From dedicated computer laboratories to a wealth of electronic information, you’ll benefit from a range of comprehensive facilities and resources that will help your learning and development, readying you for a career in civil engineering.
Our School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics is based in the Reynolds Building, adjacent to the well-equipped Brunel laboratories. Located next door is our £19 million world-class marine facility, the Marine Building opened by HRH Duke of Edinburgh in October 2012, which provides some of the best research and testing facilities in the country.
Our dedicated engineering computer laboratory is equipped with specialist software, so you’ll always have access to computers allowing you to develop important skills that will assist you academically as well as greatly improving your employment potential. Keeping you up-to-date with industry standard software is vital, so for example, we teach Computer Aided Drawing (CAD) software from your first year of study onwards.
We’re regularly refining our online systems and materials to ensure that we provide flexible learning to suit a variety of needs. We make all our lecture notes available electronically from the student intranet. Further electronic information resources available to you include The Construction Information Services (CIS), giving you access to numerous technical reports, including:
Our extensive library houses nearly half a million books, journals, and other resources. It also features a computing area that’s open around the clock, a media workshop and study rooms.
Drawing on both our expertise and our wonderful diving facilities, we can give you the opportunity to take the (HSE) Professional SCUBA diver training course as part of your degree.
The course forms part of an official module in the second year of your degree and the selection programme comprises a stringent aptitude test, an interview and detailed medical assessment. Diver training is subject to availability and an additional cost.
This qualification can greatly improve your employability, enabling you to perform a number of jobs underwater, including:
For more information please visit the Marine Station website.
For more information about engineering please visit our BEng Civil Engineering course page. For more information about our range of courses within the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics please visit the school page.
If you would like to find out what other relevant alumni are currently doing, please visit the engineering and robotics interest area.
