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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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