CIVIL ENGINEERING

QUALIFICATION: CIVIL ENGINEER

DURATION OF THE CAREER: 4 YEARS

PROFESSIONAL MODEL

The Cuban civil engineer is a professional trained in a comprehensive manner, with a broad profile, with knowledge, skills and attitudes that allow him to: solve the most general and frequent problems that arise in the basic link, related to education, management, design, planning, construction, and rehabilitation of works, with the use of current technologies commonly used in the profession; with a scientific-technical, creative, environmental, and high social commitment vision.

Work object

The objects of work of this professional are civil works (industrial, agricultural and social buildings, structures of little complexity, roads or urban roads and railways) and the production of materials and technologies for construction.

In addition, this professional has the necessary economic and management training to efficiently carry out the development of his work.

Areas  of action

The main areas of action of the civil engineer are the following:

• Construction entities.


• Design entities and engineering services.


• Entities dedicated to project management.


• Entities dedicated to the production of construction materials and technologies.


• Entities responsible for the care and protection of the environment.


• Physical planning institutions.


• Entities dedicated to the conservation of built heritage.


• Universities, teaching units (UD), basic labor entities (ELB) and branch training schools.


• Study and research centers.


• Central State Administration Organizations (OACEs).

Action field

The graduate of the Civil Engineering career has its main field of work in those areas of production and services that basically attend the planning, management, design, construction, exploitation and conservation of civil works:

structural and land communication routes, the production of construction materials and products and research applied to construction.

The fields of action of the civil engineer are:

• The civil works project: structural and land communication routes (conception, planning, monitoring, analysis, design, execution and direction).


• The conservation of civil works (protection, preservation, maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, restructuring and reinforcement).


• The production of materials and construction technologies.


• Applied research, scientific and technological innovation.