About

Both an active participant in the global engineering community and an observatory for that community, we seek to be a catalyst, partnering with others and providing a platform for debate and action to demonstrate engineering’s contribution to a sustainable future.

The Centre engages with the fundamental question for transitions into and through engineering; at what point does a person become an engineer?

The world needs more engineers. Partnering with others, the Centre will support and engage in projects that release the resources and world-leading capabilities of UCL to enthuse and inspire potential engineers. 

Our four pillars of activity

Research

The CEE conducts research across a variety of areas in the journey towards developing professional engineers. These include issues of access and participation in engineering education, curriculum development and the effectiveness of learning techniques in undergraduate and graduate education, student success and attainment, diversification and the transition to the engineering workforce, and the skills and social responsibilities of professional engineers.

STEM Education Engagement

Our programmes for children, young people, and their teachers and advisers are designed to support access to and attainment and progression in STEM, at all levels where engineering is seen as intrinsically worthwhile, relevant and, above all, truly inclusive.

Consultancy

Our consultants are practising academics and engineers who have experience of undertaking programme review/evaluation, through to developing and delivering major curriculum development programmes and initiating complex new programmes.  The centre offers a range of services at a variety of scales and has access to broad range of expertise that can be deployed on short-time scales.

Teaching and Learning/Education 

The centre provides cross-faculty teaching, in mathematics, core engineering skills and competencies and supports the project based thread that is central to the philosophy of the Integrated Engineering Programme. It also provides modules in engineering design, engineering thinking and social responsibility to students from other disciplines across the college.