Here in Bath we have
five master's courses in the Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering.
And they are designed in a way that complement each other.
We've got Conservation of Historic Buildings, Architectural Engineering:
Environmental Design, Modern Building Design, straight Civil Engineering and Civil Engineering
with a focus on Innovative Structural Materials.
These students learn from one another,
and they also learn the technical element of their individual courses.
One of the things that's particularly good about the master's courses at Bath
is that you do understand the need for collaboration.
You understand what real projects are like,
and all of that preparation just makes the whole process into professional life
so much easier and more effective and makes you a better player from early on.
This course,
it empowers students to be able to think about responsible design choices
not just architecture, not just engineering, but really thinking
about society and our global responsibility.
Sustainability is embedded in our research, is embedded in our teaching,
and we pride ourselves for pushing the sustainability
agenda here in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering.
We teach
net carbon zero design, so it's looking at global issues.
So they will be focusing on low carbon approaches to design, how
we can use these approaches.
How you can use digital tools and digital analysis
as part of our portfolio of skills that we've got.
We use the city as a teaching resource because we have over
5000 listed buildings and historic landscapes.
The industry really appreciates our approach
to teaching the engineers and the architects together.
A lot of the employers do state that's one of the reasons that they prefer
Bath graduates.
The professional environment is multidisciplinary
and so the core skills that you learn prepare
you for that world in a very constructive and positive way.
The whole point of this multidisciplinary course is that learning to adapt,
learning to collaborate,
learning to communicate why your element of the design is important.
It gives great insight to like both aspects of how things are designed
from the architectural perspective and the engineering perspective.
Is the most interesting part for me in the whole course.
The whole process is very challenging and very fun at the same time.
We have a lot of lecturers
who are willing to speak to us about personal issues and academic issues.
They're very open minded and they're willing to listen and share
their perspective.
In our department there is a culture
that whatever you learn in theory, you have to apply in practice.
All the theoretical units are taught and then they have a shared project
where they will apply the knowledge.
We learn and then we work, and then we learn and we work.
We get to constantly apply what we're learning into different practical
projects. It's really, really enriching.
Our department is renowned for the links it has with the industry.
Through the years we have developed many partnerships.
We work with large multinational firms or small local practices,
and all of them are welcome
because it gives a holistic understanding of how the industry operates.
Through our course, we've had a lot of industry partners
come in and share their experience.
Since we're learning in person,
we were really able to interact with them afterwards and chat with them
and it opened up a lot of doors for future career opportunities.
They help us to tailor and develop
our courses to the real needs, to the real world.
Therefore, these students are more capable
of fulfilling and answering those problems when they graduate.
I've accepted a job as a graduate façade engineer with Arup,
we will be working on improving building façades for buildings all over the world.
If they can
hit the ground running when they go into practice,
that makes such a difference when you're taking students on as an employer.