[Good News] The School of Civil Engineering and Transportation has added 2 national first-class undergraduate majors and 2 provincial first-class undergraduate majors
time: 2021-03-09

Recently, the General Office of the Ministry of Education announced the list of national and provincial first-class undergraduate major construction in 2020. South China University of Technology added 16 national first-class undergraduate major construction points and 13 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction points. School of Civil Engineering and Transportation has added two national first-class undergraduate majors of engineering Mechanics and traffic Engineering, and two provincial first-class undergraduate majors of transportation and engineering management. The college has 3 national first-class undergraduate programs and 5 provincial first-class undergraduate programs. The following is the introduction of each major.

l  Civil Engineering (2019 National First-class Undergraduate Program)

Civil engineering is built for the future national construction, especially to fit the development needs of the Belt and Road and the large bay area of Guangdong's social and economic with digital, intelligent building and so on elements. The major is to cultivate students with comprehensive ability to solve the problem of complex civil engineering, life-long learning ability, and the comprehensive quality of leading the industry technology development and interdisciplinary talents with the feelings and global vision.

The civil engineering major has passed the China Engineering Education Professional certification, and the graduates have the pass of international quality standards. From the third year on, civil engineering students take specialized modular courses in five major areas (Green Intelligent Construction, House Construction, underground, Bridges and Roads). Equipped with high-level teachers at home and abroad to teach, and hired experts from well-known enterprises in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao as practice course instructors, highlighting practice, innovation, and internationalization.

There is an innovation class - Civil Engineering Excellence English class.

l  Engineering Mechanics (National First-class Undergraduate Program in 2020)

Engineering mechanics innovation class funded in 2009, is committed to cultivating high-quality talents with scientific research innovation ability and international vision, fully implementing the undergraduate-graduate (3 + 1 + 2) and undergraduate-doctor (3 + 1 + 4) talent training mode, and set up with matching curriculum system and management system. The program carries out an undergraduate tutor system, in which undergraduate tutors guide students to complete their studies and participate in cutting-edge scientific research. With the spirit of heavy foundation, wide caliber, this professional not only set up the system of mechanical foundation courses and professional courses, and in combination with the new engineering concept has opened more than facing the civil engineering, aerospace, and other industries in the field of the professional class and interdisciplinary courses (such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) theory and design, machine learning, etc.). In addition, this major has several provincial teaching practice platforms such as Guangdong Mechanics Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center and Guangdong Aerospace Advanced Materials and Structure Engineering Technology Center, which provide good conditions for students' growth.

l  Traffic Engineering (2020 National First-class Undergraduate Program)

Traffic Engineering is a discipline that studies and implements the planning, design, operation, control, and management of traffic networks. Department of Transportation Engineering combined with the national strategy and the great demand of social development, comprehensive transportation network planning, design, management, operation, and control, integrated into the large data, new engineering knowledge elements such as artificial intelligence, and combined with wisdom city and the demand for the development of intelligent transportation, smart car form of transportation systems engineering, intelligent transportation, and road three directions, We have built a complete training system of innovation-creation-entrepreneurship. The graduates mainly go to transportation-related government administration departments, research institutes, planning, and design research and consulting units, smart city and intelligent transportation-related enterprises, and transportation-related engineering construction units.

l  Transportation (2020 Provincial First-class Undergraduate Major Project)

Transportation is a discipline that studies and implements the strategy, planning, operation, and management of a comprehensive transportation system. Transportation of our school focuses on road transportation planning and management, training students in the transportation system planning and design, transportation operation organization and scheduling, transportation system management and optimization, logistics and supply chain management, prevention and control of traffic safety, transportation, economic and policy research, etc. The ability to work, combined with the travel as a service concept and modern supply chain demand, intelligent transportation, and modern logistics two directions. Graduates can be engaged in transportation planning and management in transportation, public security, construction, planning departments, and related industry management organizations, and can be engaged in transportation planning, design, scientific and technological consulting, and service in all kinds of transportation planning and design institutes, transportation planning consulting companies, and transportation research institutes. In highway transportation, logistics, subway, aviation, water transportation, port, and other large-scale enterprises engaged in transportation planning, design, organization, operation, and management, but also in large-scale production and circulation enterprises engaged in modern logistics and supply chain management.

l  Construction Management (2020 Provincial First-class Undergraduate Program Construction)

Construction management professional training students' qualifications for the new engineering technology, economy, management, law, ecology, humanity and theoretical basis, frontier exploration and construction practice of basic training, has the independent thinking ability and scientific research ability, construction practice ability, organization and management ability, and international vision of outstanding construction management talents. To serve the national modernization and the the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road”, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area development strategy, the pursuit of excellence, and strive to enter the leading talents in the field of engineering management. Characteristics shown in our project management professional course use the teaching modes, such as workshops, exploratory outstanding project management information talented person's raise, attaches great importance to the practice, innovation, and internationalization, hired on part of the professional course teaching masters at home and abroad, to strengthen the management of whole life cycle of building virtual simulation modeling and analysis ability, develop intelligent construction concept and the corresponding management skills.