1. Orientations and Objectives
In 1937,
Civil Engineering Department of Xiamen University was found by the President Sa
Bendong and served as the first department head. During the earlier student
enrollments between 1938~1953, it has successfully cultivated many outstanding
representatives in the field of civil engineering, for example, Professor Zeng
Guoxi graduated in 1943 who is the Chinese famous geotechnical expert,
Professor Lin Youkun graduated in 1946 who is a well-known scholar in the field
of stochastic structural dynamics and NAE member of US, Mr. Wu Zidi graduated
in 1947 who is a famous master of engineering design, and Professor Liu Hongwen
graduated in 1948, and so on. In 1953, due to the nationwide recombination of
colleges and departments, Department of Civil Engineering at the Xiamen
University was moved to Zhejiang University, Hohai University, and other
universities. In 1999, the application of resuming student enrollment of civil
engineering discipline in the Xiamen University is approved by the Ministry of
Education. The master degree authorization unit of "Structural
Engineering" was granted in 2003. The department of Civil Engineering was
formally re-established in 2004. After the Department of Civil engineering
being officially rehabilitated at the Xiamen University in 2004, it has
experienced a period of rapid development. In 2005, the master program of civil
engineering and the professional master program of architectural & civil
Engineering are approved; in 2012, civil engineering discipline won the title
of "Key Discipline of Fujian Province"; in 2013, the Experiment &
Teaching Center of Civil Engineering won the title of "Demonstration
Center of Experiment & Teaching of Fujian Province in the 12th Five-Year
Plan"; in 2014, department of civil engineering passed the national
professional assessment for civil engineering, and set up a sub-discipline Ph.D.
program of monitoring and protection of architectures and environments.
The orientation and objective
of Civil Engineering Discipline in the Xiamen University is: Based on idea of
training talents equipped with broad professional view, fundamental knowledge,
high quality and creativity, as well as special capability in engineering and
management, to comprehensively enhance the overall ability of civil engineering
discipline, and to develop a high-level research-oriented discipline with
distinctive characteristics and impact in the southeast areas.
2. Superiorities and Features
The faculty members in Civil
Engineering Discipline of Xiamen University have served as member of the
Advanced Materials and Structures Committee in American Society of Civil
Engineers (ASCE), China Section member of the International Association for
Structural Control and Monitoring (IASCM), member of Tall Building Seismic
Prevention Committee of the Seismic Disaster Prevention Branch of China Construction
Institute, member of drafting the Standard of Earthquake Resistant Evaluation
of Constructional Structures, council member of Building Materials Research Association
of Chinese Colleges and Universities, committee member of Experts in the Xiamen
Construction System, and so on. Moreover, civil engineering discipline of
Xiamen University is the Key Discipline of Fujian Province, Civil Engineering
Experiment & Teaching Demonstration Center is the Provincial-level
Experimental Center in the 12th Five-Year Plan of Fujian Province, and all
these provide solid support for the development of Civil Engineering
Discipline. Recently, the civil engineering discipline has developed and form
several distinctive and preponderant research directions, including structural
monitoring, numerical simulation, geotechnical engineering, and so on.
3. Cultivation Goals
Aiming to establish a
"worldwide famous high-level research university", orienting to build
a high-level civil engineering discipline, cultivate talents to equipped with
broad professional view, fundamental knowledge, high quality and creativity, as
well as special capability in engineering and management, and actively severs
for national and local economic construction and social development. Students
graduated from civil engineering discipline mainly work in the civil-related
industries, such as design, research, construction and management.
4. Discipline Directions
(1) Intelligent health monitoring for civil
engineering
Prof. Lei Ying and Prof. Zhang Jianlin are leaders of
this discipline direction. The researches mainly focus on
structural damage detection, structural health monitoring, wireless sensor
technologies, and structural safety evaluation, and so on.
(2) Computer
simulations of statics and dynamics of structures
Prof. Wang Dongdong, Prof. Gu Quan,
and Prof. Li Shaoquan are leaders of
this discipline direction. The researches mainly focus on high-performance numerical methods for structural statics
and dynamics (efficient mesh-less methods and isogeometric analysis methods)
and program development and engineering application of OPENSEES, and so on.
(3) Geotechnical engineering
Prof. Li Sulin and Prof. Hu Hua are leaders of this discipline direction. The researches mainly focus on acoustic emission monitoring of underground
structures, mechanism analysis of deformation and failure of soft and weak
rock, slope stability analysis, and so on.
(4) Construction management in civil engineering
Prof. Shi Jianguang, Prof. Hu
Hongmei, and Asso. Prof. Zhou Hong are leaders of this discipline
direction. The researches mainly focus
on construction laws and standards,
engineering economics, BIM technology and its application in civil engineering,
and so on.
5. Discipline Impact
The achievements in the fields
of intelligent health monitoring of civil engineering and computer simulations
of structural statics and dynamics have been widely acknowledged by academic
colleagues. Relevant teachers worked as the China Section member of the
International Association for Structural Control and Monitoring (IASCM), guest
editor of international journals of Soil dynamics and Earthquake Engineering,
and Advances in Structural Engineering, etc, being rewarded the Young
Investigator Award of the Asian-Pacific
Association for Computational Mechanics (APACM), the Young Investigator Award
of the International Chinese Association for Computational Mechanics (ICACM),
the Qian Lingxi Young Investigator Award for Computational Mechanics, the
Fellow Award of ICACM, and sponsored by the National Natural Science Fund for Excellent
Young Scholars and the Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of
Fujian Province. Postgraduate graduates are able to undertake important jobs in
the construction or management industries, and their solid fundamental
knowledge and strong capabilities to solve practical problems have won the well recognitions of various
employers.
