News in 2022
- Composites CDT and MSc students visit the National Composites Centre 12 December 2022 This engagement day provided students with a tour of the facilities, presentations, and a chance to mix with fellow student cohorts.
- Dept of Aerospace Engineering Success at Royal Aeronautical Society Awards Evening 29 November 2022
- Egg Challenge 6.0: Top Fun Maveregg 28 November 2022 Rebooted Bristol Composites Institute PhD student egg challenge flies to new heights
- CoSeM CDT design, build & test project video 23 November 2022 This new video from the CoSEM CDT presents the work of the 2021 cohort as they undertake their ‘DBT’ project.
- CoSEM CDT student wins innovation prize 2 November 2022 Ph.D. student and Molydyn CEO, Matt Bone, receives Blavatnik Prize for Innovation from Bristol-based VC funders QantX
- Fifth international workshop in the measuring strength series 20 October 2022 Professors Michael Wisnom of Bristol Composites Institute, Yentl Swolfs of KU Leuven and Federico Paris of the University of Seville hosted an online workshop on Transverse Strength on 20th October.
- Celebrating ten years of SPHERE 19 October 2022 On 12 October SPHERE (a Sensor Platform for HEalthcare in a Residential Environment), the flagship digital health research EPSRC programme at the University celebrated a decade.
- Bristol Composites Institute at Glastonbury Festival 12 August 2022 A group of 5 researchers and academics from the Bristol Composites Institute and Bristol Department of Aerospace Engineering recently attended the 2022 Glastonbury Festival led by Dr Benjamin Woods.
- Bristol Composites Institute Graduation Celebration 19 July 2022 On the 11th of July Bristol Composites Institute (BCI) hosted a celebratory event in the Bill Brown Atrium to congratulate its latest PhD graduates.
- Professor Ivana Partridge retirement 24 June 2022 After several years of working part time at University of Bristol, Professor Ivana Partridge decided to retire at the end of May 2022. Ivana is well known figure in the composites community she has had a distinguished career spanning many years. She leaves behind her the legacy of the Industrial Doctoral Centre (IDC) in Composites Manufacture which will continue under the leadership of Professor Janice Barton.
- Industrial Doctorate Centre at ECCM20 22 June 2022 We are pleased to announce that a team of EngD students from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funded Industrial Doctorate Centre in Composites Manufacture will be presenting their latest work at ECCM 20 (the 20th European Conference on Composite Materials) in Lausanne, Switzerland – 26-30 June 2022.
- Bristol’s High Performance Computing Group focuses on Performance Portability as new Intel oneAPI Center of Excellence 26 May 2022 The University of Bristol’s High Performance Computing (HPC) Research Group has established an Intel oneAPI Center of Excellence, building on its history of close collaboration with Intel on performance portability and advanced computer architectures. The Center is developing best practices for achieving performance portability at exascale using oneAPI open cross-architecture programming and the Khronos Group’s SYCL abstraction layer for cross-platform heterogeneous programming, ensuring that scientific codes can achieve high performance on massive heterogeneous supercomputing systems.
- £2.5m grant boosts carbon reduction for Bristol’s newest research hub 16 May 2022 The University of Bristol’s commitment to sustainability took a significant step forward today (Monday 16 May) with a £2.5 million grant to embed carbon reduction technologies and practices in its first research and innovation hub at Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus.
- Bristol Composites Institute researchers overcome key design challenges in upscaling wind turbines for greater energy output 6 May 2022 Research from Dr Terence Macquart, Associate Professor Alberto Pirrera, and Professor Paul Weaver into the aerodynamic and structural engineering of extremely long (120 m plus) blades is supporting the development of larger wind turbines sought by industry.
- New CyBOK-related resources for educators released, developed through funded projects 31 March 2022 Following a community call in August 2021, the second instalment of CyBOK-related resources developed by our funded small projects are now available to view.
- University of Bristol and the National Composite Centre make key strategic appointments to enable net zero future 21 March 2022 The University of Bristol and the National Composite Centre (NCC) are strengthening their partnership with the appointment of three leading figures from the composite materials sector, to help enable a net zero future for the UK.
- Fourth international workshop in the measuring strength series 16 March 2022 Professors Michael Wisnom of Bristol Composite Institute, Yentl Swolfs of KU Leuven and Professor Federico Paris of the University of Seville hosted a successful online workshop on Shear Strength on 7 March.
- Perspectives in Hybrid Autonomous Systems Engineering (PHASE 2022) 2 March 2022 The Perspectives in Hybrid Autonomous Systems Engineering (PHASE 2022) in-person symposium will bring together experts from academia and industry to discuss and debate what the next generations of autonomous systems will look like - systems that must be designed to have the human in or on the loop. Themes will range across human factors, systems, architecture, ethics, trust, robotics and autonomy.
