Course Overview
Civil engineers are responsible for ensuring that the infrastructure around us gets developed, is safe, meets our needs, and improves our quality of life. This includes buildings, bridges, railways, tunnels, water distribution, and waste management networks. This practical qualification will ensure you graduate job-ready as a civil and structural engineering technologist. Upon completion of this program, you will gain skills and knowledge in the latest and developing technologies in civil and structural engineering.
Program Details
Civil and structural engineering is one of the oldest forms of engineering which involves the design, construction, and maintenance of the built environment. Engineers in this field are responsible for ensuring that the infrastructure around us gets developed, is safe, meets our needs, and improves our quality of life. This includes buildings, bridges, railways, tunnels, water distribution, and waste management networks. As a civil engineer, you could be involved in sustainable urban development, environmental protection, conservation of energy and water resources, or even geotechnical, hydraulic, or transport engineering. You could even specialize in fields such as earthquake and blast-resistant technologies.
With this qualification, you will have acquired the essential knowledge which underpins both this and other fields of engineering. More importantly, you will have become a civil and structural engineering technologist.
The degree consists of a combination of common units, sub-discipline specific ‘stream’ units, industrial work experience, and a final year project. The program duration is three years full-time. We deliver units over two semesters per year, and you will take 4+5 units per semester. There will be a short mid-semester break and extended breaks between semesters.
Please refer to the current teach-out program structure here.
Year One
Unit Code | Subjects | Credit Points |
BSC101 | Engineering Mathematics 1 | 3 |
BCS102 | Construction Materials | 3 |
BSC103 | Engineering Physics and Materials | 3 |
BSC104 | Engineering Drawing and CAD | 3 |
BSC105 | Engineering Ethics and Professional Practice | 3 |
BSC106 | Engineering Mathematics 2 | 3 |
BSC107 | Engineering Programming | 3 |
BSC108 | Engineering Statics | 3 |
BSC109 | Fluid Mechanics | 3 |
Year Two
Unit Code | Subjects | Credit Points |
BSC201 | Engineering Management | 3 |
BCS202 | Construction Engineering | 3 |
BCS204 | Strength of Materials | 3 |
BCS205 | Engineering Surveying | 3 |
BCS207 | Soil Mechanics | 3 |
BCS206 | Hydraulics | 3 |
BCS203 | Introduction to Structural Analysis | 3 |
BCS208 | Design of Steel and Timber Structures | 3 |
BCS209 | Geotechnical Engineering | 3 |
Year Three
Unit Code | Subjects | Credit Points |
BCS301 | Design of Concrete Structures | 3 |
BCS302 | Road Design | 3 |
BCS303 | Civil Design | 3 |
TBA | Elective-1 | 3 |
TBA | Elective-2 | 3 |
BSC305 | Technology, Sustainability and Society | 3 |
BSC307 | Engineering Capstone Project | 9 |
Additional Mandatory Units
Unit Code | Subjects | Credit Points |
Hands-on Workshop 1 | 0 | |
BXX001-004 | Hands-on Workshop 2 | 0 |
Hands-on Workshop 3 | 0 | |
Hands-on Workshop 4 | 0 | |
BSC210 | Industrial Experience |
List of Electives* (2 Electives to be selected)
Unit Code | Subjects | Credit Points |
BSC202 | Engineering Mathematics 3 | 3 |
BME302 | Automation, Measurement and Control | 3 |
BME303 | Computer Aided Technology | 3 |
BIA206 | Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence | 3 |
BCS310 | Design of Modular Construction | 3 |
BCS311 | Building Information Modelling | 3 |
BSC102 | Electrical Circuit Theory and Analysis | 3 |
BME204 | Machine Dynamics | 3 |
Work-Integrated Learning
EIT’s Bachelor of Science programs require students to undertake 240 hours of paid or unpaid professional work-integrated learning. This can incorporate paid or unpaid internships, site visits, contributing to industry projects, and networking activities.
In undertaking an internship, students will interact with employees and become exposed to organizational policy and culture. You will familiarize yourself with organizational communication procedures, a variety of engineering disciplines, and obtain insight and practical aptitude in projects from the planning phase to completion.
If you already have some work experience in the relevant engineering field, you may apply to have credit granted by completing the associated recognition of prior learning form.