Explore 4 East South in our virtual reality model

Meet some of our staff and students in the Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering and get a taste of life in the studio.

A tour of our mechanical engineering labs

Take a student-led tour of the mechanical engineering labs and facilities for undergraduate students.

A tour of our electronic and electrical lab facilities

Undergraduate student, Emily Stimpson, shows us the undergraduate labs and facilities in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering.

Chemical engineering undergraduate lab tour

Take a tour of our chemical engineering undergraduate laboratories, including an introduction to the techniques and equipment you could use during your degree.

Civil engineering facilities tour

Find out what facilities, laboratories and equipment you could use as a civil engineering student at Bath.

Improve your employability with an engineering placement year

Put your theory into practice with a year-long, paid placement during your engineering degree. You could earn between £16,000 and £25,000.

Architecture professional practice placements

Find out about the benefits of integrating professional practice with academic studies, and how it could make your journey to becoming an architect easier.

Great design in medical products: Felix’s placement story

Mechanical Engineering student, Felix O'Keffee, spent a year on placement working at Crux Product Design.

Creating spaces for people: Heba’s placement story

Civil Engineering student, Heba Tabidi, spent a year working as a Civil Structures Industrial Trainee at Arup.

Starting out in pharmaceuticals: Sam’s placement story

Sam Lewis is spending his placement year working as an Engineering Intern at Patheon, a contract development and manufacturing organisation.

Dreaming of electric sheep

Justin Bean’s RIBA Bronze Medal winning design for a hotel built around an electrical substation, aims to explore our complex relationship with technology.

Designing and building a mini automated vehicle

Joshua Olaleye built a guided vehicle to compete in our mouse race group project, where the challenge is to complete a circuit in the fastest time.

Envisioning reciprocal

For their first project at university, architecture and civil engineering students Isobel, Greg and Arun, designed and built a cantilever structure.

Redesigning a biofuel cell to power wearable health technologies

For his research project, chemical engineering student Luke Wilson investigated how to reduce the size and cost of an enzymatic biofuel cell.

Developing a temperature sensing glove to monitor the Raynaud's condition

During our group design and business project students pitch their ideas to our Industrial Advisory Board in a Dragons' Den style event.

Engineering & Design student competition teams

Our student-led competition teams design, build and race a range of fuel, electric and autonomous vehicles each year, competing in the UK and worldwide.

Achieving your ambitions at university

Sam Chung is the first in his family to go to university. He tells us how he's found life studying mechanical engineering at Bath.

A passion for robotics: Patrick's placement story

Patrick McLaughlin spent his placement year working as a Systems Engineer at the Centre for Modelling & Simulation.

Building an electric motorcycle to race

Nadia Domanski tells us how her experience of project managing the build of an electric superbike improved her confidence and helped her secure a graduate job.

Preparing for a civil engineering career with group design projects

From Oxford station to Waterloo station. After working on our flagship design project, the Basil Spence competition, Gemma Andrews is ready to begin her career.

My day in 60 seconds

Our architecture and engineering students talk us through their typical day studying at Bath. The challenge? They only have 60 seconds to do it in.

'When deciding your course, I believe it’s best to start by looking at the world around you'

Oruese Omoru explains why he chose to study chemical engineering and how the University of Bath has set him up for the future.

Creating meaningful and purposeful products: Compact Cane

Nia Simpson is taking her final-year mechanical engineering project, the Compact Cane, to the commercial market.

Bringing sustainable sanitation to refugee camps

Chemical engineering graduate, Jack Jones, has developed an innovative toilet design and waste recycling process to improve living conditions at Kakuma.

Applying Bath's integrated design principles to a civil engineering career

William Arnold, Young Structural Engineering Professional of the Year 2017, reflects on his career in civil engineering and his time studying at Bath.

Forging a career in the space industry

As a Space Systems Engineer at Thales Alenia Space, Andrew Bacon is designing future space missions and developing new technologies to measure climate change.

Engineering against climate change

Jenny Cane, Aerospace Engineering graduate, discusses her career since completing her course at the University of Bath.

Becoming a Railway Hero

Architecture graduate, Lin Qi, shares her career surprises along the route from leaving the University of Bath to working on HS2.

Undergraduate courses in civil engineering

Take on the challenge of designing and building the world in which we live and work, in a sustainable way that is fit for the future.

Undergraduate courses in chemical engineering

Chemical engineers change the world by transforming ideas into products and services in an ethical, safe, responsible and efficient way.

Undergraduate courses in electronic and electrical engineering

You’ll discover the technology behind communications, healthcare, transport and energy to advance the next generation of applications, products and devices.

Undergraduate courses in mechanical engineering

Test the limits of what is possible, by bringing together creativity with maths and physics to design and manufacture machines, technologies and systems.