University of Edinburgh College of Science and Engineering
55°55′22″N 3°10′30″W / 55.922778°N 3.175°W / 55.922778; -3.175
The College of Science and Engineering is one of the three colleges of the University of Edinburgh. With over 2,000 staff and around 9,000 students, it is one of the largest science and engineering groupings in the UK. The college is largely located at the King's Buildings campus and consists of the separate schools of:
- School of Biological Sciences
- School of Chemistry
- School of Engineering
- School of GeoSciences
- School of Informatics
- School of Mathematics
- School of Physics and Astronomy
History
Science has been studied at Edinburgh since the university was established as the 'Tounis College' in 1583. In the sixteenth century science was taught as 'natural philosophy'. The seventeenth century saw the institution of the University Chairs of Mathematics and Botany, followed the next century by Chairs of Natural History, Astronomy, Chemistry and Agriculture. During the eighteenth century, the university was a key contributor to the Scottish Enlightenment and it educated many of the leading scientists of the time. It was Edinburgh's professors who took a leading part in the formation of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783. In 1785, Joseph Black, Professor of Chemistry and discoverer of carbon dioxide, founded the world's first Chemical Society. The nineteenth century was a time of huge advances in scientific thinking and technological development. The first named degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Science were instituted in 1864, and a separate 'Faculty of Science' was created in 1893 after three centuries of scientific advances at Edinburgh. The Regius Chair in Engineering in 1868, and the Regius Chair in Geology in 1871, were also founded.
In 1991 the Faculty of Science was renamed the Faculty of Science and Engineering, and in 2002 it became the College of Science and Engineering.
Schools
School of Biological Sciences
- Institute of Cell Biology (ICB)[1]
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution (IEE)[2]
- Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences (IMPS)[3]
- Institute of Immunology & Infection (IIIR)[4]
- Institute for Stem Cell Research (Centre for Regenerative Medicine) (ISCR)[5]
- Institute of Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology (IQB3)[6]
School of Engineering
- Institute for Bioengineering (IBioE)
- Institute for Imaging, Data and Communications (IDCoM)
- Institute for Energy Systems (IES)
- Institute for Infrastructure and Environment (IIE)
- Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems (IMNS)
- Institute for Materials and Processes (IMP)
- Institute for Multiscale Thermofluids (IMT)
School of Informatics
- Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science (LFCS)
- Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC)
- Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications (CISA)
- Institute for Language, Cognition, and Computation (ILCC)
- Institute for Computing Systems Architecture (ICSA)
- Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour (IPAB)
School of Physics and Astronomy
- Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics
- Institute for Astronomy (IfA)
- Institute for Condensed Matter and Complex Systems (ICMCS)
- Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics (IPNP)
- Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre
References
- v
- t
- e
- Chancellor: Anne, Princess Royal
- Principal: Sir Peter Mathieson
- Rector: Simon Fanshawe
- University Court
- Senatus Academicus
- General Council
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Old_College%2C_University_of_Edinburgh_%2824923171570%29.jpg/150px-Old_College%2C_University_of_Edinburgh_%2824923171570%29.jpg)
- Academic dress
- Robert Reid
- Robert Rollock
- Edinburgh Seven
- Plinian Society
- Polish School of Medicine
- Privileged bodies of the United Kingdom
- Combined Scottish Universities Parliamentary Constituency
- Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities Parliamentary Constituency
divisions
- College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
- Medical School
- Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
- College of Science and Engineering
- Sub-units, centres and institutes
- 40 George Square
- Adam House
- Appleton Tower
- Bedlam Theatre
- BioQuarter
- Bristo Square
- Deaconess House
- Forrest Hill Building
- Informatics Forum
- Lady Yester's Kirk
- Lauriston Building
- Library
- George Square
- Gordon Aikman Lecture Theatre
- King's Buildings
- McEwan Hall
- New College
- Old College
- Pleasance
- Pollock Halls
- Potterrow
- Reid Concert Hall
- Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
- Royal Hospital for Children and Young People
- Royal Observatory
- Salisbury Green
- St Cecilia's Hall
- St Leonard's Hall
- St Albert's Catholic Chaplaincy
- Talbot Rice Gallery
- Teviot Row House
- Western General Hospital
- Students' Association
- Sports Union
- Labour Students
- Meadows Marathon
- Music Society
- Royal Medical Society
- Edinburgh University Theatre Company
- Socialist Society
- The Improverts
- FreshAir (student radio)
- The Journal (newspaper)
- The Student (newspaper)
- University Royal Naval Unit East Scotland
Category
Commons
Wikinews
Wikisource