The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has won national accreditation for its civil and structural engineering courses.
Both UCLan's BEng Civil Engineering Honours degree course and its Masters degree course in Construction Project Management have received formal accreditation from the Joint Board of Moderators (JBM), giving the opportunity for students to now graduate with enhanced nationally recognised qualifications.
The new accreditation is supported by the country's leading engineering bodies including the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Structural Engineers, Institute of Highway Engineers, and the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (on behalf of the Engineering Council UK).
The national recognition for the courses follows rigorous assessments of UCLan’s teaching facilities and its training methods for students which have seen notable steps forward in the past three years.
In 2019, UCLan opened its brand new £35m Engineering Innovation Centre at its Preston campus, providing state-of-the-art learning and training facilities for engineering students at the University.
The new accreditation for UCLan's courses means that students will now have the endorsement of the country’s top engineering organisations as well when they graduate.
Dr Paul Watson, Principal Lecturer at UCLan’s School of Engineering said: "This is tremendous news for our students as it means that they will now graduate with a degree which is backed by the oldest and most respected professional engineering institutions in the UK.
"It also reflects the fact they are taught by civil engineering professionals recognised for their areas of specialism in civil engineering, using the very latest civil engineering laboratory equipment and software in our new Engineering Innovation Centre."
Construction News
07/09/2020
UCLan Wins National Accreditation For Its Civil And Structural Engineering Courses


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