这种创新的直接入学硕士学位（荣誉）学位将安全工程的专业工程学科与应急计划和灾难管理相结合。人们对气候变化和能源安全，随之而来的新技术以及自然和人为灾难的威胁日益增加的担忧，意味着当今的工程师正面临着一系列新的挑战。该学位将使工程师具备设计结构和系统的专业技能，以抵抗自然和建筑环境中的潜在灾难。灾害的性质可能包括由洪水，森林火灾或地震等极端天气造成的灾害，或包括化学，生物，放射和核事故或恐怖主义行为在内的工业事故。无法完全防止灾难的发生。但是，可以通过智能和专业的应急管理措施来设计针对灾难的迁移步骤。
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