Version 2 Universidade Nacional da Irlanda em Galway -- Ciência sem Fronteiras PhD Project Template Use one form per project Please complete & submit to international@nuigalway.ie as soon as possible, and by 27/11/2012 In your email, begin the subject line with [SWB] (be sure to use square brackets) to ensure that your email is filed correctly. Emails will be automatically filed PI name & contact details: School: Jamie Goggins; Jamie.Goggins@nuiglaway.ie; +35391492609 College of Engineering & Informatics Has project been agreed with head (or nominee) of proposed registration school? Research Centre / group affiliation: Research group / centre website: PI website / link to CV: Ryan Institute for Environmental, Marine and Energy Research Energy; http://www.ryaninstitute.ie/ http://www.nuigalway.ie/civileng/Staff/jamiegoggins.html Brief summary of PI research / research group / centre activity (2 or 3 lines max): The Ryan Institute has a very strong and active team of researchers working in the area of Energy, with ongoing and planned research organised into four sub-themes: Bioenergy, Renewable Resources, Energy Efficient Technologies, and Energy and Society. Title & brief description of PhD project (suitable for publication on web): The influence of advanced structural components on the internal environment of buildings The project will focus on developing a standard-based theoretical and experimental framework for evaluating the effectiveness of innovative building structural elements regarding their individual and potentially combined thermal, acoustic, air tightness and fire resistance properties, and their influence on indoor environments. The numerical models (CFD) will be developed and calibrated using real-time data from an operating building (Engineering building, NUI Galway). Real time measurements, including weather monitoring, embedded strain gauges and temperature sensors in building elements, indoor air temperature, humidity, noise and CO2 concentration sensors, energy and water usage meters, etc will support the modelling process. Unique selling points of PhD project in NUI Galway: In 2011, all Engineering units in the National University of Ireland, Galway relocated to a new stateof-the-art 140,000 sq.ft building costing almost €45m; This building acts as a ‘living laboratory’ Version 2 Universidade Nacional da Irlanda em Galway -- Ciência sem Fronteiras providing a rich set of data from a range of sensors in the building (http://www.nuigalway.ie/civileng/Facilities/LivingLaboratory/index.html). As all Engineering disciplines are housed in the one building and engineering disciplines share many of the laboratories, collaboration between different engineering disciplines is rich, leading to multidisciplinary research projects. Furthermore, as an affiliated researcher of the Ryan Institute's (http://www.ryaninstitute.ie/ ), I am committed to knowledge sharing and collaboration across the sciences, engineering, social sciences and medicine. The Structured PhD offered in Engineering at NUI Galway is a 4-year programme which offers added value to the core component of doctoral training. Students on this programme are offered disciplinary or dissertation specific modules, as well as generic and transferable skills designed to meet the needs of an employment market that is wider than academia. The programme is flexible and student centred, as candidates choose their own pathways in consultation with their Supervisor and Graduate Research Committee. Name & contact details for project queries, if different from PI named above: Please indicate the graduates of which disciplines that should apply: Graduates from Engineering and Sciences are encouraged to apply, especially those from the following disciplines: Civil Engineering Mechanical Engineering Applied Physics Material Science Ciência sem Fronteiras / Science Without Borders Priority Area: Please indicate the specific programme priority area under which the proposed PhD project fits- choose only one (tick box): Engineering and other technological areas X Pure and Natural Sciences (e.g. mathematics, physics, chemistry)/Physical Sciences (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Geosciences) Health and Biomedical Sciences / Clinical, Pré-clinical and Health Sciences Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), Computing Aerospace Pharmaceuticals Sustainable Agricultural Production Oil, Gas and Coal Renewable Energy Minerals, Minerals Technology Version 2 Universidade Nacional da Irlanda em Galway -- Ciência sem Fronteiras Biotechnology Nanotechnology and New Materials Technologies for Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Disasters Bioprospecting and Biodiversity Marine Sciences Creative Industry New technologies in constructive engineering Please indicate which of the following applies to this project (referring to Science Without Borders arrangements): Suitable only as a Full PhD (Y/N): _ _N___ Available to candidates seeking a Sandwich PhD arrangement (Y/N): ___Y__ Suitable for either/Don’t know: _____