Industrial Links
By 1905, the two institutions were a large and active force in the area, with the Mechanics' Institute, the forerunner of the modern UMIST, forming a Faculty of Technology and working alongside The Victoria University of Manchester. Although UMIST achieved independent university status in 1955, the two universities continued to work together, true to the visions of their pioneering industrialist founders, until they formally combined on 22 October 2004 to form a single university.
The Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences will be home to a new £64 million international research centre (2012), known as the BP International Centre for Advanced Materials (BP-ICAM). BP-ICAM will be modelled on a “hub and spoke” structure, with the ‘hub’ located at The University of Manchester and the “spokes” located at the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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