Civil Engineering & Management

Degree structure

This programme is taught over two semesters. Semester 1 aims at providing a solid grounding in business and management. Semester 2 courses aim to enhance your design knowledge at the same time as improving the depth of knowledge in your chosen engineering subjects.

The study time for each of the courses comprises direct contact hours with formal lectures, organised labs and problem-solving sessions and private study time. The formal teaching is delivered at both the School of Engineering and the Business School. Courses are examined at the end of each semester. In addition, MSc students must submit a dissertation based on project work carried out during the four-month summer period from May to August.

On non-teaching days, you are expected to complete course-work, consolidate the lecture material, prepare for examinations and, occasionally, attend extra-university activities such as field trips and professional meetings.

Students must complete 180 credits in total. This consists of 60 compulsory credits from semester 1, 60 credits of compulsory and optional courses in semester 2 and a 60 credit summer project. You may start the programme in either Semester 1 or Semester 2.

Compulsory courses: 

• Management decision making - Dr Geoffrey Southern (20 credits)
• Managing innovative change - Prof Robert Paton (10 credits)
• People in organizations - Prof Martin Beirnie (20 credits)
• Financial information management 1 - Mr Christopher Coles (10 credits)
• Integrated system design project M - Prof John Davies (20 credits)
• MSc project (60 credits)

Optional courses:

• Civil Engineering geological studies 1 - Dr William Stewart (10 credits)
• Applicable mathematics 2B - Dr Ian Watson (10 credits)
• Highway engineering 2 - Dr William Stewart (10 credits)
• Hydrology 3 - Dr Heather Haynes (10 credits)
• Planning & estimating 3 - Dr Karl Williams (10 credits)
• Mathematics E2N - Dr Stephan Cohen (10 credits)
• Ground engineering 4 - Dr Domenico Gallipoli (10 credits)
• Structural analysis 4 - Prof Christopher Pearce (10 credits)
• Water engineering 4 - Dr Caetano Dorea (10 credits)
• Carsington dam – case study 4 - Dr William Stewart (10 credits)
• Structural concrete - Dr Peter Grassl (10 credits)

Additional courses from other School of Engineering postgraduate programmes or undergraduate programmes may, under certain circumstances, be available as an optional course. The availability of these courses should be checked with the programme director before applying for the MSc in Civil Engineering & Management.