Strategic themes
Strategic themes in the Department's research draw together
its strengths in individual disciplines to address major challenges:
Strategic themes
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Energy, transport and urban infrastructure
Creating new energy and transport solutions that are clean, efficient and sustainable with a particular emphasis on addressing entire urban systems including buildings, infrastructure, water and waste.
Uncertainty, risk and resilience
Developing modelling, simulation and analytical methods for understanding large complex systems and ensuring their resilience through new approaches to optimisation, decision-making and control that take full account of uncertainty and risk.
Bioengineering
Applying the engineering approach to understanding biological systems and to addressing challenges in healthcare, creating new knowledge, solutions for biological and medical applications, and biologically-inspired solutions elsewhere in engineering.
Inspiring research through industrial collaboration
Dramatically cutting the time from research to large-scale implementation through the improved the design of research and knowledge transfer without stifling creativity
