School of Civil Engineering and Engineering Management

I. Overview

The School of Civil Engineering and Engineering Management has a history of 45 years. Initially, it was called as Guangzhou Navigation Engineering School, which was born in 1975, with the approval of the Ministry of Transport of the People's Republic of China. In 2002, it was merged into Guangzhou Maritime Technical College as an isolated faculty named as the School of Aviation Engineering. In 2013, the college was upgraded to a formal university. The School of Aviation Engineering was officially renamed to the School of Civil Engineering and Engineering Management in July 2021. For the past 45 years, it has trained a large number of professionals in civil engineering and transportation engineering for the country, especially in South China. The School of Civil Engineering and Engineering Management, as one of the backbone colleges of Guangzhou Jiaotong University planned for the future, will closely focus on the development needs of the construction of a modern transportation system in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

The college has four undergraduate majors: Port and Waterway and Coastal Engineering, Engineering Management, Civil Engineering and Road Bridge and River Crossing Engineering, covering two disciplines which are Engineering and Management. Particularly, engineering management and port, waterway and coastal engineering are currently a provincial-level characteristic construction majors and civil engineering is designated as a school-level key major. There are 8 laboratories including one provincial engineering research center and 16 off-campus practice bases, which can meet the current teaching and research needs.

II. Undergraduate Programs

1. Port and Waterway and Coastal Engineering

This course program mainly studies the basic knowledge and skills of port engineering, waterway engineering and coastal engineering, and conducts engineering planning, design, construction and management in the fields of transportation, water conservancy, and coastal development. The students are expected to learn and understand the knowledge in field of the planning of shipping lanes, the construction of ports and wharves in coastal cities, the development of marine resources such as tidal power generation, and the development of marine transportation such as cargo and manned transportation. Graduates can be engaged in engineering companies related to construction, construction engineering, port engineering, engineering cost and engineering management; government and public institutions related to port planning, waterway design, coastal development.

2. Engineering Management

Students of this course program mainly learn basic theories, methods and civil engineering technical knowledge in engineering management. Students are expected to receive basic training in engineering project management, possess the basic ability in the field of cultivate management, economics, law and civil engineering technology to engage in engineering project management. In addition, the students in this course are expected to understand the basic knowledge of modern management science, the theory, methods and means of modern management science. They are leaded to be the compound senior management talents who can engage in project decision-making and full-process management in the field of engineering construction.

3. Civil Engineering

This course program is oriented to the front line of civil engineering production, mainly serving local economic and social development, and aiming to cultivate engineering application talents with design, construction, supervision and project management in the industrial field of infrastructure development. Students mainly study the basic theories and basic knowledge of structural design, civil engineering construction technology, engineering inspection and testing, software application, and engineering project management. They are expected to possess the basic ability to apply the knowledge learned to propose, analyze and solve problems in related fields of the major. Through this course, students are also expected to preliminarily possess the working ability of national registered structural engineer, construction engineer, supervision engineer, etc.

4. Road Bridge and River Crossing Engineering

This course program aims to cultivate and master talents who can possess the basic theories and basic knowledge of civil engineering and traffic and civil engineering disciplines, as well as professional knowledge of road, bridge and tunnel engineering. The students are expected to have solid knowledge of natural sciences, humanities, and a good sense of engineering responsibility and professional ethics. They are also expected to the high quality talents who can understand road, bridge and tunnel engineering planning and design, project, construction, operation, management, traffic safety and other professional knowledge and related research and development capabilities, with good professional development potential, teamwork ability, international vision and innovative awareness.

III. Faculty

The college currently has 54 faculty members and 47 full-time teachers, including 5 professors, 17 associate professors (including senior engineers), and 39 lecturers, among which 15 members hold a doctoral degree (PhD).

Primary Leaders:

Name: Xiangyang Liu

Role: Party Secretary of the Academy/Associate Professor

Biography: He presides over the overall work of the college party committee and mainly focus on party building, ideological and political education, ideology, etc., contact the faculty party branch.

Name: Jinwen Zhang

Role: Dean of the Academy/ Professor & Professorial Senior Engineer

Biography: PhD in Engineering, Post-doctor in Management, former party committee member and engineering director of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Authority. He is currently the adjunct professors at Nanjing University and Central South University and the visiting professors at Changsha University of Science and Technology and Guangzhou University. He was appointed as the expert of special government allowance of the State Council and won the National May 1st Labor Medal. His scientific research achievements won the Guangdong Science and Technology Progress Special Award, the Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress First prize.

Name: Zhihong Xie

Role: Deputy Dean of the Academy/ Professor

Biography: PhD in Engineering, the visiting scholar at Queen’s University Belfast in the UK, an external postgraduate supervisor at Guangdong University of Technology, and the chair of the Guangdong Port and Coast High Performance Materials and Structural Engineering Center. She hosted the National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Fund Project and published more than 20 papers on new building materials and FRP reinforcement in international journals such as Construction and Building Materials and Journal of Constructional Steel Research. In addition, she won the third prize of Guangdong Science and Technology Award.

Name: Xuelian Wang

Role: Deputy Dean of the Academy/ Associate Professor

Biography: Master of Engineering, Grade A Highway Engineering Cost Engineer and Highway Engineering Inspector of the Ministry of Communications. In recent years, she has presided over more than 10 scientific and technological projects of the Department of Transportation of Guangdong Province, teaching and research projects of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education, laboratories jointly built by the central and local governments, horizontal projects, and school-level scientific research and teaching and research projects. She has been engaged in the teaching of road and bridge majors for many years and she is currently in charge of the teaching work of the college.

Name: Zhifu Ren

Role: Deputy Party Secretary of the Academy/Associate Professor

Biography: Master of Architecture and Civil Engineering in South China University of Technology. He is currently in charge of student political and ideological guidance and student management of the college. He has long been engaged in teaching and research in the field of civil engineering professional construction technology and project management. He has long been engaged in teaching and research in the field of civil engineering professional construction technology and project management. He also hold the qualifications of first-class construction engineer and registered supervision engineer in housing construction and municipal administration, and have rich experience in engineering practice.

IV. Facilities

The Experimental Center of the School of Civil Engineering and Engineering Management aims to cultivate students' practical ability and innovative consciousness ability, and organically integrate scientific research and teaching processes. It consists of the following eight laboratories:

1、 Building materials laboratory

2、 Engineering measurement laboratory (constructed by the central and local governments)

3、 Geotechnical laboratory

4、 Road and bridge engineering laboratory,

5、 Engineering technology information laboratory

6、 Building information modeling (BIM) laboratory (central Co-built with the local government)

7、 Port and shipping engineering case teaching laboratory

8、 Port and coastal high-performance materials and structure laboratory (rated as the provincial engineering center)

V. Academics&Scientific Research

The “Research on the Degradation Mechanism of Axial Compression and Fracture Performance of Rubber Concrete in Subtropical Marine Environment” hosted by Professor Zhihong Xie was fund by National Natural Science Youth Fund in 2017.

Other research interest of the School of Civil Engineering and Engineering Management cover new structural materials, engineering and traffic management, large-scale project decision-making, research and development of new road materials, structural seismic analysis, geotechnical engineering and mechanism analysis, high-precision geographic information measurement, coastal engineering and information management, machine learning for engineering problems, etc. We welcome all potential collaborations in the field of civil engineering, engineering management and other innovative directions.