Engineering facilities for teaching
Purpose-built facilities
Senior Lecturer, Dr Andrew Pomfret showcases the facilities available to undergraduate students studying Electronics and Engineering at York.
Take a look inside
This lab includes a project space for group working, laser cutters and a computer-assisted design (CAD) lab.
This space houses four new labs with modern equipment: metallurgy preparation workshop, thermo-fluids lab, electronics workshop and CAD/CAM design suite.
These labs are used for studies in material science, mechanical structures and testing, and 3D scanning and printing.
This space is used for high temperature processes and includes a plasma cutter, sand blaster and a furnace.
The music technology studios house purpose-built studios with mixing workstations and high quality equipment.
The computer suite contains high-end computers for individual and group projects, and practical work.
This lab contains a number of workstations for investigating electrical properties.
Specialist facilities
We have a range of specialist facilities including:
- York Robotics Laboratory - a purpose-built laboratory for experiments with various robots including wheeled, legged and flying robots
- Recording studios - for producing acoustic and electronic music
- Virtual reality and spatial audio labs - including industry-standard equipment for production and post-production
- Cleanroom - used for fabrication and measurement of nanoscale devices often used for final year projects
Teaching labs and PC labs
We have teaching and PC labs for practical and project work, available for all students from foundation year through to Masters:
- an electronics teaching lab with 50 workstations for undergraduates
- two projects labs with 42 workstations for undergraduates
- a wide range of advanced equipment for project work
- specialist fabrication equipment, workshops and a digital fabrication lab
- a printed circuit board production lab
- four PC and Mac labs with a range of general purpose and development software
- all with technical support close by