Civil Engineering Department (Construction) is the first department that was established in 2009 as one of the major branches of the Engineering Faculty, and then it was considered the second faculty at the level of higher education institutions. In fact, it is a general department and the subjects of different major branches of engineering can be found in its curriculum. Currently, the subjects of three fields are taught in this Department:
1- Civil Engineering
2- Transportation Engineering
3- Environmental Engineering
the field of construction projects, conducting academic and professional research and providing advice.
Teaching Facilities of Civil Department
In order to standardize and ensure the quality of education, Salam University has provided all the necessary facilities for the development and promotion of this department which are mentioned as below:
Academic Cadres
The majority of the Faculty Academic cadre members of the Civil Department of the Engineering Faculty have higher education degrees at the level of master and Ph.D. degrees from foreign international universities and have sufficient experience and expertise. In addition, the University always strives to improve the quality, quantity and systematization of Civil Department programs so that the University can introduce it as the most reliable, quality, standard, honest and service-oriented educational body in the country.
Currently, the total number of professional professors in the Civil Department of the Faculty of Engineering is (27). Ten of them are full-time professors and (17) others are part-time professors.
Also, there are (5) professors for teaching Islamic culture and (2) others for teaching Vocational English Language, so the total number of professional and non-professional professors hits 34 ones.
The total number of permanent and contract professors based on category of degrees and the category percentage is as below.
NumberPercentage
Ph.D.: 411.11 %
Masters: 1258.33%
Bachelors: 1130.55%
Total: 36100%
Expected Results and Skills from the Students
Graduates of Civil Department are expected to gain the following abilities:
1- Ability to design building structures.
2- Ability to design hydraulic buildings.
3- Ability to design roads.
4- Ability to design water supply and drainage systems
5- Ability to implement, manage and lead any type of construction project.
6- Ability to control the quality of construction work.
7- Ability to check and test various construction materials.
The Civil Engineering Department of the Faculty of Engineering as an academic and specialized department, wants to utilize its available facilities to educate committed and specialized engineers in order to meet the needs of community in the field of planning and implementing standard construction projects.
Mission
In order to acquire its vision, the Civil Department is strongly determined to educate Engineers, academic and committed cadres in
The topics of Salam Journal Issue 12, Fall 2022
It is our pleasure that this issue of Salam Academic Journal also covers a wide variety of
contents, all of which are updates and discuss the issues according to the need of the time. The
brief introduction of articles in this issue is as follows:
The first research, titled “Islamic Jurisprudence as a Source of Law or as an Alternative for
Law?" has been done by Dr. Misbahullah Abdul Baqi, Chancellor of Salam University. In this
article, it has been discussed in detail that the existence of Islamic Jurisprudence does not
dispense the country with the law because there are many issues that the laws should contain,
which have not been discussed in jurisprudence, and there are some issues that have been
discussed, but there are different opinions about, which either need to be preferred initially
since the preference (Tarjih) has not been quoted, and there are some other rulings whose
preference have been quoted but the basis of the preference has changed, which necessitates to
rethink about the preference. Although the article is a little long, its importance convinced the
Editorial Board to give permission to publish the complete article in the same issue.
The second research, titled “The Way to Get Rid of the Acquired Unlawful Property” has
been done by Dr. Najibullah Saleh, A professor of Nangarhar University. In this important
research, it has been studied how to get rid of unlawful property if it comes in a person’s
possession. This is an important issue that many people are facing with and need a proper
opinion and ruling about it.
The third research, titled “Reflection of Concepts of the Holy Quran in the Poems of Allama
Iqbal Lahori” has been done by Dr. Abdul Sabboor Fakhri, A professor at the Faculty of
Literature of Kabul University. He has studied a very important topic. He has tried to prove
that most of the thoughts of Allama Iqbal are directly influenced by the Holy Quran.
The fourth research, titled (Concept, Fundamentals and Principles of Criminal Politics) has
been done by Pro. Mr. Abu Bakr Mudaqq, Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs-Salam
University. It is about an issue that every country immensely requires in order to combat
crimes. In this article, he made it clear that there is a serious need for a number of principles to
determine the procedure of fight against crime and criminal, and these principles are called
Criminal Politics. This research answers a number questions, which are: what is the concept of
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criminal politics? How was it created? What are its principles and fundamental topics? In
general, this research is a brief introduction to a new science called "Criminal Politics".
In the English section, we have only one research, titled (Increasing Engineers’ Role in
Construction Safety: Opportunities and Barriers) which has been done by Mr. Ahmad Naveed
Rabani He studied a very important topic which is the issue of a trained engineer’s role in
construction safety and preventing incidents, which often occur in construction projects. He
discussed its importance in details.
The articles published in Salam Academic Journal reflect the views of the authors, but the
pages of the Journal are always at the service of esteemed authors for the publication of sound
criticism of the published articles.
وسبحانک اللهم وبحمدک نشهد أن ال إله إال أنت نستغفرك ونتوب إليك.