Urban Engineering and Regional Development (IUDR)
Why IUDR?
- Because you will be a construction engineer, but you will have knowledge about how it works and how you can change a city for the better.
- Because you will be able to choose between different employment options: you can work in a design office, in a consultancy and real estate development firm, on the construction site, in the local or central public administration.
- Because you will be able to contribute to the management of European funds in a town hall, a county council, a regional development agency, a ministry or a private company.
- Because, if you don’t live in Bucharest, you have a guaranteed place in the dormitory.
- Because you will have access to all the university’s laboratories.
- Because you have the opportunity to continue your studies with a master’s degree (Urban and Regional Development) and a doctorate in this specialization.
- Because you can benefit from an ERASMUS scholarship to prepare your dissertation in the European Union.
- Because you benefit from courses and textbooks written especially for students of the specialization.
- Because you can be involved in specialized projects since college.
- Because all the teachers in the IUDR – DUR collective are also based on practical experience, not only on the theoretical one.
- Because, at least once a year, you have the opportunity to participate in the IUDR-DUR Workshop where you will meet graduates of the specialization who can share their experience with you.
Urban Engineering and Regional Development (Civil Engineering field of study) – a specialization designed for the training of engineers specialized in urban planning and projects for local and regional development. Graduates of this study program can coordinate within the local and central public administration the projects aimed at the infrastructure of the localities, prepare studies for the substantiation of town planning plans and integrated urban development projects and studies for the substantiation of public and private investments, plan, organize and manage resources for construction works. It is the youngest specialization of the FCCIA specially designed to meet the current development requirements of Romania in the context of European integration by training engineers for public administration, design and execution.
The studies in this bachelor’s program in the field of Civil Engineering are organized for the duration of four university years and are carried out in the faculty headquarters at 124 Lacul Tei Blvd., Sector 2, Bucharest.
Choose this specialization if you want to work as a construction engineer in the following fields:
- urban engineering;
- public administration;
- building design;
- real estate consultancy and development;
- execution of buildings and infrastructure of localities;
- management of construction works;
- building maintenance and operation.
In the higher education system of the countries of the European Union, all major technical universities have developed in the last 30-40 years distinct specializations for the interdisciplinary training of students in the field of civil engineering, providing relevant skills for solving the complex problems of urban and regional development.
In France, Germany, Spain, Great Britain, Italy, Holland, Ireland, the “Urban Engineering and Regional Development” specialization exists within the higher technical construction education under different names, for example:
- “Regional and Urban Planning” at “Polytechnical of Central London” (Great Britain);
- “Genie Urbain” at “Ecole Nationale de Points et Chaussees” (France);
- “Statdebau und Bauwesen” at “Technische Hochschule Berlin” (Germany);
- “Svilupo Territoriale i Urbano” at “Instituto Urbanistico i Edilitaria” (Italy);
- “Urban Development Sciences” at “University of Dublin” (Ireland).
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