Professor Bruce Drinkwater
B.Eng., Ph.D.(Lond.), A.C.G.I., D.I.C., C.Eng., F.I.Mech.E., F.Inst.NDT, M.Inst.P.
Current positions
Professor of Ultrasonics
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Contact
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Research interests
Ultrasonics; Non-Destructive Testing (NDT); Ultrasonic arrays; Ultrasonic particle manipulation.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Acoustic Interactive Microscopy
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/02/2025 to 31/01/2030
Acoustic Interactive Microscopy
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/02/2025 to 31/01/2030
Symmetry-breaking Technologies for Cerebral Organoid Engineering
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/11/2021 to 31/10/2025
Symmetry-breaking Technologies for Cerebral Organoid Engineering
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/11/2021 to 31/10/2025
8036 GLIMMER
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/04/2021 to 31/03/2024
Thesis supervisions
Improved Defect Characterisation Using Ultrasonic Arrays
Supervisors
Towards Arbitrary Acoustic Force Fields
Supervisors
Nonlinear Dynamics of Phased Array Levitators
Supervisors
The Molecular Mechanisms of Ultrasound Neuromodulation
Supervisors
Scaling down acoustic manipulation technology and its applications in the biomedical sector
Supervisors
Low-frequency vibration inspection of sandwich composite
Supervisors
Nonlinear Ultrasonic Imaging Techniques for Non-Destructive Testing
Supervisors
An ultrasonic array system for long-term localised structural health monitoring
Supervisors
A General Approach To Model Assisted Qualication of Non-Destructive Inspections
Supervisors
Now you hear me, now you don’t
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/02/2026A dual-resolution acoustic-sensing robot for autonomous in-pipe inspection
Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology
A hardware compressed sensing method for ultrasonic imaging
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical
A multi-view ultrasonic imaging solution for buried sewer pipe inspection
Ultrasonics
Compact metamaterial plates for acoustic wave steering and focusing across an ultra-broad frequency bandwidth in MHz imaging applications
Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
Engineering the acoustic field with a Mie scatterer for microparticle patterning
Lab on a Chip
Related people
Dr Jie Zhang
Senior Research Fellow
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Professor Anthony Croxford
Professor of Ultrasonics and Dynamics
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Professor Marc Holderied
Professor of Sensory Biology
School of Biological Sciences
Dr Daniel Whitcomb
Senior Lecturer in Translational Neuroscience
School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Dr Tom Hill
Lecturer
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering