Dear Students,

The Department of Civil Engineering & Geomatics welcomes you.

The Department offers two specializations with respective curricula which are in accordance with the advances and needs of the 21st century.

• Civil Engineering
• Surveying Engineering & Geoinformatics Engineering

These specializations play an important role in identifying, categorizing, shaping, creating, expanding and maintaining our built environment in harmony with nature.

Civil Engineers are responsible for planning, design, construction, maintenance and removal of buildings, roads, bridges, ports, harbours, dams, offshore structures, airports, water distribution systems to name a few. The civil engineering profession offers a wide range of professional opportunities to graduates which spread across different disciplines and beyond national boundaries. Civil Engineers of today have the opportunity to apply their skills to projects ranging from small building construction to working within large multidisciplinary teams to develop eco buildings or provide life cycle solutions for the development and maintenance of intelligent civil infrastructure systems and networks. Increasingly there are opportunities to interact with other disciplines and embrace new technologies which will enable civil engineers to develop more effective solutions and make a significant contribution to society.

Surveying and Geomatics Engineers are the experts who exploit complex acquisition, analysis, elaboration and interpretation techniques for qualitative and quantitative information derived from our three-dimensional geographic environment. They are also involved in the development of new measurement methods and techniques as well as in the investigation of interrelationships and variation processes of the acquired information in the application in hand. These applications range from topographic photogrammetric, hydrographic, geodetic and geophysical surveys, remote sensing and geographical information systems (GIS) to local and regional planning, environmental monitoring, archeology and coastal management to name a few.

Both fields of specialization incorporate the sub-fields of water resources management and transportation engineering focused on the planning, design, and operation of transportation projects.

The Civil Engineering & Geomatics Department of the Cyprus University of Technology aims to develop high level courses leading to undergraduate and post-graduate degree qualifications. The graduates will work within a dynamic and inspiring environment that will challenge them and enable them to develop the wide range of skills they need to make a positive and significant difference to the civil infrastructure and the quality of life.

Professor Toula Onoufriou

Department of Civil Engineering & Geomatics