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Mechanical Engineering + Design The Mechanical Engineering + Design group comprises 10 members of full-time academic staff, with one Reader (Phil Davies), two Senior Lecturers (Gareth Thomson and Xianghong Ma), and the remainder lecturers and teaching fellows. Dr. Gareth Thomson is the Head of Group. The teaching and research activities of the group are supported by the administrative staff based in the School Centre and a number of technical support staff in a model shop, a conventional workshop and a project based learning lab. Teaching Programmes The Group is responsible for six single Honours undergraduate bachelors level degree programmes: Mechanical Engineering, Electromechanical Engineering, Design Engineering, Industrial Product Design, Product Design & Management and Transport Product Design. The Mechanical programme is also run at MEng level. All programmes are proving attractive to well-qualified applicants; the offers for 2012 entry are at BBB. Application numbers are strong with an expected intake this September of 100 across the programmes, with the Mechanical Engineering programme normally accounting for 50%-60% of the intake with the remainder split evenly between the other degrees. The overall number of 100 students is our current practical limit based on room size. The group are active participants in the CDIO initiative (www.cdio.org). This is a global group focussed on sharing best practice in engineering education with an emphasis on developing rounded engineering graduates through integrated curriculums, project based learning and a commitment to continuous improvement in provision. Around 80 Universities worldwide participate in this initiative with Delft and Stanford being two of the most recent adopters. Commitment to this programme has seen all undergraduate students undertake a range of major cross disciplinary group projects in their first two years. The Group runs three MSc degrees: Mechanical Engineering modelling, Product Design Innovation and Product Design Management. These programmes typically recruit 10-15 students each per year. We run a number of external projects with our students. These most notably include our carbon fibre tubbed Formula Student car and our Shell Eco environmentally friendly city concept car. The latter saw us a take our student designed hydrogen fuel cell car to Rotterdam where, in front of 18,000 visitors, the team won the international Eco-design award. Accommodation and Facilities The Group is located in the main building of the University. The Group is well equipped, facilities include a computer laboratory and a model shop featuring a range of soft construction techniques including laser cutting, three different forms of rapid prototyping including stereo lithography, and vacuum forming. Also in the first floor are the research student offices and the labs generally associated with medical related research. We also have fairly large conventional engineering workshop, a custom garage for use by Formula Student and Shell Eco, materials and metrology labs including an SEM, engine test bays, clay and wood modelling rooms a fluids laboratory and a large general purpose teaching space. Wireless network access is available throughout the core areas run by the Subject Group. Teaching is also carried out in pooled flat rooms or raked lecture theatres as appropriate. All staff have individual offices within the Group’s area.

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Mechanical Engineering + Design The Mechanical Engineering + Design group comprises 10 members of full-time academic staff, with one Reader (Phil Davies), two Senior Lecturers (Gareth Thomson and Xianghong Ma), and the remainder lecturers and teaching fellows. Dr. Gareth Thomson is the Head of Group. The teaching and research activities of the group are supported by the administrative staff based in the School Centre and a number of technical support staff in a model shop, a conventional workshop and a project based learning lab.

Teaching Programmes The Group is responsible for six single Honours undergraduate bachelors level degree programmes: Mechanical Engineering, Electromechanical Engineering, Design Engineering, Industrial Product Design, Product Design & Management and Transport Product Design. The Mechanical programme is also run at MEng level. All programmes are proving attractive to well-qualified applicants; the offers for 2012 entry are at BBB. Application numbers are strong with an expected intake this September of 100 across the programmes, with the Mechanical Engineering programme normally accounting for 50%-60% of the intake with the remainder split evenly between the other degrees. The overall number of 100 students is our current practical limit based on room size.

The group are active participants in the CDIO initiative (www.cdio.org). This is a global group focussed on sharing best practice in engineering education with an emphasis on developing rounded engineering graduates through integrated curriculums, project based learning and a commitment to continuous improvement in provision. Around 80 Universities worldwide participate in this initiative with Delft and Stanford being two of the most recent adopters.

Commitment to this programme has seen all undergraduate students undertake a range of major cross disciplinary group projects in their first two years.

The Group runs three MSc degrees: Mechanical Engineering modelling, Product Design Innovation and Product Design Management. These programmes typically recruit 10-15 students each per year.

We run a number of external projects with our students. These most notably include our carbon fibre tubbed Formula Student car and our Shell Eco environmentally friendly city concept car. The latter saw us a take our student designed hydrogen fuel cell car to Rotterdam where, in front of 18,000 visitors, the team won the international Eco-design award.

Accommodation and Facilities The Group is located in the main building of the University. The Group is well equipped, facilities include a computer laboratory and a model shop featuring a range of soft construction techniques including laser cutting, three different forms of rapid prototyping including stereo lithography, and vacuum forming. Also in the first floor are the research student offices and the labs generally associated with medical related research.

We also have fairly large conventional engineering workshop, a custom garage for use by Formula Student and Shell Eco, materials and metrology labs including an SEM, engine test bays, clay and wood modelling rooms a fluids laboratory and a large general purpose teaching space.

Wireless network access is available throughout the core areas run by the Subject Group. Teaching is also carried out in pooled flat rooms or raked lecture theatres as appropriate. All staff have individual offices within the Group’s area.

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Future Goals The goal of the Mechanical Engineering + Design Group is to become internationally recognised as a leading provider of industrially-relevant teaching and research in the subject areas.

The Group’s teaching is to be outward looking and very much industry focussed with an aim to turn out the most rounded, and technically competent industry ready graduates in the country. To achieve this we aim to bring further direct industry contact into all levels of the programmes, while continually evolving our degrees in response to global best practice.

We are in the process of recruiting a Professor who will have the main responsibility of further developing our research in terms of Sustainable Design and Biomedical applications.

Mechanical Engineering + Design The Mechanical Engineering + Design group comprises 10 members of full-time academic staff, with one Reader (Phil Davies), two Senior Lecturers (Gareth Thomson and Xianghong Ma), and the remainder lecturers and teaching fellows. Dr. Gareth Thomson is the Head of Group. The teaching and research activities of the group are supported by the administrative staff based in the School Centre and a number of technical support staff in a model shop, a conventional workshop and a project based learning lab.

Teaching Programmes The Group is responsible for six single Honours undergraduate bachelors level degree programmes: Mechanical Engineering, Electromechanical Engineering, Design Engineering, Industrial Product Design, Product Design & Management and Transport Product Design. The Mechanical programme is also run at MEng level. All programmes are proving attractive to well-qualified applicants; the offers for 2012 entry are at BBB. Application numbers are strong with an expected intake this September of 100 across the programmes, with the Mechanical Engineering programme normally accounting for 50%-60% of the intake with the remainder split evenly between the other degrees. The overall number of 100 students is our current practical limit based on room size.

The group are active participants in the CDIO initiative (www.cdio.org). This is a global group focussed on sharing best practice in engineering education with an emphasis on developing rounded engineering graduates through integrated curriculums, project based learning and a commitment to continuous improvement in provision. Around 80 Universities worldwide participate in this initiative with Delft and Stanford being two of the most recent adopters.

Commitment to this programme has seen all undergraduate students undertake a range of major cross disciplinary group projects in their first two years.

The Group runs three MSc degrees: Mechanical Engineering modelling, Product Design Innovation and Product Design Management. These programmes typically recruit 10-15 students each per year.

We run a number of external projects with our students. These most notably include our carbon fibre tubbed Formula Student car and our Shell Eco environmentally friendly city concept car. The latter saw us a take our student designed hydrogen fuel cell car to Rotterdam where, in front of 18,000 visitors, the team won the international Eco-design award.

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Accommodation and Facilities The Group is located in the main building of the University. The Group is well equipped, facilities include a computer laboratory and a model shop featuring a range of soft construction techniques including laser cutting, three different forms of rapid prototyping including stereo lithography, and vacuum forming. Also in the first floor are the research student offices and the labs generally associated with medical related research.

We also have fairly large conventional engineering workshop, a custom garage for use by Formula Student and Shell Eco, materials and metrology labs including an SEM, engine test bays, clay and wood modelling rooms a fluids laboratory and a large general purpose teaching space.

Wireless network access is available throughout the core areas run by the Subject Group. Teaching is also carried out in pooled flat rooms or raked lecture theatres as appropriate. All staff have individual offices within the Group’s area.

Future Goals The goal of the Mechanical Engineering + Design Group is to become internationally recognised as a leading provider of industrially-relevant teaching and research in the subject areas.

The Group’s teaching is to be outward looking and very much industry focussed with an aim to turn out the most rounded, and technically competent industry ready graduates in the country. To achieve this we aim to bring further direct industry contact into all levels of the programmes, while continually evolving our degrees in response to global best practice.

We are in the process of recruiting a Professor who will have the main responsibility of further developing our research in terms of Sustainable Design and Biomedical applications.

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