On successful completion of the program, graduates will be able to:

1. Describe basic and advanced knowledge and skills in civil infrastructural engineering and management;
2. Identify civil infrastructural engineering and management problems and propose feasible solutions;
3. Plan and design civil infrastructural engineering components and systems; and
4. Analyze major factors impacting civil infrastructural systems and provide strategies for managing these.

1. Minimum Credit Requirement

   PGD: 15 credits
   MSc: 30 credits 
    

2. Credit Transfer  

   Subject to the approval of the Program Director and the University regulations governing credit transfer, a maximum of 6 credits may be transferred to the PGD Program and a maximum of 9 credits may be transferred to the MSc Program.
    

3. Required Courses

PGD: 15 credits
MSc: 24 credits

The courses offered by the programs are arranged in seven sub-areas. To ensure breadth of the curriculum, PGD students must take courses from at least two sub-areas, whereas MSc students must take courses from at least three sub-areas. Students are recommended to select Infrastructural System Engineering and Management as one of the sub-areas.
 

1. Infrastructural System Engineering and Management

2. Material Engineering

3. Structural Engineering

4. Environmental Engineering

5. Water Resources Engineering

6. Transportation Engineering

7. Geotechnical Engineering

Subject to the approval of the Program Director, students may take CIEM 6000 which covers one or two of the above sub-areas.
 

Subject to the approval of the Program Director, students may take the following courses as partial fulfillment of the program requirements:
 

• PGD students may take a maximum of 6 credits of JEVE or IBTM courses from the MSc Program in Environmental Engineering and Management, and MSc Program in Intelligent Building Technology and Management.
• MSc students may take a maximum of 6 credits of JEVE courses from the MSc Program in Environmental Engineering and Management, and a maximum of 6 credits of IBTM courses from the MSc Program in Intelligent Building Technology and Management.

4. MSc Project

MSc: 6 credits

MSc students must complete CIEM 6980, which may cover one or two of the above sub-areas.
 

5. Remarks

• Part-time PGD and MSc students may take a maximum of 9 credits in each term.

• Students of the MSc Program may subsequently apply to transfer to the PGD Program, subject to the approval of the Program Director, and vice versa.

• Students failing to meet the graduation grade average (GGA) requirement of 2.850 or above are required to repeat or take additional course(s) even if they attain passing grades for all courses.

Students are given an option to complete a concentration in a selected sub-area:
 

1. Infrastructural System Engineering and Management

2. Material Engineering

3. Structural Engineering

4. Environmental Engineering

5. Water Resources Engineering

6. Transportation Engineering

7. Geotechnical Engineering

To opt for a concentration, PGD students are required to complete at least 9 credits in a selected sub-area, whereas MSc students are required to complete at least 12 credits in a selected sub-area.

Last update: 31 July 2019

To qualify for admission, applicants must meet all of the following requirements. Admission is selective and meeting these minimum requirements does not guarantee admission.
 

Apply online before the application deadlines.

 * Applicants are considered as non-local students if they hold (i) student visa/ entry permit; or (ii) visa under the Immigration Arrangements for Non-local Graduates (IANG); or (iii) dependent visa/entry permit who were 18 years old or above when they were issued with such visa/ entry permit by the Director of Immigration. For details on student visa/ entry permit requirements, please click here.