BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering - Part-time

Modules listed below are a mixture of compulsory and optional. You may not have the opportunity to study all the modules as part of the course.

• Communications Technology
• Construction and Materials Technology 1
• Ground and Water Studies 1
• Site Surveying and Site Practice
• Mathematics and Structural Analysis
• Mathematics and Structural Design
• Construction Management
• Construction and Materials Technology 2
• Engineering Mathematics and Structures
• Ground and Water Studies 2
• Highway Design and Control
• Research Methods and Professional Practice
• Advanced Structural Analysis and Design
• Dissertation
• Geotechnical Engineering and Ground Improvement
• Interdisciplinary Project
• Advanced Surveying Procedures
• Concrete Technology and Practice
• Construction Management
• Professional Development Module
• Project and Environmental Management
• Structural Planning
• Transport Studies
• Water Engineering and the Environment

A significant proportion of your study experiences will mirror industry scenarios and conditions. For example, you’ll take on an interdisciplinary group project in your final year, which is designed to simulate a construction project from inception to completion. Throughout the project, you’ll effectively be a civil engineer, working within a team of other construction specialists.

Civil engineering being such a diverse and multi-faceted role, we’ve made sure we use a wide range of teaching and learning methods to help you acquire the appropriate concepts, knowledge and skills for success. While you’ll have plenty of opportunities to learn directly from tutors and technicians during timetabled classes, practical work and tutorials, you’ll also be expected to allocate significant time to independent and self-directed studies. For example, we recommend you plan and commit to background reading, revisiting practical work, attending lectures and technical reviews provided by professional bodies, preparing for seminars, working on assignments and revising for exams. That said, we’re here to guide and support you, so we’ll gladly help you devise an independent study regime that should support your success.

The course offer site visits, which provide an excellent opportunity to view state-of-the-art projects and see how your newly discovered insights and knowledge apply. You can also benefit from individual and small-group tutorial sessions and group study sessions, where you can share and develop ideas and consolidate your learning.

We assess your individual performance through a strategic blend of practical work, exams, essays, presentations, laboratory write-ups and other assignments. Course assessments are both ‘formative’ and ‘summative’. Formative assessments comprise tailored feedback to support your individual learning and development needs, and do not contribute directly to your marks for each module in the way that summative assessments do. They do, however, help you build on your strengths and overcome any weaknesses, and contribute to your overall success.

The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis. The content of course modules and mode of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules are up to date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material and the programme specification contain indicative ‘optional modules’ that may be subject to change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this reason we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module.