London’s Global University

Our Students

• UCL is committed to educating the most promising and able students

• 12,000 undergraduates• 7,500 graduates• From over 140 countries

Excellence in Engineering Research and Teaching

• Research-led teaching• 8 EPSRC funded Centres for Doctoral

Training (~80 Doctoral students per year for next 5 years; each being 4 years duration). Twice as many as any other UK university.

• 3rd amongst UK Universities in the total number of world leading academics (RAE 2008)

• £150 million in active research grants with EPSRC

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

Engineering Science• 8 Departments

– Biochemical Engineering– Chemical Engineering– Civil, Environmental and

Geomatic Enginneering– Computer Science– Electronic and Electrical

Engineering– Management Science and

Innovation– Mechanical Engineering– Medical Physics and

Biomedical Engineering

Engineering Science• Some of our centres

– UCLIC (UCL Interaction Centre: Human-Computer Interaction)

– CSML (Computational Statistics and Machine Learning)

– Adastral Park: (Telecommunications)

– Centre for Medical Image Computing

– Jill Dando Institute for Crime Science

• International venture– SERAus (School of Energy and

Resources) Adelaide, Government of South Australia

Engineering Science• ~ 180-200 Academic staff

• Student population– ~ 1400 undergraduates– ~ 400 masters– ~ 350 research students

• Total income ~£55M per annum– research income ~£19M p.a. – other income ~£3M p.a.

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Engineering Research Themes• Digital Infrastructure and Services required by society; • Physical Infrastructure and Services (e.g. water,

transportation, materials); • Manufacturing processes that are key to our economy

and well-being; • The exploitation and application of Engineering

knowledge as a commodity (e.g. the knowledge economy, design);

• Security and Terrorism; • Healthcare Engineering; • The Living Environment; • Management of Technology and Innovation

Biomedicine• Biomedical Research

– Great Ormond Street– UCL Hospital– Middlesex– Royal Free– National Orthopaedic Hospital– Ludwig Institute– Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research– CRUK (formerly ICRF)– NIMR

Research, Education, Training and Enterprise atUniversity College London

• http://www.ucl.ac.uk/