Engineering: Civil
Maths Careers Booklet
This booklet, provided by More Maths Grads aims to promote studying mathematics by listing the the benefits of following mathematical courses, dealing with cultural preconceptions about the subject and by giving detailed advice on future careers using mathematics
STEM Choices: a Resource Pack
The resources are designed to boost the confidence and readiness of front-line staff to engage with young people and their parents about STEM choices, and to give well-informed and up-to-date information on the current demand and likely trends in relation to STEM opportunities.
Information in this resource includes careers in sectors such as:
• Maritime
• Nuclear power
• Food
• Construction
• Renewable energy
Liz Bland: Chartered Civil Engineer
In this Careers4u.tv video, Liz Bland talks about her work as a civil engineer. Liz manages the day-to-day running of construction sites, ordering materials, managing budgets and ensuring that jobs are completed in time. She enjoys problem-solving and finds the work very rewarding.
In the video, Liz talks about what made her consider a career in civil engineering and the qualities needed in her job. She described her ambition to work on major, prestigious construction programmes in the future.
Study of Dynamic Systems in JCB Construction Machinery
This resource, from Mathematics for Engineering Exemplars, shows the application of mathematics within the mechanical and civil engineering industry. Here students learn how calculations for displacement, velocity and acceleration, caused during loading, are used to ensure that they are not so large as to adversely affect the performance of a dump truck.
Dropped Load Assessment in Nuclear Industry
This resource, from Mathematics for Engineering Exemplars, introduces mathematical models for the risk assessment of dropped load, which are used to analyse the safety of structures within nuclear power stations. Here students learn about the formulae which engineers use to calculate the maximum dynamic stress and strain produced in an impacted body.
Transportation Planner: Dan Cornelius
This STEMNET resource describes the background and career of transportation planner, and STEM Ambassador, Dan Cornelius.
Dan's role is to assess road schemes and their impacts on local and regional areas. He develops graphic models of the situation and location. This allows him to manipulate elements, such as traffic flow, to test out the impacts.
Dan finds that he make good use of his mathematics degree, especially when using logical thinking in the development of computer models. He says, "Employers believe that maths graduates are ‘more rounded’. For me, studying maths was a strategic move.”
Mathematics behind the Water Network in Rural Mountain Areas
This resource, from Mathematics for Engineering Exemplars, shows the application of mathematics within public health engineering to supply clean water in a rural mountain area. Here students learn about the formulae used to calculate the optimum size of pipes which will ensure good pressure of water throughout the network.
The Mathematics of Simple Beam Deflection
This resource, from Mathematics for Engineering Exemplars, shows the application of mathematics within a civil engineering environment. Here students apply standard deflection formulae to solve some typical beam deflection design problems. These formulae form the basis of the calculations that would be undertaken in real life for many routine design situations.
Sewage tunnels
This activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), challenges students to use their mathematical skills to calculate the critical dimensions of the tunnel that will be built. It could also be taught in design and technology or engineering, with the emphasis on how the development will affect the quality of life and how it could be realised.
The activity challenges students to move beyond an ‘out of sight, out of mind’ approach to sewage as they use and develop their mathematical process skills within the real-world contexts presented. This activity provides a context for work on volume a cylinder, volume of a cone, area of a circle and surface area of a cone.
Analyse sewage tunnel design
This extension activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), follows on from the How Much Waste? activity and provides an engaging task to continue the learning focusing on the link between sewage and the underground tunnel system. It encourages students to think about the role of engineers in providing us with healthy sanitation and waste-water disposal systems.
Learning outcomes include:
• To develop an insight into the representation of large volumes
• To determine and select variables, then apply mathematical formulae to solve real-life problems