Civil Engineering BEng (Hons) / MEng

You'll recognize basic techniques for common on-site activities like excavation, concrete work, and steelwork. With a focus on health, safety, quality, and the environment, you'll identify risks and outline mitigation measures. Through case studies, you'll work on appropriate construction methods, estimate resource needs, and appreciate the importance of planning cost, time, and quality. By the end of the module, you'll have the solid understanding of temporary and permanent structures you'll need to manage complex construction projects.

You'll manipulate equations, model complex systems, integrate real-world datasets, and determine appropriate techniques for different technical challenges.

You'll gain skills in technical drawing, collaboration, surveying and design. You'll also build key career abilities for working in diverse teams and recognising future career pathways.

You'll analyse different types of metals, concrete, and masonry to understand their properties and behaviour. Through hands-on laboratory testing of materials like steel and concrete, you'll evaluate how mix design affects performance. Expand your knowledge through lectures, lab sessions, and a field trip. You'll learn to describe and classify soils, analyse their phases and compaction, and appraise soil permeability and shear strength. By the end of the module, you'll be able to recognize soil and material properties and confidently use these for sustainable construction projects.

You'll study mechanical forces on various structures, including shear force and bending moment, then use what you've learned to inform your designs of real structures. On completion, you'll have the grounding in structural analysis to derive loads, check equilibrium and evaluate stress in your future designs.

In this module, you'll study stationary and moving fluids, tackling calculations for closed conduits, open channels, rotodynamic machines, and more. Analysing interactions between infrastructure and ecology, you'll also assess the role of the water engineer in building resilient communities.

You'll synthesize career development skills with social and environmentally conscious design, and broaden your knowledge with lectures from guest speakers. Key skills you'll develop include creative technical realization; well-rounded data analysis; communication of your proposals graphically and textually; and formulating continuing development plans. You’ll hone your technical creativity, refer to professional standards to plan your career, and reflect on your progress towards success in civil engineering.

Through applied soil mechanics lectures and labs focused on structure-soil interaction, you'll build on your geotechnical engineering skills. You'll analyse bearing capacity, settlement, and site investigation methods. By designing retaining walls and evaluating ground strength and soil properties, you'll link theory and practice in foundation design. With extended knowledge of materials selection and geotechnical engineering, you'll be equipped to tackle more complex construction problems.

In this module, you'll assess load paths, design structural elements, and present your calculations in an appropriate format.

You'll use statistical techniques and software to quantify risk for projects, evaluate construction proposals, and present your analysed data clearly. With skills in data handling, probability models, and project economics, you'll be equipped to develop robust financial models and cashflows for the industry.

You'll investigate problems and select technical literature using physical scale models and workshops. By applying virtual work and matrix methods, you'll determine displacements and analyse indeterminate structures. Through examinations of buckling, collapse loads, and failure mechanisms, you'll gain qualitative and numerical proficiency. With a focus on experiential learning and critical thinking, you'll be equipped to evaluate and predict the performance of complex structures.

You'll evaluate industry fragmentation in a major project, and see how BIM can provide integration across disciplines. Moving beyond 2D, you'll model projects in 3D for deeper insights. Collaborating securely in teams, you'll use BIM standards to complete virtual buildings.

In this cross-disciplinary module, you'll analyse generation processes, conservation avenues, resource transportation/storage, and factors influencing plant siting. On completion, you'll be empowered to pursue energy infrastructure solutions balancing sustainability, reliability, and accessibility.

In the initial phase of this module, you'll plan your field study collaboratively, gaining experience in desktop research, CAD drawing, and equipment calibration. You'll then travel to a residential fieldwork site, where you'll gather spatial data, perform calculations, and construct temporary structures. Across the module, you'll learn to appraise peer work, reflect on your own growth, and prepare for your civil engineering career.

By surveying local sites like Portsmouth Dockyard, you'll evaluate refurbishment issues first-hand. You'll analyse factors that enhance heritage value for different groups, and appraise strategies like listing and conservation areas. Working in a team, you'll organize a focus group, synthesize literature, and present recommendations for a heritage project. With real-world experiences, you'll gain insight into protecting our past while meeting modern needs.

Through theory and case studies, you'll develop skills to plan, monitor, and control projects while considering technical and human factors. You'll use industry-standard techniques like WBS and CPM to create organizational structures, schedules, budgets, and risk management plans, covering the project cycle from initiation and stakeholder engagement to procurement and sustainability integration. With individual and group assignments, you'll apply your learning to demonstrate effective project planning, teamwork, and communication. By the end, you'll have core competencies and techniques to successfully manage construction projects.

Following professional methodology, you'll assess the validity of problems, analyse literature, create ethical data collection plans, apply sound technical principles, and critique your own findings.

You'll look at  geotechnical engineering and materials concepts, with a focus on slope stability, retaining walls, foundations, settlement, concrete durability, and specialty materials like glass and composites.

You'll look at technology and policy, managing demand for transport, improving usage of current transport infrastructure and methods of influencing transport trends.

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Discuss the processes affecting the demand for transport
• Predict traffic flows at junctions and on small networks
• Design and model simple road traffic networks
• Evaluate the social, economic and environmental impacts of new highway infrastructure
• Assess and evaluate traffic management techniques

You'll use traditional and digital methods to sketch and analyse structures, evaluate stability and consider load cases. You'll also explore methods of design that meet Eurocodes to both Ultimate Limit and Serviceability Limit States.

You'll undertake a multifaceted analysis of technical, environmental, and social dynamics in water, spanning rainfall patterns, quality standards, conservation goals, wastewater remediation, and more. Examining drinking water treatment processes alongside sustainable drainage oversight, you'll develop professional design skills, modeling capabilities, and testing expertise.

You'll propose ethical solutions to significant problems, analyse literature, and plan in-depth investigations, then undertake your plan, collecting key data and communicating your findings clearly.

You'll look at  geotechnical engineering and materials concepts, with a focus on slope stability, retaining walls, foundations, settlement, concrete durability, and specialty materials like glass and composites.

You'll work as a team, reviewing existing literature, recognising relevant standards, and considering commercial factors as you create your design. By considering ethics, safety, and environmental issues, you'll be able to justify your design decisions as you communicate your results clearly and professionally.

You'll look at technology and policy, managing demand for transport, improving usage of current transport infrastructure and methods of influencing transport trends.

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Discuss the processes affecting the demand for transport
• Predict traffic flows at junctions and on small networks
• Design and model simple road traffic networks
• Evaluate the social, economic and environmental impacts of new highway infrastructure
• Assess and evaluate traffic management techniques

You'll undertake a multifaceted analysis of technical, environmental, and social dynamics in water, spanning rainfall patterns, quality standards, conservation goals, wastewater remediation, and more. Examining drinking water treatment processes alongside sustainable drainage oversight, you'll develop professional design skills, modeling capabilities, and testing expertise.

You'll learn about Finite Element Modelling and apply FEM software packages to identify complex challenges, translate physical behaviours into robust mathematical formulations, conduct parametric studies on component interactions, and critically assess the validity of data-driven structural proposals.

Analysing relationships between infrastructure and community through technical and social lenses, you'll quantify effects, select tailored mediation techniques, engage pressing challenges from contamination to ecology, and propose balanced sustainable growth pathways compliant with legislation.

You'll demonstrate specialized civil engineering design talents, considering environmental, social, economic, and technical requirements. Within your small team, you'll review literature, generate and appraise ideas, perform detailed modelling to meet relevant standards, and present your results. The module's authentic design experience empowers you to shape meaningful infrastructure plans as you develop and reflect on your own teamwork skills.

Through analysis of literature and case studies from industry, you'll solve complex problems, provide effective safety management, and evaluate each phase of the project lifecycle. You'll assemble an extensive toolkit, packed with understanding of project management techniques, roles and processes, that will help you excel in any project environment.