EcoHouse Research

Besides pursuing extra-curricular research investigations, the EcoHouse Initiative enables its undergraduate engineering student members to select their final year MEng project as part of EcoHouse, maximising its relevance and impact. Students following any of the degree pathways listed below have and are able to propose an EcoHouse themed research topic:

• Aerospace and Aerothermal Engineering

• Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

• Electrical and Electronic Engineering

• Electrical and Information Sciences

• Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

• Engineering for the Life Sciences

• Information and Computer Engineering

• Instrumentation and Control

• Mechanical Engineering

A member of the cluster serves as the project supervisor to assist in the challenging task of finding solutions to extremely complex problems. The EcoHouse Initiative encourages and supports students to begin their investigations in the summer before their final year and facilitates the data gathering process intermixed with the full experience of an EcoHouse placement in remote and exotic locations in the world. For further information about the process, please speak to the presidents of the student society: president@ecohouseinitiative.org.

Students come from a very diverse background which is reflected in the diverse mix of topics relating to the challenge of urban development, risk and resilience, social inclusion, and social entrepreneurship. Here we present the research outputs of these projects written by the students themselves.