By Victoria Thomas My research project is part-funded by an investment casting company called Uni-Pol, a global leader in the production of nickel alloy turbocharger wheels. Uni-Pol has manufacturing plants based in China, India, Mexico and a smaller foundry in the UK, Polycast Ltd. After the first meeting with my industrial supervisor Dr. Steve Leyland, …
By Peter Hall On a typical drizzly Swansea Tuesday morning I, along with my academic supervisors, left for Cardiff airport. We were traveling to Herzogenaurach Germany, I didn’t know how to pronounce it either, the home town of Adidas, Puma and more importantly for us my sponsor company Schaeffler. We flew from Cardiff airport to …
By Caitlin McCall Starting our Engineering Doctorate, on the 19th of September 2016 we were invited to Bay Campus for the M2A Induction Event. Divided into 3 streams, Functional Coatings, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing, and Computational Modelling, we received our induction packs for the following months. During the morning, the new cohort met the friendly …
By Robbie Sutton. The 1st Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET) was held back in 2002 in Portugal. Since its inception, it has been an annual and widely international affair, with host locations ranging from China and Canada, through to Italy and Germany, just to name a few locations. SET is considered a multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed …
On Monday 18th July the 2015 M2A cohort travelled up to Birmingham for the annual tour of prominent UK industrial sites. The first site earmarked for invasion by the Swansea contingent was the JCB factory in Staffordshire where we learnt how, from simple beginnings, one man’s vision transformed the face of manufacturing in the UK. …
My project is to model the vapour deposition in a Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD) Process in CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), currently in development in Tata Steel in Ijmuiden in Netherlands as a new galvanising technique to coat strip products. My project recently hit a new peak as I got to visit the PVD facilities in …
The location could not have been better for Swansea University to host the 57th Corrosion Science Symposium (CSS). Our new nest for knowledge, situated on the ocean front, and landmark for Swansea’s innovation quarter: the Bay Campus. CSS is an annual event, launched in 1960 by the revered Professor L.L. Shreir as an occasion for young …
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