School of Engineering News

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between Warwick University (Centre for Cognitive & Neural systems) and IBEC covering the field of Bioengineering. The collaboration follows the visit of Professor Gardner to IBEC earlier this year and it intended to (a) promote the exchange of information on bioengineering between research groups, (b) exchange researchers via short term fellowships, and (c) implement cooperative research programmes in, for example, EU Framework 7 programmes. There will be a joint Warwick-IBEC meeting in the autumn to bring together interested researchers and it is hoped that Warwick research will be presented at the 4th IBEC Symposium in Barcelona in the spring of 2011.

Further information on IBEC and its research activities

Further information on Warwick's Bioegineering activities

 

Any inquiries into the collaboration can be made by e-mailing the IBEC or Warwick contacts:

IBEC contact: Dr Santiago Marco (University of Barcelona, Spain). Email: smarco at el dot ub dot es

Warwick contact: Prof. Julian Gardner (Warwick University, UK). E-Mail: j dot w dot gardner at warwick dot ac dot uk

IBEC website: www.ibecbarcelona.eu
CCNS website: www.go.warwick.ac.uk/CCNS

 

Warwick Engineering students have won the RoboCup Rescue Championship in Germany. The students developed their rescue robot in a team project bringing together Engineering and Computer Science students at the University of Warwick which entered the 9th RoboCup German Open in Magdeburg (April 15-18 2010).

The Warwick student team won first place overall and best in class for mobility. The robots are designed to crawl over and through difficult terrain or such as destroyed buildings in search of trapped survivors. The German competition put the robot through its paces in a simulated disaster environment which requires robots to demonstrate their capabilities in mobility, sensory perception, planning, mapping, and operator interfaces, while searching for simulated victims in difficult environments.

The School of Engineering's Professor Phil Mawby has been awarded a £500,000 Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Power Electronics which is also financially backed by Converteam, the UK’s largest technology company in the renewable energy sector. The award will support research into the use of new materials for power electronics to support sustainable technologies through a range of applications including the next generation of power grids.