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Bachelor of Civil Engineering

What is Civil Engineering

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Bachelor of Civil Engineering

The BE in Civil Engineering is a four year full time undergraduate program. Civil engineers design, construct, manage, operate and maintain the infrastructure that supports modern society including buildings, bridges, roads and highways, tunnels, airfields, dams, ports and harbours, railways, new mines, water supply and sewerage schemes, irrigation systems and flood mitigation works.

Students are offered a wide variety of courses teaching civil engineering fundamentals and applications and in their fourth year are able to select elective courses in engineering construction and management, geotechnical, structural, transport, and/or water engineering.

The BE in Civil Engineering is fully accredited by the Institution of Engineers, Australia.

Seven reasons to study civil engineering

Studying at five star university*, taught by staff in the largest and most diverse School in the country.
Excellent and varied career opportunities.
Great salaries - financial security. Starting salary range: typically $50K pa.
Many opportunities to work overseas.
Make a visible and useful difference to society: at home and abroad.
Find solutions to the challenges of increasing urbanisation and environmental stress.
Job satisfaction: opportunity to continually engage in inventive, problem solving tasks.

* Good Universities Guide 2009

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