Civil Engineering

About this programme

Use the international application route if you are from outside the UK or Ireland. Qualification Type(s) Bachelor of Engineering with Honours Master of Engineering with Honours This course in Civil Engineering is designed to allow graduates to work in both consultancy or contracting within industry. It includes elements of Structural design, Highway design and Water and Wastewater design. You will be involved in all aspects of planning and design, construction and operation and maintenance of the various types of Civil Engineering projects such as reservoirs, pipelines, and water/wastewater treatment plants related to the water and wastewater element of the course; roads, railways, bridges, tunnels, ports and airports related to the highways elements of the course and large multi-storey structures, sports stadia, commercial and industrial buildings, powerstations related to the structures elements of the course. The Belfast campus has new laboratories which you will use for modules in years 1 and 2 and potentially for your project work in final year. On the Jordanstown campus, the University has the second biggest fire lab in the UK and the biggest in a University setting. Research from this laboratory has formulated the Eurocodes for castellated beams. Lecturers from this area teach some of the structures elements of the course. The University regularly ‘refreshes’ courses to make sure they are as up-to-date as possible. In addition it undertakes formal periodic review of courses in a process called 'revalidation’ to ensure that they continue to meet standards and ar