BEng- Civil & Environmental Engineering

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Award: BEng Civil and Environmental Engineering

Duration: 5 years

Introduction

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering. This is a five-year degree programme providing students with detailed courses in structures, construction materials, geotechnics, water and wastewater management, environmental engineering and transportation.

The department is committed to produce high quality engineers for the Civil and Environmental engineering industry through excellent education, research and partnership with the industry. The programme is quality assured by the Botswana Qualification Authority and a well-established advisory board made from professional civil engineers in the field.

Why is this Course for Me?

Civil engineering is arguably the oldest engineering discipline and continues to provide the largest employment world-wide due to the high demand of the much-needed construction industry. Civil engineers literally build nations through construction and maintenance of large and most essential infrastructures such as roads, bridges, railway lines, buildings, dams, water and wastewater treatment and supply systems.

What Will I Study?

Primary disciplines in civil engineering are structures, construction materials, geotechnics, transport, water and environmental engineering. This programme will give you the theory and practical part of these disciplines that are well backed by the fundamentals of science and engineering such as mathematics, chemistry, physics and mechanics of materials. You will also be provided with soft skills that allow you to perform in the industry such as professional ethics, construction management and entrepreneurship skills.

Career and Graduate Study Opportunities

There is no fixed or standard career path for a Civil Engineer. In Botswana you can join the vast construction industry, consulting industry, Government Departments, Parastatals and the mining industry. You can also opt to further pursue your learning by joining the postgraduate programme at BIUST which will give you the opportunity to enter the academic world and open your career path even wider.

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers MSc and PhD degrees in all fields within the department such as water, environmental engineering, structures, materials, transportation and geotechnics. The primary objective of the post graduate programme is to conduct intense research that is based on the fundamentals of civil and environmental engineering to address national problems and to provide high level human resource for the industry.

Research opportunities

A wide range of researches are conducted at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. These include researches on the treatment of wastewater for reuse, water loss investigations, use of fly ash for building purposes, solid waste management, use of wastewater for irrigation, measuring the pore water pressure in Kimberlite tailings, stability analysis of tailings dams, fly ash stabilisation of black cotton soil, modelling of pavement performance, fly ash modified tiles, stabilisation of sand with fly ash.