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Coordinates: 55°55′21″N 3°10′32″E / 55.9225°N 3.1755°E / 55.9225; 3.1755
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School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh
School of Engineering, Sanderson Building, King's Buildings, Edinburgh
Sanderson Building, King's Buildings
Established1868 (1868)
Head of SchoolHugh McCann
Location
King's Buildings, Edinburgh
,
United Kingdom

55°55′21″N 3°10′32″E / 55.9225°N 3.1755°E / 55.9225; 3.1755
Websitewww.eng.ed.ac.uk

The University of Edinburgh's School of Engineering is one of the largest Schools in the University of Edinburgh. The main site is situated within the King's Buildings campus, to the south of Edinburgh city centre. The School is the primary centre for engineering teaching and research activities in Edinburgh and is currently headed by Professor Hugh McCann.[1]

History[edit]

The Chair of Engineering was endowed in 1868 by Sir David Baxter, 1st Baronet. He endowed the post with the sum of £6,000, which H. M. Treasury supplemented with an annual grant of £200. The first appointee (Baxter's own choice) was Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin who had been Professor of Engineering at University College, London since 1866.

History 1868 > 2002

Following university restructuring in 2002, the Faculty of Science and Engineering became the College of Science and Engineering. All engineering disciplines were once again reunited in a School of Engineering and Electronics (subsequently renamed the School of Engineering).

Notable alumni and researchers[edit]

Chemical Engineering[edit]

  • Kenneth Denbigh FRS (1911 - ) – Appointed Professor of Chemical Technology 1955 Obituary [1]
  • Philip Calderbank (1919 - ) First professor of Chemical Engineering. Retired 1980. (needs additional citations for verification.)

[2]

Civil Engineering[edit]

  • Arnold Hendry FRSE (1921 - ) – appointed first Professor of Civil Engineering 1964. (needs additional citations for verification.)

Obituary, Cockburn Association [3] Obituary, RSE [4]

  • J Michael Rotter (1948 - ) appointed second Professor of Civil Engineering 1989
  • Michael C Forde (1945 - ) appointed Tarmac Professor of Civil Engineering Construction 1990
  • Dougal Drysdale (1939 - ) appointed Reader in Fire Safety Engineering and Director of the Unit of fire Safety Engineering 1990

Electrical Engineering[edit]

  • Professor William Farvis - WEJ (Ewart) Farvis. Full name William Ewart John Farvis, FRSE, OBE. Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Edinburgh. First Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University (appointed 1961).

RSE obituary [5] Scotsman obituary [6] Listed in the 1978 Honours List [7]

  • Jeffery Collins FRSE (1930 - ) 1970 appointed SRC Research Professor; 1973 Personal Chair of Industrial Electronics; 1977 appointed Professor of Electrical Engineering (succeeding Ewart Farvis).
  • John Mavor FRSE (1942 - ). Appointed Lothian Chair of Microelectronics 1980. Appointed third Professor of Electrical Engineering 1986.

No Wikipedia entry. (needs additional citations for verification.)

  • Alan Owen FRSE (1928 - ). Appointed to a Personal Chair in Physical Electronics 1981. No Wikipedia entry. (needs additional citations for verification.)

[8] [9]

Fire Safety Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Notable companies and projects founded by students and alumni[edit]

  • Wolfson Microelectronics, was a multinational microelectronics and fabless semiconductor company. In 2014 it was acquired by Cirrus Logic for £291 million.
  • Edinburgh Designs Ltd (EDL) - wave making technology
  • Artemis Intelligent Power, hydraulic power technology
  • Artilium - mobile phone location services
  • Conversatec - language translation
  • DEM Solutions - finite element modelling
  • Elektrobit (UK) Ltd - mobile comms
  • Intexia - inkjet texturing
  • MicroEmissive Displays - TV microdisplays
  • NGenTec - novel electrical generators for wind turbines
  • Particle Analytics - software and consultancy in preparation, visualisation and analysis of particles and industrial bulk solids
  • Predictions Software - semiconductor yield
  • Pure LiFi - ubiquitous high speed wireless access using visible light communication
  • RicaTek - design of next-generation digital cameras and imaging systems
  • SATSIS (now Sensewhere) - satellite communications
  • Spiral Gateway - low power IC design
  • Sofant Technologies - innovative wireless solutions using smart antenna and tunable RF
  • VLSI Vision
  • Artemis Intelligent Power - machine control
  • Dukosi - custom circuit design
  • Edinburgh Designs - wave tanks
  • Indigo Vision - videobridges
  • Ocean Power Delivery (now called Pelamis Wave Power) - wave energy
  • Sauer-Danfoss - hydraulics
  • TriSent - mobile comms
  • Walmsley Electronics - system design
  • Eleotech - ultrasound
  • Indexed-on - software recovery
  • Reactec - smart ski technology
  • Renewable Devices - wind turbines

List needs review and citation/links where possible/relevant

List is "modern" we need more historic cases, and possibly a reduction to ensure "notable" spin outs only.

Undergraduate education[edit]

General info and numbers

Engineering Disciplines

Web links

Graduate education[edit]

Number of PI status researchers

Number of postdoctoral researchers

Number of PG students

Types of PG education offered

(PhD, MPhil and MSc). Most common?

Number of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs)

weblink to PG info

References[edit]

  1. ^ http://www.eng.ed.ac.uk/about/people/prof-hugh-mccann

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:University_of_Edinburgh School of Engineering Category:Engineering universities and colleges in the United Kingdom Category:Science_and_technology_in_Edinburgh Category:Organisations based in Edinburgh with royal patronage Category:Education in Edinburgh Category:Russell Group Category:Universities in Scotland Category:Engineering academics Category:Engineering education in the United Kingdom

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