MEng Civil Engineering

Civil Engineers often find themselves at the heart of technological developments within a wide range of engineering industries. From mega infrastructure to water transfer schemes, you’ll have the chance to make a difference in a way that is important to you.

Through studying Civil Engineering you’ll be taking your first step to a rewarding career in an industry with significant earning potential. You’ll hone and develop the skills you need to drive forward an increasingly important sustainability agenda, for instance, in the construction, energy, transport, or environmental sectors.

Graduates with the enhanced MEng level engineering qualification could become key influencers and industry leaders, overseeing the transformation of our future. The MEng qualification builds on the BEng course and aims to enhance your leadership and management skills.

Why study Civil Engineering MEng(Hons) at Huddersfield?

During the course, you’ll study at an advanced level fundamental principles of statics, dynamics, materials, geotechnics, and hydraulics, with design, construction, business, and sustainability considerations. This course has been designed to provide you with flexibility in your choice of engineering career pathways after graduation.

Within our civil engineering subject area, our degree programmes share the same first year of study, which means you can leave your options open until the start of your second year.

In your first and second year, you'll take part in our problem-based learning initiative, EnABLE (Engineering in an Activity Based Learning Environment). This will give you the opportunity to work in small teams in a supportive and friendly competitive environment and reflects how industry works. You’ll solve real, civil engineering problems and test your solutions against other groups.

In your third year, you’ll have an option to secure an industrial placement in the UK or abroad. We support and encourage students to spend this year in industry, the placement offers excellent real-world engineering experience to help you stand out following graduation. In your final year you will work on a selected individual research/design project with the support of your academic supervisor. It is possible to align this with one of the Master's team projects, which involve the design, build and friendly competitive testing of either a road, airborne or rail vehicle, for example, Team HARE, Team Hawk or HudRail.

Civil engineering graduates often find themselves at the heart of technological developments within a wide range of engineering industries. We aim to provide you with strong practical, theoretical, and transferrable skills that will prepare you for an interesting and challenging future as a professional engineer.