School of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environment

CULTURE

 The School of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environment, Hubei University of Technology, was founded in 1985. In the last three decades, the School has been adhering to the purpose of “creating first-class faculty, majors, team spirit, academic atmosphere and quality education”, striving to adopt green industry practices, and making all efforts to establish a reputation as the “cradle of engineers”. Following the educational idea of “student-oriented all-round development” and the tenet of cultivating student’s “humanistic quality, engineering capabilities, innovation awareness, and hardworking attitude”, the School aims to promote the culture of “loving the university and devoting to the civil engineering cause”, follow the spirit of “working at grass-root positions and making contributions for the country”, and strive to cultivate application-oriented leading talents and innovative talents with high quality, global vision and development potentials and well received by society and industry.  

The school advocates the spirit of “being realistic, pragmatic, efficient and happy”, takes students as the center, attaches the most importance to teaching, bases itself upon the industry, and faces up to the whole world. Against the backdrop of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, when the opportunity of transformation and development of the building industry has emerged, the School develops different routes for training application-oriented talents majored in the civil engineering  in local colleges, and reforms the teaching and development ideas of civil engineering, with an aim to improve the employment competence and career development potential of graduates, and train high-caliber talents to promote national & local economic development and social progress.  

HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT

1985--The Majors of Industrial and Civil Engineering, Construction Engineering Management open their doors.

1996--The second class of Geotechnical Engineering obtains the right to offer Masters Degrees.

1996--The second-class Geotechnical Engineering Science major was pronounced a key major in Hubei Province.

1998--Founding of the Architectural Design Institute of the Hubei University of Technology.

2000--The second class Structural Engineering major obtained the right to offer Masters Degrees.

2001--the second class Structural Engineering major was pronounced a key major in Hubei Province.

2003--The second class Bridges and Tunnels Engineering major obtained the right to offer Masters Degrees.

2004--Structural Engineering was awarded the title of, “Outstanding achievements in Innovation disciplines”, by the Hubei Provincial  Government.

2004--Civil and Architectural Engineering obtained the right to offer Masters Degrees.

2005--The second class Engineering Mechanics obtained the right to offer Masters Degrees.

2006--The first class Civil Engineering obtained the right to offer Masters  Degrees.

2006--The first class Civil Engineering was pronounced a key Major for Hubei Province.

2007--The Civil Engineering Laboratory was pronounced a provincial experimental teaching demonstration center by the Hubei Provincial Department of Education.

2008--Second class Structural Engineering was elected “Special Major of Hubei Province”.

2008--The Major of Civil Engineering was pronounced “characteristic Discipline” at the Province.

2010--The first class Mechanics obtained the right to offer Masters Degrees.

2010--The second class Geotechnical Engineering opened a position for most excellent Scientists.

2011--Hubei College Students Innovation Base of the Digital Architectural Design and Research Center was established.

2011--Environment Engineering was granted with Hubei Strategic New (Pillar) Industry Talents Training Plan.

2012--The Provincial Bridges and Material Safety Monitoring and equipment Research Center was founded in Hubei Province.

2012--Environment Engineering made breakthrough in the Program for New Century Excellent Talents of the Ministry of Education.

2012--Environment Engineering was approved to implement the Program for Cultivation of Excellent Engineers launched by the Ministry of Education.  

2012--The Management Science and Engineering Department began accepting Masters students.

2012--Civil Engineering was pronounced a key major in Hubei Province.

2013--The Civil Engineering passed the undergraduate education evaluation by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD)

2013--Green Building Whole Life Cycle Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Center was rated as a province-level laboratory teaching demonstration center

2014--Waterproof Materials and Engineering was approved to implement Hubei Talent Training Program for New Strategic Industries.

2014--Architecture was approved to implement the Specialized Integrated Program launched by the Ministry of Education.

2014--Civil Engineering was approved to implement Hubei Pilot Reform of Specialized Integrated

Program.

2014--Hubei College Student Training Demonstration Base of “Hubei University of Technology Hubei Provincial Communications Investment Group Co., Ltd.” was established.

2015--Laboratory Teaching Center of Civil Engineering and Architecture was approved as a National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center.

2015--Sino-French Joint Research Center for Rock and Soil Mechanics and Concrete  Materials was established.

2015--Hubei Research Center for Waterproofing of Buildings was established.

2016--Green Building BIM Research Institute was established by Hubei University of Technology in collaboration with Shenzhen Overseas Decoration Engineering Co., Ltd.

2017--The Environmental Engineering  passed the professional accreditation.

2018-- The Civil Engineering passed the professional accreditation.

DISCIPLINE CONSTRUCTION

 The School of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environment has a charming teaching environment and excellent teaching facilities. Now it has 8 departments (schools), namely, Department of Architectural Engineering,Department of Road and Bridge Engineering, Department of Engineering Management, Department of Material Engineering, Department of Mechanics, School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, School of Architectural Planning (Department of Architectural Planning, Department of Landscapes and Gardens). It has 12 undergraduate programs, namely, Civil Engineering (Architectural Engineering, Road and Bridge Engineering, Underground Engineering), Traffic Engineering, Engineering Management (Engineering Management, Waterproof Materials and Engineering), Architecture (Architecture, Interior Design), Landscape and Gardens, Urban and Rural Planning, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Ecology Engineering, and Water Utilities Engineering, as well as two international cooperation programs, namely, Dynamics and Civil Engineering [Sino-French 4+2 Undergraduate plus Graduate Collaborative Program], and Civil Engineering [Sino-Germany 2+2 Undergraduate Collaborative Program].

With years of development, the school has established all types of teaching and scientific research platforms of the national, Ministry of Education, provincial and university level, which provides powerful support for teachers’ scientific researches and students’ internships, practice teachings, innovations, and entrepreneurial activities. Main teaching, scientific research and practice platforms include the National Experimental Teaching Center of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Postgraduate Innovative Center of Light Industry Clean Production of the Ministry of Education (unique among national province-owned academies), and so on, 21 platforms in total.

FACULTY

The School has 189 faculty members, including 10 doctoral supervisors, 32 professors, 46 associate professors, 2 staffs in the state Recruitment Program of Global Experts, 1 staff in the High-end Foreign Experts Recruitment Program, 1 staff with the title of Famous Teacher in Hubei, 3 Experts in the Hundred Talents Recruitment Program, 7 Chutian Scholars, 3 Chutian Students, 2 academic leaders of “Nanhu Scholar Program”, and 8 core academic teachers of “Nanhu Scholar Program”. They form a teaching and scientific research team with advantageous age and professional title structure, good education-related structure, and strong consciousness of cooperation and innovation.

 The School takes a foothold in industrial reality and looks broadly at international stage. It strengthens collaborations with universities and enterprises from home and abroad, and cooperates with EC-Lille and Wuhan Branch of Chinese Academy of Sciences to conduct successive postgraduate and doctoral programs. Each year, the School sends excellent students to exchange and learn in countries such as the US, Korea, France, Germany and the Czech Republic. It also strengthens international cooperation with many famous universities such as the University of Southern California, Illinois Institute of Technology, Cal State Pomona, East University of Paris, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, and University of Wuppertal, and cooperates with international famous enterprises to make innovation and promote the application of scientific research results, including SaaN Architectural Design Consultancy, Inc., Dassault, Autodesk Inc., and Bentley.

EXCHANGES AND COOPERATION

The School participates in many National and International cooperation programs. Its International cooperation programs include distinguished universities in the USA, France, Czech Republic, Japan and Korea,and many other countries. In addition, the School has cooperation programs with the City University of Hong Kong, the Dong Bei University and other National Universities. What’s more, it has established  teaching schools and scientific laboratories where the graduates can find work immediately after graduation in many cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Nanning, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Dalian, Wenzhou, Jiaozuo, Xuzhou, Ezhou, Huanggang,Yichang,as well as,eight other teaching and research internship employment bases.Thus the School reaps tremendous social and economic benefits.

On top of the other cooperation programs the School has established a number of cooperation programs with people in the industry, including practical exercise for the students. Thus it has lead the industry to establish a number of scholarships in the Hubei University of Technology. For example the “XiYang undergraduates’ scientific and technological innovation entrepreneurship fund”, “XiYang special scholarship”,“Maiqi Special Scholarship”, “Palm Garden special scholarship” and many more.