The MEng Civil and Environmental Engineering course has a strong focus on designing and applying technical solutions to problems such as controlling floods, delivering water supplies, managing waste, treating waste water, and generating energy from renewable sources. The first two years will provide you with core knowledge in mechanics, structures, materials, thermofluids and construction management. The third year introduces highway and traffic engineering and will further develop you knowledge of structures and geotechnics. You will have the opportunity to tailor your degree to your interests in your final year with your choice of specialist optional modules from earthquake engineering to coastal flood defence. Design is an integral to all our engineering courses; you will develop key design skills that you will use throughout the course. You will have the chance to carry out individual and group design projects to create real solutions.

Graduates from our Civil Engineering courses have gone on to careers including civil engineers, transport planners and construction managers. In recent years our graduates have been employed by ARUP, Atkins, Balfour Beatty, KIER, Laing O’Rourke, Mott MacDonald and WSP. Our dedicated Civil Engineering Employment Officer can provide guidance on your discipline, employment opportunities and developing your CV. The University Careers and Employability Service provides further support. We work closely with employers across the engineering sectors to provide our students with opportunities to gain vital industrial experience through the SUCCESS Scholarship Scheme. We have close ties with the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) who also offers expert guidance on employment opportunities, and many of our students are sponsored with employment following graduation.