Graduate ApprenticeshipEngineering: Civil Engineering BEng (Hons)
Key facts
Funding: fully funded
Award: BEng (Hons)
Duration: 4 years
Accreditation: ICE, IStructE, IHE and CIHT
Graduate Apprenticeships at Strathclyde
- enables employers to fast-track the time required for graduates to reach optimal productivity
- dedicated delivery team who listen, understand and work with employers to offer a fully integrated, contextualised degree
- delivered through an online and blended work-based learning mode including regular attendance at our city centre-based campus
- Apprentices apply knowledge within their work context via a series of bespoke work-based projects
Why this course
The BEng (Hons) Engineering: Civil Engineering degree is a bespoke Graduate Apprenticeship programme, designed in partnership with engineering employers which will develop apprentices’ knowledge, skills, competencies and professional behaviours.
Learners will acquire underpinning knowledge and understanding via a blended and online learning delivery mode with core engineering competencies (UK Standards for Professional Engineering Competence, IEng) being developed through an integrated work based learning curriculum.
Facilitated by world-class academics, the on-campus delivery will allow apprentices to develop skills in our state-of-the-art facilities including labs for the demonstration of geomechanics, advanced materials science and environmental science.
Accreditation
The programme has been accredited by the Joint Board of Moderators, having fully met the academic base for IEng and partially meeting the academic base for CEng by the ICE, IStructE, IHE and CIHT.
This Graduate Apprenticeship will support the development of professionally qualified engineers eligible for IEng level membership.
Add value to your organisation
We focus on developing your workforce so that they can quickly add value to your organisation. We start with the fundamentals, providing a solid foundation for future learning and helping apprentices become productive.
The course content has been developed in partnership with industry and is designed to equip apprentices with knowledge of contemporary tools and technology. We don’t just focus on tech – our approach to work-based learning helps develop more rounded professionals, with a wide range of soft skills that enable apprentices to contribute widely to your organisation.
A flexible delivery model ensures minimal time away from the workplace, utilising a combination of online learning supported by a series of online tutorials, an annual face-to-face on-campus workshop and work-based learning activity.
Course structure
During Years 1 and 2 of the degree, learners will study four core modules addressing:
- Engineering Mechanics and Materials
- Structural Analysis
- Soil Mechanics and Hydraulics
- Mathematics and Numerical Tools
Years 3 and 4 are designed to develop higher-level cognitive skills and enable the continued integration of knowledge, professional competencies and transferable skills via two 60-credit project modules with further opportunities for specialisation via optional modules.
Entry requirements
The Civil Engineering Graduate Apprenticeship has a flexible admissions approach and applications will be considered on an individual basis with input from employers. Typically applicants will have 4 Highers (minimum B grades) including Maths or equivalent qualifications and experience.
The programme has been designed to meet the needs of learners with a range of vocational and academic qualifications including the potential for progression from:
- Foundation Apprenticeships in a related discipline
- recognition of vocational qualifications and experiential learning
Funding
Graduate Apprenticeships are fully funded by the Scottish Government through the Scottish Funding Council and SAAS. Find out more about eligibility for funding.
Why Strathclyde
Praised for our close links with business and industry as well as our commitment to making an impact on the global economy, the University of Strathclyde has been named The Sunday Times Good University Guide Scottish University of the Year 2020.
The place of useful learning
Strathclyde has also been nominated for The Times Higher Education (THE) Awards 2019 University of the Year, been awarded the THE Awards 2014 Entrepreneurial University of the Year and 2016 THE Awards Business School of the Year.
Apply
Employers can nominate existing employees or newly recruited candidates who will then be considered for admission to the programme.
Please contact the Apprenticeship Programme Lead for Civil Engineering, Dr Stewart Beattie - stewart.beattie@strath.ac.uk.