Research
What is being discovered here, and who is doing it.
The index crosses departmental boundaries, because research does. Everything below is built from what 410 members of faculty state they work on — not from a taxonomy written for a brochure.
- 575
- Sponsored projects, ongoing
- 1,745
- Consultancy projects, FY 2024-25
- 1,448
- Research areas indexed
- 21
- Centres & labs
Themes
The full area indexSix ways into the work
Materials and making
Metallurgical Engineering · Mechanical Engineering · Ceramic Engineering · Materials Science & Technology · and 10 more
The oldest engineering lineage on this campus — metallurgy, ceramics and mining — now working on additive manufacturing and designed materials.
Additive Manufacturing · Biomaterials · Phase Transformations · Extractive Metallurgy · Archaeometallurgy · and 180 more
105faculty
14 departmentsWater, land and the built city
Civil Engineering · Chemical Engineering & Technology · Mining Engineering · Architecture, Planning & Design · and 12 more
Civil, environmental and transport engineering in a river city — water and waste, structures, geotechnics and remote sensing.
Waste Management · Earthquake Engineering · GIS and Remote Sensing · Structural Ceramics · Structural health monitoring · and 139 more
95faculty
16 departmentsHealth and the living world
Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology · Biomedical Engineering · Biochemical Engineering · Chemical Engineering & Technology · and 14 more
Biomedical, biochemical and pharmaceutical engineering — instrumentation, biomaterials, drug delivery and the biology they answer to.
Biomaterials · Microfluidics · Pharmacognosy · Cell and Tissue Engineering · Drug Delivery · and 93 more
75faculty
18 departmentsEnergy and power
Electrical Engineering · Chemical Engineering & Technology · Mechanical Engineering · Physics · and 10 more
Generation, storage, conversion and the grid that carries it — from electrochemistry and photovoltaics to power quality and drives.
Electrochemistry · Power Electronics · Power Quality · Energy Engineering · Healthcare and Energy · and 92 more
64faculty
14 departmentsDevices, light and signals
Electronics Engineering · Materials Science & Technology · Physics · Biomedical Engineering · and 10 more
Electronics and photonics — semiconductor devices, antennas and optical communication, and the signal processing that rides on them.
Wireless Communication · Signal Processing · Spintronics · Digital Communication · Microelectronics · and 111 more
58faculty
14 departmentsMachines that learn
Computer Science & Engineering · Mathematical Sciences · Civil Engineering · Electronics Engineering · and 10 more
Learning systems and the people who have to trust them — vision, language, security and privacy, and a school built for physical AI.
Machine Learning · Computer Vision · Computational Linguistics · Deep Learning · Natural Language Processing · and 45 more
44faculty
15 departments
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