Civil Engineering

Civil engineers design, build, supervise and maintain infrastructure projects and systems, including buildings, roads, airports, tunnels, dams, bridges, waterways, drinking water supply and sewage systems.

On our civil engineering degree, you will gain the key analytical, technical and practical skills required to design complex civil engineering structures, effectively manage/lead construction projects and communicate effectively with other areas of expertise to successfully accomplish large projects.

The expertise of our academic staff, industry partners, and relevant professional bodies will feed directly into your degree training. You will study a broad discipline in civil engineering that qualifies you to work professionally, provide a better life for many people and protect the natural environment.

All this is achieved through your abilities, skills and knowledge to conceive, design, build and maintain the infrastructure that our towns and cities rely on.

This degree is accredited by the Joint Board of Moderators (JBM), comprising the:

• Institution of Civil Engineers
• Institution of Structural Engineers
• Institute of Highway Engineers
• The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation
• The Permanent Way Institution

This civil engineering bachelor's degree will equip you with core engineering skills and knowledge covering global challenges, such as sustainability, risk assessment and environmental protection, while helping you to learn cutting-edge technologies and methods for planning, designing, and constructing more efficiently in civil engineering.

You will be taught by industry experts who are active practitioners at the forefront of research, as well as gaining valuable technical knowledge, transferable skills and practical experience through site visits, fieldwork, guest lecturers and industry-based individual projects and project dissertations.

You will study the key civil engineering disciplines, including:

• structure
• geotechnics
• materials
• hydraulics
• transportation and highway engineering
• construction management.

As a civil engineering undergraduate, this degree is designed to help you find the career that is right for you. You will have the chance to specialise in areas that interest you and be able to work in various environments such as design offices, construction sites and project supervision and management.

You can see the list of the modules delivered in civil engineering. All modules except the project dissertation are core (compulsory) with 20 credits. The project dissertation, which will take two semesters, is 40 credits. Most of the modules, such as Construction Materials, Land Surveying 1 & 2, Fluid Mechanics, Soil Mechanics and Geology, Hydraulics and Geotechnical Design have either fieldwork, practical experiments or lab work.

Civil engineering has excellent facilities and laboratories. You will have access to dedicated computing labs and other civil engineering labs, including a geotechnics lab, concrete lab, hydraulics lab and non-destructive testing centre, as well as a range of digital resources and computer modelling tools.

You will also have the chance to gain vital experience during a work-based learning project or an industrial placement. Hands-on experience is a key element of this course, giving you confidence and the real-world expertise that employers value.

Finally, you will be taught by industry experts who are active practitioners at the forefront of research.