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Major of Architecture
El Sheikh Zayed
Discover Architecture Major
- About Major
- Program Objectives
- What will I learn?
- Career path
- Mission
About Major
The Architecture major at CIC provides a various number of courses in different architectural disciplines, that teach students to highlight and solve problems, improve the built environment, consequently, preparing them for the professional field.
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Program Objectives
- Provide students with the skills, knowledge, and attitudes required to practice architecture by understanding engineering and architectural design fundamentals and theories.
- Teach students to produce architectural and urban designs with various complexity and scales to adapt to the surrounding environment and achieve the required balance between function, aesthetical, economic, and environmental aspects, following sustainable and green architecture principles.
- Develop students’ capabilities to transform architectural conceptual ideas into technical and detailed drawings that can be executed using different methods and building technologies.
- Encourage students to recognize the physiological and psychological human needs in the built environment.
- Promote using digital architecture and advanced software in architectural design and construction drawings.
- Improve students’ management ability and decision-making skills to adapt easily to circumstances' changes and architectural profession updates.
- Develop student self-learning skills, pursuing further field-related research and post-graduate studies.
- Encourage students to collaborate efficiently with societal issues and provide valuable and various architectural services to meet the market needs with total commitment to the professional ethics.
What will I learn?
Architecture major teaches the students to identify the problems, understand their components, and be able to reconceptualize problems as opportunities. Specifically, architecture major teaches how to design/plan various building types (residential-educational-health care…etc.), in addition to, studying history and theory of architecture, building construction, urban design, interior design, and urban planning.
Career Path
There are several diverse jobs within the architecture program that can be occupied by an architect. Acceptance in these jobs depends on student orientation as well as the years of experience gained by the architect. The following jobs can be employed by the architect: Design Architect, Site Engineer, Urban Design/Planning Architect, Landscape Architect, Procurement Engineer, Quantity Surveying and Contracting Engineer, Site Manager, Interior Design Architect, and lastly, the architect can be appointed as a teaching assistant.
Mission
The Architectural Engineering Program of the Higher Canadian Institute for Engineering, in 6th of October, is committed to preparing a distinguished architect through providing an attractive internal environment that ensures the acquisition of the knowledge and competencies necessary for a qualified graduate who is capable of competing in the architectural market with full commitment to the professional ethics and conducting scientific research, to gain the community's trust.
Major of Architecture
Study Plan
The architecture major at CIC provides a different number of courses in different architectural disciplines, which teach students to highlight and solve problems, improve the built environment, and thus prepare them for the professional field. The program is based on many teaching and learning strategies and effective learning methods using technology, interactions, activities, field trips, 3D modeling, and simulation. The degree conferred by this program is Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Architectural Engineering and entitles graduates to apply to the Egyptian Syndicate of Engineers for professional licensing.
Our Staff
Dr. Mohammed Mohammed Abdelhamid
Assistant Professor / Vice dean
- BSc in Architectural Engineering, Al-Azhar university 1997.
- MSc in Architectural Engineering Al-Azhar University, 2006.
- Ph.D. in Architectural Engineering, Al-Azhar University, 2012.
Dr. Emad El-Din Hamdy
Associate Professor / head of the architectural engineering department
- Associate Professor degree, 2022
Ph.D in Architecture Engineering, Al-Azhar University, 2014.
M.Sc in Architecture Engineering, Al-Azhar University, 2006.
B.Sc in Architecture Engineering, Al-Azhar University, 2001.
Dr. Maged George Nassim Mikhael
Assistant Professor / Director of Quality Assurance Unit
- BSc in Architectural Engineering, Military Technical College, 1993
- MSc in Architectural Engineering, Military Technical College, 2004
- Ph.D. in Architectural Engineering, Military Technical College, 2012
Head of Department Message
Dr. Emad El-Din Hamdy Abd EL-Hamid
Head of Architecture Department
The Architectural program at CIC-Zayed campus is based on consolidating actual architectural professional practices. Qualifying students for the job market is the challenge that we always aspire to. The relationship between professors and students in our department is a relationship based on constant and continuous communication. Moreover, the relationship between the students and the tutors is based on continuous mutual dialogues. Eventually, we hope that the students spend time full of architecture, vitality, hope, and optimism.
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