Course Catalogue

The MEng in Civil Engineering fulfils all the academic requirements for Chartered Engineer status. It is designed to develop a high level of technical expertise together with the leadership skills needed to practice successfully as a professional engineer in the modern international civil engineering environment. The knowledge and skills gained from this programme are designed to enable graduates to make an immediate contribution to their employers, and to enable them to achieve the highest positions within the civil engineering profession. The educational aims of the MEng in Civil Engineering are to: 1. Provide a programme of study that fully meets the academic requirements for registration as a Chartered Engineer. 2. 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. 3. Enable the student to develop his/her intellectual, analytical and critical abilities in order that he/she might exercise those abilities within civil engineering. 4. Deliver an educational experience for the students which enables them to develop their knowledge of those scientific, mathematical and computational principles and methods relevant to civil engineering. 5. Develop the students’ ability to apply engineering concepts and tools to the solution of civil engineering problems. 6. Facilitate the development of design capability, from the understanding of customer needs through to the development and evaluation of innovative designs. 7. Encourage and enable students to develop the full range of communication skills. 8. Enable students to solve technical and intellectual challenges within the field of civil engineering, taking into consideration business, social, ethical and sustainability issues. 9. Provide the opportunities for students to combine theory with practice through the practical application of engineering skills. 10. Provide graduates with a range of highly relevant transferable skills such as team working, problem solving, self-learning as a foundation for lifelong CPD, and the ability to exercise initiative and personal responsibility. 11. Provide students with an extended period of work experience at an approved partner that will complement their programme of study at LJMU. This will give the students the opportunity to develop professional skills relevant to their programme of study, as well as attitude and behaviours necessary for employment in a diverse and changing environment. 12. 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. 13. 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. 14. Encourage students to engage with the development of employability skills by completing a self-awareness statement.

Lectures, tutorials, problem solving sessions, seminars, workshops, laboratory and computer sessions, off-site learning activities (including a surveying field course),participation in a group projects. Case studies from industry practitioners, and the use of real examples from within civil engineering add to the student knowledge and understanding. Specific work based modules will require the students to analyse and comment on their own work experiences and the techniques and practices to which they are exposed. The main vehicle for the skills development will be through the projects which involves verbal and visual presentations to a panel of experts, backing up by written reports. Unseen examinations, open book examinations, assignments, preparation of reports, design tasks, oral presentations, Visual presentations, workshops, peer review, computer-based exercises, work placement reports. Lectures, tutorials, problem solving sessions, seminars, workshops, laboratory and computer sessions, off-site learning activities, participation in a group projects. Unseen examinations, open-book examinations, assignments, preparation of reports, design tasks, oral presentations, visual presentations, workshops, peer review, computer-based exercises, work placement reports. Lectures, tutorials, problem solving sessions, workshops, laboratory and computer sessions, off-site learning activities, participation in group projects and individual investigational/research project. The major vehicles for practical skills are laboratory work, field work including the surveying field course week, and the research project at level 6. Unseen examinations, assignments, preparation of reports, design tasks, oral presentations, workshops, peer review, computer-based exercises, work placement reports. Assessment of field work and laboratory work also includes practical tests in situ. Lectures, tutorials, problem solving sessions, seminars, workshops, laboratory and computer sessions, off-site learning activities, participation in a group project. Unseen examinations, assignments, preparation of reports, design tasks, oral presentations, workshops, peer review, computer-based exercises, work placement reports. Tracking of key skills and civil engineering attainments.

To put the students' learning into appropriate vocational contexts project modules at all levels are assessed in realistic, industrially relevant contexts. At each level of the course students participate in cross disciplinary project modules and a major design project in the final year, mentored by industry, develops this further. The full-time course is offered in Sandwich mode so that after two years of study, students may elect to work in a design and/or consultancy practice or with a contractor for a one year placement. This would afford students the opportunity to contextualise their theoretical learning in a real life working environment.