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Infrastructure – (M.Sc.)
University of Nottingham
Civil Engineering
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 5,300 | ||
| Location: | Nottingham / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Nottingham
Course Content
The compulsory modules taken on this course are designed to give you a strong foundation in the skills and methodology necessary to successfully complete your research project over the summer period. These core modules are:
* Research Preparation (autumn semester)
* Research Project Organisation and Design (spring semester)
All the compulsory modules (totalling 100 credits) must be taken in the area of infrastructure. This means that your research project must be related to this field rather than another aspect of Civil Engineering that you may study on the course.
Typical modules on offer on this course currently include:
Construction Planning and Risk
Advanced Pavement Materials
Applied Construction Project Management
Traffic Engineering
Steel Structures
Railway Engineering
Other optional modules currently offered include:
Autumn
* Coastal and River Engineering
* Construction Planning and Risk
* Advanced Pavement Materials
* Rail Transportation
* Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics
* Concrete Structures
* Finite Element Analysis in Structural Mechanics
* A maximum of one of the following level 3 modules: Steel Structures; Pavement Engineering; Geotechnical Engineering; or Geospatial Engineering 1.
Spring
* Construction Management Processes
* Soil Mechanics
* Concrete Technology
* Applied Construction Project Management
* Geology for Civil Engineers
* Plates and Shells
* Geospatial Engineering 2 (must have taken Geospatial Engineering 1 during the autumn semester)
* Traffic Engineering
* A maximum of one of the following level 3 modules: Environmental Geotechnology
Railway Engineering; or Sustainable Construction
Please note that all module details are subject to change.
Over the summer period, you will undertake a 60-credit research project on a subject of your choice relating to Infrastructure.
The research project is a chance to carry out a major piece of independent research under the supervision of a suitable member of academic staff.
Course Structure
The MSc in Infrastructure is a full-time course, which you would take over 1 year commencing at the start of the autumn semester.
The course is taught through a series of lectures, tutorials, projects and student-centred learning.
You will be required to take 180 credits´ worth of modules, divided into three periods (Semester 1 in the autumn, Semester 2 in the spring and the summer period).
60 credits´ worth of modules are studied in each of the periods. Semester 1 and Semester 2 each include 20 credits that are compulsory and 40 credits that can be chosen from a list of available modules.
The summer period consists of one 60-credit compulsory module, the MSc Research Project.
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