Partner Details

Unicaf

Awards

Target Award

Award Description:Master of Science - MS
Alternative Exit
Alternative Exit

Programme Offerings

Part-Time

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Educational Aims of the Course

The overall aim of the programme is to produce postgraduates who are able to develop into Engineers, and who are able to play a significant role as professional civil engineers. It aims to develop the skills needed by those who will take lead roles within the civil engineering profession. The specific aims of the programme are:
1) To produce postgraduates who have a thorough understanding of civil engineering and a critical awareness of the current issues in the field, informed by the latest research.
2) To encourage students to develop their conceptual understanding of civil engineering to evaluate the latest research and design methodologies, and to develop their own methodologies.
3) To develop the students' awareness of the ethical issues of civil engineering and their responsibilities with regard to sustainable construction.
4) To offer experience in the planning and execution of an extended research project in the form of a dissertation.
5) To provide opportunities for students to develop subject specific skills, practical skills, cognitive skills and a range of high level transferable skills.

Teaching, Learning and Assessment

The methods used to enable outcomes to be achieved and demonstrated are as follows:
Acquisition of knowledge is achieved mainly through online lectures, seminars and problem solving activities.
Students are expected and encouraged to take an active role in their learning through online debates, and discussions. Students are encouraged to attend professional body talks and visits. The assessments are designed as part of the learning process, and both individual and group feedback on the assignments adds to their knowledge base.
Assessment of the knowledge base is through a combination of written assignments and the dissertation.
Intellectual skills are developed through online interactive activities of the taught modules, and through case studies and assignments. These skills are further developed in the dissertation module, which is supplemented by the teaching of these skills in the Research Methodology module. The skills of critical evaluation are an integral part of most assessments, and feedback on these assessments is an integral part of the learning process.
Intellectual skills are assessed through a combination of written assignments, and the dissertation report.
Professional skills are developed throughout the programme mainly through online discussions, interactive activities and the dissertation.
The assessment of professional skills is mainly through written assignments.
Transferable skills are taught throughout the programme, in all learning activities.
Transferable skills are assessed throughout the range of assessment methods (written and assignments, quizzes and the dissertation).

Opportunities for work related learning

To put the students' learning into appropriate vocational contexts project modules are based on real projects.

Programme Structure

Programme Structure Description

Students will register for one module at a time and must complete the whole programme within 5 years.The Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate are alternative exit awards. A total of 60 credits is required for a PG Certificate and 120 credits for a PG Diploma (excluding the dissertation).For all Masters … For more content click the Read More button below.

Entry Requirements

Alternative qualifications considered
Relevant work experience
Undergraduate degree

HECoS Code(s)

(CAH10-01) engineering