Brunel University - About Us

The School of Engineering and Design is one of the largest and most successful engineering and design Schools in the UK, providing a wide range of exciting, forward-looking postgraduate courses. Recognised as a centre of excellence in engineering and design with a strong focus on modern science and technology, the School has an international reputation in research and prides itself on high quality teaching supported by excellent research facilities. The School's high reputation has led to extensive and close collaborative links with industry. These industrial links at the dissertation stage have led to many postgraduate students carrying out their dissertation in industry making the School's graduates highly sought after as employees.

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The School has 5 academic subject areas : Advanced Manufacturing and Enterprise Engineering, Brunel Design, Civil Engineering, Electronic and Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Teaching and facilities were rated "excellent" in the last independent assessment. Facilities include modern, well-equipped engineering, design and computer laboratories, motorsport workshops and wind tunnels. For students on the aerospace courses there is a state of the art flight simulator with a VTOL facility enabling the testing of project and design work in a practical setting.

Brunel Engineering and Design courses feature high in UK league tables.
Our courses are among the highest-ranking for Product and Industrial Design in the UK. In all the most recent University guides, as well as in the National Student Survey, Brunel Design is placed in the top four out of all UK Art and Design courses. General Engineering was ranked 5th in the UK in the Guardian University Guide 2010, out of over 100 universities. In the current Research Assessment Exercise, 95% or academics in the School achieved international standard, with 100% achieving this level in General Engineering. General Engineering at Brunel is ranked 5th in the country and Mechanical Engineering is ranked 8th in the country by Research Power.

Many postgraduate courses enjoy accreditation and approval status with UK professional engineering organisations, for instance, the IMechE, the IET and CIBSE. This accreditation of the School courses means that most courses offer an alternative route to chartered engineering status. Teaching on the Building Services Engineering courses have also been commended. The courses received the 2007 Happold Brilliant Award for teaching excellence by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers.

The School has is a thriving student population with approximately 1600 undergraduate students, 550 postgraduate taught students, 300 research students and fellows and 110 academic staff.

Excellent location: Brunel is excellently situated 17 miles to the west of Central London and enjoys easy access to the city centre (1 hour on the underground Metropolitan line from the nearest town Uxbridge). The University is close to the London Heathrow Airport (20 minutes by car) and has close motorway links to the rest of the UK (within 15 minutes you have access to the M25, the M40 and the M4.) where you might travel to all parts of the UK. At Brunel you have the best of all possible worlds.

Integrated campus: Brunel University has an integrated campus where you can study, eat in the many restaurants, play sports, relax in the student union and finally rest, all within 7 minutes walk. Many universities cannot offer this integrated and safe campus atmosphere.

Sporting facilities: at Brunel you can enjoy almost any sport that you can imagine. Indeed we have been proud to be the host University to many world-class athletics and sportsmen and women in the last 5 years. In respect to sports, we have in the last two years invested millions on sporting facilities including a fitness centre and Olympic indoor running tracks, facilities that helped London secure the 2012 Olympic games. The Sunday Times recently said Brunel University had the best sporting facilities of all London Universities.

A supportive global community: Brunel University is proud that we have students from over 115 overseas countries. Whilst studying at Brunel you can meet students from many different cultures and countries. We also have a dedicated Graduate School with excellent facilities for exclusive use of our many students.

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