AECEF new members

The Secretary-General is pleased to announce that three universities were admitted as new AECEF members in 2000, namely University of Minho, Portugal, Technical University of Tallinn, Estonia and Bialystok Technical University, Poland. You will find bellow brief information about AECEF new members.

University of Minho Department of Civil Engineering (Portugal)

Departamento de Engenharia Civil	Universidade do Minho

Introduction: The School of Engineering of the University of Minho was established in the mid seventies around the same time of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra. Nowadays, out of the six major public Universities with degree courses in Civil Engineering, it has one of the highest number of engineering courses and total number of students, only exceeded by IST, in Lisbon. The Department of Civil Engineering (DEC/UM) with 39 academic staff members, half of them with PhD, has seven Divisions:

• Division of Structures
• Division of Construction Management
• Division of Geotechnics
• Division of Hydraulics
• Division of Building Materials
• Division of Territory Planning
• Division of Highways

Senior Academic Staff: 4 Full Prof.,5 Associate Prof., 9 Assistant Prof.

Teaching Activities:
Degree Courses:

• in Civil Engineering (currently 1000 students, 5 years, accredited by Ordem dos Engenheiros - Portuguese Society of Engineers)
• in Architecture (5 years, Structures/Materials/Construction/Urbanism course units)
• in Geography and Planning (4 years) – Reduced participation of DEC/UM

Master´s

• MSc in Civil Engineering (20 students)
• MSc in Municipal Engineering (20 students)
• MBA in Construction (50 students)
• MSc in Environmental Technology (Reduced participation of DEC/UM)

Doctoral Studies

• PhD studies (minimum 3 years) are carried out in all seven fields (currently 11 students).

Research Activities:
Trends:

Modelling and Experimental Characterisation:

• Steel and composite structures, Concrete and composite materials structures
• Masonry structures, architectural heritage
• Construction Technology, Safety, Quality and the Built Environment
• Pathology and Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings
• Physics and Technology of Construction, Building Hydrothermal Behaviour
• Acoustical Performance Evaluation of Building Elements
• Hydrodynamics and Dispersion of Pollutants in Estuaries and in Coastal Zones, Wastes Treatment, Studies in watershed and river basin management
• Slope stability analysis, dynamics of soils and foundations
• Performance and Durability of Concrete Structures, Building Materials Re-usage, Adhesion polymers and Concrete
• GIS in Planning and Management of Urban systems, Territory and Environment,
• Evaluation of Quality of Life in Cities
• Pavement Maintenance: Materials, Techniques and Management, Reflective cracking in pavement rehabilitation design, Test sections monitoring of the national road network

International contacts:
Socrates exchange framework:
year 1999/2000: 17 students abroad at the Departments of Civil Engineering of: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), Warsaw University of Technology and Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Politécnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain), University of Salford (United Kingdom), Glasgow Caledonian University (Scotland), Universitŕ degli Studi di Trento (Italy).

SOCRATES exchange agreements:
Universitá Frederico II di Napoli, Universitá degli Studi di Cassino (Italy), University of Edinburgh (U.K.), Ingenierhojskolen Kobenhavns Teknikum (Denmark), Hogeschool van Utrecht (The Netherlands)

Cooperation with R&D institutions:

• Belgium: Liege, CSTC
• Brazil: Universities IPT, USP, UFRJ
• Italy: AIRIS (partner in projects of Quality of Life Evaluation)
• Mozambique: Univ. Eduardo Mondlane
• Netherlands: University of Wageningen,
• Norway: EPCI and National Technical University of Trondheim
• Spain: University of Santiago de Compostela, AIDICO (Polypipe and Cerabed projects)
• U.K.: Universities of Reading, Salford and Loughborough.

Contact address:

Special technical courses began to give technical education in Tallinn in September 17, 1918. That day is regarded as the foundation day of the present Tallinn Technical University (TTU). The courses included 6 departments among them were civil engineering, hydro engineering and architecture. The Faculty of Civil Engineering has given 146 architects, approximately 5600 diploma engineers, and some thirty candidates of technology and DSc. during 82 year of its history.

Organisation
At present there are 5 departments in the Faculty of Civil Engineering:

1. Department of Structural Design (5 chairs)
   • Chair of Architecture
   • Chair of Geotechnics
   • Chair of Timber and Plastic Structures
   • Chair of Reinforced Concrete Structures
   • Chair of Steel Structures


2. Department of Building Production (3 chairs)
   • Chair of Building Materials
   • Chair of Building Technology
   • Chair of Construction Technology and Management


3. Department of Environmental Engineering (3 chairs)
   • Chair of Water Engineering
   • Chair of Heating and Ventilation
   • Chair of Environmental Protection


4. Department of Mechanics (4 chairs)
   • Chair of Solid Mechanics
   • Chair of Structural Mechanics
   • Chair of Fluid Mechanics
   • Chair of Applied Mechanics


5. Department of Transportation (3 chairs)
   • Chair of Geodesy
   • Chair of Road Engineering
   • Chair of Traffic and Transportation Engineering

Teaching activity
There are three study fields in the domain of civil engineering:

1. Construction Engineering
2. Environmental Engineering
3. Transport Engineering.

The Faculty offers three-stage full-time studies: bachelor (4 years) master (2 years) and doctoral (4 years). All curricula were internationally accredited in 1999.

Bachelor studies provide relatively versatile general technical and construction-related basic education. Since academic year 1998/99, four-year diploma studies of narrower orientation take place in the Faculty of Civil Engineering:

• Structural Design
• Real Estate Management
• Applied Geodesy.

The graduates of the diploma studies may continue their studies on the master level on equal grounds with the graduates of bachelor studies. The student places to be filled in the Domain of Civil Engineering are 180 – 200 per year. The total number of students studying currently at the Faculty is 837.




Research activity
Research and development activity of the Faculty covers research in Study and Design of Buildings, Dynamic Interaction of Liquid and Structures, Regulation and Prognosis of Water Quality in Water Bodies, Structural Engineering, Building Materials, Traffic Problems of Roads and Streets.

The main areas of the present scientific and development work are:

• Development of mechanics and theory of building structures, elaboration and introduction of new structures;
• Design problems of structures resting on deformable base;
• Applied work on architecture and urban planning, and building physics;
• Compilation and implementation of national design standards based on Eurocodes;
• Technological problems of building cements;
• Works on construction economics and management;
• Monitoring of water quality in Estonian inland water bodies and small rivers;
• Study of sewage cleaning
• Dynamic interaction of liquid with crust structures;
• Dynamics of solitons;
• Waves interaction with coastal shelf;
• Space composite structures with large opening;
• Modelling of hydraulic networks;
• Geotechnical problems of setting up embankments;
• Study of the road materials and surface parameters;
• Analysis of the volume and directions of transport, and development of integral transport network.

Several testing laboratories operate aside the departments in the Faculty of Civil Engineering.

The accredited laboratory is
Testing Laboratory of Building Materials.

Acknowledged laboratories are

• Testing Laboratory of Building Structures,
• Strength Testing Laboratory,
• Water Quality Testing Laboratory,
• Laboratory of Hydromechanics.

The Certification Commission of the Domain of Civil Engineering is operating within the Faculty.

Faculty has established scientific and research connections with many universities, among them are: Le Havre University, France, Surrey University, UK, Tampere Technical University, Finland, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, Stockholm Royal Technical University, Sweden, Kalmar University, Sweden, Sunderland Technical University, UK, Rennes University, France, Oulu University, Finland.

Contact address:

Prof. Tiit Koppel
Tallinn Technical University
Department of Mechanics
Ehitajate tee5
19086 Tallinn (Estonia)
Phone: (+372) 620 2557
Fax: (+ 372) 620 2550
E-mail: tkoppel@edu.ttu.ee



Bialystok Technical University Faculty of Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering (Poland)

Structure of the Faculty

Institute of Civil Engineering

• Chair of Structural Mechanics
• Division of Technical Mechanics
• Division of Construction Theory
• Chair of Building Engineering and Prefabrication
• Chair of Building Fundamentals and Physics
• Chair of Technology, Organisation and Economics of Building Process
• Chair of Steel Structures
• Chair of Concrete and Masonry Structures
• Chair of Roads and Geodesy
• Chair of Geotechnics and Municipal Engineering





Institute of Environmental Engineering and Agriculture

• Chair of Heat Engineering
• Chair of Chemistry
• Division of Physical Chemistry Methods
• Division of General and Analytical Chemistry<
• Chair of Water, Wastewater and Sludge Technology
• Chair of Environmental Protection
• Chair of Water Supply and Sewage Systems
• Division of Landscape Ecology
• Division of Sanitary Biology
• Chair of Soil and Land Surface Protection
• Chair of Ecological Agricultural Production
• Regional Ecological Education Centre
Computer Laboratory of the Institute



Educational profiles

Full-time study:
First main university (M.Sc.) level (with a possibility of obtaining shorter/intermediate university level qualifications, BSc)

1. Civil Engineering:
   Specializations:
   • Building and engineering constructions;
   • Communication building;
   • Energy-saving and ecological building;
   • Technology and organization of building; - civil and agricultural building
2. Environmental Engineering:
   Specializations:
   • Sanitary systems and installations;
   • Municipal engineering
3. Environmental Protection:
   Specializations:
   • Water, soil, air and landscape protection systems

BSc:

1. Agriculture
   Specialization: production technology and business in agriculture
   Evening-class studies
2. Environmental Protection
   Specialization: water, soil, air and landscape protection systems
   Extra-mural studies
3. Civil Engineering
   Specializations: technology and organization of building; communication building
4. Environmental Engineering
   Specialization: sanitary systems



Scientific Research and Service activity

1. Institute of Civil Engineering
   • building and road construction materials.
   • low energy-consuming building and energy balance improvement of buildings,
   • modernising and rebuilding of buildings,
   • expert opinions, designs of buildings, technology - organisational schemes and road schemes.
   • modernising of production processes,
   • geotechnical opinions, soil survey and construction foundations survey, analysis of damaged constructions and ways of repairing them,
   • Institute of Civil Engineering cooperates with the Institute of Civil Engineering in Warsaw, issues conformity certificates for construction materials and products,
   • Employees of the Institute provide training in computer techniques, management and organisation.
2. Institute of Environmental Engineering and Agriculture
   • designing energy-saving water supply systems, sewage systems, heat engineering systems, and designing small sewage treatment plants,
   • survey and testing of heat engineering systems, ventilation, and air-conditioning equipment,
   • survey of water, domestic sewage, and liquid industrial wastes,
   • experimental work concerning complex environmental conditions, evaluation and valorisation of natural environment objects,
   • developing eco-development programmes for communes (territorial units), ecological inspections of industrial plants,
   • the Institute offers help with work in the fields of economics, social ecology, marketing and management in environment protection.

Post-Graduate Courses
The Institute of Environmental Engineering and Agriculture - Regional Centre of Ecological Education:

”Post-Graduate Course in Environment Protection for Teachers”
Characteristics: a course for teachers, it prepares them to realise the programme in ecological education of children and young people; the aim of the course is to popularise the newest information in the field of ecological issues and "training" in eco-education.
Duration: 2 semesters

”Post-Graduate Course in Management in Environment Protection”
Characteristics: a course for people employed in environment protection departments of state, regional and industrial plants administration; the aim of the course is to educate specialist staff to deal with environment protection problems, pro-ecological investments, water and liquid waste management in communes, groups of communes, firms, as well as in national parks; the course prepares its participants, among others, to making local plans of eco-development and environment protection, finding financial sources and making OOS as well as carrying out ecological inspections.
Duration: 2 semesters

”Post-Graduate Course in Organisation and Management”
Characteristics: a course for managerial staff of state and private companies; the aim of the course is to provide or complete the participants' knowledge needed to exercise economic activity in market economy; the curriculum includes basic information about managing a company (economics, accountancy, banking, marketing, law, human resources management, quality, rules of negotiating, ethics in business)
Duration: 2 semesters

Contact address:

Prof. Andrzej Lapko
Bialystok Technical University
1. Faculty of Civil Engineering and Environment Engineering
Address: Wiejska 45E, 15-351 Bialystok
Phone: +48 85 742 20-41 ext. 372 (366)
E-mail: lapko@kmb.pb.bialystok.pl
2. Council of International Relation and Promotion
Phone: +48 85 742-51-56,
+48 85 742-20-41 ext. 111
Fax: +48 85 744-32-04
E-mail: lapko@cksr.ac.bialystok.pl




Minutes of the EUCEET Working Group B Meeting

by Prof. José Manuel Ferreira Lemos
(AECEF Board member)




The Meeting was held at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Oporto University (Portugal). The Meeting had two sessions; the first session was held on April 14, 2000 at 14:30 and the second one on April 15, 2000 at 9:30. The agenda of WGB meeting included:

• Discussion on the Document and Questionnaire presented by Prof. Manfred Federau on Assessment and Quality Management;
• Discussion of a final Document presented by Professor Ferreira Lemos on Accreditation;
• Implications with FEANI and CLAIU;
• Other subjects submitted by members of the Working Group.

The following persons attended the Meeting:

José Ferreira Lemos,
Josef Machacek,
Povilas Vainiunas,
Alan Kwan,
Jiri Witzany,
Jiri Vaska,
Iacint Manoliu,
Júlia Lourenço,
Helena Wasmus,
Ellen Touw,
Manfred Federau,
Vaclav Kuraz.

Professor Ferreira Lemos chaired the both sessions.

The first session was dedicated to an analysis of a paper presented by Professor Ferreira Lemos on Accreditation “Contribution to the Conception of an Accreditation Model for Engineering Courses”. After a discussion on this topic it was decided to send it to all EUCEET partners and to present it also at the EUCEET General Assembly in Odense for discussion of its principals. This paper will be considered as a general recommendation prepared by WGB on the subject.

The second session was dedicated to the topic “Quality Management”. Professor Manfred Federau’s paper on “Quality Management in Civil Engineering Education“ was analysed together with a draft of a Questionnaire/Survey on this topic, prepared and presented by Professor Manfred Federau. This Questionnaire/Survey was discussed in details; the following steps were proposed:

1. The launching of the Questionnaire among all EUCEET partners immediately; the Questionnaire will be sent to all partners directly by Professor Manfred Federau together with his paper on “Quality Management“, this will be organised before the EUCEET General Assembly (Odense, Denmark, May 2000)
2. During the time between Odense Meeting and the EUCEET Steering Committee that will be held at Prague in July, Professor Manfred Federau and the Group members will try to produce a Document, following the results received on the Questionnaire.
3. At the Prague Meeting, the Document will be discussed and recommendations will be accepted.
4. After the Prague Meeting, a paper on the main topics and the main recommendations on Quality Management will then be prepared under the supervision of Professor Federau. It is expected that the paper will be completed by September 2000.

The final point of the session was dedicated to the General Assembly Program, mainly to the WGB intervention.

The points foreseen on the Agenda “Implications with FEANI and CLAIU” were not discussed. This item will be discussed at the Meeting of WGB that will be held during the EUCEET General Assembly at Odense.

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