University Vice-Chancellor Professor Ken Sloan, said: “This funding will help us to deliver high-quality AI learning in the heart of the community we serve.”
The university’s base in Telford town centre, in a building known as the Quad, will house “high-specification IT equipment, including AI workstations, immersive learning pods, edge computing servers, and VR/AR devices” it said.
Its Collaborative Simulation Laboratory at its main campus was “already at the heart of engineering teaching and research”, it said, and used “advanced simulation techniques to test and refine products before physical versions are made”.