Construction and Structures
The design and construction of structures for plants, buildings, and industrial infrastructures constitute a fundamental field of modern industrial engineering. This field requires professionals with a solid technical base and a global vision of industrial construction processes, capable of integrating constructive and structural aspects with current challenges of energy efficiency, digitalization, and technological innovation.
The Construction and Structures specialty offers you the necessary training to face these challenges, addressing the design, calculation, and integral management of structural, constructive, and facility projects. You will learn to design and dimension metallic, concrete, and composite structures, reaching detail engineering, manufacturing, and assembly.
You will be trained in the integral management of industrial construction projects, including economic and time planning, financial feasibility, site logistics, and cost and resource control. You will work on the design and management of smart buildings and facilities, integrating automation systems, energy control, and communication between devices to achieve more efficient, sustainable, and safe spaces.
The contents incorporate the application of data science and artificial intelligence through the use of predictive models, stochastic simulations, and methodologies such as BIM or virtual and augmented reality, with the goal of improving design, management, and decision-making in projects.
By taking this specialty, you will obtain a technical, digital, and applied training that enables you to lead structural engineering, industrial construction, and sustainable building projects with an integrated and innovation-oriented vision.
How you will learn
The specialty consists of 6 subjects of 5 ECTS each, featuring a teaching methodology oriented towards Project-Based Learning.
This approach allows for working on contents and objectives with a balance between theory and application, based on real study cases contextualized in the current professional environment. Through these cases, the transfer of knowledge to practice and the development of technical, analytical, and management skills are encouraged.
Assessment is mainly based on projects and activities developed in the subjects, valuing both the learning process and the results achieved.
The specialty has a clearly professionalizing focus, with teaching staff who work in the sector and developing exercises that are real cases. Engineering computer tools are used, and European and international regulations are followed.
Career opportunities
The general profile of the degree prepares you to perform the roles of:
- Project Engineer, Technical Consultant, Process Analyst, Maintenance Manager, Production Manager, R&D Engineer, Innovation Coordinator, Technical Auditor, Technical Sales Engineer, Quality Manager, Engineer in Public Administration, Facilities Engineer, Technical Office Manager.
The fields of work of the specialty include:
- Structural simulation, Finite Element Analysis (FEM), HVAC systems, BIM (Building Information Modeling), Industrial Construction and Architecture, Structural materials, Structural monitoring, Applied artificial intelligence, Digital twins, Structural dynamics, Urban planning and infrastructures, Construction project management, Building facilities, Energy efficiency applied to buildings, Building management systems, Smart Buildings.
The set of competencies you will acquire in the degree and the specialty will help you become a complete professional, prepared to lead and innovate in the industry of the future.
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