Integrated Masters - Master of Engineering (MEng) - Civil Engineering

This Civil Engineering MEng degree is a highly innovative course that has been developed to equip students with a broad range of knowledge and management skills to meet the real world needs of the civil engineering and construction industry.

Students will study the traditional elements of civil engineering including design, structures, materials, fluid mechanics, geotechnics and maths. Students will be introduced to a range of construction topics and then progress to specialist subjects such as structural analysis and computational mechanics. Students will then move on to advanced topics including project management, and structural design and FEA.

Students have access is available to custom-designed technical facilities to work on their laboratory experiments. These include fluids and hydraulics laboratories, and structures, materials and geotechnics labs. The latest industry standard engineering software packages are available for students to use in dedicated computer clusters.

There is a residential field trip with hands-on experience in surveying and geology using industry standard equipment. Students will also benefit from guest lectures delivered by industry professionals, as well as visits to construction sites and civil engineering development projects.

This MEng degree in civil engineering can be studied full-time over four years, or five years with a placement year. The MEng degree fully meets the educational requirement to fast track students to Chartered Engineer (CEng) status.

Brunel encourages students to pursue the placement year option. This time in industry helps students to further prepare for the world of work and they’ll have a year’s worth of invaluable professional experience when they graduate. If stuents decide to go on an engineering placement year, they will have the opportunity to work in the civil engineering sector. It could be for a contractor, consultant or government authority.