About us
Facilities
The School benefits from state-of-the-art facilities since moving to a new purpose-built campus location in 2011.
Facilities include bespoke designed studios, research laboratories, prototyping workshops, teaching laboratories, lecture theatre/auditorium, offices and meeting rooms, IT labs and exhibition spaces.
Spaces are designed to encourage student interaction across disciplines, course programmes and interests. Whilst no space is 'owned' by student groups or staff researchers it is designed to accommodate learning or research activities for appropriate fixed periods of time.
For example, students are block timetabled when necessary, and allowed open access to facilities on other occasions, and research space is only fixed by the need to house specific equipment or resource.
The building houses the latest equipment for digital designing (including rapid prototyping and manufacturing), haptic modelling, water jet cutting, vehicle simulation, environmental chambers, subject preparation, movement simulation and analysis, surface-mount PCB development, water-jet cutting in addition to the usual workshops, laboratories and studio equipment and resources.
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