Facilities
Teaching will be in various buildings across campus, with many sessions in the Queens Building, which is equipped with classrooms, and engineering and computer laboratories. It is also home to the School of Engineering and Sustainable Development.
The main energy laboratory in the School of Engineering and Sustainable Development is used for teaching, student projects and research. This laboratory has a demonstration heat pump system, an air conditioner demonstrator, and can be used for real-world experiments and practical energy projects.
A second energy laboratory is dedicated to low carbon electricity teaching and research. It has teaching equipment for experiments on solar photovoltaic panels, electrolysers (which use electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen) and fuel cells (which reverse this to produce electricity from hydrogen). It also has a large physical teaching rig for smart grids, which can simulate a complex electricity grid, generators, loads, power lines, transformers, and storage using electrical circuits and devices.
Learning zones
Our Learning Zones and The Greenhouse also provide space for group or individual work and study.
There are 1,600 study places across all library locations, more than 700 computer stations, laptops to borrow, free wi-fi and desktop power outlets.
You can also book rooms with plasma screens, laptops and DVD facilities for group work and presentations, secure an individual study room with adjustable lighting or make use of our assistive technology.
Library services
On campus, the main Kimberlin Library offers a space where you can work, study and access a vast range of print materials, with computer stations, laptops, plasma screens and assistive technology also available.
As well as providing a physical space in which to work, we offer online tools to support your studies, and our extensive online collection of resources accessible from our , e-books, specialised databases and electronic journals and films which can be remotely accessed from anywhere you choose.
We will support you to confidently use a huge range of learning technologies, including Learning Zone, Collaborate Ultra, 51³Ô¹Ïapp Replay, MS Teams, Turnitin and more. Alongside this, you can access LinkedIn Learning and learn how to use Microsoft 365, and study support software such as mind mapping and note-taking through our new Digital Student Skills Hub.
The library staff offer additional support to students, including help with academic writing, research strategies, literature searching, reference management and assistive technology. There is also a ‘Just Ask’ service for help and advice, live , online workshops, tutorials and drop-ins available from our , and weekly library live chat sessions that give you the chance to ask the library teams for help.