Civil engineering touches just about every kind of structure you can think about, from bridges to roads, to tunnels and skyscrapers. It is a discipline that has real-life applications in limitless aspects of modern living. A career in civil engineering allows you to be part of this, playing a role in shaping the built environment for generations to come. A career in civil engineering offers you responsibility, from ensuring the safety of others to determining the success of your project. A career in civil engineering is both rewarding and fulfilling - average starting salaries for civil engineering graduates are significantly higher than for other professions.
The Department of Civil Engineering provides a BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering (2+2, 4+0) programme which is concerned with the techniques and procedures by which dams and reservoirs, water supply and sewage disposal systems, power stations, ports, offshore works, transport systems, bridges, tall buildings and other structures are planned, designed, built, surveyed, tested, operated, maintained and decommissioned. The course includes a broad range of activities including field courses, individual projects, design work and laboratory work.