A Brief about the department:

The Department of Engineering of Urban Planning at SPU defines “Urban planning Engineering” as a professional practice that applies systematic thinking, knowledge, ethical and societal principles, and innovative technologies to the problems and challenges of the natural and built environments. Planners use short and long-range vision, supported by information and analytical systems, as a means to improve quality of life and support healthy environments.

Historical summary about the department:

Urban planning was established in 2003-2004, it’s one of the major departments in the engineering technical college of Sulaimaniya polytechnic university-Chwarchra campus, which is in Chwarchra quarter in Sulaimaniya city.

Aims of the department:

a. Preparing innovative engineers who can address the needs of their communities and plan and implement state-of-art solutions to build safe, healthy, and enjoyable environments for people.
b. Striving to advance the scientific level of our graduates in different areas of city planning that parallels the ongoing scientific advancements.
c. Training our students on a commitment to city planning work ethics, professionalism, and public interest, and respect for law and regulations in making professional decisions.
d. Working to develop academic agreements and exchanges between our department and counterparts in regional and other international universities.
e. Developing collaboration between our department and various organizations in our society through undertaking joint seminars and workshops that strengthen real-life problem-solving skills among our students and future engineers to better meet the ever-changing market needs.
f. Working on improving education quality and processes that are in continuous improvement.
g. Encouraging active participation of our students with various city planning projects during their studying to gain skills and experience in their area of expertise.
h. To generating urban planning engineers for various fields such as (spatial planning, urban area planning, environmental planning, industrial planning, conservation and developing of ancient and historic areas, urban design, transportation planning, utilities, and public services planning, infrastructure planning, economic development planning, social planning, etc…) for a better arrangement of the city in general, especially cities of Kurdistan region in the way of making researches and program for developing the cities while cities become bigger day after day, the population increase and city life become more complex, for these reasons the necessity of planning for city arrangement will be the fact.

Importance of the department in the market:

As well as working in local authorities and government, engineer urban planners who graduated in Sulaymani Polytechnic University are work as leaders in government, community organizations, development, and real estate firms, work as consultants with architects and surveyors, and for charities and in the private sector. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of our program and the ever-evolving role of the professional planner, our graduates can expect to perform a variety of activities in a diversity of locations throughout their careers.

Importance of the department in society:

You might ask yourself, “What exactly is city planning?” Simply put, city planning is the art of turning space into place. As a city planner, you will design and facilitate the development of livable communities in both small and larger urban areas. As communities continue to evolve through the development and population growth, instead of reacting to these changes, communities are choosing to control their own fate through planning. That’s where you come in. As a city planner, you can help communities chart their future growth by helping them prepare socioeconomic and physical design plans. These plans take into consideration the needs of community residents, and through those plans, communities are able to enhance their quality of life, preserve the physical and natural environment, and promote economic growth. As the department with the only accredited city planning programs in the Region of Kurdistan, our mission is to provide leadership in the education of planning professionals through hands-on, community-based reflective learning, and to promote innovation in planning practice. In order to achieve this mission, we:
A- Provide leadership in the design and building of regenerative communities
B- Espouse an experiential approach to planning education that incorporates an understanding of planning from a global and multicultural perspective.
C- Adopt a symbiotic and proactive leadership relationship with planning professionals to continuously inform our teaching practices and use our research findings to influence planning practice.

Types of works can be implemented by the graduates of this department:

Career prospects are excellent. Planning careers covering a wide range of disciplines including planning, master planning, urban and landscape design, economics, heritage, transport consultancy, ecology, sustainability and environmental science, design consultancy, spatial planning, leisure planning, property development, green tourism, town center management or urban regeneration. The City Planners are accepted in government authorities as well as private sectors some example work include the Ministry of Housing; Environment and Protection Department; Planning and Development Board, instance, master Plan department, Research Institutes; Housing and Town Planning Agency; Transport Department; Local Government and community development NGO’s.

Which title can be given to the graduates of this department?

Engineer of City Planning

What are the pre-requisites of the students enable success in this department:

The applicant has to be a high school graduate (scientific branch) with an average score of 90 and above or the top three graduate students who hold a diploma in engineering fields.

Name of the academic staff of the department:

Name of the head of the department, call number, and university e-mail:

Tahir Mohammed Abdulkarim, 07709192181, tshikhani@yahoo.it

Name of decider of the departments:

Mr. Sirwan Ghafoor Salim (Assistant Lecturer)

Names of the department board: