The Faculty of Civil Engineering and Building Services is an academic division of the

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of Iaşi,

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, devoted to study and research in

civil engineering Civil engineering is a regulation and licensure in engineering, professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads ...

History

The Romanian

engineering Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to Problem solving#Engineering, solve problems within technology, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve Systems engineering, s ...

school was founded when

Gheorghe Asachi Gheorghe Asachi (, surname also spelled Asaki; 1 March 1788 – 12 November 1869) was a Moldavian, later Romanian, prose writer, poet, painter, historian, dramatist, engineer, border maker, and translator. An Enlightenment-educated polymath and ...

succeeded in persuading the Prince

Scarlat Callimachi Scarlat Callimachi or Calimachi (; nicknamed ''Prințul Roșu'', "the Red Prince"; September 20, 1896 – June 2, 1975) was a Romanian journalist, essayist, futurist poet, trade unionist, and communist activist, a member of the Callimachi f ...

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to establish the foundations of a "class of surveyors and building engineers in Romania" on November 15, 1813. As a result of Asachi's endeavours, the Michaelian Academy (in Romanian:

Academia Mihăileană was an institution of higher learning based in Iași, Moldavia, and active in the first part of the 19th century. Like other Eastern European institutions of its kind, it was both a high school and a higher learning institute, housing several fa ...

) was established in Iaşi between 1835 and 1847. Having amongst its scholars the most representative men of science at that time. This first official institution representing Romanian Higher Education in Moldova, succeeded in addressing local needs pertaining to the Higher Technical Syllabus. Higher Education in Civil Engineering and

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in Iaşi was initiated and established by the great scholar Gheorghe Asachi in 1848 with the assistance of the Application School for Engineering and Constructions. It was only in 1941 that the Faculty of Civil Engineering (later included architectural studies) became part of the Higher Polytechnic School of Iaşi, which is known today as

Structure

*Department of Concrete Structures, Building Materials, Technology and Management *Department of Transportation Infrastructure and Foundations *Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering *Department of Descriptive Geometry and Drawing *Department of Building Services *Department of Structural Mechanics

Degrees awarded

The following Degrees are awarded in civil engineering and industrial engineering: *

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.S., B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Scienc ...

Master of Science A Master of Science (; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree. In contrast to the Master of Arts degree, the Master of Science degree is typically granted for studies in sciences, engineering and medici ...

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References

External links

Faculty of Civil Engineering and Building Services
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