Heriot-Watt University
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| founding | 1821 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Edinburgh , UK |
| Principal and Vice-Chancellor | Richard Williams OBE, FREng, FRSE, FTSE, FICHemE, FIMMM, CEng, CSci |
| Students | 12,805 (worldwide, 2015) |
| Employee | 2,142 (worldwide, 2015) |
| including professors | 206 |
| Annual budget | £ 191 million |
| Website | www.hw.ac.uk |
The Heriot-Watt University (HWU) is one of three in the Scottish capital Edinburgh -based universities. It emerged from the School of Arts of Edinburgh founded in 1821 , which began as a technical school, making it the world's first technical college. It received university status in 1966. Originally located in the center of Edinburgh, the main campus is now in the Riccarton district in the countryside, where the university has been gradually relocating since 1971. Offshoots are the Scottish Border Campus (previously Scottish College of Textiles) in Galashiels , the International Center for Island Technology (ICIT) in Stromness on the Orkney Islands (as part of the Institute for Petroleum Technology) and since 2006 an offshoot in Dubai (Heriot- Watt University Dubai). In February 2015, the university opened another campus in Putrajaya , Malaysia .
The university is named after the inventor of the steam engine James Watt and George Heriot , a 16th century jeweler, philanthropist and banker of King James I (England) . The name Watt came into the name of the university as early as 1852, from 1885 it was called "Heriot Watt College". From 1869 women were also allowed.
In 2013/2014 the university had 8,775 students (with correspondence courses, affiliated partner institutions and branches in Dubai and Malaysia 28,875). More than a third of the face-to-face students at the locations in Scotland come from abroad.
Affiliated is the Edinburgh Business School , which also has an extensive distance learning program.
The engineer Richard Williams has been the principal and vice chancellor and thus head of the university since 2015 . The Scottish-born Canadian- based mining engineer Robert Buchan was appointed chancellor with largely representative duties .
Faculties
- Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure & Society
- Center of Excellence in Sustainable Building Design
- Institute for Infrastructure & Environment
- Institute of Petroleum Engineering
- Social Policy, Housing, Environment & Real Estate
- Engineering & Physical Sciences
- Biological Chemistry, Biophysics & Bioengineering
- Institute of Chemical Sciences
- Institute of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering
- Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences
- Institute of Sensors, Signals and Systems
- Life sciences
- Psychology
- International Center for Brewing and Distilling (ICBD)
- Center for Marine Biodiversity & Biotechnology (CMBB)
- International Center for Island Technology
- Management & Languages
- Accountancy, Economics & Finance
- Business management
- Languages & Intercultural Studies
- Mathematical & Computer Sciences
- Actuarial Mathematics & Statistics
- Computer Science
- Mathematics
- Textiles & design
- Edinburgh Business School
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.hw.ac.uk/about/profile/governance/richard-williams.htm
- ^ Mechanics Institute. In: Grace's Guide. October 2, 2012, accessed December 15, 2012 .
- ^ The new campus. Retrieved January 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Global thinking, worldwide influence. In: report and financial statements. July 21, 2014, accessed January 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Annual Statistics 2014-2015. July 2015, accessed January 13, 2016 .
- ^ Heriot-Watt announces new Chancellor. October 1, 2012, accessed January 18, 2016 .
Coordinates: 55 ° 54 ′ 33.7 " N , 3 ° 19 ′ 12.4" W.