Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering (Honours) - Geotechnical Engineering

The University of Sydney

The Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Civil) will develop your comprehensive ability to plan, design and test structures within the built and natural environments. A suite of embedded professional skills will equip you to contribute to infrastructure that improves lives in Australia and worldwide. As a civil engineering student, you will learn from leading experts about how to manage the design and construction of crucial modern infrastructure, including buildings, roads, transport and railways, bridges, tunnels, dams and ports, as well as systems for managing water, irrigation, sewage and floodwaters. Complementing this technical knowledge will be a range of professional skills in management, finance and problem solving. Throughout this four-year degree you will study a series of core units as you master the foundations of civil engineering, before specialising in an optional major. In your second year, a surveying camp will allow you to develop your technical skills in a practical, team-based environment. In your fourth year you will undertake further specialised civil engineering subjects and complete an embedded honours thesis. It enables you to design a research project in an area that interests you. As part of your degree you will undertake the award-winning Professional Engagement Program enabling you to change your approach to learning through self-reflection and extra-curricular activities throughout your degree.Our Geotechnical Engineering specialisation will provide you with the essential technical skills and knowledge related to geotechnical engineering, including the design of foundations, computer modelling, and environmental geotechnics. Geotechnical engineers examine the soil and rock layers that make up the earth in order to determine their physical and chemical properties so that they can design foundations and earthworks structures for buildings, roads, and many other types of projects.As a graduate of our Geotechnical Engineering specialisation, you will be skilled to undertake a number of roles from investigating various sites to determine the bearing capacity of the given natural material, through to designing landfills for society's waste products, protecting the environment. Your career as a geotechnical engineer might allow you to work on a commercial building site in the city one day and drill at a river crossing in far north Queensland the next.

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