Civil Engineering

This Level 8 course in Civil Engineering is designed to help students identify and develop their skills in problem-solving, design, and management. We work with our students to build their strengths and capabilities so they can enter the workplace with the professional skills to succeed in whatever direction their careers may take them. Civil engineering is about protecting, creating, and improving our everyday environment. It involves the planning, design, and construction of facilities that we require for living, industry, and transport. Roads, bridges, harbors, buildings, railways, airports, water supply, drainage, wastewater treatment systems, dams, flood management, and sustainable energy schemes such as wind farms, ocean energy, or hydroelectric stations. On the infrastructure on which civilization depends to function now and into the future. Civil engineers manage and design projects of all scales, from single houses to multi-story buildings, from group water schemes to major bridges and roads. They work as individuals and as part of teams.