MEng in Civil Engineering - Structural and Earthquake Engineering in Vancouver Canada | The University of British Columbia

Structural engineering combines scientific principles and creative design to plan, evaluate, and build various constructions. Conventional civil engineering projects encompass edifices, spans, high-rise structures, and water barriers engineered to withstand earthquakes, aerodynamic pressures, and weight loads. The computational techniques pioneered by structural specialists, such as digital simulation approaches, material behavior modeling, and probability assessments, have broader applications across diverse construction forms.

Ongoing structural studies at UBC involve both theoretical and hands-on investigations in earthquake-resistant design, performance characteristics and durability of cement-based, wood, and composite material constructions, experimental analysis of steel framework and reinforced concrete performance, computerized modeling of continuous systems, artificial intelligence applications, and visual computing technologies.