Part One: Objectives

The mission of the programme is to cultivate students to be qualified civil engineers inCivil Engineering Infrastructurewith appropriate theoretical knowledge, scientific thinking ability and problem-solving skills. Through the program, graduates will be educated comprehensively in ethics, intelligence, physical fitness and aesthetics, and oriented to fulfil the demand of building the 21th century modern global market-based-economy and the communism society. Graduates are also encouraged to possess the firm lofty ambition, to be of noble personality and to be creative.

Through the cooperative education, the horizon of domestic students will also be extended from the perspectives of the international culture and education, to further advance the development of China’s economy and society, especially in the area of roadway, bridge and crossing river Engineering. The main teaching languages of this project are Chinese and English: the general education courses for Chinese are taught in Chinese, the disciplines and major related courses are taught in both Chinese and English, and the UCD courses are taught in English.

Part Two: Requirements

(1) Engineering knowledge: graduates will have solid mathematics and scientific foundation in the discipline of civil engineering, especially infrastructure related knowledge and skills, including project development and financing, engineering survey and design, structural analysis and design, test and evaluating, project tendering, and basic knowledge of construction scheduling and management.

(2) Analysing problem: graduates will be able to apply principles of mathematics, science and engineering to identify, express and analyse complicated civil engineering problems and obtain a quantitative conclusion.

(3) Design/develop solutions: graduates will be able to provide solutions to fit particular requirements of related complicated engineering problems, such as systems, elements of systems (part) or processes. The design and development process will reflect their creative spirit and considerations for the society, health, safety, legislation, culture and environment.

(4) Research: graduates will be able to conduct preliminary research based on scientific principles and methodology to solve related complicated engineering problems, including experimental design, analysis and data processing, and reach a rational conclusion.

(5) Operation of modern tools: graduates will be able to use traditional and web-based methods to search and collect information and choose proper technologies, resources, and equipment to solve complicated engineering problem through simulation and prediction. Graduates will also understand the limitation of technology being used.

(6) Engineering and society: graduates will be able to evaluate the impact of engineering practice and project solutions on society, health, safety, legislation, and culture, based on the rational analysis of project background, and aware the corresponding responsibility.

(7) Environment and sustainability: graduates will understand and be able to evaluate the impact of complicated engineering practice on the environment and on the sustainability of the society.

(8) Professional ethics: graduates will possess noble humanity, social responsibility, and will understand and follow the engineering ethics in a project, and be willing to take corresponding responsibility.

(9) Individual and group: graduates will possess extended global vision, be able to accomplish jobs through teamworkin circumstances of different disciplines and cultures.

(10) Live and learn: graduates will be aware the status and trending of modern technology, and will be willing to continue their self-improvement through self-learning.

(11) Project management: graduates will understand the principle of project management and financial tools and be able to manage a project under circumstances of different disciplines and cultures.

(12) Communication: graduates will be fluent in both Chinese and English and will be able to communicate with international colleagues and the public on complex engineering projects.

Part Three: Core Modules

Chang’an University: Civil Engineering Design Graphics I,Civil Engineering Design Graphics II, Research Skills &Communication, Structural Analysis, Materials in Construction, Design of Structures II, Management and Practice for International Funded Projects, Applied Statistics for Engineering Decision Making.

University College Dublin: Design of Structures I, Soil Mechanics I,Soil Mechanics II, Hydraulics I, Hydraulics II, Environmental Engineering Fundamentals, Construction Practice, Transportation Engineering, Building Information Modelling (BIM), Structural Analysis, Design and Specification, Geotechnical Engineering, Civil Engineering Systems, Case Studies, Construction Management (to include cost estimation), Water Engineering, Highway Engineering, Bridge Engineering, Transportation Operations and Planning, Unit Treatment Processes in Water Engineering.

Textbooks andteaching materials of the core courses, detailed description of the Practice Part and Engineering Report is attached.

According to programme objectives and industry demand, the curriculum is divided into General Education modules, Discipline Basic modules,Programme Basic modules, Programme Basic Optional and Programme Public Optional, details refers to Table 1 and Table 2.

Part Four: Teaching Management Affairs

1.Establishment of a dedicated teaching management committee and teaching supervisory group

Set up a special Teaching Management Committee which is responsible for Chinese and foreign teaching plan development, curriculum system settings, practice teaching system development, curriculum syllabus, course teaching methods, practice (practice) outline and other aspects of the audit and validation work. The committee is consisted of the person in charge of programme construction and the relevant director of the Department (deputy director).

At the same time, it will set up teaching supervision group, which is responsible for the course teaching, practical teaching, graduation design, curriculum design and other aspects of supervision work. The supervisory team is consisted of senior professors.

Teaching Management Committee and teaching supervision group will arrange the relevant work by constantly meetings.

2. Establish a curriculum review mechanism

The programme will establish a special curriculum construction and evaluation committee, which is responsible for evaluate the curriculum, teachers’ qualification, teaching evaluation and other aspects of the work.

The evaluation is mainly based on on-site lectures, investigation reports, students' evaluation of teaching and peer evaluation.

3. Assessment method

The results of the assessment will be combined with written academic results at the end of the course and the results of the assignments. The course assignments vary between the different courses, which may include practice reports, quizzes, curriculum design and so on. The course assignments may also include assignments on the web or on the computer. Some courses may also include oral tests, extended reports/papers. Classroom work will be timely feedback to help students to repeat learning, and gradually develop and strengthen students' learning ability. The project evaluation also includes student information retrieval skills, reporting skills and presentation skills.

4. Scholarship setting

As with ordinary CHD students, this program’s students can apply for various scholarships of Chang'an University.

5. Student employment

Thesestudents’ major employment orientations are: (1) overseas engineering work in domestic large-scale traffic and construction enterprises. (2) engagement in the domestic government’s foreign loan project institutions or joint ventures / foreign-funded enterprises related work. (3) further study at Master or PhD degree level at home and abroad. (4) engagement in education, training and scientific research work in the fields of road bridge and cross-river engineering.