If you want to save lives and make a meaningful difference in the world then Safety Engineering is the course for you.
Safety is vital across all industries. Safety engineers design systems and structures to be safe, preventing or minimising incidents and disasters in the natural and built environment. Safety Engineering will prepare you for exciting and diverse roles, particularly in the oil, gas, and wider energy sectors or in a humanitarian context where human benefit is of primary concern.
Ulster offers the only Safety Engineering undergraduate degrees in the UK and Ireland. You will use our unique research facilities including the Fire Safety Engineering Research and Technology Centre, and you will work with an international teaching team who support the degree from a recognised research base.
You will study a range of topics including fundamental sciences and applications such as structures, fire and explosions, human behaviour, ethics, and humanitarian engineering. As a Safety Engineer you will develop your analytical skills and ability to think critically to solve real world problems. A one year industrial placement is an integral component of the degree
The MEng Safety Engineering integrated masters is professional recognised. The Energy Institute have accredited the programme as meeting the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered Engineer. As a graduate your valuable skillset will enable you to work as safety engineer, both locally and globally, with a wider knowledge of disaster management. Safety is critical across all industries with safety engineers working in the energy, construction, processing, and humanitarian sectors.
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Graduates will be employable across a wide range of industries as safety is an integral component in almost every sector. Graduates will have a solid background in fundamental engineering subjects with the career opportunities that those skills bring. Roles include positions in engineering consultancies, regulatory bodies, aid and advisory agencies, more specifically the emergency planning and disaster management elements of the course support roles in local, regional and national government departments and agencies, NGOs, utility providers, and the civil service. Opportunities also exist to continue studies through the PhD research programmes at Ulster.
Insurance Single :300 GBP/year
