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The University of Nottingham Faculty of Engineering

Location

Nottingham East Midlands Airport: 13 miles from campus Birmingham International Airport: 40 minute drive Manchester International Airport: Less than an hours drive London airports: 1½ hours by train

Introduction

• A pioneering university

• Outstanding teaching and learning

• World class research

• A global university

• A green university

• Excellent career prospects

• Employs 7,100 staff in the UK

• Ranked in the UK's top 10 and in the world's top 75 universities by the Shanghai Jiao Tong and QS World University Rankings

• Two Nobel Prize winners

• One of the highest graduation employment rates in the country

• Founding member of the Russell Group, the country’s most powerful research-led institutions

• Founding member Universitas 21 which brings together top research universities worldwide

• Winner of Entrepreneurial University of the year 2008

• Runner up, The Sunday Times University of the Year 2010

• One of the lowest drop-out rates in the country

Three international campuses

Nottingham, UK 32,999 students (includes 8,000 international students from over 150 countries)

Semenyih, Malaysia 3,399 students

Ningbo, China 4,431 students

Shanghai Campus currently being discussed

Nottingham Malaysia

China Malaysia

Headcounts for 2010/11

• Opened in September 2000

• The first campus of a British University in Malaysia and one of the first anywhere in the world

• New purpose-built campus at Semenyih, 30km south of Kuala Lumpur city centre

• Awarded ‘Self-Accrediting Status’

Malaysia Campus

China Campus

• Opened in 2005

• Located in Ningbo Higher Education Park, near Shanghai • Run by The University of Nottingham UK with cooperation from Zhejiang Wanli Education Group-University • The first Sino-Foreign University in China with approval from the Chinese Ministry of Education

Engineering at Nottingham

• 100 years experience of teaching engineering

• Research excellence underpins and animates all our teaching

• All programmes rated excellent in independent UK government review

• State-of-the-art laboratories • World-leading research institutes

• Around 620 staff including

~ 210 academics

• 4,092 students includes:

3,028 undergraduates (34% overseas)

1,064 postgraduates (68% overseas)

• Total research portfolio ~ £100 million

Engineering at Nottingham

Jubilee

Sutton Bonnington King’s Meadow

University Park Jubilee Campus

King’s Meadow

Nottingham campuses

Millennium Garden

Lakeside Walk

Millennium gardens

The Downs

University Park Campus

Academic facilities

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Accommodation

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Accommodation map

Distances

Broadgate Park (16)

10min walk or

5min cycle from

University Park

Raleigh Park (17)

5 mins walk from Jubilee

Campus

St Peter’s Court (15)

20 minutes walk from

Jubilee Campus

Own bus from University

Park

Faculty of Engineering Teaching & Learning Departments

• Architecture & Built Environment

• Chemical and Environmental Engineering • Civil Engineering • Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering

Teaching and learning

Coates Building (36)

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Our core values:

• Research excellence

• Learning experience

• Internationalisation

• Environment

Department of Civil Engineering

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Nottingham geospatial building Pavement research building

Coates building and labs

Civil Engineering

George Green library

Computing resources

Computing facilities

Jubilee Campus library

E&S learning centre

Facilities

• 35 Academic Staff

• 498 BEng/MEng

students

• 90 Masters students

• Accredited BEng &

MEng programmes

• Various MSc

programmes

Department of Civil Engineering

Structures and materials Structures

Materials Infrastructure

Hydraulics Geotechnics

Engineering Surveying Construction Management Engineering surveying

Research

97% of research in the

Faculty of Engineering is of

international quality,

with over 75% defined as

world-leading or

internationally excellent

The results place us in

the UK’s top five universities

for engineering

2008 Research Assessment Exercise

Research

Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008

Engineering Faculty placed in top 5 nationally based on research quality

GPA 4* 3* 2* 1*

University of Cambridge 3.32 42.1 47.9 10.0 0.0

University of Oxford 3.07 25.0 58.5 15.0 1.5

Imperial College London 3.04 28.1 50.1 19.1 2.7

University of Manchester 2.96 22.2 53.3 23.2 1.4

University of Nottingham 2.95 22.1 53.6 21.3 3.0

Bangor University 2.95 30.0 40.0 25.0 5.0

University of Surrey 2.93 23.9 48.1 25.0 3.0

University of Leeds 2.91 20.0 54.3 22.5 3.2

University of Bristol 2.88 18.5 56.1 20.4 5.0

University of Warwick 2.85 20.0 50.0 25.0 5.0

Research

Research funding £28.4M (132) new awards in 2010-11

Research

Research Divisions

• Architecture & Urbanism • Electrical Systems and Optics • Energy & Sustainability • Infrastructure and Geomatics • Manufacturing • Materials, Mechanics and Structures • Process and Environmental

Research

Infrastructure and Geomatics Research Division

World-leading research in transportation infrastructure, positioning, navigation, mapping and monitoring of the built and natural environments, coastal infrastructure and coastal dynamics and engineering. A range of PhD opportunities exist within each of the groups: - Coastal Dynamics and Engineering Group - Nottingham Geospatial Institute - Nottingham transportation Engineering Centre

Research

Aerospace Technology Centre

Investment in infrastructure

Energy Technologies Building Engineering and Science Learning Centre

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