Water and Wastewater Engineering

Duration:

1 year full-time
2-5 years part-time

Overview:

This course is ideal for individuals who want to make a difference to delivering reliable water supplies, or maintaining and enhancing river and ground water quality.

Accredited by the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), it provides students with knowledge and skills in process, hydraulics and pumping systems for water and wastewater treatment. Graduates are equipped to move into process and design engineering positions within the water sector, and many students are offered a job before they have completed the course.

Facilities available to students include the sewage treatment works and pilot plant hall, a grey water treatment facility, and state-of-the-art microbiology and clean water laboratories.

Students compete annually for the British Water Group Design Project Award, the Lorch Foundation Prize for Best Laboratory Group, the Degremont Prize for Best Student and the Institution of Chemical Engineers Prize for Best Thesis.

Course Structure:

The course comprises eight assessed modules, a group design project (work-based design project for part-time students) and an individual thesis project. The Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip) comprises eight modules and the group design project. Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert) students complete five modules and a design project.

Modules:

• Biological Processes
• Chemical Processes
• Hydraulics and Pumping Systems
• Physical Processes
• Process Science and Engineering
• Research Processes
• Risk Management and Reliability Engineering
• Water and Wastewater Treatment Principles

Group design project:

The group project is undertaken in relation to the design of a potable and a wastewater treatment works and provides students with experience of team working and the opportunity to apply principles taught during modules.

Entry requirements:

Candidates must possess or be expected to achieve, a 1st or 2nd class UK Honours degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline. Other relevant qualifications, together with significant experience, may be considered.

English language requirements - our normal minimum requirement is a TOEFL score of 580 (paper test) or 237 (computer test), essay rating 4.5 or 92 (Internet test), all skills 19 or an IELTS 6.5 with 6.0 for writing, a TOEIC overall score of 830, or a Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English grade C or Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English grade C, although a number of our programmes require higher scores.

Funding:

Funding opportunities exist, including industrial sponsorship, School bursaries and a number of general external schemes. For the majority of part-time students sponsorship is organised by their employers. We recommend you discuss this with your company in the first instance.

Please note that a formal offer of a place on this course must have been received before consideration can be given for funding. For further details please visit our website or contact our Enquiries Office on the details provided below.

Want to find out more?

Contact our Enquiries Office for further details on all the courses we offer by either email: appliedsciences@cranfield.ac.uk or phone +44 (0)1234 758008. You can also visit our website.

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