MASTER IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
Especialization in Spatial Planning and Transports

With the specialisation in Spatial Planning and Transports you get relevant skills in strategic planning, land management and transport infrastructure design and management from an international perspective and focused on the critical issues that society will face in the coming decades. The main objectives of the specialization are: i) to understand the factors that lead to variations in urban and regional growth and development; ii) to design and implement efficient and effective solutions for the management of resources in land use planning and transport infrastructures; iii) to define sustainable land use and transport development policies, taking into account environmental challenges, evolving cultural identities, technological innovation and complex community dynamics.

Study Plan

1st Year

2nd Year

1st semester

2nd semester

1st semester

2nd semester

Structural Engineering
Building Pathology and Retrofit
Territory and Transport Engineering
Hidrology and Urban Hydraulics
Geotechnical Engineering

Economics and Management
Construction Management
Traffic Engineering
Transferable Skills

Choose 2 of the following courses:
+ Urban Development and Housing
+ Environment and Climate Change Policy
+ Any Course of M.EC specializations
Choose 5 of the following courses:
+ Railway Systems
+ Transport Modelling
+ Transport Infrastructures
+ Urban Environment Quality and Planning
+ Urban Forms and Structures
+ Planning Transports and Mobility
+ Urban and Metropolitan Policies
+ Spatial Planning System
+ Any Course of UPorto (2nd cycle)

Dissertation