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Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine

Imperial College is an independent constituent college of the University of London. It was established in 1907 from the merger of the Royal College of Science, City and Guilds College and the Royal School of Mines. It is in the top tier of scientific, engineering and medical research and teaching institutions in the world and produces world class education, scholarship and research with a particular regard to their application in industry, commerce and healthcare. Imperial College is consistently rated in the top 4 academic institutions in the U.K. In the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, a U.K. government survey of research quality, 75% of the departments were rated 5*, the highest possible rating. The head of the college is Sir Richard Sykes DSc FRS.

The annual budget for 2001/2 was £391 million, of which £153 million was externally generated research income from research councils, the European Union, charities and industry. For the session 2002/3 there were 10,336 full time students, including 2969 postgraduate students and the college employs 5994 staff.

Imperial College has a small research reactor CONSORT in a stand-alone unit at Silwood Park near Ascot. It is the only reactor of its type in the U.K., the only university reactor in England and the last civil research reactor in the U.K. It is a unique facility with a maximum power of 100 kW suitable for many different applications which require a neutron flux of up to 2.5 ´ 1016 m-2 s-1. The reactor is used principally for the production of high activity tracers for use in industrial process monitoring. There are 8 irradiation tubes for long irradiation together with 4 pneumatic transfer systems. Total doses are typically 105 Gy/hour.

Imperial College’s role in the ACTINET consortium will however be principally in the field of analytical sciences with particular emphasis on electrochemical and novel photoelectrochemical devices which hold out the prospect of low cost, ease of miniaturisation and remote and selective monitoring of radionucleides. These approaches were originally developed for applications in biomedical sciences in the Department of Bioengineering, a 5* rated, unique multidisciplinary department.

For more information: http://www.imperial.ac.uk.

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Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine - Physiological Flow Studies Group
Department of Bioengineering - Chemical Engineering Building
Prince Consort Road
London SW7 2BY
United Kingdom

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