Course Specific Facilities
We have EDA tools from world-class vendors such as Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Xilinx and Altium.
We also have our own multi-million-gate FPGA development platform for complex electronic system design and verification
The Department has access to excellent library and electronic resources for postgraduate work in the field.
The
Engineering Graduate Centre provides an excellent opportunity for postgraduate students to make new friends and participate in social events, as well as to find industrial placements and take advantage of a full range of professional skills advice and workshops.
The Applied Optics Group has extensive facilities for optics and ultrasonics research. The Group has four large optics laboratories within the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Tower Building that comprise many optical benches, lasers (including femtosecond pulsed laser systems) and a diverse range of optical and electronic test and measurement equipment.
The Group is also equipped with a wide range of electronic and VLSI design facilities which play a key role in the development of novel optical detection technologies.
Due to its research success the Group expanded its laboratory facilities in 2007. New purpose built space within the Biology Building houses the newly formed Institute of Biophysics Imaging and Optical Science, this houses two state of the art femtosecond laser systems, a Leica two photon confocal microscopy, atomic force microscope, array scanners, several fluorimeters. These ‘engineering’ facilities are collocated with state of the art ‘biology’ equipment for cell culturing. With the same building is housed the SIOS laboratory (Space Integrated Optical Sensors). A purpose built laboratory within the new Centre for Biomedical Sciences allows Applied Optics Group researchers to work closely with tissue engineers. All these new laboratories provide exceptional environments for developing innovative and applied interdisciplinary research.