operate in the medical, biotech, energy, transport, instrumentation, materials, nanotech, optics, robotics, and information technology spaces. The list includes PowderJect Pharmaceuticals, YASA, OrganOx, First Light Fusion, Oxsonics, Oxbotica, Sensyne Health, OxVent, Mind Foundry and Opsydia. Undergraduate study The intake of students into the department is between 160 and 170 annually. The department offers a general engineering course, where students only specialise in one of six areas in their third and fourth years of their Masters in Engineering degree (MEng). These specialisations are: Biomedical engineering Chemical engineering Civil engineering Electrical engineering Information engineering Mechanical engineering Students can also choose to follow an Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Management (EEM) pathway in the third and fourth years of their degree. This option is taught in coordination with the Saïd Business School. Graduate study and research The Department of Engineering Science carries out research in the following areas: Biomedical engineering Civil & offshore engineering Electrical & opto-electronic engineering Energy engineering Information, control & vision engineering Solid mechanics & materials engineering Thermo-fluids & turbomachinery Chemical and process engineering The department is home to five research institutes: Oxford-Man Institute for Quantitative Finance (OMI) Oxford e-Research Centre Oxford Thermofluids Institute Institute of Biomedical Engineering Oxford Robotics Institute The research degrees offered by the department are MSc(R), DEng and DPhil. The department has approximately 500 postgraduate research students. Research Evaluation The department was ranked 3rd among UK engineering departments in 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF), having previously ranked 1st in 2014. Notable people Fellows of the Royal Society J. Michael Brady Alison Noble Philip Torr Andrew Blake Roberto Cipolla Andrew Zisserman Brian Spalding Frederick Charles Frank Warren East, CEO of Rolls-Royce Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte Donal Bradley Charles Frewen Jenkin Richard Vynne Southwell Derman Christopherson David Clarke Laszlo Solymar Timoshenko Medal Recipients Richard Vynne Southwell Heads of Department 1908-1929: Charles Frewen Jenkin 1929-1942: Richard Vynne Southwell 1945-1961: Alexander Thom 1961-1977: Douglas William Holder 1979-1989: Charles Peter Wroth 1989-1994: J. Michael Brady 1994-1999: David Clarke 1999-2004: Rodney Eatock Taylor 2004-2009: Richard Darton 2009–2014: Guy Houlsby 2014–2019: Lionel Tarassenko 2019–present: Ronald A. Roy Alumni and researchers who have made significant contributions Rowan Atkinson, actor, comedian, and screenwriter Brian Bellhouse, founder of PowderJect Donal Bradley, pioneer in molecular electronic materials Brian Spalding, a founder of computational fluid dynamics. Constantin Cousssios, distinguished professor in biomedical engineering Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte, known for probabilistic methods for robotics Warren East, CEO of Rolls-Royce Holdings Frederick Charles Frank,