Facilities

As an undergraduate student at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering you will have access to a breadth of engineering facilities including state of the art laboratories, dedicated study areas and makerspaces. Find out more below.

The exterior of the Sir Frederick Mappin Building — Image courtesy of Interserve

The Department has been situated in the Grade II listed Sir Frederick Mappin Building since its inception in 1917. You will find our academics here as well as the Student Support Office and the research laboratories.

The Engineering Heartspace opened in 2020 and joins the historic Sir Frederick Mappin building and the 1885 Central Wing via a quadruple height atrium. Here you will find study areas, the Heartspace Cafe and the dedicated Engineering Year in Industry team. Find out more about the Year in Industry support here.

The Diamond building

You will have all your lectures and labs in your First and Second Years in the Diamond building which was built specifically to deliver Engineering teaching. Your theoretical learning will be reinforced by practical lab sessions using industry grade equipment to help prepare you for your future engineering career,

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EEE Electronics and Control lab in The Diamond

The Electronics and Control lab

The Electronics and Control lab in the Diamond will be one of the labs you have most of your practical sessions in. Here you will create solder, circuit boards, test currents and much, much more. Watch the video below to see what a second year lab consists of. Please note this was filmed during the 2020 pandemic and all social distancing requirements were adhered to.

The Electronics and Control lab

A microscope in the EEE teaching Clean Room in The Diamond

The Clean Room

The Clean Room in the Diamond reproduces the sterile and controlled environment used in industry required for the fabrication of semiconductor devices and materials used in items such as mobile phones. Watch the video below to find out more about what you will do in the Clean Room. Please note this was filmed before the pandemic.

The teaching Clean Room

Multidisciplinary opportunities in The Diamond

A male and a female student use a 3D printer in the iForge

The iForge - a student makerspace

The MindSphere Lounge