Program duration: 4 Years

Degree conferred: Bachelor of Engineering

Major Introduction:Urban underground space engineering is a major of full-time undergraduate with a wide range of obtaining employment and strong comprehensiveness, which is established for urban underground space resources development and utilization. This major is to cultivate applied senior talents ofscientific research and engineering constructionwho can engage in the design, construction, maintenance, management and so on of underground railways, road tunnels, underground parking and other transport facilities, all kinds of industrial and civil engineering including underground production workshops, power plants, shopping malls, civil air defense and municipal underground engineering as well as underground integrated building mass engineering of culture, entertainment and life.

Employment Orientation:This major is to cultivate constructors and senior management engineers in urban underground space engineering and relevant direction by taking professional knowledge like civil engineering, geotechnical engineering, tunnel engineering and so on as the background and combining with computer and practical teaching and other basic skills training. After graduation, students can engage in technical work including surveying, planning, design, construction, supervision, consultation, management (test, evaluation and maintenance) of urban underground space engineering, mainly in urban rail transit, municipal services, urban air defense, railways, highways, buildings, airports and other administrative departments and their large and medium-sized enterprises and institutions.

I. Training Objective

This major is to cultivateapplied advanced engineering technology talents who can develop well in moral education, intellectual education, physical education and aesthetic education, master basic theories, professional knowledge and skills of urban underground space engineering subject, use computer and foreign language expertly, have practical ability, innovation and entrepreneurship and good comprehensive quality to meet the needs of social development, and be able to engage in the design, research, construction, education, management, investment, development and so on of urban construction and urban underground space resource development and utilization in urban planning, environment, construction, transportation, energy, public safety, municipal construction, disaster prevention and reduction, financial investment and so on.

II. Core Curriculum

Advanced Mathematics, University Physics, Materials Mechanics, Structural Mechanics, Engineering Geology, Rock Mechanics, Structural Design Principles, Underground Space Planning and Design, Underground Structure Design, Underground Engineering Ventilation Safety and Lighting, Underground and Geotechnical Engineering Construction.

III. Major Feature

1. Taking underground engineering technology as the main body, with multidisciplinary cross, integration.

2. Innovative practice teaching mode,highlighting theengineering practice education, and paying equal attention toengineering theory, engineering practice and innovation.