Civil and Environmental Engineering (Year in Industry) MEng (Hons)

Our Civil and Environmental Engineering programme offers you a highly regarded degree course at one of the top universities in this field, preparing you for exciting future career opportunities in designing and working with the built and natural environments.You will develop a thorough understanding of civil and environmental engineering theory, which will be backed up by practical application through laboratory and research work, field trips and design classes.Choosing the MEng Civil and Environmental Engineering degree offers you a quicker, more direct route to Chartered Engineer status than the shorter BEng.This course includes the opportunity to take a year of industrial placement between your second and third years of academic study. With this option we will support you in finding a placement that will allow you to experience at first- hand, a professional working environment. If you are successful in securing a placement you will be paid a salary and will enhance your employability skills through direct experience of working in business, industry or the public sector.The MEng allows you to use the last two years to expand and strengthen your knowledge in civil and environmental engineering. You will benefit from advanced learning in design and management and an appreciation of the techniques needed to manage and organise a multidisciplinary engineering design project.Other Cardiff University Civil and Environmental Engineering courses include:•A thorough grounding in the fundamentals of civil and environmental engineering if you choose a BEng course•The opportunity to study abroad at a partner institution for one semester if you choose the relevant MEng (International) degree option•The opportunity to study a language if you choose the relevant MEng degree option with a sandwich year at a university in France, Germany or Spain