Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London
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The City & Guilds Building from Exhibition Road
Established1884 (1884)
Head of Department
Professor Mike Lowe [1]
Faculty Imperial College Faculty of Engineering
Staff 44 [2]
Students 866 [2]
Location Exhibition Road, London, United Kingdom
51°29′55″N0°10′29″W / 51.498524°N 0.174600°W / 51.498524; -0.174600 Coordinates: 51°29′55″N0°10′29″W / 51.498524°N 0.174600°W / 51.498524; -0.174600
Campus South Kensington
Website www.imperial.ac.uk/mechanical-engineering
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Location in Albertopolis, South Kensington

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is responsible for teaching and research in mechanical engineering at Imperial College London, occupying the City & Guilds Building at the South Kensington campus. The department has around 45 faculty members, 600 undergraduates, and 250 postgraduate students. The department ranks 8th in the QS World University Rankings's 2018 table. [3]

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History

The origins of the department lie in the 1884 appointment of William Unwin as professor of civil and mechanical engineering at the Central Institution of the City & Guilds of London Institute, later the City & Guilds College, one of the predecessors to Imperial College. In 1904, the department was taken over by William Dalby. [4] The department's main building was renamed the City & Guilds Building in 2013 as a reference to the historical association of the department of the college, [5] and in 2018 a complete refurbishment of the building was completed. [6]

Academics

Study

Undergraduate

The undergraduate program at the department is a 4-year integrated course leading to a master's degree in mechanical engineering, including an option to study a year abroad, or take an extra year in industry. [7] All students graduating with the MEng degree also automatically receive an Associateship of the City and Guilds of London Institute. [8]

Postgraduate

The department offers a 12-month taught postgraduate programme leading to a MSc, as well as taking on doctor's students studying for a PhD. All postgraduate students of the department are also eligible for the Diploma of Imperial College, DIC, alongside their standard degree when graduating.

Rankings

The college ranks 10th in the world for engineering on the Times Higher Education subject rankings, [9] and the department in particular ranks 8th in the world in the 2018 QS world subject rankings. [3] Domestically, the department ranks 2nd on the Complete University Guide's 2019 mechanical engineering table after Cambridge, [10] and 1st on The Guardian's 2019 mechanical engineering university subject rankings. [11]

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The Mechanical Engineering Building before refurbishment

Research

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City and Guilds Building in the snow

The department's research is conducted by research groups which have a particular academic focus. These research groups are organized by the department into different divisions which centre around fields of study:

Applied mechanics
Thermofluids
Mechanics of materials

The department also runs academic centres, some in partnership with industry, including the Vibration University Technology Centre, [17] the AVIC Centre for Structural Design and Manufacture, [18] and the BIAM-Imperial Centre for Materials Characterisation, Processing and Modelling. [19]

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