Facilities

Design Studio

The Design Studio is a dedicated space for our Product Design Engineering students to collaborate, study, and showcase their work, featuring a Materials Library, photography equipment, model making resources, and specialist design computers.

Active Learning Labs

Home to Europe’s leading engineering Active Learning Laboratories, our two floors of flexible, student-centred teaching space offer everything from manufacturing robots and rapid prototyping tools to group work areas and specialist workshops.

Flight simulators

Internationally renowned for both research and teaching, our flight simulation facilities go beyond typical university setups by offering flexible simulators for a range of aircraft and spacecraft, enabling award-winning research with real-world impact on aircraft certification and safety.

Hydraulics Lab

Home to one of the UK’s most advanced hydraulic laboratories, our facilities include a 90,000-litre water channel used to model flow over Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers, wave tanks, sediment flumes, and cutting-edge equipment like laser scanning and PIV systems

Materials and Structural Laboratory

At the core of our Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, this multi-functional laboratory supports teaching and research into sustainable and resilient infrastructure, enabling students to explore low carbon materials and innovative designs.

Additive Manufacturing labs

Supporting our pioneering additive manufacturing research and teaching, our labs features state-of-the-art metal 3D printers, custom-built test rigs, and industrial-grade machines which enable hands-on exploration of 3D lattice design, topology optimisation, and new machine prototyping.

Digital Innovation Facility

Located just minutes from the engineering buildings, the Digital Innovation Facility is a leading centre for digital engineering, supporting teaching and research through specialist spaces including the Extreme Environment Lab, smARTlab, and Mixed Reality Laboratory.

Ness Botanic Gardens

Spanning 64 acres, Ness Botanic Gardens is not only open to the public but also plays a key role in engineering education and research—hosting projects like our solar-powered chiller prototype, which was developed and tested on-site before being taken to Zanzibar to explore sustainable food storage solutions.

Albert Crewe Centre for Electron Microscopy

The Albert Crewe Centre offers cutting-edge electron microscopy tools and integrated AI capabilities, allowing engineers to analyse materials’ morphology, microstructure, and chemical composition at atomic scale with unparalleled precision.