Dept. Urban Eng.

The department provides a high quality undergraduate and graduate teaching and learning environment in designated or selected areas of urban engineering in order to allow students to enter the general and professional practice. Our department focuses on urban planning/design and transportation. Urban planning/design deals with methods and techniques for the establishment of an agreeable and convenient urban environment, based on understanding the physical environment's structure and the variable urban spatial structure. Transportation deals with fundamental principles pertaining to urban transportation engineering and methods of planning while operating to solve transportation problems.

There are curriculums designed to provide education and training in state of the art planning techniques for urban, transportation, and landscape by placing the first consideration on basic design and planning, which can be directly applied to the real world. Curriculums are divided into five divisions: urban planning, urban development, urban design, urban transportation planning, and other related subjects. The major of Urban Engineering is composed of the division of urban design encompassing site design, the division of urban planning encompassing city planning, the division of urban development encompassing city & regional development and the division of urban transportation planning.

After graduation, the student may find a job in many fields such as central government, local government, and private consulting companies. There are about ten thousand people employed in public institutes such as the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Also, there are research institutes like the Seoul Development Institute and the Korea Transport Institute, etc. Private companies need about the triple number of experts and engineers rather than public institutes. Construction companies, urban design offices, companies for tourism and leisure, and companies related to land development are also possible job areas. There are national qualification certificates for engineer expertise in the area of urban engineering, transportation, landscape, architecture, and civil engineering. The government positions of urban planning and transportation are also offered through testing.

• 2009.03
  Seperated Urban Engineering department from Architecture&Urban Engineering
• 2002.03
  Seperated three department from Architecture&Urban Engineering
  Department of Architecture(five-year course)
  Department of Architecture Engineering(four-year course)
  Department of Urban Engineering(four-year course)
• 2001.08
  Renamed as Architecture&Urban Engineering department of Graduate School
• 1999.03
  Merged Architecture, Architecture Engineering and Urban Engineering
• 1998.03
  Established Urban Engineering department