Civil Engineering MSc: Facilities

There is a wide range of facilities for practical work at our Penrhyn Road campus, where this course is based. You will have access to a modern environment with the latest technology and industry-standard equipment, including:

• extensive materials and structures facility for concrete, masonry, steel and timber;
• geotechnical and hydraulics testing facilities; and
• surveying equipment, such as satellite global-positioning systems.

Dedicated computer-aided design facilities include:

• a range of CAD/CAM packages, such as Ideas, SolidWorks and AutoCad;
• finite element analysis
• computational fluid dynamics; and
• virtual instrumentation.

You can also use the dedicated Graduate Centre on campus. This includes:

• IT facilities;
• seminar rooms;
• social spaces and a canteen; and
• a learning resource centre with specialist libraries.

Students studying this course will benefit from the John Galsworthy Building, a new £20 million teaching and learning facility, which opened in November 2007. The six-storey complex brings lecture theatres, flexible teaching space and information technology suites together around a landscaped courtyard.