Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
Achieve lasting success via interdisciplinary research, collaboration, and industry partnerships that broaden perspectives and open doors to future opportunities.
About the Faculty
Our faculty is dedicated to advancing knowledge and practical skills across diverse disciplines. These include construction and surveying, aerospace and mechanical engineering, geography and environmental sciences.
Our flexible undergraduate degrees offer the chance to explore a range of disciplines before specialising in your chosen field. These courses are regularly updated to reflect industry advancements, ensuring you’re equipped to work at the forefront of your profession.
With a strong focus on practical skills, innovative teaching and deep subject knowledge, we prepare you to excel in the professional world and tackle real-world challenges with confidence.
Our goal is to provide a dynamic and industry-focused education. Our approach is built upon:
- Practice-based learning: Gain practical, industry-ready skills through a teaching approach rooted in practice-based, research-informed education.
- Interdisciplinary work: Work across disciplines to build versatile skills, knowledge, and a collaborative mindset.
- Links with industry: Benefit from strong partnerships with top companies like Airbus, Google, and Sony, keeping courses aligned with professional demands.
- World-class facilities: Access cutting-edge labs and unique equipment to develop and test pioneering ideas, bridging theory and practice.
Studying in the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
The Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment offers a wide range of courses taught across our three schools:
We emphasise 'learning through making'. We combine hands-on experience, student-led projects, and owned product portfolios to produce industry-ready graduates.
We offer state-of-the-art facilities, including materials labs, mechanical systems design equipment, and aerospace studies tools. Our active, systemic-based learning will help prepare you for a rapidly-evolving world.
This school offers courses across civil engineering, construction, surveying and geography. We focus on shaping the environment that’s sustainable, connected, and resilient. Our courses meet the changing needs of professions and climate change challenges.
We offer our students the opportunity to learn and grow in a real-world environment. Combined with our hands-on approach to teaching and learning, this provides our students with the skills ready for their chosen industry.
These skills are taught within our world-class facilities, which offer our students some of the most innovative and advanced technology in order to give them the freedom to invent, create and revolutionise their practice.
Our most cutting-edge facilities include:
- Flight simulator: Our aircraft engineering students have access to our flight simulator. It is equipped with visual display, instrumentation, pilot controls, motion base and instruction station.
- CAVE: Our computer science and gaming students have full access to the University's CAVE (Centre for Augmented and Virtual Reality Environments), a treasure trove of specialist equipment.
Faculty Leadership
Dean and PVC: Professor Amir Alani
Faculty Directors of Learning and Teaching: Dr James Denholm-Price and Dr Konstantinos Poutos
Research, Business and Innovation: Professor Amir Alani, Professor Jean-Christophe Nebel, Professor Dimitrios Makris and Dr Siaka Dembele
Staff in the Faculty
Research in the Faculty
The Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment has an established research culture across engineering, geography, surveying, and computing. Supported by national and international networks, research is central to academic life, with opportunities for collaboration and access to diverse resources. The faculty’s multidisciplinary research is supported by industry links and funding from the European Commission, UK research councils, charities, and multinational corporations.
The faculty's research is recognised by University Centres of Research Excellence, led by internationally-renowned experts in their fields. In addition to research groups and interdisciplinary projects in specific strategic areas.
Meet the students from Engineering, Computing and the Environment
Wondering what it’s like to study Engineering, Computing and the Environment at Kingston University? Now’s your chance to hear from the people who know best – our students.
Aerospace engineering is a fascinating subject area that has many different subject applications such as aerodynamics, programming and business principles. Unlike other universities, you experience working in industry-standard labs from the first year onwards.
My course is perfect for going into the industry that I am aiming for, and that is the same for most courses at the University, especially in this faculty. The lecturers do their own research, which means that we study the most recent industry developments on our course.
As part of my degree, I carried out a 15-month placement with GlaxoSmithKline, a pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare company.
I was supporting network security, looking after the firewalls and proxy servers in a number of offices across 140 countries. The role involved high responsibility and the chance to give my opinion on different projects being carried out
Contact us
The main contact details for the Faculty of Engineering, Computing the Environment are:
Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
Kingston University
Penrhyn Road
Kingston upon Thames
Surrey KT1 2EE
Tel: +44 (0)20 8417 9000
