Facilities – engineering, architecture and design

Achieve more with our amazing facilities

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Facilities – engineering, architecture and design

Achieve more with our amazing facilities

Explore teaching facilities View research facilities

Welcome to our sector-leading facilities

We've invested millions into our buildings and cutting-edge equipment. We're constantly upgrading our buildings and technology to meet the latest learning, research and workplace needs.

“Engineering isn't just sitting in a classroom or listening to lectures, it's hands-on learning. Using facilities like the wind tunnels, building gliders and working on project weeks. Those parts of it are so much fun.”

Emma Tardrew – MEng Aerospace Engineering student

Teaching facilities that prepare you for the world of work

Our graduates are highly sought after by employers in the UK and internationally, because we teach the technical and professional skills you need to be work-ready.

Student piloting the flight simulator, instructed by an academic, with a simulated landscape visible through the cockpit windscreen and windows

Students in blue overalls viewing data charts on computer screens in a geotechnics and fluid mechanics lab with machine equipment visible on the desks

Student sat at the steering wheel of a car with a projector overhead and a simulated road and landscape visible around it

Undergraduate student working on a project at a retort stand, assisted by an academic

An assistant professor talking to an undergraduate student in the Product Design and Manufacture Design Studio

PhD student using the 50 G-Tonne Beam Centrifuge

Student and staff using a Total Station to capture their surroundings on Jubilee campus

Technician works with university student on a centre lathe

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The exact facilities and equipment you will use depends on your specific course. Facilities include:

Flight simulators – Operate bespoke virtual flight models to learn about flight dynamics or prepare for pilot training.
Product Design and Manufacture design studios – Get equipped with digital drawing tablets and large screens, ideal for group and project work.
Electronics workshop – Design in state-of-the-art electronics facilities, which are also a hub for electronic advice and repairs.
Road materials testing and geotechnics testing facilities – Study the mechanics of road materials and soils.
Virtual Reality (VR) classroom – Experience your designs by stepping into this cutting-edge VR room.
Postgraduate spaces – Thrive in dedicated postgraduate spaces for studying and socialising.

Research facilities shaping the future

If you're looking for research facilities with a difference, then the University of Nottingham is right for you. From power electronics and advanced manufacturing, to sustainable energy technology and healthcare technologies - we have three research institutes, eight research centres and 20 research groups.

Where appropriate, we also use research facilities for teaching projects - but please note the exact facilities and equipment you will use depends on your specific course.

[Pictured: Research Acceleration and Demonstration Building on Jubilee Campus]

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