School of Engineering News

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.    

Dr Qing Ni has been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Secondment to work with Arup in Solihull.

Dr Mark Leeson has been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship.

Michael Davies has been awarded third prize for his undergraduate project ...