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Engineering

Calling all experimenters, creative thinkers and problem solvers. Engineering at Edge Hill is your chance to explore a whole host of areas and become a specialist in electronic engineering, intelligent automation or mechanical engineering.

Edge Hill is home to a £13m Tech Hub. Here you’ll learn in our 3D Computer Augmented Virtual Environment (CAVE) and experiment in specialist labs with robots, e-pucks and microprocessors. With great industry links, you’ll meet employers like AO and Bentley Motors at our careers fair, and secure placements with top companies.

Everything you learn is relevant to industry and you’ll work on real-world projects, thanks to our connections with employers.

Learn from a teaching team with specialist technical knowledge, carrying out vital research for international projects.

Develop your expertise in our £13m Tech Hub. Home our state-of-the-art labs where you’ll master your practical problem-solving skills.

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Discover Engineering at Edge Hill

Calling all experimenters, builders and creative thinkers. Engineering at Edge Hill is your chance to explore a whole host of areas and become a specialist in electronic engineering, robotics, intelligent automation or computer engineering. Edge Hill is home to a £13m Tech Hub.

Facilities

The £13 million purpose-built Tech Hub offers highly contemporary suites of outstanding facilities for Computer Science and Engineering students.

Modern computing and engineering laboratories are equipped with comprehensive test and measurement equipment, high-specification computers, high-resolution screens and the latest hardware and software. A four-screen CAVE (Computer Augmented Virtual Environment) provides a super immersive 3D virtual environment, enabling users to immerse themselves in a virtual room and experience real life scenarios in 4K resolution.

There are also specialist laboratories for networking and games programming, in addition to a specialist research laboratory, open access laboratory, a Harvard style lecture theatre, and ‘The Hatchery’, a working space for new business ideas.

Learning resources include robots and a robotics simulator, wired and wireless networking hardware, graphics software, web development tools, software development environments, big data servers, eye trackers, giant 3D interactive teaching screens, and other specialist software required for studying forensics and internet security techniques.

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