Safety Engineering and Disaster Management - BEng (Hons)

Campus-Jordanstown
This innovative BEng (Hons) degree combines the professional engineering discipline of Safety Engineering with Emergency Planning and Disaster Management. Increasing concerns over climate change and energy security, the resultant new technologies, and the growing threat of natural and manmade disasters mean that today’s engineers are facing a new set of challenges. This degree will equip engineers with specialist skills to design structures and systems to withstand potential disasters in the natural and the built environment. The nature of disasters may include those caused by extreme weather such as flooding, forest fires or earthquakes, or industrial incidents including chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear accidents, or acts of terrorism. There is nothing that can be done to completely prevent disasters from occurring. However, it is possible to devise migratory steps against disaster with intelligent and professional emergency management practices.
One year industrial placement is an integral component of the degree. On graduation a further qualification known as a Diploma in Professional Practice (DPP) is awarded to students who satisfactorily complete their placement.
Students register initially on the BEng programme but may transfer to the MEng (Hons) Safety Engineering and Disaster Management if an average of 60% or more is achieved in second year.