Engineering Science

Fellows:
Dr Stephen Collins
Dr Thomas Povey

Lecturers:
Dr Zsolt Laczik

Student Profile:
Kathryn Yardley (3rd year)

Univ typically admits six undergraduates a year for Engineering. Applications for deferred entry are welcome and are treated in the same manner as those for immediate entry. The tutors do prefer a gap year to be spent in a structured activity, however, and would, of course, ideally like this to be relevant to Engineering.

Dr Collins’s research interests lie in the design of microelectronic circuits, in particular analogue circuits for digital cameras and micromechanical sensors.

Dr Povey’s research is related to turbomachines, and particularly the turbine stages of large civil turbofan engines. His current research includes studies of unsteady interactions in gas turbines; turbine aero-thermal interactions; combustor hot-streak migration; and the design of transient experimental methods to replace large experimental turbine rigs.

The Engineering Science course starts as a broadly-based course covering a wide range of diverse topics, including Electronics; Fluid Dynamics; Electromagnetism; Thermodynamics; Materials and Structural Failure; Statics; Dynamics; Communications and Control. In addition, a number of topics in advanced mathematical methods are studied, which are used throughout the course. In the third and fourth year students choose from a number of advanced option papers and undertake team and individual projects.

Because of the broad range of disciplines covered by Tutorial Fellows within the College, tutorials in most of the core Engineering subjects are given by tutors at Univ.

For more information, please consult the website of the Department of Engineering Science.