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Patrick Griffin (PhD, September 1995)
THE FLOW OF LIQUID POLYMERS THROUGH FIBROUS REINFORCEMENTS
Supervisor: Stephen Grove and David Short
UoP Research Pump-Priming Fund
Angela Newbury (PhD thesis, 1994)
AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE APPLICABILITY OF NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE FOR CURE- MONITORING OF COMPOSITES
Supervisors: David Short, John Summerscales, Roy Lowry (Env Sci)
SERC CASE studentship with Oxford Instruments Limited
Simon Sebastian Phillips (PhD thesis, July 1995)
COMPUTER MODELS OF CORROSION IN PASSIVATING SYSTEMS
Supervisors: Ken Trethewey (RNEC), David Marsh (RNEC) and David Plane (UoP)
Royal Naval Engineering College - Manadon & UoP SMMME
Martyn Polkinghorne (PhD thesis, 1994)
A SELF-ORGANISING FUZZY LOGIC AUTOPILOT FOR SMALL VESSELS
Supervisors: Roland Burns, G Roberts (RNEC)
SERC/Marinex programme
Robin Richmond (MPhil thesis, September 1993).
AN INVESTIGATION INTO PRODUCT DESIGN AND PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES WITH A
JUST-IN-TIME MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENT
Supervisors: Roland Burns, Jim Pearce (PBS)
Teaching Company Scheme with Tecalemit Systems Limited
David Smith (MPhil thesis, June 1994)
COMPUTER SIMULATION IN MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS
Supervisors: Roland Burns, Jim Pearce (PBS)
Teaching Company Scheme with Tecalemit Systems Limited
Zongdi Zhu (MPhil thesis, September 1995)
PROCESSES OF SMALL BATCH MANUFACTURE OF SHEET METAL COMPONENTS
Supervisor: David Grieve, Roland Burns
British Filters & UoP SMMME
Dr Eddie Carter, Tony Fell and Patrick Griffin
SIMULATION OF THE RESIN TRANSFER MOULDING PROCESS FOR EFFICIENT DESIGN AND
MANUFACTURE OF COMPOSITE COMPONENTS
Supervisor: John Summerscales
BRITE/EURAM II BE5477-92 commenced 1 December 1992 for three years
Gary Dunbar (candidate for MPhil/PhD)
MANUFACTURE OF METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES
Supervisors: David Grieve, Tom Paterson, David Plane
SIEBE fund commenced January 1995
Tony Fell (candidate for PhD)
DESIGN ANALYSIS OF A NEW GENERATION OF COMPOSITE LOUDSPEAKER ENCLOSURE
Supervisor: David Grieve
SERC CASE studentship commenced September 1988
Matthew Greer (candidate for PhD)
PROPERTIES OF COB BUILDING MATERIALS
Supervisors: David Short, L Watson (Arch), R Saxton (Civil/Struct)
HEFC Research Fund commenced August 1992 for three years
Dannie Hattingh (candidate for MPhil/PhD)
THE FATIGUE PROPERTIES OF SPRING STEELS
Supervisors: David Grieve, David Plane and F Blum (CSIR RSA)
Port Elizabeth Technicon RSA staff partial secondment during February - March 1994
Alan Holman (candidate for MPhil/PhD)
HIGH-STRENGTH SPRING STEELS FOR AUTOMOTIVE COIL SPRINGS
Supervisors: David Short, David Grieve, David Plane, Graham Roberts
SERC/DTI-LINK commenced September 1993 for three years
Heather Kirby (candidate for MPhil/PhD)
DEVELOPMENT OF A RECIPROCATING JOULE CYCLE ENGINE
Supervisor: Murray Bell
SMMME research post to commence 30 October 1995 for three years
Pollard Lucien (candidate for PhD part-time @ Exeter)
LEARNING FROM NATURE: THE IMPLICATIONS OF SMART AND INTELLIGENT MATERIALS FOR PRODUCT DESIGN SEMANTICS
Supervisors: John Summerscales and Mirjam Southwell (Faculty of Art & Education)
Staff Development commenced 1 January 1994
Christopher Lloyd Owen (candidate for PhD)
APPLICATION OF NEURAL NETWORKS TO DIESEL ENGINE CONDITION MONITORING AND FAULT DIAGNOSIS
Supervisors: D Adcock (RNEC), T Ruxton (IMS), J Forest (IMS), Murray Bell commenced 1 October 1992.
Neil Pearce (candidate for MPhil/PhD)
PROPERTY-PROCESS-FIBRE DISTRIBUTION RELATIONSHIPS IN FIBRE-REINFORCED COMPOSITES
Supervisors: John Summerscales, Don Wright (Biological Sciences) and Felicity Guild (University of Surrey)
EPSRC grant GR/K04699 commenced December 1994
Zahoor Ahmed Qurashi (candidate for PhD direct)
FACTORY AUTOMATION FOR SMALL BUSINESSES IN THE SOUTH WEST
Supervisors: Roland Burns, Martyn Polkinghorne and Ian Chaston (PBS)
Formerly TCS with Dartington Foods (UK) Ltd commenced 7 November 1994 for two years
Cathy-Ann Radix (candidate for MPhil/PhD)
PROSTHETIC HAND
Supervisors: [tbc] Peter Nurse, Roland Burns and Paul Robinson
University of Plymouth HEFCE Development of Research funding to commence shortly.
Ralph Richter (candidate for MPhil/PhD)
INTELLIGENT CONTROL ALGORITHMS FOR THE GUIDANCE OF SMALL MOTORISED VESSELS
Supervisors: Roland Burns, Peter Nurse, Martyn Polkinghorne
SMMME Fund commenced September 1994 for three years
Steve Roberts (candidate for MPhil)
INTELLIGENT CONTROL OF A PROSTHETIC HAND USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
Supervisors: Peter Nurse, Roland Burns and Paul Robinson
University of Plymouth HEFCE Development of Research funding commenced November 1994.
Rajkumar Roy (candidate for MPhil/PhD)
APPLICATION OF GENETIC ALGORITHMS TO COOLING OF TURBINE BLADES
Supervisors: Mike Denham (Computing), Ian Parmee (EDC) and Roland Burns
Rolls Royce Aero-Engine Division commenced September 1994 for three years
Tim Searle (candidate for PhD)
INVESTIGATION INTO THE LOADS, THE STRUCTURE AND THE MANUFACTURE REQUIRED
FOR A MARINE PROPELLER IN A LIGHTWEIGHT ANISOTROPIC MATERIAL
Supervisors: David Short, J Chudley (Inst Marine Studies)
HEFC Research Fund commenced March 1992 for three years
Matthew Smith (candidate for MPhil/PhD)
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTELLIGENT TRACK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Supervisiors: Roland Burns, Peter Nurse and Dr P Bowen (BAe)
Simulated CASE Award with British Aerospace Plymouth commenced 16 October 1995.
Bobbie Wallis (candidate for PhD)
MODELLING THE DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF SMALL VESSELS IN SIX DEGREES OF FREEDOM
Supervisors: Roland Burns, G Roberts (RNEC), M Pourzanjani (SIHE)
SERC/Marinex commenced October 1990 for three years
Grant West (candidate for PhD)
ENGINEERED FIBRE STRENGTHENED CERAMIC COMPOSITES: STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY AND
PERFORMANCE IN ENERGY CONVERSION AND PROCESSING SYSTEMS
Supervisors: David Taplin, David Plane and Graham Roberts
BRITE EURAM BE4610-90 commenced 1 January 1992 for 42 months
Christopher Williams (candidate for MPhil)
MANUFACTURE OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE FIBRE-COMPOSITE COMPONENTS: VACUUM- DRIVEN RESIN IMPREGNATION OF A FABRIC-REINFORCEMENT UNDER A FLEXIBLE FILM
Supervisors: John Summerscales and Stephen Grove
HEFCE Development of Research funding commenced 17 May 1994.
Noel Brahma (candidate for PhD direct)
BROADEN THE APPLICATION BASE FOR ANALYSIS OF A WIDER RANGE OF SAMPLE TYPES
Supervisors: Hywel Evans (Environmental Sciences), Les Ebdon (DVC) and Roland Burns
Teaching Company Scheme with PS Analytical commenced 13 February 1995 for two years
Bill (WR) Brown (candidate for PhD)
A GLOBAL MARKETING STRATEGY FOR SMALL BUSINESSES IN THE SOUTH WEST
Supervisors: Ian Chaston (PBS), Roland Burns and Jim Pearce (PBS)
with Research Instruments commenced September 1992 for two years
Robert Harrison (candidate for MPhil)
A 3-D ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MODEL FOR DESIGN OF RADIOFREQUENCY REED RELAYS
Supervisors: David Grieve, Roland Burns, Frank Hamer (SECEE) and Dick Linford (SECEE)
with Douglas Randall, Wimbourne commenced 5 September 1994 for two years.
John Mason (candidate for MPhil)
THE FUTURE OF REED RELAY TECHNOLOGY IN RADIOFREQUENCY APPLICATIONS
Supervisors: Roland Burns, Frank Hamer (SECEE) and Dick Linford (SECEE)
with Douglas Randall, Wimbourne commenced 1 January 1994 for two years.
Adam Sweet (candidate for MPhil)
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN MASS-PRODUCTION
Supervisors: Stephen Grove, David Plane, David Short, Roland Burns and Martyn Polkinghorne (TCC)
with AMP (GB) Limited commenced 8 June 1995 for two years
Lambda
Spinnaker Group
Mike Baldwin
IMPROVEMENT OF HOSE ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS
Supervisors: Roland Burns, Stephen Grove, Peter Nurse and Martyn Polkinghorne (TCC)
with Tecalemit Systems Limited commenced July 1993 for two years
Nick Byers
QUALITY ASSURANCE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPUTER BASED PROCEDURES IN ELECTRONIC ASSEMBLY
Supervisors: Mike Miles, Roland Burns, Roger Maull (Computing) and Jan Bennett (TCC)
with Patronics Limited commenced 6 February 1995 for two years.
Mark Evans
DESIGN OF TEST EQUIPMENT FOR CAPACITANCE TESTING
Supervisors: MA Akhter (SECEE), Roland Burns, Brian Cooper and Phil Culverhouse (SECEE)
with AVX Limited commenced 16 November 1994.
John Heard
IMPROVED MANUFACTURING COSTS AND PRODUCT QUALITY THROUGH NEW METHODS OF PRODUCTION
Supervisors: Jim Pearce (PBS), David Grieve, Mike Miles and Martyn Polkinghorne (TCC)
with Quasar Microwave Technology Limited commenced 31 August 1994 for two years.
Paul Jackson
INTRODUCTION OF RESIN TRANSFER MOULDING TO A UK MANUFACTURING COMPANY
Supervisors: Roland Burns, Stephen Grove
with Halyard (Marine & Industrial) Limited commenced October 1994 for two years
Simon May
DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW RANGE OF BELLOWS PRESSURE CONTROLLERS AND TEMPERATURE SENSORS
Supervisors: Graham Roberts, Roland Burns and Martyn Polkinghorne
with Ranco Controls commenced October 1993 for two years.
Andrew North
POST-FORMING PROCESS FOR EXTRUDED NEOPRENE/NYLON PIPE
Supervisors: Roland Burns, Stephen Grove, Peter Nurse and Martyn Polkinghorne (TCC)
with Tecalemit Systems Limited commenced July 1993 for two years
Nick Roadnight
MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY
Supervisors: Roland Burns, Jim Pearce (PBS)
with Carebridge Limited commenced March 1992 for two years
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