The School of Civil Engineering at Zhengzhou University was founded in 1958 as the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering. It currently comprises four departments: Building engineering, building environment engineering, transportation engineering, and underground building engineering, along with one comprehensive experimental center for civil engineering.
The school possesses a postdoctoral research station in the first-level discipline of civil engineering and a first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization point in civil engineering, covering four second-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points (structural engineering, disaster prevention and mitigation engineering and protective engineering, geotechnical engineering, and bridge and tunnel engineering), and a professional doctoral degree authorization point in transportation engineering.
The school holds first-level discipline master's degree authorization points in civil engineering, management science and engineering, and transportation engineering. It offers four undergraduate programs: Civil engineering, building environment and energy engineering, intelligent construction and smart transportation, and urban underground space engineering.
The school's research platforms include: the Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center for Fiber Composite Building Materials and Structures, the Henan Collaborative Innovation Center for New Urban Building Technology, the Henan International Joint Laboratory for Green Fiber Composite Building Materials and Structures, and more. It secures six to eight national-level research projects annually and eight to 10 provincial/ministerial-level research projects, with annual research funding exceeding 25 million yuan ($3.48 million).
The school currently has 140 faculty and staff members, including 31 professors and 45 associate professors; there are 20 doctoral supervisors and 107 master's supervisors.