Course Catalogue

To provide a well-balanced education which allows the student to achieve his/her full academic potential and in doing so to facilitate the development of independent logical thought and judgement. To enable the student to develop his/her intellectual, analytical and critical abilities in order that he/she might exercise those abilities within Civil Engineering. To produce a basis for general professional experience and to develop a critical understanding of the professional, business and commercial environment. To facilitate the development of transferable and graduate employability skills and an awareness of the need to plan, develop and record life long learning. To provide the framework within which students can achieve the level of attainment, appropriate to their abilities in the context of the programme of study that provides recognition of that level. To offer the student the opportunity for applying knowledge and understanding in the workplace via a placement year. To provide a medium for Honours students to explore the potential of their acquired knowledge and to pursue those aspects which they find most stimulating. To widen access to the programmes by recognising and allowing credits for prior certificated learning and/or prior experiential learning (APL/APEL),or by credit transfer. To develop skills to ensure that the graduate will operate within a sound Health and Safety framework as provided by the regulatory framework of the industry. To develop critical awareness of all aspects of sustainability to ensure that graduates operate responsibly within their chosen discipline, and make positive choices in this context. To ensure that Civil Engineering students develop their own identity. Civil Engineering graduates are concerned with the design of major construction projects, usually infrastructure work such as roads, tunnels and bridges. Civil Engineering graduates can choose to work in a design office where they will apply high level numeracy skills to practical design projects. Alternatively, they may choose to work for a contractor and manage the construction process for these types of work. They need detailed knowledge and understanding of structures, hydraulics, geotechnics and materials used in construction. They need to have skills such as setting out, land surveying and computer aided design. To encourage students to fully engage with the World of Work programme, including World of Work Skills Certificate and, as a first step towards this, to complete Bronze (Self Awareness) Statement.

Lectures, tutorials, problem solving sessions, seminars, workshops, laboratory and computer sessions, off-site learning activities, participation in group projects and individual investigational/research project. Unseen examinations, assignments, preparation of reports, design tasks, oral presentations, workshops, peer review, computer-based exercises, work placement reports.

The industrial training year provides a work based learning opportunity for students studying the programme in sandwich mode. The programme has active links with industry and involves employers in the industrial projects at each level of the programme. Real world case studies are used wherever possible.