Facilities

Engineering, Computing & Mathematics

Facilities

in Harrison Building







School Facilities

Overview: The school has recently invested over £2m into providing new academic and social facilities including a new foyer, reception area and coffee shop and is investing another £1 million into refurbishing and equipping teaching laboratories. Refurbishment of lecture theatres includes state of the art AV facilities, video conferencing, air conditioning, lighting and improved acoustics. The new 47 seat computer rooms offer brand new computing equipment which will be updated every three years.

Learning Resources: As well as a common room, our Learning Resource Centre has a number of desks, four group working rooms with plasma screens, set text books and the use of a free photocopier.

Lecture Theatres: The school has lecture theatres and seminar rooms, in a range of sizes, and all feature state-of-the art equipment for the computer projection of presentations.

Computing: These are described by the Guild of Students as "the best supply of computers in the University", greatly improved with a new 100-seat computer laboratory. The machines are used for program development (e.g. Java and C++), specialist software packages (e.g. a Blender rendering farm for animation, Abaqus/Ansys for finite element analysis & Matlab for statistical analysis), database software, network access, and multimedia work, as well as for email, internet browsing and word processing.

Labs and Workshops: The school has teaching labs and two main workshops supported by a team of highly trained technical staff. As the school has several hundred links with regional and national industry, student projects are often industrially driven. This provides an opportunity for students to undertake commercially important projects at the forefront of technology.

Research Equipment: The school incorporates Exeter Advanced Technologies (X-AT), an applied research and consultancy unit which provides a link between academia and industry. The organisation works within three main sectors including product development, materials characterisation and electronics. Other major research areas include control and systems engineering, water systems and geotechnical engineering.