Support and facilities

Support

We have excellent student support teams who are here to help you with any non-academic queries or problems you may have, from initial application through to graduation.

These teams are located close to where you will study, ensuring personalised and direct contact and can help you with:

- Scholarships & Bursaries
- Registration & Module Enrolment
- Coursework/Project submission
- Staff contact details
- Mitigating circumstances
- Results and Progression requirements
- Examinations
- Peer Mentoring
- Timetabling
- Absence & Attendance Monitoring
- Engineering Study Zone bookings
- Maps and directions

The Faculty of Engineering also has its own Central Admissions Hub, who process all engineering and computing applications; leading to fast turnaround times from application through to decision. This team can also offer advice on the admission process and any queries regarding qualifications.

Facilities

As would be expected of a top-rated UK research School, with over one hundred postgraduate students from across the world, facilities for postgraduate study are of the highest standard.

Our School is purpose-built, self-contained, and offers a pleasant and friendly environment for study, with central University facilities just a few minutes walk away.

We have an enviable array of multi-million pound research laboratories equipped with cutting edge technology. Major investment has been made in new facilities in the areas of high frequency and wireless communications. The RF and microwave facilities include a range of network analysers - operating to 325 GHz; wafer probing, RF and microwave circuit laser prototyping, ceramic circuit fabrication equipment and six digital modulation workstations for the generation and analysis of IQ modulated signals up to 3GHz.

In the digital communications and positioning systems area a complete suite of new offices and laboratories has recently been established.

In the nanotechnology and photonics areas, we have new laboratories and clean rooms for terahertz electronics, photonics, molecular electronics and bio-electronics research. We have also developed a Molecular Beam Epitaxy facility to fabricate advanced compound semiconductor optoelectronic devices. The work is underpinned by a strong theory and modelling group in the quantum electronics area.