Course details
This is a provide graduate engineers with specialist understanding in one of: Environmental Engineering; Structural Engineering; or Transport Engineering. In addition, the course offers students the opportunity to obtain knowledge in complimentary subject areas within Civil Engineering.
Course Organisation: The MSc course can be undertaken as either a one year full-time or a two-year part-time postgraduate course.
It is possible to work full-time and do the course as a part-time option, providing you have the agreement of your employer.
Course Content: Candidates must take eleven modules, namely the three mandatory modules (M1, M2 and M3) together with at least four of the modules in their chosen specialisation and four other modules, which in total amounts to 90 ECTS.
In the first semester, candidates pursuing the course full time must take modules M1 and M2 along with four other modules selected from options (including at least two from their selected specialisation), listed below. In the second semester, candidates pursuing the course full time must take module M3 along with four other modules selected from options (including at least 2 from their selected specialisation), also listed below:
Mandatory
- Civil Engineering Management (10 ECTS)
- Research Methodology (10 ECTS)
- (Environmental / Structural / Transport) Engineering Dissertation (30 ECTS)
Environmental Engineering
- Engineering Hydrology (5 ECTS)
- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (5 ECTS)
- Environmental Processes and Technology (5 ECTS)
- Waste and Environmental Management (5 ECTS)
- Water Quality and Hydrological Modelling (5 ECTS)
- Water Resource Planning ( ECTS)
Structural and Geotechnical Engineering
- Geotechnical Engineering (5 ECTS)
- Advanced Structural Analysis (5 ECTS)
- Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (5 ECTS)
- Bridge Engineering (5 ECTS)
- Advanced Concrete Technology (5 ECTS)
- Soil-Structure Interaction (5 ECTS)
- A Unified Theory of Structures (5 ECTS)
- Concrete Durability and Sustainability (5 ECTS)
- Advanced Theory of Structures (5 ECTS)
Transport Engineering
- Transportation Engineering ( ECTS)
- Transport Modelling (5 ECTS)
- Highway Engineering (5 ECTS)
- Applied Transportation Analysis (5 ECTS)
Common
- Renewable Energy 1 (5 ECTS)
- Renewable Energy 2 ( ECTS)
- Modelling of Civil Engineering Systems (5 ECTS)
- Facade Engineering (5 ECTS)
- Construction Innovation and Research (5 ECTS)
Some of the module options in either semester may be withdrawn from time to time and some new modules may be included, subject to demand. In addition to passing the prescribed examinations, each student must submit a dissertation on an approved topic relating to their chosen specialisation.
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