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Department of Civil and Structural Engineering

Civil and structural engineers help to create and protect the world we live in. Driven by teaching and research excellence, we inspire and empower our students to engineer a better future.

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Undergraduate study 
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Postgraduate taught 
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Undergraduate open days 

Highlight: How do explosions work?

No-one knows how explosions work (yet)

Watch this video showing the fantastic work of Dr Sam Rigby in a collaboration with educational YouTuber Tom Scott

Research

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PhD study 
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Research 

Highlight: Keeping drinking crystal clear water

What is the PODDS consortium?

Learn more about how researchers of the department of Civil and Structural Engineering have been working with water industry across the UK to improve drinking water quality.

Our Department

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News

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Engineering ranked in the Top 100 in the 2024 Times Higher World Subject Rankings

The Faculty of Engineering is recognised as a top university in today’s (26 October 2023) announcement by the Times Higher World Subject Rankings.

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Celebrating World Ventil8 Day and our growing research and teaching excellence

It’s World Ventil8 Day today (Wednesday 8 November 2023) and we are celebrating all of the amazing research and teaching practice within the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering.

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Dr Sam Rigby awarded a RAEng Industrial Fellowship in collaboration with Arup

Dr Sam Rigby has been awarded a two-year Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellowship in Machine Learning Applications for Blast Protection Engineering, in collaboration with Arup's Resilience, Security and Risk (RS&R) team.
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Exploiting the Resilience of Masonry Arch Bridge Infrastructure (ERMABI) workshop

Academics and research staff from the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering at the University of Sheffield co-organised and participated at a two-day workshop on masonry arch bridges, held at Imperial College London on 5-6 September 2023.

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Civil and Structural Engineering student Hasan wins first place at the Future Urban Ventilation Network Healthy Building Competition

Congratulations to our third year MEng Architectural Engineering student Hasan Shwaish for winning first place at the Breathing City: Future Urban Ventilation Network “Healthy Building” Competition in the individual poster category.

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High praises for Civil and Structural Engineering at The University of Sheffield in the latest National Student Satisfaction (NSS) survey

Civil and Structural Engineering in the University of Sheffield has been ranked among the best in the Russell Group by students, featuring in the top five in several categories in the latest National Student Survey (NSS).

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Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street (via Broad Lane)
Sheffield
S1 3JD

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+44 114 222 5738

civil@sheffield.ac.uk

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