Civil and Construction Engineering | Engineering and Applied Science School

About Program

Civil Engineering is the basis of development and economic growth in societies, as it affects almost all aspects of civilized life. The Civil and Construction Engineering (CCE) is a 144-credit hour program (formerly called Civil and Infrastructure Engineering and Management program) offers a unique and modern model that focuses on the growing needs in Egypt and MENA region through the provision of multiple specialties such as the use sustainable materials, design of smart cities, design of smart concrete and steel structures, and construction project management. The curriculum of the CCE program includes learning coding, integration of AI and data analytics tools, application of computer software such as Revit and BIM, which are needed nowadays in all design, construction, operation and maintenance aspects. The CCE program includes two Majors to select from: Construction Engineering & Management, and Smart Structural Engineering, this in addition to optional Minors in various fields such as Architecture, Machine Learning, Industry 4.0 and more.

Mission & Objectives

The program provides students with the highest quality of education, strengthen ties and partnerships with the industry, and offer engineering services to the construction community to develop infrastructure in Egypt and the region. The program is committed to ongoing enhancement in the overall quality of teaching and learning, and scientific research to achieve its mission. The program is also responsible for contributing to scientific and technological progress in its fields of specialization by providing students with the theoretical, scientific, and technical basis that allows them to practice professional and research works in the industrial community or the research field or in research centers, such that the program's curriculum becomes a viable nucleus for completing postgraduate studies at the master's and doctorate levels. The program maintains the professional responsibility for continuing education and specialized training for engineers working in the fields of engineering, management, and infrastructure development, intending to develop their abilities and expand their skills to keep up with the current growth in technology.

To achieve this, the program seeks graduates to be:

Scientifically and technically equipped to practice the civil engineering profession as a newly graduated engineer, join postgraduate programs, and apply scientific research in civil engineering.
Able to identify civil engineering problems, accurately characterize these problems systematically to reach appropriate sustainable solutions, and to be able to communicate results with other disciplines within the society.
Capable of ethically advancing and improving the career in civil and construction engineering, and ready to take on responsibility and leadership positions due to effective teamwork abilities and problem-solving while following an organized approach.
Prepared to work in broad fields of civil engineering and for long-life learning through the acquisition of science and technical skills in various specializations.

Skills & Career Path

Program Tracks

Track-1: Construction Engineering and Management

Track-2: Smart Structural Engineering

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Careers you can pursue:

Design of Concrete and Steel Structures
Contractors and Consulting Firms
Real Estate Developers
Multinational Construction Companies
Managing Infrastructure Systems
Geotechnical Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Transportation Engineering

Skills:

Familiar with the scientific and technical basics of solving engineering problems in the field of civil engineering.
Able to design and conduct specialized tests in the field of civil engineering and analyze their information and results in a systematic manner.
Apply and develop acquired engineering sciences to manage projects in the field of civil engineering.
Work efficiently in a multidisciplinary team, whether they are in the same specialty, in engineering disciplines or in other engineering disciplines.
Consider the surrounding social aspects that govern the design and management of projects, as well as the suitable systems for the community and society.
Able to use engineering technologies, computer science, software, communicate orally and write technically with co-workers.
Interested in continuous education and development, gaining new skills, and obtaining postgraduate degrees.

Promoted Facilities

Materials and Concrete Lab

The Materials and Concrete Lab capacity is 40 students. The lab is from ELE (UK). It includes heavy equipment such as flakiness sieves and shakers, concrete mixer, vibrators, steel molds, a large curing tank, a 2000 kN cube crushing and beam flexure machine, and non-destructive testing equipment such as Pundit ultrasonic device (Swiss) and Schmidt hammer.

Transportation and Asphalt Lab

The Transportation and Asphalt lab capacity is 30 students. The lab is from Controls (Italy) and is fully automated and includes equipment such as Los Angeles abrasion machines, Marshall compression testing, Marshall automatic sample compactor, CBR molds, asphalt mixer, bitumen oven, water bath, centrifuge extractor, and other apparatuses.

Hydraulics Lab

The hydraulics lab's capacity is 30 students. It is a demonstrative lab from Cussons (UK). It includes a digital hydraulic bench with water pumps and all valves, Osborne Reynolds apparatus, Bernoulli apparatus, turbulent and laminar flow, pipe surge, and water hammer.

Loading Frame Facility

The Loading Frame facility is used for large-scale testing of structural elements such as concrete beams, slabs, columns, footings, and steel members. The frame is a reactionless steel system made of HEA 300 beams with dimensions 3 x 3 x 2 meters, including a 30-ton hydraulic jack and load cell (Spain), electric pump, and data acquisition system (USA) with a computer for data analysis.

Environmental Lab

The Environmental Lab capacity is 20 students. The Lab is from ELE (UK). It includes a COD reactor, benchtop, turbidity meters, refrigerated incubator, distilled water still, spectrophotometer, laboratory flocculator, muffle furnace, glass bakers, and a set of different chemicals, and several other devices and meters.

Soil Mechanics Lab

The Soil Mechanics Lab capacity is 30 students. The lab is from ELE (UK) and is fully automated and includes equipment used for basic soil classification such as sieves and shakers, Casagrande device, hydrometers, 50 kN direct shear machine; it is one-dimensional consolidation Odometer machine, 50 kN uniaxial compression machine, electric oven, and other apparatuses.

Surveying Lab

The Surveying Lab capacity is 30 students. The lab is from Sokkia (Japan). It includes modern equipment and tools used for engineering surveying works, such as three digital levels, three electronic theodolites, three total station devices, and a GPS device with two stations.