MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Annual Review 2018 www.bath.ac.uk/mech-eng Welcome to the Annual Review 2018 by Professor Gary Lock, Head of Department Mechanical Engineering helps solve the world’s greatest for Mechanical Engineering with a wide range of events: challenges: it supports sustainability, and improves our health conventional and electric-powered motor racing; eco-challenge; and quality of life; it drives our economy, and creates wealth TT Zero; rockets and autonomous drones. and opportunity for everyone; it is the engine driving change This Annual Review will provide an overview of the breadth and responding to social challenges. There are two principal and diversity of teaching and research activities in the ambitions for our Department, both with the aim to provide a Department. The Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion bright, global future: generate world-class research and produce Systems is a new £60M global centre of excellence, delivering graduates of the highest quality. Clearly these ambitions require transformational research and innovation into advanced the full diversity of talent and widest opportunity, starting at propulsion systems. A new £5.9M Supergen Bioenergy Hub will primary education and rising to the top levels of decision- research methods to reduce carbon emissions. Professor Linda making and leadership. Newnes, the first female Professor in 52 years of Mechanical Success in terms of nurturing talent within our Department Engineering at Bath, is leading a £1.8M EPSRC grant aimed has been recognised through the Athena SWAN Bronze (2016) at designing the engineers of the future. Read inside: Minerva and Silver Awards (May 2018). Our widening-participation Owls, electricity in Uganda, turbomachinery, ocean waves, and activities to schools help raise awareness of mechanical and Autosport Williams Engineer of the Future Award. Finally, engineering and that it is a career path open to everyone. Our graduate employability remains excellent. There has been outreach has even extended to the Winter Olympics, with a sustained interest from engineering companies offering Dom Parsons (one of our PhD students and undergraduate opportunities to our graduates and the number of Mechanical from this Department) securing a bronze in the event. Engineering students on industrial placement has doubled in Our competition teams continue to be excellent ambassadors just five years. Contents RESEARCH DEPARTMENT NEWS IAAPS - Exciting new facility 2 Winter Olympic success 4 Platform Grant - EPSRC 3 Industrial Placement News 7 FELDSPAR project 3 Transforming Curriculum 8 Supergen Bioenergy Hub 3 Student Awards 10 Project DHarma Grant 3 Academic Staff Prizes 12 Olympic skates 4 Athena Swan - Silver Award 12 Turbomachinery Centre 4 New Engineering Business 12 Uganda Research Trip 5 Management programmes Minerva Owls 5 Professor Topolov 5 STUDENT COMPETITIONS Laster Acoustic Imaging 6 Launch of Bath Rocket Team 6 CONFERENCES Bath Drones Team 8 Luna Project 8 PhD Student prize winners 10 Hydrocon Team success 9 Biomechanics Symposium 10 Martins Zalmans F1 winner 9 ICDC 2018 10 Conference attendance 11

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New £60 million automotive facility - The Institute Professor Chris Brace for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems

The Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS) will be a global centre of excellence, delivering transformational research and innovation into advanced propulsion systems. Located at the Bristol and Bath Science Park, it will lead the development of future generations of ultra-low emission vehicles and attract sector- related businesses to the region, generating economic growth. IAAPS is scheduled to open in early 2020. The Institute will exploit the engineering expertise of the University of Bath for the benefit of the UK’s automotive industry. IAAPS will stimulate over £67m in additional automotive research investment by 2025, creating an additional turnover of £800 million for the UK automotive sector and supporting nearly 1,900 new highly productive jobs. Global companies, including McLaren, Ford, Jaguar Land Rover, Hofer Powertrain and HORIBA Group, as well as more local businesses such as HiETA Technologies, have been key to the success of the IAAPS concept. The support and advocacy of the Automotive Council and the Professor Chris Brace stated “Another future challenge is the worrying Advanced Propulsion Centre, alongside the support of the University’s and marked skills gap of advanced automotive engineers coming Industrial Partners will continue to play a key role as the vision through the system. IAAPS will build on our already well-established becomes reality. links with real-world industry to help address this.” Specialist facilities will make IAAPS a centre of excellence for training Professor Sam Akehurst, who heads up the current PhD offering at and skills development in automotive engineering, supporting new Bath, explains: “Compared to a lot of other universities, our PhDs get Apprenticeships, Honours Degrees, Masters and Doctoral courses, access to really relevant and often very challenging industrial problems helping to address the engineering skills shortage facing the UK rather than ‘academic problems’ per se. In terms of where they progress, automotive sector. we’ve seen excellent employment statistics with individuals working IAAPS will also support the development of a much larger and more in senior positions with influential industry partners. IAAPS will be competitive automotive business cluster in the South West by providing a scale up of what we’re doing currently and there’s a huge appetite access to its state-of-the art facilities to regional start-ups and small to for this. We’re getting more requests from companies for training or medium-sized companies. upskilling – and that primarily is through a PhD.” President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath, Professor Many of our PhD and MSc students will move directly into Dame Glynis Breakwell said: “I am delighted that IAAPS has received employment with organisations that supported their research during the support and backing of the Government. The University of Bath has their projects. 92 per cent of Bath alumni in mechanical engineering over 40 years of automotive research excellence in collaboration with are in employment or further study six months after leaving us. some of the world’s leading companies and is ideally placed to turn this Scaled up at through IAAPS, this training model will be a win-win for opportunity into a reality. UK automotive and for our students. “I look forward to this fantastic facility opening its doors in 2020, “It’s a truly exciting time to be involved in automotive research here at helping to ensure the UK maintains and expands its global position the University of Bath”, Professor Brace said. within the automotive sector.” “Our plans for IAAPS will dramatically help to push forward new Graham Hoare, Director of Global vehicle evaluation and verification at research with the potential for significant impacts advances in the area Ford Motor Company, commented: “IAAPS will build on the strength of low vehicle emissions in the years ahead. of the University of Bath’s competence in propulsion development The IAAPS project has now progressed to Design Development (RIBA to bring real world examples and real world environments into the Stage 3) and a procurement process is underway for the major research laboratory, a massive step forward in innovating propulsion systems.” equipment. Gavin Edwards has taken up the role of Programme Mark Mathieson, Chief Engineer Powertrain at McLaren Automotive, Director and will be joined by a newly appointed Project Manager added: “The window of opportunity to invest in this facility exists now. and Automotive Test Systems Lead Engineer in the coming months. The Institute will be of great benefit to McLaren’s programmes.” Construction works are expected to begin in August 2018”.

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£5.9m FEC Supergen Bioenergy Hub Grant Dr Marcelle McManus

As part of our global and national commitments to decreasing carbon development, industrialists in developing more cost-effective bioenergy emissions it is important that we make efficient use of our resources. solutions, and society in being confident that research is accelerating Dr Marcelle McManus is part of the new Supergen Bioenergy Hub low-carbon, resilient and sustainable bioenergy systems. (2018- 2022) and the funding from that will enable her and her team Pictured below: Seaweed with plastic waste - left and sugar cane - right. to create and model ways in which we can generate energy effectively Both of which can be turned into bioenergy. from biomass. This Hub brings together leading UK bioenergy research groups to develop sustainable bioenergy systems that support the UK’s transition to an affordable, resilient, low-carbon energy future. It will create novel ways to break down varying types of biomass to produce energy as well as exploring how to optimise the use of the resource we have. The Hub will support UK policy makers in ensuring they design mechanisms that facilitate sustainable bioenergy

Mechanical Engineering win £1.8m EPSRC Grant Professor Linda Newnes

The Department has been awarded £1.8m by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to establish a world leading research group aimed at designing the engineers of the future. Led by Professor Linda Newnes, of the University of Bath, the platform brings together academics and researchers from the universities of Bath, Bristol, and The University of West of England, and four industrial partners: Airbus Group Ltd, Moog Controls Ltd, Renishaw PLC and Cubik Innovation. The aim of the group is to undertake research to create a pipe-line of “transdisciplinary” design engineers, i.e. engineers of the future. This builds upon years of prior work here at the University of Bath in the mechanical engineering, design and manufacturing research group. Pictured above: The Research Team. Top row, left to right:- Emily Carey Traditional engineering working practices are based on bringing (Research Associate at Bath),Marcelle McManus, Richard Trask, Aydin Nassehi (University of Bristol). Bottom row: Susan Lattanzio, Glenn Parry together methods and techniques from across disciplines (i.e. (Professor at UWE), Linda Newnes, Ben Hicks (Professor at Bristol). manufacturing, materials science, and data management). However, to address the future manufacturing challenges it is not enough merely to expanding upon their individual career management plan and specific bring together expertise and knowledge it must be merged and in doing funding is being provided throughout the term of the grant for career so transcend current approaches and thinking. advancement activity, training and international secondments. A total of 20 academics/researchers will be contributing to the core We currently have an opportunity for a 2-year fixed term research of the five year platform grant. Future funding will be targeted to position as well as a funded PhD position (starting October 2018). sustain the research and early career researchers after 2022, hence a key For further detail of the positions available, or if you would like to output for success of the grant is ensuring the development and career become involved with the research, please contact Professor Newnes, progression for each member of the team. Each researcher will be [email protected].

£115k IAA Project -DHarMa Dr Joseph Flynn Dr Vimal Dhokia

Dr Joe Flynn and Dr Vimal Dhokia have successfully captured Once the engineering problem is defined in a computer-readable a £115k IAA project. The funding will be used to extend the Project format, the final arrangement of material is determined through DHarMa, and it supports Vimal’s new metal additive manufacturing a series of novel optimisation algorithms. laboratory. Through this research, we aim to significantly reduce the amount of This research addresses the complexity associated with designing material that is used to manufacture the components of tomorrow, parts for metal additive manufacturing (3D printing). We aim to whilst also reducing the number of design iterations required to move engineers away from designing parts by drawing them, and create parts that are high-performing and can be economically towards designing parts by describing their functional requirements. manufactured with confidence.

Sustainable Manufacturing Research Dr Evros Loukaides

Sustainable Manufacturing research at Bath takes a new direction with a grant awarded to Dr Evros Loukaides and a consortium of industrial partners. Th e IUK-funded FELDSPAR project will combine efforts from the University of Bath, Primetals Technologies, MTC, Chasestead and Nissan to take an immature, UK-invented, die-less forming technology and develop its application in automotive body panel manufacture. This follows a successful pilot project on Asymmetric Mandrel-Free Spinning of sheet metal, conducted by the University of Bath and Pictured above: Asymmetric Mandrel-Free Spinning is capable of funded by Nissan Motors Japan last year. Die-less forming processes producing a vast array of product geometries without the need for part- aim to shape metal without the need for expensive and wasteful specific tools. In early trials, a square cup was formed successfully. dedicated moulds for each part. www.bath.ac.uk/mech-eng 3 Annual Review 2018

Winter Olympic Success for PhD student Dom Parsons

Dom Parsons won Great Britain’s first medal of the with bronze in the men’s skeleton. He is a former runner but switched to skeleton in 2007 after being introduced to the sport at the bobsleigh and skeleton push-start track at the University of Bath. He is currently studying for a PhD in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is researching combustion in turbo-diesel engines. After a dramatic final run, Dom finished 0.11 seconds ahead of fourth- placed Martins Dukurs with a combined time of three minutes 22.20 seconds. He looked to have lost out on a medal until world champion Dukurs made mistakes on his final run. Dom said “the disappointment was crushing”. “It hasn’t really sunk in yet,” Parsons told BBC Sport. “I thought I’d lost it after that fourth run. It felt like it had gone. “But Martins Dukurs has made some more mistakes and he’s the last person I’d expect that from. It’s been great. All the work we’ve put in has paid off.” Dom finished 10th in four years ago, he is now back at the University combining his studies with his training and is looking forward to the Winter Olympics in 2022 in Beijing.

More winter Olympic News from the Department Dr Alborz Shokrani

Bath MechEng took part in Pyeongchang Winter by designing and manufacturing an optimised boot pillar for Team GB Short Track Skating team. Short Track Speed Skating is a high velocity, head-to-head racing sport that takes place on a 111.12m track, positioned on a 30 x 60m ice rink. pillars. The team used their knowledge and experience in finite element Races are mass start events in an anti-clockwise direction and athletes analysis and aerospace manufacturing to optimise the design of the lean hard to the left to help them get around the tight corners. Athletes skating boots’ pillars and manufacture them from aerospace grade wear custom made boots, with 0.45m long blades. A common problem aluminium. experienced by many athletes is that the bend and rocker of the blade gets pulled out of shape while skating. Another problem experienced Dr Dave Schorah - Performance Engineer for the GB Short Track by many athletes is one of instability, whereby they feel a lack of control Speed skating reported “We had the desire to redesign one of the when going into the lean in the corners. components of the speed skates used by our athletes. We worked with the Mechanical Engineering department at Bath to create a new design The team, consisting of Final Year student Henry Burrows, Senior that reduced the maximum stresses in the component under load, Technician David Wood and Lecturer Dr Alborz Shokrani, analysed allowing the skates to maintain their shape more consistently. This new the mechanics of the problem and designed and manufactured new product has been used by some of our strongest athletes, giving them a boot pillars which are not only lighter but also stronger than existing more secure feeling during skating compared to previous design.

Turbomachinery Research Centre on tour Professor Gary Lock

In April, the Turbomachinery Research Centre (TRC) were invited to Berlin to give technology lectures to Rolls-Royce Deutschland and Siemens. The TRC has projects on buoyancy-induced flow in compressor cavities with RR and secondary-air systems (SAS) with Siemens. Industrial colleagues from Florida, Mulheim and Montreal were in attendance. The visit included tours of the factories at both sites. The SAS technology leads at RR and Siemens (Roy Teuber and Kunyuan Zhou, respectively) are both PhD graduates from the TRC. Turbomachinery is critical for power and energy, with applications ranging from the generation of electricity, energy storage, waste heat recovery generation, gas compression and transport, and land, marine and aerospace propulsion. Currently the TRC has 23 members delivering collaborative industrial-academic research projects. Since 2013, six complex experimental rigs have been designed and built under EPSRC grants supported by industry with a combined portfolio of £3.9M. Impact is being delivered by addressing design procedures and testing components which are operating in engines using the most advanced technology.

Left to Right: The Team at Rolls Royce Dahlwhilz. Mike Owen, Hui Tang, Left to Right. Mike Wilson, Dario Luberti, Joshua Horwood, Hui Tang, James Scobie, Roy Teuber (Rolls Royce), Gary Lock, Mike Wilson, Dario Mike Owen, Gary Lock, Kunyuan Zhou (Siemens), James Scobie and Luberti, Carl Sangan. Carl Sangan.

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Minerva Owls Dr Vimal Dhokia

Just before Christmas we were approached to undertake a rather strange project to reverse engineer an owl! Thankfully this did not mean an actual owl but a half metre full clay model. This is the next incarnation of the Bath sculptures project which has included the famous Bladud’s Pigs (2008) and Lions of Bath (2010). Our work involved creating the 3D CAD models to facilitate mass manufacture of the owl sculpture which will appear in various locations throughout Bath this summer. Scanning was conducted by staff from the Advanced Design and Manufacture group (David Canepa Talamas and Vimal Dhokia) and CAMERA (Matthew Young) research centre. The ADM researches the emerging domain of generative design, design for additive manufacture and augmented reality to provide new ways in which to create products. CAMERA seeks to apply advances in computer science to other disciplines for greater benefit. They are working together to create new hyper-personalised prosthetic sockets for lower limb amputees and also offer consultancy based services for commercial clients. An Artec Eva portable scanner was used to enable successful scanning of the clay model of the owl. The scanner uses a structured light source to enable rapid scanning of geometry. The resulting point cloud representation of the owl model was then post processed to remove erroneous data points and enable creation of a full triangulated stereolithography model’. Dr Vimal Dhokia, Deputy Director of ADM says “The utilisation of emerging scanning and fabrication technologies is critical for realising the many new possibilities in design and manufacture, both across traditional engineering industries and into new areas such as personalised healthcare technologies.” Pictured opposite is David Canepa Talamas with the sculptor, Alan Dun.

Professor Topolov visits from Russia Professor Chris Bowen

Professor Vitaly Yu. Topolov is pictured here with Professor Chris Bowen during a visit to the Department of Mechanical Engineering in March of 2018. He is a regular visitor to Bath to collaborate in the research areas of ferroelectric and piezoelectric composites for transducer applications, these include sensors, hydrophones and energy harvesting. He is currently working with Prize Fellow Dr. Hamideh Khanbareh and Chris on a new book to be published by Springer in 2019. Professor V. Yu. Topolov is from the Department of Physics at Southern Federal University in Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation (see http:// phys.sfedu.ru/). He has published over 300 academic papers, over 10 review papers and chapters, fours books and three edited monographs.

Pictured opposite: Professor Topolov and Prof Chris Brace in The Lime Tree, University of Bath.

Expanding electricity access in Uganda

In September 2017, mechanical engineering PhD student Philipp Trotter gave a public lecture at Uganda’s Makerere University, one of Africa’s most prestigious higher education institutions. The lecture discussed the biggest challenges of expanding electricity access in the energy-deprived East African country. Being attended by roughly 100 mechanical engineering MSc students, professors and public sector stakeholders, the lecture argued that solar energy is best-suited to meet Uganda’s ambitious targets. Solar energy can be supplied both through and beyond the grid, combined with Uganda’s hydro resources to balance volatilities, and subsidy-funded to help poor people pay for electricity. The Ugandan government aims to increase electrification from currently 16% to 80% in 2040, which will provide electricity to approximately 35 million people in rural areas alone. www.bath.ac.uk/mech-eng 5 Annual Review 2018

Dr Alan Hunter and Laser-Acoustic Imaging of Breaking Ocean Waves Dr Chris Blenkinsopp

Understanding the physics of breaking waves has social and economic value relating to climate change. The increasing frequency and severity of storms is becoming a big problem for vulnerable coastal communities and knowledge of the mechanisms of coastal erosion caused by wave interactions with the beach can lead to the development of effective defence measures. Furthermore, breaking waves play a role in heat transfer across the interface between the atmosphere and the ocean and this is crucial for climate change modelling and forecasting. In the summer of 2017, researchers from the University of Bath’s Departments of Mechanical and Civil Engineering and the University of Plymouth conducted an experimental campaign at the Large Wave Flume (Grosse Wellen Kanal, GWK) in Hannover Germany. The facility is 5 m wide, 7 m deep, and 300 m long. Artificial beaches can be constructed at one end of the flume and a powerful paddle at the other end can generate customised waves. Pictured above is the Large Wave Flume in Hannover, Germany As part of the campaign, researchers from the University of Bath used advanced laser and acoustic sensors to measure the cross-sections of Together, these data have provided a new view into the composition, full-scale breaking waves in the flume. LiDAR (Light Detection And evolution and effect of breaking waves. The SoNAR has also provided Ranging) devices were used to map the profile of the water surface a new method for measuring the formation and migration of sand and the spray generated during wave breaking. At the same time, a bars during the erosion process. This work was funded by the EU SoNAR (Sound Navigation And Ranging) device was used to map the Commission and the Bath Alumni. The outcomes of the work are underwater air cavity and bubble plume generated as the overturning currently being prepared as two articles for submission to the IEEE wave impacts the water in front. Journal of Oceanic Engineering.

Continuing education for industrial engineers Professor Andrew Plummer

The Department’s undergraduate education and engineering research the Centre offers courses at different levels, starting with the basic activities are widely known about, but are you aware that we also have principles, and progressing to complex component characteristics and a long history in educating practising engineers? Short courses for system design. And with energy saving increasingly important, our Continued Professional Development (CPD) are offered by our Centre newest course, “Hydraulic Systems and Efficiency”, covers future low for Power Transmission and Motion Control (PTMC). energy loss technologies drawing on the Centre’s extensive research Although nowadays heavily involved in research, the Centre was expertise. We also develop bespoke courses tailored to a company’s originally founded in 1968 specifically to provide CPD courses in requirements, with recent examples delivered to Airbus (Landing Gear fluid power (i.e. hydraulic and pneumatic technologies). Fifty years Simulation), Meggitt Aircraft Braking Systems (Valve Modelling), and later, we still run five week-long courses a year in hydraulics, but also Mercedes Formula One (Hydraulics). After we celebrate PTMC’s 50th run courses in electrical drives, control systems, and mathematical Anniversary at our annual Fluid Power and Motion Control conference modelling and simulation. in September (acknowledged as the world’s leading research conference in the field), we look forward to providing continuing education to Over 5000 delegates have benefitted, from a wide range of industries engineers in the workforce for many decades to come! such as aerospace, automotive, marine, defence and many hydraulic system suppliers and users. The suite of courses is designed to improve delegates’ technical understanding enabling them to increase their effectiveness or to take on new challenges. In the hydraulics field www.bath.ac.uk/ptmc

Bath University Rocket Team - We have lift off ! Zsombor Sápi

We are pleased to announce the launch of the newest team of the by staff: Dr Michael Carley is the academic supervisor, Andrew Avent Department, the Bath University Rocket Team. BRT was founded and Dr Michael Wilson are the unit convenors of the GBDPs, and in summer 2017 by Zsombor Sápi, a PhD student, to fill the gap industrial partners are already showing interest. between the thriving aerospace industry of UK and the lack of rocket We hope that the project will be a success and it will put University of development in the region. Bath on the map of rocket industry. Catch up on the team on Facebook: However, the actual work was started as part of the Group Business and fb.com/BathRocketTeam Design Projects of Aerospace Engineer, Mechanical Engineer and IMEE students in the spring semester. 12 students form the first generation of the team to design a rocket which carries a 4 kg payload, reaches the target altitude of 3 km and gets recovered safely via a parachute. The manufactured and tested rocket will take part in the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC) in USA in summer 2019, competing against hundreds of teams around the world, representing our university as the first team from UK and EU. Taking part in the project is an excellent chance for the students to expand their knowledge and apply it in practice. The roles are covering propulsion, aerodynamics, structures, payload, manufacturing, systems and project management, just to mention a few. The experience of holding a manufactured part we designed in our hands is always fascinating, especially if it reaches the sky on the top of a rocket. Students are very excited and there is strong support provided Pictured above: Bath University Rocket Team

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Alison Ukleja, How to recruit Engineers Placement Team Manager

Reports of a graduate engineer shortage are common yet the recruitment process remains highly competitive and lengthy. Our advice is to keep it short and snappy. Britain’s industries report a major shortage of science and engineering students but our undergraduates and graduates still need to compete in a rigorous recruitment process. The Engineer magazine’s recent investigation across the engineering community revealed an uneven jobs market, in which large, well-known firms have both the natural pull and the marketing budgets to attract huge numbers of applications, leading many graduates to end up fighting over the same few jobs. The smaller companies, especially those in rural locations and less well- understood product areas, struggle to get enough applicants to fill their roles, let alone compete for the best engineers. The Faculty of Engineering Placement Team work with both large and small employers to solve this challenge. We offer employers fast track services where they can review applications, interview and make offers in a matter of weeks. In the case of Rolls Royce Motor Cars, who Pictured above: Nicholas Milijkovic MEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering on are looking for talent with future manager potential, this has been placement with MSA Latchways 2017-2018 particularly successful. The number of Mechanical Engineers from Bath securing yearlong placements at their Chichester site has increased from 0 to 9 in two years. They employ Bath students on placement each year with their Our Placement Team also have a strong track record of working closely reputation on campus growing steadily as students in their final years with SMEs. We are able to provide them with vital exposure, helping go on to complete External Integrated Projects and Final Year Projects the students understand their businesses and the advantages of working with the company. Building these relationships is a significant feature in a smaller team. MSA Latchways in Devizes are long term placement of Bath’s success with placements, helping our students through the providers experiencing growth with their fall protection products. competitive recruitment arena and into future careers.

Industrial Placement Fair 2017 - Engineering Your Future

The Faculty Placement Team ran another successful Industrial Placement Fair in November 2017. The Team invited small and medium sized companies to the Founders Hall, where students were able to visit the companies and discuss the different types of Engineering placement opportunities available to them. The University competition teams were also on display to show students how to get involved in the different teams. Nearly 800 students attended the event to get some really useful guidance for their future careers. There were over 60 companies in attendance from Heineken in Edinburgh to local company Cross Manufacturing from Devizes. The team used Snapchat for students to keep up to date with the activities throughout the day. The team are already planning this year’s fair as it offers great opportunities for students from first years thinking of placements to final year students.

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Visit to QinetiQ Target Systems for a victorious Dr Jonathan du Bois Team Bath Drones

Students from the University of Bath visited QinetiQ Target Systems Pictured above: Students and staff from the University along with IMechE (QTS) in October last year, following the victory of Team Bath Drones and QinetiQ staff at QTS. in the summer’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Challenge. The undergraduates took a tour of the QTS factory in Ashford, Kent, which produces advanced unmanned aerial, nautical and land-based Graham Wise, Senior Campaign Manager UAS, QinetiQ, said: “The targets, used in the testing and evaluation of new weapons systems. University of Bath were deserving winners, showcasing an excellent They learned how the company solves complex challenges, saw the aircraft that was the product of ingenuity, technical expertise and targets being manufactured, and completed a series of tasks designed to collaborative skills. We invited them to QinetiQ Target Systems to test their problem-solving abilities and technical knowledge. show how they could apply these skills in a real career working with unmanned systems. The qualities the team displayed in the challenge The visit was part of a prize awarded to the University for coming first are highly valued in this industry, and we are always looking for in the UAS Challenge in June 2017, organised by The Institution of exceptional young recruits to join us in pushing the boundaries of UAS Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and hosted by QinetiQ at Snowdonia innovation.” Aerospace Centre in northwest Wales. The annual competition encourages undergraduates from all over the world to design, build and Team Bath Drones was sponsored for the 2017 competition by UN- fly their own unmanned aircraft to complete specific mission objectives. MND and Mathworks.

LunaDome Project Update Oscar Bernardini

Oscar Bernardini joined the team to take on the Marketing Lead in awareness of our project, meeting incredible people with different the Autumn. backgrounds, and receiving useful advice on ideas to raise funds to The team were called up by the Science Museum, to present LunaDome send our project to the Moon. alongside TeamIndus crew member, Justin Alva at the Science Museum An update from Oscar is that,“since our presentation at the Science Lates event on Wednesday 29th of November. The Theme at the Science Museum, the Google Lunar X prize which TeamIndus (Company Museum Lates event was Illuminating India, to celebrate the opening transporting our experiment) took part in has been cancelled. However, of their 2 new exhibitions on 5000 years of Science and Innovation they are now looking into alternative means to travel to the moon themed around the sights, sounds and smell of India. which they hope to carry out in the first half of 2019. “We presented to science fanatics intrigued by the experiment, and We are currently in discussion with TeamIndus to secure our place ready to ask us what LunaDome is all about. on the spacecraft which we hope to complete by the summer 2018. Promoting the experimental payload in front of avid space fans in the Following this, we will carry out technical development and Science Museum has helped us in many aspects, such as increasing fundraising campaigns.”

Transforming the Curriculum Dr Mike Wilson

The University has embarked upon a project on Curriculum staff meetings and discussions, and other information gathering is Transformation as part of its 2016 – 2021 Education Strategy (http:// being organised by the University more centrally. The next Phase of www.bath.ac.uk/publications/education-strategy-2016-to-2021/). the transformation project will then be to devise course structures Aspirations for this include ensuring that inclusivity, research-engaged and assessment patterns, supported by a revised academic framework, learning and issues such as citizenship and sustainability are embedded to best underpin student learning and create a teaching environment in redeveloped and inspirational courses that build upon the successes that is most effective for both students and staff. The revised courses of our current programmes. will be delivered to new first year students for the first time not before During Phase 1 of the project, due to be completed by October 2018, September 2020. the Department of Mechanical Engineering is seeking the views of our The Department welcomes views on the skills and attributes needed stakeholders (our students, staff, alumni and professional colleagues by a University of Bath Mechanical Engineering Department graduate. in industry and academia) on the skills and attributes that will be Please contact the Director of Teaching, Dr Mike Wilson (M.Wilson@ needed by our future graduates. We are holding student focus groups, bath.ac.uk), if you wish to contribute your opinions.

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Martins Zalmans wins Autosport Williams Engineer of the Future Award

Launched in 2015, the Autosport Williams Engineer of the Future Award is an exciting annual award recognising a rising star of Formula One engineering which supports them through an accelerated career development programme at Williams. MEng Mechanical Engineering student Martins Zalmans received the accolade at the annual Autosport Awards at Grosvenor House Hotel, , where he was announced as the latest recipient of the prestigious award. Martins was selected as the winner from five student finalists chosen from the top eight UK universities. Finalists took part in a two-day assessment at the Williams HQ where candidates were challenged across a range of engineering tasks, testing their teamwork and approach, and the depth and breadth of their technical knowledge. In addition to technical tasks, finalists also completed a professional development personality analysis and sat an engineering exam written by Williams Chief Technical Officer Paddy Lowe. On winning the award, Martins said: “I’m extremely grateful for the invaluable opportunity to prove and advance my capabilities as Pictured above: Martins collecting his award from David Coulthard an engineer in the autosport field. I’m hoping to pursue a career in Formula 1 and this award is a fantastic way to kick-start it.” Martins will now join Williams on an initial two-year placement. understanding was extremely high and he’s very motivated to be an He will be mentored by senior engineers before specialising. engineer. He came from Latvia on his own initiative to study for his During the placement, Martins will also get the unique opportunity A-Levels and pursue a career in the industry, and he has a real love of to work in the team’s race operations division and gain experience at both the practical and theoretical sides of engineering. Martins will a Grand Prix. now complete his degree before joining us in September 2018, where he will begin his two-year programme that will be specially tailored to Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Professor him. We look forward to welcoming him to the team.” Gary Lock commended Martins on his achievement, adding: “The Department has close connections with F1 racing teams through The students were assessed by a panel of judges comprising leading our Formula Student team and industrial placements. Well done to industry, academic, media and Formula One personnel including: Martins who I’m sure has a bright future at Williams.” Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical Officer at Williams; Nicola Salter, HR Director at Williams; Edd Straw, Autosport magazine; Tony Purnell, Paddy Lowe said: “This award is about finding a leader of the future, Former Team Principal of the Jaguar and Red Bull Formula One teams so a great engineer who may take on a senior leadership role in future and Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at the University years in the sport. of Cambridge; and Richard Parry-Jones CBE, previously Group Vice We had great candidates but in the end, the judges were unanimous President of Global Product Development, Chief Technical Officer and in picking Martins as our winner for this year. His technical Head of Global R&D Operations at Ford Motor Company.

Hydrocon Team win trip to Washington DC for The Global Grand Challenges Summit

The Global Grand Challenges Summit 2017 was organised by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE), The Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The aim of the 2017 Summit was to inspire the next generation of engineers, policymakers and the public to creatively address some of the most pressing issues and promising innovations of the time: the Grand Challenges for Engineering - including reality, artificial intelligence, health care, climate change, and education of future engineers who will take on such challenges. Lockheed Martin were the principal sponsors for the event along with Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Shell. The first year Undergraduate team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering won their place in Washington by taking part in a two-day interactive workshop in February. Following the workshop, the team then worked to develop their design solution. They then pitched their design solution to a panel of experts and they were one of the five teams from the UK to win through to the next stage and then won the competition and trip to the USA. Undergraduate student Ilayda Ozaltan reported “This has been a great opportunity for us to meet with new people, both from universities and industry, and listen to different speeches of notable speakers from wide range of fields. We gained knowledge on topics such as Virtual Reality, AI, Sustainability. We are also mentioned in an article about the summit and accessing to water on IMechE website. Although the weather was too hot and humid in Washington DC, we all enjoyed the summit a lot. Thanks to Andrew Pictured above left to right are: Andrea Ruan, Ilayda Ozaltan, Jan Sprengel, Avent and Tony Miles for their mentoring throughout the competition.” Malay Yeolekar www.bath.ac.uk/mech-eng 9 Annual Review 2018

Bath Biomechanics Symposium 2017 Professor Tony Miles

The 13th Annual Bath Biomechanics Symposium was held on 11th September 2017 in the Chancellors Building with the theme “Spine Biomechanics – Injury mechanisms, degenerative disorders and treatments”. Invited Keynote lectures were given by Dr Jeffery Taylor from Dymicron Inc, USA, Associate Professor John Costi from Flinders University, Australia, Dr Raj Sengupta from Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath and Mr Ian Harding from Southmead Hospital, Bristol. The keynote lectures were followed by submitted presentations from leading researchers in the UK including the Universities of Aberdeen, Bath, Bristol, Exeter Imperial College, Leeds, London South Bank, and Newcastle. The topics covered included disease processes, biomechanical studies and sports related injuries. The Symposium was attended by 70 delegates from around the UK and sponsored by five companies Hospital Innovations, Instron, Stryker Orthopaedics, Morgan Steer Orthopaedics and Synopsis. The final session included a panel debate made up of keynote lecturers, session chairs and invited industrialists.

Bath hosts Design Creativity Conference - Dr Elies Dekoninck an international affair

At the end of January 2018, Dr Elies Dekoninck hosted the Fifth Scotland, India and the USA. The conference’s aim is to share International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2018) here at research in creative practice in order to explore the differences and the University. similarities between different design disciplines but also between The conference was co-chaired by close colleagues: Dr Andrew different cultures. Wodehouse from Strathclyde University and Dr Chris Snider from The conference was a great success with 78 delegates participating Bristol University. Previous ICDC conferences have been held in Japan, from 23 countries and a total of 50 research papers presented.

Student Awards

PhD student Kate Powers is photographed collecting her award for the PhD student Holly Pearce is shown winning the first IOP poster prize at SIAM UKIE student prize for best student presentation at the British University College Dublin during the Energy Harvesting Workshop 2018. Applied Mathematics Colloquium (BAMC) 2018 in St Andrews. Holly said “My supervisor’s support has made this happen - Thank you Hamideh Khanbareh”.

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PhD Students and Researchers Travel the World

Bruno Agostinho Hernandez travels to Germany Alfie Anthony Treloar in Trondheim Bruno Agostinho Hernandez – a Postgraduate Research in the Centre Alfie Anthony Treloar is pictured presenting his research at the for Orthopaedic Biomechanics presented at the European Orthopaedic University of Trondheim. Research Society (EORS) 25th Annual meeting. It was held in Munich, He gave a “speed update” on the topic of his PhD, “Passive Acoustic Germany, from 13th to 15th of September of 2017. He was also joined Monitoring from a Wave-Propelled Unmanned Surface Vehicle” (the by Jamie Fletcher, Jan Gosiewski and Dr Katarzyna Polak-Krasna. wave-propelled surface vehicle is the one pictured below), performing The European Orthopaedic Research Society (EORS) meetings a short 10 minute presentation eight times to various audiences. provide a forum to discuss achievements, challenges and opportunities This conference is hosted by the Centre for Innovative Ultrasound in orthopaedic, musculoskeletal and trauma education, research, Solutions (CIUS) and encompasses new research areas within medical, development and clinical translation. Bruno’s paper was “Cervical maritime, oil and gas sectors. Spine Posture Influences Fracture Patterns caused by Impact Loading” B.A.Hernandez, J.Blckaburn, D.Cazzola, T.P.Holsgrove, H.S.Gill and S.Gheduzzi. Jan Gosiewski’s paper was “Validated cemented socket model for optimising acetabular fixation.” J.D. Gosiewski, S. Gheduzzi, H.S. Gill. He also chaired the Hip II session. Dr Katarzyna Polak-Krasna – Research Associate presented “Non- linear finite element strain predictions for bone screw fixation for developing a surgical decision aid”. K. Polak-Kraśna, A.R. MacLeod, J. Fletcher, H.S. Gill. James Fletcher presented a poster “Reducing ethical and financial costs in biomechanical research: is juvenile bovine bone the answer”. Fletcher, J., Williams, S., Whitehouse, M., Gill, H., Preatoni, E., 2017

Pictured below: Bruno presenting his paper. Pictured above: the wave-propelled surface vehicle, and top, Copyright : EORS2017/event lab.GmbH Alfie presenting.

Sam Bull in the USA In January Sam Bull, one of our postgraduate students, presented a paper at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics SciTech Forum in Orlando, USA. Sam said “The conference covers everything aerospace spanning over 70 disciplines, bringing together a mix of academia and industry to tackle next generation issues. It was a fantastic opportunity to meet other researchers in my field and see how my work fits in. A big thank you to the department for contributing to my travel costs!”

Ben Thomas travels to Italy Last Autumn, Ben Thomas undertook a 3-month placement at the NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) in La Spezia, Italy. The centre has access to state of the art research equipment, including an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) with a Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) capable of generating high resolution images of the seafloor with pixels of just 1.5cm x 2.5cm in size. La Spezia is located just north of Pisa, and is next door to the national park of Cinque Terre, where there are five picturesque villages precariously perched on the sea edge, connected by spectacular hiking trails. During his placement he was able to walk the length of the national park, as well as seeing the sights of Pisa.

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Athena Swan Silver Success for Department Professor Richie Gill

Since 2016, the Department has held a Bronze Athena Swan Award and engineering is and that it is a career path this year has been awarded Silver in recognition of the changes made to open to everyone. We have seen an increased enhance gender equality. number of applications from females for both The Athena Swan initiative was initiated in recognition of the lack our undergraduate and graduate programmes. of gender equality in STEM subjects. Mechanical engineering has We have also changed our recruitment traditionally been mainly a male domain. However, mechanical processes to attract more female applicants and have managed to engineering has a major role in addressing the challenges facing global increase the number of female academic staff from 7 to 12. society, challenges that require the talent of all. The Department Having achieved the Silver Award we need to do more to ensure that considers it a priority that we work towards attracting more women we provide a fair and equitable environment in which the talents of into the subject at all levels. all are recognised and everyone has equal opportunities to contribute; This means we have been extremely active in outreach to schools, which the Silver Action Plan we have developed outlines the future work is a very important activity raising the awareness of what mechanical we plan to do.

New MSc Business Management Programme Dr Steve Cayzer

At the University of Bath, we are proud to have an Engineering Faculty students to work in cross disciplinary teams, building skills such and a School of Management that are both world class. We build both as leadership and negotiation. Industrial engagement is strengthened teaching and research around the collaborative strengths of these by the use of invited lectures, real life case studies, industrial visits centres of excellence. and opportunities to work with our partners on research projects In 2018, we will open our doors to the first cohort of Engineering EBM is best suited to students seeking to develop leadership and Business Management (EBM) postgraduate students. EBM joins our management skills within areas such as project management, highly successful course on Innovation and Technology Management business analysis, design leadership, product development and (ITM), strengthening our commitment to training the next generation supply chain management. of technology leaders. Both are flagship programmes highlighting Students interested in design creativity, idea generation and the our cross faculty collaboration. innovation process should consider ITM. These courses have been designed so that students take control of In both cases, we expect these courses to equip graduates with their own learning – choosing topics centred around their own goals the ability to: lead and inspire cross disciplinary teams; think and aspirations. Students will be expected to share their own systemically; deal with change strategically. In short, to become expertise and experience, learning from each other as well as from successful analysts, designers, consultants, innovators and the academic staff and from industry. The nature of the cohort allows entrepreneurs in engineering management.

Award Winners

The winners of the University Teaching Awards 2018 were announced She said, “I’m lucky to get to teach subjects I’m passionate about and at the Education Awards evening on the 13th April 2018. to have such great students to teach”. Over 45 nominations were received for six University Teaching Awards, Professor Chris Bowen, Department of Mechanical Engineering, recognising outstanding staff achievements in learning and teaching was the delighted winner of this year’s Excellence in Doctoral across the University. Professor Peter Lambert, Chair of the Awards Supervision Prize, which recognises exceptional performance and Committee, congratulated all nominees for their commitment to conduct in the supervision of doctoral students at the University. delivering exceptionally high quality learning, teaching and pastoral Chris was praised for his enthusiasm and ability to help others, support activities. particularly through his work with students to develop research Dr Kate Fraser, Department of Mechanical Engineering, received skills, mentoring new academics and helping to build a vibrant this year’s John Willis Award. Kate’s achievements in balancing her research team. outstanding research record with pedagogic and pastoral elements Many congratulations to Oomman Tharakan, an MSc student who of her role were highly commended by both staff and students. was also awarded excellence in Academic Representation.

Pictured above, left to right: Chloe Page (Bath Education Officer) Dr Kate Fraser, Peter Lambert Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching). Jeremy Bradshaw Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International & Doctoral), Prof Chris Bowen, Jonathan Knight Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) Copyright@ Ashish Nagpal

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