Goldsmiths Extension, Royal School of Mines | |
Established | 1851 |
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Head of Department | Professor Sandrine Heutz[1] |
Faculty | Imperial College Faculty of Engineering |
Staff | 165[2] |
Students | 665[2] |
Location | London, United Kingdom 51°29′59″N 0°10′31″W / 51.4997°N 0.1754°W |
Campus | South Kensington |
Former Names | Department of Metallurgy (1851) Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science (1970) |
Website | www |
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The Department of Materials is responsible for the teaching and research in materials science and engineering at Imperial College London, occupying the Royal School of Mines and Bessemer buildings on the South Kensington campus. It can trace its origins back to the metallurgy department of the Government School of Mines and Science applied to the Arts, founded in 1851.[3][4]