Civil Engineering (Flood and Coastal Engineering) BEng

Program Overview

Overview

Are you looking for a rewarding and challenging career? Perhaps civil engineering has always interested you, or maybe you recently learned about it at school or college and now you want to learn more. Either way, we believe that civil engineering can provide you with an exciting and rewarding career. Civil engineers design, construction, and maintenance features of the natural and built environment and a civil engineering career will engage you in the process of solving the problems that confront communities today as well as those that will confront us in the future.

To help you fulfil that role, the Brunel team have designed a programme that will engage your creative spirit. Our programme is designed to support your development as an effective learner, and also to equip you with the skills needed to function effectively in multidisciplinary engineering team environments.

From week one of our programme, you will be immersed in our unique interdisciplinary approach to learning. In Year 1 you will study alongside students from many other engineering disciplines, on our common Engineering programme. In Year 2 we will develop your core knowledge of civil engineering subjects, like: material science, structural analysis, hydraulics, surveying and more. In Year 3 you can choose to stay on the main civil engineering programme, or choose one of our two specialist pathways, in “Environmental Engineering” or “Flood and Coastal Engineering”.

Between Year 2 and Year 3 of our programme, we have included the option to undertake a placement year. The placement year is a great opportunity to prepare yourself for the world of work. If you decide to undertake a placement, you could find yourself working in an office, design projects, or working outdoors, on construction sites. We highly recommend taking a placement as it can improve your prospects of getting the job you most desire after graduating.

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Program Outline

Course content

In your Year 1, you will study Brunel’s unique engineering syllabus, which is taken by all engineering students at the University. You will study alongside mechanical, electrical, aerospace and chemical engineering students as you learn about the fundamental principles that underpin all disciplines of engineering.

Year 2 will focus on the core civil engineering subjects of surveying, material science and analysis, structural mechanics, fluid and soil mechanics. After Year 2 you can opt to undertake a year-long placement.

Year 3 of the programme will further develop your knowledge of core civil engineering subject areas with further learning of computational analysis techniques, structural analysis and design, geotechnical engineering, project and infrastructure management.

This course can be studied 3 years full-time or 4 years full-time with placement, starting in September.

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

This course has a placement option. Find out more about work placements available.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Read more about the structure of undergraduate degrees at Brunel.

Careers and your future

Graduates from our Civil Engineering programmes will be capable of addressing the needs of society and business; able to deploy appropriate engineering methods and technologies; skilled in solving complex engineering challenges; competent to work with the environment in a sustainable manner; effective in mitigating climate change impacts on infrastructure and human society.

This degree is accredited by the Joint Board of Moderators (JBM), comprising the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Structural Engineers, Institute of Highway Engineers, the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation and the Permanent Way Institution on behalf of the Engineering Council as fully meeting the educational base required for an Incorporated Engineer (IEng) and partially meeting educational base required for a Chartered Engineer (CEng).

Assessment and feedback

As our programmes are accredited, we include a wide range of learning outcomes that are essential for a career in Civil Engineering. Our assessment strategy is designed to ensure that you are provided with more than one opportunity to achieve a learning outcome at each level of the programme. The strategy also ensures that most learning outcomes are assessed at least once at each level of the programme. As a general strategy, most modules include both coursework and examination methods of assessments.

We use “student reps” to gather feedback about the course. You will be engaged in electing your own rep, who will then attend departmental meetings to report your feedback and contribute to discussions with the programme management team, exploring ways to further improve the courses we offer. You will also be able to express your views about every module you study, through our ‘YourVoice’ survey, which is conducted at the end of each teaching term.

Read our guide on how to avoid plagiarism in your assessments at Brunel.