Outstanding Past
Bright Future
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Third Generation University
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Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching
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Individual and Corporate Research
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Direct Action to stimulate sustainable socioeconomic wellbeing.
Outstanding Past
Bright Future
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14 Faculties that cover most disciplines –
Centers and Institutes that combine research
and inter-disciplinarity.
Undergraduate programmes now number
some 700.
Postgraduate Masters Programmes on the
increase with programmes jointly hosted with
a number of EU and American Universities.
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Postgraduate Ph.D. Studies on the increase
require some 50 Ph.D. graduates per year.
Laboratories upgraded but still need to do
more on this front.
Corporate research has just started to make
inroads.
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Knowledge Transfer Office up and running.
Entrepreneurship and Business Incubation
Centre inaugurated.
Joint initiative with University of Oxford to
implement entrepreneurship programmes at
a number of levels including Masters.
Business incubation of projects seen to have
business potential.
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Research Community to provide for the
business of today but more importantly that
of the Future.
Examples – Digital Games – Creative Industry
Molecular Medicine – Health
MEMS – Manufacturing Industry
Web Security – ICT
Climate Adaptation
Sustainable Living
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46 projects that total some Euro 10 million
Per capita number among top 10
Per income per capita also among top 10.
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MEMS Devices designed at UoM
Animations of the designed MEMS Accelerometers
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3-axis accelerometers and inertial
sensors
Microphones
High performance tunable passive
devices for mw applications
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LAB4MEMS ENIAC JU Project 2013 - 2016
UoM is mainly involved in 2 work-packages:
WP2:
• Design of test structures for the characterisation of Anisotropic
Magnetoresistive (AMR) films for MEMS 3-D compass devices.
• Design of piezo-actuated MEMS capacitor for RF coupling application.
• Design of a piezo-actuated resonator for RF application.
WP4:
Modelling of the curing effects of epoxy compound on silicon substrates:
this work is related to the modelling of 3-D packaging on the silicon devices
and includes modelling of the visco-elastic properties, glass transition
temperature and TCE mismatch and shrinkage.
INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTRONOMY
(ISSA)
Contribution to the Square Kilometre Array has been funded through FP-6 and FP7 Programmes.
Contribution to the Cluster of Research Infrastructures in Physics (CRISP – funded
through FP-7) Work Package Leader for developing common software platforms
for the use in large Particle Physics experiments (CERN, XFEL and DESY).
Work Package Leader in the “Intelligent Fast Interconnected and Efficient Devices
for Frontier Exploitation in Research and Industry" which is sponsored through a
MARIE-CURIE FP7 Initial Training Network (ITN).
Research in Aeronautics
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Since 2003 activity has grown today to address multiple research programmes, focussing
on European Research (FP6/7) and National Funding (R&I)
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European Research Projects:
National Research Projects:
Flysafe, Odicis, Alicia, Across, Clean Sky
Touch Flight, Clean Flight, Clean Flight 2
• Developed strong multi-disciplinary skills:
* Operational Safety * Operational Efficiency
* Optimisation studies
* Cockpit HMI design
* Safety-critical Surveillance * Air Traffic Management
* Flight Guidance, Navigation and Control
* Safety Assessment
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10 external contracts worth €3.5 Million
• 68 academic papers, 4 patents, 87 research contract documents
• 5 National/International Awards and Nominations since 2010
• Hosted 13 international events, bringing European industry to Malta
• Contributed to international strategic documents
(ACARE, RTCA/Eurocae, etc)
Thank You.