University of Sydney Faculty of Engineering

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Faculty of Engineering
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Computer Science Building
Type Public
Established1920
Dean Willy Zwaenepoel
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Affiliations University of Sydney
Website sydney.edu.au/engineering/

The Faculty of Engineering is a faculty of the University of Sydney, Australia. It was established in 1920 and is Australia's oldest engineering school.

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The Faculty of Engineering has an excellent global academic reputation, and is ranked 14th in the world for Civil and Structural Engineering and 42nd in the world for Computer Science as per the 2020 QS World University Rankings by Subject. [1] [2]

Programs within the Faculty of Engineering are accredited by professional bodies including Engineers Australia, the Project Management Institute and the Australian Computer Society.

History

Teaching of engineering at the University began in 1883 [3] within the Faculty of Science established just a year prior. [4] The Faculty of Engineering itself was established in 1920. [5]

Initially engineering classes were taught in The Quad, however in 1909 the P. N. Russell School of Engineering was completed. [3] This building, an outcome of the P. N. Russell benefactions was formally opened by the Governor on 20 September 1909. With the expansion in student numbers in the 1950s and early 1960s, new purpose-built facilities were constructed in the Darlington extension area across City Road and since the mid seventies all departments have been accommodated in this area, although a wind tunnel in the Woolley Building is still in use by Aeronautical Engineering.

The new SciTech Library opened in the Darlington engineering precinct in 2010, as the amalgamation of the Architecture, Engineering, Madsen and Mathematics libraries, brought together as part of the Campus 2010 project.

Faculty schools

Research centres

Notable alumni

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  2. "QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020: Law". Top Universities. QS.
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  5. Groenewegen, Peter (2009). Educating for Business, Public Service and the Social Sciences: A History of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Sydney 1920-1999. Sydney University Press. p. 21. ISBN   978-1-920899-21-9.