News Items
29th December 2023 - Knighthood for Richard "Dicky" Evans in The King's New Year's Honours list.
Alumnus Richard Grenville Russell Evans has been awarded KCMG (Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George) in the New Year's Honours List. Details of his life can be found on this link: https://cornish-pirates.com/rugby/knighthood-for-dicky/.
27th July 2023 - Key To King's: Unlocking Potential for the Next Generation
King's College have started a new initiative to raise money for bursaries for talented students who are unable to afford to go to Kings due to the cost of living in London. Details can be found via this link: https://donate.kcl.ac.uk/p/KeytoKings/.
10th June 2023 - KCLEA Annual Lunch
This year we returned to the usual summer lunch in June as we always did prior to COVID. This was held on the 8th floor of Bush House. Please see more information and photos via Linktree: https://linktr.ee/kclea_official.
19th November 2022 - KCLEA AGM and Lunch
The AGM this year was preceded by the Annual Lunch - the first one held since 2018 due to the pandemic - and was followed by a visit to the new Quad buildings.
Zoom access to the AGM was also provided. The Club 13 Trophy was awarded to Bobby Dixit for his work as Events Secretary.
19th November 2021 - KCLEA AGM
The AGM this year was again held by Zoom, as has become common these days. The Club 13 Trophy was awarded (remotely) to Chris Bowden (1963-1967) in recognition for his dedicated work, over the years, as our Hon. Secretary.
13th May 2021
A 'Shape the Quad' Appeal is taking place to help fund the renovation and expansion of the Quad teaching areas, long the home of Engineering. Follow this link for details.
20th November 2020 - KCLEA AGM
The AGM this year was held by Zoom, as has become common these days. The Club 13 Trophy was awarded to William Shepherd, BSc Civ Eng 1970 – 1973.
22nd August 2020 - 2010 Engineers Reunion
Past lecturer Mike Clode was invited to a Zoom Reunion by 2010 Engineers. Mike reports that this went very well and hopes we shall see more of these engineers in the KCLEA.
16th July 2020 - Report by Professor Barbara Shollock to the KCLEA Committee on the the return of Engineering to King's.
To support our ambitions, we have actively been engaging with the academic community, schools, industry, and the wider community about the launch of the new Department. The Department has begun growing its academic base and currently has 24 members. We are hiring people committed to engineering education alongside innovation in research.
New appointees include two UKRI Fellows, an Imperial College Fellowship holder, and a US IBM Faculty Award holder with 59 patents. Our most recent appointment is Claire Lucas, IET's Young Woman Engineer 2019, who will join in August 2020. We are planning to develop the historic river-facing
Embankment building to house our new research activities for Engineering a Sustainable Future. The location at the heart of the Strand campus will ensure
engineering solutions are integrated with King's wider strengthens in policy, entrepreneurship, humanities and business to impactful research and innovations.
We are moving forward in achieving our aims to lead the sector in engineering education and research, as well as address gender stereotypes in engineering in our curriculum and staff. In 2019/20, the percentage female undergraduates on our courses was 20% compared to a sector average of 17%, the percentage of female of our postgraduate taught students is 43% compared to a sector average of 26%, and 28% of our postgraduate research students are women compared to a sector average of 25%.
With the appointment of Claire, 40% of our professors will be women, and our recent appointments mean 80% of our lecturers are women. We have designed a high-quality, distinct curriculum that is dynamic, responsive to the needs of employers, and attractive to the next generation of engineers.We have been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Professor, Anusha Shah, who works for Arcadis in sustainable and inclusive design to bring industrial insight into our curriculum.
For the 2020 entry for General and Electronic Engineering, we have nearly twice the applications we had last year. Our Electronic Engineering portfolio of courses saw an increase of more than 60% on the previous year, with one course seeing over a 200% increase in applications.We have seen a 50% increase in applications to our MSc courses.
Our Electronic Engineering Undergraduate courses have moved up 10 places to 16th in the 2020 Good University Guide, placing us 2nd in the key 3 London universities, ahead of UCL. https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/leaguetables/rankings/electrical-and-electronic-engineering