Credit: Robert Allen (Postgraduate)
Carbon Nanotube structure.Our research
Research in Engineering combines international quality research in the areas of Materials and Manufacturing, Functional Materials and Water and Environment. We have four renowned Research Centres, as well as developing a Centre for Additive Layer Manufacturing, which all provide the focus for significant multi-disciplinary research activity, transferring technology between academia and industry.
Our research plays a pivotal role in the University's Science Strategy via the Functional Materials key theme. We run a number of research-led innovative masters and postgraduate research programmes.
More details of our research can be found below on the webpages of our research groups.
| Research group | Contact |
|---|---|
| Water and the environment Research in this group focuses on infrastructure; notably water systems, structural mechanics, computational geomechanics, and sensing and computing for intelligent infrastructure. The group hosts the Centre for Water Systems which uses informatics to tackle problems of support, development and operationalisation of sustainable water management. |
Professor Dragan Savic |
| Functional materials Research in the design and fabrication of novel materials, the understanding, via modelling and experimental characterisation, of their physical properties and their exploitation for a range of real-world applications; from electronic, magnetic and optical memories, to energy storage, to medical diagnosis, to high-strength composites and much more. |
Professor David Wright |
| Materials and manufacturing Research activity in multi-functional materials, additive manufacturing, low-carbon manufacturing and sustainable technologies, biomedical engineering, and manufacturing systems, supply chains and logistics. |
Professor David Zhang |
| Research centres | |
| Centre for Water Systems The internationally-leading Centre for Water Systems provides vital research into water systems planning, design and operation. |
Professor Dragan Savic |
| Exeter Advanced Technologies (X-AT) X-AT is a multi-talented team dedicated to commercially orientated research in the core themes of advanced manufacturing and materials development. |
Professor Ken Evans |
| Exeter Manufacturing Enterprise Centre (XMEC) XMEC is a multi-disciplinary research centre carrying out advanced research in manufacturing technology, systems, and management. |
Professor David Zhang |
| Centre for Additive Layer Manufacturing The Centre for Additive Layer Manufacturing (CALM) is an industry facing business technology centre based at the University of Exeter and provides technical expertise in Additive Layer Manufacturing to businesses across all sectors. |
Dr Sara Flint |
| Centre for Graphene Science The Centre for Graphene Science brings together the Universities of Exeter and Bath in internationally leading research in graphene. Our high-quality research environments and state-of-the-art equipment are bridging the gap between the scientific development and industrial application of this revolutionary new technology. |
Dr Alan Usher |
