Civil Engineering

Description

On our programmes, you will gain the knowledge and skills required for a rewarding career as a Chartered Civil Engineer. You will develop a sound understanding of the mathematical, analytical and practical engineering techniques needed to ensure that you can develop safe, sustainable and cost-effective design ideas. Alongside this, you will be helped to acquire key personal and professional skills that underpin the management required to bring any project into reality.

The University of Surrey has offered degree programmes in Civil Engineering since its inception, and we are recognised nationally as providing an excellent balance of academic studies, practical skills and professional experience. You can choose to study either an MEng or BEng degree, and a Professional Training placement year is an option for both programmes. In addition there are opportunities to learn a language while studying.

What you'll study

Civil engineers are active, creative professionals who combine technical, practical and managerial skills. They are responsible for the planning, design and construction of roads, dams, waterways, tunnels, buildings, harbours, airports and bridges, to name just a few examples.

On the Civil Engineering degree programme, you will learn how civil engineers provide the physical infrastructure of our society. Whether it is the supply of life-giving clean water in the aftermath of a humanitarian crisis or the design and construction of a multi-million-pound Olympic stadium, the expertise of professional civil engineers is key.

Both the BEng and MEng are accredited routes for chartered status. The MEng degree fully satisfies the educational base for a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and therefore offers you a fast-track to senior levels of responsibility in industry and chartered status. The BEng partially satisfies the educational base for a Chartered Engineer. A programme of accredited Further Learning will be required to complete the education base for CEng.

Detailed Course Facts

• EUR 10790 Year (EEA)
• EUR 19000 Year (Non-EEA)

UK/EU Students -£9,000.00 ;
Overseas Students - £15,920.00

• English

Course Content

Year 1 (FHEQ Level 4)

During year 1, our aim is to provide you with experience across a broad base of engineering topics and to introduce the core personal and professional competencies of communication and teamwork. This level includes various intensive modules, such as the week-long geology field course and a week-long intensive module in integrated design. These, along with a number of site visits, offer a refreshing, interactive and student-centred approach to learning.

Modules include:

• Civil Engineering Practice and Surveying
• Engineering Geology
• Fluid Mechanics and Pipe Hydraulics
• Integrated Design 1
• Materials and Statics
• Mathematics
• Structures

Year 2 (FHEQ Level 5)

In year 2, you will cover the major civil engineering subjects in depth, alongside teamwork, leadership and further opportunities to consolidate your communication skills. Learning is undertaken in a variety of ways – small groups and as an individual – and covers the full range of civil engineering design and practical laboratory-based work. There is a week-long intensive study on the surveying field course and on integrated design.

Modules include:

• Construction Materials
• Hydraulics and Environmental Quality
• Integrated Design 2
• Statistical and Numerical Methods
• Soil Mechanics
• Structural Design
• Structural Mechanics and Analysis
• Surveying, Measurement and Health and Safety

Professional Training placement (optional)

You are encouraged to undertake a Professional Training placement year to gain practical experience of how industry works. You will appreciate things that you cannot learn in a lecture or laboratory.

Some companies that participate in the scheme include: Atkins, Balfour Beatty, Capita Symonds, Costain, Bachy Soletanche, Ringway, WSP, Tony Gee & Partners, Hyder Consulting, BAM Nuttall, Mott MacDonald, Hochtief, Halcrow, Skanska, Jacobs, Kier Group, Keller, Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), Arup, Sisk and Peter Brett Associates.

Year 3 (FHEQ Level 6)

During year 3, you will have the opportunity to specialise. In addition to core material (structural, geotechnical and hydraulic engineering and management studies), you will be able to choose from a list of optional modules and will undertake an in-depth individual project on a topic of interest to you. This usually involves several components and may include a literature study, experimental work, computer modelling and comparisons with previous research.

Modules include:

• Construction Business and Project Management
• Environmental Engineering and Hydrology
• Geotechnical Engineering 1
• Individual Project
• Integrated Design 3
• Optional modules covering water and environment, and transportation
• Structural Engineering

Year 4 (MEng only, FHEQ Level 4)

During Year 4 (MEng only), group design and project work form a major part of your studies which involves collaboration with both industrial consultants and students from other engineering disciplines, providing you with the opportunity to appreciate other engineers’ perspectives. A wide range of optional modules to broaden and deepen your knowledge are also offered.

Modules include:

• Multidisciplinary Design Project
• Construction Management and Law
• Wind Engineering
• Geotechnical Engineering 2
• Choice of 3 optional MSc modules covering advanced topics in structural, bridge, traffic and transportation, and water engineering

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6.5

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

Requirements

A-level

MEng: A-level grades AAA

BEng: A-level grades AAB

We do not include General Studies or Critical Thinking in our offers.

BTEC (QCF Level 3) Extended Diploma

DDD (in an appropriate subject, with a supporting A-Level in Mathematics at grade B or above)

European Baccalaureate

MEng: 76%

BEng: 75%

(including 8 in Mathematics and Physics)

International Baccalaureate

MEng: 37 points (including 12 points at HL from Mathematics and Physics)

BEng: 35 points (including 11 points at HL from Mathematics and Physics)

Other international qualifications

If you are an international student and you don’t meet the entry requirements to this degree, we offer the International Foundation Year.

Required subjects

GCSE English Language and Mathematics at grade C or above (or equivalent).

Mathematics A-level and Physics A-level (or equivalent) is required.

Selection process

Offers are normally made in terms of grades. Suitable candidates will be invited to an Applicant Day. During the visit to the University the candidate can find out more about the programme and meet staff and students.

English language requirements

Non-native speakers of English will normally be required to have IELTS 6.5 or above, with a minimum of 6.0 in each sub-skill (or equivalent).

We offer intensive English language pre-sessional courses, designed to take you to the level of English ability and skill required for your studies here.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Surrey.

Funding

Bursaries and scholarships

We encourage applications from everyone with the ability to study for a Surrey degree, and understand that finance is a factor that affects most people’s decisions. We are committed to making sure that we offer support for students who might need it.

Our bursaries and scholarships are among the most competitive in the country, with both merit-based and means-tested awards available.

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/discover/undergraduate-tuition-fees-bursaries-scholarships