Projects

Current Projects

CEPREC

The Circular Economy Powered Renewable Energy Centre (CEPREC) is a £3.5m Pan-African Research Centre of Excellence driving sustainable energy solutions through circular economy innovations.

Funded by the UK Government’s Ayrton Fund, CEPREC unites academia, government, and industry. Collaborating institutions include De Montfort University, the University of Warwick, and Chatham House in the UK, alongside Strathmore University (Kenya), the University of Lagos (Nigeria), the University of Namibia (Namibia), the University of Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone), Kigali Collaborative Research Centre (Rwanda), Tshwane University of Technology (South Africa), the University of Nairobi (Kenya), and the University of Nigeria (Nigeria).

Together with key industry and government partners, these institutions form a multidisciplinary, transcontinental consortium dedicated to advancing renewable energy solutions through circular economy innovations. By integrating cutting-edge research, policy influence, and capacity building, this collaboration ensures CEPREC’s long-term impact in shaping Africa’s sustainable energy future.

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EPSRC IKC for Ultra Wide Bandgap Power Devices

£12M project funded by EPSRC (2024 to 2029)

International knowledge centre for ultra-wide bandgap Semiconductors led by University of Bristol

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Past Projects

Royal Society Industry Fellowship for Prof Layi Alatise (2020 to 2025)

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Warwick Electrification Development (WELD) (2022 to 2025) £963,190

The University received funding for two Driving the Electric Revolution Industrialisation (DER-IC) facilities, the Winding Centre of Excellence and the power electronics reliability and failure analysis space. WELD will use these one-of-a-kind in the UK open-access facilities to provide innovative hands-on training and complementary educational activities without IP restrictions. The trained workforce will help UK businesses to develop and scale new PEMD technologies and manufacturing processes.

The University's expertise in the field of power electronics and eMachines will support three delivery strands: one-day industry workshops, outreach activities in schools, and enhancement of the academic PEMD teaching provision. The fourth strand is the design of an IP-free eMachine, with active parts manufacture, assembly and testing on campus, required for hands-on learning experiences.

Transferred knowledge about manufacturing impact on part and device performance i.e., critical differences between virtual prototype characteristics and real-world performance, will de-risk product development and improve timelines and reliability. Insight to the equipment used in eMachine manufacture and testing combined with skills building will become accessible to a wide audience, without facing expensive design procedure or tooling investment.

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Wide Bandgap Power Electronics and EMC – Bridging the gap (2024- 2025) £2,000 International Partnership Fund

The objective of this collaborative project is bringing together expertise on EMC and WBG power electronics to start shaping a research partnership between the Power Electronic & EMC group (University of Twente) and the Power Electronics Applications and Technology in Energy Research (PEATER) group (University of Warwick), exploring potential avenues for collaborative research. Research-informed teaching is paramount in this area (EMC and power electronics) and the project will investigate how to implement innovative low-cost teaching methodologies.

The main objectives of the project were:

Stablishing a research/working relationship with the University of Twente (Power Electronic & EMC group)
Development of ajointworking group on teaching EMC and power electronics in engineering
Organisation of a research/industry focused workshop on EMC and Power Electronics at Warwick
Writing a joint paper on the development of EMC teaching material