Companies flock to UCL for annual engineering fair

Through the fair, UCL's Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering department invests about £100,000 in each of eight projects thanks to funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Companies such as AECOM, Battle McCarthy, Expedition Engineering, Halcrow, Laing O'Rourke, Ramboll, and Transport for London all attended in 2009 and are now working in collaboration with UCL on projects worth a total of £1.2 million. An EngD is an enhanced PhD that invests in a company's research and development. Companies design a project in collaboration with a UCL expert and sponsor a high-achieving student to complete the research over four years. Founder Christopher McCarthy said UCL was uniquely placed in a dynamic city with world-renowned academics and facilities to help bring about change for a more sustainable future. He added: "People have a natural ability to cope with change in this fast-paced, multicultural and theatrical city where no drama is too big. One day we celebrated winning the Olympic bid for 2010; the next we were responding to terrorist attacks.
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