Civil Engineering Graduate Program

Concentration Area

• Urban engineering and civil construction

Research lines

- Sustainable Development in Civil Construction

 The mains focus is to expand knowledge about the built environment with an emphasis on emerging problems and current, innovative and unconventional solutions.

It aims to reflect and investigate the performance of buildings regarding the use of resources, application solutions, materials and unconventional construction methods in civil construction aimed at the sustainability of the built environment.

This research line is linked to the ​​civil construction area, with a focus on the performance of innovative solutions linked to the sector and efficiency in the use of resources in the built environment. The objectives of the research lines are: the analysis of construction processes and techniques, the application of unconventional materials in civil construction, the conservation of material, energy and water resources, the analysis of the energy efficiency of buildings and comfort in the built environment, in addition to promoting solutions in civil construction linked to the concept of sustainable development.

- Urban Infrastructure

The research line in Urban Infrastructure focuses on building knowledge about urban infrastructure networks as a basic element to support the development of city functions, assuming that planning the network is planning the city.
Urban traces, growth trends and urban expansion and other elements will be considered in this research line, as they are essential to studies of dimensioning the infrastructure network.

Within the scope of this master's degree, the infrastructure network will comprise the sidewalks and vehicular routes and their function of housing the road system, water supply systems, drainage, and sewer system, which will be objects of study.

The main goals of this research line are the reflection and study regarding the designing and planning of the urban infrastructure network, emphasizing the search for sustainable materials and technologies, compatible with the environmental support of the physical environment.

This line, therefore, provides the possibility of reviewing traditional alternatives; the planning and compatibility of network projects, focusing on principles such as greater coverage of service to the population, optimization of efforts and invested resources.