civil engineering
Newcastle University is a world-class centre for
academic research in civil engineering. We regard
engineers as being central to the process of identifying and
managing sustainable responses to the challenges to our society
and its supporting infrastructure systems posed by intensifying
global change. Our research is advancing fundamental understanding
of systems and processes, and is successfully applying this understanding
to engineering and management of coupled technological, natural
and human systems.
Civil Engineering research incorporates the activities of the following research groups:
Our research is increasingly interdisciplinary
and the University structure
is promoting productive collaborations with cognate scientific
disciplines. Civil engineering researchers play a leading role
in the University’s Institute
for Research on the Environment and Sustainability. In concert with colleagues in the environmental
and social sciences our interdisciplinary research is orchestrated
around the framework of Earth Systems Science, Engineering and
Management (ESSEM), which integrates research on Earth Systems
science, engineering and technology, and policy-making and governance
to seek sustainable solutions to global problems within an appropriate
socio-economic context.
Civil Engineering researchers at Newcastle are
helping to shape policy and practice for engineering and the
environment at a
national, European and global level. We work with government
and industry on applied problems that push the frontiers of
engineering and scientific knowledge in order to identify sound
and sustainable
solutions.
In RAE2008 our recent activity and future strategy are reported in UoA27, Civil Engineering. |
