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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
City Centre Campus (The Curzon Building)
Full Time
Sep 2027
3 Year
Are you ready to shape the world around you, from essential infrastructure and transport systems to innovative buildings and public spaces? Our BSc (Hons) Civil Engineering degree offers a comprehensive and future-focused education that prepares you to design, build and maintain the structures and systems that keep society running. This course gives you a strong grounding in the core disciplines of civil engineering, including structural analysis, geotechnics, materials, and construction management, giving equal focus to infrastructure, transportation, and buildings. Whether you're interested in developing sustainable housing, designing efficient transport networks, or maintaining large-scale infrastructure, you'll gain the knowledge and skills to make a real impact. Throughout your studies, you’ll apply theory to practice in our well-equipped labs, using the latest industry-standard tools such as CAD, BIM, and FEM software. You’ll also explore how digital innovation, environmental responsibility, and climate resilience are transforming the future of civil engineering - and how you can contribute to the change. With a strong focus on project-based learning, you’ll have opportunities to work on engineering problems based on real-life scenarios, from planning new motorways to designing sustainable buildings and managing construction sites. Site visits and guest lectures from practising engineers help bring your learning to life and connect you with current industry practice. You’ll also develop vital professional skills, including problem solving, communication, teamwork, and project planning, that are highly valued by employers. Optional work placements or summer internships will allow you to gain industry experience and strengthen your CV before you graduate. Join us and start building a future where your ideas become the structures, systems, and spaces we all depend on!
Professional Placement YearThis course offers an optional professional placement year. This allows you to spend a whole year with an employer, following successful completion of your second year, and is a great way to find out more about your chosen career. Some students even return to the same employers after completing their studies. If you choose to pursue a placement year, you will need to find a suitable placement to complement your chosen area of study. You will be able to draw on the University’s extensive network of local, regional, and national employers, and the support of our Careers teams. If you are able to secure a placement, you can request to be transferred to the placement version of the course. Please note that fees are payable during your placement year, equivalent to 20% of the total full-time course fee for that year.
Mathematics plays a key role in establishing and grounding the skills of an engineer, and the ability to communicate the ideas of engineering that are expected of an engineering graduates. The primary aim of this module is to provide the fundamental mathematical knowledge and techniques needed in order to enable you to use and apply such mathematical techniques for the evaluation, analysis, modelling and solution of realistic engineering problems. Application of these data sets has to include their interpretation both to and from the mathematical language. In addition, this module will introduce students to mathematical modelling software package. This will be used to plot, annotate basic signals and write simple programs to compute mathematical problems. This module will develop your ability to both work on and communicate engineering realities to a wider audience, at a professional standard.
Civil Engineering is a discipline that covers wide range of subjects and knowledge, essential to solving real-world problems, such as climate change and the environment impact of infrastructure. This requires a solid understanding of a wide range of Civil Engineering areas such as fluid mechanics, engineering geology, sustainability, and the applied practices of civil engineering science.
Civil engineering infrastructures must be designed in order to resist environmental loadings and impacts. This requires fundamental knowledge of structural analysis of civil engineering structures and behaviour assessment of civil engineering materials subject to various types of loadings and stresses.
Civil Engineering is a practical discipline, whose output is typically described in the form of design reports. Civil Engineers are required to analyse competing solutions to engineering problems, often relying on incomplete data and contradicting requirements. Moreover, the environmental impact of civil engineering projects is considerable, and it is our social responsibility to minimise it. Civil Engineers need to communicate and justify their design decisions using a variety of media, such as text, calculations, drawings, models, as well as presentations to clients and other stakeholders. Finally, Civil Engineering is a discipline that typically requires working in teams: effective and transparent teamwork is the key to a successful Civil Engineering project.
Digital construction is an integral component of contemporary design, development and maintenance of modern residential development. Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology is at the forefront of the progressive movement towards total digitalisation of the built environment.
Gain insight into how construction sites are managed, seeing how health and safety, scheduling, resource planning, and leadership are applied on-site.
Learn how to design and analyse road infrastructure, in line with industry standards.
In accordance with the programme philosophy and aims, this module has been designed to enable you to use problem-based learning to understand the Technology of Civil Engineering and innovations now being applied. It investigates a civil engineering project from its inception to its construction and identifies the methods and techniques used in constructing a range of structures and infrastructure.
In accordance with the programme philosophy and aims, this module has been designed to enable you to use problem-based learning to understand the geological materials and effects of soil mechanics on Civil Engineering and relate it to information about the geotechnical tests and reports. It includes opportunities to complete laboratory tests to define certain properties of soils. The module follows the Civil Engineering programme philosophy of developing your intellectual and practical competence in technical, theoretical and environmental aspects of civil engineering. Similarly the learning and teaching philosophy incorporates learning through formal lectures including, seminars, tutorials, laboratory tests and problem based scenarios. Learning is practice-based, knowledge applied and work related including project based activities.
Develop your design skills through project-based learning, working together with students from other Built Environment disciplines, and producing solutions that consider a range of real-world constraints.
In accordance with the programme philosophy and aims, this module has been designed to enable students to use problem-based learning to understand the properties, behaviour, and uses of materials of Civil Engineering. The module follows the Civil Engineering programme philosophy of developing your intellectual and practical competence in technical, theoretical and environmental aspects of civil engineering. The learning and teaching philosophy emphasises practical work. Laboratory activities consist a major part of the module, covering all common Civil Engineering materials. These are supplemented by seminars, group work activities, and problem-based scenarios. Students are encouraged to plan their own work schedules, manage their time and extend their presentational skills.
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is an intelligent 3D model-based process that provides built environment professionals with the insight and tools to help plan, design, construct, and manage buildings and infrastructure. In this module, you will be encouraged to explore the potential of BIM in helping to understand the social, economic and environmental benefits associated with co-ordinated infrastructure and complex structure development.
This module is designed to provide you with the opportunity to undertake a credit bearing, 40- week Professional Placement as an integral part of your Undergraduate Degree. The purpose of the Professional Placement is to improve your employability skills which will, through the placement experience, allow you to evidence your professional skills, attitudes and behaviours at the point of entry to the postgraduate job market. Furthermore, by completing the Professional Placement, you will be able to develop and enhance your understanding of the professional work environment, relevant to your chosen field of study, and reflect critically on your own professional skills development within the workplace.
Work collaboratively across disciplines to deliver a full engineering design, combining structural, geotechnical, and environmental considerations using real-world data and digital design tools.
Explore how data and simulation are used to plan and optimise transport systems. Learn modelling techniques for traffic flow and sustainable transport planning.
Develop key skills in managing civil engineering projects, including budgeting, scheduling, and risk assessment, using tools and methods used by industry professionals.
Prepare for your career with a focus on ethics, continuing professional development, professional membership, and the responsibilities of engineers in today's global and diverse working environment.
Undertake a major independent research project on a topic of your choice, demonstrating your technical knowledge, problem-solving ability, and project management skills.
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