School of Engineering & Computing

Welcome to the department

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Department of Energy Systems Engineering area. This area is designed to provide information on our staff, programmes, research and knowledge transfer activities.

These are exciting times for the Department of Energy Systems Engineering. Combining the former Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and Instrumentation & Control Divisions into one powerful division has given us the critical mass and flexibility we need to build on our traditional strengths, while evolving in new directions of energy.

Research, knowledge transfer and commercial development are central to the vision of the Department and are a key part of the scholarly activity underpinning of honours, masters and postgraduate-related teaching and learning activity. This ensures that graduates have access to state-of-the-art research and technical expertise from staff, teaching them real-life skills to enable them to work at the forefront of modern engineering practice.

There is a tremendous breadth of research activity and a huge wealth of knowledge within the Department, ranging from basic applied research to knowledge transfer in engineering, science and technology areas. Our ability to establish multidisciplinary teams to undertake research and commercial development from fundamental engineering, science, process and product development is one of our key strengths.

The Energy Systems Engineering Department contains several research groups representing a particular focus. Each is led by a full-time academic member of staff, and may include associated members of staff from different divisions of the School of Engineering and Computing or from outside the School.

To learn more about these and other activities, I encourage you to explore our website.

I hope you will find the information on our website useful and that it encourages you to connect with us. If not, please send us an e-mail with your questions or comments, who knows, it may be the start of a long and exciting relationship – I for one certainly hope so.

Prof Mahmoud El-Sharif, Head of Department