Welcome to IeMRC 7th Annual
Conference
September 5th 2012
www.IeMRC.org
Twitter: @IeMRC
Housekeeping
• Fire alarms
• Fire exits
• Toilets
Agenda for the day
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9.45 Keynote: Roger Whatmore, National Tyndall Institute
10.15 Linda Newnes & Paul Green – CATA project
10:40 Coffee break
11:00 Mark Johnson –The University of Nottingham
11:25 Changqing Liu Loughborough University
11.50 Ryan Swee How Yang, Liverpool John Moores University
12:10 Maria Mirgkizouda, Loughborough University
12:30 – 2:00 Lunch & Posters
2:00 Keynote: Alun Morgan Isola
2.25 Axel Bindel, Loughborough University
2.50 Coffee break
3.10 Amirah Kassim – Coventry University
3.35 Karl Ryder – Leicester University
4.00 Concluding remarks and close.
The IMRC Programme
• Funded by EPSRC
• 16 Centres established in 2001
– Being replaced by EPSRC sponsored
Centres of Innovative Manufacturing
• Centres of research excellence, promoting
innovative, multidisciplinary research
• Strong links with industry & business
• Outputs of ‘high impact’ research
Activities
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Funding of research projects across UK
Project monitoring
Workshops and seminars
Annual Conference
Promotional activity for funded research,
capabilities and opportunities
Current status
• ~£10million for 2010-2015
• 2 large multi-institute “Flagship Projects”.
• 1st round of “Standard projects” awarded
and started.
• 2nd round of “Standard projects” selected.
• 3rd Call in process – sustainability themed.
Overview of the Centre
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Established 2004 with research budget of £15M
over 10 years
As of September 2011–
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funded research in 27 UK institutes
90 investigators
42 research associates
30 research students
8 technical staff
Successful international review in 2008 and the
EPSRC International Review of Manufacturing
Research in 2010
Funding runs to March 2015
Material scientists, mechanical,
manufacturing, chemical and
electronic engineers,
mathematicians and physicists
Technology Readiness
TSB
MTC
TICs
FP 7
etc.
IeMRC
Funded
Research
Free access to Emerald journals
Emerald is pleased to offer all IeMRC delegates free online access to the
following electrical and electronic engineering journals:
Circuit World
Microelectronics International
Soldering & Surface Mount Technology
COMPEL
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Sensor Review
(www.emeraldinsight.com/cw.htm)
(www.emeraldinsight.com/mi.htm)
(www.emeraldinsight.com/ssmt.htm)
(www.emeraldinsight.com/sr.htm)
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Future events
• Sept 11th: IEEE UK&RI Member Networking Workshop on
"NanoTechnology in Electronics”, Greenwich University
• Sept 13th/14th: EIPC Summer Conference, Milan.
• Nov 6th: ICT Evening Seminar, Historic Quay, Hartlepool.
• Nov 27th/28th: 6th International Symposium on Tin Whiskers
(Lboro & CALCE), Henry Ford College.
• Nov 28th/29th: iPower2 (Imaps & NMI), Warwick University.
• Spring 2013: IeMRC Seminar on microwave & HF product
manufacturing.
• March 21st 2013: Imaps Packaging workshop, TWI.
• July 3rd 2013: R2i2 – Research to Industry