2019 entry Course Guide For UCAS Applicants Civil & Environmental Engineering THE SCHOOL of ENGINEERING at The University of Edinburgh Course Guide For UCAS Applicants Civil & Environmental Engineering 2 THE SCHOOL of ENGINEERING at The University of Edinburgh Course Guide For UCAS Applicants Civil & Environmental Engineering 3 Degree Choices Civil Engineering (BEng) Degree Type: Single Honours UCAS Code: H200. Duration: 4 years, Full-time Civil Engineering (MEng) Degree Type: Integrated Masters Single Honours UCAS Code: H203 Duration: 5 years, Full-time Years 1, 2 & 3 are the same as Civil Engineering H200 Structural and Fire Safety Engineering (BEng) Degree Type: Single Honours UCAS Code: HH21 Duration: 4 years, Full-time Years 1 & 2 are the same as Civil Engineering H200 Structural and Fire Safety Engineering (MEng) Degree Type: Integrated Masters Single Honours with Subsidiary Subject UCAS Code: HHF1. Duration: 5 years, Full-time Years 1 & 2 are the same as Civil Engineering H200 Year 3 is the same as Structural and Fire Safety Engineering (BEng) HH21 Structural Engineering with Architecture (BEng) Degree Type: Single Honours UCAS Code: H2K1 Duration: 4 years, Full-time Structural Engineering with Architecture (MEng) Degree Type: Integrated Masters Single Honours with Subsidiary Subject UCAS Code: H2KC Duration: 5 years, Full-time Years 1, 2 & 3 are the same as Structural Engineering with Architecture (BEng) H2K1. Course Structure For more detailed information about the these courses and their structure please use the degree proramme tables at: http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/18-19/dpt/drps_eng.htm THE SCHOOL of ENGINEERING at The University of Edinburgh Course Guide For UCAS Applicants Civil & Environmental Engineering 4 Civil and Environmental Engineering What is Civil and Environmental Engineering? Civil and Environmental Engineering encompasses a wide range of topics, all of which in some way relate to the provision of the essential services and facilities. Civil Engineers conceive, design, and build roads, railways, tunnels, bridges, dams, water supplies, power stations, oil and gas pipelines, large buildings and many other facilities. In essence, Civil Engineers shape the environment in which we live, designing and implementing projects that maintain and improve the quality of life. Why study Civil and Environmental Engineering at Edinburgh? Students choosing to study Civil and Environmental Engineering at Edinburgh will be entering an excellent programme. Our degrees are accredited by the appropriate professional institutions, including the Institution of Civil Engineers. Our teaching team integrate the knowledge gained through world-class research, education, and design activities into the degree, both in taught material and in undergraduate research projects. We have extensive industrial partnerships, through student placement and participation in our design projects. In the final year, students conduct independent research under the supervision of our academic staff and have the opportunity to use our world-class experimental and computing facilities. What does the degree involve? Civil Engineers require a wide variety of skills and knowledge. Throughout our programme, students learn to apply their covering the basic technical disciplines through our interactive design courses. Civil Engineering principles to real-world of Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Students have the opportunity to focus on applications through design and project Engineering, Materials Science, Fluid areas including structures, fire, environmental work. Mechanics and Water Resources, together engineering, computational mechanics and Technical skills are founded on Mathematics, with Tools for Engineering Design and railway engineering. Students partake in a which is a compulsory course for those Numerical Methods and Computing - the latter two-week intensive bridge design course led entering at first year level.First year being a specialist course in Mathematics by industry professionals, with final designs students also study a course in Engineering, relevant to modern civil engineering practice. regularly winning national competitions. made up of a general module giving an The highlight of the second year is a four-day Finally, students specialise by choosing introduction to all engineering disciplines residential field course in Surveying. between many optional courses including as well as sustainability considerations, Engineering Geophysics and Non-Destructive In the third year students study advanced followed by a specialist module covering Testing, Hydrology, Fire Resistance of courses in Water Engineering Transport the introductory aspects of Civil Engineering Structures, Structural Dynamics and and Treatment, Structural Analysis, Civil in more detail. The first year also allows Earthquake Engineering. Engineering Infrastructure and Construction, the flexibility of up to two outside courses, Geotechnical Engineering, Conceptual which may be something closely related to Design and Sustainability for Civil Engineers Engineering, such as Physics or Computer What can I study Civil and Environmental with options in: Environmental Engineering, Science, or more diverse options such as Engineering with? Fire Safety Engineering, Structural Design accountancy, arts and humanities, or a We offer three degree titles: Civil Philosophy and Culture and Performance in modern language. Engineering, Structural Engineering with the History of Construction. Architecture, and Structural and Fire Safety In the second year (which can be the point The emphasise independent Engineering. In each of these both BEng of entry for students with appropriate grades final years research carried out in one of our research and MEng degrees are available. All of in A Levels or Advanced Highers), students groups and practical design skills gained these degrees offer the ability to further undertake a range of compulsory courses THE SCHOOL of ENGINEERING at The University of Edinburgh Course Guide For UCAS Applicants Civil & Environmental Engineering 5 “The experience gained through multi-disciplinary group projects has been beneficial, teaching teamwork but also developing an appreciation of the work of other engineering disciplines which in reality is what is required in the majority of civil engineering projects.” Cath Inglesfield, Graduate Water and Environment Engineer at Mott MacDonald and ICE President’s Apprentice specialise into technical “streams” such as Environmental Engineering by selection of the appropriate optional courses in the 4th and 5th years. In most cases, students can change between these degree titles, and between BEng and MEng, up until the beginning of the third year. Additionally, the first year is structured to allow a wide range of flexibility; subject to satisfactory academic performance students can easily change to other branches of Engineering or to a range of pure science degrees, depending on the outside courses chosen. The Structural Engineering with Architecture programme combines structural engineering with a focus on the issues that govern architectural design, such as the building environment and the use of space. Please note that this programme does not lead to a qualification in Architecture. This programme is taught jointly with our School of Architecture, and students cannot join Structural Engineering with Architecture after the start of the first year. Students of the Structural and Fire Safety Engineering examinations and 30% coursework as SEPA (Scottish Environmental Protection programme focus on the effects of fire on submissions. Agency). Structures. Are there any opportunities to study Students regularly undertake a summer What sort of teaching and assessment abroad? placement in their honours years, and this often takes the form of time spent methods are used? We have formal exchange programmes working with a company in the UK or with a number of top overseas institutions The Civil and Environmental Engineering overseas. Recent placements have ranged including California Berkeley (USA), EIVP degrees at the University of Edinburgh are from assisting Scottish Water with reservoir Paris (France), TU Munich (Germany) and the structured to develop a critical and inquiring surveys, to developing irrigation programmes University of Timisoara (Romania). Students approach to the solution of problems and in Kazakhstan. creation of designs, which is, as far as can either spend the whole of their third year in an institution overseas, attending classes, possible, unconstrained by preconceptions. Are there any bursaries or scholarships or can visit for a shorter time in fourth year, Our aim in teaching is to help students attain available? their full potential by developing the skills undertaking project work which is then required of professional engineers and of written up in the English language. Visits The Institution of Civil Engineers’ QUEST leaders within their industry. to institutions in Europe are covered by the scholarships offer financial support, together Erasmus scheme, and language teaching is with mentoring and vacation employment. To do this we use a variety of methods, available prior to your visit. For more information, please visit: concentrating initially on formal teaching www.ice.org.uk/questundergrad Are there any links with industry and of the basics, using lectures, tutorials and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the commerce? laboratory classes. In later years the focus University of Edinburgh