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The School of Engineering and Electronics were one of the 5 finalists out of 41 entries in the first EPSRC 2006 Knowledge Transfer Challenge Competition.
The finalists in the competition reflect the huge area covered by research in engineering and the physical sciences in the UK with entries covering wound care, innovation in electronics, detection of counterfeit banknotes, advances in getting different computer systems to talk to each orther and tackling pollution legacies at disused mines.
November 2006
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Three women have made history at the University of Edinburgh by their appointment as Professors in the School of Engineering and Electronics. Rebecca Barthelmie, Rebecca Cheung and Andrea Schaefer are the first women in the history of the University to hold professorships in the field of engineering.
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Congratulations to Professor Peter Grant, Head of the School of Engineering and Electronics, who received an honorary doctorate in engineering from the Heriot-Watt University on 18th November 2006.
November 2006 |
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Nine students, including three from the School of Engineering and Electronics, represented the University of Edinburgh at the International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition at MIT, Boston, USA on Saturday 4th November 2006. Their goal, along with students from 35 other top universities from around the world, was to build a biological system .
Edinburgh designed a device to detect arsenic in well water, which is a problem that affects around 100 million people around the world, especially in the poorer nations. This device resulted in them winning the following prizes:
- 1st place for the Best Real World Application
- 1st place for the Best Poster
- 3rd place for Best Device.
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Congratulations to Allan Jowsey, on achieving the 'Foundation Student Scholar Award' from the Society of Fire Protection Engineering, USA - the highest award presented by the Society to a student.
November 2006 |
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Dr Alistair Elfick receives EPSRC Research Grant Award:
The Near and Far Future of Raman Microscopy: Value £1,084,374
For some time the trend in many high-value industries has been to manufacture ever smaller devices. This trend is shown in its extreme case in the development of nanotechnology. This is the manufacture of devices which are a few
billionths
of a metre in size. Nanotechnology holds the promise of huge increases in computing power and memory storage to name but a very few. A major problem in nanotechnology is in knowing that you've actually made what you set out to!
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Dr Lev Sarkisov receives EPSRC Research Grant Award:
"Rational Design of New Materials for controlled Drug Release Applications "
The efficacy of drug therapies can be increased immensely by precise control of the location and rate of the drug release. One way to control drug delivery is to store the active agent in a porous material, or a matrix, which would slowly release the medicine through its pores. This can be useful in sustaining the desired level of a medicine in the body over an extended period of time for a range of conditions such as diabetes and some forms of cancer. This approach can be even further improved if there was a way to prepare porous materials which would selectively and strongly bind the desired drug molecules, making the release time even longer.
For the full story please follow the link above.
More details on Dr Lev Sarkisov, including research and publications, can be found by visiting his Group Web Page.
June 2006 |
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£5M bid to design the next generation of silicon chips
An eScience project which aims to develop circuits using 50nm transistors that do not yet exist has been awarded £5.3m in funding.
Researchers from five UK universities - Edinburgh, Glasgow, York, Manchester and Southampton - are using Grid techniques to link atomistic models of MOS devices to neural and other VLSI circuits. The project builds on the work of Alan Murray, Hsin Chen and Hisham Hamid in the Institute of Integrated Micro and Nano Systems.
May 2006
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C.N. Davies Award awarded to Guy German
Edinburgh Ph.D. student, Guy German, received a prestigious award from the Aerosol Society in London.
The C.N. Davies Award is awarded annually on a competitive basis by the Aerosol Society to a new graduate undertaking a course of study leading to a Doctorate at a United Kingdom or Irish University. This year's winner is Guy German, a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Materials and Processes of the School of Engineering and Electronics, for his project "Controlling spray deposition by additives".
May 2006 |
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Postgraduate Poster Day
The School holds an annual display of posters from all the second year postgraduate students, which is open to external
industrialists and other guests.
Prizes are awarded for the best poster which for this, and future years, are being funded by a donation from a former
Lord Mayor of London and distinguished Edinburgh Civil Engineering alumnus, Sir Francis McWilliams.
The prize this year was awarded to Tom Bishop.
May 2006 |
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Professor Mike Forde elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Edinburgh
Congratulations to Professor Mike Forde, Head of the Research Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, who has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. This is based on Professor Forde's quality of innovative contributions to his field at both a national and international level in the field of Civil Engineering.
This honour comes on top of Professor Forde's election as Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
March 2006 |
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Following the receipt of government funding from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (SHEFC) and the Office of Science and Technology (OST) the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University are forming a research partnership in engineering and mathematics.
This is called the Edinburgh Research Partnership (ERP), and will fund 5 jointly owned research institutes and an associated joint postgraduate school.
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