The Faculty of Engineering is a constituent body of the University of New South Wales

University of New South Wales

The University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

, Australia

Australia

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. It is the largest engineering faculty in Australia, offering the widest range of engineering programmes.

Organisation

The Faculty comprises ten schools:

• UNSW Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering - Website
• UNSW School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering - Website
• UNSW School of Civil & Environmental Engineering - Website
• UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering
  UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering
  The UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering , also known as UNSW COMPUTING, is part of the UNSW Faculty of Engineering and was founded in 1991 out of the former Department of Computer Science within the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. It is now one of the largest...
  
   - Website (High School Website)
• UNSW School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications - Website
• UNSW School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering - Website
• UNSW School of Mining Engineering - Website
• UNSW School of Petroleum Engineering - Website
• UNSW School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering - Website
• UNSW School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems
  UNSW School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems
  The UNSW School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems is part of the UNSW Faculty of Engineering and was founded in 1970.The School has undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Surveying and in GeoInformation Systems...
  
   - Website

Rankings and Achievements

The Faculty has earned many top rankings, including;

• 52-75th ranking in World for Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences - ARWU, 2010

• Ranked Number 1 in Australia for Computer Science - ARWU, 2010

• Number one Engineering Faculty in Australia and ranked 27th in the world. - 2008 Times Higher Education Supplement Rankings

• Top performing Engineering discipline among Australian universities. - 2007 Melbourne Institute's Discipline Ratings for Australian Universities

• Top score in Engineering, Computing, Science and Architecture. UNSW also achieved the top score for excellence in Business, Law and Economics and the top overall scores for both excellence and improvement. - 2009 Learning and Teaching Performance Fund

• Most cited Australian university in Engineering and Computer Science, as well as Maths, and Psychology. - 2003 TO 2007 Thomson Reuters-Indexed Journals

• The UNSW Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering currently holds the world record for single-crystalline silicon solar cell efficiency
  Solar cell efficiency
  The efficiency of a solar cell may be broken down into reflectance efficiency, thermodynamic efficiency, charge carrier separation efficiency and conductive efficiency...
  
   (25%). It also holds the world record for multi-layer solar cell efficiency (43%). It is one of the leading solar cell research
  Solar cell research
  There are currently many research groups active in the field of photovoltaics in universities and research institutions around the world. This research can be divided into three areas: making current technology solar cells cheaper and/or more efficient to effectively compete with other energy...
  
   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.
• rUNSWift, the University's team in the international RoboCup Standard Platform League
  RoboCup Standard Platform League
  The RoboCup Standard Platform League is one of several leagues within RoboCup, an international competition with autonomous robotic soccer matches as the main event.-Overview:...
  
   competition, is the most successful team in the world, with wins in 2000, 2001 and 2003 as well as coming second in 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2010.

World Rankings	| 2011	| 2010	| 2009	| 2008	| 2007
The Times-QS World University Ranking for Engineering & IT	39th	42nd	=33rd	27th	28th
ARWU for Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences	52-75	52-75	51-77	76-107	51-75
Australian Rankings	| 2011	| 2010	| 2009	| 2008	| 2007
The Times-QS World University Ranking for Engineering & IT	2nd	2nd	2nd	1st	2nd
ARWU for Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences	=1st	=1st	=1st	3rd	=1st

Projects

Students of the faculty are involved in a number of high-profile projects:

• Sunswift
  Sunswift
  The UNSW Solar Racing Team is a solar car racing team from the University of New South Wales. The team has built four cars since 1996...
  
   Solar Car (officially the world's fastest solar-powered vehicle at 88 km/h, and winner of the Silicon Class of the 2009 Global Green Challenge ).
• Formula SAE-A Racing Car (National winners in 2000)
• BLUEsat Satellite
  BLUEsat
  The Basic Low Earth Orbit UNSW Experimental Satellite project is an engineering project being undertaken by students at the University of New South Wales. It aims to raise awareness of space and give students the opportunity to investigate, design, build and launch a satellite...
  
  (Development in Progress).

External links

• UNSW Faculty of Engineering website