BEng (Hons) Civil and Environmental Engineering

Course overview

Study level: Undergraduate

This Civil and Environmental Engineering course at Coventry University is aimed at students who aspire to become professionally qualified engineers and wish to study Civil and Environmental Engineering with an emphasis on sustainable engineering practice and its role within construction, in the UK and abroad.

This course aims to develop the combination of technical, practical and managerial skills necessary to analyse, design and manage solutions for innovative and complex engineering problems as a basis for future leadership in the civil engineering profession.

• You will be taught by current staff with academic and professional experience in the civil engineering and construction industries, having worked for companies such as Carillion, Arcadis and Laing O’Rourke as principal, senior and management engineers (subject to change).
• Teaching is highly practical; you will have the chance to draw on real-life case studies, provided by companies such as Arcadis, CGL, Crossrail and Galliford Try where possible.
• You will have opportunities to use industry-standard software⁴ as is widely used by design and consulting engineers.
• You will be given opportunities to apply for industrial placements² at companies that have previously included Atkins, Balfour Beatty, Interserve, Morgan Sindall, Mott MacDonald and Warwickshire County Council.