It was announced today, Friday 28th March 2014, that WMG is to lead a new “EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing”. The Centre will be a partnership between universities of Warwick, Exeter and Cranfield.

Dr Kerry Kirwan, Director of the new EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing, said:

The new Centre will produce the next generation of manufacturing business leaders with a high level understanding of interdisciplinary enterprise, the research experience essential to compete in a global low carbon environment, and an international view of Sustainability and the Circular Economy."

This is the fifth such Doctoral Training Centre (CDTs) to be awarded to University of Warwick leadership by the UK’s research councils. The expected total investment by the research councils for all five CDTS led by Warwick will be around £19 million.

WMG congratulates Claire Donaghue who won the Silver Engineering Award at the 2014 SET for Britain Poster Competition which took place at the Houses of Parliament today.

WMG sponsored the Silver Engineering Award which was presented to Claire by Dr David Clark, Principal Fellow at WMG.

Claire Donaghue is a PhD student from the Centre of Excellence for Medical Engineering Solutions in Osteoarthritis at Imperial College. Claire won the Silver Award for her poster on ‘Teaching Machines to Diagnose Osteoarthritis from MRI Scans’.

Engineering students at the University of Warwick are working to achieve their dream of designing and building a human-powered submarine.

On July 7, the Warwick Sub team of seven finalists will be competing in the four-day European International Submarine Race (eISR) at Gosport’s Ocean Basin, the biggest covered water space in Europe. However, their first challenge on the path to glory will be raising enough funds to enable them to manufacture the vessel.

The University of Warwick was proud to award Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women, an Engineering Doctorate at its degree ceremony on Wednesday 22nd January. This was not an honorary degree but one for which she studied as a student at WMG at the University.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka was Deputy President of South Africa from 2005 to 2008 and was the first woman to hold this position, and at that point the highest ranking woman in South Africa’s history. In 2010 she was offered her current role at the United Nations by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

It has been announced, today, by the Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts that WMG’s Applied Engineering Programme will be one of the programmes benefiting from a £50m Catalyst Fund.

WMG, at the University of Warwick, has an established reputation of working with business and industry to deliver cutting-edge research, innovative products and services, and world class education programmes.

Professor Lord Bhattacharyya, Chairman and Founder of WMG said “We welcome this announcement from HEFCE which will help us to continue to deliver an education programme that meets the needs of industry. It is vital that our engineers have the right skills and knowledge to be able to develop world-class products that keep the UK on the global stage.”

The new Applied Engineering Programme is aimed at advancing industry-relevant skills of graduate engineers and those working in advanced manufacturing. A novel learning environment will focus on Manufacturing Engineering or Product Development Engineering, which will be taken into the workplace including through higher apprenticeships. The programme, will focus initially on the automotive sector, with Jaguar Land Rover as an initial co-investor.

This week BCS Coventry held a Posters Evening and research students Simon Davies, Avishek Pal and Abhishek Das from WMG and Chao Chen from Computer Science represented the University of Warwick.

As with previous years, selected students from both universities presented their leading edge research.

Congratulations to Abhishek Das from the Digital Lifecycle Management team, who won the prize for Warwick for his poster on 'Software Architecture and Multidisciplinary Optimisation for Embedding New Production Processes'.

Slide show from event:

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Our EPSRC sponsored International Doctorate Centre (IDC) offers the next generation of the popular EngD doctoral qualification, the EngD International.

Bringing together rising young stars in the research and technical arena with sponsor companies who see the benefit in working with these 'Research Entrepreneurs' to develop innovative solutions to real challenges facing manufacturing industries today, the IDC aims to train the leaders and entrepreneurs of the future.

An open evening is being held in WMG's International Digital Laboratory on Thursday 22 November for interested companies to find out more about the Centre, discuss potential research projects and take a look around WMG's cutting edge facilities.

A team of Engineering Doctorate students from WMG have taken first place in the West Midlands heat of the Engineering Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (Engineering YES) and are through to the final in Birmingham on 20 June.

The competition is for UK-based postgraduate students and post-doctoral researchers to present a business plan for an imaginary startup company to a group of shrewd investors and industry experts. Participants learn the techniques of how to go about planning a new business venture and meet local entrepreneurs and business leaders who have done it for real before presenting their business plans to the panel.

WMG's International Doctorate Centre is holding an Open Evening on 21 June for companies to learn more about becoming involved in the International Engineering Doctorate programme by putting forward research projects and sponsoring doctoral students.

Our International Engineering Doctorate is a four year programme in which a Doctoral student (Research Entrepeneur) will deliver pioneering research to a real problem within a sponsoring company, introducing innovative technologies and processes to improve competitiveness within manufacturing.

There will be the opportunity to learn more about WMG's research and links with industry, to find out what the EngD programme entails and the benefits and costs involved, to hear from a recent graduate and to ask any questions that potential companies may have.

WMG has officially launched its new International Doctorate Centre in High Value, Low Environmental Impact Manufacturing.

Guests from both industry and the education sector heard how WMG will train the manufacturing leaders of tomorrow through a 4 year programme which will see them achieve both an Engineering Doctorate (EngD) and an MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.