Grants

LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Research grants:

Drs R. Harrison, P. Moore and Professor R. Weston, Pounds 578,709 from Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (integrated machine design and control);

Mr J. Middle and Dr K. Popplewell, Pounds 322,543 from EPSRC and GEC (teaching company scheme); Professor J. Alty, Pounds 269,757 from EPSRC (advanced design environment for process technology); Drs R. Jones, S. Newman, G. Modlen, C. Hinde and Mr S. Rothberg, Pounds 252,560 from EPSRC (featured based process planning and design analysis for sculptured surface products); Dr R. Goodall, Pounds 197,684 from EPSRC (special purpose processors for control systems) and Pounds 194,959 from EPSRC (the controllability of superconducting magnets); Professor H. Heaney, Pounds 188,117 from EPSRC (400 MHZ spectrometer); Dr J. Coupland, Pounds 180,601 from EPSRC (coherence imaging and optical information processing from high speed industrial inspection applications); Mrs S. Harker, Pounds 167,550 from EPSRC (Proteus - understanding changing requirements);

Professor J. McGuirk, Pounds 123,359 from EPSRC (numerical simulation of colute flows); Drs T. Gordon, Q. Wu and Mr E. Rodgers, Pounds 119,650 from EPSRC (development of a learning automata methodology in the context of vehicle suspension control); Professor N. Halliwell and Mr S. Rothberg, Pounds 100,733 from EPSRC (pseudo-vibration elimination in laser vibrometry); Dr K. Shiono, Pounds 116,542 from EPSRC (investigation of turbulent diffusion in river, estuarine and coastal waters); Mr A. Bryman, Pounds 106,440 from Economic and Social Research Council (social science research and the British mass media); Professors R. Howson and J. Walls, Pounds 86,187 from EPSRC (multilayer nanometre thin films for ophthalmic lenses);

Professor A. Fokas, Pounds 85,753 from EPSRC (initial-boundary value problems and other aspects of integrable equations); Professor C. Moody, Pounds 84,283 from EPSRC (cyclopropane indolequinones: mechanistic probes for bioreductive drug action); Dr P. Adcock, Pounds 84,000 from British Gas (solid polymer fuel cell stack development); Professor N. Ashford, Pounds 72,442 from EPSRC (generalised methodology for the design of air freight terminals); Drs D. Gabe and G. Wilcox, Pounds 82,782 from EPSRC (production and control of modulated alloy electrodeposits);

Professor C. Moody, Pounds 84,283 from EPSRC (cyclopropane indolequinones: mechanistic probes for bioreductive drug action); Dr L. Jenkinson and Mr R. Caves, Pounds 63,674 from EPSRC (development of methodology for assessing fuel use and emissions of aircraft ground operations); Professor V. Hanby, Pounds 54,924 from EPSRC (modelling of boiler flue systems for building/HVAC plant simulation); Dr J. Lovenduski, Pounds 54,560 from ESRC (gender and new urban governance); Professor F. Wilkinson, Pounds 53,543 from EPSRC (laser induced reactions of organic excited states in solution at high pressures and in supercritical fluids).

European funds:

Drs D. Kerr, K. Bouazza-Marouf and Professor J. Hewit, Pounds 316,084 from the Commission (Teleman 45 - a light mobile tracked machine with advanced sensing, world modelling and communication (impact)); Professor J. Patrick, Pounds 67,000 from CEC (carbon/carbon composition using coal tar pitch).

to be continued