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Department research
Detailed information about the research taking place in our departments:
“Our research is visionary. We innovate by transferring this research into our teaching and we engage profoundly with end users. This is why our graduates are so sought after.”
— Professor Gary Hawley,
Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Design
The Faculty maintains an impressive reputation for excellence in research. From blue skies to fundamental and practice-based enquiry, we cover the full spectrum of high quality research activity.
Faculty research themes
Systems, Processes and Machines
- Centre for Non Linear Mechanics
- Powertrain and Vehicle Research Centre
- Centre for Power Transmission and Motion Control
- Bath Institute for Complex Systems
- Electromagnetics, machines and drives research group
- Catalysis and reaction engineering research group
- Aerospace Engineering Research Centre
Materials
- Materials Research Centre
- Composites Research Unit
- Advanced materials and porus solids research group
- BRE Centre in Innovative Construction Materials (BRE CICM)
Medical and Biomedical Engineering
- Biochemical and Biomedical Engineering group
- Centre for Regenerative Medicine
- Centre for Orthopaedic Biomechanics
