Civil Engineering is the discipline that covers the conversion of resources through the application of the laws of science and engineering to facilities, products and systems that sustain and improve the quality of life. It concerns itself with the provision of roads, bridges, buildings, airports, seaports, dams, water supply, beaches, marinas, ports and harbours, recreational facilities and environmental plant and systems, all as integrated components of civil infrastructure and facilities that support towns, cities, countries and regions.
The Department offers training in five essential engineering sub-disciplines: geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, transportation engineering, water resources and coastal engineering, and environmental engineering. Civil engineering management is also included to cover the effective management of the conversion of resources to social, commercial and recreational infrastructure, and the event and impact of hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural hazards today form an essential module of the discipline.
Because civil engineering is also concerned with the sustainability of infrastructure and society, emphasis on environmental engineering is considered vital to the discipline. Accordingly, the Department now offers two streams of engineering education, one in the traditional civil engineering and the other in civil with environmental engineering.
CSEC Minimum passes: 5
CSEC Mandatory: English Language, Mathematics, Chemistry
CAPE Minimum passes: 2
CAPE Mandatory: Physics
Alternative Qualifications:
- A minimum GPA of 2.5 obtained in PreENG,
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Any of the following Diplomas, based on merit using the scores calculated in Table 3.1:- NEC Construction Engineering Technician (Trinidad & Tobago) – Score of 65% and above;
- BCC Ordinary Technician Diploma (GPA of 3.0 and above);
- CAST or UTech Technician Diploma, Jamaica.
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Any other equivalent qualification and experience as determined by the Department, in addition to those listed in Regulation 3.1 (See Table 3.1 in the latest Undergraduate Handbook for the Faculty of Engineering: https://sta.uwi.edu/faculty-booklet-archive)