Depending on the course you choose, you may have access to the following school facilities:
Laboratories
- General Purpose Electronics Laboratories, equipped with 30 workstations, each consisting of a function generator, oscilloscope, triple power supply and two digital multi-meters. These laboratories have been refurbished and completely re-equipped in 2011. They are primarily used by students studying undergraduate and postgraduate electronics-based awards and are open for students to use at any time during the normal working day.
- Hydraulics laboratory, with three Armfield uni- and bi-directional recirculating flumes and a 20m long recirculating flume fitted with laser velocimetry equipment for measuring flow structure and turbulence in 3D
- Thermal dynamics and avionics laboratory, with a cross flow heat exchanger, a thermal conductivity rig, a CNC hot wire styrofoam cutter, and wind and smoke tunnels including a sub-sonic 25mtr/sec one and a super-sonic mach 1.4 tunnel.
- Sir Harry Ricardo Laboratories, with numerous single and multi-cylinder engines, optical steady state rigs and modelling software and hardware.
- Hybrid vehicle experimentation laboratory. Developed with Interreg partners Rouen Ecole Superieure (irseem) and University of Picardie Jules Verne, the CHAMP project (low-Carbon Hybrid Advanced Motive Power) is providing a series hybrid topology for control strategy experimentation.
Specialist facilities
- The Socata Rallye TB9 flight simulator, with three projections giving aeronautical engineering students an unrestricted view of the landscape and scenery.
Workshops
- Centre for Design Technology users will have access to facilities such as rapid prototyping machinery, CNC machining, glass and composite recycling and firing, haptic modelling and stereoscopic viewing.
- Those studying construction courses will use the drawing studio, while the woodwork and modelling shop and the advanced machine tool facility will benefit those needing centre or capstan lathes, bench, pillar and radial drills, a surface grinder or one of the milling machines.
An advantage of studying at Brighton is the chance to collaborate with others. Facilities are no exception and depending on your subject you could find yourself in many other University departments using the Brighton Creativity Centre, the sport and exercise labs at the University's Chelsea School, the Art and Design workshops in the world-renowned Faculty of Arts at Grand Parade or even a broadcast lab.
