The School of Civil Engineering (SoCE), Universiti Sains Malaysia was established in 1989 and since then SoCE has organized numerous seminars, conferences and short courses. These activities have encouraged and contributed towards the creation of knowledge, innovativeness and exchange of ideas. To date SoCE has sucessfully organized five national level conferences (AWAM’99, AWAM’01, AWAM’04, AWAM’07 and AWAM’09) and three AWAM International Conference on Civil Engineering (AICCE) in collaboration with other collaborating partners which are – Geohazard Information Zonation (GIZ) for the AICCE-GIZ’12, Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) for eco-AICCE’15, Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT) for IGNITE- AICCE’17, another collaboration with CIDB for AICCE’19, and a collaboration with Kyushu Institute if Technology (Kyutech), Japan for AICCE'22.

This year in-conjuction with Malaysian Universities Transport Research Forum Conference (MUTRFC 2026) , SoCE will be hosting AWAM International Conference in Civil Engineering (AICCE) 2026 in Penang Malaysia on 28-29th October 2026. Following the success of the previous AICCE in 2022, this AICCE’26 will provide another platform for academics and industries internationally for future collaboration opportunities.