MPhil in Civil Engineering
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
DURATION
2 up to 4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
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TUITION FEES
HKD 42,100 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
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Introduction
The Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Program focuses on strengthening students' knowledge in certain areas of Civil Engineering and exposing them to the issues involved in the conception, design, construction, maintenance, and use of structures and facilities. A candidate for an MPhil degree is expected to demonstrate knowledge in the discipline and to synthesize and create new knowledge, making a contribution to the field.
The programs are offered by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering with the following research foci and state-of-the-art facilities. The programs aim to provide students with knowledge at the forefront of the field, so as to help minimize environmental hazards and improve the quality of people’s lives.
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Research Foci
GREAT Smart Cities
One major research focus of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at HKUST is on GREAT Smart Cities. The acronym GREAT stands for:
- Green: cities planned with due considerations for life-cycle environmental impacts, natural resources consumption (e.g. air, water, energy, materials), and wastes generation and treatment;
- Resilient: cities developed with infrastructure capacities and system redundancies to manage disruptions without severely affecting their essential functioning;
- Empowering: cities designed for people, empowering well-being, efficiency, innovation, and productive partnerships;
- Adaptable: cities designed with their infrastructure and systems adaptable to changes in new technology (e.g. autonomous vehicles) and global warming; and
- Transformative: cities designed for empowering their institutions and citizens to define and reposition their growth directions and strategies.
Our objectives are to develop and apply smart tools for the context of GREAT infrastructure planning and development. Through the establishment of a broad platform for developing large-scale projects and inter-disciplinary collaborations, jointly we will do GREAT things for future cities.
Infrastructure Development and Planning
Building-system design and analysis, monitoring and analysis of highway bridges, wind and seismic engineering, geotechnical engineering and soil-structure interaction, construction materials, transportation system modeling and operation, integrated risk and reliability assessment, and infrastructure system enhancement.
Green Building and Sustainable Development
This is an interdisciplinary area, with projects including the development of green building design standards, eco-friendly materials and technologies, recycling of construction materials, green retrofit and renovation technologies, and optimization of energy and water usage.
Intelligent Construction Materials
Development of advanced composite materials, cement-based functional materials, and sustainable cementitious materials, application of composite materials for infrastructure repairs, and nanotechnology in concrete design.
Environmental and Water Resources Studies
Innovative physical, chemical, and biological water and wastewater treatment processes, environmental quality management, remediation of contaminated soils and groundwater, mixing and transport phenomena of pollutants in natural and man-made systems, water resources management, and engineering, stochastic optimization of water quality and resources, and environmental fluid mechanics.