- "Cool Aeronautics" outreach event 7 July 2016
- ACCIS CDT video showcases research diversity 4 July 2016 In this new video, hear more about the diverse range of research going on in the ACCIS CDT, opportunities for project collaboration, and how CDT research is being applied in the real world.
- ACCIS CDT students run smart plastics workshop at Skirting Science 2016 4 July 2016 The 8th Annual Skirting Science Day
- IMechE best paper award for ACCIS researchers 27 June 2016
- Engineering Doctorate student wins SAMPE students’ presentation competition 22 June 2016 Mattia Di Francesco, an Engineering Doctorate student sponsored by the National Composites Centre, has won a competitive students’ presentation competition, which ran as part of the SAMPE UK and Ireland chapter Conference in London on the 16th June 2016.
- ACCIS CDT annual football tournament 2016 15 June 2016 Forget Euro 2016, on Wednesday 8 June 2016 staff and students from the ACCIS CDT gathered at the Clifton College Sports Ground to compete for the prestigious CDT cup!
- ACCIS and NCC present to SAMPE Conference 15 June 2016 A group of Researchers and Doctoral candidates from ACCIS recently attended The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) Conference held in Long Beach, California, where all five delegates presented papers.
- Boeing awards scholarships to engineering students 8 June 2016
- ACCIS CDT launches new introductory video 7 June 2016 What are composites? Why study composites at the ACCIS CDT? Why choose Bristol? What are the employment prospects? This exciting new video answers all these questions and more.
- ACCIS CDT student awarded thesis commendation 31 May 2016 Congratulations are offered to Bassam El Said, who has been awarded a Faculty of Engineering Commendation for his doctoral thesis.
- ACCIS and NCC demonstrate the benefits of automated composite lay-up 24 May 2016 In collaboration with the National Composites Centre (NCC), ACCIS were pleased to be part of the Rolls-Royce Advanced Manufacturing Forum 2016 where they showcased some of their recent work in manufacturing process.
- ACCIS CDT student Anna Baker reaches the finals of the Three Minute Thesis competition 23 May 2016 For the third year in a row, a student from the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science (ACCIS CDT) has reached the finals of the University of Bristol's Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
- Royal Aeronautical Society Council Elections 19 May 2016
- Bristol and Lund once again set new world record in 5G wireless spectrum efficiency 18 May 2016 A team of 5G engineers from the Universities of Bristol and Lund has once again set a new world record for wireless spectrum efficiency, less than two months after setting the first one.
- ACCIS welcomes new Project Manager 17 May 2016 ACCIS is delighted to welcome Claire Hobbs who has taken up the role of ACCIS and Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) Project Manager
- ACCIS students hosted by two prestigious American institutions 5 May 2016 Having presented at the 2016 Mach Conference in Maryland, USA, Mark Hazzard and Jacob Best were delighted to visit the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute and the University of Delaware Centre for Composite Materials.
- Eminent graduate Professor Philip Ruffles CBE, FRS, FRENG visits ACCIS 28 April 2016 On Thursday 21 April Professor Philip Ruffles, a graduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bristol and formerly Director of Engineering and Technology at Rolls-Royce plc, returned to the University to visit the Advanced Composites Centre for Innovation and Science and to deliver a lecture to staff and students.
- Professor Ivana Partridge awarded prestigious Leslie Holliday Prize 20 April 2016 Ivana Partridge, Professor of Composites Processing at the University of Bristol and Director of the EPSRC Industrial Doctorate Centre in Composites Manufacture, has been awarded the 2016 Leslie Holliday Prize by the Council of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.
- Students awarded prizes at IABSE Future of Design conference 20 April 2016
- New RA joins H2020 5GPPP 5G-XHaul project. 15 April 2016
- Prestigious IEEE award recognising pioneering work on Software Defined Networking. 15 April 2016 High Performance Network Group receive prestigious IEEE Award for Best Optical Communications & Networking Innovation.
- ACCIS CDT Conference 2016 11 April 2016 5th Annual Conference of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science
- Pioneer of MIMO technology delivers lecture 8 April 2016 Prof. Arogyaswami Paulraj visits Bristol to deliver 5G seminar
- ACCIS CDT students develop new outreach Composite Hub 24 March 2016 A group of postgraduate research students in the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science (ACCIS CDT) have developed the Composite HUB, an educational outreach channel, to introduce the concept of composites to new audiences.
- Sergio Araujo-Estrada received partial funding from the School Research Fund to attend the AIAA SciTech2016 Conference 18 March 2016
- Airbus Group University Partner Programme Meeting - Singapore 18 March 2016
- ACCIS CDT Director delivers memorial lecture and plenary talk at two events in Israel 15 March 2016 Paul Weaver, Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science (ACCIS CDT), travelled to Israel in March to deliver the Third Annual Professor Singer Memorial Lecture at the Israel Institute of Technology, followed by a plenary talk at the 56th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences.
- Special Session for ALPES project at the AIAA SCITECH Conference January 2016, San Diego, USA 11 March 2016
- ACCIS CDT: Call for six-month extended research project proposals 11 March 2016 The call for ACCIS CDT extended research project proposals is now open. Deadline: Friday 22 April 2016.
- 70th Anniversary of the Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Bristol 8 March 2016 Bristol - Aerospace Engineering - 70 Years
- Inspiring Red Arrows visit for competition finalists 2 March 2016 In February 2016 Laura Edwards and Rafael Luterbacher, both students in the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science (ACCIS CDT), visited the Red Arrows at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire. The visit formed part of the prize for finalists of the 2015 ImechE Western Aerospace Competition.
- ACCIS CDT students awarded thesis commendations 22 February 2016 Three recent graduates from the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science (ACCIS CDT) have been awarded Faculty of Engineering Commendations for their doctoral theses.
- Student Callum rows into the history books 18 February 2016 Callum Gathercole, an Aerospace student at University of Bristol has just completed the Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge - dubbed the 'world's toughest endurance race' - in 58 days, 15 hours and 15 minutes.
- ACCIS celebrates its PhD successes 17 February 2016 Congratulations to all the ACCIS students who graduated on Tuesday 16 February 2016. The graduates included five ACCIS PhD students, four members of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science (denoted by ‘ACCIS CDT’ below) and five MSc students in Advanced Composites.
- Centre for Defence Enterprise award aids research for military aerospace applications 9 February 2016 The Advanced Composites Centre for Innovation and Science (ACCIS) and additive manufacturing specialists, HiETA Technologies Ltd, have been awarded £110k to investigate novel bio-inspired metal-composite joint designs for military aerospace applications.
- ACCIS teams up with the Sir Henry Royce Institute to research the concept of gradient matrices 4 February 2016 Seed funding from the Faculty of Engineering will bring together researchers in the Advanced Composites Centre for Innovation and Science and the Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials Research at the University of Manchester to explore the feasibility of reducing both internal and macro stress concentrations with the aim of improving composite strength.
- Delivering the internet of the future - at the speed of light and open sourced 2 February 2016 New research has found, for the first time, a scientific solution that enables future internet infrastructure to become completely open and programmable while carrying internet traffic at the speed of light.
- Pump-priming bid leads way for research into structurally and functionally enhanced composites 2 February 2016 Researchers in the Advanced Composites Centre for Innovation and Science (ACCIS) have been awarded a pump-priming grant of £4.9K from the Faculty of Engineering Research Pump Priming Fund to bring together two novel concepts in composites manufacture which have the potential to generate exceptional composite properties.
- ACCIS CDT triumphs for third consecutive year in best student paper awards 29 January 2016 Eric Eckstein, a PhD student in the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science (ACCIS CDT), has won the prestigious Jefferson Goblet award for overall best student paper at the 57th AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference. Held this year in San Diego, USA, in conjunction with the SciTech Forum and Exposition, this event is the largest aerospace gathering in the world.
- ACCIS CDT student breaks new ground with 3D printing technique 20 January 2016 A research team in the Advanced Composites Centre for Innovation and Science (ACCIS) has developed a new type of 3D printing that can print composite materials which are used in many high performance products such as tennis rackets, golf clubs and aeroplanes.
