Faculty of Engineering
The Faculty of Engineering is the largest in Australia, offering the widest range of engineering programmes. It is easily the largest faculty in the university, with 9000 students enrolled (2006). It was recently voted the number one engineering faculty in Australia (16th in the world) by the 2005 Times Higher Education Supplement World University Ranking. The Faculty comprises ten schools:
- Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
- School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (formerly known as the School of Chemical Engineering and Industrial Chemistry)
- School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- School of Computer Science and Engineering (High School portal)
- School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
- School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
- School of Mining Engineering
- School of Petroleum Engineering
- School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (formerly the Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering)
- School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems (formerly Geomatic Engineering)
Students of the faculty are involved in a number of high-profile projects: the Sunswift Solar Car (second place in the recent Sunrace from Adelaide to Sydney), the rUNSWift RoboCup team (World Champions), the Formula SAE-A Racing Car (National winners in 2000) and the BlueSat Satellite (2003).
UNSW Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering currently holds the world record for single-crystalline silicon solar cell efficiency (24.7%). It is one of the leading solar cell research centres in the world with ongoing active research in the area of wafer-based solar cell technologies, thin film cell technologies and advanced third-generation cell concepts.
The Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design is one of Australia's leading polymer institutes with research in all facets of macromolecular design and applications.
