The Dyson School of Design Engineering is the academic centre for

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. The school has just over 50 academic staff and 400 students, with over 220 undergraduates. The school is located in the Dyson building, at the corner of

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and Imperial College roads.

History

The school was founded in 2014 following a £12m donation by the James Dyson Foundation to the college, being the first new engineering division at Imperial for two decades. In 2018, the school moved into the newly-christened Dyson Building on Exhibition Road. The building was once the London headquarters of the

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, from 1910 to 1919, with some of the original interiors and signage preserved inside the entrance from Exhibition Road. Since then it has had various other uses, including as part of the

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, which adjoins the building to the south, and as a

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. The renovation of the building was undertaken by

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, and cost £14 million.

Academics

Study

The school offers a four-year integrated undergraduate

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course, which started in 2015. It also offers a joint two-year postgraduate course with the

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, which awards a master's degree in each of art and science from the respective institutions. As part of the

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, undergraduates from the school are also awarded Associate of the City and Guilds of London Institute alongside their degree, and postgraduates are awarded the Diploma of Imperial College.

People

Heads of School

* 2018–present, Peter Cheung (also professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering)

References

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2014 establishments in England

Dyson School of Design Engineering The Dyson School of Design Engineering is the academic centre for design engineering at Imperial College London. The school has just over 50 academic staff and 400 students, with over 220 undergraduates. The school is located in the Dyson buildin ...