HRH The Duke of Kent (second on right) presents Douglas Aitken with his award. |
Congratulations to Mr Douglas Aitken for winning the 2010 Water Engineering Award.
The award was for his oral presentation "Algae: A solution to waste
water treatment, greenhouse gas emissions and biofuel production?" at the
11th IWA Young Researchers Conference held at Cranfield University on April 14
, 2010.
The Water Engineering Award is given by The Worshipful Company of Engineers
(http://www.engineerscompany
.org.uk/)
Douglas is a PhD student under the supervision of
Dr Antizar-Ladislao at The School of Engineering since 2009.
Call for papers for the 12th IWA UK
Young Water Professionals Conference
December 2010 |
Research Institute: IIE
Photo of cast glass work by
Max D. Stewart showing glass
coloured by ammonium uranate
synthesised by Dr Hamilton and Ms Turner |
Max D. Stewart, glass sculptor and PhD student at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) completed the first joint ECA and University of Edinburgh PhD, co-supervised by Dr Andrea Hamilton from the School of Engineering. The project focused on discovering the forgotten colour palette and methods of Amalric Walter, who pioneered lead crystal casting methods, specifically pâte-de-verre in the early 1900’s and using this to create a body of studio work.
November 2010
Research Institute: IMP |
Prof Kai Zhang (NCEPU) and Prof Stefano Brandani (UoE) |
In the recent UK spending review, up to £1bn of funding was promised by the government for the first national large-scale carbon capture and storage project. This commitment emphasises the importance of the research being carried out in this area, to help reverse the growth in fossil carbon dioxide emissions as part of a global strategy to avoid dangerous climate change.
Researchers from the carbon capture group in the School of Engineering (http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/carboncapture/people.html ) are involved in a number of projects looking at ways to reduce CO2 emissions, many of which involve collaboration with industry. The EPSRC and the NSFC (National Science Foundation of China) have also recently awarded the group funding for a UK/China collaborative project valued at £664,440 for the UK component plus a further equivalent Chinese contribution.
The funding will be used to establish a formal collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and North China Electric Power University (NCEPU) in Beijing to build upon the research excellence in carbon capture and storage technologies at both institutions. The project, called Fundamentals of Optimised Capture Using Solids (FOCUS), will begin in January 2011 and run for three years until December 2013. (http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/I010939/1)
November 2010
Research Institute: IMP |
from left to right: Dr Guillermo Rein, together with Sugden Prize winners Prof Derek Bradley & Prof Gautam Kalghatgi |
Dr. Guillermo Rein was awarded the 2010 Hinshelwood Award at the Annual General Meeting of the Combustion Institute held at the University of Cambridge on September 15th , 2010.
The Hinshelwood award is named after Prof. Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, 1956 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. This award is given for the “Meritorious work of a young scientist of the British section of the Combustion Institute” and is the most important award the Combustion Institute delivers in the United Kingdom.
September 2010
Research Institute: IIE
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George Cunningham
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The IChemE (the Institution of Chemical Engineers) and its Indian counterpart organised a competition to take part in a 1 week exchange programme for students aimed at facilitating a brief and valuable exposure to the process industries in a different culture and preparing them for the challenges of globalisation. The IChemE received a record number of entries of a high standard from their student members around the world and George Cunningham, a fifth year Chemical Engineering student, was selected as one of four winners.
September 2010
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British Prime Minister David Cameron, paying his first official visit to India, has praised the University of Edinburgh's leading research into carbon capture and storage technology
Speaking in Bangalore, the Prime Minister said: "We believe we can have a technology leadership on this, developed through some of our best universities, like Edinburgh ... that are doing incredible work on carbon capture and storage. That's the sort of technology we can then share, and export and invest with other countries."
Research Institute: IMP
August 2010 |
Micro-machined, three-axis accelerometer for heart bypass surgery, designed and fabricated by IIS staff at the Universities of Heriot Watt and Edinburgh. |
A group of researchers from the Institute for Integrated Systems (IIS), led by Professor Anthony Walton, has been awarded a Flagship Project Grant of £1.5M. The award for the project, entitled Smart Microsystems, comes from EPSRC through the Innovative Electronics Manufacturing Research Centre (IeMRC) and will fund a three and half year study at the Universities of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt. The Flagship project will focus on the creation of innovative electronic based systems through the integration of microelectronics with novel materials and manufacturing technologies.
Research Institute: IMNS
July 2010 |
Professor José Torero |
Congratulations to Professor José Torero who has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
This is an incredibly competitive award and reflects José's personal engineering achievements related to advances in tunnel fire safety, structural behaviour in fire, material flammability, post fire remediation and sensor driven emergency response. It also recognises Jose's engineering contributions as an advisor to industry and governments worldwide.
Research Institute: IIE
July 2010 |
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John W Arthur, who is an Honorary Fellow in the School, has been awarded the Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award by the IEEE for his paper “The Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Theory Revisited” published in the Proceedings of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. This prize is awarded annually for the most outstanding survey, review, or tutorial paper published in the IEEE Transactions, Journals, Magazines, or in the Proceedings of the IEEE.
Research Institute: IDCOM
July 2010 |
Dr Prashant Valluri
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Prashant Valluri, a 33 year-old research scientist/engineer from Edinburgh, has been selected to front a national campaign to raise awareness of the impact that science, engineering and maths have on our everyday lives. Prashant will be spreading the word about the exciting research he is involved in, as part of an initiative led by NOISE - New Outlooks in Science & Engineering.
Research Institute: IMP
July 2010 |
Dr Harald Haas
Photo courtesy of Mark Duffy
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The D-Light technology utilises the high-speed switching properties of white LED’s (light emitting diodes) as a method of wireless data communication with data rates equivalent to conventional 802.11 wireless networks and additional benefits of:
- Energy efficiency – uses LED lighting infrastructure with no additional power requirements
- Wider spectrum – more capacity than WiFi frequency bands
- Improved Security – does not penetrate beyond building walls
- No electromagnetic interference – alleviates health concerns over RF transmissions
Research Institute: IDCOM
July 2010 |
Dr Katrina Charles (University of Surrey), Douglas Aitken (University of Edinburgh), Miriam Hansen (University of Edinburgh), John Bagnall (Cranfield University) |
Douglas Aitken, a PhD student at the Institute for Infrastructure and Environment (IIE), and Miriam Hansen, a MEng
student at the Institute for Materials and Processes (IMP) , both under the supervision of Dr Blanca Antizar Ladislao, presented their research as
platform presentations at the 11th IWA UK National Young Water
Professionals Conference, Cranfield 14-16 April 2010.
Doug was the winner of the
Best Platform Presentation, and thus he has been invited to present
his research at the 5th IWA (International) Young Water Professionals
Conference, Sydney 5-7 July 2010.
Research Institute: IIE and IMP
June 2010 |
A plant sample of Monkey puzzle being tested for fire behaviour in the Flame Propagation Apparatus calorimeter |
As published this month in Nature Geoscience, forest wildfires that took place in Greenland millions of years ago are helping scientists to predict the effects of climate change more accurately. Claire Belcher (UCD), who led the work, and colleagues studied 200 million-year-old fossils – which contain remains of dead and burnt plants – have shown that a change in vegetation, along with warmer temperatures and more frequent storms, led to a five-fold increase in natural wildfires in East Greenland at this time. Their study will help scientists to broaden their understanding of past Earth climates and give researchers fresh insight to improve models of the possible effects of future climate change.
Research Institute: IIE
June 2010 |
Photo (from left to right): Prof Jason Gerhard, Prof Jose Torero, Lord Howie of Troon, Dr Christine Switzer, Dr Guillermo Rein. |
STAR (Self-sustaining Treatment for Active Remediation) is an innovative technological solution for a wide range of hazardous chemicals polluting the soil and water at industrial sites, developed by researchers from the School of Engineering. The system is now being trialled in North America, and Edinburgh University has entered an exclusive licence agreement with US engineering firm Geosyntec Consultants to commercialise the STAR technology.
STAR targets the destruction of oily liquids (e.g., coal tar, petroleum hydrocarbons) that are the source of groundwater pollution by igniting them and controlling their slow burning within the soil. This application takes advantage of the properties of smouldering combustion (a slow, oxygen-limited, flameless form of combustion).
Research Institute: IIE
May 2010 |
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Congratulations to Sung-Han Koo, a postgraduate student in the Institute of Infrastructure and Environment, has been awarded an International Young Researcher Scholarship which will fund a 3-month visit to the Center for Fire Science and Technology in the Research Institute for Science and Technology at Tokyo University of Science, Japan.
Research Institute: IIE
April 2010 |
Evan Beswick (VPAA) with Pimp My School Winners Evelyn Buchner Santos & Catherine Inglesfield and John Martin (Learning & Teaching Spaces Advisory Group)
Photo courtesy of Matt Dale
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Congratulations to Catherine Inglesfield and Evelyn Buchner Santos who have won the Pimp My School competition run by EUSA (Edinburgh University Students' Association) in conjunction with the University. The competition was an opportunity for students to identify and submit ideas for spaces within the University's buildings that could benefit from improvement. The winning entry will be taken on as a funded project by the University.
April 2010 |
Professor Chris Hall |
Congratulations to Professor Chris Hall who has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Chris is the Director of the Centre for Materials Science and Engineering and his research interests, in his own words, are as follows:
"My main scientific interests are in the chemistry of materials and geomaterials used in oilfield and civil engineering, and the application of several advanced experimental methods. I have worked extensively on capillary liquid transport in porous construction materials (NMR imaging methods, measurement of transport properties and modelling of capillary flow). At present, my research activities are in experimental methods for studying reactive transport and chemomechanical processes in complex inorganic materials such as rocks and cement-based materials. Our recent work includes the development of synchrotron-based diffraction tomography, the application of scanning probe microscopy to mineral/water reactions; the hydrothermal chemistry of materials under deep borehole conditions; and analysis and chemistry in archaeology and building conservation."
Research Institute: IMP
March 2010 |
Photo taken on November 25, 2009 of the peat fire that has been burning for three months over an extension of 5 ha at Las Tablas de Daimiel National Park, Spain
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The 2008 Distinguished Paper Award on Fire Research at the 32nd International Symposium on Combustion was given to the paper "Carbon Emissions from Smouldering Peat in Shallow and Strong Fronts" (doi: 10.1016/j.proci.2008.07.008) by Guillermo Rein, Simon Cohen and Albert Simeoni.
This prestigious award is given by the Combustion Institute to
the paper in the Fire Research colloquia which is judged to be most distinguished in quality, achievement and significance.
Research Institute: IIE
January 2010
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