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Members of the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering (13 P) Pages in category "Engineering universities and colleges in the United Kingdom" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
In 1931, the first postgraduate course in chemical engineering began, followed in 1937 by the first undergraduate degree in chemical engineering. The first four-year undergraduate degrees were established in 1980 and in 1989, Professor Roger W. H. Sargent founded the Centre for Process Systems Engineering in the department. In 2003, the first ...
In 1945, the university received an endowment from Shell for a chemical engineering department and chair. The first Shell Professor was Terence Fox, appointed in 1946. The undergraduate Tripos course began in 1948. Peter Danckwerts was head of department from 1959 to 1975 and then John Davidson became Shell Professor and Head of department in ...
This is a list of university colleges in the UK.Institutions included on this list are university colleges that are recognised bodies with their own degree awarding powers; [1] it does not include institutions with "university college" in their title that are listed bodies as parts of a university (see colleges within universities in the United Kingdom), or other institutions with "university ...
The department inherits a longstanding association of Chemical Engineering and UMIST, indeed the discipline was founded by a series of lectures given there by George E. Davis in 1888. The professors of technological chemistry in the Faculty of Technology, Victoria University of Manchester, were W. J. Pope (1905–08), E. Knecht (1909–18), F ...
UCL opened the first department and chair of chemical engineering in the UK, funded by the Ramsay Memorial Fund, in 1923. [52] In 1904, Francis Galton donated £1,000 to the University of London for a eugenics laboratory; this transferred to UCL in 1907 with Karl Pearson as its director. [53]
The world's first electronic stored-program computer, the Manchester Baby, came into being at the university, as did its successor, the Manchester Mark 1. The University of Manchester was the birthplace of Chemical Engineering. The world's first steerable radio telescope at Jodrell Bank was built at the University by Bernard Lovell.
Additionally, chemical engineering is often intertwined with biology and biomedical engineering. ... which is the most among UK universities. This was followed by the ...