Engineering Cardiff University

Overview

The School of Engineering delivered by Cardiff University is internationally renowned for our research and are a friendly supportive School with a diverse range of students from across the world. We pride ourselves on our multidisciplinary approach to research and organise our research into five priority research areas:

• Advanced manufacturing
• Civil infrastructure
• Compound semiconductors and applications
• Engineering for health
• Sustainable energy.

We offer a 3 year PhD programme and a 1 year MPhil degree programme.

Programme aims

• Develop research skills through a programme of in-depth study.
• Develop expertise in appropriate methods of research and enquiry.
• Produce high quality research outputs which demonstrate critical judgement.
• Produce a thesis (PhD thesis approx. 80,000 words).

Distinctive features

• We have a world renowned reputation for research and the impact of that research.

• Teaching opportunities – we offer a range of teaching and demonstrating opportunities across our undergraduate teaching programme.

• We have strong links with other institutions and research organisations as well as industry and business.

• A wide range of funded studentships are available.

• Our research income currently exceeds £10 million from public and private sectors and supports innovative research in traditional and emerging areas.

• State-of-the-art experimental and computational facilities and modern laboratories.