Facilities

The Advanced Adsorption Lab houses equipment for the purpose of characterising porous materials and undertaking adsorption experiments.

This AFM facility is available to all researchers across the university as well as external users from other universities and industry.

Biophotonics is the interface between Biology and Photonics that deals with the interaction between light and biological systems.

Do you have interesting and important challenges involving snow and ice?

Bring your ideas to life at the Engineering Makerspaces on the King’s Buildings campus.

Do you have an interest in environmental engineering?

FastBlade is the world’s first test facility that uses regenerative hydraulic technology to offer high-quality, low-cost fatigue testing of tidal blades and other composite structures for research and product development.

FloWave is a wave and current simulation tank for use in the testing and development of novel ocean energy technologies.

The largest full scale railway track bed in a UK university, located at the Kings Buildings Campus of the University of Edinburgh.

Our research facilities are located at the William Rankine Building, within the University of Edinburgh's King's Buildings Campus.

This equipment and the research staff are located in the Scottish Microelectronics Centre (SMC), a purpose built facility at the University's Science and Engineering campus at King's Buildings.

Use Remote Labs to conduct experiments from anywhere and at any time.

The Robotics SuperLab, where we Invent, Play, Build and Explore 'What is Robot?'

The SMC provides extensive cleanroom facilities with a full semiconductor/MEMS fabrication toolset and the ability to host staff from external organisations.

The Structures Test Hall is our high-headroom lab for testing medium to large structural assemblies.

The School of Engineering is a partner in Synthsys, the Centre for Synthetic and Systems Biology which is an interdisciplinary research environment with members across many Research Institutes, Colleges and Schools, including The University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University and BioSS.

TCAD statistical software packages available in the Scottish Microelectronics Centre.

The University of Edinburgh Curved Wave Tank is a multidirectional wave facility, which is capable of producing digitally controlled pseudo random waves with definable spectral and directional statistics.

The UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre (UKCCSRC) leads and coordinates a programme of underpinning research on all aspects of CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) in support of basic science and UK government efforts on energy and climate change.