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PhD Project Template
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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; Built Environment & Smart Cities;
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 tidal turbine blades
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 tidal turbine blades.
Full-scale tests in 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
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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
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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: _____