News and Seminars

Jock Clear, the former Formula 1 engineer and Heriot-Watt graduate recently visited Heriot-Watt’s Mechanical Engineering department.

During his visit Jock, now of BrawnGP, gave a seminar to the first year students followed by a Q&A session where the students had the opportunity to discuss the specific issues of engineering in the context of cutting edge automotive technology.

Mr. Yifan Liu, currently a first year PhD student from MechEng department and working in the field of microcantilever sensors and microfluidics, has been recently awarded J.M. Lessels Scholarship from the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

British Sugar Plc (http://www.britishsugar.co.uk/), the leading supplier of sugar to the UK market, has setup a prize of £150 at Department of Mechanical Engineering Department. The British Sugar Prize will be awarded to a graduating MEng student who has achieved the best performance in project work.

Heriot-Watt University's Dubai Campus has just announced four new exciting courses available from September 2009.* The School of Engineering and Physical Sciences is offering an undergraduate BEng (Hons) in Automotive Engineering, while the School of the Built Environment is offering a BEng (Hons) in Civil Engineering. Both of these Schools already offer a highly successful portfolio of undergraduate and Masters level courses from our campus in Dubai.

Two groups involving Heriot-Watt University have won £11m funding for new Centres which will generate the scientists needed for Britain's future it was announced today (5 December 2008) by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the UK funding body for science and engineering.

First Minister Alex Salmond has officially launched Focus on the Future, Heriot-Watt University’s strategy designed to grow academic staff numbers by 50% over ten years.

For the fourth year running, the Schools of Engineering and Physical Sciences and Built Environment have collaborated to host the Headstart Summer School.

Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh; Youssef Boutros Ghali, Finance Minister, Government of Egypt and Mel Young, Social Entrepreneur were three of the Honorary Graduates who joined hundreds of Heriot-Watt students at the summer Graduation ceremonies which took place at the Edinburgh and Scottish Borders Campuses this month.

The latest innovative projects from Scotland's universities and research institutions to be supported by Scottish Enterprise's Proof of Concept Programme were announced recently. Among them was a joint project between the Universities of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt to develop a water filtration system powered by renewable energy.