BS in Civil Engineering

Spread over four years, this engineering degree concentrates on how infrastructure is planned, designed and built to support growing communities, and on the research that informs that work. The main technical strands include hydraulics, sanitation, structures and transportation. Alongside these, modules that cross disciplinary lines ask students to bring engineering principles to fresh problems created by changing technology and by the needs of expanding communities. Subjects from the humanities and the social sciences are taught together with the technical ones. The purpose is to help students think critically and to get better at recognising what the real problem is before attempting to solve it. Graduates therefore leave with a combination of engineering competence and broader reasoning habits, which suits work in the design and construction of public and private facilities.