The University of Surrey is a global community of more than 16,000 students from 140 countries. Based on a lovely, leafy campus in buzzy Guildford, The University of Surrey boasts gorgeous countryside to the south and west, and London half an hour to the east.
It’s the perfect setting for a challenging and rewarding university experience that creates incredible memories and helps you achieve your ambitions. With a focus on practice-based learning, supported by outstanding teaching, laboratory and simulation facilities in every faculty, Surrey is ranked first in the UK for work placements and graduate employability.
Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Surrey
Civil Engineering BEng (Hons) or MEng
The University of Surrey's Civil Engineering BEng and MEng courses give you industry-focused, practical training, which prepares you for work as a professional civil engineer. There’s a strong emphasis on structural engineering, and throughout your course you’ll work on integrated design projects centred on industry-relevant case studies. Close links with leading contractors and consultancies enable you to take up a salaried position on the University's award-winning Professional Training placements scheme. This valuable experience prepares students for roles in the sector and contributes towards chartership.
Around 35 per cent of Surrey’s Civil Engineering undergraduates are on the unique Surrey/ICE (Institution of Civil Engineering) scholarship scheme, which pairs students with a relevant industrial company early on in their course. They then:
- Spend their year-long Professional Training placement with the organisation
- Benefit from paid summer work
- Receive a generous scholarship bursary.
On graduation, many scholars are offered a full-time role at their company.
On the fully accredited Civil Engineering courses at Surrey, you'll study a lively mix of modules that draw on the University's outstanding expertise in areas such as water and environmental engineering, and advanced geotechnical engineering. You’ll learn through lectures, tutorials, practical challenges, industry speakers, site visits and field trips.
Whether you choose a BEng or MEng, you’ll study the same content for the first three years, before conducting a major third-year project on a topic of your choice. MEng students then do a masters year, which covers the full academic requirements for becoming a chartered engineer. Depending on your progress, you may be able to switch to a BEng or MEng during your studies.
Dr Juan Sagaseta
Dr Juan Sagaseta joined the University of Surrey as a Lecturer in September 2010. He obtained the degree of Civil Engineering at the School of Civil Engineering in Santander, University of Cantabria (Spain), in 2003, where he specialised in the area of structures. After graduation, he worked as a Structural Engineer in a consultancy office in Madrid (Proes) carrying out structural design of buildings and bridges. In 2005, Juan moved to London to start his PhD at Imperial College London on Shear Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures. During his PhD he was a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London in the following courses: Constructionarium project, Creative Design, Reinforced Concrete Design, Structural Mechanics and Autocad Drawing. From 2008 to 2010, Dr Juan Sagaseta was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, where he carried out research on punching shear of flat slabs and slab bridges. In 2011 he was awarded the fib Achievement Award (research category) based on his Doctoral Thesis for the scientific and technical contributions in the area of structural concrete, and in 2012 he received the Magazine of Concrete Research Award (ICE publishing) for best paper of the year. He is currently involved in research on structural robustness and the development of innovative forms of construction using steel-concrete solutions.
