Architectural Engineering
- Major No
- 03605
- Course credit
- 76
- College
- College of Applied Professions
- Level
- Diploma Programs
Overview
The tremendous development witnessed by the cities of the West Bank at the present time has created an urgent need for the presence of a technical staff to master the understanding and drawing of various architectural and construction designs and their output. This technician is actually the link between the engineer and the project executor which will lead to facilitating and accelerating the construction process.
Objectives
This specialization aims to provide students with various technical skills in the field of architectural drawing and design. It also equips the students with the necessary skills to practice architectural, building and computer drawing.
Outcomes
The graduate should be able to:
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Perform the tasks and the activities assigned to him in the engineering offices.
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Prepare different architectural drawings.
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Manage projects and supervise on sites.
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Use the skills learnt in the different computer applications in the field of architecture
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Communicate with different groups and work under pressure.
Career Opportunities for Graduates
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Working in architectural and civil engineering offices
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Assistant architectural technician.
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Teaching an art course at the governmental schools.
Academic Plan
متطلبات الكلية الاجباريه Credit hours: 14 Courses: 6
| Course No | Course Name | Credit hours | Course Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Arabic Language | 3 | يهدف هذا المساق إلى تزويد الطَّالب بالمعارف والمهارات العمليَّة الأساسيَّة فـي اللُّغة العربيَّة وفنونها، بما يتلاءم مع احتياجاته ومعارفه؛ من مثل مهارات الإملاء والترقيم، وكتابة الأعداء، وتأليف الجمل، والصحة اللغوية، وبناء الفقرة و المقالة والرسالة والتلخيص والخلاصة؛ ليتمكَّن من استخدامها فـي حياته المهنية استخدامًا صحيحًا ، ممَّا ينعكس على أدائه ، ويزيد ثقته بنفسه وثقة الآخرين به. |
| 2002 | English Language | 3 | This course aims at developing the four skills: writing, reading, comprehension (listening) and pronunciation. The grammatical rules related to tenses, direct & indirect speech, prepositions, and conditionals. |
| 2017 | Physical Education | 1 | This course talks about the physical education concept and its relation with general education . Acknowledgement of physical skills and their rules. Making games activities , training, . it's also deals with casualties inside and outside the fields and ho |
| 2350 | Introduction to Computer | 3 | This course aims to learn about computer components, its various units, computer development and classifications, computer generations, classification of counting systems, memory unit, arithmetic and logic unit, input and output unit, operating system, programming basics. Introduction to Computer / Practical: Students are introduced to the basics of dealing with the computer, and to learn about the physical parts of the computer, such as: Motherboard, Hard Disk, cables, CD-ROM and others, and software components, , working on the Windows operating system () and controlling files and folders, an introduction to the MS Office program, and knowing the Internet and e-mail service, cloud computing . |
| 2846 | Entrepreneurship (1) | 2 | يهدف هذا المساق الى تطوير المهارات الرياديّة لدى الشباب ، وتهيئتهم على المستوى العلمي، ليس فقط ليتمكنوا من إنشاء مشاريعهم الخاصة في المستقبل، بل كذلك ليعملوا بشكلٍ منتجٍ في مؤسسات صغيرة ومتوسطة الحجم. وبذلك يكون هدف المساق الإجمالي على المستوى الأوسع هو المساهمة في استحداث ثقافة مؤسّساتية في فلسطين. وهو مساق نظري بطابع عملي، حيث يستخدم اساليب التعليم المتمركز حول الطالب وما المدرس الا ميسر للتسهيل على الطالب للتوصل للمعلومات والأهداف من خلال الانشطة اليومية والألعاب وبيانات المعلومات. |
| 2847 | Entrepreneurship (2) | 2 | يأتي مساق ريادة الأعمال (2) استكمالاً لمتطلبات ريادة الأعمال (1), وكحاجة ماسة في ظل التغيرات والتحديات المجتمعية لعلاج مشكلة البطالة في سوق العمل المتنامية باستمرار, نظراً لقلة فرص العمل ومحدودية السوق الفلسطيني, حيث يهدف هذا المساق إلى تطوير المهارات الرياديّة لدى الشباب، وتهيئتهم على المستوى العلمي والعملي ليس فقط ليتمكنوا من إنشاء مشاريعهم الخاصة في المستقبل، بل كذلك ليعملوا بشكلٍ منتجٍ في مؤسسات صغيرة ومتوسطة الحجم, وبذلك يكون هدف المساق الإجمالي على المستوى الأوسع هو المساهمة في استحداث ثقافة مؤسّساتية في فلسطين, وهو مساق نظري بطابع عملي، حيث يستخدم أساليب التعليم المتمركز حول الطالب من خلال مجموعة من الأنشطة اليومية والتي تتبنى في محتواها النظري والتطبيقي مجموعة من الاستراتيجيات التعلمية الحديثة, والتي تنتقل بالطالب خطوة خطوة نحو تحقيق متطلبات انشاء مشروع ريادي ومنظومة فكرية ريادية ناجحة في المستقبل بعد التخرج. |
متطلبات البرنامج Credit hours: 9 Courses: 5
| Course No | Course Name | Credit hours | Course Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Mathematics (1) | 3 | The course aims to study algebraic, trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic mathematical functions, limits and theorems on limits, connection, first derivative and derivation rules, derivation and algebraic, exponential and logarithmic functions, applications on the first derivative, including curves, finite integration and its applications, methods of integration and its different types of integration. |
| 2006 | Engineering drawing | 2 | لغة الرسم، أدوات الرسم، قياسات وأحجام لوحات الرسم، أنواع الخطوط، العمليات الهندسية، تنفيذ رسم بمقياس رسم محدد (تكبير وتصغير) الإسقاط المتعامد، رسم المناظير الهندسية، الرسم باليد الحرة استنتاج المسقط الثالث. |
| 2007 | Engineering Workshop | 2 | This course aims to introduce the student to the principles of manufacturing and proper handling of machines, equipment and various tools without falling or causing practical accidents inside the workshops, factories and various construction projects, and giving him the ability to know the processes necessary to complete a piece. |
| 2008 | Industrial Supervision & Org. | 1 | الإلمام بطبيعة المنشآت الصناعية الكبرى والصغرى وخصائصها ومتطلبات إنشائها والعوامل المؤثرة علي نجاحها, التعرف على الهياكل التنظيمية في المنشآت الصناعية ومهام الإشراف الصناعي فيها ومسؤوليات المشرف في العمل الصناعي, تنمية الاتجاهات الإيجابية لدى الطالب فيما يتعلق بأمور السلامة والصحة المهنية في العمل الصناعي , من خلال الإلمام بالأسس ذات العلاقة والوسائل والإجراءات المتبعة للوقاية من الحوادث الصناعية, التعرف إلي عناصر التكاليف الصناعية وأساليب تقليل الكلفة ومعالجة الفواقد في العمل |
| 2589 | Introduction to Eng. Professions | 1 | This course aims to introduce the student to the concept of engineering and applied arts and the interrelationship between them and their nature as professions and the development of these professions throughout history. It also aims to clarify the various departments of engineering and applied professions, both traditional and modern, professional ethics and what can be added to engineering and technological education plans in order to develop them. |
متطلبات القسم Credit hours: 26 Courses: 13
| Course No | Course Name | Credit hours | Course Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2207 | Architectural Drawing (1) | 2 | This course aims to introduce students to manual skills in drawing projects at different drawing scales. The student also gets to know the tools and symbols used in drawing to enable the student to draw architectural plans and facades with the ability to show projects in an appropriate manner. |
| 2208 | Architectural Drawing (2) | 3 | The course aims to develop the student’s skills in drawing and presenting architectural drawings in multiple ways and to give him the ability to raise and prepare plans for existing projects by identifying the methods and means of architectural presentation, documenting an existing building, drawing landscapes, preparing architectural plans for small projects. |
| 2209 | Free Hand Sketching | 2 | Introducing the student to the Kufi calligraphy and writing in it, the Latin letters and writing in them, using different techniques in artistic works such as: pencil, ink pen, colors, training in perceiving proportions and using the senses in several ways to develop the emotional aspect, teaching the student how to use the pencil and colors in art works, and training him on the use of the senses and the development of the emotional aspect and aesthetic taste. Also, providing the student with different skills and methods in preparing drawings to develop his creativity aspect, developing the ability to express ideas using various expression tools without using engineering tools, increasing the student’s sense of awareness of light, shadow, volumes and the nature of materials . |
| 2212 | Surveying (1) | 2 | The course aims to introduce the student to the land survey, its role and divisions, measuring ground distances and angles using cadastral tools, and measuring heights using the level device. |
| 2216 | Graphic Compostion | 2 | The course aims to develop the student's creativity and his ability to innovate and imagine and strengthen his artistic abilities by giving him a clear picture of the development of arts and its schools, artistic methods and foundations of artistic formation, adapting different materials in formation, using colors to show models. |
| 2221 | Principles of Arch. Design | 2 | The course aims to introduce the student to the role of design and its importance in relation to architecture, design elements and factors affecting it, design vocabulary and basic principles of the design process from site analysis and project scheduling, basics of urban planning, developing taste and sense of aesthetic values, dealing with workers in this profession through his knowledge of the process the design . |
| 2222 | Legistlations & Laws | 1 | The course aims to give the student an idea of the law for organizing cities, villages and buildings in the Palestinian territories, knowledge of the planning authorities and their powers, the steps taken to issue licenses for new or old buildings, and the adoption of land parceling plans. |
| 2224 | Surveying (1) / Practical | 1 | Teaching this course aims to enable the student to measure ground distances and angles using cadastral tools and to enable the student to measure heights using the Level device. |
| 2434 | Field Training I | 2 | This course aims to enable the student to follow up on construction work in its various stages, and to gain practical experience through direct contact with the labor market. |
| 2598 | Buildings Construction 1 | 2 | The course aims to introduce the student to the stages of constructing building structures, methods of implementing works, technical specifications and quality standards used in constructing building structures, and safety precautions to be taken during the implementation of works. |
| 2599 | Buildings Construction 2 | 2 | The course aims to introduce the student to the stages of finishing works of buildings, methods of implementing works, technical specifications and quality standards used in building finishing, and safety precautions to be taken during the execution of works. |
| 2601 | Quantity Surveying | 2 | Teaching this course aims to enable the student to calculate quantities, prepare claims for construction projects, read plans and technical accounts related to their quantities, various construction elements and their agent. |
| 2605 | Computer Aided Drawing | 3 | The course aims to introduce the student to the computer and its types, sizes, parts, nomenclature, capabilities, and limits in drawing, design, storage, solving equations, classification and tabulation, and introducing him to languages and drawing programs in particular, and the use of some of these programs in drawing projections, interfaces, isometrics, pictorials, projecting shadows, drawing details, increasing and reducing them using the capabilities of the computer, and printing it. These drawings are on paper. |
متطلبات التخصص Credit hours: 24 Courses: 12
| Course No | Course Name | Credit hours | Course Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2183 | Projects Management | 2 | Teaching this course aims to introduce the student to the methods of managing and organizing work in construction projects, scientific methods for managing resources in construction projects, how to prepare time work programs for construction projects, and providing the student with the ability to use computer programs to manage projects. |
| 2213 | Architectural Modelling | 2 | The course aims to introduce and train the student to form surfaces and build models by giving him a clear picture of the importance of models and the scope of their use in clarifying the drawn ideas, tools and materials used in making models, stages of building and implementing models, general rules and basic skills necessary for this, applying the economic foundations and uses of materials to save time and effort. |
| 2217 | Working Drawing (1) | 2 | This course aims to enable the student to understand and master the shop drawing of concrete works such as bases and columns, to know the drawing of concrete ceilings of all kinds, to be familiar with how to deal with all the detailed construction sectors, and to draw and understand plans for electrical works, sanitary installations, and extensions of adaptation and refrigeration. |
| 2218 | Working Drawing (2) | 2 | This course aims to enable the student to understand and draw shop drawings for finishes at the level of floor plans, sections, facades, internal and external finishing works. The student also learns to draw the various architectural details of suspended ceilings, insulation techniques, and expansion joints. |
| 2223 | History of Architecture | 2 | The course aims to introduce the student through the ages and to the architectural foundations used by man to construct his home and buildings, to provide the student with theories and architectural rules used by man through the ages, to clarify the factors affecting the construction of buildings and the development of different architectural forms and elements. |
| 2228 | Project | 2 | Through the completion of an integrated interior design project in which the student shows the total of the experiences and abilities he has learned during the preceding study time in the specialization, the course seeks to offer the student with research, inquiry, and problem-solving skills. It also gives the student a lot of leeway in terms of artistic creativity and design innovation, all within the context of a competition between him and his fellow students in the specialization to present the best creative work and distinguished design. This is the first and closest step to putting what he's learned in the classroom into practice. |
| 2435 | Field Training II | 2 | This course aims to enable the student to follow up on construction work in its various stages, and to gain practical experience through direct contact with the labor market. |
| 2592 | Air conditioning and plumbing | 2 | This course aims to define and present the service systems used in buildings and develop students’ abilities for building systems asessment for its suitability in different buildings, develop skills to choose the best system appropriate to the architectural configuration, develop the student’s ability to read plans for sanitary installations and know their symbols, identify the aspects of mechanical extension works in buildings. |
| 2593 | Lighting and electrical installation | 1 | Introduction in electrical drawings. Designing and implementing high voltage and low voltage installation systems for the buildings; lighting installations, power installations, and low voltage installations. Electrical loads calculations and loads distribution. Earthling and electrical protection. Voltage drop calculations. Introduction in lighting; contains lighting flux calculations, lighting distribution, and lighting units specifications. |
| 2594 | Computer Aided Drawing 2 | 3 | This course aims to develop and develop the student's abilities to use the computer in the architectural design process, starting with the design idea and ending with the production of engineering projects in their various forms. This course also expands the students’ awareness of how to adapt electronic development to serve engineering work, by learning special programs in computer architectural drawing and various methods of display, by learning (PhotoShop, 3D Max, AutoCAD) and other programs dedicated to image processing. and project presentation. |
| 2602 | Contracts &Specifications | 2 | The course aims at introducing the student to the types of construction contracting, clarifying the duties and responsibilities of engineers and contractors, and providing samples of agreements and some articles of the general conditions of the contracting contract as mentioned in the Palestinian contracting contract book, which is attributed to the international conditions (FIDIC). |
| 2609 | Sciagraphy and perspective | 2 | The course aims to provide the student with a lot of information that enables him to draw perspective, based on plans before the facilities exist in reality, and to give him better possibilities to express designs, as he can draw single vanishing point perspectives, draw vanishing point perspectives. Drawing simple and complex interior architectural perspectives, projecting and drawing shadows on 2D and 3D architectural plans, reading the engineering and architectural plans well. |
متطلبات التخصص الاختيارية Credit hours: 3 Courses: 2
| Course No | Course Name | Credit hours | Course Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Studies in Arabic & Islamic Thought | 3 | The purpose of this course is to introduce Islamic thought, its foundations, characteristics, thought bearers, sources of Arab and Islamic thought, belief, worship, morals, Islamic systems, Arab and Islamic civilization: its achievements and aspects of its civilization, as well as contemporary issues. |
| 2999 | Anti - Corruption "Challenges & Solutions" | 3 | This course provides in-depth knowledge about the concept of corruption globally and locally, and the complex forms that it manifests in both formal and informal institutions alike. The course also discusses the most important factors that increase the possibility of the emergence and spread of corruption, whether those related to the structural organization of state institutions, or the political and social complications that affect the work of these institutions and weaken their ability to combat this phenomenon. The course |