The Civil and Computational Engineering Centre has an extensive track record of industrial collaboration and has significantly contributed to a number of prestigious projects, such as the aerodynamic design of the THRUST Supersonic Car, which currently holds the world land-speed record, and Airbus A380, the largest civilian aircraft to-date. Currently, the Centre is aerodynamically designing BLOODHOUND Supersonic Car, which will attempt to create a new world land speed record of 1000mph in 2010. The Centre is a Preferred Academic Partner to BAe Systems in Computational Engineering and Electromagnetics.

Examples of recent collaborators and sponsoring agencies include:

• ABB
• Audi
  
• BAE Systems
• British Gas
• Cinpress
  
• DERA
• DTi
• EADS
  
• EPSRC
  
• European Union
• HEFCW
• HSE
  
• Hyder
  
• Mobil
  
• NASA
• Quinshield
  
• Rolls-Royce
• South West Water
• Sumitomo Shell
  
• Unilever
• US Army
• WDA