The International School for Infrastructure, Civil and Environmental Engineering: Overview The Global Infrastructure Engineering Market

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The International School for

Infrastructure, Civil and Environmental Engineering:

Overview

The Global Infrastructure Engineering Market

Infrastructure construction, ranging across buildings & structures, transportation, water resources, waste treatment, air quality, and energy, has become a key policy tool in developing and developed countries to facilitate sustainable economic growth while improving quality of life and preserving the environment. Although infrastructure construction is driven by national needs, the field has become globalized, with huge new markets being drivers for attracting private investment worldwide, in developed and developing markets in PPP (Public-Private-Partnership) type projects.

Career Opportunities

The emerging global infrastructure engineering market has created a demand for elite infrastructure civil engineers with special skills and training:

High level engineers with international background

Engineers skilled for high quality design, construction and management of infrastructure projects and facilities

Engineers with special skills in infrastructure disciplines, such as transportation, water resources and environment

International Infrastructure, Civil & Environmental Engineering Program

A special international program has been developed at the Faculty of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which is the leading technological university in Israel.

Three BSc Engineering tracks are available: Civil-Infrastructure Engineering Transportation Engineering

Water Resources and Environmental Engineering

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The Technion and the CEE Faculty

The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, is the leading science and technology university in Israel. Its mission is to be among the best in the world in two areas:

developing leading-edge technologies, and

educating engineers and scientists to be the leaders in implementing state-of-the-art know-how in Israel and elsewhere in the world, to enable wellbeing and economic growth.

This, in turn, is derived from the Technion’s vision:

A science and technology research university, among the world's top ten, dedicated to the creation of knowledge and the development of human capital and leadership, for the advancement of the State of Israel and all humanity.

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The New Role of Infrastructure Construction &

Environmental Engineering

Recent decades have seen a shift toward prioritizing economic growth through advanced industry (high-tech). This has taken place in most of the developed countries, including Israel. As a consequence high priority has been given to technological universities. Although successful in bringing about impressive economic growth, this technology-based strategy also resulted in some detrimental effects to the general wellbeing of the country - in Israel as well as other developed countries - by increasing societal inequality, compromising the environment and leading to decay and gaps in the development of infrastructure in crucial areas such as transportation, water resources, air quality and energy. These issues are of particular concern in Israel because its density of population and rate of population growth are far higher than any other developed country. Natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes have drawn attention to the societal risks of crumbling infrastructure and construction.

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The new Master Plan for Israel, recently approved as an official State of Israel Master Plan 35, reflects these concepts and is becoming the guide and driver for reinventing Israel as a modern country. The plan calls for the construction of state-of-the-art infrastructure, assuring that a healthy balance between urban and green areas will be created, as well as an advanced and intelligent transportation system linking the periphery and urban centers. All of these are to be supported by safe and sustainable environment-friendly infrastructure and buildings.

To meet these challenges, internationally and nationally, there is a need for new technologies based on an interdisciplinary approach to be able to achieve simultaneously elevated performance levels that meet user needs and social needs, as well as environmental and ecological constraints. Technological universities are challenged to take the lead and be involved in the development of such technologies, as well as generating skilled scientists and engineers for the research and implementation of these technologies in large-scale and diversified projects.

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Globalization of infrastructure construction, advanced

technological developments, and needs for high level

engineers with international training and skills

Although infrastructure construction is driven by national needs, the field has become globalized, with new and huge markets being drivers for attracting enormous private investments in modernization and construction of infrastructure. The trend is apparent in these few figures:

Worldwide investment in infrastructure in emerging markets - $1,000B for the next 3 years;

China - $150B infrastructure construction annually;

India - $300B expenditure on transportation projects through 2010

The need is also prevalent in developed countries, where neglect of infrastructure investments over years result in demands for renewal.

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Globalization shows up also in the mode of business conduct, whereby the international private sector has become the driving force in financing, construction, operation and maintenance of infrastructure. New investment modes have been developed and applied extensively where governments cooperate with the private sector, in PPP (Public-Private-Partnership) type models, such as BOT Transfer) and BOO (Build-Operate-Own).

All of these create the need for elite engineers with expertise in infrastructure construction, as outlined below:

High level engineers with international background and training for the design, construction and management of international projects carried out by multi-national corporations;

Similar skills are also required to initiate lead and supervise infrastructure as the owners' representatives, such for local governments;

Engineers skilled for higher quality design and construction to assure long term performance for optimizing the projects for life cycle cost (LCC) and life cycle assessment (LCA);

Engineers who have expertise in specific fields (e.g. transportation, water resources) but with sufficient interdisciplinary know-how needed in infrastructure projects, such as environmental impact;

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The International School for Infrastructure, Civil &

Environmental Engineering at the Technion

In order to meet the emerging needs for skilled engineers required for national infrastructure projects to be lead by multinational corporations, the Faculty of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the Technion is establishing a new International School for Infrastructure, Civil & Environmental Engineering. Its mission is to provide education for elite engineers to be qualified to take part in this globalized enterprise of infrastructure construction, either in their home countries, or internationally within the framework of multi-national construction companies. A special English speaking program is being developed, along with a range of scholarships, mobilizing the unique qualities of the Technion's Faculty of Civil & Environmental Engineering:

Faculty with the interdisciplinary expertise needed for infrastructure engineering;

World class Faculty with international academic recognition and links, as well as strong interactions with engineering and construction;

Recently developed and accredited unique programs in the main infrastructure engineering disciplines, such as transportation, water resources, environmental engineering and management & construction; Recently developed ME program in management of construction and infrastructure projects;

Technology Category Grading

Top 50 Universities

Times Ranking; Technion – 25th

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Currently, three programs have been developed to provide international BSc degree in Engineering:

Civil-Infrastructure Engineering with interdisciplinary background Transportation Engineering

Water Resources and Environmental Engineering

The programs are built on a three-tier foundation, where the first two are identical for each of the three BSc degree tracks, while the third one is specific to the relevant track, as outlined schematically below.

All three study programs consist of 160 credit points which can be completed within 3 to 4 years. An option may exist for completion of the first tier in an accredited university in the student's home country of the student. Scholarships will be available, providing either the full tuition or the full tuition and living expenses. These include special Technion academic scholarships and bursaries provided by multi-national companies that will require the student to commit to be employed by the granting company for predetermined minimum period following completion of the degree.

Dormitories will be made available to the students. Academic and administrative staff especially dedicated for this program will provide continuous support to the students to take care of all of their needs, academic and personal. The students will also gain firsthand experience in special project courses in which they will be exposed to state-of-the-art infrastructure projects currently underway in Israel.

Engineering and Science Fundamentals

Mathematics, Physics, Chemsitry, Biology, Materials Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanics

Civil & Environmental Engineering Fundamentals

Structures, Fluid Mecahnics, Hydrology, Geomechanics, Transportation Engineering, Building Materials, Mapping,

Engineering Economy, Construction Management, Environmental Engineering

Civil-Infrastructure Engineering

Courses in construction management, technology, transportation engineering, transportation planning, water resources engineering, environmental engineering

Transportation Engineering

Courses in transportation & traffic planning, pavement & railway design, control & ITS, urban planning, operation research, ergonomics

Water Resources & Environmental

Engineering

Courses in hydraulics, water supply, wastewater treatment and reuse, river

and groundwater remediation, desalination 1st tier

2nd tier

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Eng. & Science Fundamentals Credits Differential and Integral calculus I 5.0 Differential and Integral calculus II 5.0 Linear algebra 4.0 Graphics and engineering information 3.0 Differential equations 2.5

Physics I 2.5

Physics II 3.5 Chemistry and Laboratory 3.5 Introduction to computer language C 4.0 Introduction to materials engineering 2.5 English technical terminology 3.0 Sport (2 semester courses) 2.0 Archeology of Israel + tours 2.0 History and cultural heritage of the Middle East 2.0 Total 44.5

Civil & Env. Eng. Fundamentals Credits Statistics 3.0

System analysis 3.0

Engineering laboratory 1.5 Introduction to numerical analysis 3.0 Introduction to engineering mechanics 4.0 Strength of materials I 4.0 Statics of structures I 3.0 Concrete structures I 3.5

Hydraulics 3.0

Fluid mechanics 3.0

Introduction to hydrological engineering 2.5 Fundamentals of environmental engineering 4.0

Engineering geology 2.0

Geomechanics 4.0

Building materials 3.5

Engineering economics 2.5 Introduction to construction management 3.0 Fundamentals of transportation engineering 4.0 Fundamentals in cartography and mapping I 3.5 Transfer phenomenon in natural systems 2.5 Total 62.5

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Civil-Infrastructure Engineering Credits Construction management courses (16.0) Mechanization & automation in construction 2.5 Construction methods 2.5 Planning and control of construction projects 2.5 Introduction to economics 3.5 Introduction to financial management 2.5 Project implementation & leadership 2.5 Transportation engineering courses (15.0) Introduction to transportation planning 2.5 Traffic engineering 2.5 Road design and operation 3.0 Road planning lab 2.0 Flexible pavements 2.5 Rigid pavements 2.5 Water resources engineering courses (15.5) Environmental engineering lab 2.5 Water and sewage technology 2.5 Air pollution 2.5 Chemistry of water 3.0 Hydraulics engineering 2.5 Fundamentals of water supply planning 2.5 Projects (5.0) Interdisciplinary projects (two projects) 5.0 Total 51.5

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Physics I 2.5

System analysis 3.0

Hydraulics 3.0

Fluid mechanics 3.0

Geomechanics 4.0

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Physics I 2.5

System analysis 3.0

Hydraulics 3.0

Fluid mechanics 3.0

Geomechanics 4.0

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Water Resources & Environmental Eng. Credits

Water resources engineering (25.5) Design principles (water supply) 2.5 Water and wastewater technology 2.5

Water chemistry 3.0

Water resources systems engineering I 2.5 Membrane separation processes 2.5 Underground water hydrology 2.5

Water waves 2.5

Surface hydrology 2.5

Drainage engineering 2.5 Hydraulic engineering 2.5 Environmental engineering (21.5) Organic chemistry 2.5

Ecology for engineers 2.5

Air pollution 2.5

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Mode and Scope of Operation of the CEE Faculty

The Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering is grouped into three divisions, which oversee a range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs, as well as intensive research activities, which are carried out within the framework of several interdisciplinary research institutes and disciplinary research centers. The overall annual sponsored research budget raised by the faculty members stands at about $5M. Within this framework, 60 faculty members are active in research and education, and they oversee the education of ~ 900 undergraduate students, ~ 240 master degree students and ~85 doctoral students.

Environmental, Water & Agricultural

Engineering Structural Engineering

& Construction Management

Transportation Engineering & Geo-Information

Faculty of Civil & Environmental Engineering

National Building Research Institute

Grand Water Research Institute

Transportation Research Institute

Environmental & Water Eng.

Research Center

Coastal & Marine Engineering Research Institute

Agricultural Engineering Research Center

Mapping & Geo- Information Research Center Divisions

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Undergraduate and Graduate Degree Programs

The undergraduate programs include the traditional wide scope civil engineering programs and seven newly-focused disciplinary engineering programs for the BSc degree (structures, management & construction, transportation engineering, environmental engineering, water resources, agricultural engineering and mapping & geo-information).

Graduate studies include disciplinary and interdisciplinary programs for higher degrees: Master of Engineering (ME) with ~ 50 students, Master of Science in Engineering (MSc) with ~ 190 students and Doctor of Science (PhD) with ~ 85 students.

B.Sc Degree Programs for Local Students

Water & Environmental

Engineering

Civil Engineering Structural

Engineering

Management & Construction

Engineering

Environmental Engineering

Agricultural Engineering

Transportation Engineering

Mapping & Geo- information

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Research and Professional Activities

Structural Engineering & Construction Management Division

Structural engineering

Static, dynamic and stability analysis of concrete, steel, composite and fabric structures; theory of elasticity; computer methods of structural analysis; design methods and optimization; soil structure interaction; nonlinear analysis, special methods of analysis of multi-storey buildings, bridges, underground structures; experimental stress analysis and design methods; earthquake effects on structures.

Construction management

Construction methods, mechanization and automation in construction, project management, project control, information technology (IT) systems for construction planning and design, quality management, maintenance costs, novel procurement methods, formwork for concrete, financing of construction, and decision-making under uncertainty and construction safety.

Building materials & technology

High performance construction materials; high strength concrete; fiber and textile reinforced cement and concrete, polymer concrete and gypsum; utilization of industrial wastes; corrosion of concrete and its reinforcement; chemical and mineral additives; shrinkage and creep mechanisms of concrete; sustainable construction and recycling.

Physical performance

Methodologies for the systematic application of the performance concept in building; CAAD tools for performance integrated design; building physics with an emphasize on heat and mass transfer, thermal and energy performance; moisture effects; condensation and mould growth; internal air quality; fire effects with an emphasize on smoke propagation and fire resistance; intelligent buildings; building acoustics; lighting.

Geotechnology

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Environmental, Water & Agricultural Engineering Division

Water resources

Water supply systems and their quality; decontamination and treatment of water; decontamination and treatment of wastewater and reuse; special treatment of industrial wastes; environmental implications of effluent reuse in unrestricted irrigation, fish ponds and industry; environmental aspects of artificial islands; solid waste treatment; water security; planning and management of water reservoirs; biological systems for polluted water decontamination; water resources and supply systems management; optimal planning and function of water resources.

Hydraulic engineering

Hydraulics and hydrodynamics; hydraulic engineering and models; hydrology of groundwater, runoff and pollutants; hydrological models for pollutants movement; rehabilitation of polluted soils and aquifers; soil chemistry and interaction with contaminants; coastal and marine engineering; construction climatology.

Environment

Environmental microbiology and bio-corrosion problems; environmental biotechnology and its use in decontamination of hazardous chemicals; wind engineering and wind influence on environmental quality and constructions; oil reservoirs engineering; plant ecology and environment; chemistry of filtration and disinfection; sensing and monitoring of environmental systems and natural resources.

Air quality

Atmospheric flow system and pollutants movement in the Mediterranean Sea area including models and simulations; remote sensing of pollutants in air; aerosols and their distribution in the environment; use of GPS in environmental and ecological systems; environmental pollutants detection.

Agriculture

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Transportation & Geo-Information Division

Road safety

Road safety data bases; accident analysis means to protect pedestrians; restraining systems for passengers; traffic police enforcement methods; safety technologies; learning process and risk taking behavior of drivers.

Road and pavement engineering

Spatial design of roads and intersections; energy savings in the regime of roads and intersections; highway and pavement materials; flexible and semi-rigid pavements; interaction between pavement structures and expanding clays.

Transportation, land use planning & transportation economics

Transportation planning & policies; public transportation systems; disaggregate demand models; alternative transportation systems; transportation networks; environmental effects and air pollution caused by transportation systems; transport project appraisal.

Traffic engineering and control

Traffic systems and their control; capacity and traffic flow characteristics; signal light systems; decision-support system for traffic control centers; highway control methods; Intelligent Transportation System (ITS).

Surveying and geodesy

Precise surveying techniques; structure deformation monitoring; design and analysis of control networks; geometric and physical geodesy; surveying equipment; combining classical surveying with satellite (GPS) measurements.

Cartography and mapping

Computer assisted mapping; Geographic & Land Information Systems (GIS/LIS); spatial data handling; multi-representation and multi-scale of digital maps; automation of data capture and editing; quality control of digital mapping; thematic mapping.

Photogrammetry and remote sensing

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Outreach

The Faculty members are highly active on the international scene, in which many of them hold key positions in international organizations and serve on the editorial boards of key scientific and engineering journals. The high international profile of the Faculty was clearly reflected in the report of the International Academic Evaluation Committee, which ranked the Faculty of Civil Engineering as world class.

Within the scope of the mission to make an impact on the Israeli infrastructure, the Faculty members are highly active in a variety of modes and links with government, public and business entities, with the object of having greater leverage in developing and implementing new technologies in the huge infrastructure projects currently underway in Israel. The implementation in Israel of new technologies, developed at the Faculty of Civil & Environmental Engineering, could provide an efficient beta-site (experimental location where new ideas are first tried), which can potentially be used as a leverage for technology transfer on an international scale. This is well on the way regarding water and environmental technologies. The research, development and implementation efforts are driven by the Research Institutes and Centers active within the Faculty and by the graduate students (Master and Doctor) who are pursuing their research within these institutes and centers.

Special outreach efforts are directed to various communities in Israel. Continuing education programs have been developed for the engineering community in areas such as construction management, road safety, environmental engineering, and quality control and assurance. Attention is given to links with the community at large, especially in the area of environment and ecology education of the public. For that purpose, an ecological garden was developed within the premises of the Faculty buildings, which is open to the public and serves as a focal point of organized visits of schools and individuals, as well as offering special workshops.

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The Technion Campus

Campus layout and facilities

The Technion campus is a self sufficient city with 12500 students, 600 academic staff, 1,060 technical and administrative positions, 300 acre (1,300 dunams) and 85 buildings. It provides all the support facilities, such as a bank, bicycle repair shop, bookshop, clinic, clothing store, grocery store, hairdressing salon, post office, childcare, and even a massage salon.

The Civil & Environmental Engineering Compound

The C&EE Faculty is located at the heart of the Technion campus. It is in itself a small campus with teaching and research facilities, a central library and cafeteria and restaurant. Its new Rabin Building is a state-of-the-art teaching facility which includes all the supporting functions.

1–Rabin Bldg.; 2–Borowitz Bldg.; 3–National Building Research Institute; 4–Grand water Research Institute and Environmental Research Laboratories; 5–Transportation Research

Institute; 6–Hydraulics & Coastal Engineering Lab; 7–Geotechnology Laboratories; 8–Agricultural Engineering

Libraries

One of the most intense centers of knowledge and advanced information services in Israel, the Elyachar Central Library joins 18 specialized faculty libraries around campus with combined holdings of over 1,000,000 volumes and 8,000 journal subscriptions, most also accessible online.

Computerized sources include indexes, multimedia databases, abstracts and full texts. Serving as a “library without walls,” it provides access to on-line information, full-text journals and databases. The Technion Library website contains hundreds of databases and thousands of electronic journals.

Bird's Eye View of

The Faculty of Civil & Environmental Engineering

CEE Compound

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Ecology

The Technion’s Green Campus Project is a model for institutions worldwide in honoring the environment and natural resources. Devices for saving and recycling water, diverse recycling of waste, eco-smart buildings and ecological student think-tanks are just some of the serious efforts made by the Green Technion Insider to protect the planet. Expressing the respect for nature is the student-inspired Gutwirth Ecological Garden which graces the heart of campus, hosting guided tours, demonstrations and workshops for the public.

Student Recreation and Sports

Technion sports meet the tradition of excellence, with numerous sport courses given by the Physical Education & Sports Unit. Technion students can butterfly stroke an olympic-sized indoor pool and two outdoor pools, work out in the gym, or compete at tennis, basketball and squash;

Rooftop dancing, artistic flair, furious debate and creative commerce, the Technion student has it all. One manifestation is the Wednesday Noon Happening, when all teaching activities stop for two hours and Technion campus vibrates with music and festivities;

Social and cultural life is perpetual at the Shine Student Union Building including Rooftop Dancing and free daily movies in the Heller Cinema. The Canada Community Centre is a modern and multipurpose center with a 120-seat lecture hall, TV room, computer room, and an outdoor plaza used mostly for musical performances;

For the music-loving student there are also the Technion Chorus and Technion Symphony, encouraging the participation of students, faculty and staff members in a variety of activities and widely popular concerts;

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The City of Haifa

Originally a seaport, Haifa is a threefold throne of monotheism, including thriving Jewish, Christian and Moslem populations. It is also the home of the Bahá’í World Center, whose gardens and temples are an international magnet to pilgrims and tourists. It is the biblical site where the prophet Elijah fought the false prophets of Baal. In addition, its historic Kabbabir district is home to the Ahmad sect, and the German Templer Movement founded its first community in Haifa in the 1800s.

At once historic and futuristic, Haifa is a network of differing communities. It embraces the bustling port and dazzling beaches of the seafront, to the luxuries of Panorama street which runs along the ridge of the Carmel Mountain range, giving dramatic views of the whole bay area, as well as to the Bahá’í Hanging Gardens, dubbed the eighth wonder of the world.