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Civil Engineering Project

Module code: CEU44E02 · Semester: Full year · ECTS: 15

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How it's assessed​

No end-of-semester exam. It's assessed through project work.

An individual research project chosen from a list proposed by Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering staff, scoped with your supervisor during Semester 1.

AssessmentWeight
Interim project report5%
Oral presentation5%
Final dissertation90%

Summarised from the TCD module descriptor, checked 2026-11-09. Details can change from year to year, so check this year's descriptor and Blackboard.

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Questions by Year​

This module has no end-of-semester exam, so there are no past papers. See How it's assessed above.

Topics

  • Literature review LO2
  • Methods: theory, experiments, software LO3–6
  • Critical evaluation of results LO7–8
  • Dissertation and presentation LO9–10
Learning outcomes
  1. Contribute individually to knowledge in civil engineering
  2. Review and synthesise literature on an unfamiliar problem
  3. Apply research tools to complex engineering problems
  4. Use theory and mathematics to solve research problems
  5. Design and run experiments and analyse data
  6. Develop software to model engineering systems
  7. Critically evaluate findings and their limits
  8. Assess implications for practice
  9. Write a professional research dissertation
  10. Present and handle questions

Summarised from the module descriptor, checked November 2026.