About Us

The Dyson School of Design Engineering is the 10^th and newest engineering department at Imperial College London. It was founded in 2014 and assisted by a generous donation from the James Dyson Foundation.  Our goal is to fuse together design thinking, engineering knowledge and practice, to foster a culture of innovation and enterprise, to help solve global problems with emphasis on sustainability, entrepreneurship and societal impact.

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Study With Us

The School offers an undergraduate MEng in Design Engineering, and two MA/MSc double masters courses run jointly with the Royal College of Art. We also offer PhD opportunities in any of our key research areas.

You can find information on our courses by following the links below:

• Design Engineering (MEng)
• Innovation Design Engineering (MA/MSc)
• Global Innovation Design (MA/MSc)
• Postgraduate Research (PhD)

If you would like to hear more about the courses from the School's staff or students, prospective students are welcome to attend one of Imperial's undergraduate open days or postgraduate open days.

Head of Department

Professor Robert Shorten joined the College in 2019 as Chair in Cyber Physical Systems Design at the Dyson School of Design Engineering. Prior to joining Imperial, Professor Shorten was Professor of Decision Science and Control Theory at University College Dublin, and before that worked at IBM Research. 

His research interests include stability theory, congestion control, smart cities and smart mobility, the design of cyber-physical systems, and the design of sharing and circular economy systems.