Welcome to the School of Engineering and Materials Science
The School of Engineering and Materials Science provides outstanding degree programmes coupled with internationally leading research which is reflected in all our undergraduate programmes. Our taught postgraduate programmes are similarly first class and provide students with a fantastic opportunity to engage with cutting-edge research in: Bioengineering, Intelligent Transport, Sustainable Engineering and Engineering and Materials Education. Our extensive industrial connections provide graduates with excellent employability in stimulating and well-paid careers.
Events and Seminars
| Wed 17 - Fri 19 Jun 2026 | The Advanced Functional Polymers for Medicine 2026 (AFPM 2026) |
| Mon 18 - Tue 19 Jan 2027 | UK Preterm Birth Conference  |
Recent publications
- Vascular smooth muscle cell mechanotransduction: Pathways, phenotypes and emerging technologies.
Kota Lakshminaraasimulu N, Smyth REA, Prakash A, Iskratsch T
J Physiol
04-06-2026 - Assessing the importance of sex and disease-specific anatomy in electrophysiology and mechanical simulations with a newly developed public virtual cohort of four-chamber heart models.
Solís-Lemus JA, Barrows RK, Rodero C, Strocchi M, Montarello N, Lahoti N, Corrado C, Qayyum A et al.
Plos Comput Biol vol. 22 (6)
02-06-2026 - UHTS-DRL: A deep reinforcement learning framework for integrated agile satellite observation and data transmission scheduling
Cheng J, Fan M, Gu Y, Tang W, Luo Q, Wang Y, Wang X, Wu G
Information Sciences, Elsevier vol. 740
01-06-2026
