Doctorate Programmes

Postgraduate Study

Admission

Contact Us :

Postgraduate Office,
Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying,
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,
UTM Johor Bahru, 81310 Johor.

Tel: +6075530878/30896/30538
Fax: +6075566155
Email: pgfabu@utm.my

Introduction
The doctorate programmes offered by the faculty are in the field of architecture, quantity surveying, urban and regional planning, and transportation planning. The programmes are entirely conducted in research mode whereby students conduct original research under the supervision of experienced supervisors who are themselves PhD holders.
Name of Award
Doctor of Philosophy
Mode and Duration of Study
Mode of Study : Full-time
Minimum Duration : 2 years
Maximum Duration : 3 years
Classification of Courses
Classification Credits Percentage
1. University

a. General

b. Research Methodology

 100
3
3
2. Thesis – 0
Total  6 100
Award Requirements
For the award of Doctor of Philosophy, the students should achieve a total minimum of 6 credit hours, including the completion of Doctoral Thesis.
Areas of Research

 

Areas of Research:

1. Architecture

  • Architectural History, Theory, Culture and Criticism
  • Architectural Management and practice
  • Architecture education and design
  • CAD and BIM
  • Conservation and Heritage studies
  • Environmental Engineering & Architectural Sciences
  • Green building design
  • Housing design and human behavior
  • Urban Design and planning

 

2. Facilities Management

  • Facilities Technology and Information Management System
  • Project and Contract Management
  • Strategic Asset Management
  • Strategic Facilities Management
  • Strategic Maintenance Management
  • Value, Risk, Quality & Performance Management

 

3. Geomatics Engineering

  • 3D Laser Scanning and Mapping
  • Advanced Engineering Surveying
  • Cadastral Studies (Strata, Marine and Digital Database)
  • Close-Range Photogrammetry, Aerial and Thermal Mapping
  • Geodesy and Geodynamics
  • GNSS Satellite Navigation & Positioning System
  • Hydrographic and Bathymetric Survey
  • Optical and Islamic Astronomy
  • Physical Oceanography and Tidal Modelling
  • Subsurface Detection and Surveying

 

4. Geoinformatics

  • 3D-GIS and Multidimensional GIS
  • Big Geospatial Data Analytics
  • Geo-computation (Agent-Based Modelling)
  • Geospatial Databases
  • Geo-Visualisation (Cartography, AR, VR, MR and XR)
  • Mobile, Geospatial Cloud and Web GIS
  • Navigation Intelligence and Location-Based Services
  • Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)Spatial Statistics, Analysis and Modelling
  • Urban GIS

 

5. Landscape Architecture

  • Arts and Urbanism
  • Biodiversity Conservation & GIS Mapping
  • Child-friendly Environment
  • Education and Curriculum
  • Heritage Landscape and Architecture
  • Landscape Community and Spatial Planning
  • Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem Services
  • Landscape Technology
  • People-place Relationship
  • Urban-Planning and People Wellbeing

 

6. Land Administration and Development

  • IT Applications in Land Administration
  • Land Administration
  • Land Development
  • Land Economics
  • Land Law
  • Urban and rural management
  • Waqf Land

 

7. Property

  • IT Applications in Real Estate
  • Property Investment
  • Property Management
  • Property Portfolio Investment
  • Property Valuation
  • Real Estate Agency & Marketing

 

8. Quantity Surveying & Construction

  • Building Information Modelling
  • Building Services & Construction Technology
  • Construction Economics and Cost Management
  • Construction Health and Safety
  • Construction Innovation & Digitisation
  • Construction Procurement and Contract
  • Construction Project Management
  • Dispute Resolution and Adjudication
  • Sustainable Construction
  • Whole Life Value and Asset Management

 

9. Remote Sensing

  • Advanced Remote Sensing & Spatial Data Analytics
  • Agriculture Application
  • Climate Change
  • Digital Image and Signal Processing
  • Disaster and Risk Management
  • Environmental
  • Environmental sensing and feature extraction
  • Non imaging remote sensing
  • Sustainable Earth Resources Mapping & Analyses
  • Sustainable Environmental Management

 

10. Transportation Planning

  • Land Use-Transportation Interaction Modelling
  • Logistics Planning and Engineering
  • Public Transport Planning, Operations & Management
  • Regional Transportation Planning
  • Risk Management in Transportation
  • Sustainable and Smart Transportation
  • Transport Data Analytics and Big Data
  • Transport Economy
  • Transport Geography and GIS
  • Transport Law and Policy

 

11. Urban and Regional Planning

  • Environmental Planning, Climate Change and Low Carbon Society
  • Planning Education and Research
  • Planning Law, Policy and Development Control
  • Regional Planning and Urban Economics
  • Rural Development and Rural Well-Being
  • Sustainable Smart Cities in Housing and Community Planning
  • Tourism Planning and Management
  • Urban Analytics and Spatial Modelling
  • Urban Design, Heritage and Urban Morphology