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Swansea University continues to maintain its position as one of the top universities in the UK for Engineering.

The College is based at Swansea University’s brand new £450 million Bay Campus, which has four buildings dedicated to engineering, holding 30,000m2 of laboratory and office space and over £10 million of new research and teaching equipment.

At the College of Engineering, we are recognised internationally for our cutting-edge research, with 94 per cent of our academic staff producing research of World-Leading or Internationally Excellent quality (REF 2014).

We collaborate closely with multinationals, small and medium size businesses (SMEs), and public and third sector organisations, which provides great opportunities for our students in both research and employment.

We are constantly looking towards the future and plan to increase the investment in our research and develop stronger strategic collaborations with industry and research councils.

Through our range of undergraduate and postgraduate study opportunities, from both traditional and emerging disciplines, our aim is for students to develop the potential to become

future leaders and champions of industry, or to be equipped to meet the challenges and opportunities for a career in research.

The College of Engineering is committed to ensuring gender balance in the workplace for the STEM subjects in higher education and research and is currently working towards an Athena SWAN Bronze award.

With our world-class research centres and a sustained investment programme to provide outstanding resources and facilities, the College of Engineering provides a superb environment in which to study or conduct research.

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04 Research

10 Collaboration with Industry

12 Our World Leading Staff

14 Alumni

16 Degree Programmes

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LOCATiOn College of eNgINeeRINg

£450Million new Bay Campus

Spectacular seaside Campus

The College of Engineering is now based at Swansea University’s £450m brand new Bay Campus.

The Bay Campus is situated in an outstanding location, with direct access onto the beach and its own seafront promenade.

The Campus includes an extensive Engineering Quarter, designed to capitalise on our research expertise and our collaboration with major companies, including Rolls-Royce and Tata Steel.

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Engineering Quarter At the College of Engineering, we continually strive for excellence in our teaching and research. The Bay Campus provides the space for growth and enables us to build on our current success, co-locating industry with our academic staff and students.

The Bay Campus includes purpose built facilities for students, staff and businesses, allowing for the benefits of co-location, enabling applied research, an accelerated innovation pathway and employment opportunities.

The four buildings that form the College of Engineering house high-tech teaching and research laboratories. There are brand new lecture theatres, smaller tutorial and seminar rooms, teaching laboratories and PC facilities.

Engineering Central Engineering Central focuses on advanced engineering and innovation, providing world-class facilities for industrial research and development in a state-of-the-art building.

It represents an investment of around £36 million, which enables the University to grow its activities in advanced engineering and innovation.

Engineering East Engineering East has a strong focus on the manufacturing industry and primarily provides a research and development resource for manufacturing applications. It houses a state-of-the-art Scanning Electron Microscope facility and is home to the Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating and the SPECIFIC project.

Energy Safety Research Institute The Energy Safety Research Institute concentrates on the College of Engineering’s strength in the energy sector. Supported by industry sponsors, it focuses on the safety issues surrounding the development and expansion of existing energy processes, as well as the safe deployment and integration of new ‘green’ energy technologies.

Institute of Structural Materials The Institute of Structural Materials houses a mix of research by our academics and by Rolls-Royce. The substantial mechanical test laboratories within the building are managed by Swansea Materials Research & Testing Ltd (SMaRT). SMaRT is an exemplar of the academia-industry knowledge transfer model at the heart of the SAIC development.02 03

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From the development of the Finite Element Method at Swansea in the 1960s to our present day research turning buildings into power stations, we strive for our research to have a real impact.

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 ranks Engineering at Swansea University as 10th in the UK for the combined score in research quality across the Engineering disciplines.

94 per cent of research produced by our academic staff is of World Leading (4*) or Internationally Excellent (3*) quality.

Highlights of the Engineering results include:

• Research Environment at Swansea ranked 2nd in the UK

• Research Impact ranked 10th in the UK

• Research Power ranked 10th in the UK

Research pioneered at the College of Engineering harnesses the expertise of academic staff within the department. It can be divided into three research themes, Aerospace and Manufacturing, Energy and Environment and Health and Sport.

Within these themes, we have four world-class strategic technology centres which are producing research:

• Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering (ZCCE)

• Materials Research Centre (MRC)

• Systems and Process Engineering Centre (SPEC)

• Applied Sports, Technology, Exercise and Medicine Research Centre (A-STEM)

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The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 ranks Engineering at Swansea University as 10th in the UK for the combined score in research quality across the Engineering disciplines.

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Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering (ZCCE)

over the last 50 years, swansea University has been at the forefront of international research in the area of computational engineering.

the Centre has pioneered the development of numerical techniques, such as the finite element method, and associated computational procedures that have enabled the solution of many complex engineering problems.

one of our projects includes the involvement with the BLoodHoUnd supersonic Car. Following its use in the successful tHRUst ssC, project FLIte, the unstructured mesh computational aerodynamics design system originally developed by swansea researchers, has been employed since 2007 in the aerodynamic design process for the BLoodHoUnd supersonic Car. the BLoodHoUnd supersonic Car will attempt to set a new World Land-speed record in 2016.

reSeArCH Materials Research Centre (MRC)

Swansea University has one of the UK’s leading centres for Materials Science and Engineering teaching and research. The internationally leading materials research conducted at Swansea is funded by prestigious organisations such as Rolls Royce, Airbus, The European Space Agency, BASF, NSG Pilkington and Tata Steel.

Key research areas include design against failure by creep, fatigue and environmental damage, structural metals and ceramics for gas turbine applications, grain boundary engineering, recycling of polymers and composites, corrosion and protection of steel surfaces and the development of novel strip steel grades. In addition, a major growth area is in novel materials for solar energy applications.

One of our stand out projects is SPECIFIC (Sustainable Product Engineering Centre for Innovation in Functional Coatings) which together with strategic partners Tata Steel, BASF and NSG Pilkington has the vision of developing ‘buildings as power stations’; providing the focus for multiple strands of technology and construction to come together to develop affordable building integrated systems which can generate, store and release electricity and heat for use in both existing and new buildings.

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Research groups within the centre includes:

• Functional Coatings and Corrosion

• Institute of Structural Materials

• Advanced Materials Characterisation

Research groups within the centre includes:

• Computational Aerospace engineering and structures

• Computational Biomedical engineering and Rheology

• Computational Methods in engineering

• Computational Energy and environment

• Computational nanostructures

• Computational Solids

• Structures and Coupled system

Applied Sports, Technology, Exercise and Medicine Research Centre (A-STEM)In Swansea, Sport and Exercise Science is unique in the UK as it resides within the College of Engineering, which provides a well-resourced and research driven environment. A-STEM staff conduct distinctive, cutting-edge research that is multi-disciplinary and inter-collegiate with two research foci (i) Elite and Professional Sport; and ii) Exercise Medicine and Health.

World-leading research is conducted in a number of areas including anti-doping and sports ethics, children’s physical activity and exercise physiology. Swansea is ranked 5th in the UK for Research Impact in elite sports performance and anti-doping (REF 2014). Our scientific activity explores a wide range of contexts from elite and professional sports, to clinical, home, and educational environments. Research goes beyond the academic with scientific endeavour delivered as part of a continuous feed-back/feed-forward cycle in the quest for improved performance of elite athletes or the health and well-being of the general or clinical populations.

A-STEM offers a vibrant cutting edge environment that invites researchers, students, industry and the third sector to share in their ambition to build on its world-class reputation in sport and exercise science research and teaching.

Research groups within the centre includes:

Systems and Process Engineering Centre (SPEC)

Work within the Systems and Process Engineering Centre is focused on the understanding of complex systems, ranging from biological cells and chemical processing plants to energy systems and printing technology.

Our research groups bring together chemical, electrical and process engineers as well as scientists and technologists to provide solutions in a wide range of engineering areas such as health diagnosis and treatment using nanoscale systems, the provision of clean water resources, complex fluids processing in industrial products and advanced semiconductor devices for next generation computers and information networks.

One of our standout research projects is the EPSRC Healthcare Impact Partnership for new blood clotting diagnostics and management – this £1 million project brings together SPEC expertise in rheology of biological fluids and nanoparticle labelling of cells. The team is working with a local hospital to deliver novel health diagnostics based on the clotting properties of patient blood samples.

• Interdisciplinary Engineering and Applied science (IdeAs)

• Centre for Applied Biological and Chemical systems (CABCs)

• Complex Fluids

• Energy & Environment

Research groups within the centre includes:

• Elite and Professional Sport (ePs)

• Exercise Medicine and Health (eMH)

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COLLABOrATiOn WiTH indUSTry The College of Engineering has

strong and established links with a large variety of local, national and international companies, both with our research and teaching and as graduate employers.

We have a wide range of opportunities for engagement with our industry links:

• Development of courses

• Direct funding for research projects

• Exchange and training of research staff

• Collaborative use of specialist equipment

• Advisory and consultancy service

We are committed to enhancing students’ employability through industrial placements, employer presentations, mock interviews, industry projects, networking events, careers fairs and site visits.

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Director of Research

Professor Brown’s specialisms include:

Computational Materials science

Additive Manufacturing

discrete element Method for granular Flow

Professor Stephen Brown

Director of Teaching

Professor sienz’s specialisms include:

High Value Manufacturing including Additive Manufacture

Computer Aided optimal engineering design

simulation driven Process Improvement

Professor Johann Sienz

Head of the Materials Research Centre

Professor Williams’ specialisms include:

Advanced electrochemical scanning techniques

Localised Corrosion Mechanisms

smart-Release Anti-Corrosion Coatings

novel Fingerprint detection techniques

Chemical sensors

Professor Geraint Williams

Head of the Systems and Process Engineering Centre

Professor summers’ specialisms include:

nanomedicine

optical techniques for Biomedicine

Cytometry

nanoparticle Fluorophores

Professor Huw Summers

Head of the Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering

Professor nithiarsu’s specialisms include:

Computational Biomedical engineering

Computational Mechanics

Computational Fluid dynamics

Finite element Method

Professor Perumal Nithiarasu

Head of the Applied Sport Technology Exercise and Medicine Research Centre

Professor stratton’s specialisms include:

engineering sensors in Physical Activity and Health

growth and development in sport and exercise

Physical Activity, Health and Fitness in Children

translating science into Health Recommendations

Professor Gareth Stratton

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Find out more about our entire staff team, which includes over 140 academic, 145 professional service and 120 research staff here www.swansea.ac.uk/engineering/staff

ALUMni

engineering at swansea University was established in 1920. From our initial beginnings based on local links with industry, we have expanded exponentially. We have links with companies and industry around the world and our alumni have gone on to achieve great things and develop successful careers in a wide variety of areas.

Professor Martin Brunnock

Professor Martin Brunnock

Director Technical of Tata Steel Strip Hub UK BEng Materials Engineering & EngD in Steel Technology

Professor Brunnock was part of the first cohort of engineering doctorate students at swansea University.

“studying the engineering doctorate through swansea University was a life changing opportunity; working with highly qualified academics and industry leaders enabled me not only to carry out complex research, but also to contextualise the research within a business environment – to actually make a difference, to create value for a company. the College of engineering at swansea University provided me with the technical and leadership skills necessary to become a captain of industry. I am privileged to be a swansea University alumnus.”

Professor David J Jarvis

Professor David J Jarvis

Head of Strategic & Emerging Technologies European Space Agency - ESA/ESTEC BEng & PhD Materials Engineering

Professor david Jarvis has worked at the european space Agency (esA) for fourteen years. His work has involved creating over £100 million worth of high-tech space projects, including additive manufacturing of metallic components, energy-harvesting thermoelectrics and materials for telescope mirrors. His study of Materials engineering with german at swansea University gave him a firm foundation in metallurgy, alloy development and manufacturing. In 2014, Professor Jarvis set up a large research programme called Metallurgy europe, involving 250 companies and labs across europe, Canada and south Africa. this billion euro programme integrates academia and industry, and is now laying the technical foundation for the next generation of metallic materials and manufacturing routes.

“It goes without saying that swansea University is an important player in this new programme.”

Sir Terry Matthews

Sir Terry Matthews

Entrepreneur BSc Electronics Engineering

Wales’ first billionaire sir terry Matthews received an honours degree in electrical engineering in 1969 and has since gone on to have founded or funded more than 100 companies in the high-tech communications field, most notably Mitel and newbridge networks. He is the Chairman of Mitel and Wesley Clover and owns the Celtic Manor Resort, host to the 2010 Ryder Cup.

sir terry Matthews continues to generously contribute his time and expertise to the University, particularly in the areas of entrepreneurship and employability.

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Dr Victoria Kidgell

Clinical Scientist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS TRUST MEng Mechanical Engineering, MRes & PhD in Civil and Computational Engineering

Victoria began her study at the College of engineering with an Meng Mechanical engineering degree and went on to study an MRes and then a Phd in Civil and Computational engineering. Victoria’s Phd research was the simulation of the femur for patients with osteoporosis who have suffered a fracture following a fall. Her research really sparked her interest in the medical field, and has led her into a career combining the two aspects of medicine and engineering.

As a Clinical scientist at the sheffield teaching Hospitals nHs tRUst she specialises in Rehabilitation engineering, which includes the application of engineering principles and materials technology to healthcare.

she thoroughly praises her time at swansea University especially the College of engineering as it “opened up a whole new world with so many different career opportunities.”

Dr Victoria Kidgell

POSTGRADUATE

Aerospace • MSc Aerospace Engineering • MSc by Research in Aerospace Engineering

• PhD or MPhil Aerospace Engineering

Chemical • MSc Chemical Engineering • MSc by Research in Desalination and Water Re-use • MSc by Research in Fuel Technology • MSc by Research in Membrane Technology

• PhD or MPhil Chemical Engineering

Civil • MSc Civil Engineering • Erasmus Mundus MSc in Computational Mechanics • MSc Computer Modelling and Finite Elements in engineering Mechanics • MRes Computer Modelling in Engineering • MSc by Research in Civil Engineering • PhD or MPhil Civil Engineering Computational • Erasmus Mundus MSc in Computational Mechanics • MSc Computer Modelling and Finite Elements in engineering Mechanics

• MRes Computer Modelling in Engineering

Electronic and Electrical • MSc Electronic and Electrical Engineering • MSc Power Engineering and Sustainable Energy

• MSc Communication Systems • MRes Communication Systems • MSc by Research in Electronic and Electrical Engineering

• PhD or MPhil Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Materials • MSc Materials Engineering • MRes Materials Engineering • MRes Steel Technology (STRIP) • MRes Steel Process and Product Development (Part-time) • MSc by Research in Materials Engineering

• PhD or MPhil Materials Engineering

Mechanical • MSc Mechanical Engineering • MSc by Research in Mechanical Engineering

• PhD or MPhil Mechanical Engineering

Medical • MSc by Research in Tissue Engineering and

Regenerative Medicine

Nanotechnology • MSc Nanoscience to Nanotechnology • MSc by Research in Nanotechnology

• PhD or MPhil Nanotechnology

Engineering Doctorates (EngD) are available in all disciplines.

For more information on our courses, please go to www.swansea.ac.uk/engineering/courses

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UNDERGRADUATE

Aerospace • Beng Aerospace engineering • MEng Aerospace Engineering

Chemical • Beng Chemical engineering • MEng Chemical Engineering

Civil • Beng Civil engineering • MEng Civil Engineering

Electronic and Electrical • Beng electronic and electrical engineering • MEng Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Environmental • Beng environmental engineering • MEng Environmental Engineering

Materials • Beng Materials science and engineering • MEng Materials Science and Engineering • BEng Sports Materials

Mechanical • Beng Mechanical engineering • MEng Mechanical Engineering

Medical • Beng Medical engineering • MEng Medical Engineering

Sports Science • Bsc sports science

Foundation • Leading to a Beng in all disciplines

All of our Beng and Meng degree programmes have a Year in Industry option with many offering study abroad schemes.

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Accredited degrees

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