Program Overview
Building Engineering Program
The Building Engineering program aims to graduate civil engineers capable of generating effective solutions by using engineering approaches in the field of Building Engineering. The graduates of the program will be well-versed in technology, social, and environmental issues.
Program Description
The program supplies students with advanced concepts of structure design, including basics of steel, concrete structure design, and water tanks design, according to recent design codes versions. Students will also have basics of dynamic, earthquake, using recent design codes versions. Management of project resources, risk, and safety are essential knowledge for structure engineers.
Career Prospects
Graduates of this department have a variety of opportunities to work in companies specializing in the design, analysis, operation, construction, and management of a wide range of residential, commercial, and industrial building projects. Our graduates can be found at numerous companies and organizations, such as:
- Government authorities
- Consulting firms in civil engineering and construction
- Civil engineering contractors and project managers
- Environmental engineering organizations
Program Concentrations
The program provides the undergraduate student with a thorough foundation and technologies in the basic tenets of Structural, Construction Project Managements, and Environmental Engineering. The program provides three different fields in which the students in this program can specialize:
- Structural Engineering
- Construction Engineering Management
- Environmental and Sustainable Building Engineering
Structural Engineering
Concerned with the structural design and structural analysis of buildings, bridges, towers, and other structures. This involves identifying the loads which act upon a structure and the forces and stresses which arise within that structure due to those loads, and then designing the structure to successfully support and resist those loads.
Construction Engineering Management
Gives students a specialized focus on planning, scheduling, resources management, quantity take-off, computer applications, cost estimating, risk and safety management, contracts, problem-solving, people and networking, management, and leadership skills.
Environmental and Sustainable Building Engineering
Gives students a specialized focus on how to reduce the demand for energy and the energetic consumption of buildings, take advantage of climate and natural resources to develop passive design strategies and sustainable architecture, reuse and recycle building components and materials, extend the lifetime of products and buildings, adopt a sustainable environmental use, participatory planning and design, reduce urban sprawl, promote urban renewal, and protect natural areas.
Agreements with Another University
The program is in partnership with the University of East London (UEL), United Kingdom, for a Bachelor Dual Degree. Students joining this agreement will pay an additional fee to substitute expenses for the external Quality Audits/Moderation Boards that will take place in Egypt. The graduates should receive two B.Sc. certificates, one from the University of East London, and one from Ain Shams University.
Program Objectives
In addition to the competences for all Engineering Programs, the Building Engineering Program graduate must be able to:
- Select appropriate and sustainable technologies for construction of buildings
- Achieve an optimum design of Reinforced Concrete and Steel Structures, Foundations, and Earth Retaining Structures
- Plan and manage construction processes
- Deal with biddings, contracts, and financial issues
- Produce designs that meet building users' requirements
- Generate ecologically responsible, environmental conservation, and rehabilitation designs
- Demonstrate additional abilities related to the field of the concentration within Building Engineering
Courses
To get a Bachelor of Science Degree in this program, the following set of courses need to be completed:
- University Requirements Courses
- Faculty Requirements Courses
- Program Requirements Courses
- Building Engineering Concentration Elective Courses
Program Study Plan
The program study plan is divided into 10 semesters, with a total of 170 credits. The plan includes:
- Semester 1: Mathematics, Vibration and Waves, Statics, Engineering Drawing, Engineering Chemistry, Computing in Engineering
- Semester 2: Mathematics, Electricity and Magnetism, Dynamics, Projection and Engineering Graphics, Production Engineering, Fundamentals of Engineering
- Semester 3: Differential Equations and Numerical Analysis, Structural Mechanics, Introduction to Lighting Systems, Structures and Properties of Construction Materials, Engineering Economics and Finance, Probability and Statistics
- Semester 4: Strength of Materials, Properties and Testing of Materials, Geology, Fluid Mechanics for Civil Engineers, Building Engineering Drawing, Human Rights, Professional Ethics and Legislations
- Semester 5: Structural Analysis, Concrete Structures Design, Concrete Technology, Surveying, Introduction to Transportation & Traffic Engineering, Thermal Analysis of Buildings
- Semester 6: Steel Structures Design, Concrete Technology, Soil Mechanics, Surveying, Fundamentals of Building Acoustics, Project Management Essentials in Construction
- Semester 7: Concrete Structures Design, Steel Structures Design, Soil Mechanics, Construction Planning and Scheduling, Report Writing & Communication skills, ASU Elective A Course
- Semester 8: Introduction to Structural Dynamics, Construction Engineering, Foundation Design, HVAC System Design, Building Engineering Concentration Elective Course, ASU Elective B Course
- Semester 9: Concrete Structures Design, Foundation Design, Building Engineering Design Graduation Project, Building Engineering Concentration Elective Courses, Selected Topics in Contemporary Issues
- Semester 10: Modern Building Materials, Building Envelope Design, Senior Seminar, Building Engineering Design Graduation Project, Building Engineering Concentration Elective Courses
Building Engineering Concentration Elective Courses
- Structural Engineering Concentration Elective Courses:
- Computer Applications in Structural Design
- Design of Prestressed Concrete and Bridges
- Masonry
- Advanced Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures
- Steel Structures Design
- Construction Engineering Management Concentration Elective Courses:
- Construction Cost Management
- Resources Management
- Risk and Safety Management
- Legal Issues in Construction
- Computer Applications in Construction Management
- Quantity Surveying and Estimating
- Environmental And Sustainable Building Engineering Concentration Elective Courses:
- Indoor Air Quality
- Computer Applications in Environmental Engineering
- Building Illumination and Day Lighting
- Building Acoustics
- Building Energy Conservation Technologies
- Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Construction
- Environmental Risk Management