Cardiff University, School of Engineering
Cardiff School of Engineering
The Cardiff School of Engineering is recognised as one of the best Engineering schools in the UK in terms of its facilities, research and teaching. The School has some 70 academic staff engaged in teaching and research, approximately 1,200 undergraduate students, and over 260 postgraduate students.Our degree schemes cover twelve different areas of Engineering, each of which are accredited by the relevant Engineering Institutions and are designed to offer you a degree which best meets your needs. The School has been independently assessed for quality of teaching and research and has obtained an Excellent rating for teaching in Civil Engineering, Electronic and Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. The School has also received independent recognition for its degree schemes and are recognised as being among the best in the UK as ranked by various independently produced league tables. All our degree schemes were included within the top twenty in the latest Times’ Higher league table, with Civil Engineering currently 2nd in the Times’ Higher league table and Mechanical 1st in the Guardian’s equivalent table.
The School's is one of the leading research centres for engineering in the UK and has an international reputation for the quality and significance of its research activities. The School is organised into research Institutes covering some of the most challenging research themes of today, such as Sustainability, Energy and Environmental Management, nanotechnology and sensors, medical engineering, and digital signal processing and communications.
The KEF Welsh Energy Sector Training project is currently being pioneered within the School of Engineering by staff of the Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Environmental Management, which is a multidisciplinary research group made up of three integrated research units: the Centre for Research in Energy, Waste and the Environment, the Geoenvironmental Research Centre, and the Hydro-environmental Research Centre. The Institute offers an environment which provides high quality research opportunities, leadership, training and supervision for research students.
The primary research areas for the centres are:
- Centre for Research in Energy, Waste and the Environment:
Risk and hazard assessment, mitigation and impact within the energy sector, process optimisation in solid waste management, liquid effluent characterisation and treatment processes, health and environmental effects of ultra fine particulates and gases, numerical and laboratory modelling of thermal and fluid dynamics in machines and processes, numerical and laboratory modelling of energy conversion systems, integration of low carbon energy technologies in distributed/decentralised systems, strategic planning and management. - Geoenvironmental Research Centre:
High level nuclear waste disposal repositories, thermo/hydro/mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soil, energy losses from buildings to the ground, risk assessment and risk management, contaminated land, land regeneration, and remediation - Hydro-environmental Research Centre:
Numerical and laboratory modelling of hydrodynamic processes in aquatic basins, water quality and contaminant processes in estuarine, coastal and riverine basins, development of hydroinformatics tools for flood forecasting and “predict and protect” strategies for compliance with EU directives.
Further Information
Cardiff School of EngineeringCardiff University
Queen's Buildings
The Parade
CARDIFF CF24 3AA
Tel: +44 (0)29 20874070
Fax: +44 (0)29 20874716
Further information
Dr. Anthony GilesCentre for Research in Energy, Waste and the Environment Cardiff School of Engineering Cardiff University
Queen's Buildings
The Parade
CARDIFF CF24 3AA
Tel: +44 (0)29 20876765
Email: gilesap1@cf.ac.uk