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Candidates for graduate studies in Civil
Engineering can devote their study to one of the following three areas which
are vital to the viability of the national economy:
The environmental engineering field in the
graduate program focuses primarily on urban facilities and environment
as well as environmental informatics. Within this focus, it emphasizes
the analysis of water and waste systems (e.g. sewage, wastewater, drinking
water supply, municipal solid wastes); and, the data infrastructure required
to support these and other systems in the urban environment and,
environmental geomatics technologies including
environmental remote sensing and GIS-based environmental decision support
systems. Particular social and political issues that arise in these types of
analyses relate to sustainable urban systems, and
the possibilities for integration across urban systems. Under this field,
endless possibilities of interaction exist between the proposed program and
the existing masters program in Environmental Applied Science and Management
in which many civil engineering faculty members are involved. Geomatics
Engineering (pending approval by the This field focuses directly on the various
aspects of data collection, information generation and management related to
the Earth including the surface, subsurface, water and atmosphere. The main
objective of the field is to capture the precise geometric position and
attributes related to all features that comprise the terrestrial system of
the Earth and, also, extraterrestrial bodies in recent years. The main
disciplines in the field include mapping, surveying, geospatial information
management, global positioning systems, photogrammetry,
remote sensing and cadastral studies. The field deals with applications and
applied research in acquisition, management, analysis, modeling, visualization,
dissemination and application of geo-referenced data. This results in
commonly known derivatives such as topographic maps, geospatial information
systems such as MapQuest and Google
Earth, on-board vehicle navigation systems, weather maps and disaster management
systems. This field focuses directly on the various
civil engineering means by which the country can deal with the matter of
deteriorating built infrastructure. The main components of the field are
structural engineering, construction materials and pavements, and
construction project management. These components constitute a program that
covers a variety of engineering disciplines and advanced technologies that
make it possible to improve the performance of infrastructure elements in
terms of their durability; the time, cost, and ease of their construction;
and their ability to withstand a wide range of environmental load and
operating conditions. Research in this field involves the
traditional transportation engineering areas and the complementary area of geomatics engineering. Transportation engineering deals
with the planning, design and management of the road and transit infrastructure.
Geomatics engineering deals with acquisition,
management, analysis, modeling, visualization, and application of
geo-referenced data, using state-of-the-art technologies such as remote
sensing, satellite navigation, and spatial information management.
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