Engineering and Physical Sciences
Widely recognised internationally, the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Science's research takes place predominantly within large, coherent groups whose mass and state-of-the-art facilities provide unique opportunities for pursuing a wide variety of topics, many of them with a multidisciplinary flavour.
Our work ranges in scale from nuclear physics to interplanetary space exploration, and we have an enviable reputation for the contributions we have made towards a variety of challenges faced by our society. These challenges include improving our environment, health, communications, transport, security, information technologies, energy and water.
More information on these research themes is available on the faculty research pages:
We believe in the importance of linking fundamental scientific research to engineering applications, so many of these activities are underpinned by strong industrial links, and several successful spin-out companies have resulted.
The Faculty consists of the Departments/Divisions of: