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School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering

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Placements widely available

Placement opportunities across many courses in the School providing pre-graduation work experience.

Interdisciplinary

Cross-School collaborations and opportunities providing students with broader experience and skills.

Live projects in the community

Students work on real life briefs to gain practical experience with positive impact.

Who we are

The School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering at the University of East London is well connected throughout the capital and beyond. Our extensive network offers you plenty of opportunities to develop skills and explore the industry - whatever your interests. 

Our strong focus on sustainability and community means you will have plenty of chances to gain practical experience and make a positive impact to people's lives. Recently our students collaborated with Morgan Sindall to design a shed for a community garden aimed at combating loneliness. 

By the time you graduate, you will not only leave with a degree but also with career-relevant experience and skills gained through our unique Mental Wealth modules. 

    Key features
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    • The School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering produces employment ready graduates. 
    • Our strong links with various related industries ensure we connect you to your future.
    • We are passionate about giving you a globally recognised education. For example, we have excellent study abroad options in China.
    • Learn from award winning academics; our staff have worked alongside The Royal Society of Arts, Victoria and Albert Museum and the Olympic Delivery Authority. 
    • Our academics have won many awards including the UK's most prestigious visual arts award - the 2015 Turner Prize.
    • Our unique teaching practice involves applying design methodologies and advanced technologies to real - life scenarios in architecture, arts, computing and engineering.
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    Accreditations

    We encourage you to build your career passports from the moment you enrol on a School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering course. Our courses are accredited by over 20 professional institutions; this means employers will recognise the value of your qualification.

    Our accreditations include:

    • Architects Registration Board (ARB)
    • Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
    • Chartered Institute Of Architectural Technologists (CIAT)
    • Chartered Institution Of Highways & Transportation (CIHT)
    • Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)
    • Institution of Structural Engineers
    • Engineering Council
    • Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE)
    • BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
    • Royal Photographic Society (RPS)
    • Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (ICES)
    • Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)
    • Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
    • Institution of Mechanical Engineers
    • The Permanent Way Institution 
    • Techskills
    Riba Chartered Practice
    Engineering Council
    CIOB
    Microsoft IT Academy
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    BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT logo
    Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation logo
    The Permanent Way Institution logo
    Institution of Civil Engineers logo
    Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors logo
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    Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists logo
    Institution of Structural Engineers logo
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    Industry links

    Your future career is at the heart of our courses, we ensure our students graduate ready for employment through a wealth of placement opportunities. Some of our graduates have also gone on to secure full-time employment from placements.

    Some of our links include:

    • London City Airport
    • Gatwick Airport
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Microsoft
    • Nissan
    • Ford
    • Shell
    • BP
    • Transport for London
    • Crossrail
    • BT
    • Mott MacDonald
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    Cisco Networking Academy logo
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    Explore our subject areas

    Computer Science and Digital Technologies

    Develop knowledge in areas such as business information systems, Internet technologies, software engineering and communications systems security.

    Browse Computer Science and Digital Technologies courses

    Architecture and Physical Design

    Our architecture and design programmes challenge assumptions and set new agendas for design in the 21st century.

    Browse Architecture and Physical Design courses

    Construction, Transport and Logistics

    We give you the fundamentals to pursue a wide range of careers, covering everything from land surveying and mapping to logistics and site planning.

    Browse Construction, Transport and Logistics courses

    Art and Creative Design

    UEL's Art and Creative Design courses are growing in reputation. We cover a broad range of undergraduate, postgraduate and research degrees.

    Browse Art and Creative Design courses

    Engineering

    Find a course in general engineering, design engineering, engineering management, civil engineering, structural engineering and more.

    Browse Engineering courses

    Staff

    Dean of School: Dr David Tann

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    School Office

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    • Dean of School  - David Tann
    • Interim Director of Education and Experience:  Gaurav Malik
    • Director of Careers and Enterprise: Suzanne Dixon
    • Director of Impact and Innovation:  Julie Wall
    • School Business Manager (Acting) - Habiba Jahan
    • Departmental Officer - Aybeniz Panahian-Jand
    • International Student Support Officer - Patricia Lyn Co

     

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    Department of Architecture and Visual Arts

    Head of Department – Carl Callaghan

    Art and Design

     

    Subject area lead Visual Arts:  Keith Winter

     

    Course leaders:

    • BA (Hons) Commercial Photography  - Adam Wiseman
    • MA Fine Art - Alexis Harding
    • BA (Hons) Graphic Design - Andrew Osman
    • BA (Hons) Illustration  - TBC
    • BA (Hons) Graphic Design and Illustration - TBC
    • BA (Hons) Illustration and Animation - TBC
    • BA (Hons) Photography -  Antigoni Memou
    • BA (Hons) Fine Art - Amanda Francis
    • BA (Hons) Fine Art Technology -  Rob Pyecroft
    • Professional Doctorate Fine Art - Karen Raney
    • Foundation Art and Design - Samuel Zealey

    Academic staff:

    • Stephen Barrett - Senior lecturer
    • Guillauma Chuard - Lecturer
    • Jonathan Clark - Senior lecturer
    • John Cockram - Senior lecturer
    • Daniel Coombs - Lecturer
    • Pauline De Souza - Senior lecturer
    • Michael Georgeson - Senior lecturer
    • Paul Greenleaf - Lecturer
    • Alexis Harding - Senior lecturer
    • Alicia Hart - Senior lecturer
    • Russell Hedges - Senior lecturer
    • Sam Keogh - Lecturer
    • Sharone Lifschitz - Senior lecturer
    • Lee Maelzer - Senior lecturer
    • Shahid Mahmood - Lecturer
    • Carmen Martínez Alemán - Senior lecturer
    • Emma McGuire - Lecturer
    • Antigoni Memou - Senior lecturer
    • Andrew Osman - Lecturer
    • Valerie Pezeron - Senior lecturer
    • Michael Pinsky - Reader
    • Robert Pyecroft - Senior lecturer
    • Andrew Ioakim - Lecturer
    • Karen Raney -  Senior lecturer
    • Si Sapsford - Senior lecturer
    • Debra  Shaw - Reader
    • Kim Stevenson - Lecturer
    • Richard Wilson - Research Professor

    Architecture

     

    Subject area lead Architecture and Physical Design:  Alex Scott-Whitby

     

    Course leaders:

    • BSc Architecture (ARB/RIBA) - Alex Scott-Whitby
    • MA Interior Design - Anastasia Karandinou
    • BA (Hons) Product Design - Andrew Wright
    • MRes Architecture: Critical Cities -  Anna Minton
    • BSc (Hons) Architectural Design Technology  - Arman Hashemi
    • MA/PG Landscape Architecture - (Acting) Clare Penny
    • MA Architecture and Urbanism - Fulvio Wirz
    • MArch Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2) -  Isaie Bloch
    • Foundation  Architecture - Keita Tajima
    • BA (Hons) Interior Design - Keith Winter
    • BA (Hons) Interior and Spatial Design - Keith Winter

     

    Academic staff:

     

    • Isaac Cobo Displas - Senior lecturer
    • Prof Anthony Fretton - Professor
    • Maria - Irina Georgescu - Reader
    • Susan Ginsburgh - Lecturer
    • Armor Gutierrez - Senior lecturer
    • Christian Groothuizen - Senior lecturer
    • Christoph Hadrys - Senior lecturer
    • Charlotte Harris - Senior lecturer
    • Carsten Jungfer - Senior lecturer
    • Roland Karthaus - Associate Professor
    • Toshiya Kogawa - Lecturer
    • Claudia Palma - Lecturer
    • Clare Penny - Senior lecturer
    • Catalina Pollak - Lecturer
    • Michele Roelofsma - Senior lecturer
    • Stephanie Schultze-Westrum - Senior lecturer
    • Alfonso Senatore - Senior lecturer
    • Renee Tobe -  Reader
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    Department of Computer Science and Digital Technologies

    Head of Department - Aaron Kans

    Undergraduate Lead - Bilyaminu Romo Auwal

     

    Course leaders:

    • BSc (Hons) Applied Computing top-up - Aloysius Edoh
    • PG Information Security and Digital Forensics - Ameer Al-Nemrat
    • PG Applied Data  Technologies - Amin Karami
    • BSc (Hons) Computing for Business - Arish Siddiqui
    • BSc (Hons) Digital and Technology Solutions - Gaurav Malik
    • BSc (Hons) Computer Science - Bilyaminu Romo Auwal
    • BSc (Hons) Data Science and Artificial Intelligence - Julie Wall
    • PG Artificial Intelligence - Mustansar Ghazanfar
    • Foundation Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Computer Science with Education and Qualified Teacher Status - Paul Bombo
    • PG Computing and ICT  -  Rawad Hammad
    • PG Computer Science (with Industrial Placement) - Saeed Sharif
    • PG Data Science - Yang Li

     

    Academic staff:

    • Abdulrazaq Abba - Lecturer
    • Hisham AbouGrad - Lecturer
    • Bilyaminu Romo Auwal - Senior lecturer
    • Nabeela Altrabsheh - Lecturer
    • Mohammad Hossein Amirhosseini - Lecturer
    • Solomon  Alexis - Senior lecturer
    • Seyed Ali Ghorashi - Senior lecturer
    • Hamid Hakimazari - Senior lecturer
    • Umar Mukhtar Ismail - Lecturer
    • Fahimeh Jafari - Senior lecturer
    • Nadeem Qazi - Lecturer
    • Fadi Safieddine - Senior lecturer
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    Department of Engineering and Construction

    Head of Department - Fawad Inam

     

    Engineering

     

    Subject area lead Engineering:  Arya Assadi Langroudi

     

    Course leaders:

    • BEng (Hons)/ MEng Civil Engineering - Arya Assadi Langroudi
    • MSc /PG Dip Civil Engineering -  Ali Abbas
    • MSc/PG Dip Structural Engineering -  Ali Abbas
    • BSc (Hons) Civil Engineering - Alex Apeagyei
    • MSc/PG Dip Intelligent Transport Planning and Engineering - Alex Apeagyei
    • UG Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management - Andrew Arewa
    • BEng (Hons) Product Design Engineering - Bahar Khayamian-Esfahani
    • Foundation year - Bryan Pearce
    • BEng (Hons) / MEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Jaswinder Lota
    • BEng (Hons) Mechatronics and Computer Systems Engineering - Jaswinder Lota
    • MSc/PG Dip Mechatronics and Computer Systems Engineering - Jaswinder Lota
    • MSc/PG Dip Civil Engineering with Sustainability - Jaya Nepal
    • BEng (Hons)/ MEng Mechanical Engineering - Kalok Lee
    • BEng (Hons) Engineering Management - Kalok Lee
    • BEng (Hons) General Engineering - Kalok Lee
    • BEng (Hons) Railway Engineering - Rasha Mohammad
    • BEng (Hons) Biomedical Engineering - Samir Morad
    • BEng (Hons) Railway Engineering - Subramaniam Arunachalam
    • MSc/PG Dip Mechanical Engineering - Subramaniam Arunachalam
    • MSc Sustainable Energy Engineering - Adnan Adnan
    • BEng (Hons) Aeronautical Engineering - Thamo Sutharssan

     

    Academic staff:

    • Ravindra Jayaratne - Reader
    • Mihaela Anca Ciupala - Senior lecturer
    • Jawed Qureshi - Senior lecturer
    • Sarah Catmur - Senior lecturer
    • Salim Barbhuiya - Senior lecturer
    • Associate academic: Saprava Bhattacharya (Director, WSP)
    • Associate academic: Steven Armstrong (Honorary Doctorate, Ford)
    • Associate academic: Anusha Shah (Honorary Doctorate, Arcadis)

     

    Construction Transport and Logistics 

     

    Subject area lead Construction:  Sohrab Donyavi

     

    Course leaders:

    • Foundation year - Bryan Pearce
    • FdSc Civil Engineering and Construction Management -  Sohrab Donyavi
    • BSc (Hons)/MSc Construction Management - Luana Parisi
    • BSc (Hons) Surveying & Mapping Sciences - Richard Latham
    • BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management - Andrew Arewa
    • MSc/PG Dip Project Management with Digital Technology: Sohrab Donyavi
    • MSc Robotic Construction - Sohrab Donyavi
    • MSc Construction Asset Management with Digital Technologies - Sohrab Donyavi
    • MSc Real Estate Management - Sohrab Donyavi

     

    Academic staff:

     

    • Julius Akotia - Senior lecturer
    • Mike Hurst - Senior lecturer
    • Nikdokht Ghadiminia  - Lecturer
    • Seoung Wook Whang - Lecturer
    • Sajedeh Mollasalehi  - Lecturer
    • Rob Garvey - Senior lecturer
    • Luana Parisi - Lecturer
    • Associate academic: Ian Lemon
    • Associate academic: Francine Baker
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    Technical Staff

    • Garry Doherty -  Technical Services Manager
    • Daryl Brown -  Technical Associate
    • Chris Donovan -  Technician
    • Saeed Javid  - Technical Associate
    • Craig Madden -  Technician
    • Masum Zain Miah -  Technician
    • David Morgan  - Technical Assistant
    • Paul Nichols  - Technician
    • Mark Sowden  - Technical Associate
    • Gaynor Zealey  - Technician
    • Christopher Ok'Onkwo  - School IT Technician

    Facilities

    The School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering is based at Docklands campus.

    The University of East London prepares you for the jobs of the future. We ensure you have access to industry-standard facilities throughout the School and embrace digital working and new technologies. We have a range of laboratories and workspaces containing sophisticated equipment that you'll be using from day one.

    Some of the equipment you can expect to find at the University includes:

    • Mechatronics Laboratory
    • Communications Laboratory
    • Materials Testing Laboratory
    • Microanalytical Laboratory
    • Large Structures Laboratory
    • Geotechnical Laboratory
    • 3D printers capable of printing buildings
    • Robotics technology
    • Hydraulics lab
    • Printmaking studios
    • Bronze casting
    • Laser cutting
    • CAD studios

    Research

    The School has developed and encouraged a strong culture of research collaboration between our architecture, computing, engineering and geo-information centres, with other East London schools and international partners. Sharing research leads to excellent results and greater success.
    For more information on our research interests and groups, and research degrees, visit the Research page.

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    Studying architecture at UEL was really enjoyable, helping me to develop the necessary skills to become an architect. The hands-on approach that UEL gave me provided key knowledge in the field of architecture that's unique compared to anywhere else."

    Kent Gin

    Architecture, BSc (Hons), winner of 2014 RIBA/SOM Foundation Travel Fellowship

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