UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences
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| Dean | Professor Nigel Titchener-Hooker |
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Administrative staff
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391 (Academic and research staff (as at October 2009)) |
| Students | 1,451 (Undergraduate (2008/09)) 1,181 (Graduate (2008/09)) |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Website | UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences |
The UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences is one of the 11 constituent faculties of University College London (UCL). The Faculty, the UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and the UCL Faculty of the Built Envirornment (The Bartlett) together form the UCL School of the Built Environment, Engineering and Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
For the period January 2000 to August 2010 UCL was ranked 16th in the world (and 2nd in Europe) for citations per paper in engineering, with an average of 8.83 citations per paper.
Engineering at UCL traces its beginnings to when John Millington was appointed as the first Professor of Engineering in the United Kingdom on 17 July 1827. The laboratory in Gower Street was the first in the world to be devoted to engineering education. It today serves as the Civil Engineering Laboratory and bears a plaque which commemorates the pioneering railway engineer, Richard Trevithick who ran the first passenger steam locomotive nearby in 1808.
The world's first instruction in the field of chemical engineering, a course entitled "Chemical Technology", was taught at UCL in 1882. The department soon saw its first Nobel Prize winner when professor William Ramsay, who arrived at UCL in 1887, won the prize in chemistry for his discovery of noble gases. The first course in chemical engineering was established by the first Ramsay memorial professor, E. C. Williams.
By the end of the 19th century, departments of civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering had been established. The civil engineering department specialised in public health which was a significant issue in Victorian London at this time. The first professor of electrical engineering was John Ambrose Fleming, who took the Chair of Electrical Technology at UCL in 1884.
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