New opportunities for industry-academia collaboration
Engineering at Keele
Keele University's suite of new Engineering BEng and Integrated Master's (MEng) programmes are designed to develop the next generation of industry-ready engineers.
With significant opportunities for industry input, graduates will enter the workforce with strong technical foundations, compliance-aware thinking, and real engineering practice.
Get involved today to help shape the future of engineering and your future workforce.
How can you get involved?
Engagement with our Engineering programmes is flexible, varied, and open to businesses of all sizes. Focusing on mutual benefit, early entry points include:
Expertise and visibility
- Guest lectures or practitioner masterclasses
- Become part of the Industry Advisory Board
- Provide input into curriculum design
Skills and equipment collaboration
- Supporting the development of new laboratories
- Loaning or donating specialist equipment
- Delivering training on tools, standards or technologies used in industry
Learning and talent interaction
- Supplying real project briefs or datasets
- Participating in project review panels
- Offering mentoring and networking opportunities for students
Innovation and R&D
- Short, defined technical support or problem‑solving
- Medium‑scale joint R&D projects
- Early discussions around larger consortium or funding opportunities
Benefits for industry partners
- Influence the skills, behaviours and technical competence of graduates
- Connect early with high‑potential students
- Reduce recruitment, onboarding, and training overheads
- Opportunities to help shape and later access new labs, rigs and demonstrators
- Shared capability in areas such as materials testing, robotics, hydrogen systems, instrumentation, and digital manufacturing
- Support for feasibility studies, testing, prototyping and applied research
- Potential pathways into UKRI / Innovate UK consortia and regional innovation networks
- Visibility as a partner influencing modern engineering education
- Contribution to national priorities including Net Zero, industrial decarbonisation, infrastructure resilience and advanced manufacturing
- Opportunities to connect with a growing network of partners and supply chain organisations
Further information
Engineering at Keele
- Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mechatronic Engineering
Contact
Matthew Dean
Development Manager - Impact and Partnerships (Engineering, Physical Sciences, and Mathematics)
