About Us
Civil Engineering is one of six departments in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Bristol. The Department currently has 24 academic teaching staff and 11 administrative staff. Within the Faculty there are more than 1000 students, of whom around 250 undergraduates and 30 postgraduates are in the Department of Civil Engineering.
designed and built by 4th year students.
There is a long history of civil engineering within the University and past professors include such well-known people as Hele-Shaw – one of the originators of experimental fluid mechanics; Pippard – who introduced strain energy methods into Britain; Baker – renowned for his leading work in modern approaches to design of steel structures; and Pugsley – for his pioneering work in the field of risk and structural safety and design of suspension bridges.
The Department is one of the top civil engineering departments in the country and this is reflected across a range of quality indicators: we were awarded 22 points out of a maximum of 24 at our last Higher Education Teaching Quality Assessment; the Department has a research activity rating of 5* (the top rating) which denotes “research of international and national excellence” and the Department consistently appears at or near the top of national surveys and league tables. The Department focuses on first-class undergraduate teaching and top quality research.