School of Engineering News
Warwick Graduate Runner-up in NCE Graduate Awards
Warwick Civil Engineering graduate Ben Biggs was joint runner-up in the New Civil Engineer's Graduate Awards 2010. Ben works for Aecom and was shortlisted from 120 contenders.
Chairman of judges NCE editor Antony Oliver commented that,“The quality of entrants was exceptionally high this year and it was very tough choosing just six finalists. ... But it is vital, especially with the current challenges facing our industry, that we recognise and reward civil engineering’s brightest new talent – our profession’s future leaders.”
A €500k grant to the School of Engineering as part of a large collaborative FP7 project - SYNFLOW
A new for Warwick research group in chemical reaction engineering is to start work within the programme of a large collaborative FP7 project - SYNFLOW.
£445k EPSRC grant for Research on Connections and Joints of Fibre Reinforced Polymer for Civil Engineering Works
Dr Toby Mottram (Principal Investigator), Jawed Qureshi (Research Fellow), and Navroop Mathura (PhD student) with Access Design and Engineering and the Bridge Division of Mott MacDonald Ltd. are now collaborating on a Composites in Construction project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/H042628/1).