The course will also demonstrate the need to balance operational, safety, environmental and economic factors. What you study Subjects studied will include the core civil engineering subjects of water resources, geotechnics, structures and materials, engineering mathematics and professional skills, together with transport modules including traffic engineering, highway engineering, transport planning methods, public transport, plus statistics and computing applied to transport problems. The transport modules represent a sixth of the course programme and there is sufficient core civil engineering to comply with professional requirements. The decision on whether to follow the sandwich or full-time course can be made during the second year. Employment will generally be with transport consultants, local authorities, the engineering departments of major transport undertakings, such as Railtrack, or with contractors involved in work on highways, railways or airports.
Tuition is through lectures supported by tutorials, seminars, projects and practical classes.
The course is administered on the two semester system and modules totalling 60 credits must be studied in each semester. 120 credits are necessary to proceed to the next level of the course and 300 credits to obtain an honours degree. The degree classification will be based upon the subject results from the second and third levels of study together with assessment of professional training where it has been taken. A combination of A and AS levels which must include mathematics and give a total of 18 points. No subject to count at both A and AS levels.