Welcome to ImperialWelcome to the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering!  We look forward to meeting you.

Students starting in Autumn 2022

  • Term will be starting Monday 3rd October‌‌
  • Our department's Welcome Week schedule is below.
  • Please ake sure you also visit Imperial's Welcome week website, to find out all the events taking place across the campus.
  • Imperial's New Postgraduates website is a useful hub for all students beginning the postgraduate journey.
  • Imperial Mobile app will give you access to College information and services, including College emails and a library catalogue search tool.

Some useful information before you arrive.

  • Students arriving in the UK (all the things you might need to know when you arrive in the UK from overseas, whether you are just beginning your course or you are already a registered student and this is the first time you have been able to come to the country.
  • Virtual campus tour - Get a 360 virtual tour of campus 
  • PG Safety Induction Presentation - please familiarise yourself with the Health and Safety procedures of the department.

Information for new PhD students

This is the Department of Electrical and Electronc Engineeing welcome week schedule.

Please make sure you also check out the Imperial College Welcome Week website, with details of more events and activities across campus, including Imperial College Student Union clubs and socities.


Monday 3 October

Time Event Mode Location
  ICT Set Up and Induction - Setting up College account, access learning tools, Office 365 etc. Blackboard - Induction Online recorded ICT resources videoWelcome to Blackboard Learn
14.00 - 14.50

EEE Welcome Talk - New EEE PhD and MSc Students

On Campus Room 408
15:00 - 16:00

PhD Administrative Matters - Lina Brazinskaite (Postgraduate Manager)

The session will cover: Student expenses claim, PhD milestones requirements, PWP (personal webpage), GTA, Student Supervisor expectations, Personal Tutors, main contacts and modules.

On Campus Room 305

Drop-in

Collect ID cards (Safety form must be completed online first)

11:00-11:30 - Circuits and Systems Research group – Wieslawa Hsissen - Room 910

11:00-12:00 - Communication and Signal Processing – Vanesa Rodriguez-Gonzalez - Room 713

13:00-13:30 - Optical and Semiconductor Devices – Susan Brace - Room 713

13:00-13:30 - Control and Power Research group (Control students) – Raluca Reynolds - Room 1107B

13:30-14:00 - Control and Power Research group (Power students) – Guler Eroglu - Room 1107B

13:30-14:00 - Intelligent Systems and Networks – Joan O’Brien - Room 1002

On Campus
  
 

 Tuesday 4 October 

 

 

10.00 - 16:00 Student Union Freshers' Fair   On Campus  

 Wednesday 5 October

 

 

11:00 - 12.00

Postgraduate Services - Induction

  • Library Services (11.00) with Alexandra Martins Dos Santos
  • Careers Service (11:15) with Jess Popplewell
  • Enterprise Lab (11.30) with Jennifer Mills
  • Imperial Award (11:40) with Kieron Creagh 
  • Centre for Academic English (11.45)
  • Graduate School - Please see online introduction
On campus Room 408
 

Thursday 6 October

   
13.00 - 14.15

PhD Lunch Social

Meet your Reps, current PhD Students and The Union. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

On campus 509
14.30 - 15.30

Wellbeing session - Kelly Greenwood, EEE Student Wellbeing Advisor

‘How to do well and feel well’

On Campus Room 408

 

11th October, 13:00 - 14:00 - PhD ‘Search tools/database’ session- Alexandra Martins dos Santos (Liaison Librarian - Engineering) - Room 509

17th of October, 12:15-15:00 - POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH WELCOME EVENT run by Graduate School ( Great Hall, Level 2, Sherfield Building)

Once you have received your CAS from Imperial, you should be able to start the visa application process. If you need any help on the process, Imperial’s dedicated International Student Support team provide specialist immigration advice to prospective students, with particular expertise in Tier 4 (General) student visas and Short Term Student visas (formerly student visitor visas).

The International Student Support webpages contain lots of useful advice on making a student visa application.

All non-EEA students who need a student visa to study in the UK will be required to apply for ATAS clearance before applying for a Tier 4 (General) student visa.

PLEASE NOTE that an ATAS certificate is only valid for 6 months from the date of issue. You must make sure that you submit your visa application before the ATAS expires!

You should apply for ATAS clearance well in advance (at least one month) of your student visa application as the processing time for ATAS can be as long as 20 working days.

NB: In addition to the above, during the months of July, August and September, ATAS is extremely busy and so the processing time for ATAS applications can be as long as 30 working days.

You will need to include a short description about the research work to be undertaken in your ATAS application. Please contact your supervisor for this. August is the main holiday month in the UK so if you are due to start in October we recommend that you contact your supervisor for the research statement before end July.

Applies to any student awarded funding from a scholarship scheme managed by the department or College.  

Students will only get paid after: 

(i)   conditions of offer have been met 

(ii)  offer officially accepted on the My Imperial.

(iii) bank details uploaded onto the on the ‘Student Funding’ tab on the My Imperial.

(iv)  online registration has been fully completed 

Bursary is paid on the 7th of each month. 

If you have completed the full online registration and uploaded your bank details on the My Imperial, but your payment has not reached your bank account on the first Friday of October, please wait for the following Fridays. October is the only month in which bursary payments are scheduled every Friday. 

Please be aware that it takes at least a couple of weeks to process the bursary payment request. It is advisable that you have your own means of support for the first 6 weeks of study in case of delays. The department Postgraduate Manager is your first point of contact for funding related matters.  

UK bank accounts (preferred, standard method) 

Payment of student bursaries are normally made only to UK bank accounts.  Students are encouraged to open a bank account before arriving at Imperial College.  Details of bank accounts should be submitted as soon as possible, using the secure student e-service web-portal, on the ‘Student Funding’ tab.  

Overseas bank accounts (as an emergency measure for the first month) 

We are aware that it is not easy or quick for newly-arrived overseas students to set up a UK bank account.  Where possible, they should approach a branch of a UK bank in their own country, to see if arrangements can be made in advance of their arrival in the UK. 

As a short-term measure, we can make payment directly to an overseas bank account subject to the following conditions: 

(i)   The account must belong to the student, or to a parent or friend whose identity and connection to the student can be verified; 

(ii)  Details of the account (name and address of bank; name and address of account holder; swift code, bank account number and/or IBAN) should be sent to the bursary office by email, not using the secure e-service portal described above for UK banking details.  Emails should be sent from an Imperial College email address (not gmail, Hotmail or similar), 

(iii)  As soon as a UK bank account is opened, the student should provide details via the e-service portal, and also send another email to the bursaries office to tell them to discontinue overseas payments. 

(iv)   Payments to overseas bank accounts will take longer than to UK banks. 

Please bear in mind that the amount you will be paid will vary due to exchange rates. This alternative option might also take considerably longer for the payment to reach the overseas bank account.

  • The most important information for you to navigate through the department and progress into your study programme, can be found on the current student A – Z index.
  • New students who wish to take paid work and Graduate Teaching Assistants, must book into the two initial sessions provided by the Graduate School (bookable through their webpage):
  1. Introduction to Learning and Teaching
  2. Introduction to Assessment and Feedback for Learning

The Disability Advisory Service offers confidential advice and support to students with a disability, specific learning difficulty, enduring health or mental health condition. 

The Departmental Disability Officer is the first point of contact within a student's department. This person will apply for special exam arrangements on the student's behalf and will facilitate the student's support within the department.

Miss Emma Rainbow e.rainbow@imperial.ac.uk

020 7594 6198 

607, 6th Floor, Electrical Engineering bulding

Director of Postgraduate Studies
 

Professor Pier Luigi Dragotti
EE, Room 904
0207 594 6144
p.dragotti@imperial.ac.uk

 
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Postgraduate Manager
 lina

Lina Brazinskaite

l.brazinskaite@imperial.ac.uk

EE, Room 607
0207 594 6195
                         

 

 
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Postgraduate Tutor

AH

Dr Imad Jaimoukha
EE, Room 617
0207 594 6279
i.jaimoukha@imperial.ac.uk

 
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Senior Research Administrators for research groups
 Susan

Mrs Susan Brace - Optical and Semiconductor Devices
EE, Room 713
0207 594 6308

s.brace@imperial.ac.uk

 vanessa

Miss Vanessa Rodriguez-Gonzalez - Communications and Signal Processing
EE, Room 810
+44 20 7594 6267 
v.rodriguez-gonzalez@imperial.ac.uk


WH
 
Mrs Wiesia Hsissen - Circuits and Systems
EE, Room 910
0207 594 6261

w.hsissen@imperial.ac.uk
Iza Wojcicka-Grzesiak Mrs Iza Wojcicka-Grzesiak - Circuits and Systems => Centre for Bio-Inspired Technology
Bessemer Building, Room B407
0207 594 0701

i.wojcicka@imperial.ac.uk
 JB Ms Joan P O'Brien - Intelligent Systems and Networks
EE, Room 1002
0207 594 6316

j.obrien@imperial.ac.uk
Guler Eroglu Mrs Guler Eroglu - Control and Power
EE, Room 1102
0207 594 6170

g.eroglu@imperial.ac.uk
  Mrs Raluca Reynolds  - Control and Power
EE, Room 1110
0207 594 6281

raluca.reynolds@imperial.ac.uk
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