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Engineering and Digital Arts

Overview

The School of Engineering and Digital Arts successfully combines modern engineering and technology with the exciting new field of digital media. The School was established over 40 years ago and has developed a top-quality teaching and research base, receiving excellent ratings in both research and teaching assessments.

The School undertakes high-quality research that has had significant national and international impact, and our spread of expertise allows us to respond rapidly to new developments. Our 27 academic staff and over 130 postgraduate students and research staff form teams providing an ideal focus to effectively support a high level of research activity. There is a thriving student population studying for postgraduate degrees in a notably friendly and supportive teaching and research environment.

We have research funding from the UK Research Councils, European research programmes, a number of industrial and commercial companies and government agencies – such as the Ministry of Defence, and many others. Our Electronic Systems Design Centre and Digital Media Hub provide training and consultancy for a wide range of companies. Many of our research projects are collaborative, and we have well-developed links with institutions worldwide.

Did you know?

In the most recent Research Asessment Exercise: 40% of our research was rated “world-leading” or “internationally excellent”, with a further 45% judged as “internationally recognised”.

Postgraduate resources

The School is well equipped with a wide range of laboratory and computing facilities and software packages for teaching and research support. There is a variety of hardware and software for image acquisition and processing, as well as extensive multimedia computing resources. The School has facilities for designing embedded systems using programmable logic and ASIC technology, supported by CAD tools and development software from international companies, including Cadence™, Xilinx™, Synopsys™, Altera™, National Instruments® and Mentor Graphics™. The SMT laboratory can be used for prototyping and small-volume PCB manufacture. A well-equipped instrumentation research laboratory is also available.

Students studying communications have access to both commercial and in-house software tools for designing microwave, RF, optoelectronics and antenna systems (such as ADS™, CST™, HFSS™) and subsequent testing with network and spectrum analysers up to 110 GHz, an on-wafer prober, and high-quality anechoic chambers.

Students on the programmes in Computer Animation and Digital Visual Effects work in a dedicated, state-of-the-art suite, equipped with leading-edge PC workstations running Alias™ Maya and Foundary Nuke. There is also an audio-video laboratory and two video studios with green screen and motion capture facilities. The School is also equipped with a 3D body scanner – one of only two in the UK.

Students on the Information Security and Biometrics Master's course have access to state-of-the-art biometrics equipment, which can be used for studying the characteristics of the different biometric modalities introduced during the course.

Did you know?

In the most recent Research Asessment Exercise: 40% of our research was rated “world-leading” or “internationally excellent”, with a further 45% judged as “internationally recognised”.

Key information

Dynamic publishing culture

Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, conference proceedings and books. Among others, they have recently contributed to: IEEE Transactions; IET Journals; Electronics Letters; Applied Physics; Computers in Human Behaviour. Details of recently published books can be found within the staff research interests.

Support

As a postgraduate student, you are part of a thriving research community and receive support through a wide-ranging programme of individual supervision, specialised research seminars, general skills training programmes, and general departmental colloquia, usually with external speakers. We encourage you to attend and present your work at major conferences, as well as taking part in our internal conference and seminar programmes.

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Did you know?

In the most recent Research Asessment Exercise: 40% of our research was rated “world-leading” or “internationally excellent”, with a further 45% judged as “internationally recognised”.

Contacts

Admissions enquiries

T: +44 (0)1227 827272
E: information@kent.ac.uk

Subject enquiries

Postgraduate Admissions Officer,
School of Engineering and Digital Arts,
University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NT,
UK
T: +44 (0)1227 823724
F: +44 (0)1227 456084
E: ee-admissions-pg@kent.ac.uk

Did you know?

In the most recent Research Asessment Exercise: 40% of our research was rated “world-leading” or “internationally excellent”, with a further 45% judged as “internationally recognised”.

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Last Updated: 13/09/2011