The Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE) is one of the three faculties that comprise the University of Manchester in northern England. [1] [2] Established in October 2004, the faculty was originally called the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. It was renamed in 2016, following the abolition of the Faculty of Life Science and the incorporation of some aspects of life sciences into the departments of Chemistry and Earth and Environmental Sciences. It is organised into 2 schools (School of Engineering and School of Natural Sciences) and 9 departments: Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science; Chemistry; Computer Science; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Physics and Astronomy; Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Materials; Mathematics; and Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering.
The faculty includes most former UMIST departments, exceptions being Optometry and Neurosciences (now in the Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health), Manchester School of Management (now part of Manchester Business School MBS), and part of the Department of Computation which was split between the School of Computer Science and MBS. The duplicated departments of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics were merged, and Materials Science was already a joint department. In terms of the total number of staff and student numbers the faculty is larger than the whole of UMIST, which was until 1993 the Faculty of Technology of the Victoria University of Manchester (paradoxically at the same time as being an independent institution).[3] The faculty offices are housed in the Sackville Street Building, the former UMIST Main Building.
The first Dean of the Faculty was Professor John Perkins,[4] who joined the new university in 2004. Before appointment as Dean of EPS Professor Perkins was Principal of the Faculty of Engineering and Courtaulds Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. He was succeeded in 2009 by Prof Colin Bailey, who was head of the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering.[5] Bailey took over as acting dean on Perkins departure to become provost of the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology [6] in May 2009, and was confirmed as Dean in December the same year. He was replaced by the current dean by Chemist Martin Schröder in 2015.
In April 2016 the name was changed to the Faculty of Science and Engineering.