Civil and Environmental Engineering

Overview

This course is designed to advance analytical skills in the core subject areas of civil engineering including structural analysis, sustainability and hydraulics. Application of modern IT techniques to complex problem solving is a theme that runs through the course. 

The course also covers broader issues of project and process management in Civil Engineering. 

Why choose this course?

Our MSc Civil and Environmental Engineering course is accredited by the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (ICES), and successful completion satisfies the academic requirements for chartered status.

The course is designed to advance your analytical skills and give you a better understanding of the interrelationship of current environmental issues and civil engineering. The course links these studies to the core subject areas of civil engineering including, but not limited to, sustainability, geotechnics and hydraulics.

You will have access to dedicated computing laboratory in two locations, and the academic and professional elements of the course are well supported by the university library. 

You will also have a range of digital resources available to you including specialist simulation packages with full licences such as: 

• ANSYS

• ETABS 

• SAFE  

• LUSAS.

This course is offered within a research-based school with some thirty PhD students, and it covers the broader issues of project and process management in Civil Engineering.