The BEST school in UK! -

Assalamualaikum…

My days are getting eventful… It’s exciting in spite of tiring. The full determination tranquils new daily schedule… Nn is adapting a new rhythm. It should not be going to take long to rhyme. Insyallah…

I have some piccs collection which will be uploaded later. Nn is finding the sweet and suitable time to updates. Some of them can be defined via my FACEBOOK. In the intervening time, nn would like to allocate good news from our school in Leeds.

School of Electric and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds is awarded the BEST school in the United Kingdom according to Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008. The School is celebrating its position as Number 1 in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), with an outstanding grade-point average (GPA) of 3.05, and an overwhelming 80% of activity rated as internationally excellent or World leading. This clearly confirms the School’s position as the leading electronic and electrical engineering department in the UK and a leader in the field internationally.

The full explanation on RAE can be read from the article posted.

The article is courtesy with permission from my best buddy @ host , Puan Aziati Husna Awang. Do click on her name and get full whittle of her ‘chicken soup for the soul’. She is definately a good writer! (Ummi… official announcement has been made.. regular updates are needed! …)

Thank you Allah Almighty for giving me this opportunity. Belongs as part of best school in UK, jumble with the world class school members and learn with high profile academicians are a great privileged. I will try my best to gain cognitions for the sake of my religion, my Malaysia and my family. Bless me Ya Allah!

Love,
Noni Nadiah Md Yusoff

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Yes, as the title spell it out, we are the best Electronic and Electrical Engineering School in the United Kingdom, according to RAE 2008 (Research Assesment Exercise 2008).
What is RAE?

The Research Assessment Exercise is a peer review exercise to evaluate the quality of research in UK higher education institutions

The primary purpose of the RAE 2008 was to produce quality profiles for each submission of research activity made by institutions. The four higher education funding bodies intend to use the quality profiles to determine their grant for research to the institutions which they fund with effect from 2009-10. Any HEI in the UK that is eligible to receive research funding from one of these bodies was eligible to participate.

Qouting the school website in a few article:

"The School is celebrating its position as Number 1 in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), with an outstanding grade-point average (GPA) of 3.05, and an overwhelming 80% of activity rated as internationally excellent or World leading. This clearly confirms the School’s position as the leading electronic and electrical engineering department in the UK and a leader in the field internationally.

As a research intensive University the RAE is vitally important to us; high rankings enable us to attract increased funding and investment, as well as the very best staff and students."

Research Excellence
1. The top electronic and electrical engineering school in the UK based on the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), with a grade-point average (GPA) of 3.05, and an overwhelming 80% of staff rated 3* or 4*. This denotes research of international standing and enables us to attracting funding to invest further in our reserach and facilities and to attract and retain outstanding staff.
2. 100 years of history and has built on its long standing tradition of microwave engineering to also lead the world in terahertz technology and the semiconductor, bio- and quantum electronic aspects of nanotechnology.
3. Recent investment in infrastructure and research staff in communications and signal processing has projected that area onto the international stage.

" Please visit http://www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/elec/

We are also having most of our research assessed as 4* and 3* as 4* being the highest rank for RAE2008....http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/table/2008/dec/18/rae-electrical-engineering