Safety Engineering BEng (Hons)

As a student on this programme you will learn to recognise the hazards and modes of failure of a system or structure, and will learn how to plan for emergency and provide solutions in the event of a disaster. The course content will reflect the state of the art and cutting edge research in the field. Additionally, there is a focus throughout on employability as students will develop skills in leadership and management necessary for professional working life.

This timely degree equips graduates with a unique and valuable skillset enabling them to work as safety engineers, both locally and globally, with a wider knowledge of emergency planning and disaster management.

Planning can lead to the protection of life, property and the environment. Thus, engineers with specialist skills in designing structures and systems to withstand potential disasters in the natural and the built environment, and those who have the knowledge to plan for emergency and provide solutions in the event of a disaster, are a highly sought after group of experts. Combining the discipline of safety engineering with disaster management equips graduates with engineering skills that can be used where human benefit is the primary concern. Engineers have the skills and ability to help people and communities most in need and most specifically in the face of adversity, such as post disaster or in extreme emergencies.

The course team has involved industry from the outset to ensure the course meets the needs of employers.

As a student on this course you will have the opportunity to undertake practical laboratory work, group work and individual research.

The University regularly ‘refreshes’ courses to make sure they are as up-to-date as possible. The University calls this process 'academic revalidation’. This course is currently being ‘refreshed’, with changes being put in place for students entering from September 2019 onwards. Module selection may vary