Engineering education centre for Olympic park

University College London (UCL) is to establish technology centres on the 2012 Olympic park in East London, part of a huge expansion of UCL to be called UCL East.

The UCL Centre for Experimental Engineering aims to “address the acute skills shortage in engineering”, said UCL.

As part of this, a Centre for Engineering Education will develop new approaches to experiential learning in engineering, alongside prototyping and manufacturing facilities, which will be housed in something called UCL Make Space East.

There will be large-scale fabrication and prototype development facilities available to research staff, students, and for industry collaboration.

The University will be looking for partners with whom to develop an engineering apprenticeship scheme for local young people.

Also at UCL East will be UCL Innovation, a Centre focussing on technology with a series of incubators integrating research activities and technology development alongside businesses of a variety of sizes.

There are going to be at least three facilities in this Centre, covering:

Biological implantable devices
Wearable health and wellbeing sensors
Technology and environments, including urban areas, that facilitate and promote wellbeing.