BUCEA Introducation

Founded in1936，Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture is the only architectural university in Beijing.BUCEA now has 11 secondary schools and 3basic teaching units, namely, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Schoolof Civil and Transportation Engineering, School of Environment and Energy Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering and Information Technique, Schoolof Economics and Management Engineering, School of Geometrics and UrbanInformation, School of Mechanical-electronics and Automobile Engineering,School of Humanity and Law, School of Sciences, School of Continuing Education,School of International Education, Department of Computer Teaching and NetworkInformation, Department of Ideological and Political Theories, and Department of Physical Education.

It has 8861 full-time internal students, 7575 of whom are undergraduates, 1282 postgraduate students.61 overseas students are studying in School of Architecture and Urban Planning, School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, School of Environment and Energy Engineering, School of Economics and Management Engineering and School of Humanity and Law. With respect to its 34 undergraduate specialties (Architecture, Urban planning,Landscape  Architecture,Environmental  Design,Engineering of Conservation for Historic Buildings, Civil Engineering, Traffic Engineering,Inorganic Nonmetallic Materials Engineering, Surveying and Mapping Engineering,Geographic Information Science, Building Environment and Energy Engineering,Water Science and Engineering, Environment Engineering, Environment Science,Energy and power engineering, Engineering Management, Mechanical Engineering,Vehicle Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Automation, Electrical Engineering and Automation, Computing Science and Technology, Building Electrical and Intelligent Technology, Information and Computing Science,Science and Technology of Electronic Information, Natural Science PilotClass,Business Administration, Marketing, Public Affairs Administration, Legal Science,Social Work), three are MOE characteristic specialties (architecture,civilengineering, building environment and equipment engineering),seven characteristicspecialties of Beijing (architecture, civil engineering,building environmentand equipment engineering, water supply and drainage engineering, projectmanagement, surveying engineering, automation).First subject units andsecondary subject units master degree authority are 12and 55 respectively.There are 8 units of master professional degree authority.Of the firstsubjects, 5, i.e., architecture, civil engineering, surveying and mappingscience, management science and engineering, urban planning and design are keysubjects of Beijing.

At present, there are 1000 staff members in BUCEA, and 671 of them are full-time teachers. 588 teachers, or 83% of thetotal, have got master’s degree, and 281, or 40% have got doctor’s degree. Ofthe 381 teachers with senior professional technical titles, 105 are fullp rofessors.

Two CAS and one CAE academicians as well asprofessors, experts, government executives and corporate senior managers renowned home and abroad are employed as part-time and guest professors. BUCEAhas23 Beijing excellent teaching teams, academic innovation teams,management innovation teams, for example, Digital Urban and ArchitectureSimulation, Innovative Teams for researches on fundamental theories and keytechnologies in exploitation of urban underground space, Beijing AcademicInnovation Group in Urban  and Water Environmental Eco-Technologies.

BUCEA is composed of two campuses, XichengCampus and Daxing Campus. The former coversan area of 123,000 square meters,with 202,000 square meters for building area.The latter occupies 501,000 square meters.The university library has a collection of 1,529,000 printed books, 1,220,000 electronic books, 46 large electronic literature database. With ChinaArchitectural Library which is co-built with MOHURD,BUCEA boasts itsarchitectural books that are the most complete in China.BUCEA has remained to be teaching-centeredand spared no efforts in improving education quality. It has received 20 awards for teaching and 8 of them topped the lists in the recent Beijing Teaching Achievement Awards. It has built 102 practice teaching bases in and out of the campus. Inthe past five years, students of BUCEA have won 336 provincial andministerial level awards in scientific and cultural activities, such as the Challenge Cup,in Beijing and elsewhere in China.Over the years, more than 50,000 and above excellent graduates of BUCEA have become backbones of the capitalcity’sconstruction system.In the past five years, BUCEA has been incharge of over 1900 scientific research projects, of which 390 were at or aboveprovincial and ministerial levels such as the State 863 and the StateScientific and Technological Support Projects.It has won 58 scientific andtechnological achievements prizes at or above provincial-ministerial levels, 10of which were State Technological Invention Award and National Award forTechnological Invention. For three consecutive years from 2010, BUCEA, as thechair unit, won second prize for national scientific and technologicalprogress. Its technology services funds broke through a hundred million in the continuing seven years,which comes out on top among universities affiliated to Beijing. Now BUCEA has got MOE key laboratory for urban drainagesystems and water environment, MOE engineering research center for representative buildings and ancient architecture database,SBSM key laboratory for surveying and mapping in modern cities, Beijing climate change research and personnel training base, etc., a total of 12 provincial key laboratories and engineering research centers, social science bases and the University Technology Park projects. It is one of the two universities identified as thefirst equity incentive pilot reform units of Zhongguancun National Innovation Demonstration Zone.BUCEA takes active approaches in conducting substantive cooperation in high-level talents training, scientific research andother aspects. It has established long-term cooperation relationship with universities and colleges in America and Europe, and started 3+1joint undergraduate program,4+1 joint undergraduate and master program. It worked with Auburn University in U.S. to operate Chinese-foreigncooperatively-run educational project (2 +2 mode) in water supply anddrainage,as well as all-round cooperation in all the other majors. It furthered the cooperation with University of South Australia in Australia and E.P.L.E. Maximilien Perretin France in civil engineering master degree program and school-enterprise cooperation in energy sectors. Meanwhile,it launched students exchange activities and mutual credit recognition with University of Southwales in the U.K., North Daota State University in the U.S.,Technische Universit?t Berlin in Germany, Russian St. Petersburg University of Architectureand Civil Engineering, Università Politecnica delle Marche inItaly, Kyonggi University in South Korea, UNITEC Institute of Technology in New Zealand, andThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University. BUCEA also introduced foreign scholars,foreign experts, and actively participated in interactive development indisciplines,scientific research and talents training.