Our new Research Engineers and PhD students are now through their induction/short course period and have started their projects at their sponsors and at Surrey.

We welcome our new sponsors to the Centre; Ionoptika, Exova and Huntsman.

A reminder of our Annual Team Day at the Holiday Inn here in Guildford on Thursday 26th January 2017. Do join us if you can, Outlook invites have already been issued and we look forward to seeing as many of you as possible in January.

May I take this opportunity to wish you all a very restful upcoming holiday season and a successful 2017.

NoelleManager, EPSRC CDT in MiNMaT

WELCOME to our 2016 cohort

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training

MiNMaT Newsletter

Inside:

2016 Cohort

Update from the Director

Annual Conference

Key Dates

Autumn 2016 | Issue 12

Introduction to our new 2016 Cohort….

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Director’s Update, Professor Robert Dorey

Font row left to right; Daniel Parrish, Jasmine Bone, Faranak Eghtesadi Bahrami, Back row left to right; Stephen Garrett, Governor Ugoh, Nathan Cassidy, Thomas Chamberlain, Sam Henderson

Reflecting the title of the Bob Dylan song ‘The Times They Are A-changin’ the Centre continues to evolve with each passing year and this year is no exception. The Centre has appointed a new Director in the form of Professor Robert Dorey who last year directed the academic programme. He took over formally from Professor Julie Yeomans at the start of October with the arrival of our latest intake of Researchers. Julie has now taken on a strategic role within the University’s equity and diversity group, but will continue to be involved in the Centre through ongoing supervision of Research Engineers.

This year saw the recruitment of 9 new students, with 3 of them being associated PhD students. The Associate PhD scheme is a route by which PhD students can gain some of the benefits of being part of the EngD cohort and receive Institute of Leadership and Management training.

At the same time we have seen the successful thesis submission and examinations of many of our 2011 and 2012 cohort Research Engineers.

A big change for our Research Engineers is the bringing forward and reformatting of the Confirmation examinations process which will come into effect for the 2015 cohort. We’ve brought the process forward to month 18 of the EngD to allow us to support and guide our Research Engineers more effectively in the critical early stages of the doctorate and allow them to more fully focus on their studies in the later stages. The format of the examinations will also be changing so that the process becomes a greater focal part of EngD. Instead of holding individual examinations throughout the year the Research Engineers will all come together for a single Confirmation day allowing them to share a common experiences.

So while the times ‘are-a-changin’ the Centre remains committed to maximising the opportunities offered to our Research Engineers to ensure that they can become productive members of the scientific and engineering community.

This year we welcome six new Research Engineers and three PhD students who joined our programme on 1st October 2016

1. Daniel Parrish EngD Dstl

2. Stephen Garrett PhD Huntsman

3. Jasmine Bone EngD Exova/NPL

4. Governor Ugoh EngD Thames Water

5. Faranak Eghtesadi Bahrami EngD TWI

6. Nathan Cassidy EngD Ionoptika

7. Thomas Chamberlain PhD NPL

8. Sam Henderson, EngD Forest Research

9. Prodromos Chatzispyroglou (not pictured) PhD RAL

Front row left to right; Daniel Parrish, Jasmine Bone, Faranak Eghtesadi BahramiBack row left to right; Stephen Garrett, Governor Ugoh, Nathan Cassidy, Thomas Chamberlain, Sam Henderson

Annual MiNMaT Conference

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Congratulations to our prize winners

On 29th September 2016 we held our Annual Conference at the Holiday Inn in Guildford.

with poster presenters

And to enjoy meeting up with other Research

Engineers

A time to appreciate the research work that has been

carried out

and Oral Presentations

Time to catch up with fellow industrialists and

academics

A new prize for 2016...

Best One Minute Presentation on poster content

Harry Cronin (DZP Technologies)

Presented by Prof Bryn James and

Noelle Hartley CDT Manager

Littauer Prize for

Best Oral presentation

Diana Duarte (RAL) (Now employed by M-Solv)

Diary date: Next MiNMaT Conference Thursday 28th September 2017

Littauer Prize for Best

Poster presentation

David Williams (TWI)presented by

Prof Bryn James Chair of the CDT Steering Group

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After four years as a highly successful Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering Sciences, Professor Julie Yeomans has accepted a secondment of one year to oversee the work of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team within the HR Services group of departments. This is an extremely important role strategically in the University in which Julie will, amongst other tasks, drive forward the Athena Swan work in the University.

Appointments

Professor Paul Smith has been appointed Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. Professor Smith will be responsible for nine departments in the faculty and will have a leading role in the formulation of the academic strategy. After joining Surrey in 1986 as a lecturer, Professor Smith was promoted to a personal chair in 1997 and

served as head of the School of Engineering from 2004 – 2007.

Paul has been involved in supervising Research Engineers on both the University of Surrey EngD programmes (the EngD in Environmental Technology as well as MiNMaT) – he started supervising his first EngD nearly 20 years ago. He has seen 14 REs through to completion as a supervisor and retains an involvement with a number of ongoing projects. Not surprisingly, he is a strong advocate of the EngD model, in particular that it enables high quality research to be carried out in an industrial context, while shortening the path to impact, and delivers high-level graduates for industry and other organisations. As well as his ongoing links to MiNMaT, Paul is external examiner for the CDT in Composites Manufacturing at the University of Bristol.

CongratulationsCongratulations to Chris and Gemma White who were married on 15th August 2016

Baby William Whitworth arrived on 27th September 2016.

Congratulations to Emily and Pete on the birth of their first child.

EPSRC Annual Review 9 December 2016

EPSRC Mid-Term Review 9 January 2017

EngD Short Course Programme

Characterisation of Advanced Materials 5 – 9 December 2016

Introduction to Physical Metallurgy 30 January – 3 February 2017

Polymers: Science, Engineering and Applications 20 – 24 February 2017

Ceramics and Ceramic Coatings 6 – 10 March 2017

Surface Analysis: XPS, Auger and SIMS 20 – 24 March 2017

Composite Materials Technology 3 – 7 April 2017

Nanomaterials 24 – 28 April 2017

EngD Conference 2017 Thursday 28 September 2017

Semester Dates

Semester 1 3 October 2016 – 3 February 2017

Semester 2 6 February – 16 June 2017

University Closure Xmas 2016 Offices close around 1600 23 December 2016 and reopen 3 January 2017

University Closure Easter 2017 Offices close around 1600 12 April 2017 and reopen Thursday 20 April 2017

Key Dates

Team Day ReminderWe look forward to welcoming all Academics, Industrialists,

Research Engneers and Centre Staff to the Annual Team Day being held on Thursday 26th January 2017 at the Holiday Inn, Guildford

Themes and an agenda will be issued nearer the time

Please save the date in your diaries

Conferences in 2016July 2016 – Simon Bacon presented a poster at the 19th International Conference on non-contact Atomic Force Microscopy in Nottingham

September 2016 – David Williams attended the IOM3 conference EURADH16 at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Micro- and NanoMaterials and TechnologiesUniversity of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK

For more information please call 01483 683467 or email n.hartley@surrey.ac.uk

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