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Libor Sečka Ambassador of the Czech Republic in London
College of Engineering
Tuesday, 7th February 2017
Professor Johann Sienz Deputy Head of College
Swansea University
• Swansea University was founded in 1920 to serve the
local chemical and metallurgy industries of the day.
• Engineering and Metallurgy were among the founding
departments
Swansea University
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Swansea University
• Our REF ranking of 26th was the “biggest leap among research-intensive institutions”, according to Times Higher Education. Now, as the university nears its centenary year in 2020, we have new goals. They are to: • Become a UK top 30-ranked university by 2018 • Continue our ambitious expansion plans • Extend our global reach; and • Move closer to becoming one of the world’s top 200
universities.
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Swansea University
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College of Engineering on the Bay Campus – opened September 2015
The campus provides brand new lecture theatres, tutorial and seminar rooms, PC rooms, a Learning and Resource Centre and 800-seater multi-purpose auditorium. The Bay Campus is the home to innovative and world class Engineering facilities, with brand new workshops, labs, practical space and equipment. The five buildings in the Engineering Quarter include:
• Engineering Central • Engineering East • The Energy Safety Research Institute • The Institute of Structural Materials • The Active Classroom • IMPACT (mid 2019)
The Transformation of Engineering at
Swansea – Engineering v1.0 (1920 to 1968)
The Transformation of Engineering at
Swansea – Engineering v2.0 (1968 to 2015)
The Transformation of Engineering at
Swansea – Engineering v3.0 (2015 onwards)
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Bay Campus
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Bay Campus
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College of Engineering Student/Staff Overview
•3,100 undergraduate students
• 500 postgraduate students
• International student population from over 70 countries
• 140+ Academic/Teaching Staff – 18 new academic jobs due to be advertised before Christmas 2016
• 85+ Support Staff
•200 + Research staff
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College of Engineering Staff Academic staff are broadly divided into 3 core pathways but all work collaboratively and across all areas Research pathway staff are grouped within four Research Centres, each being multidisciplinary and housing a number of research groups • Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering (ZC2E) • Materials Research Centre (MRC) • Systems and Process Engineering Centre (SPEC) • Applied Sports Technology Exercise and Medicine (A-STEM)
Teaching pathway staff sit within our Learning and Teaching Enhancement Centre – focus on driving innovative delivery and excellence. Innovation and Engagement pathway staff are grouped together and work on major cross-cutting theme initiatives across the College
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10 Year Growth Plan • Student number growth
(undergraduate, postgraduate taught and postgraduate research) through existing degree schemes and delivery modes and new schemes and delivery modes
• Staff number growth • Research Income and Profile
growth • Campus Expansion • Increased links with industry and
impact of research at Swansea • New Areas, e.g. robotics, industrial
internet
College of Engineering – Economic Projection
College of Engineering Skills Triangle
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Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014
The REF shows that 94% of research produced by our academic staff is of World-Leading (4*) or Internationally Excellent (3*) quality. This has increased from 73% in the 2008 RAE. Highlights of the Engineering results according to the General Engineering Unit of Assessment include: • Research Environment at Swansea ranked 2nd in the UK • Research ranked 10th in the UK • Research Power (3*/4* Equivalent staff) ranked 10th in the UK
College of
Engineering
–
Engineering
Excellence
College of Engineering: Research Groups
Systems and Process Engineering Centre • Nanomedicine and Bio-Nanotechnology • Nanomaterials and Nanosensors • Polymers at interfaces and in thin films • Nano-Optics and scanning near-field optical microscopy • Wide Band-Gap Semi-Conductors • Photonics • Wireless Technologies and Networks
Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering • Computational Aerospace Engineering and Structures • Computational Biomedical Engineering and Rheology • Computational Methods in Engineering • Computational Energy and Environment • Computational Nanostructures • Computational Solids, Structures and Coupled Systems
Materials Research Centre • Functional Coatings and Corrosion • Institute of Structural Materials • Advanced Materials Characterisation
Applied Sports Technology Exercise and Medicine • Exercise Medicine and Health • Elite and Professional Sport
Computational solution
(a) mathematical model
(c) computer solution
(d) analysis of the results
Olek Zienkiewicz
1921––2009
(b) approximation
Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering
Airbus, DASA, ESA, NASA, Rolls Royce, Boeing, Astrazeneca, Rio Tinto, …
M2A (24 doctorates PA
£14m)Manufacturing and Materials
AIM Advanced Imaging of Materials
£14.4m from applications to
atoms
SPECIFIC IKC£47m EPSRC Industry
WGBuildings as
Powerstations
Institute of Structural Materials
£30m EPSRC Innovate Gas turbine and high
temperature Materials testing
modelling processing Products
manufacturing Functional materials
metallurgy
Materials Research Centre @ Swansea
College of Engineering
Bloodhound SSC
An Engineering Adventure The BLOODHOUND Supersonic Car (SSC) aims to increase the land speed record by over 30% to 1000mph by 2014. Swansea University’s primary role is the development of the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technology. Professor Oubay Hassan awarded MBE for contribution to the THRUST SSC (current LSR holder) also designed at Swansea University.
www.swansea.ac.uk/engineering
High speed particle entrainment modelling
Complex geometry processing:
>600 surfaces >1,500 intersection curves
Re~40million M ∞ ≤ 1.4
Aerodynamic Design of the BLOODHOUND SSC Land Speed Record Vehicle
~100 million cells ~35 viscous layers
Aerodynamic modelling at Swansea University has guided the BLOODHOUND design to its
final, optimised shape. Vehicle build is due to be completed by 2014 with testing in 2015 &
2016.
CFD: FLITE3D – developed as a research code at Swansea University, now
used extensively in industry (BAE Systems, Airbus, BLOODHOUND)
College of Engineering
Centre for Innovative
Manufacturing
£1.4 million received from the Engineering and Physical Research Council (ESPRC) for Swansea’s new Centre for Innovative Manufacturing Recognised as one of the UK’s leading academic centres for excellence by the EPSRC National centre to be created with world-class expertise in design, development and fabrication and characterisation of a range of devices, materials and processes.
www.swansea.ac.uk/engineering
College of Engineering
Centre for Nanohealth
£22 million Centre for Nanohealth • Combining physics, chemistry, biology and medicine • Applications-driven research and technology transfer from laboratory to health centre • Ground-breaking innovative research
www.swansea.ac.uk/engineering
College of Engineering
University
Technology Partnership
Professor Martin Bache Next generation aircraft engine Swansea is one of the 3 UTPs in UK: Swansea - Cambridge – Birmingham • Over 30 years working with Rolls-Royce • Research taking place here has led directly to component design • Research in progress consistently exceeding £6.6 million
www.swansea.ac.uk/engineering
@ BBIC
@ PMRC
@ SAIC
@ SHED
SPECIFIC - A UK accredited Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC)
A National Innovation & Knowledge Centre
• A vision to create Buildings as Power Stations
where buildings generate, store and release their
own energy
• 150 + People £50m project
• 50 partners from research and industry
• A pipeline of technology to be commercialised by
industry
• Functional coatings on glass and steel
• Systems integration and demonstration at
buildings scale
• Unique facilities to scale up new technologies
• Bringing together construction and energy for a
distributed energy system
Additive Layer Manufacture Role
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Materials Engineering Modelling
Understanding Designing Building parts
ASTUTE Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies
A Partnership for Prosperity
The £27 million project targets the aerospace and automotive sectors, as well as other high technology manufacturing companies to create sustainable, higher value goods and services and bring them to a global market. The project is led by Swansea University, in collaboration with the Universities of Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff, Cardiff Metropolitan, Glyndŵr, Swansea Metropolitan, University of Wales Trinity St David, and the University of Wales, Newport.
The £27 million project targets the aerospace and automotive sectors, as well as other high technology manufacturing companies to create sustainable, higher value goods and services and bring them to a global market. The project is led by Swansea University, in collaboration with the Universities of Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff, Cardiff Metropolitan, Glyndŵr, Swansea Metropolitan, University of Wales Trinity St David, and the University of Wales, Newport.
ASTUTE Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing
Technologies
A Partnership for Prosperity
• Pan-Wales Partnership of Universities
• True “Industry – Academia” Collaboration at core
• Development and Embedding of technologies / knowledge transfer
“Ease of use”
Five year Project from May 2010 – April 2015
Staff: ~ 60 technical, ~10 administrative
Plus academic expertise (from ~50 academics) and access to equipment across partnership
Economic Impact
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Employability
Graduate recruitment.
Careers Fairs.
Employer talks.
Site visits.
Promotion of opportunities.
Placements – 1 year placements or summer.
Student Mentoring.
Curriculum development.
Training / CPD.
Proposal for an Enhanced IMPACT Operation Innovative Materials, Processing and Numerical
Technologies
Approved Proposal for an Enhanced IMPACT
Operation Innovative Materials, Processing and Numerical
Technologies
Contact Details: Swansea University, College of Engineering, Bay Campus, Fabian Way Swansea, SA1 8EN, UK Tel: +44 (0)1792 295514 Email: [email protected]
