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Placements widely available Placement opportunities across many courses in the School providing pre-graduation work experience.
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Interdisciplinary
Cross-School collaborations and opportunities providing students with broader experience and skills.
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Live projects in the community Students work on real life briefs to gain practical experience with positive impact.
Who we are
The School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering at the University of East London is well connected throughout the capital and beyond. Our extensive network offers you plenty of opportunities to develop skills and explore the industry – whatever your interests.
Our strong focus on sustainability and community means you will have plenty of chances to gain practical experience and make a positive impact to people’s lives. Recently our students collaborated with Morgan Sindall to design a shed for a community garden aimed at combating loneliness.
By the time you graduate, you will not only leave with a degree but also with career-relevant experience and skills gained through our unique Mental Wealth modules.
- The School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering produces employment ready graduates.
- Our strong links with various related industries ensure we connect you to your future.
- We are passionate about giving you a globally recognised education. For example, we have excellent study abroad options in China and Russia.
- Learn from award winning academics; our staff have worked alongside The Royal Society of Arts, Victoria and Albert Museum and The Olympic Development Authority.
- Our academics have won many awards including the UK’s most prestigious visual arts award – the 2015 Turner Prize.
- Our unique teaching practice involves applying design methodologies and advanced technologies to real – life scenarios in architecture, arts, computing and engineering.
Key Features
We encourage you to build your career passports from the moment you enrol on a School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering course. Our courses are accredited by over 20 professional institutions; this means employers will recognise the value of your qualification.
Our accreditations include:
- Architects Registration Board (ARB)
- Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
- Chartered Institute Of Architectural Technologists (CIAT)
- Institution for Rail Infrastructure Engineers
- Chartered Institution Of Highways & Transportation (CIHT)
- Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)
- Institution of Structural Engineers
- Engineering Council
- Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE)
- BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
- CompTIA
- Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
- Royal Photographic Society (RPS)
- Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (ICES)
- Microsoft IT Academy
- Microsoft Certified Fundamentals
- Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)
- Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
- Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Accreditations
Your future career is at the heart of our courses, we ensure our students graduate ready for employment through a wealth of placement opportunities. Some of our graduates have also gone on to secure full-time employment from placements.
Some of our links include:
Industry Links
Subjects
Staff
School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering
Dean of School: Dr David Tann
- Dean of School – Dr David Tann
- Director of Education and Experience: Andy Rees
- Director of Careers and Enterprise: Professor Suzanne Dixon
- Director of Impact and Innovation: Professor Fay Brauer
- School Manager – Louise Todd
- Deputy School Manager – Hinna Kazmi (Habiba Jahan on maternity leave)
- Departmental Officer – Aybeniz Panahian-Jand
Head of Department – Mr Carl Callaghan
Art and Design
Course leaders:
- Course Leader for BA (Hons) Graphic Design and BA Illustration – Mr Dan Duran
- Course Leader for BA (Hons) Fine Art – Mr Alexis Harding
- Course Leader for Foundation Art and Design – Ms Emma McGuire
- Course Leader for MA Fine Art – Professor Grenville Davey
- Course Leader for Prof Doc Fine Art – Dr Karen Raney
Lecturers:
- Mr Stephen Barrett – Senior Lecturer
- Professor Fay Brauer – Director of Impact and Innovation
- Mr Jonathan Clark – Senior Lecturer
- Dr John Cockram – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Dan Coombs - Senior Lecturer
- Mr Grenville Davey – Senior Lecturer
- Ms Pauline De Souza – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Dan Duran – Senior Lecturer
- Ms Amanda Francis – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Mikey B Georgeson – Senior Lecturer
- Ed Gill – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Paul Greenleaf – Lecturer
- Mr Alexis Harding – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Russell Hedges – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Sam Keogh - Lecturer
- Dr Sharone Lifschitz - Senior Lecturer
- Ms Lee Maelzer – Senior Lecturer
- Ms Emma McGuire – Lecturer
- Dr Carmen Martínez Alemán - Senior Lecturer
- Dr Antigoni Memou – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Andrew Osman – Senior Lecturer
- Ms Valerie Pezeron – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Michael Pinsky – Reader
- Mr Robert Pyecroft – Senior Lecturer
- Ms Bryony Quinn – Lecturer (on maternity leave)
- Dr Karen Raney - Senior Lecturer
- Ms Si Sapsford – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Debra Benita Shaw – Reader
- Ms Kim Stevenson- Lecturer
- Dr Richard Wilson RA – Research Professor
- Dr Teresa Witz – Senior Lecturer
Architecture
Course leaders
- Course Leader for Foundation BSc Architecture – Mr Keita Tajima
- Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Architectural Design Technology – Dr Arman Hashemi
- Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Architecture Level 5 & 6 (ARB/RIBA Part 1) – Dr Heba Elsharkawy
- Course Leader for BA (Hons) Interior Design – Mr Keith Winter
- Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Product Design – Mr Andrew Wright
- Course Leader for MArch Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2) – Mr Isaie Bloch
- Course Leader for MA Architecture and Urbanism – Mr Fulvio Wirz
- Course Leader for MA Interior Design – Claudia Palma
- Course Leader for PG Landscape Architecture – Ms Bridget Snaith
- Course Leader for MRes Architecture: Critical Cities – Ms Anna Minton
Lecturers
- Mr Isaie Bloch – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Mathew Brown – Lecturer
- Mr Carlo Cappai – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Aan Chandler – Reader
- Miss Reem Charif – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Isaac Cobo Displas – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Heba Elsharkawy – Reader
- Prof Anthony Fretton – Professor
- Ms Susan Ginsburgh – Year 1 BA (Hons) Coordinator
- Mr Chris Groothuizen – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Christoph Hadrys – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Arman Hashemi – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Aurore Julien – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Carsten Jungfer – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Anastasia Karandionou – Senior Lecturer (maternity leave)
- Mr Roland Karthaus – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Toshiya Kogawa – Senior Lecturer
- Ms Anna Minton – Reader
- Ms Catherine Phillips – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Michele Roelofsma – Senior Lecturer
- Ms Stephanie Schultze-Westrum – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Alexander Scott-Whitby – Lecturer
- Mrs Maria Segantini – Reader
- Mr Alfonso Senatore – Senior Lecturer
- Ms Bridget Snaith – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Keita Tajima – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Renee Tobe – Reader
- Ms Imogen Ward – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Fulvio Wirz – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Andrew Wright – Senior Lecturer
Head of Department - Prof. Fawad Inam
Computing
Computing subject leader:
- Dr Aaron Kans
Course leaders:
- Course Leader for Foundation Computer Science – Mr Paul Bombo
- Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Digital and Technology Solutions – Mr Gaurav Malik
- Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Computer Science – Mr Mike Kretsis
- Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Computing for Business – Mr Arish Siddiqui
- Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Cyber Security and Networks – Dr Shareeful Islam
- Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Computer Science with Education and Qualified Teacher Status – Mr Paul Bombo
- Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Applied Computing top-up – Dr Aloysius Edoh
- Course Leader for PG Computer Science (with Industrial Placement) – Dr Saeed Sharif
- Course Leader for PG Big Data Technologies – Dr Amin Karami
- Course Leader for PG Data Science – Dr Yang Li
- Course Leader for PG Information Security and Digital Forensics – Dr Ameer Al-Nemrat
- Course Leader for PG Artificial Intelligence - Dr Mustansar Ghazanfar
- Course Leader for PG Artificial Intelligence PG Computing and ICT - Dr Rawad Hammad
- Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Cloud Computing - Mr Gaurav Malik
- Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Applied Computing - Dr Aloysius Edoh
- Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Cyber Security & Networks - Dr Shareeful Islam
- Dr Ameer Al-Nemrat – Reader
- Dr Mohammad Hossein Amirhosseini – Lecturer
- Mr Solomon Adrian Alexis – Principal Lecturer
- Dr Bilyaminu Romo Auwal – Lecturer
- Dr Rabih Bashroush – Reader of Computer Science
- Mr Paul Bombo – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Allan J Brimicombe – Professor
- Dr Aloysius Edoh – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Paolo Falcarin – Reader
- Dr Mustansar Ghazanfar – Lecturer
- Dr Seyed Ali Ghorashi – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Hamid Hakimazari – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Rawad Hammad – Lecturer in Computer Science and Digital Technologies
- Dr Shareeful Islam – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Fahimeh Jafari – Lecturer
- Dr Aaron Kans – Principal Lecturer
- Dr Amin Karami – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Michael Kretsis – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Sin Wee Lee – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Yang Li – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Gaurav Malik – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Nadeem Qazi – Lecturer
- Dr Fadi Safieddine – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Saeed Sharif – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Arish Siddiqui – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Marco Siracusa – Technician
- Dr Julie Wall – Reader
Engineering
Engineering subject leader:
- Dr Arya Assadi Langroudi
Course Leaders:
- BSc (Hons) Civil Engineering: Dr Alex Apeagyei
- BEng (Hons)/ MEng Civil Engineering: Dr Arya Assadi Langroudi
- BEng (Hons)/ MEng Mechanical Engineering: Dr Ka Lok Lee
- BEng (Hons) Engineering Management: Dr Ka Lok Lee
- BEng (Hons) General Engineering: Dr Ka Lok Lee
- BEng (Hons) Railway Engineering: Dr Subramaniam Arunachalam
- BEng (Hons) Biomedical Engineering: Dr Samir Morad
- BEng (Hons) Product Design Engineering: Dr Bahar Khayamian-Esfahani
- BEng (Hons) Mechatronics Engineering: Dr Jaswinder Lota
- BEng (Hons) Mechatronics and Computer Systems Engineering: Dr Jaswinder Lota
- MSc /PG Dip Civil Engineering: Dr Ali Abbas
- MSc/PG Dip Structural Engineering: Dr Ali Abbas
- MSc/PG Dip Intelligent Transport Planning and Engineering: Dr Alex Apeagyei
- MSc/PG Dip Mechanical Engineering: Dr Subramaniam Arunachalam
- MSc/PG Dip Mechatronics and Computer Systems Engineering: Dr Jaswinder Lota
Academic Staff:
- Dr Ali Abbas – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Adnan Adnan – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Alex Apeagyei – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Subramaniam Arunachalam – Senior Lecturer
- Mrs Sarah Catmur – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Mihaela Anca Ciupala – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Bahar Khayamian-Esfahani – Lecturer
- Dr Ravindra Jayaratne – Reader
- Dr Arya Assadi Langroudi – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Ka Lok Lee – Principal Lecturer
- Dr Jaswinder Lota - Reader
- Professor Mansour Moniri
- Dr Samir Morad – Lecturer
- Dr Jaya Nepal – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Bryan Pearce – Senior Lecturer
- Dr Jawed Qureshi – Senior Lecturer
- Dr John Walsh – Senior Lecturer
Construction Transport and Logistics
Construction, Transport and Logistics subject leader:
- Dr Sohrab Donyavi
Course Leaders:
- FdSc Civil Engineering and Construction Management: Dr Sohrab Donyavi
- BSc (Hons) Construction Management: Dr Sohrab Donyavi
- MSc Construction Engineering Management: Dr Sohrab Donyavi
- MSc Construction Engineering Management with Industrial Placement: Dr Sohrab Donyavi
- BSc (Hons) Surveying and Mapping Sciences: Richard Latham
- BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management: TBC
Academic Staff:
- Dr Sohrab Donyavi – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Mike Hurst – Senior Lecturer
- Mr Richard Latham – Principal Lecturer
- Dr Seoung Wook Whang – Lecturer
- Dr Sohrab Donyavi: Senior Lecturer
- Mr Mike Hurst: Senior Lecturer
- Dr Ian Lemon: Senior Lecturer
- Dr Julius Akotia: Senior Lecturer
- Dr Seoung Wook Whang: Senior Lecturer
- Dr Adnan Adnan: Senior Lecturer
- Dr John Walsh: Senior Lecturer
- Mrs Sarah Catmur: Senior Lecturer
- Professor Mansour Moniri
- Mr Bryan Pearce: Senior Lecturer
- Dr Alex Apeagyei: Senior Lecturer
- Dr Garry Doherty – Technical Services Manager
- Mr Daryl Brown – Technical Associate
- Mr Chris Donovan – Technician
- Dr Saeed Javid – Technical Associate
- Mr Craig Madden – Technician
- Mr Glen Marston – Technician
- Mr Masum Zain Miah – Technician
- Mr David Morgan – Technical Assistant
- Mr Paul Nichols – Technician
- Dr Mark Sowden – Technical Associate
- Dr Barbara Zandavali – Technical Associate
- Ms Gaynor Zealey - Technician
Facilities and research
Facilities
The University of East London prepares you for the jobs of the future. We ensure you have access to industry-standard facilities throughout the School and embrace digital working and new technologies. We have a range of laboratories and workspaces containing sophisticated equipment that you’ll be using from day one.
Some of the equipment you can expect to find at the University includes:
- Mechatronics Laboratory
- Communications Laboratory
- Transformation Laboratory
- Microanalytical Laboratory
- Large Structures Laboratory
- Geotechnical Laboratory
- 3D printers capable of printing buildings
- Robotics technology
- Hydraulics lab
- Printmaking studios
- Bronze casting
- Laser cutting
- CAD studios
Research
The School has developed and encouraged a strong culture of research collaboration between our architecture, computing, engineering and geo-information centres, with other East London schools and international partners. Sharing research leads to excellent results and greater success.
For more information on our research interests and groups, and research degrees, visit the Research page.
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