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It’s not Civil or Structural Engineering. We share a lot of courses with these programmes in the early years, but while they go on to focus on ‘hard’ technical behaviours of structures or materials, we offer a wider scope of courses that include Health and Wellbeing, passive solar strategies, urban energy networks, user evaluation, and facilities management.
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At Heriot-Watt, it is more similar to Building Services Engineering, but importantly includes a wider ‘holistic’ understanding of people’s interaction with buildings, and passive strategies for conserving or generating energy, not only active (eg powered) services. (This might be a bit different at other uni's though- check their prospectuses!)
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As we become more conscious of Climate Change and environmental damage, and simultaneously as our buildings get more complicated and technology get cleverer, AE is a growing and current role. Our graduates have near-100% employment 6 months after graduating, many with consulting engineers, some with contractors, some with architects, some with developers.
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It’s not Civil or Structural Engineering. We share a lot of courses with these programmes in the early years, but while they go on to focus on ‘hard’ technical behaviours of structures or materials, we offer a wider scope of courses that include Health and Wellbeing, passive solar strategies, urban energy networks, user evaluation, and facilities management.
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At Heriot-Watt, it is more similar to Building Services Engineering, but importantly includes a wider ‘holistic’ understanding of people’s interaction with buildings, and passive strategies for conserving or generating energy, not only active (eg powered) services. (This might be a bit different at other uni's though- check their prospectuses!)
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As we become more conscious of Climate Change and environmental damage, and simultaneously as our buildings get more complicated and technology get cleverer, AE is a growing and current role. Our graduates have near-100% employment 6 months after graduating, many with consulting engineers, some with contractors, some with architects, some with developers.