Join us for consultancy, work or study

The Advanced Engineering Centre at the University of Brighton has built long-standing relationships with key industry partners, collaborators and consultants across all aspects of engineering, and we welcome new contacts.

Our researchers are based in the Advanced Engineering Building, an innovative £14 million investment into cutting-edge facilities needed to tackle the most pressing engineering challenges. 

We also welcome the opportunity to work with postgraduate students, visiting researchers and external associate members.

  • Contact us about working with your organisation, becoming an associate member, using our services and facilities or joining our team.
  • Find out more about studying for your PhD, including funding opportunities, research career development and our current postgraduate researchers.
  • Discover more about opportunities to join us as a visiting researcher and collaborate on projects.
  • We also look forward to hearing from University of Brighton staff researching in engineering or related areas who are not yet members.

Engineering research consultancy and collaboration

The Advanced Engineering Centre works with a range of engineering companies on innovative research in partnership with the automotive industry to promote vital industrial knowledge-exchange.

The centre extends its long-term partnership with Ricardo through a dedicated combustion engine research area on the ground floor. In addition, there are cutting edge engine test cells, mechanical engineering workshops and learning spaces. As an Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) spoke, the centre supports internal combustion engine thermal efficiency research and development with industry across the UK and leads on low carbon internal combustion engine thermal efficiency as the ICE Thermal Efficiency Spoke.

Contact the Advanced Engineering Centre for further information on how we might work with you and your business. AdvancedEngineering@brighton.ac.uk
+44 (0)1273 642443

Study for your PhD in engineering at Brighton's Advanced Engineering Centre

Ambitious and talented postgraduate research students are at the heart of the research and enterprise activities within the Advanced Engineering Centre, demonstrated by the numbers of student co-authored papers produced.

Our PhD students are involved across all research areas of the centre.

We welcome students to work with us for their Engineering PhD and offer dedicated supervision together with hands-on opportunities to develop research that changes the future including 

For more information on our offer of PhD study with the centre, visit the Engineering PhD pages on the University of Brighton's Postgraduate Student Research area, and contact us by email at AdvancedEngineering@brighton.ac.uk. 

Stay in touch through digital media

We hope you will choose to stay in touch with the Advanced Engineerng Centre.

You can  join us on the Advanced Engineering LinkedIn platform, part of the University of Brighton's LinkedIn showcase.

Our regular blog posts will also keep you up-to-date with activity across the centre. Sign up for alerts on the Advanced Engineering Centre blog site.

Join us as a visiting researcher

We enjoy welcoming visiting researchers to spend time with us.

This can vary from a week at a time to a year. If you would like to visit us or become an associate member, please contact us at the AdvancedEngineering@brighton.ac.uk for further details.

For more information about the Advanced Engineering Centre team, please visit our Who we are pages.

Visit us in person

Advanced Engineering Centre

AdvancedEngineering@brighton.ac.uk
+44 (0)1273 642443

Advanced Engineering Centre
University of Brighton
Cockcroft Building
Moulsecoomb
Brighton
BN2 4GJ