School of Engineering and Materials Science News

Here's news from the last twelve months at the School. Older news is archived here.

Date(s)	News
May 2013
24 May 13	SEMS MEng Project Group Awarded Third Prize in International Aeronautics Competition SEMS MEng Project Group Awarded Third Prize in international aeronautics competition. One hundred and thirty two students from 23 colleges and universities around the globe registered in October 2012 to the Price Indu... [more]
22 May 13	Dr Karabasov presents keynote lecture at Multiscale Modelling & Computing Workshop Sergey Karabasov presented the keynote lecture at the Multiscale Modelling & Computing Workshop held in the Lorenz Centre, Leiden. His talk was entitled 'High resolution methods and algorithms for multiscale modelling i... [more]
15 May 13	Henri Huijberts and Hazel Screen are both awarded Drapers Teaching Fellowships The Drapers’ Teaching Fellows Scheme was launched at QMUL this year to recognise and reward excellence in teaching and the support of student learning. The school is delighted to announce that two of only the first three... [more]
9 May 13	Queen Mary QS world rankings. A highly-regarded global analysis of almost 3,000 universities ranks 19 subjects taught at Queen Mary, University of London as among the world’s best. The third edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject e... [more]
7 May 13	SolarCopter team continues to receive media attention Co.EXIST, a part of the Fast Company magazine, has published an article about the Solarcopter MEng project. Fast Company is a full-color business magazine that releases 10 issues per year and focuses on technology, busin... [more]
3 May 13	QMUL scientist wins biomaterials awards Dr Karin Hing from the School of Engineering and Materials Science has been awarded two prestigious prizes in recognition of her outstanding contributions to materials research in the field of biomaterials. The UK Societ... [more]
April 2013
29 Apr 13	E2million project aims to revolutionise the study of cancer cells in the lab Researchers from Queen Mary, University of London have been awarded a €2.43million grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for a project which aims to revolutionise the field of cancer cell research by using bioen... [more]
27 Apr 13	New device leads to kidney surgery breakthrough The Royal London Hospital has become the first in the UK to use a pioneering new device to remove kidney stones. A tiny laser is inserted into the body and breaks stones up into small fragments which can then be flushed ... [more]
25 Apr 13	MEng project of a small jet aircraft design is in the final stage of an international student contest The Qu-Jet 128 D design produced by the MEng project of a small jet aircraft has reached the final stage of an international student competition along with ten other student designs from Brazil, Philippines, UK and USA,.... [more]
17 Apr 13	Bioengineering associated with medical implants Queen Mary, University of London has produced a new short film highlighting different medical implants including total knee replacement, prosthetic legs, artificial bone, breast implants and urological stents. The film... [more]
9 Apr 13	SolarCopter featured on The Daily Planet Show (Discovery Channel) The SolarCopter MEng groups have had more media coverage, this time appearing on the Discovery Channel's The Daily Planet Show. Jibran Ahmed is interviewed about the project, the applications for the helicopter and the f... [more]
March 2013
28 Mar 13	Solarcopter MEng group appear in Gizmag The SolarCopter Team, after being announced as the best MEng Project Group at the Industrial Liaison Forum, have now been featured on gizmag. The article talks about the process the students have been through and has al... [more]
25 Mar 13	SEMS students recognised at the Annual PASS Mentoring Celebration and Awards The PASS team held its annual awards ceremony on 19th March, celebrating the contributions from students across college to the mentoring and support of their peers. The majority of the SEMS PASS team were able to attend ... [more]
20 Mar 13	Saira Chaudry successfully defends PhD Thesis Congratulations to Saira Chaudry who successfully defended her PhD thesis 'A biomechanical characterisation of eccentric and concentric loading of triceps surae complex'. Saira was supervised by Dr Hazel Screen.
19 Mar 13	Lifting Off-Implementing the Strategic Vision for UK Aerospace Chancellor of Exchequer has announced the Government’s massive £2 billion investment in the UK aerospace sector. The new UK aerospace technology institute (ATI) will have four main fields: Aerodynamics, Propulsion, A... [more]
16 Mar 13	Queen Mary's Bionic Man makes Big Bang This years Big Bang Science Fair in London featured an interactive exhibit on medical implants and bioengineering run by the School of Engineering and Materials Science at Queen Mary University of London. The exhibit ent... [more]
10 Mar 13	Dr Hing from Queen Mary appears on BBC One discussing bone graft materials Dr Hing from the School of Engineering and Materials Science, appeared on Bang Goes The Theory, in a segment discussing her research into artificial substances with the same properties as bone – light, strong, and with a... [more]
6 Mar 13	Solar Copter MEng Project Group wins NPL Best Group Project Prize 2013 The Solar Copter MEng Project Group was awarded the Best Project Prize for 2013 sponsored by the National Physics Laboratory (NPL) at the recent Industrial Liaison Forum. Congratulations to Aly Abidaili, Jibran Ahmed,... [more]
6 Mar 13	Alumni Focused Industrial Liaison Forum SEMS welcomed back over 25 alumni to our Industrial Liaison Forum on March 6, 2013. The forum consisted of a poster presentation in the morning by all MEng project groups and the best 75 BEng individual projects inclu... [more]
6 Mar 13	Alexander Daykin-Iliopoulos was awarded the TWI Best Individual Project Prize at the recent Industrial Liaison Forum Alexander Daykin-Iliopoulos was awarded the Best Individual Project Prize sponsored by The Welding Institue at the recent Industrial Liaison Forum for his BEng final project titled Computational and experimental analysis... [more]
February 2013
20 Feb 13	Lotus F1 Visit 9 students from Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering with final year projects in Formula 1 design and Dr. J.-D. Müller visited the Lotus Formula 1 factory in Enstone, Oxfordshire on Feb 20. The group was shown aro... [more]
19 Feb 13	Congwei Wang wins the IoM3 Young Persons’ Lecture Competition London Heat Congwei Wang, a PhD student in SEMS supervised by Dr Asa Barber, has won the London round of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining’s Young Persons’ Lecture Competition. Congwei beat strong competition from both... [more]
6 Feb 13	Lewis Tunnicliffe wins the Best Young Scientist Award Lewis Tunnicliffe, a PhD student in SEMS, was awarded the Best Young Scientist Award at the Tiretechnology Gala Dinner. The annual dinner is attended by more than 600 people and is considered to be something like the 'Os... [more]
January 2013
31 Jan 13	Wondering how your next hard drive might outperform your current one? New research resulting from collaboration between Madrid, Parma, QMUL (Joe Briscoe and Steve Dunn) and Cambridge show that it is possible to modify magnetic polarization using an electric field applied to a ferroelectric... [more]
17 Jan 13	PASS Presentation at the Teaching & Learning Day SEMS and EECS PASS organisers, Todun and Nabil, participated in a presentation on PASS at the Teaching and Learning Conference on 17.1.13, chaired by Professor Simon Gaskell. Todun and Nabil answered a range of questions... [more]
11 Jan 13	Ines Jimenez-Palomar successfully defends PhD thesis on small scale bone mechanics Congratulations to Ines Jimenez-Palomar in successfully defending her PhD thesis. Ines worked on the mechanical properties of bone at small length scales with her thesis titled ‘Mechanical Properties of Bone at the Sub-l... [more]
4 Jan 13	Ranjan Vepa Receives Awards Dr Ranjan Vepa was presented with an award by The Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) for fostering collaboration between QMUL and BIT in his role as a Visiting Fellow . Dr Vepa delivered a series of lectures on: Desig... [more]
December 2012
31 Dec 12	Sebastian Linke successfully defends PhD thesis Congratulations to Sebastian Linke was awarded his PhD “Laser scanning system for microscopic and macroscopic investigations of chemical semiconductor sensors”. Sebastian was supervised by Dr Steffi Krause.
31 Dec 12	Sandra Ciampone successfully defends PhD Thesis Congratulations to Sandra Ciampone who was awarded her PhD “Methods for Seated Posture Recognition”. Sandra was supervised by Dr Peter Dabnichki.
7 Dec 12	Angelo Karunaratne successfully defends his PhD thesis Congratulations to Angelo Karunaratne who successfully defended his PhD thesis “Analysis of Alterations in Matrix Quality at the Nanoscale in Metabolic Bone Diseases using Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction”. Angelo was super... [more]
7 Dec 12	Kartpan Sakulkaew successfully defends his PhD Congratulations to Kartpan Sakulkaew who successfully defended his PhD thesis “Tearing of Rubber”. Kartpan was supervised by James Busfield and helped by Alan Thomas and Yoshi Fukahori. Kartpan will return back to Thaila... [more]
7 Dec 12	Xin Bai's publication selected as Best Paper at the 6th International Conference on Energy & Development, Environment & Biomedicine (EDEB'12) Congratulations to Xin Bai whose paper titled ‘Numerical Simulation of a Marine Current Turbine in Turbulent Flow' was selected as Best Paper at the 6th International Conference on Energy & Development, Environment & Bio... [more]
3 Dec 12	SEMS Research Students Win Silver in Dragon’s Den for High-Tech Companies The Ad-Opt team of PhD students in the School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary, University of London have won second place and a cash prize of £2000. The ‘Dragon’s Den’ style competition encourages ent... [more]
November 2012
27 Nov 12	Ghazaleh Hosseini's paper selected for WCECS Best Student Paper Award of International Conference on Computational Biology 2012 Congratulations to Ghazaleh Hosseini whose paper titled 'Computational Simulation of the Urinary System' has been selected as the Best Student Paper Award of International Conference on Computational Biology 2012. The... [more]
15 Nov 12	Priyanka Pravincumar successfully defends PhD thesis Congratulations to Priyanka Pravincumar who successfully defended her PhD thesis “Viscoelastic Response of Cells and the Role of Actin Cytoskeletal Remodelling”. Priyanka was supervised by Professor Martin Knight.
15 Nov 12	Jerome Irianto successfully defends PhD thesis Congratulations to Jerome Irianto who successfully defended his PhD thesis “Osmotic Challenge Influences Nuclear Structure and Gene Expression in Chondrocytes”. Jerome was supervised by Dr Prof David Lee.
15 Nov 12	Hassan Ali successfully defends PhD thesis Congratulations to Hassan Ali who successfully defended his PhD thesis “Marangoni condensation of steam-ethanol mixtures on horizontal smooth, low finned tubes and bank of tubes”. Hassan was supervised by Dr Hua Sheng Wa... [more]
5 Nov 12	Faidon Christakopoulos successfully defends PhD Thesis Dr. Faidon Christakopoulos passed his PhD viva on "Aerodynamic shape optimisation using adjoint sensitivities" under the supervision of Dr. Jens-Dominik Mueller. The work was financed by the EU under the FlowHead project... [more]
October 2012
23 Oct 12	Secret Universe: The hidden life of the cell The BBC released a documentary exploring the inner world of the human cellular structure within the world of a single cell. The animations include graphics from XVIVO and hot of the press research activities on infection... [more]
19 Oct 12	Shape of Urine Can Indicate Prostate Problems Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London have discovered that the characteristic shape of a man's urine stream could be used to help diagnose urinary problems. The research, published in PLOS One today (16 Octob... [more]
4 Oct 12	Queen Mary 21st in the UK and in Global top 150 Queen Mary, University of London has been named among the top 150 universities in the world by the influential magazine Times Higher Education. The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2012-13 place ... [more]
2 Oct 12	Warning over shortage of engineering graduates Hannah Richardson from the BBC News education reports the UK needs to increase by as much as 50% the number of science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) graduates it is creating, a report says. The study, by t... [more]
September 2012
27 Sep 12	National Student Survey results 2012: Materials #1, Aero #6, Excellent Overall satisfaction Student satisfaction in Materials tops London Russell Group Universities and is number 1 in UK for the second year running. Student satisfaction in SEMS is now ranked at excellent according to a nationwide survey of ... [more]
24 Sep 12	Summer placement students from Xiamen University The school of Engineering and Materials Science is developing new research and trenching links with Xiamen University in China. During the summer we hosted undergraduate students Shuai Dang, Qianxue Wang and Feng Xiong (... [more]
18 Sep 12	Visitors from China Link Universities The School of Engineeering and Materials Science is developing strong research and teaching links with several top universities. To strengthen those links Prof Junyou Yang (2nd from left), Huazhong University, Wuhan (HUS... [more]
14 Sep 12	A world class jet engine multi-purpose simulation test bench in SEMS Price Induction is a new engine manufacturer which has developed an innovative and lightweight turbofan, the DGEN 380. This high by-pass ratio turbofan has been designed to equip 4-5 seat travel planes also known as “Per... [more]
3 Sep 12	Joggers – don’t run into trouble with tendonitis Post-Olympics running fever has led to more people pounding the pavements. While this has health benefits bioengineering experts are warning that our new enthusiasm for sport may also lead to a rise in the risk of injury... [more]
August 2012
14 Aug 12	Harry Hothi successfully defends PhD thesis Congratulations to Harry Hothi who successfully defended his PhD thesis “The Impact and Deformation of Press-Fit Metal Acetabular Components”. Harry's project was supported by DePuys, supervised by Julia Shelton and Jame... [more]
July 2012
17 Jul 12	Research into tendon injury points the way towards new threatment Tendon disorders cost the UK economy more than £7bn a year and now scientists at Queen Mary, University of London have identified a vital component of tendons which could help treat them. The research, published in th... [more]
12 Jul 12	Hong Chang successfully defends PhD thesis Congratulations to Hong Chang who successfully defended her PhD thesis “Study of an in situ protein membrane in a Microfluidics System”. Hong was supervised by Prof Pankaj Vadgama and Dr Steve Dunn.
5 Jul 12	Dickson Aleroh successfully defends PhD thesis Congratulations to Dickson Aleroh who successfully defended his PhD thesis “Synthesis and Optoelectronic Characterisation of Low Band Gap Semiconducting Polymers”. Dickson was supervised by Dr Martin Heeney and Dr Steve ... [more]
June 2012
26 Jun 12	Anton Pavlov successfully defends PhD thesis Congratulations to Anton Pavlov who successfully defended his PhD thesis “Multilayer Microcapsules for Delivery, Control and Triggered Release of Bioactive Compounds”. Anton was supervised by Professor Gleb Sukhorukov.
12 Jun 12	Biomaterials teach stem cells how to behave Stem cells learn a lot about how they should behave from their micro-environment, the very intimate set of biochemical, chemical and physical factors that they are most directly exposed to. Re-constructing such micro-env... [more]
May 2012
30 May 12	PICS funded by NHS Innovations London A QMUL and Barts Health team led by Professor Theodosios Alexander has been awarded £69k for the next phase of development of PICS, a novel mechanical circulatory support device. The device is one of two such separate d... [more]
30 May 12	NIHR awards £900k for the development of TURBOCARDIA A QMUL and Barts Health team led by Professor Theodosios Alexander has been awarded about £900k for the development of TURBOCARDIA, a novel mechanical circulatory support device. The device is one of two such separate d... [more]
29 May 12	David Lowe successfully defended his PhD thesis Congratulations to David Lowe who successfully defended hid PhD thesis "Natural Rubber / Organoclay Nanocomposites". David's project was supervised by Dr James Busfield at QM and Andy Chapman at TARRC his sponsors. After... [more]