This module will provide a basic understanding of the wide range of factors affecting highway and traffic engineering and fundamental highway engineering. You'll understand highway scheme development and traffic-highway characteristics and relationships. You'll design horizontal and vertical alignments, junctions and highway infrastructure which comply with relevant design standards. This module will enable you to identify the factors which affect pavement thickness design, select appropriate materials and design flexible and rigid pavements using current empirical and analytical design procedures. You'll also design basic highway drainage and earthworks.

Explore structural geology and the classification and identification of minerals and rocks for engineering purposes. This module will develop your understanding of soil mechanics principles for permeability and shear strength, and of shallow and pile foundation design and settlement calculations.

Build on the knowledge of forces, moments and stresses you developed in the Engineering Mechanics module, and your understanding of the properties of materials from the Materials Science module. You'll study the design of structural elements in reinforced concrete, masonry, timber and steel. We'll cover the factors which influence the suitability of materials within construction, and the interrelationship between design and construction. You'll understand different approaches to structural design, and will develop an awareness of the design process and current codes of practice applied to an array of basic structural elements in a range of materials.

Build your understanding of the commercial and contractual procedures involved in delivering civil engineering projects, such as preparing detailed risk assessments and recognising different contract types. You'll understand the professional role and responsibilities of civil engineering and allied professions, and recognise the range and application of contract types. We'll explore how to apply contract based processes especially related to payment and prepare detailed risk assessments and method statements for a range of civil engineering activities. You'll plan, monitor and control a complex project.

This module will build the basic knowledge of construction materials you gained in the Engineering Materials Science module. We'll cover topics including properties of materials and their use and deterioration in service. This module will have a particular emphasis on concrete including its design, use onsite and the deterioration of reinforced concrete structures. We'll examine mechanisms of corrosion and prevention of corrosion and physical metallurgy and polymers and their application in civil engineering.

Develop and consolidate your learning from modules in your first and second years through a multidisciplinary design activity. You'll gain an appreciation of infrastructural and structural aspects of a civil engineering project. You'll also consider the management, planning, health and safety, sustainability and resource implications.

This module will provide an opportunity for you to become involved with The Engineering for People Design Challenge. The Challenge is an award winning initiative delivered by Engineers Without Borders UK. The Challenge will give you the opportunity to learn and practice the ethical, environmental, social and cultural aspects of engineering design.

Combined with design, the analysis of structural elements and systems is one of the main themes of your courses This module will consolidate and extend your understanding of the concepts of structural mechanics and their application to the analysis of a variety of statically determinate structures. You'll develop an understanding of the load-displacement behaviour of a range of basic structural configurations. You'll also gain an appreciation of the relationship between structural analysis and the design of basic structural elements and systems.

Build on the fundamental mathematical and management skills you developed in your first and second years of study. This module will focus on mathematical methods that support decision making in a civil engineering context. You'll use statistical analysis, operational research, financial appraisal and traditional mathematical techniques to examine engineering scenarios. Overall, you'll learn to justify management decisions on the basis of logic, quantitative modelling and objective analysis. You'll learn through a series of lectures and supporting workshop, tutorial and IT sessions.

You'll need an understanding of the behaviour of fluids to solve many civil engineering problems. This module will introduce you to the fundamental principles of fluid flow. You'll understand how to use these principles to analyse and solve basic civil engineering problems involving pipe flow and open channel flow systems. We'll also cover the fundamental principles and issues associated with the ‘water industry’.

This module will enable you to use the skills you developed throughout your course to produce an individual major piece of work to a strict time-scale. Your project will be to a clearly defined brief based upon a simulated industrial scenario. You'll need to demonstrate sound judgement from an engineering and management perspective. Your work could support you when demonstrating your employability to employers.

Further develop your understanding of the principles and applications of structural analysis and design. This module will consider indeterminate structural forms with particular emphasis on limit state concepts and related design applications. You'll study both stiffness and flexibility methods of analysis and you'll use industry standard software to complement 'manual’ analysis computations. This module will enable you to study analytical methods and related design principles in an integrated manner. You'll use industry standard case studies to produce code compliant structural solutions to a professional standard.

A further insight into the factors which affect highway and traffic engineering, developing your expertise in specialist areas of highway design, construction and maintenance. You'll develop understanding of highway material properties in-service and associated site and laboratory testing. You'll also practise designing complex horizontal and vertical alignments, including junction layouts, which comply with relevant industrial design standards. We'll encourage you to undertake a range of pavement thickness designs. You'll understand and learn how to apply the principles of highway maintenance and management. The module will develop your knowledge of highway construction issues including weak ground, contamination, environment and sustainability.

We'll develop your appreciation of site investigation techniques, particularly relating to the interpretation of geotechnical data. You'll look at design applications related to water flow, effective stress parameters, slope stability, foundation bearing capacity and retaining walls. We'll also explore both hand calculations and computer methods. This module will enable you to practise applying site investigation techniques and interpret geotechnical data to write geotechnical reports. You'll also explore how water plays a major role in influencing geotechnical design, i.e. the consideration of effective stress parameters and the use of seepage analysis. You'll undertake basic design calculations for foundations, slopes and retaining structures and use computer software programs to support communication and design calculation.

Explore infrastructure asset management, which is the on-going maintenance, repair and upgrading of civil engineering infrastructure through the whole life cycle. This module will introduce terminology and systems used in asset management decision making which. You'll use industrial case studies to apply your learning and gain a comprehensive understanding of the terminology and systems used in asset management. We'll practise interpreting and critically appraising a range of operational research techniques using manual and digital technologies. You'll also understand how to apply optimum decision making strategies when considering how asset management can support financial, environmental and social sustainability. You'll also design and critically evaluate an asset management system for a civil engineering specialism, for example highways, water or rail, etc., in-line with current industrial practice.

Research and write an in-depth study on an area of civil engineering. You could use laboratory based study, field data gathering and analysis, development and testing of computer tools for civil engineering problem analysis or in-depth design analysis. Your project will be technically based and you'll strengthen your self-direction, decision making and understanding of civil engineering. You'll present your research in a traditional dissertation format.