University Electronics

The University of Liverpool and the University of Manchester have jointly secured £3.3m of funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)  to support the development of advanced electrochemical energy storage devices for grid scale applications. As with Edinburgh universities and their £6m funding for robotics research, which we blogged yesterday, it is part of the Government’s strategy ...

A survey has listed the SETsquared incubator as the best in Europe, alongside jointly-placed NDRC LaunchPad in the Republic of Ireland, and fourth most successful in the world. The University Business Incubator (UBI) Index recoreded that SETsquared has “given birth” to 1,000 high-tech start-ups since its inception 10 years ago, raising £34m in investment in 2013 for the companies within ...

Surrey University’s experience with space research is well known (for example, there is its Surrey Space Centre (SSC), in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (FEPS), and the work of Surrey Satellite). Well, the university is now pioneering an MBA programme focused on the needs of the space industry. According to the university, as of 2010/2011, the UK space ...

The newly announced National Facility for Innovative Robotic Systems, at the University of Leeds, is a £4.3 million national facility for robot design and construction. It is backed by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as part of a government drive to improve Britain’s international competitiveness in robotics. According to Leeds, it will give researchers – and commercial ...

Named after the UK creator of jet engines, the Sir Frank Whittle Medal is awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering to an engineer for outstanding and sustained achievement. The field of activity changes every year and in 2013 the medal is being awarded for Engineering Innovations in Manufacturing. This year’s winner is a University of Manchester laser expert, Professor ...

Swindon Silicon Systems is providing summer placements for two undergraduate engineers. The young engineers will work on real projects with the company that designs mixed signal Asics,which are used in mobile phones, sat navs and hearing aids. Robyn Moates, who is reading Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Cambridge, had placements in 2011 and 2012 with automotive electronics company Schrader, where she ...

Researchers at the universities of Bath and Exeter are investigating the use of graphene in telecommunications, according to a paper published in Physical Review Letters. The Centre for Graphene Science at the Universities of Bath and Exeter has demonstrated for very short optical response rates using graphene, which could pave the way – they say – for a revolution in ...

Ensuring the UK plays a key role in providing satellite-sourced observation services – this is the aim of a new centre of excellence to monitor changes to the Earth and its ecosystem. Scientists at the Universities of Surrey and Reading will work with researchers at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the new collaboration, which is called Global Satellite Sensing ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have demonstrated a digital data recording processes that may allow data storage up to 360Tbyte on a single optical disc with “practically unlimited lifetime”. In the experiment at Southampton, a 300kbit digital copy of a text file was successfully recorded in 5D using ultrafast laser, producing extremely short and intense pulses of light. The file is ...

Cambridge students are aiming to be the first British winners of the World Solar Challenge, the 3,000km race from Darwin to Adelaide, which takes place in October. Their new solar car – “Resolution” – rewrites the rulebook for green vehicles, boasts the university. The prototype built by engineers at the University of Cambridge was unveiled in a road-test last Friday ...