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): Structural health monitoring of wave energy convertors The output of this research will be the development of robust techniques to continuously monitor and assess the performance and design life of marine energy devices, such as wave energy convertors. Scale tests in the wave flume and/or structures laboratory can be combined with numerical modelling to develop and validate the SHM technique. 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; Staff in the College of Engineering & Informatics at NUI Galway have many years of experience in design and conducting full-scale testing of structural components and systems to static, dynamic and cyclic loadings. This is complemented with a strong competency in numerical modelling of these systems. NUI Galway has a 4000sq.ft (375 sq.m) state-of-the-art high-bay Structures Research Laboratory, the largest of its kind in the Republic Version 2 Universidade Nacional da Irlanda em Galway -- Ciência sem Fronteiras of Ireland. This laboratory has a large strong floor (33ft x 20ft) and reaction frame, offering a flexible testing space for many different systems and structures (http://www.nuigalway.ie/civileng/Facilities/Rooms/structures1.html). A wave flume and tidal basin are also available in other laboratories located in the engineering building (see http://www.nuigalway.ie/civileng/Facilities/Rooms/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 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 Version 2 Universidade Nacional da Irlanda em Galway -- Ciência sem Fronteiras Pharmaceuticals Sustainable Agricultural Production Oil, Gas and Coal Renewable Energy Minerals, Minerals Technology 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 X 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: _____