On your civil engineering bachelors degree, you will be taught by industry experts who are active practitioners at the forefront of research.

Your course will equip you with core engineering skills and knowledge. It will also cover global challenges, such as sustainability, risk assessment and environmental protection, helping to learn cutting-edge technologies and methods for planning, design, construct more efficiently in civil engineering. In civil engineering, you will gain valuable technical knowledge, transferable skills and practical experience from Industrial experts through site visits, fieldworks, guest lecturer from industry and professional bodies, industry-based individual project and project dissertation.

You will study the key civil engineering disciplines including:

• structure
• geotechnics
• materials
• hydraulics
• transportation and highway engineering
• construction management.

As a civil engineering undergraduate, this degree is designed to help you find the career that is right for you. You will have the chance to specialise in areas that interest you and be able to work in various environment such as design office, construction site and project supervision and management.

You can see the list of the modules delivered in civil engineering. All modules except project dissertation are core (compulsory) with 20 credits. The project dissertation which will take two semesters is 40 credits. Most of the modules such as Construction Materials, Land Surveying 1 & 2, Fluid Mechanics, Soil Mechanics and Geology, Hydraulics and Geotechnical Design have either fieldworks, practical experiments or lab works. Civil engineering has several facilities and laboratories. You will have access to dedicated computing labs and other civil engineering labs including geotechnics lab, concrete lab, hydraulics lab and non-destructive testing centre, as well as a range of digital resources and computer modelling tools.

You will also have the chance to gain vital experience during a work-based learning project during industrial placement. Hands-on experience is a key element of this course, giving you confidence and the real-world expertise that employers value.

Placement*

You can also take this course with a 40-week full-time placement after your second year (Level 5) and before level 6. This is an opportunity to gain valuable experience in the workplace and have the chance to expand your network. You will be assessed with a work-in-progress report and return to study when the placement is over.

Once you graduate you could work as a:

• structural engineer
• water resources engineer 
• transportation engineer
• materials engineer
• construction engineer
• environmental engineer
• geotechnical engineer

Completing the course means you will also qualify for graduate ICE grade membership, giving you the support you need to begin your working life.