UNIVERSITY PROJECTS
HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BE BOLD AND INVENTIVE
Our donations to universities help to bridge the gap between academia and industry.
By empowering students to take risks, experiment and solve problems, we can support tomorrow's budding engineers and entrepreneurs.
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
A POWERHOUSE OF INVENTION
An £8 million donation from the James Dyson Foundation has funded some of the world's most advanced engineering facilities at the University of Cambridge. Students and academics now have the space and means they need to invent, prototype and collaborate on cutting-edge research.
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
THE DYSON CENTRE FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN
The Dyson Centre for Engineering Design is the focal point for teaching Cambridge students about the design process, providing specialised printing machinery, scanners, lasers and routers. Among the diverse student-led projects in the centre are solar powered electric racing cars, vehicles engineered for arctic ice, quad-rotar drones and helium balloon spaceflight systems.
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
THE JAMES DYSON BUILDING
The James Dyson Building is a four-storey centre for postgraduate research. It supports world-leading research in areas including advanced materials, smart infrastructure and efficient internal combustion systems.
"The research taking place in this building exists at the very cutting edge of engineering excellence. This will produce not only world-changing discoveries and inventions but the future generations of engineers the world requires to address the major challenges of the 21st century".
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
DYSON SCHOOL OF DESIGN ENGINEERING
The Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London was funded by a £12 million donation from the James Dyson Foundation. The school teaches a four-year Master of Engineering degree in Design Engineering. The curriculum, designed with Dyson engineers, blends technical discipline with creativity. It challenges students to develop tangible and compelling products, as well as giving them commercial know-how to make the products a commercial success.
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
AN ICONIC LOCATION
The Dyson School is housed in a building bought by Imperial from the Science Museum. Flanked by the Science Museum and Imperial College London's main campus, it's in the heart of London's South Kensington. Within just 100 meters are the Victoria and Albert Natural History Museums, putting the Dyson School of Engineering in one of the world's most visited cultural destinations.
On average, only 12.9% of applicants to engineering courses are female. By championing creativity, as well as theory, the Dyson School of Design Engineering attracts a much higher percentage of females. In the first year, 48% of all students at the Dyson School.
SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN (SUTD)
INNOVATION STUDIOS
Funded by a $1 million donation from the James Dyson Foundation, the Studios at the Singapore University of Technology and Design offers students the opportunity to work in a multidisciplinary engineering environment. The Studios function as a community space to inspire public interest and participation in STEAM activities, hosting workshops that aim to expose the wider community to STEAM-related fields in Singapore.
"I hope the Innovation Studios will inspire more of Singapore’s brightest young minds to take up the challenge to solve problems, and discover the rewards of a career in engineering".