Structural Engineering and Architecture MEng

Section of Civil and Structural Engineering

School of Architecture

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You lot are viewing this course for 2023-24 entry. 2022-23 entry is besides available.

Key details

  • A Levels AAA
    Other entry requirements
  • UCAS code HK21
  • four years / Full-time
  • September offset
  • Accredited
  • Observe out the class fee
  • Dual honours

Class description

This dual course combines the essentials of an architecture and a structural engineering science degree so yous could become an builder or an engineer.

The course develops architectural and engineering science skills in an integrated style. Your unique understanding of both disciplines makes you lot highly skilled and employable. Y'all'll be capable of affectionate competing considerations, while able to balance the professional stance of both disciplines.

Your first two years of study cover the fundamentals of each profession, including applied science maths, mechanics, geotechnics, materials, and structural design. Your initial architectural modules encompass humanities and a history of architecture and the nuts of architectural design.

Your final two years allow y'all to study specialised and advanced modules that focus on structural analysis and design, alongside studio-based applied architectural pattern projects, projection management, and environment and engineering modules. You'll also develop and carry out a research project.

During your third yr, you lot'll spend a full semester doing the Integrated Design Project. The projection encourages you to unleash your inventiveness on a grand scale by devising plans for an entire urban regeneration project based on a real site in Sheffield. You lot'll investigate new design methods and structure materials while developing detailed designs such every bit elegant bridges, sustainable and environmentally sensitive multi-storey buildings, or state-of-the-art sports venues. It'll give you invaluable project feel and a feel for the kind of problems you may encounter in your career.

Dual and combined honours degrees

This course is accredited past the Joint Board of Moderators, which includes the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Structural Engineers, Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation and the Institute of Highway Engineers under licence from the Engineering Council. This degree is accredited as fully satisfying the educational base for a Chartered Engineer (CEng).

Validation by the Royal Constitute of British Architects and prescription by the Architects Registration Board (ARB) means the form provides sufficient Architecture content to meet the Office I requirements for becoming a Registered Architect.

Modules

A selection of modules are bachelor each year - some examples are beneath. There may be changes earlier yous showtime your course. From May of the year of entry, formal plan regulations will exist available in our Plan Regulations Finder.

Cull a yr to encounter modules for a level of study:

Title: Structural Engineering and Architecture MEng form structure 2022 and 2023
UCAS code: HK21
Years: 2022, 2023

First year

Core modules:

Ceremonious Engineering Mathematics

This module aims to reinforce students' previous noesis and to develop new basic mathematical techniques needed to support the engineering subjects taken at Levels one and two. It also provides a foundation for the Level 2 mathematics courses in the appropriate applied science department. The module is delivered via online lectures, reinforced with weekly interactive problem classes.

20 credits

Civil Engineering Skills

This module aims to give students the tools to become excellent engineers. This begins with the power to communicate their designs through hand sketches and through the utilise of software. Students are then expected to use peer assessment to assess their drawings then they can empathize how not only to create drawings merely likewise how to effectively present information on them too. Basic skills in calculator programming are also introduced to give students the power to solve complex bug. In second semester the module concentrates on surveying skills, including an outdoor group surveying exercise and the evolution of a surveying plan report.

20 credits

Ceremonious and Structural Engineering Mechanics 1

This module is delivered in both the Autumn and Jump Semesters. Instruction in the kickoff semester is designed to provide a basis of knowledge and agreement of rubberband structural analysis and volition be applied to two cardinal structural forms - trusses and beams. The focus of the 2d semester is on the assay of stress, strain and elastic deformation of beams, qualitative structural analysis of axle-like structures and the fundamentals of plasticity.

20 credits

Environment and Applied science i

The overall aim of the Environment and Technology modules is to provide the cognition and ability in building technology, environmental blueprint and construction methods that are necessary to undertake design projects in the Blueprint Studio.

This module presents principles of planet and place including;

-   climate literacy and climate justice, building in the era of the climate emergency

-   principles of regenerative pattern and ecology

-   historical overview of solar architecture

10 credits

Environment and Engineering 2

The overall aim of the Environment and Technology modules is to provide the knowledge and ability in edifice technology, environmental design and construction methods that are necessary to undertake design projects in the Pattern Studio. This module presents principles of planet and place including;-   environmental design and site analysis, landscape principles, buildings and their surroundings, interior and exterior spaces

-   analysis of solar sun path and microclimate, edifice form and building physics

x credits

Geotechnical Engineering 1

This module is an introductory module to the utilise of soils in engineering practise. Every bit soils are a naturally varying textile, the creation of unlike soil types is first discussed giving the student a groundwork in why soils differ. This then progresses into the engineering nomenclature of soils followed by the design of simple geotechnical structures. These include retaining walls and globe embankments.

10 credits

Humanities 1

The overall aim of this module is to provide you with an agreement of how the field of architecture is positioned in relation to contemporary as much as to past issues. It volition provide basic cognition of particular moments in the recent history of the architecture and will familiarise you with some of its figures, concerns and events. Though the emphasis is on western architecture, information technology will include and encourage discussion of the way the architecture has been shaped and is being shaped around the earth. As an Architectural Humanities module, it volition not only focus on the history and theories of architecture but will also emphasise a more interdisciplinary approach that mobilises the noesis and methods of the humanities. The module will look at 'situating' as the mode in which the position, voices, agendas of, and issues apropos architecture are expressed and represented. It is a means to invite you to define your personal interest and take on architecture field of study and practice and to develop your ain agenda within this wide open-field. This module will contribute to your development every bit a critical thinker and researcher who can evolve informed and rigorous arguments in both words and images.

10 credits

Humanities 2

ARC104 concerns the reciprocal relationship between architecture, the built environment and society, exploring the issues through a broad range of case studies. Information technology volition focus on a range of buildings, mainly dwellings. Through a multidisciplinary and cantankerous-cultural arroyo, cases will include, for instance, vernacular, ethnic and everyday buildings to testify how compages worked when people built for themselves directly without recourse to building specialists and mechanised technology. The grade seeks to establish that architecture works through dissimilar categorisations, such every bit mode, symbolic references, typologies, apply, materiality, meaning, structure, layout, form, merely also through the framing of human activities and rituals. The cantankerous-cultural arroyo prompts the question if at that place are aspects that remain specific to a local context and if in some cases, some of these can exist regarded as universal, or not.

10 credits

Introduction to Structural Materials Engineering science

This lecture form covers all the main classes of materials (ceramics, metals, polymers, natural materials and composites), describing the properties that they show, the root crusade of their properties, the structure, and how we can affect this by processing to get the properties we desire. The course volition as well innovate some means that the best material for a purpose tin can exist selected.

10 credits

Global Engineering Challenge Calendar week

The Faculty-wide Global Engineering Challenge Week is a compulsory part of the first-year plan. The project has been designed to develop student bookish, transferable and employability skills besides equally widen their horizons as global citizens. Working in multi-disciplinary groups of 5-half-dozen, for a full calendar week, all students in the Faculty choose from a number of projects arranged under a range of themes including Water, Waste Direction, Energy and Digital with scenarios set in an overseas location facing economical challenge. Some projects are based on the Engineers Without Borders Applied science for people design challenge*.

*The EWB challenge provides students with the opportunity to learn nigh pattern, teamwork and advice through real, inspiring, sustainable and cross-cultural development projects identified by EWB with its community-based partner organisations.

The content of our courses is reviewed annually to brand certain it'south up-to-date and relevant. Private modules are occasionally updated or withdrawn. This is in response to discoveries through our earth-leading research; funding changes; professional accreditation requirements; student or employer feedback; outcomes of reviews; and variations in staff or student numbers. In the event of whatever modify we'll consult and inform students in good time and have reasonable steps to minimise disruption. Nosotros are no longer offering unrestricted module choice. If your course included unrestricted modules, your section will provide a listing of modules from their ain and other subject areas that you tin choose from.

Learning and assessment

Learning

The following are the primary learning and teaching methods implemented inside the programme:

  • lectures
  • tutorials (and example classes)
  • applied activities
  • design classes
  • studio time
  • coursework assignments (including presentations)
  • Individual Research Project (final twelvemonth)
  • online resources

We invest to create the correct surround for y'all. That ways outstanding facilities, report spaces and support, including 24/7 online access to our online library service.

Study spaces and computers are available to offer yous choice and flexibility for your study. Our five library sites give yous access to over 1.3 million books and periodicals. Y'all can access your library account and our rich digital collections from anywhere on or off campus. Other library services include study skills training to better your grades, and tailored advice from experts in your subject.

Learning support facilities and library opening hours

We've bookish staff who are world-leaders in their respective fields and some take over 20 years' feel in industry. Our staff experience demonstrates how engineering fundamentals are applied in practise through project work that mimics real-life situations. Nosotros also bring in leading industry experts to enhance and support our educational activity and propose on our curriculum.

Assessment

Students are assessed via a mix of the following:

  • examinations
  • coursework assignments
  • online tests
  • reports
  • group projects
  • presentations
  • design work
  • dissertations

Programme specification

This tells you the aims and learning outcomes of this course and how these volition be achieved and assessed.

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Entry requirements

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The A Level entry requirements for this grade are:
AAA
including Maths

A Levels + additional qualifications AAB, including A in Maths + A in a relevant EPQ; AAB, including Maths + A in AS or B in A Level Farther Maths

International Baccalaureate 36, with six in Higher Level Maths

BTEC Extended Diploma DDD in Engineering + A in A Level Maths

BTEC Diploma DD in Engineering + A in A Level Maths

Scottish Highers + one Advanced College AAAAB + A in Maths

Welsh Baccalaureate + ii A Levels A + AA, including Maths

Access to HE Diploma Award of Access to HE Diploma in a relevant subject including sufficient Chemistry units, with 45 credits at Level 3, including 39 at Stardom (to include Maths and Scientific discipline or Applied science units), and 6 at Merit + Course A in A Level Maths

Other requirements

  • Acceptable Maths subjects include Maths, Maths with Mechanics, Further Maths or Applied Maths. Pure Maths is only acceptable when combined with Physics. Statistics or Utilize of Maths are not accepted

  • GCSE Physics or Combined Scientific discipline at grade 6/B

The A Level entry requirements for this course are:
AAB
including Maths

A Levels + additional qualifications AAB, including A in Maths + A in a relevant EPQ; AAB, including Maths + A in Every bit or B in A Level Further Maths

International Baccalaureate 34, with 5 in Higher Level Maths

BTEC Extended Diploma DDD in Engineering + B in A Level Maths

BTEC Diploma DD in Engineering + B in A Level Maths

Scottish Highers + 1 Advanced Higher AAABB + B in Maths

Welsh Baccalaureate + two A Levels B + AA, including Maths

Admission to HE Diploma Laurels of Access to HE Diploma in a relevant subject including sufficient Chemistry units, with 45 credits at Level 3, including 36 at Distinction (to include Maths and Scientific discipline or Engineering units), and 9 at Merit + Grade A in A Level Maths

Other requirements

  • Adequate Maths subjects include Maths, Maths with Mechanics, Further Maths or Applied Maths. Pure Maths is only adequate when combined with Physics. Statistics or Use of Maths are not accepted

  • GCSE Physics or Combined Science at grade 6/B

If you have any questions most entry requirements, please contact the department.

Department of Civil and Structural Engineering science

Civil engineering is at the forefront of improving the manner nosotros live. Whether information technology's providing the facilities that keep our day-to-24-hour interval lives running smoothly - from roads and railways to make clean water supplies - or working to run into the e'er-changing needs of our society in the areas of sustainability, renewable energy and climate modify, you'll exist helping to create and protect the world nosotros alive in.

Our courses volition brand you the kind of engineer the world needs right now; forward-thinking, interdisciplinary, environmentally conscious, and capable of the kind of complex thinking our chop-chop changing gild needs. Wherever you cull to starting time your career, you'll exist in demand.

Nosotros're eighth in the UK for civil engineering, according to the Times Good University Guide 2020, and seventh according to the Complete Academy Guide 2020. Our inquiry is internationally recognised. Manufacture and regime value our expertise.

Our manufacture partners contribute to didactics through lectures, blueprint classes, projects and site visits. We work with leading consultants, contractors and specialist civil engineering companies to provide industrial opportunities for a number of students each year. We besides have industrial tutors and professionals who mentor our showtime-year students.

You'll be taught in The Diamond, one of the best educational activity spaces in the United kingdom.

Facilities

The Diamond edifice contains state-of-the-art educational activity and lab facilities, and uses cutting-edge, manufacture-standard equipment.

Department of Civil and Structural Engineering

School of Compages

Come up to Sheffield and join some of the best architecture students in the United kingdom - our students accept won prizes at the RIBA Educatee Awards and the Royal Academy Summer Show. They've been shortlisted in the European Architecture Medals and the Inspiring Graduate Awards. Our staff are doing world-class enquiry, helping to brand the school a leader in our field across the United kingdom and internationally.

We believe in architecture that makes a difference. We know that information technology has the potential to amend the lives of those who inhabit and use it.

Through our internationally-acclaimed teaching and research, we explore the social, spatial and ecology implications of architecture. Every bit a Sheffield educatee, you will engage with real issues affecting the built surround.

Nosotros encourage you lot to explore ideas and collaborate with other students. Through group tutorials and peer review you'll learn how to limited your opinions, and value the opinions of others. Sheffield is the perfect place to develop your personality as a designer.

Nosotros provide a balance of theory, blueprint piece of work and professional experience. Nosotros have a strong design studio culture. The studio acts as a laboratory for trialling your creative and disquisitional ideas, and for developing central architectural skills. Yous'll share ideas during grouping tutorials and review other students' piece of work. This encourages y'all to express your ain opinion and to value the opinions of others, as you begin to develop your personality every bit a designer.

The School of Architecture sits high up in the Arts Belfry, offering unrivalled panoramic views across Sheffield and beyond. This is where you will spend the majority of your time in the design studio.

You'll also attend lectures across the campus and take advantage of our cartoon labs and facilities for woodwork, metalwork, casting and architectural model making.

Facilities

Our generous open-plan studios promote collaboration and y'all volition exist able to take advantage of our drawing labs and facilities for woodwork, metalwork, casting and architectural model making.

You lot'll accept access to the latest digital techniques in our computer labs which host a suite of professional Building Data Modelling and Computer Aided Blueprint software. Y'all can also take advantage of our digital review facilities and volition have admission to 360 caste capture technology.

Workshops and tutorials are embedded into each course to ensure you lot have the skills you need.

School of Architecture

Why cull Sheffield?

The Academy of Sheffield

A tiptop 100 university
QS World University Rankings 2023

92 per cent of our research is rated in the highest two categories
Inquiry Excellence Framework 2021

No i Students' Union in the Britain
Whatuni Student Pick Awards 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017

Section of Ceremonious and Structural Engineering

UK top 10 for civil engineering science

The Complete Academy Guide 2021

School of Architecture

Top 5 in the UK for architecture

The Times and Sunday Times Expert Academy Guide 2022 / The Guardian University Guide 2022

fourth in the UK for compages

The Complete Academy Guide Subject Tables 2021

Graduate careers

Department of Ceremonious and Structural Applied science

Our graduates work all over the world, from the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland to Australia and the United states of america. Recent graduates take gone on to work for AECOM, Arup, Atkins, Buro Happold, Eastwood & Partners, and Kier.

You'll exist able to apply your knowledge and skills to fields as diverse as the built environs, sustainability and improving the surroundings.

In add-on, architectural engineering graduates might go into a broad range of engineering areas ranging from edifice services to mechanical, electric or audio-visual engineering science.

Or as a structural engineer, yous'll exist helping to shape the globe around us. Structural engineers design and construct multi-storey buildings, bridges, sports stadiums, tunnels, airports and schools.

Aatisha Gupta : Graduate Civil Engineer

School of Architecture

Our graduates often go into architectural practice for a year or two before doing a two-twelvemonth MArch in Architecture - either at Sheffield or another school. Our graduates also pursue careers in the built environment or move on to a specialist masters class.

Employers include AHMM, ARUP, Building Design Partnership, Haworth Tompkins Architects, Feilden Clegg Bradley, Grimshaw Architects, Hawkins\Dark-brown, and Penoyre & Prasad.

Graduates on our Architectural and Interdisciplinary Studies degree course are well prepared for a career in the built environment in roles such as: congenital environment consultant, government and local authority advisor, creative and strategic policy maker, architectural critic and announcer, and arts and heritage manager.

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Taster days

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Bidder days

If you lot've received an offer to study with united states, nosotros'll invite you lot to 1 of our applicant days, which have place betwixt November and April. These applicant days have a strong department focus and requite you lot the gamble to actually explore student life here, even if you've visited u.s.a. before.

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