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Engineering@Southampton

World-class facilities for cutting-edge research

Leading undergraduate and postgraduate programmes
Changing lives and addressing real-world challenges

Our postgraduate students work with internationally respected academics at the forefront of their disciplines, tackling some of today’s biggest challenges.

Our excellent facilities, key partnerships with major industries and a world-leading research base ensure that time studying with us is productive, challenging and enjoyable.

Key research projects

Programme Grants:

ORCHID (Human Agent Collectives: from foundations to applications) – £5.5m

PRiME (Power-Efficient, Reliable, Many-Core Embedded Systems) - £5.6m

SOCIAM (The Theory and Practice of Social Machines) – £6.2m

Silicon Photonics for Future Systems –£6.0m

Transforming the Internet Infrastructure: The Photonic HyperHighway – £7.3m

Nanostructured Photonic Metamaterials – £5.0m

The Physics and Technology of Photonic Metadevices and Metasystems – £4.4m

Railway Track for the 21st Century – £3.1m

The Science and Analytical Tools to Design Long Life, Low Noise Railway Track Systems – £5.2m

Platform Grants

Green Tribology – £1.2M

Processes, Mechanics and Management of Wastes – £1.0M

Integrated Photonic Materials and Devices – £1.1M

Postgraduate students

Postgraduate

With world-class facilities and a team of leading academics, the University of Southampton offers a dynamic and supportive environment for postgraduate engineering students and researchers.

Undergraduate students at work

Undergraduate

Our undergraduate courses reflect the real-world research taking place at the University and are among the most highly-ranked engineering courses in the country.

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Our people

The University of Southampton is home to some of the world’s leading researchers.

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News

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Enterprise Units

EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Photonics

ESC Partners Ltd

ISVR Consulting

Research Institute for Industry (RIfI)

Southampton Nanofabrication Centre

Southampton Wind Tunnels

Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory

Wolfson Unit for Marine Technology and Industrial Aerodynamics

University Technology Centres

Airbus Noise Technology Centre (ANTC)

DePuy International University Technology Partnership (UTP) in Bioengineering Science

Lloyd's Register Educational Trust University Technology Centre (LRET UTC) in Ship design for enhanced environmental performance

Microsoft Institute for High Performance Computing

Network Rail Strategic University Partnership (SUP) in Future Infrastructure Systems

Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) for Computational Engineering

Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Gas Turbine Noise

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Advanced Technology Partnership on Maritime Engineering and Safety (RNLI ATP)

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