Advanced Civil Engineering Education Initiative

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Advanced Civil Engineering Education
Initiative The Background
Richard Jardine Professor of Geomechanics Director
of MSc Programme
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Civil Engineering Counts!Societal challenges

• Health and quality of life water supply and
  treatment, transport, buildings
• Energy supply and conservation offshore oil and
  gas, wind generators, nuclear etc
• Protecting the public road safety, earthquakes,
  floods, landslides..

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• Aberfan
• 1966

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Civil Engineering Counts!Economic challenges

• UK Construction 74.7bn per year!
• High risk low profit low share values 30 too
  expensive? Can it be better organised/managed?
• UK Construction services 7 to 8bn!
• Much of it in exports. But can these knowledge
  businesses remain competitive without high level
  skills?

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Civil Engineering Counts!Environmental challenges

• Industrys perceived negative impact
• At odds with actual role in protecting natural
  environment and enhancing towns cities
• Crucial now to develop rational strategies for
  sustainable future

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Sustainable cites.living with difficult
neighbours?
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Civil Engineering teams and skillsGPs and
specialists

• Longstanding recognition of need for specialism.
  Suite of Imperial College MScs set up in 1940s
• Growing need for specialist education that cannot
  be provided by BEng, MEng, or CPD
• PhDs are valuable but rarely required for
  practice
• Specialist MSc courses most cost-effective means
• Example of demand half UK geotechnical
  specialists have MScs 50 from Imperial College

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Civil Engineering Human Resources crisis

• Highly skilled professionals needed to meet
  technical, managerial, environmental challenges
• Skills shortages cited as major problem in
  surveys, limiting ability to deliver - from
  transport to deepwater energy
• Example of AGS. Among top 4 problems facing
  industry were
• Quality of work
• Skills shortages
• Cuts in funding for MSc students

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Applications to Imperial College Civil MSc courses
Enrolment down from maximum of 160 to 125 Now 71
non-UK domiciled entry
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Trends in A level entries 1992 100
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Trends in undergraduate applications for Civil
Engineering degrees 1994 100
MSc applications lag several years behind UGs
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Civil Engineering Human Resources crisis

• Cultural drift away from physical sciences
• A level and degree choices fewer graduates
• UK graduates less inclined to undertake
  specialist MScs
• Four year MEng
• Student debt
• EPSRC/NERC funds cut for core topics
• Low salaries status issues
• MSc gives little financial benefit
• Decades needed to repay personal investment

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Civil Engineering at Universities

• Courses are expensive to run able students and
  staff are hard to attract MSc studies have a low
  priority economics dont add up
• General trend is to contract many courses
  closing or under threat
• Strategy at Imperial College to swim upstream!
• First step was to survey 300 MSc and MEng
  students

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Advanced Civil Engineering Education Initiative

• Reconfiguring Imperial courses to optimise
• Appeal to able students
• Educational topicality, relevance, quality
• Economics, flexibility of delivery
• Interact with ICE, ISE, RAEng etc Research
  Councils (EPSRC, NERC) Industry Government
  seek participation support
• Build funding for Imperial College courses and
  student bursaries create opportunities
• Publicise our findings and opportunities on offer
  

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Reconfiguring our MSc coursesWise up, dont dumb
down!

• Regrouping of 9 existing courses into 4 clusters
• Advanced structures
• Environment
• Geotechnics
• Transport
• Introduction of two new courses
• Integrated structures
• Earthquake Engineering
• New options in all four clusters for dual degree
  titles. 25 MSc titles created by adding 25 of
• Business Management or
• Sustainable Development

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• Advanced Structural Concrete Structures
• Engineering Cluster Concrete Structures
  Business Management
• Concrete Structures Sustainable
  Development
• Structural Steel Design
• Structural Steel Design Business Management
• Structural Steel Design Sustainable
  Development Earthquake Engineering
• Integrated Structural Engineering
• Geotechnics Cluster Soil Mechanics
• Soil Mechanics Engineering Seismology
• Soil Mechanics Environmental Geotechnics
• Soil Mechanics Business Management
• Soil Mechanics Sustainable Development
• Engineering Geology
• Engineering Geology Business Management
• Engineering Geology Sustainable Development
  
• Environmental Cluster Environmental Engineering
• Environmental Engineering Business
  Management
• Environmental Engineering Sustainable
  Development Hydrology for Environmental
  Management
• Hydrology Business Management

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Advanced Civil Engineering Initiative other steps

• Part time and CPD extension options on all MScs
• MTP funding from EPSRC for geotechnics
  transport, also NERC funding for hydrology
• Industrial bursary group. 12 geotechnical
  members recruitment inside track liaison
  groups for other MScs
• Seeking further funding and liaison with Industry
  and Research Councils
• www.cv.imperial.ac.uk/courses/msc/pg_index.asp

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Finally

• Skills shortage is impinging on quality of
  professional work
• Claims against PI cover are soaring, frequency
  doubling in last decade in some sectors
• MSc course recruitment will become more difficult
  with time fewer graduates, more debt etc..
• Concerted effort needed if courses are not to
  fold and skills stream dry up altogether
• Our call to arms to Institutions, Research
  Councils, Government and Industry help us with
  funding and student recruitment!

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Civil Engineering Counts Earthquake
Engineering An Example of the need for technical
specialists
Nicholas N. Ambraseys Senior Research Fellow
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EARTHQUAKE RISK SEISMIC HAZARD
VULNERABILITY (LOSS)
Seismic Hazard
Probability of occurrence of earthquake at a
given site period of time
Reflects Regional local seismotectonic activity
It is beyond human control, but knowledge of it
is possible (long-term seismicity)
Vulnerability
Physical characteristics of structure
It can be assessed, controlled and reduced
Loss
Cost of restoring structure to its state just
before the earthquake
Any other form of loss/value
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MSc in Earthquake Engineering (Structures
Cluster) MSc in Soil Mechanics Engineering
Seismology (Geotechnics Cluster)
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Sustainable Cities The New MSc
David Fisk RAEng Prof Engineering for Sustainable
Development
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Cities Where Most of Us Live
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Cities As They Shouldnt Be
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Cities As They Mustn't Be!
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Urbanisation Still Growing
GEO 02
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Engineering Can Make a Difference
Municipal Waste Asia and Pacific 2030 UNEP GEO
3 Scenarios
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Engineering Can Make A Difference
Percent Land Area Impacted By Infrastructure 2030
GEO 02
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Engineering Can Make A Difference
Percent Land Built Up Area 2030
GEO 02
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From Problems to Practical Solutions

• The Sustainable Development Module
• Learning to Think in 4 Dimensions

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Thinking in Three Dimensions
Space
Space
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Thinking in Four Dimensions
Lifetime consequences of design decisions for
Economic Social Environmental Capital
Space
Time
Space
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Going Further in Four Dimensions
Space
Time
Space
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Matching the Design Process
Space
Delivery
Needs
Vision
Space
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Matching the Design Process
Balanced Scorecard techniques
Space
Delivery
Needs
Vision
Space
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Balanced Scorecard
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Matching the Design Process
Life Cycle Analysis Techniques
Space
Delivery
Needs
Vision
Space
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Life Cycle Analysis
Key Issue Axes
Benchmark Values
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Matching the Design Process
Value Engineering Techniques
Space
Delivery
Needs
Vision
Space
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Detailed Studies

• Water supply and management
• Waste management
• Transport infrastructure
• Energy
• Sustainable construction
• Developing Country Infrastructure
• Urban Air quality and pollution
• Sustainable city

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Advanced Civil Engineering Education
Initiative Business Management
Stephen Glaister Professor of Transport and
Infrastructure
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Business and policy skills for practising
engineers

• Human behaviour and response to incentives
• Fundamentals of funding and financing
• The public realm
• Understanding data facts not prejudice
• Three case studies from London experience

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Congestion Charging. A large and highly visible
experiment
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Congestion charging the skills involved

• Traffic engineering
• Systems, IT
• Will the technology and data bases be adequate?
• Measuring trip patterns survey work
• Modelling behaviour
• how will individuals respond to changed
  incentives?
• Individual choice modelling
• Criminology rates of detection and penalty
  levels

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Congestion charging the skills involved

• Appraisal is it good value for money?
• Economics of consumer behaviour
• Who gains, who loses and by how much?
• Public attitudes surveys
• Is it good policy?
• There is grave shortage of transport planners and
  economists

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Understanding a business Transport for London
budget
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Understanding the bus business

• Why does the budgeted deficit increase so much?
• Is this a good thing?
• Is this budget likely to be sustainable?

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Understanding the bus business what to do?

• Fares policy
• Quality and volume of service policy
• The cost base
• - Procurement competition?
• - Labour market?
• - Management?
• Justification for increased subsidy
• value for public money?

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Funding and financing Crossrail

• Choosing a route whats it for?
• Congestion relief or regeneration?
• Civil engineering design
• Procurement project management

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Funding and financing Crossrail

• Form of contract with suppliers?
• - What really went wrong with Jubilee Line
  Extension?
• Private Finance Initiative or public sector?
• - Managing cost risk?
• Risk and cost of capital
• - Nb PPP for London Underground!

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Funding and financing Crossrail

• Value for money?
• Who pays?
• distinctions between funding and financing
• Innovative funding mechanisms
• Taxes, charges, development gains

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The public realm Crossrail

• Planning controls
• What are they for?
• Parliamentary process
• Transport and Works Act Hybrid bills
• Policy control and political accountability
• Devolution central vs local government
• Local government finance

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The public realm microeconomic policy

• Competition policy
• Economic regulation of utilities
• Consumer welfare
• Consumer behaviour
• Industrial structure
• Industrial behaviour

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Business and policy skills for practising
engineers

• Human behaviour
• Fundamentals of funding and financing
• The public realm
• Facts
• These courses will help the student understand
  what business people, economists, civil servants
  and politicians are trying to achieve

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A personal perspective Charles Walker Architect-En
gineer MSc DIC
Arup Advanced Geometry Unit
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A View From Industry
MARTYN STROUD
Principal Director, Arup
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A View From Industry
MARTYN STROUD
Principal Director, Arup
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Arup Geotechnics, LondonTechnical Staff
Chris Dulake Brian Coles Alan Winter Steve
Macklin Stephen Wilson Cedric Wong Phil
Morley Mark Gaby Louisa Groves Sarah Munks
David Beadman Sara Anderson Lohini
Ganesharatnam Alan Hon-Lam Cheng Mike
Devriendt Mark Rudrum Matt Willis Emma
Adams Chris Martin Peter Brice Richard
Brantingham Anna Pearson Roger Lee Adrian
Shrubsall
Hoe Yeow Anton Pillai Mehdi Yazdchi Heleni
Pantelidou Vicky Potts Dinesh Patel Sarah
Hughes Guy Waddington Catherine Pill Matthew
Shinkel David Pascall Cyrus Toms Tim
Hocombe Jeffrey Pereira Matthew Gilliver David
Clare Zygi Lubkowski Nick Sartain Martin
Greenacre Chris Humpheson Navin Peiris Neville
Lui Sam Godden Emily So
Tim Chapman Dominic Holt Janice Windle Tim
Robinson Peter Ingram Vicki Hope Erica
Seddon Charlie Strick Beccy Lock Nick Elton James
Robinson Asim Gaba Chris Barker Neil
Chadwick Adam Pickles Graham Elliott Ivan
Lim Geraldine Cheung Zedi Nyirenda
Paul Morrison David Gill Karen Fletcher Peter
Nono Bwomono Mark Adams Nick ORiordan Andrew
Ross Esad Porovic Julian Wallace Andrew
Harland Eddie Woods Dominic Woolnough Frank
Mimnagh Sam Tan Keith Bowers Paul Watson Adam
Chodorowski Hilary Shields Dave Twine Andrew
Lord Rod Alwright Stephen von Roon
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Arup Geotechnics, London Technical Staff with
MScs
Chris Dulake Brian Coles Alan Winter Steve
Macklin Stephen Wilson Cedric Wong Phil
Morley Mark Gaby Louisa Groves Sarah Munks
David Beadman Sara Anderson Lohini
Ganesharatnam Alan Hon-Lam Cheng Mike
Devriendt Mark Rudrum Matt Willis Emma
Adams Chris Martin Peter Brice Richard
Brantingham Anna Pearson Roger Lee Adrian
Shrubsall
Hoe Yeow Anton Pillai Mehdi Yazdchi Heleni
Pantelidou Vicky Potts Dinesh Patel Sarah
Hughes Guy Waddington Catherine Pill Matthew
Shinkel David Pascall Cyrus Toms Tim
Hocombe Jeffrey Pereira Matthew Gilliver David
Clare Zygi Lubkowski Nick Sartain Martin
Greenacre Chris Humpheson Navin Peiris Neville
Lui Sam Godden Emily So
Tim Chapman Dominic Holt Janice Windle Tim
Robinson Peter Ingram Vicki Hope Erica
Seddon Charlie Strick Beccy Lock Nick Elton James
Robinson Asim Gaba Chris Barker Neil
Chadwick Adam Pickles Graham Elliott Ivan
Lim Geraldine Cheung Zedi Nyirenda
Paul Morrison David Gill Karen Fletcher Peter
Nono Bwomono Mark Adams Nick ORiordan Andrew
Ross Esad Porovic Julian Wallace Andrew
Harland Eddie Woods Dominic Woolnough Frank
Mimnagh Sam Tan Keith Bowers Paul Watson Adam
Chodorowski Hilary Shields Dave Twine Andrew
Lord Rod Alwright Stephen von Roon
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Arup Geotechnics, London Technical Staff with
MScs at Imperial College
Chris Dulake Brian Coles Alan Winter Steve
Macklin Stephen Wilson Cedric Wong Phil
Morley Mark Gaby Louisa Groves Sarah Munks
David Beadman Sara Anderson Lohini
Ganesharatnam Alan Hon-Lam Cheng Mike
Devriendt Mark Rudrum Matt Willis Emma
Adams Chris Martin Peter Brice Richard
Brantingham Anna Pearson Roger Lee Adrian
Shrubsall
Hoe Yeow Anton Pillai Mehdi Yazdchi Heleni
Pantelidou Vicky Potts Dinesh Patel Sarah
Hughes Guy Waddington Catherine Pill Matthew
Shinkel David Pascall Cyrus Toms Tim
Hocombe Jeffrey Pereira Matthew Gilliver David
Clare Zygi Lubkowski Nick Sartain Martin
Greenacre Chris Humpheson Navin Peiris Neville
Lui Sam Godden Emily So
Tim Chapman Dominic Holt Janice Windle Tim
Robinson Peter Ingram Vicki Hope Erica
Seddon Charlie Strick Beccy Lock Nick Elton James
Robinson Asim Gaba Chris Barker Neil
Chadwick Adam Pickles Graham Elliott Ivan
Lim Geraldine Cheung Zedi Nyirenda
Paul Morrison David Gill Karen Fletcher Peter
Nono Bwomono Mark Adams Nick ORiordan Andrew
Ross Esad Porovic Julian Wallace Andrew
Harland Eddie Woods Dominic Woolnough Frank
Mimnagh Sam Tan Keith Bowers Paul Watson Adam
Chodorowski Hilary Shields Dave Twine Andrew
Lord Rod Alwright Stephen von Roon
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Imperial College Advanced Civil Engineering
Education Initiative
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A View From Industry
MARTYN STROUD
Principal Director, Arup