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The University of Edinburgh's School of Engineering is one of the largest Schools in the University of Edinburgh. The main site is situated within the King's Buildings campus, to the south of Edinburgh city centre. The School is the primary centre for engineering teaching and research activities in Edinburgh and is currently headed by Professor Hugh McCann.

History
The Chair of Engineering was endowed in 1868 by Sir David Baxter, 1st Baronet. He endowed the post with the sum of £6,000, which H. M. Treasury supplemented with an annual grant of £200. The first appointee (Baxter's own choice) was Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin who had been Professor of Engineering at University College, London since 1866.

History 1868 > 2002

Following university restructuring in 2002, the Faculty of Science and Engineering became the College of Science and Engineering. All engineering disciplines were once again reunited in a School of Engineering and Electronics (subsequently renamed the School of Engineering).

Notable alumni and researchers

 * Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, Scottish Engineer, inventor of telpherage


 * George Wilson (chemist)
 * George Frederick Armstrong
 * Thomas Hudson Beare
 * Major John B Todd (1883 – 1954). Appointed Head of dept Engineering 1940 - (needs additional citations for verification.)
 * Ronald Arnold (1908 – 1963)
 * Alexander Graham Bell, engineer and inventor of the telephone
 * George Parker Bidder, engineer and calculating prodigy


 * Max Born, Nobel laureate, pioneer in quantum mechanics, Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1936 to 1953
 * David Brewster, scientist and inventor


 * William Fothergill Cooke, engineer, founder of Electric Telegraph Company
 * James Alfred Ewing, physicist and engineer
 * Lewis Gordon, civil engineer
 * James Jardine, civil engineer
 * Alexander Carnegie Kirk, marine engineer
 * James Clerk Maxwell, physicist, "father of electromagnetism"
 * William John Macquorn Rankine, engineer and physicist, early contributor to the development of thermodynamics
 * George Rennie, engineer
 * John Rennie the Elder, civil engineer
 * John Scott Russell, civil engineer, naval architect and shipbuilder
 * John Shepherd-Barron, inventor of the automated teller machine (ATM)
 * Robert Stephenson FRS, railway engineer
 * Robert Stevenson, civil engineer
 * Alan Stevenson, lighthouse engineer
 * David Stevenson (engineer), lighthouse designer
 * Thomas Stevenson, lighthouse engineer
 * Charles Alexander Stevenson, lighthouse engineer
 * David Alan Stevenson, lighthouse engineer
 * Robert Stirling, inventor of Stirling engine
 * William Symington, engineer and inventor

Chemical Engineering

 * Kenneth Denbigh FRS (1911 - ) – Appointed Professor of Chemical Technology 1955 Obituary [1 ]

[2 ]
 * Philip Calderbank (1919 - ) First professor of Chemical Engineering. Retired 1980. (needs additional citations for verification.)
 * Jack Ponton (1943 - ). ICI Professor of Chemical engineering
 * Dr Colin Pritchard (1943 - )
 * George Thomas Beilby, chemical engineer

Civil Engineering
Obituary, Cockburn Association [3 ] Obituary, RSE [4 ]
 * Arnold Hendry FRSE (1921 - ) – appointed first Professor of Civil Engineering 1964. (needs additional citations for verification.)
 * J Michael Rotter (1948 - ) appointed second Professor of Civil Engineering 1989
 * Michael C Forde (1945 - ) appointed Tarmac Professor of Civil Engineering Construction 1990
 * Dougal Drysdale (1939 - ) appointed Reader in Fire Safety Engineering and Director of the Unit of fire Safety Engineering 1990

Electrical Engineering
RSE obituary [5 ] Scotsman obituary [6 ] Listed in the 1978 Honours List [7] No Wikipedia entry. (needs additional citations for verification.) [8 ] [9 ] Fire Safety Engineering Mechanical Engineering
 * Professor William Farvis - WEJ (Ewart) Farvis. Full name William Ewart John Farvis, FRSE, OBE. Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Edinburgh. First Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University (appointed 1961).
 * Jeffery Collins FRSE (1930 - ) 1970 appointed SRC Research Professor; 1973 Personal Chair of Industrial Electronics; 1977 appointed Professor of Electrical Engineering (succeeding Ewart Farvis).
 * John Mavor FRSE (1942 - ). Appointed Lothian Chair of Microelectronics 1980. Appointed third Professor of Electrical Engineering 1986.
 * Alan Owen FRSE (1928 - ). Appointed to a Personal Chair in Physical Electronics 1981. No Wikipedia entry. (needs additional citations for verification.)
 * Peter B Denyer (1953 - ).
 * John Robertson (1943 - ). Appointed Director of the Edinburgh Microfabrication Facility 1981. Appointed to the Chair of Microelectronics 1986.
 * Peter Mitchell Grant FRSE, FRSEng, FIET, FIEEE (1944 - )
 * Mervyn Jack (1949 - ). Appointed to Chair of Electronic Systems 1987.
 * James R Jordan ( (1938 - ). Full name James R (Jim) Jordan. Appointed Professorial Fellow Electrical Engineering 1989. Appointed to the Chair of Electrical Instrumentation 1991.
 * Ian Bryden [10 ]
 * Bernard Mulgrew
 * Harald Haas (engineer) - needs expanded.
 * Don Glass
 * David J Rasbash (1921 - )
 * Douglas Drysdale
 * Leslie G Jaeger FRSE (1926 - ) 5th Regius Professor of Engineering
 * James L King (1922 - ) 6th Regius Professor of Engineering
 * Joseph A McGeough FRSE (1940 - ) 7th Regius Professor of Engineering
 * Stephen H Salter (1938 - )

Notable companies and projects founded by students and alumni

 * Wolfson Microelectronics, was a multinational microelectronics and fabless semiconductor company. In 2014 it was acquired by Cirrus Logic for £291 million.
 * Edinburgh Designs Ltd (EDL) - wave making technology
 * Artemis Intelligent Power, hydraulic power technology
 * Artilium - mobile phone location services
 * Conversatec - language translation
 * DEM Solutions - finite element modelling


 * Elektrobit (UK) Ltd - mobile comms
 * Intexia - inkjet texturing
 * MicroEmissive Displays - TV microdisplays
 * NGenTec - novel electrical generators for wind turbines
 * Particle Analytics - software and consultancy in preparation, visualisation and analysis of particles and industrial bulk solids
 * Predictions Software - semiconductor yield
 * Pure LiFi - ubiquitous high speed wireless access using visible light communication
 * RicaTek - design of next-generation digital cameras and imaging systems
 * SATSIS (now Sensewhere) - satellite communications
 * Spiral Gateway - low power IC design
 * Sofant Technologies - innovative wireless solutions using smart antenna and tunable RF
 * VLSI Vision


 * Artemis Intelligent Power - machine control
 * Dukosi - custom circuit design
 * Edinburgh Designs - wave tanks
 * Indigo Vision - videobridges
 * Ocean Power Delivery (now called Pelamis Wave Power) - wave energy
 * Sauer-Danfoss - hydraulics
 * TriSent - mobile comms
 * Walmsley Electronics - system design


 * Eleotech - ultrasound
 * Indexed-on - software recovery
 * Reactec - smart ski technology
 * Renewable Devices - wind turbines

List needs review and citation/links where possible/relevant

List is "modern" we need more historic cases, and possibly a reduction to ensure "notable" spin outs only.

Undergraduate education
General info and numbers

Engineering Disciplines

Web links

Graduate education
Number of PI status researchers

Number of postdoctoral researchers

Number of PG students

Types of PG education offered

(PhD, MPhil and MSc). Most common?

Number of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs)

weblink to PG info