Imperial College Civil & Environmental Engineering

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London is located in the Skempton Building at the South Kensington Campus in London. It is one of 10 academic departments of the Faculty of Engineering. The current Head of the Department is Professor Nick Buenfeld. This department was ranked as the top Civil Engineering department in the world according to the 2013 QS World University Rankings and the only British school in the top 20.

The Department is currently a part of the Imperial College Faculty of Engineering, which was formed in 1907 when Imperial College (then formally named as Imperial College of Science and Technology) was founded. Before that, the Faculty of Engineering was the City and Guilds of London Institute which was formed in 1878.

In 1884 the Institution of Civil and Mechanical Engineering was formed until 1913 when the Institution was split into two Departments, the Department of Civil Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. When the two departments were united, the Heads of the Institution of Civil and Mechanical Engineering were:

From 1913 when the Department of Civil Engineering was separated, the Heads were:

The Department currently consists of 5 main Sections:

Each section has its own Head and its own laboratories. Research carried out in the department covers experimental, analytical, computational and theoretical work. Additionally, field research is conducted, especially in the Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering Sections. Each section is responsible for their postgraduate courses, taught and non-taught. The Department also houses the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation.

The Department covers both undergraduate and postgraduate level studies, as well as a number of short courses for practising engineers.

The Department offers the opportunity to follow Undergraduate studies leading to the MEng degree. Students can study for an MEng in Civil Engineering or in Civil Engineering with a year abroad. In the latter, the students may choose to spend their fourth and final year at a collaborating institution. The current list of institutions includes the following institutions:

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