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News in 2010

New Electronics Skills Foundation's website goes live

11 June 2010

Bristol is one of the university partners in the UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF). The UKESF's website has now gone live. Visit http://www.ukesf.org/ for information on Scholarships, Summer Schools and how industry can work with the Foundation.

Test pilot inspires next generation of engineers

25 March 2010

The test pilot for an ambitious new military transporter project that had its first flight in December 2009, the Airbus A400M, returned to the University last week [Thursday 18 March] to give a lecture about the project.

University of Bristol-Headstart Dragonfly Day

25 March 2010

Autonomous robots and vehicles have the potential to be incredibly useful by carrying out tasks in place of humans in hazardous areas and helping the elderly and disabled. Tomorrow [Wednesday 24 March] 64 year nine female students from schools across the region will be spending a day designing their own robots and energy efficient vehicles.

European Union funds development of Quantum Integrated Circuits

5 February 2010

The quantum revolution promises to transform the way we process, encode and transmit information, exploiting the strange properties of quantum mechanics to offers exciting opportunities in both computation and security.

International Workshop on FIB for Photonics

2 February 2010

2nd International Workshop on FIB for Photonics, Co-located with ECIO 2010 in Cambridge UK. 6th-7th April 2010

NMI announces UK Electronics Skills Foundation to address threat of diminishing skills

27 January 2010

The National Microelectronics Institute (NMI) has announced the creation of the UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) to address the threat of diminishing skills in the UK electronics sector. The foundation aims to increase and sustain the supply of industry-ready graduate engineers and boost career take-up in the sector