Civil Engineering BEng

You will undertake a long-term individual research project appropriate to your particular interests. It normally takes the form of an investigative, development or design project ending as a detailed final report. Projects involve lab work, field investigations or computer modelling and require data collection and analysis.

This module introduces reinforced concrete construction and the relationship between structural behaviour and the design of reinforced concrete elements. It includes the structural design procedures for reinforced concrete elements in flexure, shear and compression. On average you will spend about four or five contact hours per week in lectures, laboratory classes or in the design studio for this module.

This module introduces the fundamentals of consolidation and the different components of settlement. In addition, shallow and deep foundation design, from both a fundamental and Eurocode approach is covered. Reinforced soil, 1D & 2D water flow through soils, and sustainability considerations in geotechnical design are also discussed.

Students work in groups on the design and planning of a civil engineering project that aims to integrate all the disciplines covered on the course. Typical projects include: water works, major highway schemes and retail parks. Staff and visiting professional engineers provide guidance.

This module addresses real-world hydraulic applications and designs using the theory learnt by the students in Hydraulics 1 and 2 and newly obtained knowledge about urban drainage systems, flood protection, water supply and surge protection. Seven laboratory experiments cover fundamental aspects of hydraulics in open channel flow, pipe flow and river flow. A number of common hydraulic systems will be designed under application of the newly obtained knowledge in the class room and the laboratory.

The module assesses the risk of injury posed to the general public and workforce through the operation of engineering systems and infrastructure. This is considered in the context of civil and transportation systems and an indication is given of acceptable risk. You will spend three hours a week in lectures to study this module.

This module introduces some of the theory that forms the technical basis of the management and control of urban road networks, including; traffic flow theory, transport modelling and operation of traffic signal control systems.

Assessment method

This module will be assessed 100% by exam.

This module covers advanced analytic mathematical techniques used to provide exact or approximate solutions to common classes of ordinary differential equations (ODES) typical in Engineering.

Techniques covered include: method of variation of parameters, Laplace transform methods, Taylor series method, Frobenius method, asymptotic regular perturbations and strained coordinates and multiple scales. Each week there will normally be a one one-hour lecture and a two hour workshop to introduce key mathematical knowledge on module topics.

The module is a combination of the theoretical and practical aspects of site surveying for Civil Engineering.

The theoretical aspects will provide students with the knowledge and understanding to undertake the practical aspects, where students will work in small groups to design, plan, undertake and report on a series of practical surveys involving different engineering surveying techniques and associated inter-disciplinary tools such as CAD and BIM (individuals and groups are responsible for management and organisation of their projects, with staff members available for consultation and guidance).

The module will use the most advanced engineering surveying techniques related to:

• the determination of the plan coordinates and the heights of control points using GNSS surveying with a GNSS instrument;
• the determination of the plan coordinates and the heights of control points using levelling, traversing and/or resection with a total station instrument;
• the determination of the plan coordinates and heights of detail points using radial detailing with a total station instrument;
• the determination of the plan coordinates and heights of detail points using intersection with a total station instrument;
• the determination of the plan coordinates and heights of a point cloud using terrestrial laser scanning with a terrestrial laser scanner instrument to survey the façade of a building.

The practical surveys will have a specific focus on the creation of a 3D digital model of a building in REVIT software, along with an assessment of the quality of each of the engineering surveying techniques used.

This is an introduction to machine learning with an emphasis on practical use in engineering applications, such as control theory or decisions under uncertainty. The module is structured around a subset of the following topics:

• Inference, or model-driven predictions
• Supervised learning: the basics, optimization and beyond least squares
• Unsupervised learning
• Neural networks and deep learning
• The Bayesian approach and Gaussian processes
• Generalized linear models: going beyond normality