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Companies flock to UCL for annual engineering fair
22 January 2010
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UCL will host its annual Engineering Doctorate Fair for Urban Sustainability & Resilience on 24 February.
Through the fair, UCL's Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering department invests about £100,000 in each of eight projects thanks to funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
The invitation-only event, which takes place from 4pm to 7pm at Wilkins South Cloisters, is open to industrial sponsors and UCL staff.
Companies such as AECOM, Battle McCarthy, Expedition Engineering, Halcrow, Laing O'Rourke, Ramboll, and Transport for London all attended in 2009 and are now working in collaboration with UCL on projects worth a total of £1.2 million.
An EngD is an enhanced PhD that invests in a company's research and development. Companies design a project in collaboration with a UCL expert and sponsor a high-achieving student to complete the research over four years.
Battle McCarthy, a leading sustainable engineering and landscape company, won five of the projects in 2009.
Founder Christopher McCarthy said UCL was uniquely placed in a dynamic city with world-renowned academics and facilities to help bring about change for a more sustainable future.
He added: "People have a natural ability to cope with change in this fast-paced, multicultural and theatrical city where no drama is too big. One day we celebrated winning the Olympic bid for 2010; the next we were responding to terrorist attacks.
UCL has a great capacity for change, leaping to fourth place from 34th in the Times Higher Education-QS World Rankings in just five years. We want to be part of that change."
If your company is interested in attending the event please email Karen Rafferty.
Image: Last year's Engineering Doctorate Fair for Urban Sustainability & Resilience
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