Students looking at steel columns in the L2 Civil Engineering strong floor labs

Civil Engineering including an Industrial Year MEng

University Park Campus, Nottingham, UK

Course overview

Civil engineering combines your creativity with technological and scientific knowledge that can change the world. You will learn how to design and manage high-profile projects. You will study the key components of civil engineering theory and learn the skills necessary to become a civil engineer. By combining individual study and working together in teams you'll learn about:

  • structures
  • geotechnics
  • materials
  • hydraulics and fluid mechanics
  • highway and transport engineering
  • surveying
  • construction management

Indicative modules

Mandatory

Year 1

Hydraulics 1

Mandatory

Year 1

Group Project

Mandatory

Year 1

Portfolio of Civil Engineering Studies 1

Mandatory

Year 1

Structural Analysis 1

Mandatory

Year 1

Mathematical Methods for Civil Engineering

Mandatory

Year 1

Geotechnics 1

Mandatory

Year 2

Hydraulics 2

Mandatory

Year 2

Fundamentals of Materials

Mandatory

Year 2

Civil and Structural Steel Design Project

Mandatory

Year 2

Portfolio of Civil Engineering Studies 2

Mandatory

Year 2

Structural Analysis 2

Mandatory

Year 2

Geotechnics 2

Mandatory

Year 2

Advanced Mathematical Methods for Civil Engineering

Mandatory

Year 3

Structural Concrete Design

Mandatory

Year 3

Geotechnics 3

Mandatory

Year 3

Building Information Modelling (BIM) Group Design Project

Mandatory

Year 3

Hydraulic Design

Optional

Year 3

Engineering Risk Assessment

Optional

Year 3

Traffic Engineering

Optional

Year 3

Advanced Mathematical Techniques in Ordinary Differential Equations for Engineers

Optional

Year 3

Advanced Site Surveying

Optional

Year 3

Machine Learning for Engineers

Optional

Year 3

Construction Practice

Mandatory

Year 4

Year four - Industrial Year

Mandatory

Year 5

MEng Individual Investigative Project

Mandatory

Year 5

Group Design Project

Optional

Year 5

Sustainable Construction and Life Cycle Assessment

Optional

Year 5

Railway Technology

Optional

Year 5

Highway and Pavement Design

Optional

Year 5

Dynamics and Wind Engineering

Optional

Year 5

Coastal Engineering

Optional

Year 5

Managing Infrastructure and Systems

Optional

Year 5

Advanced Structural Analysis

Optional

Year 5

Geotechnical Modelling

Optional

Year 5

Advanced Structural Design

Optional

Year 5

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

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About modules

The above is a sample of the typical modules we offer, but is not intended to be construed or relied on as a definitive list of what might be available in any given year. This content was last updated on Wednesday 9 October 2024. Due to timetabling availability, there may be restrictions on some module combinations.

University undergraduate student Cole Pearce studying in Nightingale Hall accommodation's library, University Park. November 5th 2021.

I spent a year working for one of the biggest construction companies in the world. I was working on a student accommodation project for The University of Essex where my main job was to manage the façade. The placement team helped me a lot in finding a placement, getting my CV right and getting through interviews

Weixhao Zhu

talking about his industrial year with Bouygues

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Open Day June 2022