Program code: 085900
1. Program Objective
Cultivate application-oriented, interdisciplinary and compound high-level engineering technology and engineering management talents with solid foundational theories and systematic specialized knowledge, a strong academic foundation, comprehensive qualities, certain innovation ability and engineering practice ability, who understand both engineering technologies and the application of modern management science. In terms of business, master the basic theory and professional knowledge of geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, disaster prevention and reduction engineering and protection engineering, bridge and tunnel engineering, civil engineering construction and management, understand the research status and engineering application development trend of this specialty, and preliminarily have the ability to accurately refine the problems in the above directions, and skillfully use various analytical, computational and experimental methods to research and manage, and be able to engage in design, construction, technical management or other engineering and technical work after graduation.
2. Research Topics
(1) Civil Engineering: including geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, disaster prevention and reduction engineering, protection engineering and bridge and tunnel engineering.
1) Geotechnical engineering: the main research contents are underground structure, foundation treatment, geotechnical dynamics and seismic engineering, groundwater and environmental geotechnical engineering, etc.
2) Structural engineering: the main research contents are high-rise building structure, long-span spatial structure, reinforced concrete structure, steel structure, prestressed structure and composite structure.
3) Disaster prevention engineering: the main research contents include structural earthquake resistance, structural wind resistance, structural fire resistance, structural vibration control, structural health monitoring and damage diagnosis, geological hazard assessment, prevention and control, circular utilization of solid waste, etc.
4) Bridge and tunnel engineering: the main research contents are long-span bridge structure, bridge evaluation and reinforcement, vibration and stability of bridge structure, bridge structure theory, tunnel structure theory, etc.
(2) Civil engineering construction and management: the main research contents include construction technology and management, project management, engineering economy, BIM simulation analysis, etc.
(3) Hydraulic Engineering: the main research contents are urban flood and waterlogging disaster prevention and control, watershed aquatic ecological environment restoration, hydraulics and river dynamics, water resources planning and management, intelligent water affairs, etc.
(4) Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering: mainly study the development and design of new ship and ocean engineering structures, ship energy-saving technology, ship and ocean engineering structural mechanics, ship and ocean engineering hydrodynamics, ocean energy utilization, advanced materials of ship and ocean engineering, coastal and offshore engineering, etc.
3. Program Duration
A designed duration for the Master program is 3 years. The maximum duration is 5 years.
4. Study pattern
Professional degree postgraduates are mainly trained by the combination of course learning, professional practice and degree (graduation) thesis. A dual-supervisor system inside and outside the University is implemented, with the on-campus supervisor serving as the primary supervisor and emphasis placed on leveraging the role of the off-campus supervisor. Meanwhile, a university–enterprise supervisor team system may be adopted, whereby enterprises (industries) experts with extensive engineering practice experience are appointed to jointly guide postgraduate students. The cumulative time of professional practice shall generally not be less than 6 months (the professional practice time of master's degree in engineering without 2 years of enterprise work experience shall, in principle, not be less than 1 year).
Graduate students with professional degrees shall, under the guidance of their tutors, specify a training plan within two weeks after admission.
5. Credit Requirement
The total credits shall not be less than 33. Among them, there are 10 credits for public compulsory courses, no less than 12 credits for professional basic courses, 6 credits for compulsory links (professional practice), no less than 4 credits for professional elective courses and no less than 1 credit for public elective courses.
6. Compulsory activities
(1) Professional practice
Professional practice is an important link in the cultivation of professional degree postgraduates. Starting from the end of the second semester, full-time Professional Master’s Degree students shall, in principle, complete the off-campus practice teaching component at an off-campus practice teaching base. The practice may adopt the combination of centralized practice and segmented practice. During the semester, the cumulative time of professional practice of Postgraduates shall generally not be less than 6 months (the professional practice time of postgraduates with engineering degree without 2 years of enterprise work experience shall, in principle, not be less than 1 year).
After the completion of professional practice, master students with professional degrees must write and submit professional practice reports, which shall be assessed separately by the practice base and the University. Those who fail to pass the assessment must conduct professional practice again.
(2) Academic activities
Master students should participate in more than five academic report activities during the semester, and fill in the assessment form for graduate students of South China University of technology to participate in academic conferences (Lectures) each time. If a master’s student publishes an English conference paper with South China University of Technology as the first affiliated institution and with the student as the first author, or with the supervisor as the first author and the student as the second author, it may be regarded as participating in five academic report sessions.
7. Main courses
Data processing and optimization algorithm, Continuum mechanics, Structural dynamics I, Advanced reinforced concrete structure, Advanced steel structure, Advanced soil mechanics, Construction engineering economy and project management, Econometric analysis method, Soil science, Advanced bridge structure, Principle and application of water conservancy informatics, Advanced hydrology.
