Support the School of Engineering

The School of Engineering is one of the top five Schools of Engineering in the UK and one of the top 100 Schools of Engineering in the world (Times World University Rankings 2020). Our mission is to foster outstanding learning and scholarship, to enhance the scientific, cultural and economic wellbeing of society through the discipline of engineering, and to pursue and perform research of the highest quality.

We want our alumni to play an active part in helping the School realise its aims, and there are many ways that our alumni can support us, from mentoring students to providing career placement opportunities, volunteering on one of our committees or by making a gift.

Our current fundraising priority is student experience. We want to ensure that our students have the best experience possible studying Engineering at Edinburgh, and have created the Engineering Student Innovation Fund to help our students achieve this.

The Engineering Student Innovation Fund

The Engineering Student Innovation Fund helps bridge the gap between our students’ dreams and reality, by supporting innovative student projects that range in scope from investigating green ways to power local charities, building rockets, creating Formula racing cars and researching satellite technology . If you’d like to support our students, you can make a single or regular donation to the Engineering Student Innovation Fund, which supports student project work for student teams of all sizes engaged in a wide range of activity, including rocketry, satellite technology, Hyperloop research and development and designing AI cars.

Read more about the Engineering Student Innovation Fund

Other ways to support the School of Engineering

Make a donation from the USA

Our USA donors can make a gift to the School of Engineering by following the link below(please specify under "Add Special Instructions" that you wish your gift to go to the School of Engineering):

Make a gift in your Will

A gift in your Will can help transform the lives of future generations studying Engineering at Edinburgh. We can guide you through all aspects of leaving a gift in your Will to the School of Engineering and becoming part of a unique community of people who have chosen to invest in the future of the School by making a gift of this kind.

Further Information

If you would like to discuss other ways of supporting our students, or other projects within the School, please contact our Alumni Relations and Philanthropy Manager, Caroline Campbell on caroline.campbell@ed.ac.uk who will be delighted to discuss this with you.

Engineering student in the Lifi Centre
Engineering student in the Lifi Centre
The Endeavour student rocketry team
The Endeavour student rocketry team