g Department of Construction Engineering ContentsDepartment Profile The Department was established in 1975 with only the undergraduate programs at the beginning. A two-year (day school) and a three-year (night school) undergraduate program were designed to recruit the graduates of five-year, two-year, or three-year junior technical colleges majored in the fields of civil engineering, architectural engineering, or other related fields. Another four-year undergraduate program was opened for the graduates of vocational senior high schools in the fields of civil engineering, architectural engineering, or other related areas. Then a bachelor’s degree of engineering was awarded to the two-year (day school), three-year (night school), or four-year undergraduate students who fulfilled all the requirements of course credits. The aim of the Department is to offer students the professional skills needed in the fields of construction engineering and construction management. ‘The first two-year undergraduate students were recruited in advance in December 1975, while the second two-year undergraduate students were recruited normally in September 1976. In order to meet the needs of rapid progress and development of modern advancement in Taiwan, the last (the 35") two-year undergraduate students enrolled in 2009 will be graduated in 2011. Catering for the needs of further education for the on-the-job engineers,the first recruitment of three-year (night school) undergraduate students for these engineers was held in September 1984, while the last (the 36" ) three-year undergraduates were registered in September 2010 and will be graduated in 2013. The recruitment of four-year undergraduate students was started in September 1976, stopped recruitment during 1985 to 1991, and restarted from 1991 up to now. Therefore, the undergraduate programs of the Department will be consisted of only the four-year undergraduate students after the year of 2013. Currently, the student source of the four-year undergraduates is not limited to the students graduated from the vocational senior high schools. In 1998, the Department started to recruit the fou year undergraduates (10% annually of the recruited undergraduates from vocational high school) from the students graduated from the normal senior high schools. From 2007, the Department began to recruit the undergraduate students from Honors Programs of College of Engineering andUniversity from 2004, the international undergraduates from Honduras, Guatemala, Turkey, or Indonesia, in which the official course language has been Chinese. The master’s program of graduate school was founded in 1979. The master's program recruits graduates from universities or colleges with major in civil engineering, architectural engineering, or other related engineering fields. After completing 24 credits within one to four years and passing the thesis defense, a student will be awarded a Master's H degree of Science in engineering (M. S.). The doctoral program of graduate school was founded in 1983. The doctoral program recruits the master graduates from civil, architectural engineering, or other related graduate schools or colleges. After completing 18 credits and passing dissertation defense within two to seven years, a student will be awarded a degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). In order to provide further education opportunity for the senior engineers, starting from 1998, the Department annually recruited senior engineers with a working experience of more than 5 years to pursue the master’s degree on a part-time basis, A part-time doctoral program has been introduced since 1999 for the teachers of vocational senior high school, junior technical colleges and institutes. Such an on-the-job continuing educational program is specifically designed to promote the teaching standard and quality of vocational education. As a part of the internationalization promotion, the department has begun to recruit foreign graduate students and started to offer graduate courses in English since 2005. The intemational students for master's and doctoral degrees are mainly from Indonesia, Vietnam, Czech Republic, Russia, Sudan, Philippines, etc. Currently, the Department recruits 60 four-year undergraduates, 94 master students, 15 part-time master students, and 26 doctoral students (including 2 part-time on-teaching-job graduate students) every year. Up to the academic year of 2009, there are totally 1172 westudents graduated from the four- year undergraduate program, 2301 Students from the two-year undergraduate program, 1798 students from the master’s program, 140 students from part-time master's program, 126 students from the doctoral program, 39 international students from the master's program and 5 international students from the doctoral program. As for the continuing education program, a training course for construction field managers had been held on a contract basis for the Construction & Planning Administration-Ministry of the Interior from 1993 to 2000. There were about 400 engineers attending this program every year. Besides, a training course for the quality control engineers of public or private construction works has also been held since 1995 under the contract with the Public Construction Commission-Executive Yuan and Taipei City Government. It attracts up to 200 engineers every year to attend this course. In 2003, the retraining course for the quality control engineers of public or private construction works was offered to the former participants. To extend the base of continuing education program, a master’s credit program for senior managers in the construction industry has also been offered since1996, It recruits 40 graduate level students in spring and fall semesters, respectively. To attend this master's credit program, students must have working experience of more than 3 years. The purpose of this program is to train the potential managers in the construction industry in order to enhance their qualification. The four teaching goals of the department: 1) Students will possess professional knowledge and skills in the field of Construction Engineering; 2) Students will have the ability of innovative thinking and to engage in research and development; 3) Students will have the abilities and skills to implement engineering practices, as well as to exercise integrate and coordinate; 4) Students will have the virtue of engineering ethics, social responsibility, sustainability, and global perspective. The major research areas of the Department are featured on five directions: construction management, geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, construction material, and information technology with emphasis on the integration of theory and practice and the collaboration of technologies. It is the goal of this Department to improve the domestic construction environment, upgrade the construetion technology and enhance the construction productivity and quality. To keep up with the leading edge of the construction engineering, this Department is also active in international technology exchange. Recently, due to the change of construction industry trend, the Department also gives emphasis on the application of information technology, ecological and disaster prevention engineering, and sustainable engineering to prepare students for the better future. As a part of the internationalization effort, the undergraduate program and master’s program of the Department have also successfully passed the a tion of engineering and technology education programs by the IEET (The Institute of Engineering Education Taiwan), a Full Signatory of Washington Accord, in 2007 and 2008 respectively. More information can be found in the Department web site: hiip://ww wet. ntust. edu. owLaboratory Facilities There are eight teaching and research laboratories and one testing center in the Department: construction management laboratory, geotechnical engineering laboratory, structural laboratory, material laboratory, construction materials testing center, rock mechanics laboratory, computer laboratory, surveying laboratory, and information technology laboratory. Construction Management Laboratory Elapsed video camera/display systems, construction simulation/analysis systems, architectural engineering design software, expert systems, database management systems, project planning/controlling systems, construction pollution (air, noise, vibration, etc.) data collection instruments, silicon graphics workstation, geographic information system (GIS)/global positioning systems (GPS), digitizer, color plotter, real time computer graphic simulation software, real time image acquisition and processing system, bar coding system (sofiware/hardware), multi-media system (software/hardware), virtual reality systems, wireless site data collection systems, road pavement profile system, cost estimating systems, scheduling planning/controlling systems. Geotechnical Laboratory. Direct shear apparatus, Oedometers, Rowe-type consolidation cell, static and dynamic triaxial apparatus, stress path apparatus, true triaxial apparatus, triaxial creep test apparatus, unsaturated triaxial apparatus, resonant column apparatus, hollow cylinder torsion-shear apparatus, seismic prospecting apparatus, cross hole sounding device, pressure-meter, ground freezing test apparatus, clectro-osmotic chemical grouting apparatus, soft mud model test apparatus, anchor stressing unit, direct, shear apparatus for geotextile, GDS triaxial apparatus, NGI direct simple shear apparatus, automatic GIS/GPS monitoring system, triaxial shear wave velocity apparatus, bender element test apparatus, nuclear moisture-density apparatus, and software for geotechnical engineering (RIDO, STEDWIN, TEMP/W, PLAXIS, CRISP). Structural Laboratory One 3m%3m uniaxial shaking table ( earthquake simulator); One 500 kilo-Newton and 1000 kilo- Newton dynamic and static servo hydraulic actuators; One 250 kilo-Newton high-speed dynamic durable arrester; One MTS 600-ton universal testing machine; One strong floor with length 25m and width 14m; One 12m (width)*7.Sm(height) RC reaction wall; One 20- ton/S-ton electric crane; Six sets of static and dynamic data acquisition systems.