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The UK’s technology base was given a major boost today when Tata Motors’ European Technical Centre (TMETC), a wholly-owned UK-based subsidiary of Tata Motors, announced that it will be expanding its partnership with WMG at the University of Warwick. TMETC plans to increase their team of highly skilled engineers working on the campus by 40% over the next two years.

A team of engineering students at the University of Warwick are just weeks away from completing development of a ‘formula student’ racing car.

Warwick Racing, which consists of 12 final year engineering students, had been tasked with designing, manufacturing and testing a single seater WR1 racing car which they will enter into the annual Formula Student Competition at Silverstone in July.

WMG at the University of Warwick is to be part of the Government’s first Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC). An announcement today, 17^th March 2011, by the Deputy Prime Minister, and Secretary of State for Business revealed WMG’s participation in the first TIC and gave some more the detail of that first TIC. It is the first of an elite network of Technology and Innovation Centres. The Government will be investing over £200 million in that network.

Globally the sale of health care information systems is a multibillion dollar industry. The vast costs, frequent failed systems and inability of systems to talk to each other, regularly attract media comment. However policy makers still shy away from a class of software, Open Source, that could address many of these problems, because of worries about the safety and security of Open Source systems. Now new research by the University of Warwick’s Institute of Digital Healthcare, and the Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education at UCL Medical School, finds that Open Source software may actually be more secure than its often more expensive alternatives.

A Coventry company, which has designed a high tech business class aeroplane seat, is winning the attention of major plane companies thanks to technology at WMG, part of the University of Warwick, which allows them to show customers virtual reality simulations of exactly how those seats will look within their planes.

Rt Hon Mark Prisk MP, the Minister of State for Business and Enterprise; and the European Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani, both declared their strong support for the economic importance of Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) while visiting WMG at the University of Warwick today, Thursday 3^rd March.

A new £12 million programme has just be announced to help Midlands SMEs access some the world's leading product and service design Technology.

The new International Institute for Product and Service Innovation (IIPSI) at WMG at the University of Warwick, is jointly funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the University of Warwick in a funding partnership brought together by the regional development agency, Advantage West Midlands (AWM).

Volunteers from the University of Warwick have been sharing their computer programming skills with parents, teenagers and younger children in Coventry.

Students and staff organised a drop in session at BBC Coventry and Warwickshire's Open Centre in Priory Place during half-term break where anyone could have a go at creating their own computer game or animation. There was also help at hand for anyone who wanted to know a little bit more about how computers work.

WMG were pleased to host a visit from Andrew Miller MP who is the Chair of House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee; the Chair Parliamentary and Scientific Committee; the Vice Chair of the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee and a Member of the editorial Board for Science in Parliament.  Meeting with Lord Bhattacharyya, Andrew was interested to understand the diverse research undertaken by the Group.  He also had an opportunity to meet with staff to discover the breadth of our multi-disciplinary capabilities and the wide range of sectors we work with. 

Global supply chain planning company, Barloworld Supply Chain Software is currently working with WMG to prepare the supply chain industry leaders of tomorrow for a bright future.