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Engineering, Mathematics and Science
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The Senior Sophister (fourth) year project will be a small group
project working on a major infrastructure design with some
individual design element to it.
The optional fifth year will allow students to study toward the
Master’s degree qualification with a more advanced level of
treatment of the topics listed above. There may also be the
opportunity to undertake a
placement in industry or with
a research group
or to participate in the Unitech or Cluster
programmes in your penultimate year.
Fifth year modules include;
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Research methods
(compulsory).
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Renewable energy 1
– World energy resources and trends,
renewable energy overview, energy conservation, energy
from biomass, geothermal and solar energy.
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Introduction to environmental analysis
– source-pathway-
target concepts; legal, political and sociological aspects;
ecology. Physical, chemical and biological concepts. Risk
analysis: EIA/EIS.
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Environmental engineering
– sustainable water and
sanitation, air quality and pollution, dispersion, diffusion and
fire engineering.
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Geotechnical engineering 2
– basic geotechnical principles
and processes, ground investigation, laboratory and field
testing, design correlations, compaction technology, piling
and compaction.
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Transportation engineering
– an introduction to
transportation engineering.
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Transport modelling
– different approaches to modelling
transportation networks.
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Advanced structural analysis
– programming the finite
element method, finite difference method and time-stepping
dynamic analysis, plus introduction to variational calculus.
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Advanced concrete technology
– practical use of concrete;
properties; new materials, GRP and fibres, processes.
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Unified theory of structures
– mathematical theory of
optimisation, structural analysis, structural optimisation.
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Renewable energy 2
– wind energy (resources, micrositing,
turbine design, aerodynamics, controls, wind turbine
economics, lifecycle cost, grid integration and transmission) /
wave energy/ tidal energy/hydroelectric.
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Modelling of civil engineering systems
– analysis of large-
scale-real-world civil and environmental engineering systems
with special emphasis on quantitative tools.
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Water quality and hydrological modelling
– aquifer
testing, groundwater flow modeling, surface hydrological
modeling, wastewater treatment, river and lake quantity
models.
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Water resource planning
– combined use of surface
and groundwater resources, including river augmentation
schemes and artificial recharge, well design, water resource
planning in large river basins, arid zone hydrology, protecting
groundwater from pollution, remote sensing techniques.
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Waste and environmental management
– solid waste,
landfill/landspreading hydrology, thermal treatment:
incineration, pyrolysis, gasification. Contaminated land:
investigation and remediation of legal issues; risk analysis.
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Highway engineering
– road materials, geometric design,
highway pavement design, highway economics.
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Applied transportation analysis
– a course on the
background and concepts of intelligent transport systems
and its applications at national and international level.
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Structural dynamics and earthquake engineering
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a course in linear and non-linear dynamics with a particular
emphasis on earthquakes (Eurocode 8).
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Soil structure interaction
– allowable movements, elastic
foundations, earth pressures, pile groups, tunnelling, soil
reinforcement.
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Concrete durability and sustainability
– materials,
durability, sustainability, case studies.
The fifth year project will be an individual research project.
Study abroad
In their penultimate year, students get the chance to study in
Europe (France, Germany, Italy or Spain) as part of the Erasmus
programme.
Career opportunities
In addition to working in the traditional areas of engineering
such as construction, design and transport management, civil
engineers are often employed in the banking industry, in law
firms and in business areas. The numerical and problem-solving
skills and expertise that civil engineers have are broad based
and make them very attractive employees to many different
industries.
Further information
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