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Schools in College of Science and Engineering

Schools in College of Science and Engineering. Biological Sciences GeoSciences (Geology, Geophysics, Geography, Ecology) ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS (Chemical, Civil & Environmental, Electronics, Mechanical) Informatics (Computer Sci, Cognitive Sci, AI) Physics Chemistry Mathematics.

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Schools in College of Science and Engineering

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  1. Schools in College of Science and Engineering • Biological Sciences • GeoSciences (Geology, Geophysics, Geography, Ecology) • ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS(Chemical, Civil & Environmental, Electronics, Mechanical) • Informatics (Computer Sci, Cognitive Sci, AI) • Physics • Chemistry • Mathematics Page 1

  2. Engineering and Electronics • Academic: 85 • Academic/Industry part-time: 5 • Support: (technical, computing and clerical) 50 • Research: 66 • Salaried staff total: 200+ • PhD research students: 175 • Total School headcount: 380+ Page 2

  3. MSc Courses • Signal Processing and Communication - 2 Degrees • Sustainable Energy Systems • Structures and Fire Safety Engineering (2008) • Electronics: Analogue Design (2009) • Bio-Electronics (2009) • Structural Engineering with Mechanics • (joint degree taught in Edinburgh and Glasgow) • System Level Integration (4 Univ degree) • (taught at Livingston with HWU, UoG, UoS) Page 3

  4. Engineering and Electronics • 5 Research Institutes • Inst. Staff PDRAs PhDs • Materials and Processes 19 20 29 • Intgd Micro & Nano Syst 16 27 29 • Digital Communications 12 18 43 • Infrastructure & Envt 21+ 8 40 • Energy Systems 13 9 26 Page 4

  5. Engineering and Electronics • Annual Research Metrics • Inst. Spend J.Papers Int.Confs • Materials and Processes £1800k 48 25 • Intgd Micro & Nano Syst £1600k 37 50 • Digital Communications £1900k 16 48 • Infrastructure & Envt £1000k 42 40 • Energy Systems £1100k 33 34 Page 5

  6. Materials and Processes • Nanostructured materials • Advanced materials applications • Fluid and particle dynamics • Micro- nano- and chemomechanics • Manufacturing and process optimisation • Biomedical engineering Page 6

  7. Integrated Systems: Design • Digital design techniques and applications • Low-power, embedded and “worn” System-on-Chip • Evolutionary SoC “design” • Mixed-mode design • Neuromorphic, bio-inspired hardware • Sensor processing • Visual, chemical, olfactory • Design for < 50nm devices • New physics need new paradigms Page 7

  8. Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) • e.g. deformable mirrors, IR bolometer for JCM telescope on Hawaii, RF MEMS Integrated Systems: Fabrication • Full CMOS capability located in the SMC • Used for research - not as a Si foundry • I-line stepper lithography on wafers up to 200mm • Imaging and analysis (MIAC) • FIB, AFM and SEMs • Post-processing – e.g. Micro-displays • Post-processing of foundry CMOS wafer to prepare for liquid crystal Page 8

  9. Signal and Image Processing Page 9

  10. Civil and Environmental Eng. • Four broad research areas: • Environmental engineering • Silos & granular solids • Structures & fire safety • NDT & construction management • With focus on interdisciplinary and emerging fields • Contaminated Land Assessment & Remediation Research Centre (CLARRC)

  11. Energy: Areas of Research Operation and Control • Evolutionary computing • Condition monitoring • Fluid modelling Environmental Mitigation • Coastal erosion /defence • Resource / consequence mgt. Power Electronics • Bulk power conditioning • Switched-mode power supplies • Renewable Energy Conversion • Wave • Tidal stream • Wind • Energy Transport and Storage • Mechanical/chemical/electrical means • Network Delivery • Network integration • Regulatory and commercial

  12. Fellowship Awards • 1990-date Carillion Chair - Prof Forde • 2001-08 Lloyds TSB Personal Award - Prof Jack • 2003-06 BAE SYSTEMS/RAEng Chair - Prof Mulgrew • 2003-08 EPSRC Advanced Fellow - Dr Elfick • 2004-09 BRE/RAEng Chair - Prof Torero • 2005-08 UKERC - Prof Wallace, lecturer replacement • 2006-09 Selex S&AS/RAEng Chair - Prof Mulgrew • 2008-13 Arup/RAEng Senior Fellow – Dr Bisby Page 12

  13. Major Prizes and Awards • 2000 Society Info Display, Ben Sturgeon - Dr Underwood • 2001 RS Brian Mercer, for Innovation - Prof Hall • 2001 Ford Conservation Award - C Cunningham • 2001 Highly rated TCS, Diagnostic Instruments - Prof Grant • 2002 Scottish Entrepreneur Award - Dr Hounsell • 2003 UK Entrepreneur of Year - Prof Milne • 2003 Scottish Emerging Entrepreneur - Prof Underwood • 2005 EURASIP Meritorius service - Prof Grant • 2006 IGEM, MIT – USA, Best real world application, best poster, 3rd best device – Dr Elfick • 2006 EPSRC KT Challenge, one of 5 finalists out of 41 entrants • 2007 EURASIP Fellow – Prof Grant • 2008 Rank Prize – Dr Renshaw Page 13

  14. Paper Prizes 2007 • Edinburgh Student paper competition, Runner up – ICE - Jennifer Campbell, Dr Smith • Second Place, (UG) Student Paper Prize – David Snorrason, Dr Welch • SET Early Career researcher – House Commons - Tom Bishop, Dr Hopgood • Symposium Fire and Explosion Hazards, best paper – Dr Rein, Prof Torero • IWANN, Best Paper – Dr Hamilton, Prof Cheung • Furlong Research Best Medical Engineering PhD prize – IMechE - Andrew Phillips, Dr Pankaj • Bodycote Warrington – Fire Group award • IEEE ICASSP Conference, best paper – Dr Thompson • David Hislop Award – ICE – Prof Bryden • Nanoscience & Nanotechnologies Workshop, best paper – Emmanouil Glynos, Dr Koutsos • Scottish Geotechnical Group, poster - Vicky Wilson, Dr Giannopoulos Page 14

  15. Primary Spin-out Companies • Wolfson Microelectronics Ltd, 1985 - floated 2003, 300 staff • Vision Group, 1992 - CMOS cameras, sold 1999 to STMicro • MicroEmissive Displays, 2000 - floated 2004, 40 staff • Elektrobit (UK), 1999-04 - mobile comms, 7 staff • DEM Solutions, 2002 - finite element modelling, 14 staff • Predictions software, 2003 - semiconductor process, 2 staff • Spiral Gateway, 2004 - low power IC design, 7 staff • Conversatec, 2005 - language translation, 2 staff Page 15

  16. Secondary Spin-outs • Edinburgh Designs, 1988 - wave tanks, 7 staff • Walmsley Electronics, 1992 - system design • Indigo Vision, 1994 - videobridges, floated 2000 • Artemis Intelligent Power, 1994 - Machine control, 18 staff • Pelamis Wave Power, 1998 - wave energy, 50 staff • Tirna Electronics, 2003 - filter/circuit design, 3 staff • Dukosi, 2003 - custom circuit design, 4 staff • Artilium (TriSent), 2004 - mobile positioning, 3 staff • Sauer-Danfoss, 2004 - hydraulics, 10 staff Page 16

  17. Student Start-up Companies • (Hounsell) - Critical Blue, 2001 – EDA - 20 staff • Peacock – IceRobotics, 2001 - 6 staff • Buckingham – ReacTec, 2001 - smart ski technology - 10 staff • Silverton - Renewable Devices, 2002 – wind energy - 20 staff • Hounsell - Indexed-on, 2005 - software recovery - 3 staff • Ahmadian – Eleotech, 2005 – ultrasound – 2 staff • RSE Fellowship Awards: Hounsell, Peacock, Favier, Cowper, Sherlock Page 17

  18. Proof of Concept (SEn) Awards • Walton - Microelectronics facilities • Thompson and Renshaw - Low power asynchronous ASIC design • Cowper, Dripps, Murray - Hitech alarms • Graham and Arslan - IP cores for low-power systems • Jack - Virtual teachers for language learning • Arslan - GPS attitude/position determination • Mueller - Low speed and lightweight renewable electricity generation • Gerhard and Torero - Remediation of subsurface contamination • Elfick - Chemical sensitivity analysis • Cheung - Low power robust mechanical resonators • Schaefer - Water purification Page 18

  19. Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP/TCS) • Monitor Mgt Control Systems - Project management • Advanced Cutting Solns – Water jet cutting • Artemis – Wind turbine controller • Tarmac – Monitor earth mover performance • EKC Technology – New photoresist stripping techniques • Cedardell – Neonatal monitoring • Realm – Biological waste remediation • Ion beam services - Parts inventory management software • CSC Crop protection – Land remediation • DEM Solutions – Improved discrete element modelling • Powerwall - Fire resistant wall coverings • Wren & Bell – Improved land reclamation • Environmental Reclamation Services – Land decontamination • National semiconductors – Integrated circuit design • Caltech ltd – environmental clean up Page 19

  20. Industrial Research Funding by Institute • IMP: Schlumberger, Mitsui Babcock, Jaguar, Air Products, Phillips • IMNS: Japanese drug company, Applied Materials, BAE SYSTEMS, QinetiQ • IDCoM: Lloyds TSB, BAE SYSTEMS, Nortel, Samsung, LG, Toshiba, Baker Hughes Atlas, Fujitsu, Vodafone, Lucent • IIE: BRE, Highways Agency, Network Rail, National Grid, BUCRA, Carillion, Ove Arup, Fluent, Norsk Hydro • IES: Scottish Power, Minebea, AEA Technology, Conoco

  21. Selection of Patent Awards • Patent, Inventor, Year, Lic (L) or Ass (A): • Materials analysis, Hall, 2001 US, EU • Semiconductor Chip yield, Allan, 2002, Predictions Software (L) • Resource Metric Estm, McLaughlin, 2002, PCT, MVCE (A) • Speech dialogues, McInnes, 2003 BT (A) • Comms routing, Laurenson, 2004 MVCE (A) • Logic reduction/detection circuit, Renshaw, 2004 • Rapid prototype ASIC, Arslan, 2004 PCT • TDD/FDD, Haas, 2004 PCT • High survivability MANETs, Laurenson, 2005 PCT, US, MVCE (A) • Wireless spectrum sharing Piconets, Laurenson, 2005 PCT, MVCE (A) • Reconfigurable Instruction Cell, Arslan, 2006 PCT • Storm Drain Filter, Cunningham, 2006 PCT • Contaminated Land Remediation, Torero/Rein, 2006 PCT • Underwater Equipment, Bryden, 2006 PCT • Encoding and Decoding Methoda, Arslan, 2007 PCT • Magnetic Flux, Mueller, 2007 PCT Page 21

  22. Major Research Awards • Astro. Detect. (SCUBA-2), PPARC, Walton, £0.7M • Fundamentals of materials, Leverhulme, Hall, £2.0M • Strategic Alliance, BAE SYSTEMS, Mulgrew, £0.65M • Primitive Computation, EPSRC, Arslan, £0.5M • Intelligent drug delivery, Walton, £0.64M • Nanometric investigation, Elfick, £0.6M • UKEnergyResCent, EPSRC, Wallace, Bialek, £1.4M • WINES - ESPACENET, EPSRC, Arslan, £1M • Firegrid, EPSRC, Usmani, Torero, £0.9M • Challenging Engineering, EPSRC, Elfick, £1.2M • e-commerce, Lloyds TSB, Jack, £4.95M • SuperGen 2, EPSRC, Wallace, Bialek, £6M • Integrated Inductors, National Semic, Walton, $2.7M • Carbon Capture, EPSRC S&I, Brandani, £1M Page 22

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