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Our postgraduate students work with internationally respected academics at the forefront of their disciplines, tackling some of today’s biggest challenges.

Our excellent facilities, key partnerships with major industries and a world-leading research base ensure that time studying with us is productive, challenging and enjoyable.

Key Areas of Research

Acoustics

Agents, Interaction and Complexity (AIC)

Bioengineering and Human Factors

Communications, Signal Processing and Control (CSPC)

Computational Engineering

Electronic and Software Systems (ESS)

Electronics and Electrical Engineering (EEE)

Energy and Climate Change

Fluid Dynamics

Geomechanics and Environmental Geotechnics

Materials and surface engineering

Mechatronics, Signal Processing and Control

Nano Research Group

Optoelectronics

Structures and Solid Mechanics

The IT Innovation Centre

Transportation

Water and Environment

Web and Internet Science (WAIS)

Key research projects

Programme Grants:

ORCHID (Human Agent Collectives: from foundations to applications) – £5.5m

PRiME (Power-Efficient, Reliable, Many-Core Embedded Systems) - £5.6m

SOCIAM (The Theory and Practice of Social Machines) – £6.2m

Silicon Photonics for Future Systems –£6.0m

Transforming the Internet Infrastructure: The Photonic HyperHighway – £7.3m

Nanostructured Photonic Metamaterials – £5.0m

The Physics and Technology of Photonic Metadevices and Metasystems – £4.4m

Railway Track for the 21st Century – £3.1m

The Science and Analytical Tools to Design Long Life, Low Noise Railway Track Systems – £5.2m

Platform Grants

Green Tribology – £1.2M

Processes, Mechanics and Management of Wastes – £1.0M

Integrated Photonic Materials and Devices – £1.1M

Postgraduate

With world-class facilities and a team of leading academics, the University of Southampton offers a dynamic and supportive environment for postgraduate engineering students and researchers.

Undergraduate

Our undergraduate courses reflect the real-world research taking place at the University and are among the most highly-ranked engineering courses in the country.

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The University of Southampton is home to some of the world’s leading researchers.

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The University of Southampton is one of the leading Universities in the UK for Engineering with all our courses ranked in the top 10 by the Guardian University Guide 2015. 98% of our graduates are in professional or managerial positions within two years of graduating.