The Faculty has well equipped laboratories and workshops to support teaching and research. The strengths of the Faculty arise from its experienced professionals who are not only researchers and lecturers, but also engineering practitioners. The Faculty has close working relationship with industry across a whole range of activities from teaching to research.
Expertise includes helping companies access research funds for both strategic and applied research.
The Faculty believes that any collaborative activity should bring real commercial benefits to the industrial partner. The Faculty also places approximately 50 undergraduate engineering students each year in local companies. These students carry out practical projects over a minimum 36 week period. Partner countries include Greece, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Holland and Germany. A full programme of student industrial placements includes a programme of exchange with other European Community countries.