Agilent is a global leader in designing and manufacturing test, measurement and monitoring instruments, systems and solutions, and semiconductor and optical components. Additional support has been provided by LG Electronics, AMD and the University. This investment provides students with all the critical instruments necessary for making advanced electronic measurement. It is a genuine experience of the modern electronics industry, and future employers will undoubtedly benefit from the skills that our students will ultimately be able to offer through using such equipment. The engineering students are also delighted with the new facilities.
Experiments are fast, highly accurate and easy to understand.
Undergraduate and postgraduate students across four engineering disciplines will use the new laboratory. Opening the new laboratory, First Minister of the National Assembly for Wales, Rhodri Morgan, emphasised the important contribution of university-industry partnerships to the development of Wales' economy. Economic growth is increasingly dependent on the generation and exploitation of knowledge from within the higher education sector. The Agilent Laboratory will provide a centre of learning excellence using latest technologies and one of the finest in its field in the whole of the UK University sector. The Agilent Technologies Laboratory for Electronics is the second major collaboration with Agilent.