The Dyson School of Design Engineering opens new building

The Dyson School of Design Engineering, funded by a £12m donation from the Foundation, was founded in July 2014 offering a four-year Masters course in Design Engineering. 

Since 2014 the school now has 40 staff and over 400 students, achieving a 43% female cohort, compared to the national average of 16% females studying engineering courses at university. The school has now moved into its new home on Exhibition Road. The building used to be a Post Office and has been transformed into design studios, research labs and working spaces, equipped with state-of-the-art facilities, a café and a library. The new school building will also host the Global Innovation Design and Innovation Design Engineering courses run jointly with the Royal College of Art.  The aim is to create a hub that will educate and inspire the next generation of innovative and enterprising design engineers. James Dyson said, "The UK faces an alarming shortage of engineers. Addressing this problem requires us not only to encourage more young people into engineering, but to make sure they are empowered to be creative, innovative and clever in the work they do. The Dyson School of Design Engineering will do just that. Blending design engineering and entrepreneurial thinking to create an environment in which students can be daring and inventive in their approaches to problem solving."

Professor Alice P. Gast, President, Imperial College London says, "The James Dyson Foundation's donation gives us the opportunity to create a world-leading school for a new kind of engineer who will lead the next technological revolution."