3 out of 4 recent Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame additions are alumni of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Engineering. These include telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell, lighthouse designer Robert Stevenson and structural engineer Sir Duncan Michael.
The University of Edinburgh's Discipline of Chemical Engineering was recently featured on the front page of the IChemE's Education Special Interest Group (EdSIG) newsletter, with a cover story on the Oil and Gas Systems Engineering course.
Dr Quan Li, Lecturer in the School of Engineering, has been awarded Guest Professorship from Tianjin University, in recognition of his pioneering work in the field of Applied Superconductivity.
The School of Engineering is developing plans to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first Regius Chair of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh in 1868.