News
February 2013
In Memoriam: Peter Turner
We are very sad to announce the death of Peter Turner, Lecturer in Electronic and Computer Engineering. Peter had worked at Brunel since 1989 and was Director of Undergraduate Studies and Placement Tutor.December 2012
Brunel hosts power engineering conference
Brunel Institute of Power Systems (BIPS) in the School of Engineering and Design hosted the 47th International Universities’ Power Engineering Conference (UPEC 2012) in London from 4-7 September. UPEC is a long established conference, which is very popular with young researchers, PhD students and engineers from the power industry. The conference allowed participants to exchange experiences and discuss the most up-to-date topics in power engineering and provided delegates with important insights into the newest projects, developments and research that are driving the move towards competitive, sustainable and secure energy throughout Europe. A total of 220 delegates were in attendance from 30 countries including the UK and 204 papers were presented.
A total of 220 delegates were in attendance from 30 countries.
Further information and event pictures available at: http://upec2012.com/
For further information contact: gareth.taylor@brunel.ac.uk
Brunel leads UK-China energy research collaboration
As reported in Brunel Leading Edge starting in March 2013, Brunel will lead a £690k multidisciplinary collaborative research project with institutions from both the UK and China.PhD studentship: Modelling and Optimisation of large dynamic network
Applications are invited for a PhD research studentship in the field of data prediction and analysis in the School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University. The post is funded for 3 years in partnership with an industrial company. The aim of the project is to develop scalable optimisation algorithms that can handle the accumulated analysis of supply chain particularly capture the dynamics of the large network. The work scope will cover data analysis, network modelling and optimisation, software development for simulation and automation of scalable network modelling process. The scholarship is partially funded by industry and, as such, it will require regular deliverables to be completed under strict deadlines to industrial partner. The deliverables may include software developments, reports and presentations.
November 2012
ECE has once again excelled in the NSS survey 2012
HEFCE has adopted a new programme-based strategy for presenting stats on the quality of taught provision in UK HEI's using Key Information Sets (KIS). What has characterised the ECE NSS performance in previous years is the consistency and upward trend of the annual NSS returns and this year has been no exception. The overall satisfaction rate of our EE students was 92% (94% on just the BEng EE programme) for an overall satisfaction mean score of 4.5 - This is compared to 90% and 4.4 respectively last year (2011) which were then record figures for us. Improvements were made across the board particularly in assessment and feedback but also in teaching quality and academic support. The core BEng programme we deliver in Electrical and Electronic Engineering was ranked 8th among its peers in the country, just level on overall satisfaction with Sheffield and Edinburgh, two top UK universities in the EE educational provision.
ECE is a unique subject area in the university in a 5-year NSS cycle that has managed to maintain a consistently improving NSS performance with no fluctuations or stagnancy and this is what makes our NSS performance quite distinguishable and noteworthy. This comes as a remarkable reward to all the efforts ECE has been putting in to ensure the quality of its teaching and its students' learning experience, and truly a recompense to the collective departmental work in supporting students and promoting the taught provision business.
PhD Research Scholarship in Supply Chain Network Modelling and Optimisation is availbale. Deadline for applications 19 November 2012
Applications are invited for a PhD research studentship in the field of data prediction and analysis in the School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University. The post is funded for 3 years in partnership with an industrial company. The aim of the project is to develop scalable optimisation algorithms that can handle the accumulated analysis of supply chain. The work scope will cover data analysis, network modelling and optimisation, software development for simulation and automation of scalable network modelling process. The scholarship is partially funded by industry and, as such, it will require regular deliverables to be completed under strict deadlines to industrial partner. The deliverables may include software developments, reports and presentations.
For more information please visit the School of Engineering and Design Research Scholarships page.
PhD research scholarship Real Time sound recognition and visualisation is available. Deadline for applications 19 November 2012
Applications are invited for a PhD research studentship in the field of sound classification, recognition and visualisation in the School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University. The post is funded for 3 years in partnership with an industrial company. The aim of the project is to develop a real-time mobile-based sound recognition framework. The work scope will cover sound classification and recognition, software development for simulation, sound visualisation and automation of scalable automatically updated sound database. The scholarship is funded by industry and, as such, it will require regular deliverables to be completed under strict deadlines to industrial partner. The deliverables may include software developments, reports and presentations.
For more information please visit the School of Engineering and Design Research Scholarships page.
October 2012
ECE is involved in hosting IEEE 8th International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting at Brunel University
ECE is involved in hosting IEEE 8th International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting at Brunel University.
Prof. John Cosmas as a general chair is hosting IEEE 8th International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting at Brunel University. The conference is hosted on 5th - 7th June 2013 with an optional "3D TV Now and Beyond" workshop on 4th June 2013. A team of ECE colleagues have volunteered to serve on the Technical Program Committee, namely: Prof. Abdul Sadka, Dr Thomas Owens, Dr Amar Aggoun and Dr Emmanuel Tsekleves. You can find further details from our Internet pages: http://www.ieee-bmsb.org/
May 2012
ECE Seminar on "RFID" on June 11th, 2012, 13:00pm-14:00pm at Howell building room H313
ECE is pleased to invite you to a seminar on "Design and Verification of Baseband of 2.4GHz Active RFID" organized by the Electronic and Computer Engineering on Monday June 11th, 2012, 13:00pm-14:00pm @ room H313. All are welcome! Tea, Coffee, Juice and biscuit will be served.
April 2012
Brunel University Guest Lecture
Internet for All
Dr Mike Short, Vice President Public Affairs, Telefonica Europe and President of the IET
Followed by panel discussion with:
Dr Bob Briscoe (Chief Researcher in Network Infrastructure, BT Labs) Mr Richard Egan (Technical Manager, Thales Research & Technology) Professor Mark Handley (Professor of Networked systems, UCL) Professor Abdul H. Sadka (Head of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Brunel)
Monday 23rd April at 6:00pm
Location: Newton Room, Hamilton Centre
Brunel University
