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University of Malta. Outstanding Past Bright Future. Functions. Third Generation University Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching Individual and Corporate Research Direct Action to stimulate sustainable socio-economic wellbeing. University of Malta. Outstanding Past Bright Future.
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University of Malta Outstanding Past Bright Future
Functions • Third Generation University • Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching • Individual and Corporate Research • Direct Action to stimulate sustainable socio-economic wellbeing. University of Malta Outstanding Past Bright Future
Functions • 14 Faculties that cover most disciplines – Centers and Institutes that combine research and inter-disciplinarity. • Undergraduate programmes now number some 700. • Postgraduate Masters Programmes on the increase with programmes jointly hosted with a number of EU and American Universities.
Functions • Postgraduate Ph.D. Studies on the increase require some 50 Ph.D. graduates per year. • Laboratories upgraded but still need to do more on this front. • Corporate research has just started to make inroads.
Functions • Knowledge Transfer Office up and running. • Entrepreneurship and Business Incubation Centre inaugurated. • Joint initiative with University of Oxford to implement entrepreneurship programmes at a number of levels including Masters. • Business incubation of projects seen to have business potential.
Horizon2020 • Research Community to provide for the business of today but more importantly that of the Future. • Examples – Digital Games – Creative Industry Molecular Medicine – Health MEMS – Manufacturing Industry Web Security – ICT Climate Adaptation Sustainable Living
FP7 • 46 projects that total some Euro 10 million • Per capita number among top 10 • Per income per capita also among top 10.
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MEMS Devices designed at UoM • 3-axis accelerometers and inertial sensors • Microphones • High performance tunable passive devices for mw applications Animations of the designed MEMS Accelerometers 15
LAB4MEMS ENIAC JU Project 2013 - 2016 • UoM is mainly involved in 2 work-packages: • WP2: • Design of test structures for the characterisation of Anisotropic Magnetoresistive (AMR) films for MEMS 3-D compass devices. • Design of piezo-actuated MEMS capacitor for RF coupling application. • Design of a piezo-actuated resonator for RF application. • WP4: • Modelling of the curing effects of epoxy compound on silicon substrates: this work is related to the modelling of 3-D packaging on the silicon devices and includes modelling of the visco-elastic properties, glass transition temperature and TCE mismatch and shrinkage.
ISSA • Contribution to the Square Kilometre Array has been funded through FP-6 and FP-7 Programmes. • Contribution to the Cluster of Research Infrastructures in Physics (CRISP – funded through FP-7) Work Package Leader for developing common software platforms for the use in large Particle Physics experiments (CERN, XFEL and DESY). • Work Package Leader in the “Intelligent Fast Interconnected and Efficient Devices for Frontier Exploitation in Research and Industry" which is sponsored through a MARIE-CURIE FP7 Initial Training Network (ITN).
Research in Aeronautics • Since 2003 activity has grown today to address multiple research programmes, focussing on European Research (FP6/7) and National Funding (R&I) • European Research Projects: Flysafe, Odicis, Alicia, Across, Clean Sky • National Research Projects: Touch Flight, Clean Flight, Clean Flight 2 • •Developed strong multi-disciplinary skills: • * Operational Safety * Operational Efficiency * Optimisation studies • * Cockpit HMI design * Safety-critical Surveillance * Air Traffic Management • * Flight Guidance, Navigation and Control * Safety Assessment • •10 external contracts worth €3.5 Million • •68 academic papers, 4 patents, 87 research contract documents • •5 National/International Awards and Nominations since 2010 • •Hosted 13 international events, bringing European industry to Malta • •Contributed to international strategic documents • (ACARE, RTCA/Eurocae, etc)