problems.

1.2An ability to have a good command of physics, chemistry and related courses, and lay the solid foundation for solving complicated engineering problems.

1.3An ability to have a good command of discipline basic courses, and lay the solid foundation for solving complicated engineering problems.

1.4An ability to have a good command of discipline professional courses, and lay the solid foundation for solving complicated engineering problems.

№2. Problem Analysis: An ability to apply the fundamental theory of mathematics, science, and civil engineering to recognize, express and analyze complicated civil engineering problems, and obtain effective conclusions.

2.1An ability to apply fundamental theory of mathematics to recognize, express and analyze complicated engineering problems.

2.2 An ability to apply fundamental theory of science to recognize, express and analyze complicated engineering problems.

2.3 An ability to apply fundamental theory of discipline to recognize, express and analyze complicated engineering problems.

2.4 An ability to access knowledge by multiple ways to recognize, express and analyze complicated engineering problems, for obtaining effective conclusions.

№3. Design/Development Solution: An ability to develop solutions for complicated civil engineering problems, and innovatively design systems, components or process that meet the needs within realistic constraints, such as social, health, safety, legal, cultural and environmental considerations. An ability to possess creative ideas in developing solutions of complicated civil engineering problems.

3.1 An ability to know discipline basic knowledge to develop solutions for complicated engineering and discipline-related problems.

3.2 An ability to know discipline core knowledge to develop solutions for complicated engineering and discipline-related problems.

3.3 An ability to know disciplines kill to develop solutions for complicated engineering and discipline-related problems.

3.4 An ability to know discipline practical skill to develop solutions for complicated engineering and discipline-related problems.

3.5 An ability to know discipline comprehensive research skill to develop solutions for complicated engineering and discipline-related problems.

3.6 An ability to know current situation, innovative development and future trend of civil engineering.

№4. Research: An ability to conduct research on complicated civil engineering problems based on scientific theories and methods, including design of experiments, collecting, processing, analysis and interpretation of data, and synthesis of information, for obtaining effective conclusions and applying them in engineering practice.

4.1An ability to conduct research on complicated engineering problems based on scientific theories and methods, including data processing and analysis.

4.2 An ability to conduct research on complicated engineering problems based on scientific theories and methods, including analysis and test on physical and structural characterization of material.

4.3 An ability to conduct research on complicated engineering problems based on scientific theories and methods, including analysis skill on mechanical prosperity of material.

4.4 An ability to conduct research on complicated engineering problems based on scientific theories and methods, including skill-training on processing, induction and analysis of experimental result.

4.5 An ability to conduct research on complicated engineering problems based on scientific theories and methods for obtaining effective conclusions.

4.6 An ability to conduct research on complicated engineering problems based on scientific theories and methods, including learning and design of experiment.

№5. Application of Modern Tools: An ability to develop, select and apply appropriate techniques, resources, modern engineering, and information technology tools, to solve complicated civil engineering problems, including predicting and modelling complicated civil engineering problems with understanding limitations.

5.1An ability to know basic design and test skill.

5.2 An ability to know engineering design and practical skill.

5.3An ability to know basic skill to solve complicated engineering problems.

5.4 An ability to know integrated skill to solve complicated engineering problems.

№6. Engineering and Society: An ability to apply related engineering knowledge to analyze and evaluate engineering application, complicated civil engineering problems solutions, and their impacts on society, healthy, safety, legal and cultural issues, as well as understand the responsibilities of civil engineers.

6.1An ability to evaluate design, construction and operation proposals of civil engineering, and know the impact of solutions of complicated engineering problems to society, healthy, safety, legal and cultural issues.

6.2 An ability to know the responsibilities of solutions of complicated engineering problems to society, healthy, safety, legal and cultural issues.

7. Environment and Sustainable Development: An ability to understand and evaluate the impact of professional civil engineering solutions to issues of environment and sustainable development.

7.1An ability to apply skills to properly evaluate the impact of professional engineering solutions to issues of environment and sustainable development.

7.2 An ability to properly analyze, recognize and evaluate the impact of professional engineering solutions to issues of environment.

7.3 An ability to properly analyze, recognize and evaluate the impact of professional engineering solutions to issues of sustainable development.

№8. Professional Standards: An understanding of humanity science and social responsibility; an ability to understand and abide by ethics, standards and responsibly in engineering practice.

8.1 Having the necessary knowledge and accomplishment of humanities and social science, correct values and social responsibility, healthy body and psychology.

8.2 Ability to understand and abide by engineering professional ethics and norms in the practice of civil engineering projects, with legal awareness, and to assume responsibility, contribute to the country and serve the society.

№9. Individual and Teams: An ability to function on multidisciplinary teams as an individual, a team member or leader in solving complicated civil engineering problems.

9.1To develop team cooperation.

9.2 To develop leadership.

9.3 To develop management and coordinating skills.

№10. Communication: An ability to communicate effectively on complicated civil engineering problems with industrial community and society, including writing reports and comprehending documentations, making presentations, or responding instructions, as well as making communication in cross-cultural context with international perspective.

10.1To develop professional communication skill, including writing reports and comprehending documentations, making presentations, or responding instructions.

10.2 To develop discipline international vision.

10.3 To develop communication and practical skill for multidisciplinary and cross-culture.

10.4 To develop interpersonal communication and team-work spirit.

№11. Project Management: An ability to understand and apply engineering management and economic decision-making in multidisciplinary.

11.1To know basic principles and methods of engineering management.

11.2 To know basic principles and methods of engineering economic decision.

11.3 To know application of engineering management and economics decision in professional education and practice.

11.4 To know Build Information Modelling (BIM) in engineering management.

№12. Lifelong Learning: An ability to recognize the needs for, and to engage in independent and life-long learning for adaptive capacity and development.

12.1To develop self-improvement learning skills.

12.2 To develop professional quality learning skills.

12.3 To develop skills for the adaptation of innovation of civil engineering. 

Program Profile：

As the one of the first founded departments at the South China University of Technology (South China College), our civil engineering Department can be traced back to the department of architectural engineering of Engineering School of Guangdong Province XiangQin University of Technology in 1933. It has cultivated more than 10,000 alumni nationwide in the field of structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, road and bridge engineering, construction management. It possesses high reputation around the nation, especially locally in southern China, Hong Kong and Macao areas. Our civil engineering major was entitled “Guangdong Province Famous Professional Major” in 2003, “Guangdong Province Feature Professional Major” in 2010, and the first batch of “Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program” awarded by the Ministry of Education in 2010.  It passed the program assessment and went in “Washington Accord” in 2018, and become the first batch of national first-class professional construction sites in 2019.

The major of civil engineering is the first batch in southern China which can confer the class-one doctoral degree and establish postdoctoral research station, and it has formed a complete expert training system from the bachelor, master to doctor degrees. With the State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science (co-constructed) and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Modern Civil Engineering Technology and other high-level discipline platform, it fully ensures the effective development of experimental teaching and scientific research.

There are nearly 90 faculty members, including emeritus, part-time and consultant professors. The balance between experience, professional title and age can be well achieved for the teaching teams formed by the faculty members. There are 3 student innovation training bases in the campus, and more than 40 production-learning-research integration bases outside the campus. Joint degree programs for students are established with many prestigious universities in US, UK, Australia and Canada. In addition, short-term exchange student programs are established with many well-known universities in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan areas and abroad.

Program Features:

Part courses of this program are taught in either English or bilingual Chinese-English. Lectures on science and technology frontier and innovative practice courses are included. Based on three experimental platform of the State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science for disaster prevention and mitigation and internship base off campus, the cultivating mode is integrated with the production, learning and research.

Degree Conferred: Bachelor of Engineering

Core Courses: Theoretical Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials, Structural Mechanics, Soil Mechanics, Theory of Concrete Structures, Theory of Steel Structures, Construction Materials, Intelligent Engineering Surveying, Civil Engineering Construction, Construction Project Management

Elective Courses for other colleges：Bridge Aesthetics，Building Science，Road and Traffic Safety 

Featured Courses:

Freshmen Seminars: Civil Engineering and human life, Civil Engineering Disasters and Prevention, Human-Vehicle-Road，Energy and Sustainable Development

Special Topics: IT Technology of Project Management, Real Estate Development & Management,

Wind Effect & Control for High-rise Buildings,

Structural Design for High-rise Buildings (2),

Structure Optimization – Special Topics

Courses Taught in English: Pavement Engineering, Structural Mechanics, Loads and Design Principles,

Structural Mechanics – Special Topics, Elastic Theory，

Green and Intelligent road construction

Bilingual Courses: An Introduction to Civil Engineering, Loads and Design Principles,

Elastic Theory, Construction Project Management,

Pavement Maintenance & Management

MOOC: Theory of Concrete Structures, Masonry Structures, Foundations of Computer

Subject Frontiers Courses: Seminars in Civil Engineering, Intelligent Structure System，

                                               Green and sustainable building structures,Intelligent Bridge

Interdisciplinary Courses: courses in artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing or management or economics，no less than 2 credits.

Baccalaureate-Master’s Integrated Courses: Theory of Elastic Mechanics & FEM,

Advanced Theory of Concrete Structures

Cooperative Courses with Enterprises: Cognition Practice, Geological Engineering Practice,

                                                                    Construction Practice, Graduation Practice,

Graduation Design Course, Civil Engineering Entrepreneurship

 Introduction of Prefabricated Construction

Contest-Teaching Integrated Courses: Structural Model Analysis & Experiments

Innovation Practice: The frontier Experiments of Civil Engineering,

Integrated Test of Structures, Structural Model Analysis & Experiments,

Structural InnovativeDesign Method (Three “one”)

Entrepreneurship Courses: Civil Engineering Entrepreneurship (Three “one”)

Education on the Hard-Working Spirit: Construction Practice

1. Registration Form of Curriculum Credits

1. 1 Credits Registration Form

1.2 Category Registration Form

Notes：

1.General education is included in the elective course;

2 .Experimental teaching includes experiments, internships and other courses in the Professional Teaching Schedule;

3. Innovation and entrepreneurship education credits: courses in the training program, as determined by the teaching steering committee of each college, including competitive teaching courses, innovative practice courses, entrepreneurship education courses and other credits;

4. Compulsory hours + Elective hours = Total hours; Theoretical teaching hours + Experimental teaching hours = Total hours; Compulsory credits + Elective credits = Total credits; Concentrated practical teaching session credits + Theoretical teaching credits + Experimental teaching credits = Total credits.

1.3 Related notes:

1)       The major elective course “**” is the core course of the course group recommended by the civil engineering professional guidance committee.

2)       In the specialized course study, each student chooses to major in a specialized direction module and minor in a specialized direction module, and takes at least 12 credits of core courses (plus**) in the major direction and at least 5 credits of core courses (plus**) in the minor direction, for a total of 17 credits, while not taking courses with similar or repeated content to the courses already taken.

3)       Innovative entrepreneurship education credits: the courses in the training plan are determined by the Teaching Steering Committee of each college, including the credits of the courses of combination of competition and teaching, innovative practice and entrepreneurship education; students apply for conversion to certain professional elective courses credits according to their own scientific research training projects, subject competitions, publishing papers, obtaining patents and independent entrepreneurship (innovative research training, Innovation Research Practice I, Innovation Research Practice II, Entrepreneurship Practice and other innovative entrepreneurship courses). Each student applies for a total of no more than 4 credits for professional elective courses. Items and competitions recognized as elective course credits accepted by the school will no longer gain innovative credits corresponding to the second class.

4)       General courses are recommended in economics, management, psychology, laws and regulations, artificial intelligence, and data analysis, among which engineering economics (2.0 credits) is classified as a general education course.

1.4 Credits Registration Form of Engineering Education Certification 

2. Courses Schedule

Note:

1. Other credit hours can be on the computer and practice hours.

2. Students may take up to 4 credits of General Studies in the Virtual Third Semester

3. Compulsary: 1 credit of The Process of Marxism's Sinicization and the Mission of Young Students + 1 credit of Four History course + 2 credits of Mental Health Education for College Students

4. Each student is required to complete 2 credits of General Studies in Public Art

2. Courses Schedule

3. Practice-concentrated Training