Structural Engineering

The ’Structural Engineering’ specialization deals with constructions – of all shapes and scales: From tiny screws and shafts via hip prostheses and car components to large bridges and offshore constructions. We are surrounded by constructions, and we will always need people with construction qualifications.

Computer tools are an important part of construction engineers’ daily lives. The time is long gone when people did the calculations one by one and sat down at the drawing table afterwards. Practically all strength calculations are today made by computers. Besides, visualization plays a much more important role. Today, we can see the forces that emerge when massive waves smash into a jetty on the computer screen, and by doing so we find potential weaknesses in the constructions. A few years ago, that would have been impossible, but advanced software does not make the engineer superfluous. Sensible input and necessary post-controls require a great deal of physical insight.

The course ’Construction Engineering’ has a lot in common with some of the courses in the degree programme ‘Building and Environmental Engineering’. And that may not be a bad idea – considering the building industry’s annual turnover of NOK 300 billion. A great number of constructional engineers also work in the offshore sector. Qualifications within construction engineering are also of interest to several industrial enterprises, because the candidates from this course acquire skills in calculation of strength.

This specialization allows you to further specialize within the following areas:

• Marine Construction Engineering

• Geotechnics

• General Construction Engineering

• Computation Mechanics