Schools in College of Science and Engineering

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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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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

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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)

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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

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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

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Materials and Processes

• Nanostructured materials
• Advanced materials applications
• Fluid and particle dynamics
• Micro- nano- and chemomechanics
• Manufacturing and process optimisation
• Biomedical engineering

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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 lt 50nm devices
• New physics ??need new paradigms

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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

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Signal and Image Processing
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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)

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• Renewable Energy Conversion
• Wave
• Tidal stream
• Wind
• Energy Transport and Storage
• Mechanical/chemical/electrical means
• Network Delivery
• Network integration
• Regulatory and commercial

• 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

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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 SAS/RAEng Chair - Prof Mulgrew
• 2008-13 Arup/RAEng Senior Fellow Dr Bisby

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 SI, Brandani, 1M

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