Civil Engineering (with Foundation Year and Optional Year in Industry)
Teesside University, Middlesbrough
UCAS Code: H210 | Bachelor of Engineering (with Honours) - BEng (Hon)
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**Optional year in industry**: The year in industry option will help you gain valuable work experience which will help you enhance your graduate employability prospects. During your placement you develop transferable skills such as communication, negotiation, teamwork, leadership, organisation, problem-solving, being able to work under pressure, self-reliance and commercial awareness. At the end of your work placement you return to complete your degree and prepare to enter employment with improved confidence.
Our work placement officer and the University’s careers service are available to help you find and apply for your work placement. Advice is also available on job hunting and networking.
**Course overview**: This degree includes an integrated foundation year if you don’t have the appropriate subjects and/or grades for year one entry. The foundation year helps you develop your knowledge in mathematics and other important subjects to enable you to proceed confidently through the remainder of the programme. Civil engineering is a professional discipline that deals with designing, constructing and maintaining the physical and naturally built environment. Civil engineers build bridges, tunnels, canals, dams and flood protection measures, tall buildings and other large structures.
The next few decades promise to be among the most challenging for the civil engineering community. Progressive urbanisation, increasing populations, on-going economic development, climate change and the persistent risk of extreme events already present many threats to infrastructure. By joining Teesside University’s degree in civil engineering you will gain advanced knowledge and understanding in specialist technical subjects. The course incorporates key aspects of civil engineering such as structures, geotechnics, fluid mechanics, materials and construction management. You gain valuable leadership and organisational skills which can enhance your career prospects in a management role. Skilled engineers are highly sought.
**After the course**: Typical roles include construction project management, building/civil engineering for contractors or consultants, architectural practices, local authorities or government agencies. Our recent graduates have been employed by Arup, Birse Civils, Jacobs, WSP Group, Interserve, Atkins Global and Aker Solutions.
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Assessment methods
You are taught in a variety of methods including lectures, tutorials, case-based learning, workshops and seminar sessions. Technical visits, field courses and attendance at professional meetings supplement your learning experience. You are also expected to have self-study time to prepare assignments, work on projects and revise for assessments. The lectures will convey large elements of the content, provide core themes and explanations of difficult concepts, and set the scene for your independent learning. You cover the JBM core subjects in each year: structures, geotechnics, materials, construction management and hydraulics. Field courses and site visits are key components of the course, allowing you to see the scale and complexity of construction and to develop practical skills. A field course in the first year is focused around a civil engineering project and involves using many of the skills developed earlier in the year. One module a year, excluding Level 3, involves a compulsory one-week block delivery period of problem-solving, which provides you with an opportunity to enhance your employability skills. Throughout the programme you use the laboratories for heavy structures, geotechnics, material properties and hydraulics. Discipline-specific modules employ a range of computer-based labs to allow you to perform simulation and numerical analysis of complex models, particularly those modules covering geotechnical, structural and hydraulics study areas. There are a range of assessments types. In-course assessment ranges from practical laboratory reports and engineering calculations, through to using 3D visualisation tools, collaborative project work, and making presentations to practising engineers from industry. We use end exams within a number of modules in each year. We have an assessment schedule with details and submission deadlines to help.
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Do you want to be in demand? This might be the degree for you! We are officially short of civil engineers, and so around two thirds of civil engineering graduates start jobs specifically as civil engineers, and starting salaries are well over £25k last year. Demand for civil engineers and related jobs - we're short of all of them - means that good graduates have plenty of options directly related to their degree when they graduate. This is a subject where work experience can be very helpful in getting a job and many students do work for engineering companies while they take their degrees.
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