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Bachelor of Engineering (with Honours) - BEng (Hons)
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Full Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
Are you looking for a rewarding and challenging career? Civil engineering can offer you a career that can literally change the world. Civil engineers design, construct, and maintain features of the natural and the built environment, skills that help solve the problems communities face today, and prepare for those that will confront us in the future. Inspired by these challenges, Brunel has designed its Civil Engineering BEng programme. It will engage your creative spirit and support your development as an effective learner, while equipping you with the skills needed to thrive in multidisciplinary engineering team environments. Throughout your degree you will study in a range of sector-leading labs and be taught by a unique team of highly experienced civil engineering academics from across the globe. After a broad-based first year studying a range of engineering disciplines, in Year 2 we focus on core knowledge of civil engineering, such as material science, structural analysis, hydraulics and surveying. In your final year you can either stay on the main civil engineering programme, or choose one of our two specialist pathways in environmental engineering or flood and coastal engineering. Between your second and third years you can undertake a placement year – a great opportunity to prepare yourself for the world of work. You could find yourself working in an office, design projects, or working outdoors, on construction sites. We highly recommend taking a placement as it can improve your prospects of getting the job you most desire after graduating. At the end of their final year, engineering and maths students are invited to showcase their project work at Brunel Engineers +, an event that both celebrates their achievements and gives them the chance to network with industry figures and employers
Understanding of the electronic and computer engineering professions and what being a Chartered Engineer involves; designing basic analogue and digital electronic systems.
Design skills: problem solving, engineering design, introductory project management, communication, teamwork, health and safety, sustainability and security.
Principles governing thermodynamics and fluid flow; applying classical engineering thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and basic heat transfer to engineering systems.
Solid foundation in engineering mathematics and introductory programming.
Continues the foundation in engineering mathematics and introductory programming.
Main engineering concepts applied across all disciplines: measurement and uncertainty, Newtonian physics applied to design and analysis, and the basics of fluid behaviour.
Fundamental principles of engineering mechanics (statics and dynamics of rigid bodies) and knowledge of engineering materials and manufacturing processes.
Core principles and values underpinning the work of engineers and responsibilities to society; Engineering Council standards and skills to thrive in higher education and professional life.
Cement, concrete mixtures, preparation and measuring properties of structural concrete; principles of structural design and the iterative design process; applying structural design for concrete to current codes of practice.
Conceptual design solutions for an engineering task; stages of project development, client/stakeholder needs, codes of practice, sustainability and whole-life CO2 emissions; team working and communication.
Engineering fluid mechanics, hydraulics and hydrological processes applied to flow in pipes and open channels, hydraulic and coastal structures, energy dissipation, runoff estimation and flooding risks.
Application of mathematical modelling to engineering problems, mathematical techniques to solve problems and programming techniques useful for solving mathematical models.
Qualitative understanding of stresses and strains in structural members; determining elastic stresses and strains, critical stresses and failure criteria; composition and mechanical response of steel, concrete and timber.
Technical skills in civil engineering surveying and construction; principles and methods of site investigation, engineering drawing, setting out, use of levels and theodolites, and GIS tools.
The multi-phase nature of soil, the effective stress concept and consolidation; how soil behaves under engineering loads and construction processes and engineering design of geotechnical systems.
Analysing structures including statically indeterminate structures and the fundamental principles and main tools for the analysis of solid body mechanics.
Key principles of limit state design; preliminary design and structural analysis of structural steelwork, buckling in steel beams and columns, and design of timber structures to Eurocode 5.
Apply core civil engineering concepts, analytical methods and design tools to complex problems; project delivery in a professional context and creative, technically robust solutions with circular economy principles.
Technical knowledge and management skills for environmental decision making related to pollution and solid waste; fundamentals of environmental science and contaminated site challenges.
Planning and conducting a major civil engineering project; application of analytical, numerical and/or experimental methods and preparing a professional-standard technical report.
Basic principles of seepage, consolidation and shear strength of soils; rock mass strength, slope stability, bearing capacity and foundations.
Project feasibility, management theory, construction procurement, risk management and project planning; application of management procedures for delivery of civil engineering projects.
Infrastructure systems and how climate change affects sustainable infrastructure development; contemporary transport planning, resilience-based design and adapting infrastructure systems.
Accommodation (on campus)- 690-1,094 per month
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