CIC

About Major

The Architecture major at CIC provides a various number of courses in different architectural disciplines, that teach students to highlight and solve problems, improve the built environment, consequently, preparing them for the professional field.

Program Objectives

1. Provide students with the skills, knowledge, and attitudes required to practice architecture by understanding engineering and architectural design fundamentals and theories.
2. Teach students to produce architectural and urban designs with various complexity and scales to adapt to the surrounding environment and achieve the required balance between function, aesthetical, economic, and environmental aspects, following sustainable and green architecture principles.
3. Develop students’ capabilities to transform architectural conceptual ideas into technical and detailed drawings that can be executed using different methods and building technologies.
4. Encourage students to recognize the physiological and psychological human needs in the built environment.
5. Promote using digital architecture and advanced software in architectural design and construction drawings.
6. Improve students’ management ability and decision-making skills to adapt easily to circumstances' changes and architectural profession updates.
7. Develop student self-learning skills, pursuing further field-related research and post-graduate studies.
8. Encourage students to collaborate efficiently with societal issues and provide valuable and various architectural services to meet the market needs with total commitment to the professional ethics.

What will I learn?

Architecture major teaches the students to identify the problems, understand their components, and be able to reconceptualize problems as opportunities. Specifically, architecture major teaches how to design/plan various building types (residential-educational-health care…etc.), in addition to, studying history and theory of architecture, building construction, urban design, interior design, and urban planning.

Career Path

There are several diverse jobs within the architecture program that can be occupied by an architect. Acceptance in these jobs depends on student orientation as well as the years of experience gained by the architect. The following jobs can be employed by the architect: Design Architect, Site Engineer, Urban Design/Planning Architect, Landscape Architect, Procurement Engineer, Quantity Surveying and Contracting Engineer, Site Manager, Interior Design Architect, and lastly, the architect can be appointed as a teaching assistant.

Mission

The Architectural Engineering program at the Higher Canadian Institute of Engineering, in the 6th of October city, is committed to preparing a distinguished graduate through an advanced competency-based educational program that ensures the acquisition of the employability and entrepreneurship skills to be capable of competing in the architectural labor market and keep pace with technological advancements, in addition to conducting advanced scientific research; and participating in sustainable community development all within a professional value and ethics framework