School of Civil Engineering and Architecture
The School of Civil Engineering and Architecture of Southwest Petroleum University (SWPU) was originally established in 1988，deriving from the Industrial and Civil Architecture Specialty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering ( now the School of Mechanical Engineering, SWPU ). Currently in the school, there are 1,500 students of whom 54 are pursuing their master’s degrees. And there are 53 faculty members on its staff of whom 49 are full time teachers with one doctor supervisor, six professors and 14 associate professors.
The school offers four undergraduate programs: Civil Engineering, Building Environment & Equipment Engineering, Survey Engineering, and Project Management. The school also offers five master’s degree programs: Structural Engineering; Heating & Gas Supply, Ventilation & Air-Conditioning Engineering; Geotechnical Engineering; Disaster Prevention and Reduction Engineering; and Project Management.
In recent years, the school has undertaken and completed numerous National programs as part of the eighth five-year plan and ninth five-year plan, as well as scientific and technological projects as part of the eighth five-year plan and the tenth five-year plan. Presently the school is working on over 30 various scientific research projects, including the National Natural Science Fund; National Social Science Fund; and National Science & Technology Supporting Projects with annual funding of over three million RMB.
On the basis of the “Faculty of Engineering Structures and Reliability Engineering of System Quality of SWPU,” the “Testing Center of Construction Engineering Quality of SWPU,” and the “Training Base of Civil Engineering Talents of Sichuan Province” various research areas are being formed: computational theory for structure design; structure safety, endurance, maintenance and consolidation; utilization, transportation and planning of gas and heat; automatic control and trouble diagnosis of equipment in artificial environments; essential features of soil and rock mechanics; numerical simulation of foundation and geotechnical engineering; earthquake resistance and reliability of engineering structures; engineering structure testing, disaster prevention and reduction of pipeline lifelong engineering (which integrates with mechanical structure and strength of long distance oil and gas transportation systems)
The school continues to be engaged in a variety of research projects, among which are the following areas:
earthquake resistance structural engineering, optimization and reliability analysis
computational structure mechanics and analysis
geotechnical engineering mechanics and analysis of pile base stability
designs of pipe networks for gas transportation and system simulations
measuring accuracy of natural gas and error analysis
testing of engineered construction including structure and pipes for oil and gas and trouble diagnosis
disaster prevention and reduction of pipelines
reliability of oil and gas pipelines
measurement of customer satisfaction
Contact us for more information:
Address: School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Southwest Petroleum University Xindu Road 8#, Xindu District, Chendu City, Sichuan Province，P.R.C.(610500)
Tel & Fax:86-28-83032105
E-mail:yaoal@swpu.edu.cn