Faculty of Engineering

• Keeping infrastructure safe and operational
  Enabling accurate, cost-effective regular testing on structures such as railways and buildings that avoids major disruption.
• Reducing damaging vibrations in helicopter rotors
  An award-winning partnership with Helitune has delivered new technology and jobs by solving a long-standing engineering problem.
• Pattern recognition systems for animal identification
  Automated computer vision applications help zoologists identify individual great white sharks and African penguins, without the need for manual tagging.
• Heathrow pods - a new form of personal rapid transit
  A new form of fast, reliable and low-cost driverless personal transport is now being used by thousands of passengers every day at Heathrow Airport.
• XMOS - innovations in embedded systems
  A University of Bristol spin-out company now employs more than 50 people across three continents, working to improve efficiency and lower production costs for electronics manufacturers.
• Reducing urban landslide risk in developing countries
  A new process of slope water management has helped develop a cost-effective means of reducing landslide risk for whole communities.
• Open network solutions
  Complex networks have to connect huge numbers of diverse devices, operated by multiple vendors, with a mixture of protocols. A new open networking solution aims to reduce costs and dramatically improve network performance while simplifying their management and operation.
• Using ultrasound waves to put feeling into touchless interfaces
  A novel technology that uses ultrasound waves to put feeling into touchless interfaces has applications in consumer electronics, household appliances and the car industry.
• Numerical models make for smoother helicopter rides
  Making aircraft wings and helicopter rotor blades lighter, more efficient and with fewer fatigue-inducing vibrations.
• Wireless HDTV, anywhere in the home
  Innovations in wireless video transmission yield major benefits for media companies and consumers.
• Diamond insights
  Industry joined forces with science to realise the full financial and technical potential of diamonds, already one of the world's major natural resources.
• Bringing Wi-Fi to the mass market
  The University's major role in establishing standards, developing products and testing methodologies has helped turn Wi-Fi into a global phenomenon.
• The epic reach of elliptic curves
  Pioneering research carried out by one of the UK’s leading teams of cryptographers is steering radical changes in global online security.
• Averting avalanches
  Communities around the world are now protected from the devastation of avalanches thanks to research by mathematicians at the University of Bristol.
• Transforming industrial safety through ultrasonics
  Bristol has brought world-leading, efficient and financially viable Ultrasonic Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) to the nuclear power and aerospace industries.
• Stress measurement
  Faculty of Engineering researchers and their spin-out company Veqter have developed a unique service that measures hidden stresses inside mission-critical industrial components.
• Evaluating risk in an earthquake event
  Understanding how the immediate catastrophic impacts of earthquakes spread across society, becoming indirect losses and distress, can help reduce the aftermath of a disaster.
• Ice Pigging
  The ice Pig (pipeline inspection gauge) is transforming the way drinking-water pipes are cleaned and maintained.