Faculty of Technology

SEKE - South East Knowledge Exchange

SEKE was established as a regional Centre for Knowledge Exchange within the HEFCE* national programme across many skills and market sectors. It was established to work with schools, colleges, entrepreneurs, small and large companies and organisations to enhance the profile of design and manufacturing in the sustainable economic development of the SE region.

* Higher Education Funding Council for England

From Concept to Rapid Manufacture

The purpose of the South East Knowledge Exchange (SEKE) for Product Development is for partners to provide information and resources to entrepreneurs and organisations working in the design and innovation industries to enable them to exploit their ideas more effectively and bring products to market more rapidly.

As well as promoting the application of new concepts and technologies in the workplace, SEKE partners also liaise with schools and further education establishments to encourage young people to seek careers in the engineering and manufacturing sectors.

SEKE full-length brochure - download pdf

SEKE short brochure - download pdf

New workplace concepts and technologies enhance skills (Professor Nick Bennett - Director, Regional Centre for Manufacturing Industry)

Our design solutions are based on sound engineering principles (David White - Business Development Manager, Centre for Design Technology)

We can compress the product development timetable (Graham Bennett - Head of Department, Centre for Rapid Design and Manufacture Capabilities)