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. The faculty contains multiple departments offering many different undergraduate and postgraduate courses. These range from

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and MSc courses to

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s throughout the faculty.

Introduction

The Faculty of Engineering at Strathclyde offers over 40 undergraduate courses and postgraduate courses, each, which cover a wide range of disciplines. These courses are taught in one of the eight departments of the University of Strathclyde for Engineering. It teaches over 4,000 students, who come from many different countries. 3,000 of these are undergraduates, 650 are postgraduates being taught, and 500 are at the university to do research.

Departments

The faculty has eight departments. These are: *

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Biomedical Engineering Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic). BME is also traditionally logical sciences ...

* Chemical and Process Engineering *

Civil and Environmental Engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage ...

* Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management *

Electronic and Electrical Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

* Mechanical and Aerospace engineering * Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

Architecture

The department moved to the James-Weir building in August 2013. Part of the department contains The Centre for Research in Sustainability and Design (''CRiDAS''). This is a centre that works on the implementation and improvement of technology to help reduce environmental and social impacts of buildings. Strathclyde was ranked the 11th best university for architecture in 2013 by TheCompleteUniversityGuide.

Biomedical Engineering

The Department of Biomedical Engineering is located at Wolfson Centre. The Department incorporates the National Centre for Prosthetics and Orthotics which is one of only two institutions in the UK offering undergraduate and postgraduate education in Prosthetics and Orthotics. The Centre's interests in training, education and research span the fields of prosthetics, orthotics and related aspects of the provision of aids for the disabled.

Chemical and Process Engineering

The Strathclyde University Department of Chemical and Process Engineering is located at James Weir Building. Chemical Engineering at Strathclyde was rated the best in Scotland in the last Scottish Higher Education Funding Council Teaching Quality Assessment. All of the

and MSc courses are fully accredited by the Institution of Chemical Engineers. The Department also specialises in advanced computational modelling; looking at materials and processes on all scales from the atomic to the macroscopic. Strathclyde University Chemical and Process Engineering has been ranked 16th by

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and rated 13th by ''

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'' in 2013.

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Car made by Strathclyde engineering students

The department is located within the

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Building.

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

The department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is located in the University of Strathclyde's James Weir building. Primary research is carried out via its research centres and laboratories in

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and Materials science
Aerospace Centre of Excellence
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Intelligent Computational Engineering Laboratory

Energy Systems Research UnitJames Weir Fluids LaboratoryMechanics & Materials Research Centre

Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

The Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering is located at the University of Strathclyde's Henry Dyer Building. The BEng and MEng courses are accredited by the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) and the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) on behalf of the Engineering Council.

Staff

Staff Numbers

As of July 2017 there were 23 key members of staff in the Faculty of Engineering (not including the staff of each department),.

Dean of Faculty

The Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering is a Professor Atilla Incecik.

Research

Researchers at the Aerospace Centre of Excellence have led the €4 million, Europe-wide

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, a research-based training network investigating the removal of space debris and the deflection of asteroids, and the first programme of its kind in the world.

Competitions

A team of three students by the name of Team Hydra, composed of Eric Brown, Hugh McQueen and Theo Scott, developed and entered a solution to reduce the cost of passenger kilometers in Germany. The competition they entered the solution into was called the BP Ultimate Field Trip, they won the first prize and even the runners up were a combined team from Strathclyde and Glasgow.

References

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