- UCAS course code
- H200
- UCAS institution code
- M20
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Bachelor of Engineering (BEng)
BEng Civil Engineering
Society needs civil engineers now more than ever, and our graduates are among the most sought-after in the UK (THE Graduate Market, 2024)
Duration: 3 years
Year of entry: 2025
UCAS course code: H200 / Institution code: M20
- Key features:
Field trips
Accredited course
- Typical A-level offer: AAA including specific subjects
- Typical contextual A-level offer: AAB including specific subjects
- Refugee/care-experienced offer: ABB including specific subjects
- Typical International Baccalaureate offer: 36 points overall with 6,6,6 at HL, including specific requirements
Course unit details:
Mechanics (Civil)
| Unit code | CIVL10602 |
|---|---|
| Credit rating | 10 |
| Unit level | Level 1 |
| Teaching period(s) | Semester 2 |
| Available as a free choice unit? | No |
Overview
The taught element consists of 24 formal lectures and 6 worked-example sessions. Taught material is supported by a 2-hour lab, where students undertake 4 desktop experiments in small groups, and by a short written coursework exercise containing multi-part, exam-type questions.
Aims
- To equip students with the knowledge and skills required to develop and solve mathematical models of simple dynamical systems.
- To enable students to apply fundamental mechanical principles to break down, simplify and analyse the behaviour of complex systems met in later modules of their engineering course.
Syllabus
(1) Kinematics: velocity and acceleration; multidimensional motion in Cartesian and polar coordinates; motion under gravity in 2 dimensions; variable acceleration.
(2) Momentum: laws of motion in force-momentum, impulse-momentum and energy forms; conservation of momentum; direct and oblique collisions; friction; extended objects; centre of mass.
(3) Energy: definitions of kinetic energy, work, power, efficiency; Mechanical Energy Principle; conservative and non-conservative forces; gravitational and elastic potential energy; virtual work and potential-energy criterion for equilibrium.
(4) Rotation: rotational kinematics; rotational dynamics; moments of inertia; combined rotation and translation.
(5) Oscillations: SHM; undamped and damped free vibration; forced oscillations and resonance.
Assessment methods
| Method | Weight |
|---|---|
| Other | 10% |
| Written exam | 80% |
| Practical skills assessment | 10% |
Other - assessed tutorial work 10%
Feedback methods
Comments on scripts and answers & classwide feedback in Blackboard
Study hours
| Scheduled activity hours | |
|---|---|
| Lectures | 24 |
| Practical classes & workshops | 2 |
| Tutorials | 6 |
| Independent study hours | |
|---|---|
| Independent study | 68 |
Teaching staff
| Staff member | Role |
|---|---|
| David Apsley | Unit coordinator |