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In 1900, the college became of school of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of London. [8] The new City and Guilds College Building, 1964. In 1907, the same year as Imperial College was founded, the college was renamed The City & Guilds College, and was incorporated into Imperial in 1910 as a constituent college. [9]
The Department of Mechanical Engineering is responsible for teaching and research in mechanical engineering at Imperial College London, occupying the City & Guilds Building at the South Kensington campus. The department has around 45 faculty members, 600 undergraduates, and 250 postgraduate students.
Nicholas Ambraseys (civil engineer) – Founder of Engineering Seismology at Imperial College London; Eric Ash (engineer) Sir Alec Skempton (founding father of soil mechanics) Ayodele Awojobi (first African awarded the D.Sc degree in mechanical engineering; main field: vibration) Cecil Balmond (civil engineer) Baron Richard Beeching (engineer)
The department is currently a part of the college's Faculty of Engineering, which was formed in 2001 when Imperial College restructured. The department has consistently ranked within the top five on the QS World University Rankings in recent years.
Sir Alfred Egerton FRS – Professor of chemical technology at Imperial College London from 1936 to 1952 and secretary of the Royal Society from 1938 to 1948. John Coulson – Achieved his PhD from the department in 1935 and joined the academic staff thereafter, achieving the status of Reader. He is best known as the co-author of the textbook ...
David Malcolm Potts (born 1952) is a professor of Analytical Soil Mechanics at Imperial College London [2] and the head of the Geotechnics Section at Imperial College. [3] He has been a member of the academic staff at Imperial College since 1979, responsible for teaching the use of analytical methods in geomechanics and the design of slopes and earth retaining structures, both at undergraduate ...
The Regius Professor of Engineering is a royal professorship in engineering, established in 2013 at Imperial College London in England. The chair is attached to the college's Faculty of Engineering .
John Boscawen Burland (born 4 March 1936) is a geotechnical engineer, Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Investigator at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Imperial College London, and a noted expert in the field of soil mechanics.