News
- Professor gives evidence to covid-19 national recovery committee 6 July 2020 Professor Philip Thomas of the University of Bristol has provided written evidence to the UK Treasury Committee that is assessing the economic impact of coronavirus.
- Civil Engineering student wins award for paper on green landslide solution 22 June 2020 Congratulations to Cora Fung. She won the South West Emerging Engineers Award for 2020 with an academic paper on the effectiveness of live willow poles in stabilising roadside slopes and banks.
- David Brigido from Bristol Composites Institute wins the University’s Three Minute Thesis competition 17 June 2020 David Brigido, a final-year PhD student in the ACCIS CDT, won the University of Bristol’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition on 12 June 2020. He was also crowned the winner of the People’s Choice category. David will represent the University in the national 3MT semi-finals this summer, competing for his place at the national finals.
- Nine Bristol Engineering students succeed in prestigious award scheme 8 June 2020 Nine students from our Civil Engineering and Engineering Design courses have been selected as inspiring future leaders by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng).
- Ultra-low power computing in spacecraft to IoT nodes 7 May 2020 The ZeroAMP project is a collaborative effort to push beyond the limits of transistors by developing the first large-scale integrated nanoelectromechanical relay-based computers that will work in extreme environments.
- Nuclear safety analysis tool applied to Covid-19 lockdown scenarios 30 April 2020 New analysis from the University of Bristol has evaluated options available to national governments to combat the COVID-19 pandemic using the J Value method, previously applied to mass evacuation scenarios. The method empirically assesses expenditure of a safety scheme against the value of life and potential gains in life expectancy.
- Dr Jason Zheng Jiang wins EPSRC Research Fellowship 23 April 2020 We’re delighted that Dr Jason Zheng Jiang has been awarded a prestigious £1.2M 5-year Research Fellowship from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
- ACCIS CDT student wins Hexcel project prize 22 April 2020 PhD student Marcelle Hecker has been awarded the annual Hexcel prize for the best ACCIS CDT six-month extended research project (XP).
- Professor Stephen Eichhorn awarded Swinburne Medal by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining 7 April 2020 Professor Stephen Eichhorn from the Bristol Composites Institute and University of Bristol’s Department of Aerospace Engineering has been awarded the Swinburne Medal and Prize from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.
- Dr. Benjamin Woods wins prestigious EPSRC Early Career Fellowship 26 March 2020 Dr. Benjamin King Sutton Woods, member of the Bristol Composites Institute, from University of Bristol’s Department of Aerospace Engineering, has been awarded a £1.1M Early Career Fellowship from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.