Civil Engineering

These modules are those we currently offer for 1 year (full-time).

• Architectural engineering systems: The aim of this module is for the student to understand the principles of thermodynamics, sustainable building management, natural ventilation methods, and renewable energy generation. The module will equip you with the fundamental knowledge and skills required to analyse, design, and integrate various sustainable practices into building management.
• Structural analysis and design: Here you will learn about structural design processes in concrete, masonry, timber, and steel, emphasizing elastic structural analysis methods and virtual forces. Students gain proficiency in analysing elastic indeterminate structures and understanding loadings 
  and structural stability. The module links to Interdisciplinary Design Project 2, enabling students to apply theoretical and analytical skills in a real-world context.
• Soil mechanics: Student will explore the soil mechanics and its applications in Civil Engineering. The module covers the fundamental principles governing soil behaviour, site investigation methodologies, and the laboratory testing of soils.
• Fluid Mechanics: This module covers the principles governing the behaviour of fluids and their applications in engineering. It introduces students to fluid statics and dynamics, the equations that govern fluid flow and the design of open channels and pipe, and hydraulic machines.
• Interdisciplinary Design Project 2: The project will cover a multi-faceted design problem of a building or part of one. You will develop holistic design thinking, further embed approaches that are sustainable and carbon neutral, continue with self-reflection and collaborative practices with other disciplines.

These modules are those we currently offer for 1 year (full-time).

• Further structural analysis: This module is a specialised exploration into advanced structural analysis techniques. The primary aim is to gain the necessary knowledge, understanding, and skills to analyse and solve complex problems around multi-variable structural systems. This includes an in-depth focus on both statically determinate and indeterminate structures, with an extended emphasis on the analysis of plates.
• Geotechnical engineering design: Here you will focus on design processes for foundations, retaining walls, and slopes. You will gain in-depth knowledge and skills essential for designing resilient, effective and stable support systems within the broader context of civil engineering projects. This module builds upon knowledge acquired in earlier modules: Structural Analysis and Design, and Geotechnics.
• Transport and water infrastructure design: You will focus on the theoretical foundations of highway and railway geometric design and construction. The emphasis is on providing for sustainable travel. It is designed to give students the knowledge and skills required to design transport alignments including horizontal and vertical geometry.
• Investigative project: This project is an individual investigative project on a matter connected with civil engineering chosen by the student. It should in some way relate to or encompass, matters connected with the climate crisis and/or UN Sustainable Development Goals.
• Interdisciplinary Design Project 3: Here you will further develop the skills to design larger more complex scale-built environment artefacts for a specific development site. The project will require research about the background to the site, and developments in construction practices and techniques.

These modules are those we currently offer for 1 year (full-time) for the MEng programme only.

• Construction project management: The aim of this module is to provide understanding and knowledge of all stages of the construction management processes from project inception to finish. It will cover an understanding and knowledge base around principles, theories, and practical applications of project management in the construction industry.
• Structural dynamics and earthquake engineering: Students will develop a deep understanding of vibration phenomena in structures, skills in employing theoretical and computational methods to predict and evaluate the dynamic response of structures, and skills in seismic analysis and design codes. 
• Advanced materials: The module offers an in-depth exploration into the advanced behaviours of materials. The student will develop an in-depth understanding of material innovations and will be introduced to methods for assessing embodied carbon and sustainability in the context of materials choice. 
• Geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering: Here you will learn about the potential and limits of geotechnical models. You will develop a deep understanding of soil stress and strain modelling, enhance skills in 
  numerical methods, and extract valuable lessons from geotechnical engineering failures. This module further extends to encompass geo-environmental engineering, considering the interaction between geotechnical processes and the environment.
• Interdisciplinary Design Project 4: Students will work in groups and individually to produce a design solution for a design brief, around issues in connection with sustainability, ethics and equality, diversity and inclusion. The engineering problem allocated to each group will be selected to allow collaborative working across different civil engineering disciplines and beyond that to different construction disciplines.

This course is offered as a degree with foundation year – a four-year programme which provides an additional foundation year at the beginning of the degree, that will give you academic and practical experience, as well as the skills you need to ensure you are equipped to successfully complete your chosen degree.

£2,000 Foundation Scholarships for all home students

Find out more about our degrees with a foundation year

Foundation programme delivered by the School of Continuing Education. The exact modules for our foundation programme are currently in development. For more information, please contact us.