Imperial College London

Faculty of Engineering 

1. Department of Bioengineering

The department leads the bioengineering agenda at the national and international levels. 

Names of Labs/ Institutes of Research/Facilities

• Tissue / Cell Culture lab
• Histology lab
• Genomics lab

Research Accomplishments

• MRes in Medical Device Design and Entrepreneurship created by Professor Jimmy Moore.
• Understanding how mechanical forces impact biological function at the cellular, molecular, organ, tissue, and organism levels.

Areas of Expertise 

• Orthopedic
• Biomechanics and Mechanobiology
• Biomedical Sensing, Diagnostics, and Imaging
• Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering 
• Medical Devices

Masters Courses Offered By The Department

 

2. Department of Aeronautics

One of the best aeronautics departments of UK, it is known for its low-speed wind tunnels

Names of Labs/ Institutes of Research

• Full-motion flight simulator
• Microthruster Lab
• Wind Tunnels

Industry Collaborations

• EPSRC
• EU

Areas of Expertise 

• Fluid Mechanics
• Aerospace Materials and Structures
• Computational Methods and Mathematical Modelling 
   

Masters Courses Offered By The Department

 

3. Department of Chemical Engineering

One of the best institutions for chemical engineering by QS Rankings and Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Rated highly for student satisfaction in the National Student Surveys. 

Names of Labs/ Institutes of Research

• Barrer Centre 
• Digital Rocks Lab
• Centre for Plastic Electronics

Departmental Accomplishments

• President’s Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Excellence in Research Supervision
• President's Award for Excellence in External Collaboration and Partnerships

Areas of Expertise

• Biomedical engineering and industrial biotechnology
• Materials
• Energy and Environmental Engineering 
• Multiphase Transport Processes

Masters Courses Offered By The Department

 

4. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Not only is the department excelling in academics, it is also known for its commitment to diversity, equality, and culture. 

Names of Labs/ Institutes of Research

• Environmental lab
• Hydrodynamics lab
• Geotechnics lab 

Departmental Accomplishments

• Awarded the Athena SWAN Bronze Award in August 2018. Working towards attaining its Silver Award. 
• Established  Athena SWAN Charter to help advance the careers of women in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM) 

Research Accomplishments 

• Engineered activated carbons for enhanced pesticide removal in water treatment

Areas of Expertise

• Structures
• Systems
• Transport

Masters Courses Offered By The Department

 

5. Department of Computing

The department is renowned for its teaching qualities. It was ranked 2nd in the UK in the complete university guide and 12th in the world in the global QS rankings. 

Industry Collaborations

• Commerzbank
• Arm
• Amazon 

Research Accomplishments 

• Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
• Cognition and human modeling

Areas of Expertise

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data Science

Masters Courses Offered By The Department

 

6. Dyson School of Design Engineering

It is the 10th, the newest engineering department at Imperial College London.

Research Accomplishments

• 3D Tune-In - 3D-games for TUNing and lEarnINg about hearing aids
• PLUGGY - Pluggable Social Platform for Heritage Awareness and Participation

Areas of Expertise

• Behaviour, Experience, and Design
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Audio Experience
• Embodied Intelligence
• Energy Technologies
• Robot Intelligence
• Systems and Algorithms

Masters Courses Offered By The Department

 

7. Department of Earth Science and Engineering

One of the leading centres to combine the study of Earth Science (geoscience) and Engineering.

Names of Labs/ Institutes of Research

• Environmental Geochemistry Lab
• Palaeomagnetic laboratory 
• Multi-scale imaging laboratory 

Faculty Size 

• Consists of almost 50 academic staff, 70 research and support staff, and 600 undergraduate and postgraduate students. 

Industry Collaborations

• Natural History Museum 
• Science Museum 

Research Accomplishments 

• 46% of the Department’s research (in a joint submission with Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics) was said to be ‘World Leading’.
• 89% was rated ‘Internationally Significant’.

Areas of Expertise

• Earth & Planets
• Petroleum Geoscience & Engineering

Masters Courses Offered By The Department

 

8. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Labs/ Institutes of Research

• Centre for Bio-Inspired Technology
• Energy Futures Lab

Faculty Size and Accomplishments

• Highly cited publications of the department
• Commercially adopted results and innovations

Research Accomplishments 

• Ultra low-power analogue and mixed-signal circuit and system design for a number of high-performance and/or resource-constrained devices, particularly for biomedical applications.

Areas of Expertise 

• Circuits and Systems
• Intelligent systems and networks

Masters Courses Offered By The Department

9. Department of Materials

Leads the studies in Materials Science and Engineering research in energy, environmental protection, transport, electronics and healthcare. 

Names of Labs

• The Thin Film Technology Lab

Departmental Accomplishments

• Recipient of an Athena SWAN Silver Award since 2010 for their work to promote gender equality.

Research Accomplishments 

• Innovations in
• Novel electronic devices: thin-film structures and devices for applications in areas such as optoelectronics, thermoelectric, photonics, sensors,  microwave dielectrics.
• Energy: including solar power and nuclear energy in close collaborations, Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Areas of Expertise

• Biomaterials and Tissues Engineering
• Functional Materials

Masters Courses Offered By The Department

10. Department of Materials

Leads the studies in Materials Science and Engineering research in energy, environmental protection, transport, electronics, and healthcare. 

Names of Labs

• The Thin Film Technology Lab

Departmental Accomplishments

• Recipient of an Athena SWAN Silver Award since 2010 for their work to promote gender equality.

Research Accomplishments 

• Innovations in
• Novel Electronic Devices - thin-film structures and devices for applications in areas such as optoelectrics, thermoelectric, photonics, sensors,  microwave dielectrics.
• Energy -  including solar power and nuclear energy in close collaborations, Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Areas of Expertise 

• Biomaterials and Tissues Engineering
• Functional Materials

Masters Courses Offered By The Department

11. Department of Mechanical Engineering

Offers a wide range of courses focussing not only on academic but also on experimental learning. 

Departmental Accomplishments

• Consistently working towards providing more representation to women in mechanical engineering. 

Industry Collaborations

• Rolls Royce

Research Accomplishments 

• Modelling of aero-engine  unsteady flows and associated phenomena such as rotating stall and surge 
• The influence of nonlinear interfaces on the vibration of structural assemblies 

Areas of Expertise 

• Applied Mechanics
• Dynamics
• Medical Engineering
• Nuclear Engineering

Masters Courses Offered By The Department

Faculty of Natural Sciences

13. Department of Life Sciences

The department takes part in modern life science activities and also houses the largest life science group in Europe. Its research programmes are vibrant and are internationally recognized. 

 Labs/ Institutes of Research

• Centre for Structural Biology
• The Glycobiology Training, Research and Infrastructure Centre

Industry Collaborations 

• Wellcome Trust
• The Royal Society

Research Accomplishments 

• MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection- a cross-faculty initiative with multidisciplinary approaches and cutting edge techniques for studying bacterial infections at atomic, cellular, and organism levels.

Areas of Expertise

• Anaesthesia, sleep, and pain
• Bacterial pathogenesis

Masters Courses Offered By The Department

14. Department of Mathematics

Internationally renowned department with excellent substantial computing power, library facilities, central IT advisory service, and an outstanding level of teaching and research.

Names of Labs/ Institutes of Research

• Centre for Complexity Science
• CFM - Imperial Institute of Quantitative Finance
• Centre for Plasmonics and Metamaterials

Faculty Accomplishments

• Consists of faculty members who have been the recipient of Whitaker Prize of the Biomedical Engineering Society (1995), Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Awards (2012-2017),
• Richard von Mises Prize (2006) and many more. 

Industry Collaborations

• Airbus Group Innovations
• Capital Fund Management (CFM)
• Citigroup

Research Accomplishments 

• Discovered that light could exist in a previously unknown form
• Found the nanomaterial that makes harvesting sunlight easier

Masters Courses Offered By The Department

15. Department of Physics

Built-in 1906, The Royal College of Science consisted of the Chemistry  & Physics Departments.

Labs/ Institutes of Research

• Centre for Clinical Application of Particles
• The Centre for Cold Matter
• Center for Plastic Electronics
• Institute of Shock Physics

Faculty Size and Accomplishments 

• Patrick Blackett was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1948 for "his development of the Wolson cloud-chamber and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation". In 1953 he took over the Physics Department. 

Industry Collaborations

• Organized Industry Club for a better relationships between the department and companies. 
• John Adams Institute
• Institute of Cancer Research

Research accomplishments 

• New techniques and devices to control, interact with, and study the basic physics of cold atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates and more. 
• Spotted erupting jets of material as black hole tears a star apart.

Masters Courses Offered By The Department