MASTER'S DEGREE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

The studies offered in this University Master´s in Civil Engineering from the Higher Technical School of Civil Engineering in Ciudad Real meets the standards required in Ministerial Order CIN/309/2009 of 9th February which qualifies the holder to carry out the regulated profession of civil engineer.

The study plan is made up of 120 ETCS which has been designed with a wide range of different branches in order to provide solid and general training (75 ECTS) which gives students the option to concentrate on and receive in-depth training in one of the three specialisms offered: "Construction Engineering, Structures and Territory" "Water and Environmental Engineering" and "Transport Engineering and Town and Land Planning" (each of which account for 15 ECTS). The degree covers mandatory Internships (12 ECTS) focused on completing the topics the students have taken in the specialism they have chosen and to carry out an End of Masters thesis linked to the work carried out in the Internships.

The structure of these Masters include subjects called Project Work, which are the defining feature of the School. The methodological approaches, and, the associated assessment system, in turn, is defined by what is known as Project Based Learning (PBL). This method is used at different schools of civil engineering in Europe (Trondheim, Lund, Aalborg). Apart from over 25 years of experience they have built up, the professors at the School have been trained in using the classrooms for this teaching method, and have made visits to training centres in Europe where this method is established (Lund, Aalborg) and have reviewed the scientific literature which describes the method and its learning systems.

The benefits of using PBL are shown in the results obtained which are reflected in the skills the students acquire which are highly useful in their career and shall render them more competitive. These skills are aimed at developing problem-solving skills by means of identifying their characteristic variables and posing and analysing different potential solutions.

Moreover, the End of Masters Thesis is carried out on an individual basis by the student and is an original exercise in combining the skills, contents and capacity acquired throughout the degree, as set out in Order CIN/309/2009. The work, which is overseen by a director shall be presented and defended before an examining board once the student has obtained the remaining credits for the degree. These works may be carried out within the participatory framework of the Civil Engineering School and companies and institutions which have participatory agreements. This is because the aim of these exercises is to solve specific problems set with the help of the institutions where students have their Internships and this must be closely linked to the work they are carrying out. This way, the Internships not only nurture student training and professionalism, but also constitute, along with the End of Masters Thesis, a coherent training unit which shall help them focus on the contents of the specialism taken.

The contents from the different subjects focus on the requirements of the current market for professionals. That is why a subject for training students in Project Management has been added to the study plan, and PBL is the teaching methodology. Likewise, all material in it has been contemplated with the respective international contents needed to be able to perform in this new globalised context which characterises civil engineering today. Obviously, this can be guaranteed because many subjects are taught in English. Hence, this Masters is a bilingual degree with 45% of ECTS taught in this language.

Lastly, in order to ensure our students not only receive a high standard of technical training, but scientific knowledge too, innovation and research has been added as a subject in the study plan for the Masters. This aims to train students in scientific methodology which engineering research is based on and developed, and to show them some of the latest results within the framework of innovation and research in civil engineering.

The main aim of this Masters is to train professionals to be capable of performing as civil engineers in virtue of that set out by Royal Decree 1393/2007 of 29th October and Ministerial Order CIN/309/3009, of 9th of February (BOE No 42 of 18th February 2009), which states the following objectives and skills to be acquired for obtaining this degree:

• Acquire scientific-technical training and the methodology for continuously recycling knowledge and carrying out the professional duties of assessment, analysis, design, calculation, planning, managing, constructing, maintenance, conservation and exploitation in the fields of civil engineering.
• Gain an understanding of the multiple technical, legal and ownership issues a public works project poses and show the ability to set different valid alternatives, choose the optimum one and reflect it adequately, foreseeing any construction problems and using the most suitable methods and technologies (both traditional and innovative ones) in order to be most efficient and nurture progress and the development of a sustainable and environmentally-friendly society.
• Gain the knowledge, comprehension and capacity to apply the necessary law for performing the profession of Industrial Engineer.
• Know the history of civil engineering and training to analyse and evaluate activities that can be carried out in this field.
• Know the profession of civil engineering and the activities that can be carried out in this field.
• Know how to apply technical and managerial skills in R+D +I activities within civil engineering.
• Gain the capacity to plan, design, inspect and manage land transport infrastructure works (roads, railways, bridges, tunnels and urban thoroughfares) or maritime ones (port works and facilities).
• Know about the problems there are in designing and constructing different parts of an airport, and conservation and exploitation methods.
• Gain the capacity to plan and manage water and energy resources including comprehensive management of the water cycle.
• Gain the capacity to carry out land planning studies on the coast, managing and defending the coasts and environmental aspects of infrastructures.
• Gain the capacity to design, execute and inspect structures (bridges, buildings, etc) foundations works and underground works for civilian use (tunnels, car parks) and assess their integrity.
• Gain the capacity to plan, design and manage infrastructures and maintain, conserve and exploit them.
• Gain the capacity to plan, carry out studies and design systems for collecting surface or underground water (dams, pipes, pumping stations).
• Gain the capacity to carry out studies, land and town planning and town planning projects.
• Gain the capacity to evaluate and condition infrastructure works environmentally in projects, construction, restoration and conservation.
• Gain the capacity to design and execute treatments for making water drinkable including desalination and purification and for collecting and treating urban, industrial or even dangerous waste.
• Gain the capacity to apply corporate management techniques and labour law.
• Gain sufficient knowledge about scientific and technologies aspects of mathematical, analytical and numerical methods of engineering, fluid mechanics, continuum mechanics, calculating structures, land engineering, maritime engineering, works and developing water and transportation works.

The competences described herein have been defined as the set of knowledge, attitudes and skills which students who have completed their university Masters in Civil Engineering must have acquired to address any technical and scientific problems in this field. They have been established on the basis of that indicated in The Spanish Framework for Qualifications for Higher Education covered by Royal Decree 1027/2011 and Order CIN/309/209, which establishes the objectives which must be met in order to be able to perform as a civil engineer:

• BASIC COMPETENCES 
• GNERAL COMPETENCES
• SPECIFIC COMPETENCES
• COMPETENCES INHERENT TO THE CONSTRUCTION, STRUCTUAL AND LAND ENGINEERING SPECIALISM
• COMPETENCES INHERENT TO THE WATR AND ENVIROMENTAL ENGINEERING SPECIALISM
• COMPETENCES INHERENT TO THE TRANSPORT, TOWN AND LAND PLANNING ENGINEERING SPECIALISM

The Civil Engineering School has traditionally been characterised by its demanding training in general, which has produced highly valued professionals.

The new organisation for university studies which has evolved from the process for adapting to the European Space for Higher Education (EHEA) has transformed the two-hundred-year old profession of civil engineering into a Masters for training professionals which must be taken once a degree in civil engineering is obtained. In particular, although there are certain professional opportunities (for former public works technical engineers) for those who hold the degree in Civil Engineering taught at the UCLM, this is designed for students who, after taking the initial degree wish to go on to acquire comprehensive professional skills in all areas of the discipline.

The professional opportunities for civil engineers include planning, designing, constructing and managing civil works. In this way, civil engineers are legally authorised experts for designing and constructing transport infrastructures (roads, railways, port terminals...), large structures (bridges, viaducts, individual structures on large buildings...) hydraulic works (dams, water supply works, sewage works, water treatment works...) ports and maritime works, as well as town and land planning and management.

These professional opportunities, many of which are legally exclusive to civil engineers, are frequently rounded off by other ones in non traditional sectors such as finance, insurance, general consultancy, etc and in other posts which require skills inherent to civil engineering such as the capacity for work, managerial and leadership skills. These are the skills the Masters in Civil Engineering from the UCLM aims to give its students, which culminates a process begun with a degree in Civil and Territorial Engineering.

Catalogue of professional skills for civil engineers.

List of professional duties of civil engineers. 

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One entrance condition to the Masters is to have acquired the skills set out in sections 3 and 5 of Ministerial Order CIN/307/2009, as established by section 4 of Ministerial Order CIN/309/2009. The degrees which are accepted for this profile are civil engineering Graduates which authorise holders to perform as a Public Works Engineering professional. Therefore, this is the academic profile sought for being accepted on this Masters notwithstanding other elements foreseen in current law.

Students who wish to begin these studies should also have the following aptitudes:

• mastery and comprehension of mathematics, physics and technology.
• capacity to plan and organise, work in a team and be motivated to teach oneself in the field of technical training.
• a creative and innovative outlook in terms of industrial progress.
• be capable of arguing, reasoning and expressing oneself.
• be capable of criticising others and oneself.
• spatial vision skills, understanding and abstraction.
• the capacity to tackle different engineering problems posed throughout the Masters and in their career.
• the capacity to express themselves in English both orally and in writing.

Ministerial Order CIN/309/2009, which sets the requirements for verifying official university degrees which authorises degree holders to work as civil engineering professionals, specifies in section 4.2. the conditions for being accepted on the Masters:

• "4.2.1.Students who wish to be accepted on the Masters must have previously acquired the competences included in section 3 of Ministerial Order CIN/307/2009, of 9th February, which sets the standards for verifying official university degrees which authorise holders to work as Public Works Engineering professionals, and their training must concur with that set out in section 5 of this ministerial order."
• "4.2.2. Likewise, access to the Masters is granted when the degree holder shows he or she has completed the basic training module and the common module for the branch, even if a whole block for a specific technologies module has not been completed and if 48 credits from those provided in the set of blocks for this degree module are for authorising holders to exercise as a Public Works Technical Engineer according to said ministerial order CIN/307/2009."
• "4.2.3. Those who hold any degree may access this Masters notwithstanding in this eventuality having the previous supplementary training deemed necessary.

All the foregoing shall not effect article 17.2 of Royal Decree 1393/2007 amended by Royal Decree 861/2010, which refers to the option that the university may include admission procedures and requirements in the study plan, among which there may be supplementary training in certain disciplines according to the previous education the student has, providing the total number of credits to gain does not exceed 120.

In turn, the fourth additional provision of said Royal Decree 1393/2007 contemplates the special admission conditions for those who hold official degrees from study plans which pre-dated the time this royal decree came into effect, so those who hold an official graduate degree, in Architecture or Engineering may access the official Masters degrees with no additional requirement, notwithstanding that set out in article 17.

One additional entrance requirement is to accredit a B1 level of English.

1. Academic record of the applicant degree holder which grants access to the programme (65 points out of 100).
2. Other academic merits (25 points out of 100). These may be:
   • academic awards, prizes and other duly accredited merits obtained in the degree which grants access to the Masters.
   • degrees or joint honours degrees from prestigious foreign institutions which are measurable by means of objective academic indications similar to the branch of knowledge of civil engineering.
   • Previous experience in teaching methodologies for project based learning in the degree which grants access to the Masters.
   • Participation in R+D+I projects and research results (communications, articles, patents, etc)
3. Language knowledge (10 points out of 100). Holding a B1 certificate is not taken into account as this is an admission requirement for the Masters.

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