Research by department

The range and depth of research in the faculty of engineering is immense. The following lists some of the key research groups:

Aerospace Engineering

• Advanced Composite Materials & Structures (ACMS) Group
• Aerodynamics and Thermofluids
• Communications Research Group
• Dynamics Research Group
• Smart Structural Design

Automatic Control & Systems Engineering

• Complex Systems, Signal Processing and Control Research Group
• Intelligent Systems and Control Research Group
• University Technology Centre (UTC) in Control and Systems Engineering Supported by Rolls-Royce
• Space Systems

Chemical & Biological Engineering

• Biological and Environmental Systems
• Energy & Environmental Engineering Research Group
• Process Fluidics Group
• Particle Products Group

Civil & Structural Engineering

• Blast and Impact Dynamics
• Computational Mechanics & Design
• Concrete and Earthquake Engineering
• Steel and Composite Structures
• Solid Mechanics
• Vibration Engineering
• Groundwater Protection & Restoration Group
• Cell Mineral Interface Programme
• Catchment Science Centre
• Geotechnical Engineering
• Pennine Water Group

Computer Science

• Computational Systems Biology
• Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality
• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing
• Neurocomputing and Robotics Research Group
• Organisations, Information and Knowledge Group
• Speech and Hearing
• Verification and Testing

Electronic & Electrical Engineering

• Communications
• Electrical Machines & Drives
• Semiconductor Materials & Devices
• Vision and Information Engineering
• EPSRC National Centre for III-V Technologies
• Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Advanced Electrical Machines and Drives
• EPSRC FEGTEM Facility
• EPSRC FIB Facility
• Electron Beam Lithography
• POLLUX - Embedded-Systems for Electric Vehicles
• π Φ -Ultimate Microscopy
• P-MOB Integrated Enabling Technologies for Efficient Electrical Personal Mobility
• Sub Micron 3D Holographic Lithography (SM3DHL)

Materials Science and Engineering

• Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
• Ceramics
• Glasses, Cements and waste immobilisation
• Magnetics
• Metallurgy
• Nanomaterials and Nanoengineering
• Polymers and Composites
• Surface Engineering and Tribology

Mechanical Engineering

• Dynamics
• Energy and Flow
• Integrity of Materials and Structures
• Manufacturing and Enterprise and Design Group