Engineering Degree Courses
Information about engineering degree courses at King's
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The Department is seeking to appoint a dynamic and visionary new Head of Department to lead for a period of four years, with the option to renew for a fixed term at the agreement of both parties. The successful candidate will be an internationally distinguished Professor in a related engineering discipline with a strategy to position the Department as a leading place of excellence for research and critical scholarship, as well as an exciting place for students to develop in an interdisciplinary environment. Building on a prestigious history, Engineering at King’s is growing. Our vision is to create a vibrant environment that looks to lead and deliver innovation in engineering education and to capture emerging research areas that address new technological and societal challenges. Investment in new facilities, introducing new research areas and adding new undergraduate courses in general engineering from 2020 have launched us on this journey.
Appointment details
Salary
A competitive salary commensurate with the academic profile and experience of the successful applicant will be offered
Terms
Vacancy ID
066905
The role
The Department is seeking to appoint a dynamic and visionary new Head of Department to lead for a period of four years, with the option to renew for a fixed term at the agreement of both parties. The successful candidate will be an internationally distinguished Professor in a related engineering discipline with a strategy to position the Department as a leading place of excellence for research and critical scholarship, as well as an exciting place for students to develop in an interdisciplinary environment. The successful candidate will have a PhD, substantial experience in all aspects of academic life and work, an outstanding track record in research, teaching, publications, academic leadership and other forms of scholarship, and demonstrable commitment to collegiality, diversity, equity and inclusion.
The main purpose of the role of Head of Department is:
• To provide strategic leadership and management of the Department and contribute to the delivery of strategic objectives of the Department, Faculty, and the University. • To embed equality, diversity and inclusion in all practices and processes to empower all individuals to be able to contribute fully to the success of the Department. • To inspire staff to achieve the highest standards in research, teaching, and professional conduct. • To work closely with the Executive Dean, Vice-Deans, Heads of other Departments, Director of Operations and professional services leadership within the Faculty, to ensure that the activities of the Department are delivered in an efficient and appropriate manner. • To work in partnership with professional services to ensure effective and efficient use of Departmental resources, in a manner consistent with Faculty and University policy.
Key responsibilities:
Academic Leadership and Staff Management: • To participate in the strategic management of the Faculty as a member of the Faculty Executive Board. • To be responsible for the recruitment, induction, management, performance, and welfare of Departmental academic staff, ensuring that probation, performance development reviews, disciplinary, career development and other responsibilities are undertaken in accordance with agreed University policies and guidelines, and to support those whose performance is assessed as required. • To support and develop academic leadership in the department and provide appropriate opportunities for accruing experience in leadership roles, to ensure that staff are suitably prepared to take on more senior leadership roles in the future, including succession planning for key leadership positions within the Department. • To take responsibility for the organisational structure and governance of the Department, implementing changes as appropriate to align with Faculty and University governance, policy, and regulatory frameworks. This includes operating a Department leadership team and holding regular staff meetings and being responsible for the management of staff workloads. In the case of academic staff, this includes operating a workload allocation model, seeking to equitably balance teaching, research, administrative and other duties. • To ensure that staff and students are appropriately advised to ensure compliance with Faculty and University policies and procedures affecting them.
Resource Management and Planning: To work with the Executive Dean, Vice Deans, Director of Operations, and professional services support to: • Ensure the Department operates within the financial regulations and procedures of the University and to ensure that all financial and academic performance targets are met. • Be responsible for the formulation and development of Departmental plans, consistent with the integrated planning requirements of the Faculty and University. • Be responsible for performance in the Department overall so that it aligns with Key Performance Indicators and targets set by the Faculty and University. This will encompass all key performance areas beyond financial performance, including but not limited to NSS, PTES and student recruitment. • Ensure appropriate usage of space within the space envelope made available to the Department, working with the Faculty to ensure compliance with the space management policy. • Work closely with faculty academic and professional services leads in a cross-faculty manner to ensure that the Department has effective resource management plans in place for business continuity in the event of disruption to buildings, processes, systems, or staffing which are aligned with other departments and the faculty.
Education: To work with the Vice-Dean Education, Deputy Head Education, and professional services support to: • Ensure that the Department continues to deliver high-quality teaching and learning within a suite of outstanding degree programmes at all levels, and that the Department provides an appropriate learning environment to fully optimise the student experience. • Ensure appropriate levels of support in accordance with Faculty and University policies for the academic progression and welfare of students registered within the Department. • Provide leadership in the preparation for audit and other quality assurance activities including professional accreditation.
Research: To work with the Vice-Dean Research, Deputy Head Research, and professional services support to: • Ensure that the Department promotes and fosters a culture of research excellence with appropriate research governance and the associated procedures including peer review and monitoring research performance. • Advise and lead on strategic research initiatives (increasing research funding bids, winning larger grants, preparing for fellowships, multidisciplinary research, Research Excellence Framework (REF) submissions etc.) • Champion a research culture that attracts, develops, and retains our academics, researchers and post-graduate students.
Enterprise and Engagement: To work with the Vice-Dean Enterprise & Engagement, Department Leads, and professional services support to: • Develop an impact and innovation strategy for the Department, which reflects the Faculty and University strategies, including Knowledge with purpose: Service and Impact and the One King’s Impact Challenges. • Promote and embed an effective culture of enterprise and engagement and provide an environment that stimulates and supports entrepreneurial thinking, external engagement, and innovation. • Be responsible for optimising impact and knowledge exchange performance and submissions for the Department in REF and KEF evaluations.
Safety and Environmental Sustainability: To work with the Chair of the Faculty Health & Safety Committee, Director of Operations, and professional services support to: • Ensure that Health, Safety, Welfare and Environmental Sustainability practice in the Department complies with University policy and regulations, taking professional advice where appropriate from within the Faculty and the University. • Be responsible for ensuring the University Regulations, Rules and Codes of Practice are always observed by staff and students. • Ensure that the Departmental arrangements will be implemented to meet University requirements for Health, Safety, Welfare and Environmental Sustainability.
Essential criteria
• PhD in a relevant area of Engineering or related subject. • To have developed a strong and distinctive research vision and record within the field, with evidence of significant impact, which complements existing research in the Department. • Ability to think strategically and contribute at a senior level to the Department, NMES and King’s. • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both orally and written with the ability to listen, engage and persuade, and to convey conceptual and complex ideas and information • Excellent administrative and operational skills. • Possess in-depth understanding of the discipline to enable the development of new knowledge, innovation and understanding within the field. • Ability and energy to devise successful applications for externally funded projects. • Ability to provide inclusive academic leadership. • Ability to both lead and work within a team as well as plan and prioritise workloads • Ability to understand institutional management systems and the wider higher education environment. • Creative problem solver. • Proactive in creating and developing interactions and collaborations with colleagues. • To have developed a strong and distinctive research vision within the field, which complements existing research in the Department and consistent with the future strategic research direction of King’s • An outstanding and inspiring record of achievement in research and publication recognised as internationally leading. • Proven ability to attract substantial research funding over a sustained period • Proven ability to build an internationally leading research group and successfully manage and promote that group’s research within an international arena.
Desirable criteria
• Established external links including with industry, academic societies, government and/or charted/professional bodies.
About King's
King's College London provides a dynamic habitat for individuals looking to expand their career prospects.
King's College London
King’s College London is an internationally renowned university delivering exceptional education and world-leading research. With over 40,000 students from over 190 countries and over 10,000 employees, we are dedicated to driving positive and sustainable change in society and realising our vision of making the world a better place. Based across five campuses in the heart of London, King’s offers an intellectually stimulating environment, where staff are dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and learning in the service of society. We are a multi-faculty institution, providing high-quality research, education and innovation across the social sciences, humanities, medicine, law, dentistry, and sciences. As a member of the Russell Group, we are committed to maintaining the highest standards in research and education.
King’s vision is to make the world a better place through world-leading education, research and service to society. King’s provides world-class education which enables students to become rounded critical thinkers, set up for success and with the character and wisdom to strive for social change. Through enquiry-driven research, King's delivers transformative insights and solutions that have the power to advance and accelerate global progress. In the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 exercise, King’s maintained its 6th position for ‘research power’ in the UK, 6th by Quality Index, and was ranked 3rd amongst multi-Faculty universities for impact. King’s Vision 2029 sets out our bold ambitions for the future of King’s as we look towards our 200th anniversary: to broaden the base of King’s, extend our reach, expand access, deliver an extraordinary student experience and strengthen how well we work together. To chart the next stage of our journey, Strategy 2026 maps out our priorities for the next few years.
King’s comprises nine faculties, each with an academic leader and professional services lead: Executive Dean of Faculty and Director of Operations. Professional Services are provided in every Faculty as well as centrally to deliver support services for students and staff.
Our faculties
• Faculty of Arts & Humanities • Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences • Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine • Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences • Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy • Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care • Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience • King’s Business School • The Dickson Poon School of Law
The Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences
Delivering sustainable academic excellence
We are a vibrant faculty based in the heart of London with a long tradition of world-leading research and teaching in physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science and engineering. Our internationally renowned scientists are working across traditional subject boundaries, leading cutting-edge research, tackling global challenges and answering fundamental questions about our universe.
Our vision
We come together with a shared purpose and vision: To advance and promote academic excellence and impact in Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences (NMES) for the benefit of our students, staff, knowledge, and society. To deliver academic excellence and impact, future prosperity in a digital and sustainable world relies on our education and research drawing on strong core disciplines and designed collaboration between disciplines to enhance student learning and speed up discovery and innovation. Interdisciplinarity is at the centre of our academic activities and will be based on key identified themes. We are promoting an inclusive environment for staff and students alike and building a culture of thriving enterprise and innovation, working together with a range of industrial and international academic partners and organisations.
Education and research
For students, we offer a wide-ranging portfolio of undergraduate, MSc and PhD programmes. Studying with us enables students to work with, and learn from, world-leading academics while benefiting from an open-door policy and a wealth of support. With nearly 5,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students and around 350 academic and research staff, our ambition is to inspire, educate and innovate - fostering the next generation of scientists and future leaders. We count Nobel Laureates among our distinguished former staff and students, and we are committed to promoting the careers of women working in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Our Departments
1. Department of Chemistry 2. Department of Engineering 3. Department of Informatics 4. Department of Mathematics 5. Department of Physics
London
Our unrivalled central London location has enabled us to foster close ties with tech, business and science industries, and we are within easy reach of major research libraries and leading scientific societies such as the Royal Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT, the Institute of Physics, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and the London Mathematical Society.
Our future
Supported by significant university investment, the faculty is embarking on a period of ambitious growth and investment, which aims to build upon current strengths in natural and mathematical sciences and establish King’s as an outstanding global institution in science and technology.
The Department of Engineering
Building on a prestigious history, Engineering at King’s is growing. Our vision is to create a vibrant environment that looks to lead and deliver innovation in engineering education and to capture emerging research areas that address new technological and societal challenges. Investment in new facilities, introducing new research areas and adding new undergraduate courses in general engineering from 2020 have launched us on this journey. The centre of King’s engineering is located at the heart of the Strand campus, where the refurbished, historic Quad building houses state-of-the-art facilities. Spanning nearly two centuries King’s has a long and distinguished history in engineering and science. King’s students have learnt from such eminent scientists as James Clerk Maxwell, Charles Wheatstone and Sir William Siemens. King’s re-launched the Department of Engineering in 2019 with a £50m investment in new state-of-the-art teaching and research laboratory facilities that opened in September 2022. The department has approximately 50 academic staff with an equality, diversity and inclusion record to be proud of, with 45% female staff and 42% from non-white backgrounds; the department will grow to 60 academic staff in 2024. The department has successfully achieved recruiting 24% of the incoming undergraduate cohort as female, as well as 34% of postgraduate taught and 50% of PhD students, making a significant contribution to advancing the numbers of women in the field of engineering and representing some of the highest proportion of any engineering department in the UK.
We focus on both discovery research and applied research, leveraging the synergies between conventional engineering and leading-edge technologies to solve the problems of today and those we will face tomorrow. Our research supports global challenges and national prosperity, helping to make a better world and to improve people’s lives. Currently we bring a diversity of perspectives and a variety of skills together in six broad themes: • Communication & Information Engineering • Design & Mechatronics • Manufacturing, Materials & Systems • Signals & Control • Computational Engineering • Data-Centric Engineering We anticipate evolving our portfolio of themes as the Department continues to develop. In addition, the Department hosts the Faculty-wide Net-Zero Centre, which forms the Science and Technology component of the wider King’s Climate and Sustainability initiative.
Engineering research in the Department focuses primarily on the synergies between conventional engineering and leading-edge technologies for example, between computing and telecommunications, robotics and medicine, signal processing and the digital creative media, operations research and sustainable transport, engineering technologies and the circular economy, process engineering and waste to resource technology, heat transfer and Lithium Ion battery safety and between material science and novel sensors for environmental impact. King’s prepares engineers for the 21st century through a wide range of endeavours, including 5G communication, researching advanced materials, building agile vaccine manufacturing platforms, developing quantum and neuromorphic technologies, , using computer vision to recognise human emotion, developing biotechnology in waste water recovery, leading technology policy development for net zero, building new rehabilitation technologies, researching renewable power generation and energy storage and developing mathematical and computational models and platforms across engineering domains. Systems approaches, design thinking and artificial intelligence technologies are pervasive in much of our work alongside mathematical, computational and experimental approaches. We are a diverse, high-energy and exciting community of interdisciplinary engineering researchers.
The education portfolio includes undergraduate degrees in General Engineering and Electronic Engineering, and MSc programmes in Communications, Engineering and Management and Robotics with further scope to develop the portfolio further. We deliver our education programmes with a modern problem-based learning pedagogy utilising our bespoke teaching laboratories with their integrated project, making and laboratory spaces. We have a distinctive vision for Engineering education, and we are a vibrant community of academics engaged in realising this approach. Our plans to grow include ongoing investment in infrastructure and staff which will provide a unique environment to learn and develop world-class transformational activity in engineering.
Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences
We are a vibrant faculty with a long tradition of world-leading research and teaching in STEM.
Department of Engineering
Delivering innovation in engineering education and research
Net Zero Centre
The Net Zero Centre serves to highlight, nurture and facilitate discovery and applied research to address the challenges for...
Application has passed - page retained for reference only
Please quote the vacancy id: 066905 in all correspondence.
Closing date for applications: 11 December 2023 23:59
Interview date: 08 January 2024
Second interview date: 24 January 2024
Application process
To apply for this post you will need to register on the King’s College London job opportunities page and submit the application form, along with the following: • a concise statement setting out your reasons for applying for the post and highlighting the particular skills and experience which you feel you would bring to the role (two pages maximum) • a curriculum vitae
This role reports to the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences
Contact the team
For an informal discussion or to find out more about the role please contact the King’s Search Team.
There are two elements to this appointment:
• The Head of Department appointment will be for four years in the first instance, on an additional and separate contract to that of the substantive appointment. With the potential for a subsequent renewal for a further year following a review process. • The substantive appointment is an ongoing academic contract, a permanent member of the academic staff of King’s College London. It is expected, but not a requirement, that the appointee will meet the criteria for an appointment at professorial level.
Selection process
Applications will be shortlisted by a selection committee drawn from across the Faculty. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to a two-stage interview process and stakeholder engagement. The final interview panel will be chaired by the Senior Vice President (Academic) with representatives from across the Faculty, Department and external input. Stakeholder engagement and tours of the department will take place on 23rd January 2024
The role
The Department is seeking to appoint a dynamic and visionary new Head of Department to lead for a period of four years, with the option to renew for a fixed term at the agreement of both parties. The successful candidate will be an internationally distinguished Professor in a related engineering discipline with a strategy to position the Department as a leading place of excellence for research and critical scholarship, as well as an exciting place for students to develop in an interdisciplinary environment. The successful candidate will have a PhD, substantial experience in all aspects of academic life and work, an outstanding track record in research, teaching, publications, academic leadership and other forms of scholarship, and demonstrable commitment to collegiality, diversity, equity and inclusion.
The main purpose of the role of Head of Department is:
• To provide strategic leadership and management of the Department and contribute to the delivery of strategic objectives of the Department, Faculty, and the University. • To embed equality, diversity and inclusion in all practices and processes to empower all individuals to be able to contribute fully to the success of the Department. • To inspire staff to achieve the highest standards in research, teaching, and professional conduct. • To work closely with the Executive Dean, Vice-Deans, Heads of other Departments, Director of Operations and professional services leadership within the Faculty, to ensure that the activities of the Department are delivered in an efficient and appropriate manner. • To work in partnership with professional services to ensure effective and efficient use of Departmental resources, in a manner consistent with Faculty and University policy.
Key responsibilities:
Academic Leadership and Staff Management: • To participate in the strategic management of the Faculty as a member of the Faculty Executive Board. • To be responsible for the recruitment, induction, management, performance, and welfare of Departmental academic staff, ensuring that probation, performance development reviews, disciplinary, career development and other responsibilities are undertaken in accordance with agreed University policies and guidelines, and to support those whose performance is assessed as required. • To support and develop academic leadership in the department and provide appropriate opportunities for accruing experience in leadership roles, to ensure that staff are suitably prepared to take on more senior leadership roles in the future, including succession planning for key leadership positions within the Department. • To take responsibility for the organisational structure and governance of the Department, implementing changes as appropriate to align with Faculty and University governance, policy, and regulatory frameworks. This includes operating a Department leadership team and holding regular staff meetings and being responsible for the management of staff workloads. In the case of academic staff, this includes operating a workload allocation model, seeking to equitably balance teaching, research, administrative and other duties. • To ensure that staff and students are appropriately advised to ensure compliance with Faculty and University policies and procedures affecting them.
Resource Management and Planning: To work with the Executive Dean, Vice Deans, Director of Operations, and professional services support to: • Ensure the Department operates within the financial regulations and procedures of the University and to ensure that all financial and academic performance targets are met. • Be responsible for the formulation and development of Departmental plans, consistent with the integrated planning requirements of the Faculty and University. • Be responsible for performance in the Department overall so that it aligns with Key Performance Indicators and targets set by the Faculty and University. This will encompass all key performance areas beyond financial performance, including but not limited to NSS, PTES and student recruitment. • Ensure appropriate usage of space within the space envelope made available to the Department, working with the Faculty to ensure compliance with the space management policy. • Work closely with faculty academic and professional services leads in a cross-faculty manner to ensure that the Department has effective resource management plans in place for business continuity in the event of disruption to buildings, processes, systems, or staffing which are aligned with other departments and the faculty.
Education: To work with the Vice-Dean Education, Deputy Head Education, and professional services support to: • Ensure that the Department continues to deliver high-quality teaching and learning within a suite of outstanding degree programmes at all levels, and that the Department provides an appropriate learning environment to fully optimise the student experience. • Ensure appropriate levels of support in accordance with Faculty and University policies for the academic progression and welfare of students registered within the Department. • Provide leadership in the preparation for audit and other quality assurance activities including professional accreditation.
Research: To work with the Vice-Dean Research, Deputy Head Research, and professional services support to: • Ensure that the Department promotes and fosters a culture of research excellence with appropriate research governance and the associated procedures including peer review and monitoring research performance. • Advise and lead on strategic research initiatives (increasing research funding bids, winning larger grants, preparing for fellowships, multidisciplinary research, Research Excellence Framework (REF) submissions etc.) • Champion a research culture that attracts, develops, and retains our academics, researchers and post-graduate students.
Enterprise and Engagement: To work with the Vice-Dean Enterprise & Engagement, Department Leads, and professional services support to: • Develop an impact and innovation strategy for the Department, which reflects the Faculty and University strategies, including Knowledge with purpose: Service and Impact and the One King’s Impact Challenges. • Promote and embed an effective culture of enterprise and engagement and provide an environment that stimulates and supports entrepreneurial thinking, external engagement, and innovation. • Be responsible for optimising impact and knowledge exchange performance and submissions for the Department in REF and KEF evaluations.
Safety and Environmental Sustainability: To work with the Chair of the Faculty Health & Safety Committee, Director of Operations, and professional services support to: • Ensure that Health, Safety, Welfare and Environmental Sustainability practice in the Department complies with University policy and regulations, taking professional advice where appropriate from within the Faculty and the University. • Be responsible for ensuring the University Regulations, Rules and Codes of Practice are always observed by staff and students. • Ensure that the Departmental arrangements will be implemented to meet University requirements for Health, Safety, Welfare and Environmental Sustainability.
Essential criteria
• PhD in a relevant area of Engineering or related subject. • To have developed a strong and distinctive research vision and record within the field, with evidence of significant impact, which complements existing research in the Department. • Ability to think strategically and contribute at a senior level to the Department, NMES and King’s. • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both orally and written with the ability to listen, engage and persuade, and to convey conceptual and complex ideas and information • Excellent administrative and operational skills. • Possess in-depth understanding of the discipline to enable the development of new knowledge, innovation and understanding within the field. • Ability and energy to devise successful applications for externally funded projects. • Ability to provide inclusive academic leadership. • Ability to both lead and work within a team as well as plan and prioritise workloads • Ability to understand institutional management systems and the wider higher education environment. • Creative problem solver. • Proactive in creating and developing interactions and collaborations with colleagues. • To have developed a strong and distinctive research vision within the field, which complements existing research in the Department and consistent with the future strategic research direction of King’s • An outstanding and inspiring record of achievement in research and publication recognised as internationally leading. • Proven ability to attract substantial research funding over a sustained period • Proven ability to build an internationally leading research group and successfully manage and promote that group’s research within an international arena.
Desirable criteria
• Established external links including with industry, academic societies, government and/or charted/professional bodies.
Engineering Degree Courses
Information about engineering degree courses at King's
About King's
King's College London provides a dynamic habitat for individuals looking to expand their career prospects.
King's College London
King’s College London is an internationally renowned university delivering exceptional education and world-leading research. With over 40,000 students from over 190 countries and over 10,000 employees, we are dedicated to driving positive and sustainable change in society and realising our vision of making the world a better place. Based across five campuses in the heart of London, King’s offers an intellectually stimulating environment, where staff are dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and learning in the service of society. We are a multi-faculty institution, providing high-quality research, education and innovation across the social sciences, humanities, medicine, law, dentistry, and sciences. As a member of the Russell Group, we are committed to maintaining the highest standards in research and education.
King’s vision is to make the world a better place through world-leading education, research and service to society. King’s provides world-class education which enables students to become rounded critical thinkers, set up for success and with the character and wisdom to strive for social change. Through enquiry-driven research, King's delivers transformative insights and solutions that have the power to advance and accelerate global progress. In the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 exercise, King’s maintained its 6th position for ‘research power’ in the UK, 6th by Quality Index, and was ranked 3rd amongst multi-Faculty universities for impact. King’s Vision 2029 sets out our bold ambitions for the future of King’s as we look towards our 200th anniversary: to broaden the base of King’s, extend our reach, expand access, deliver an extraordinary student experience and strengthen how well we work together. To chart the next stage of our journey, Strategy 2026 maps out our priorities for the next few years.
King’s comprises nine faculties, each with an academic leader and professional services lead: Executive Dean of Faculty and Director of Operations. Professional Services are provided in every Faculty as well as centrally to deliver support services for students and staff.
Our faculties
• Faculty of Arts & Humanities • Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences • Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine • Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences • Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy • Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care • Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience • King’s Business School • The Dickson Poon School of Law
The Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences
Delivering sustainable academic excellence
We are a vibrant faculty based in the heart of London with a long tradition of world-leading research and teaching in physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science and engineering. Our internationally renowned scientists are working across traditional subject boundaries, leading cutting-edge research, tackling global challenges and answering fundamental questions about our universe.
Our vision
We come together with a shared purpose and vision: To advance and promote academic excellence and impact in Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences (NMES) for the benefit of our students, staff, knowledge, and society. To deliver academic excellence and impact, future prosperity in a digital and sustainable world relies on our education and research drawing on strong core disciplines and designed collaboration between disciplines to enhance student learning and speed up discovery and innovation. Interdisciplinarity is at the centre of our academic activities and will be based on key identified themes. We are promoting an inclusive environment for staff and students alike and building a culture of thriving enterprise and innovation, working together with a range of industrial and international academic partners and organisations.
Education and research
For students, we offer a wide-ranging portfolio of undergraduate, MSc and PhD programmes. Studying with us enables students to work with, and learn from, world-leading academics while benefiting from an open-door policy and a wealth of support. With nearly 5,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students and around 350 academic and research staff, our ambition is to inspire, educate and innovate - fostering the next generation of scientists and future leaders. We count Nobel Laureates among our distinguished former staff and students, and we are committed to promoting the careers of women working in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Our Departments
1. Department of Chemistry 2. Department of Engineering 3. Department of Informatics 4. Department of Mathematics 5. Department of Physics
London
Our unrivalled central London location has enabled us to foster close ties with tech, business and science industries, and we are within easy reach of major research libraries and leading scientific societies such as the Royal Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT, the Institute of Physics, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and the London Mathematical Society.
Our future
Supported by significant university investment, the faculty is embarking on a period of ambitious growth and investment, which aims to build upon current strengths in natural and mathematical sciences and establish King’s as an outstanding global institution in science and technology.
The Department of Engineering
Building on a prestigious history, Engineering at King’s is growing. Our vision is to create a vibrant environment that looks to lead and deliver innovation in engineering education and to capture emerging research areas that address new technological and societal challenges. Investment in new facilities, introducing new research areas and adding new undergraduate courses in general engineering from 2020 have launched us on this journey. The centre of King’s engineering is located at the heart of the Strand campus, where the refurbished, historic Quad building houses state-of-the-art facilities. Spanning nearly two centuries King’s has a long and distinguished history in engineering and science. King’s students have learnt from such eminent scientists as James Clerk Maxwell, Charles Wheatstone and Sir William Siemens. King’s re-launched the Department of Engineering in 2019 with a £50m investment in new state-of-the-art teaching and research laboratory facilities that opened in September 2022. The department has approximately 50 academic staff with an equality, diversity and inclusion record to be proud of, with 45% female staff and 42% from non-white backgrounds; the department will grow to 60 academic staff in 2024. The department has successfully achieved recruiting 24% of the incoming undergraduate cohort as female, as well as 34% of postgraduate taught and 50% of PhD students, making a significant contribution to advancing the numbers of women in the field of engineering and representing some of the highest proportion of any engineering department in the UK.
We focus on both discovery research and applied research, leveraging the synergies between conventional engineering and leading-edge technologies to solve the problems of today and those we will face tomorrow. Our research supports global challenges and national prosperity, helping to make a better world and to improve people’s lives. Currently we bring a diversity of perspectives and a variety of skills together in six broad themes: • Communication & Information Engineering • Design & Mechatronics • Manufacturing, Materials & Systems • Signals & Control • Computational Engineering • Data-Centric Engineering We anticipate evolving our portfolio of themes as the Department continues to develop. In addition, the Department hosts the Faculty-wide Net-Zero Centre, which forms the Science and Technology component of the wider King’s Climate and Sustainability initiative.
Engineering research in the Department focuses primarily on the synergies between conventional engineering and leading-edge technologies for example, between computing and telecommunications, robotics and medicine, signal processing and the digital creative media, operations research and sustainable transport, engineering technologies and the circular economy, process engineering and waste to resource technology, heat transfer and Lithium Ion battery safety and between material science and novel sensors for environmental impact. King’s prepares engineers for the 21st century through a wide range of endeavours, including 5G communication, researching advanced materials, building agile vaccine manufacturing platforms, developing quantum and neuromorphic technologies, , using computer vision to recognise human emotion, developing biotechnology in waste water recovery, leading technology policy development for net zero, building new rehabilitation technologies, researching renewable power generation and energy storage and developing mathematical and computational models and platforms across engineering domains. Systems approaches, design thinking and artificial intelligence technologies are pervasive in much of our work alongside mathematical, computational and experimental approaches. We are a diverse, high-energy and exciting community of interdisciplinary engineering researchers.
The education portfolio includes undergraduate degrees in General Engineering and Electronic Engineering, and MSc programmes in Communications, Engineering and Management and Robotics with further scope to develop the portfolio further. We deliver our education programmes with a modern problem-based learning pedagogy utilising our bespoke teaching laboratories with their integrated project, making and laboratory spaces. We have a distinctive vision for Engineering education, and we are a vibrant community of academics engaged in realising this approach. Our plans to grow include ongoing investment in infrastructure and staff which will provide a unique environment to learn and develop world-class transformational activity in engineering.
Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences
We are a vibrant faculty with a long tradition of world-leading research and teaching in STEM.
Department of Engineering
Delivering innovation in engineering education and research
Net Zero Centre
The Net Zero Centre serves to highlight, nurture and facilitate discovery and applied research to address the challenges for...
Application has passed - page retained for reference only
Please quote the vacancy id: 066905 in all correspondence.
Closing date for applications: 11 December 2023 23:59
Interview date: 08 January 2024
Second interview date: 24 January 2024
Application process
To apply for this post you will need to register on the King’s College London job opportunities page and submit the application form, along with the following: • a concise statement setting out your reasons for applying for the post and highlighting the particular skills and experience which you feel you would bring to the role (two pages maximum) • a curriculum vitae
This role reports to the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences
Contact the team
For an informal discussion or to find out more about the role please contact the King’s Search Team.
There are two elements to this appointment:
• The Head of Department appointment will be for four years in the first instance, on an additional and separate contract to that of the substantive appointment. With the potential for a subsequent renewal for a further year following a review process. • The substantive appointment is an ongoing academic contract, a permanent member of the academic staff of King’s College London. It is expected, but not a requirement, that the appointee will meet the criteria for an appointment at professorial level.
Selection process
Applications will be shortlisted by a selection committee drawn from across the Faculty. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to a two-stage interview process and stakeholder engagement. The final interview panel will be chaired by the Senior Vice President (Academic) with representatives from across the Faculty, Department and external input. Stakeholder engagement and tours of the department will take place on 23rd January 2024