Funded projects - Faculty of Engineering
FoE projects 1st set

Cross-Faculty digital transformation
Increasing the capacity and capabilities of the Faculties of Engineering and Natural Sciences in order to support the introduction of digitally-enhanced teaching and learning.
Project Leads: Professor Omar Matar, Professor Emma McCoy, Dr Phil Ramsden, Dr Kristel Fobelets, Moira Sarsfield and Shireen Lock.
Investment: £4,616,000
Duration: 5 years

Cross-College Mathematics pilot
Exploring opportunities to work across Faculties to identify significant overlaps in Mathematics content and develop a common approach.
Project Lead: Professor Emma McCoy, Phil Power, Dr Phil Ramsden, Sam Brzezicki
Investment: £71,000
Duration: 6 months

Using Jupyter notebooks in lectures
Replacing static lecture notes with interactive Jupyter notebooks, which will provide the students with the freedom to manipulate data.
Project Lead: Dr Peter DiMaggio, Professor Klaus Hellgardt & Dr James Campbell
Department: Chemical Engineering
Investment: £43,000
Duration: 1 year
FoE projects 2nd set

Flipped classroom and automated assessment
Working collaboratively across College to develop a shared repository of programming exercises using Python and Jupyter notebooks, incorporating automated assessment.
Project Lead: Dr Gerard Gorman
Department: Earth Science & Engineering
Investment: £104,225
Duration: 2 years

Using VR to teach Fluid Mechanics
Developing an interactive, multimodal environment for the exploration of 3D phenomena in mechanics-based modules.
Project Lead: Professor Omar Matar
Department: Chemical Engineering
Investment: £225,000
Duration: 1.5years

Dyson visualisation and collaboration platform
Transforming modules by developing a digital platform where projects can be proposed, discovered, developed, submitted, and showcased.
Project Lead: Dr Stephen Green & Dr Freddie Page
Department: Dyson School of Design Engineering
Investment: £504,000
Duration: 4 years