Overview

Buildings and infrastructure must be safe, efficient and well designed, and delivering them depends on engineers who understand both structure and architecture. The BEng (Hons) Architectural Engineering at the University of Liverpool is a multidisciplinary degree covering civil engineering and architecture, delivered jointly by the School of Engineering and the School of Architecture. Students gain the technical grounding of a civil and structural engineering degree together with a wider appreciation of the architectural, societal, economic and environmental factors that shape a design. The course develops the skills to design building structures, bridges and critical infrastructure, and to manage complex systems in the built environment. Teaching follows the Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) framework, a holistic, systems approach in which lectures, laboratory sessions, tutorials and seminars are combined with a substantial practical component and growing project work. Students work in modern engineering facilities and in the architecture school’s studio and review spaces, supported by an individual academic adviser. The degree is accredited by the Joint Board of Moderators and students can add a year abroad. It suits students who want to work where architecture meets structural engineering and who enjoy project-based design.

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What You’ll Learn

• Solids and structures, engineering materials, and soil, site investigation and surveying

• Engineering mathematics and programming for civil and environmental engineering

• Environmental design principles, and passive environmental design systems

• Acoustics, lighting and active environmental design systems, including heating, ventilation and air conditioning

• Structural elements, their behaviour and design, and structural planning

• Geomechanics and transportation engineering

• Civil and architectural engineering projects, and group design work

• Fire engineering, and lifecycle design and construction management

• The history and critique of modern architecture

• An individual research project on a topic you lead

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Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able to design building structures, bridges and components of critical infrastructure using a multidisciplinary approach that joins structural engineering with architectural thinking. They will be equipped to weigh the technical, societal, historical, economic and environmental aspects of a design and to manage complex systems in the built environment. Studio-style projects, group design work and an individual research project will develop the ability to create innovative design strategies and to work collaboratively and independently. Practical experience, including hands-on construction, will build the confidence to apply theory to real engineering problems. Graduates will leave with a degree accredited by the Joint Board of Moderators, fully meeting the educational base for registration as an Incorporated Engineer and partially meeting it for Chartered Engineer, well prepared for careers in engineering and the built environment or for postgraduate study.