Prof. Mary Ritter introduced us to Imperial College's history and gave us an update on the Centenary festivity plans and Imperial College's future

1. Imperial College London:
past, present and future
Professor Mary Ritter
Pro Rector, Postgraduate and International Affairs
5 May 2007

2. Present
Past
Sir Richard Sykes, Rector of Imperial College London
Future 2007
30 January

3. Prince Albert’s vision

4. Imperial College London
World class research and teaching
in science, engineering, medicine
and management

5. Our standing
• THES World Rankings:
9th overall (2005 ranking 13th)
–
4th for Biomedicine
–
4th for Technology
–
9th for Science
–
• Financial Times
– MBA Programme: top in Europe for
Entrepreneurship
• Times Good University Guide 2007
– Imperial rated 3rd in UK

6. Our Estate
Six London campuses
Charing Cross
Chelsea and Westminster
Hammersmith
Royal Brompton
South Kensington
St Mary’s
Two campuses in
South East England
Silwood Park, Ascot
Wye, Kent
South Kensington Campus and surrounding
area

7. Our Estate
Largest estate in the UK
university sector
Equivalent of 133 football
pitches

8. Faculty of Natural Sciences:
Life Sciences, Physical Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
Our organisation
Business School
Faculty of Engineering

9. Our staff
• 3,000 academic and research
staff
• 3,000 support staff
• 1,500 honorary staff
• 700 academic visitors and
visiting researchers
8,200 staff and visiting staff

10. Our students
• 8,000 undergraduates
• 2,200 taught postgraduates
• 2,500 research postgraduates
13,000 students
• 111 undergraduate courses
• 124 postgraduate taught courses
• Applications for places exceed 5:1
• Average A-level entry grade above AAB

11. Our graduates earn the most
Most in graduate level jobs
Highest starting salaries
Institution %
Institution Starting
salary (£)
1 Imperial College 86.3
1 Imperial College 25,780
2 Cambridge 85.0
2 LSE 23,081
3 King’s College 83.3
3 King’s College 21,835
London
London
4 LSE 82.7
4 UCL 21,334
5 Bath 82.5
5 Queen Mary 21,220
London
6= City 80.0
6 Dundee 20,945
6= The Robert Gordon 80.0
7 Cambridge 20,732
8= Bristol 79.4
8 London South Bank 20,399
8= Aston 79.4
9 Oxford 20,386
10 University College 78.0
London
10 Bristol 20,009
The Sunday Times University Guide, 2005
Average starting salary for Imperial graduates in 2005: £25,780

12. An international institution
Students from 123 countries
Top 10 non-UK countries of
origin:
• China
• Greece
• Malaysia
2005-06
• France Overseas
• Singapore UK 29%
57%
• Germany EU
14%
• Nigeria
• Italy
• India
• Cyprus
67% increase in overseas students in 5 years

13. Students from Germany
New Admissions 1999-2007
160
134
140
115
108
120
95
92 93
100
83 78
79
80 UG
73
70 PG
58
63
60 71 52
63
40
56
42
20 38
37
31
29 22
16
0
1999- 2000- 2001- 2002- 2003- 2004- 2005- 2006-
00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07

14. Our education in Europe - Bologna
• Creation of a European Higher Education Area,
and a European Research Area
• Bologna Declaration, now 46 signatory countries
• Recognition of qualifications; student mobility and
employment
• 3 cycles: bachelors, masters, doctoral degrees
• Credit transfer and accumulation system (ECTS)
for 1st and 2nd cycles; time taken to reach given
learning outcomes
• Imperial aims to have all its courses aligned by
September this year

15. Our Graduate Schools at Imperial
• Established to ensure quality and to further develop
and enhance postgraduate training and excellence
• Graduate School of Life Sciences and Medicine,
1999
• Graduate School of Engineering and Physical
Sciences, 2002
• Membership: all masters and doctoral students
• Role
– Quality of training
– Academic environment/Interdisciplinarity; distinguished
guest lectures; student research symposium; etc
– Transferable skills programme
– Representation - an integrated ‘voice’ within the university

16. Transferable skills – examples of some of the
training workshops
Science, research and integrity
•
Time management and personal effectiveness
•
Communication and presentation skills
•
Writing skills
•
Science and the media
•
Commercialisation of research
•
Information retrieval
•
Statistics
•
Teamwork
•
Negotiation skills
•
Motivation
•
Career planning
•
Thesis writing and completing the PhD
•
3-day residential workshop; Easthampstead Park
•

17. Interdisciplinarity is a key feature of our
skills training
Graduate
Graduate
School of
School of
Engineering
Life
& Physical
Sciences &
Sciences
Medicine
Royal College of
Art
Royal College of
Music

18. Our financial strengths
• Imperial receives 6% total
national public funding of
university research
• Largest industrial
sponsorship in UK university
sector
• Total research income 2005-
06: £205M

19. Our disciplines
Engineering
Natural Tomorrow’s breakthrough
Medicine
Sciences technologies
Business

20. Our research themes
Medical imaging
Climate
change
Earth
reservoir
modelling
Earth
observation
Alternative
energy
sources
Sustainable
development
Biomedical engineering

21. Our links with business
Royal Charter of 1907 states purpose of College as:
“giving…highly specialised instruction…
providing…advanced training and research in…
science…especially in its application to industry”
Today:
Imperial College THE ENERGY AND
Consultants (ICON) ENVIRONMENT OFFICE
Mission to increase
Problem Solving Establishing strategic
the quantity, size and
Scientific Services relationships with UK and
quality of research
international business and
Expert Advice collaborations
industry, government and NGOs to
initiate research projects
concerned with energy and the
environment

22. Innovating
• 58 spin-out companies
• > 150 licence agreements
Examples of our spin-outs:
Nexeon Ltd Ceres Power
• Novel battery technology • Fuel-cell technology company
founded by Imperial Innovations as a
spin-out in 2001
Heliswirl Technologies Ltd
• Technology to transform power
• Helical-flow pipe technology generation
• Expected to improve transport of • Admitted to AIM in 2004 with market
fluids in applications including oil capitalisation of £66M
and chemical industries
• Realised £2M for Imperial
Innovations Group

23. Innovating
• Imperial Innovations became
first majority university-
owned technology transfer
company to float in the UK
(AIM)
• Raised £26M August 2006
• Market value: £150M
Applying our research in industry

24. Recent achievements - Engineering
Director of Imperial’s Energy Future’s Lab
appointed EPSRC Energy Ambassador
Professor Nigel Brandon is raising the profile
energy research in the UK.
Meteorite experts honoured
Three Imperial Earth Science and
Engineering academics have recently
had asteroids named after them.
Royal Academy of Engineering's
Six Fellows of the Royal Academy of 2006 Public Promotion of
Engineering in 2006 bringing the College Engineering Medal
total to 69. Professor John Burland, responsible
for stabilising the Leaning Tower of
Pisa, recognised for his contribution
to engineering.
Bioengineering PhD
student awarded £40,000
ERA Foundation Award
from the Royal Academy of
Engineering for his
New Principal of Faculty,
invention of a new
Professor John Wood, will
respiratory device.
take up appointment in
summer 2007.

25. Recent achievements - Medicine
A new £6 million MRC Centre for Outbreak
Analysis and Modelling at Imperial will Imperial College London
analyse new outbreaks of existing diseases Diabetes Centre opened in Abu
and those infections which may pose a Dhabi, where it is estimated over
serious threat in the future one-quarter of population suffer
from diabetes
Imperial College awarded six of
Top lifetime achievement award
28 MRC Experimental
Professor Marc Feldmann, co-inventor of
Medicine Awards awarded in
anti TNF treatment for rheumatoid arthritis,
the UK in 2006, totaling over
received award at European Inventor of the
£3 million
Year Ceremony
Dr Steven Patterson received $9.2
million grant from the Bill and
Professor Peter Barnes named
Melinda Gates Foundation for
as Doctor of the Decade by
HIV vaccine development
Science Watch

26. Recent achievements – Natural Sciences
Grantham Institute for
Climate Change launched
with £12.8 million gift from
the Grantham Foundation for
the Protection of the
Environment.
Professor So Iwata awarded the
Professor Tejinder Japan Academy Medal and the
Virdee is leading an Japan Society for the
international team of Promotion of Science prize for
2,000 scientists in excellent young researchers
First year Biology student conducting the for his work on defining the
Leili Farzaneh won Daily world’s largest structure of proteins.
Telegraph science writing experiment at CERN
competition with piece on in a quest to find new
genetic modification. particles.
The newly opened Institute for Dr Lynda White was
Mathematical Sciences will pronounced Lecturer of
use mathematics to tackle a the Year at the 2006
host of global challenges Science, Engineering and
Technology (SET) Student
of the Year Awards.

27. Imperial’s invisible man
• Innovative research on ‘metamaterials’ by
Sir John Pendry and partners at Duke
University resulted in the demonstration of
the first ‘invisibility cloak’ in 2006

28. Recent achievements – Business School
Imperial College and the
Tanaka Business School
Confederation of Indian
awarded EQUIS accreditation
Industry sign partnership
[European Quality Improvement
agreement to collaborate on
System] by the European
technology and science
Foundation for Management
issues, and announce the
Development.
launch of the Rajiv Gandhi
Centre for Innovation and
Entrepreneurship.
Business School
School continued to rise in the
team wins first prize
Financial Times' MBA
at London
rankings in 2006, breaking into
Business School's
the world's top 50 and again
Business Plan
ranked number one for
Competition
entrepreneurship in Europe.
Dr Catarina Sismeiro, lecturer New MSc in Actuarial
in marketing, awarded the Finance is the first to receive
Premio D. Antonia Adelaide accreditation from the
Ferreira prize for her research. Institute of Actuaries through
new accreditation process.

29. How we work with our German colleagues
A new study carried out by Imperial
College and the Max Planck Institute
for Plant Breeding Research in Köln
reveals how a protein travels
through the plant from leaf to
shoot, prompting flowering.
Ingenia Technology Ltd, an Imperial spin-
out company, and partners Bayer
Technology Services, received the Professor Russell Cowburn awarded
prestigious 100,000 Euro Hermes Award Degussa’s European Science-to-
for their anti-counterfeiting technology at Business Award (and at the Hannover
this year's Hannover Messe technology fair, Messe Technology Fair) for showing how
in the presence of Angela Merkel. magnetic microchips can store hundreds
of gigabytes of information.
Since 2005, physicists from
Researchers from Imperial and Ludwig-
Imperial, Köln University, CalTech
Maximilian Universitat München have
and University of California have
undertaken work to reveal that the eye's
collaborated to analyse findings
brightness detection system helps set the
from the Cassini spacecraft’s fly-
body's internal clock and regulate general
bys of © Imperialmoon Enceladus.
Saturn College London
activity levels.

30. Our collaborations in Europe: the IDEA
League
• 5 of the top science and technology universities
– Imperial (I), Delft (D), ETH Zurich (E); RWTH Aachen (A) and
ParisTech; working together for almost 8 years
– focus on education, research and innovation
• Key research areas
– energy, environment and healthcare
• Education
– a set of common education quality management principles
– academic profiles for graduates
– mutual recognition of degrees (1st, 2nd and 3rd cycle)
– student interchange via IDEA League scholarships
– joint masters programmes
– joint Summer Schools for doctoral students
• Technology Transfer Group
• European Institute of Technology (EIT); Knowledge
Innovation Communities (KICs)

31. Our alumni
A global network
• 140,000 alumni in 190 countries
– 94,000 have postal addresses
– 31,000 have email addresses
– 62,000 (66%) reside in the UK
– 32,000 (34%) live outside of the UK in
189 countries worldwide
Among our alumni are:
Former Prime Ministers of India and New Zealand
Governor of Western Australia
CEOs of BP, Rolls-Royce, Singapore Airlines
Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality
Chief of the Air Staff, Royal Air Force
First person to run a mile in under four minutes
Olympic Gold Medallists

32. Our alumni in Germany
• The College is in touch with a total of 1,278 alumni
in Germany:
– 712 postal addresses ONLY
– 566 email also
• 1,025 alumni are male, 253 female
• Youngsters:
– Under the age of 40 938
– Under the age of 50 1,153
• Mainly engineers and scientists:
– Faculty of Natural Sciences 610
– Faculty of Engineering 574
– Faculty of Medicine 60
– Tanaka Business School 28
– Humanities 6

33. Present
Past
Sir Richard Sykes, Rector of Imperial College London
Future 2007
30 January

34. Prince Albert’s vision

36. The Crystal Palace – Great Exhibition of 1851

38. Our History
• 1851-1890
Constituent Colleges formed,
realising Prince Albert’s vision
for the pursuance of science
and learning following the Great
Exhibition
• 1907 – Imperial College
founded by merger of:
City and Guilds College
Royal College of Science
Royal School of Mines

39. Our Founding
Charter: 1907
…to give the highest
specialised instruction
and to provide the
fullest equipment for
the most advanced
training and research
in various branches of
science especially in
its application to
industry.

40. The Origins
Henry Cole August Von Hofmann Henry de la Beche
John Donnelly
William Ayrton John Perry
William Dalby T H Huxley Norman Lockyer Lyon Playfair

41. William Perkin and the discovery of
mauveine – father of modern
chemical industry

45. City and
Guilds College

48. Royal
College of
Science

51. Royal School
of Mines

52. Edward VII laying the foundation stone
8 July 1909

54. Goldsmiths today

55. Our more recent history
• 1988-2000 Mergers with other
London Medical Schools:
St Mary’s Hospital Medical School
National Heart & Lung Institute
Charing Cross/ Westminster &
Royal Postgraduate Medical
Schools
Kennedy Institute
• 2000 – Merger with Wye College
2007 – Our Centenary: 100 years of living science

57. Numbers of Students Since 1912
12,000
11,000 Total
10,000
9,000
8,000
Male
7,000
6,000
5,000
Female
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
0
1907-08
1915-16
1922-23
1929-30
1936-37
1943-44
1950-51
1957-58
1964-65
1971-72
1978-79
1985-86
1992-93
1999-00

58. Sir Alfred Keogh Sir Thomas Holland Sir Henry Tizard
Henry Bovey
1910 - 1922 1922 - 1929 1929 - 1942
1908 - 1910
Sir Richard Southwell Sir Roderic Hill Sir Patrick Linstead Sir Owen Saunders
1942 - 1948 1948 - 1954 1954 - 1966 1966 - 1967
The Rt Hon. Lord Penney The Rt Hon. Lord Flowers Sir Eric Ash The Lord Oxburgh Sir Richard Sykes
1967 - 1973 1973 - 1985 1985 - 1993 1993 - 2000 2001 -

59. Past Research
Denis Gabor: Andrew Huxley:
Holography Nerve impulses
Alexander Fleming: Rodney Porter: Abdus Salam:
Penicillin Structure of Theoretical Physics
Antibodies
14 Nobel Prize Winners

60. Present
Past
Sir Richard Sykes, Rector of Imperial College London
Future 2007
30 January

61. Our Centenary Fundraising Campaign
Raised to date
Academic
£53 £12
mission
To be secured
£76 £39
Campus renewal
Student support £7 £20
£ million
£0 £25 £50 £75 £100 £125

62. Recent campus developments
RIBA Award winning Faculty
Building designed by renowned
architects Foster & Partners
New Tanaka Business
School and College
State of the Art
Entrance opened by Her
Sports Centre and
Majesty The Queen in 2004
Residences
Refurbishment of the
Bessemer Building,
including the incorporation
of the Institute of
Biomedical Engineering

63. We are providing new buildings and facilities
fit for the future
Research and educational
Halls of Residence facilities at Hammersmith
Redevelopment of the south and east A unique research facility, at the
sides of Prince’s Gardens with high Hammersmith Campus, providing
quality student accommodation which the UK with a centre of excellence
fits more comfortably in its for clinical imaging and a new
surroundings. conference centre for teaching.
Beit Quad Union Building
redevelopment
Central Library
A Union to cater for
redevelopment
changing student needs.
A new library
containing innovative
learning spaces to
respond to changing
educational and
pedagogical needs.

64. People in the future The best people
People
Research which
addresses tomorrow’s
needs
Sustainable funding
streams
Facilities to meet our
future ambitions
Keeping an eye on the
competition

65. Education in the future
• Undergraduate
– Developing new bachelors/curricula e.g. EnVision,
Biomedical Science
• Postgraduate masters
– Subject areas linked to research focus
– Pre-PhD training
– Interdisciplinary
• Postgraduate doctoral programmes
– Collaborative programmes with key international partner
universities
– Transferable skills for doctoral students and postdoctoral
researchers

66. Big research issues for the Future
1. Origins of the Universe
2. Origins of life on Earth
3. Sustainability & Surviving

67. 1. Origins of the Universe
Michele Dougherty (Physics) – Cassini project:
origins of Saturn, its moons and its rings

68. The biggest experiment in the world!
Tejinder Virdee
The Large Hadron CMS Spokesman
Collider 2007-2010
Next year - the large Hedron Collider at CERN will start the search for the
Higgs Boson.
• What is mass? Is there supersymmetry? What is dark matter? Where
has all the antimatter gone?

69. 2. Origins of life on Earth: Systems Biology
Metabolomics,
Basic biology, genetics, tissue
green energy…. engineering….
Mathematics
Plant Human
Food and energy Health and disease
Computing Bio-tools
Core Sciences
Modelling Engineering
Statistics
Bioinformatics
mouse
A. thaliana
microbial zebrafish
Model Organisms
Basic biology, drug
discovery, validation….

70. Health challenges: understanding the
fundamental processes of life
• Translating knowledge of the genome into new
approaches to medicine
• Using our advances in cell and molecular biology
and computing to simulate the workings of the
body in health and disease
• Understanding how organisms interact to find
new approaches to tackling malaria, TB, AIDS,
influenza, resistant bacteria
• Applying new imaging tools to observe biological
processes

71. MALARIA
TB
INFLUENZA
SCHISTO-
SOMIASIS
Infectious diseases
HIV

72. Degenerative disease, tissue repair, bioengineering,
bionics
Understanding stem cell function
• Diseases of heart, lung and liver
• Neurodegenerative disease
• Repair of traumatic damage
• Replacement of worn-out joints and organs
Engineering + medicine
– Restore function to damaged or
diseased organs and tissues
– Robotic surgery
– Remote monitoring
– Non-invasive imaging

73. Imaging
Imaging
Imaging brain activity
in a premature infant
by functional MRI
Brain activated by visual
stimulation

74. 3. Sustainability and surviving
Climate Change
Climate change will have huge impacts
• Ability to inhabit low-lying areas
– mass migrations from areas such as Bangladesh
• Damage and property loss from storms and floods
• Productivity of farms, forests, & fisheries
• Demand for energy-consuming aids
• Biodiversity changes
• Geographical distribution of disease
Grantham Institute for Climate Change
• Quantifying climate change
– e.g. applied modelling and computing
• Identifying global impact
– e.g. biodiversity and ecological changes
• Mitigation technologies
– e.g. carbon capture

75. Sustainable energy
• Energy Futures Laboratory
• Sandro Macchietto

76. Trends: Our science in the next 50 years
• Basic sciences – smaller and smaller + bigger and
bigger
• Medicine – prognosis + prevention + regeneration /
repair + access to health technologies
• Engineering – sensing + miniaturisation +
integration
• Computing – simulation, artificial intelligence,
massive increase in speed and scale, integration with
human physiology

77. How will we be seen?
1907: …. to give the highest
specialised instruction and to provide
the 2007: Imperial College embodies &
fullest equipment for the most
advanced training and research in education
delivers world-class scholarship,
various 2057: Imperial College is a leader in the
and branches in science, especially and
research of science engineering
in its application toparticular regard to their to the
medicine, with industry and medicine
application of science
application in industry, commerce and society.
solution of major problems facing
healthcare. We fosterare at the forefront of
Imperial’s people interdisciplinary
working internally and collaborate widely are
scientific discovery and innovation and
externally of choice for governments,
partners
commerce and industry across the world.

78. Thank you
78

79. 1945
Fleming and
Chain
Fleming, Chain and Florey
Discovery and subsequent development of penicillin

80. Dennis Gabor
Holography
“The future does not need to be
foretold but invented”