Civil Engineering Studies

• Expert guidance, support and mentoring by Chartered Civil Engineering Lecturers with long-standing industrial experience.
• Excellent links with professional bodies and employers closely associated with our courses through guest lectures and external consultancy.
• Small tutorial groups allow close tutorial support, including additional sessions to help with maths.
• Access to Computer Aided Design suites, Building Information Modelling (BIM) data, analysis and simulation software.
• Access to hydraulics and structures laboratories.
• Site visits to large Civil Engineering/Construction projects throughout the course.

The first year (level 5) modules build on knowledge gained at HNC level, offering challenging opportunities that allow students to demonstrate their achievement in design, problem solving, analysis and assessment, application of working practice, specifications and standards, and health and safety requirements.

The Work Related module offers the opportunity for students to evaluate their own professional development needs and to devise a strategy to achieve these. A further purpose of this module is to enable students to reflect upon and to develop their own effectiveness in relation to their current employment practice.

• Highway Design
• Water Engineering
• Civil Engineering Maths
• Construction Technology
• Work Related Learning

In the final year, Project Management offers opportunities for students to demonstrate technical, financial, time- and people management skills, required in the execution of typical Civil Engineering projects. Building Information Management ( BIM) provides students with an insight into this innovative technology used to coordinate the full cycle of development, from inception, through the design and construction processes towards the management of the completed project, its potential adaptation and eventually its deconstruction.

The Individual Project will allow students to demonstrate independent learning, critical analysis and synthesising skills, and to demonstrate their understanding of research, analysis and the critical resources required to offer sustainable solutions to civil engineering problems. This module will also provide students with transferrable skills such as those required in the creation of technical reports and the preparation and submission of review documentation to Professional Bodies.

• Project Management
• Building Information Modelling (BIM)
• Individual Project

The information listed in this section is an overview of the academic content of the programme that will take the form of either core or option modules. Modules are designated as core or option in accordance with professional body requirements and internal academic framework review, so may be subject to change.