AIIA: MSc AI in Engineering 2027-28

Agent Build Club is your guide through the programme. We help you understand how to get the most from it and how to prepare a strong business challenge without wasting your time, then introduce you to the University of Surrey, which runs the research itself. Taking part is free, and each step is clear, so you always know what happens next.

Register your interest

Tell us a little about your business and the AI question on your mind. It only takes a few minutes.

Shape your challenge

Someone from the Agent Build Club team will be in touch with a toolkit and guidance, and will help you shape your question so it meets the University’s requirements.

Meet the University

We introduce you to the University. Its academics help finalise your challenge so it fits the course, and its AIIA team matches you with a student and a supervisor.

Sign and get started

If everyone’s happy, you sign a dissertation sponsor contract with the University, and the student begins their dissertation with you as their business sponsor.

Help your student understand the challenge

Give your student the context and data they need, within what your contract sets out on data sharing and confidentiality, plus a little mentoring along the way. Anything personal or sensitive needs approval from the University’s ethics committee first.

Join the mid-point review

See how the work is going and help steer it while there’s still time to change course.

Come to the viva

You’re encouraged to come and see your student present and defend their findings. It’s optional, and well worth it.

Then celebrate their success

See what the work has shown you: whether the idea is feasible, what it would need, the constraints and the potential. Then decide what to do next, perhaps with the student who did the work.