Research

Tackling the grand challenges of clean energy, resilience and sustainability, our interdisciplinary research brings together scientists and engineers in research and strategic centres and clusters.

Our mission

The research interests in our School sit at the intersections between engineering resilience, green living and healthy living, addressing key future engineering challenges including clean and affordable energy, autonomous vehicles, assisted ageing, environmental monitoring, and sustainable design and manufacture.

Research centres

Connected via common tools, equipment, and approaches, our research centres provide the foundational research capabilities across the School.

Centre for Aerodynamics, Aerospace and Automotive Engineering

Advancing aerospace and automotive engineering through cutting-edge research in fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, propulsion, vehicle dynamics, and control, via industry collaboration.

Tower blocks in a city, viewed from nearby green fields

Centre for Civil Infrastructure Systems and Engineering

Ensuring the delivery and management of sustainable and resilient infrastructure.

A student operating a machine in the University's mechanical engineering lab

Centre for Engineering Materials

Exploring the interconnection between materials properties, processing, structure, and performance in advanced engineering systems to address materials manufacturing, ageing and recycling.

Centre for Environmental and Biomedical Engineering

Application of engineering principles to understand, monitor and control natural and biological systems and their interactions with engineered structures and products.

Strategic centres

Addressing key interdisciplinary technological challenges, strategic centres bring together a critical mass of scientists and engineers to transcend the traditional disciplinary boundaries and deliver transformational engineering solutions and understanding.

Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE)

Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Thermo-Fluid Systems

Centre of Excellence in Materials Ageing, Performance and Life Prediction

Research clusters

Responding to challenges that extend beyond science and engineering, our research clusters provide pathways to exchange engineering innovation with the wider research ecosystem.

Artificial intelligence
Energy and environment
Environmental fluid mechanics
Space engineering
Spatial structures.