Further Information
The Master's program is performed in cooperation with Kingston University London. The qualification is awarded by both institutions.
The aim of the Postgraduate Program is its graduates to expand their managerial skills in order to contribute to better decision-making in business management issues, and gain adequate practical experience in the field of manufacturing technology and application of new technologies in matters relating to civil engineers.
Course Content:
The curriculum includes courses which help graduates acquire the necessary knowledge to enable them to cope with the growing needs of the market and more generally of the construction industry. Construction companies' managers were asked and acknowledged that knowledge and use of PC-based technologies is now imperative, given that there is no previous practical experience.
Teaching subjects per direction:
a) Management in Construction
- Management of Project Risk, Quality and Safety
- Business in Practice
- Estimating, Tendering and Procurement
- Legal Obligations and Conditions of Contract
- Dissertation
b) Structural Design and Construction Management
- Management of Project Risk, Quality and Safety
- Seismic Design of Structures and Substructure Design
- Structural Design in Concrete and Steel
- Estimating, Tendering and Procurement
- Dissertation.
Relation To Employment
The Master's program is offered by the Piraeus University of Applied Sciences, Technological Education Institute of Piraeus (T.E.I. of Piraeus) in collaboration with Kingston University. Kingston University London is a member of the Joint Board of Moderators Organization, an Organization which controls educational institutions to ensure standards of education. With the acquisition of the Postgraduate Diploma graduates can enrol in the English Technical Chamber as Chartered Engineers.
They are also offered professional opportunities in England after acquisition of the Postgraduate Diploma.
Transitions
Access to this type of qualification have those who hold a Bachelor Degree (level 6). The selection of graduate students is mainly based on the following criteria: the overall grade of the Bachelor Degree, the grades in undergraduate courses that are relevant with the subjects of the Master’s program, the performance in thesis, where is foreseen at the undergraduate level and any research activity of the candidate. The detailed application of the above mentioned criteria, the definition of additional criteria or the conducting of examinations and interviews, the results of which are taken into account in the selection, are determined by decision of the relevant Department.
Holders of such qualifications gain access to study programmes at the same level or at level 8.
Ways To Aquire
Qualifications of this type are acquired via formal education.