Advanced Concrete Technology

Course Overview

You-ll gain academic and industrial expertise using a range of online resources that give you the flexibility to study around your work and personal lives. From health and safety and quality control to mixture proportioning, repair and maintenance and life cycle analysis, you-ll develop an understanding of a wide range of issues that affect professionals in the concrete industry today. If you complete the MSc, you-ll also have the chance to conduct your own research project - a chance to focus on a single topic and demonstrate valuable skills when you present your findings in a comprehensive technical report. Institute for Resilient Infrastructure, The programme also has close links with our interdisciplinary Institute for Resilient Infrastructure, which collaborates with industry to focus on key challenges facing the construction sector. It broad scope incorporates the impacts of the engineering, environmental, economic, social and political domains on the whole life performance of infrastructure. Career opportunities: It is expected that the majority of students on the course will already be working within the concrete industry and looking to progress their career within their chosen field. If you have no industrial experience, this course will provide an excellent route to a career within the concrete industry as you learn industrial practices through group projects involving participants from industry. During your course you will have the opportunity to get to know people from the concrete industry through their association with tutors from the industry who will be part of the course delivery team.