Reflexions about the importance and current situation of the structural area in civil engineering programs in Colombia
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https://doi.org/10.26507/rei.v13n25.842Keywords:
Civil engineering, structuresAbstract
This paper, the importance of the structural area inside the core program of Civil Engineering is studied. Special characteristics of the Colombian academic programs in Civil Engineering (Structures) are taken as a case study. This country exhibit an elevated seismic hazard, and has a large stock of non-ductile buildings. In the past 35 years, moderate earth-quakes have destroyed several cities, killed thousands of people, and have produced significant infrastructure losses because an important number of its structures were designed and constructed with little or no consideration of lateral load effects (i.e. especially for those structures designed and constructed prior to the establishment of the Colombian’s earthquake safety standard in 1984). In this document, three random Civil Engineering programs (Structures) in Colombia are studied, and two aspects are mainly considered: (1) professors (educational background, research production and academic syllabus), and (2) university infrastructure (labs and academic tools). It was found that the main aspect which contributes to the overall University quality is the professors’ item. Therefore, several aspects related with the Colombian students inside local and international graduate programs are studied.Downloads
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