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WMG has been working with overseas partners since 1990 to deliver its award winning education programme.

For the first time all the overseas collaborative partners met at a workshop hosted by our partners in Thailand, the Regional Centre for Manufacturing Industry at Chulalongkorn University. The objective of the meeting was to share experiences and best practise.

Attending the workshop were representatives from WMG; Chulalongkorn University; Hong Kong PolyU; Hong Kong VTC; Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; SIM; SIMTech and Confederation of Indian Industry.

To find out more on courses offered at our international centres visit:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/education/international/

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/education/wmgmasters/overseas/

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/education/prof-ed/overseas/ 

Dr Rebecca Cain, Assistant Professor in Experiential Engineering with WMG at the University of Warwick is to lead a £1.3 million programme to literally engineer better environments for patients and medical staff.

She has been awarded a prestigious Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Fellowship through EPSRC’s Challenging Engineering award scheme which is designed to challenge the research leaders of the future to be creative and ambitious in the early stages of their career.

Researchers from WMG will be taking poll position at the prestigious 2010 MIT Energy Conference held in Boston from 5th to 6th March 2010. They will be showcasing their eco friendly “WorldFirst Formula 3 racing car” which can be powered by chocolate, steered by carrots, and has bodywork made partly from potatoes.

The University of Warwick has announced that Professor Lord Bhattacharyya has just pledged to make one of the largest ever personal donations to a UK University by a serving member of academic staff. He hopes his personal financial commitment underlines how serious he is when he calls on businesses and government to enhance the financial support they provide to UK research.

Professor Lord Bhattacharyya has committed to a five year programme of personal donations that will create a fund worth around a million pounds. He has asked that it be used to “support the stimulation and facilitation of research of the highest quality” and will include the creation of an annual reward for the Warwick researcher who has achieved most in a given year.

Full details of the £29million West Midlands-based project that will ensure Britain’s place at the heart of the low carbon vehicle revolution were revealed at a launch event held at the Heritage Motor Centre in Warwickshire yesterday.

Over 150 representatives from government, stakeholder organisations and small/medium-sized businesses heard how the Low Carbon Vehicle Technology Project (LCVTP) will shape the future of passenger transport.

Following an address from Geoff Dart, Director of Advanced Manufacturing Industries at BIS, guests heard presentations from the project’s partners: Jaguar Land Rover, Tata Motors, Zytek, Ricardo, MIRA, WMG (formerly Warwick Manufacturing Group) at the University of Warwick and Coventry University - who set out their vision for low carbon vehicles and invited like-minded potential suppliers to work with them in close collaboration.

A Labour Party pre-election event was held on the University campus on Saturday 20th February. The event was held in WMG’s International Digital Laboratory and was attended by the Prime Minister the Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP. The Prime Minister was welcomed to the campus by WMG’s Director Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya, and The Vice–Chancellor Professor Nigel Thrift.

Among the many other ministers attending were: Chancellor of the Exchequer the Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP; Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, First Secretary and Lord President of the Council the Rt Hon Lord Mandelson; Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal the Rt Hon Harriet Harman; Secretary of State for the Home Department Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP; Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP; Secretary of State for Defence Rt Hon Bob Ainsworth MP; and the Minister for the West Midlands Ian Austin MP.

The Queen has formally presented the University of Warwick and WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group) with a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education at a special ceremony and reception at Buckingham Palace on Friday 19th February.

The Midlands has been designated a new Low Carbon Economic Area (LCEA) and is to receive £19 million of government funding for research into and development of low carbon vehicles. The news was announced today, Thursday 11th February 2010, by Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, in a special visit to the University of Warwick’s Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG).

Dr Kim Howells, Member of Parliament for Pontypridd and graduate of Warwick University, recently visited WMG. During his visit Dr Howells held discussions with Professor Lord Bhattacharyya, before undertaking a tour of the International Digital Laboratory, with a specific focus on the research of the e-security team.

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Oli Blair and Shargil Ahmad from the Dyson Task Force recently visited WMG, to see for themselves the innovative approach taken by the Group to deliver real world solutions to industry.