Civil Engineering with Sustainability MSc

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Overview

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MSc

  • MSc Civil Engineering with Sustainability, home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time, 1/2 years
    • Pound 10800 per academic year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3500
  • MSc Civil Engineering with Sustainability, home applicant, part time

    • Home Applicant
    • Part time
    • Pound 1800 per 30 credit module
  • MSc Civil Engineering with Sustainability, international applicant, full time

    • International Applicant
    • Full time, 1/2 years
    • Pound 15960 per academic year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3500
    International applications are closed for 2024

MSc with Placement Year

  • MSc Civil Engineering with Sustainability, home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time, 1/2 years
    • Pound 10800 per academic year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3500
  • MSc Civil Engineering with Sustainability, home applicant, part time

    • Home Applicant
    • Part time
    • Pound 1800 per 30 credit module
  • MSc Civil Engineering with Sustainability, international applicant, full time

    • International Applicant
    • Full time, 1/2 years
    • Pound 15960 per academic year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3500
    International applications are closed for 2024

MSc

  • MSc Civil Engineering with Sustainability, home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time, 1/2 years
    • Pound 10800 per academic year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3500
  • MSc Civil Engineering with Sustainability, international applicant, full time

    • International Applicant
    • Full time, 1/2 years
    • Pound 15960 per academic year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3500

MSc with Placement Year

  • MSc Civil Engineering with Sustainability, home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time, 1/2 years
    • Pound 10800 per academic year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3500
  • MSc Civil Engineering with Sustainability, international applicant, full time

    • International Applicant
    • Full time, 1/2 years
    • Pound 15960 per academic year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3500

What makes this course different

State-of-the-art facilities

State-of-the-art engineering and microanalytical laboratories

Careers

Career-focused curriculum in partnership with ICE and our Industry Advisory Board

Research

Research-informed curriculum and chance to work with the Sustainability Research Institute and to be involved in our funded live research projects

Course modules

NOTE: Modules are subject to change. For those studying part time courses the modules may vary.

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Your future career

Your future career

You will enter the civil engineering and construction sector as a design engineer or consultant. You will benefit from both having a thorough knowledge of engineering design, as well as fundamental knowledge needed in projects to meet compliance with resilience and sustainability requirements.

Explore the different career options you can pursue with this degree and see the median salaries of the sector on our Career Coach portal.

Arya Assadi Langroudi
Here at UEL, we take pride in supporting and guiding our students to develop soft skills alongside learning technical subjects."
Dr Arya Assadi Langroudi

Course leader

How we support your career ambitions

We offer dedicated careers support, and further opportunities to thrive, such as volunteering and industry networking. Our courses are created in collaboration with employers and industry to ensure they accurately reflect the real-life practices of your future career and provide you with the essential skills needed. You can focus on building interpersonal skills through group work and benefit from our investment in the latest cutting-edge technologies and facilities.

Career Zone

Our dedicated and award-winning team provide you with careers and employability resources, including:

  • Online jobs board for internships, placements, graduate opportunities, flexible part-time work.
  • Mentoring programmes for insight with industry experts 
  • 1-2-1 career coaching services 
  • Careers workshops and employer events 
  • Learning pathways to gain new skills and industry insight

Mental Wealth programme

Our Professional Fitness and Mental Wealth programme which issues you with a Careers Passport to track the skills you’ve mastered. Some of these are externally validated by corporations like Amazon and Microsoft.

Our Mental Wealth programme

We are careers first

Our teaching methods and geographical location put us right up top

  • Enterprise and entrepreneurship support 
  • We are ranked 6th for graduate start-ups 
  • Networking and visits to leading organisations 
  • Support in starting a new business, freelancing and self-employment 
  • London on our doorstep

What you'll learn

You will have four core (mandatory) modules and the choice of one module from a pool of six optional modules. Your core modules cover four areas of advanced structural analysis, circular economy, sustainability, and engineering management. Your optional modules are designed to cover five themes, giving you the liberty to choose your specialist niche direction.

These five themes include Structural Engineering, Earthquake Engineering, Highways & Railways, Geotechnics, Environmental Engineering & Logistics.

How you'll learn

Our unique teaching approach aims to promote Learning by Doing by guiding you to use observational, prototyping, computer analysis and physical simulation methods in design, in addition to teaching you the theories, engineering principles and standards.

You will be encouraged to be creative, and innovative and to use advanced digital tools to shape your imaginations and translate them to specifications for structures and systems that you design.

You will have access to our many engineering and environmental laboratories (broad range of facilities available including XRD, XRF, SEM EDX, CHN Analyser, Environmental Chamber, pH/EC analyser, FTIR, ...), and will be guided by our strong team of academics throughout your learning journey and at all stages.

Teaching will be mainly through physical attendance in lectures, tutorials and practical sessions. You will also have a broad suite of online and virtual learning tools to complement your learning.

How you will be assessed

Assessment will be via a broad range of vehicles including written examinations, presentations, coursework and viva (for dissertation). You will have access to and use a number of digital tools in completing your assessment, including Microsoft Teams.

Campus and facilities

Docklands Campus, London, E16 2RD