EU funded China link is up and running

A China link that has been funded by a grant awarded by the EU is now up and running. The project aims to secure stonger research collaboration between four top research groups at QMUL, Eindhoven University in Holland and at Fudan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. So … [more]

IOM3 School Open Day

Engineering diploma students from Sussex Downs College visited the department of Materials at Queen Mary, University of London on 19th November 2003. The budding young materials scientists took part in numerous activities, including; · Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) · Light microscopy including microstructural analysis of pro-eutectoid carbon steels · Tensile testing These 'hands-on' workshops … [more]

New Links with China

The Department has signed a new collaboration agreement with Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU) in Xi'an, China. A general collaboration agreement linking Queen Mary with NWPU has been supplemented by a specific agreement between the School of Science and the School of Materials in Xi'an with the Department of Materials here … [more]

Melon drop is smashing

This years student training in problem based learning, required the students in groups to design a bungee to give as big a thrill as possible to a large melon without killing it. The requirements were for the melon to be dropped from a 3.5m balcony to as near to the … [more]

Enrolment Hits Triple Record

Enrolment to the department has hit an all time high in all three areas - undergraduates, taught post graduates and research post graduates students. Preliminary figures have shown that the department has already reached a total of 252 undergraduates across all four years of the BEng/MEng programmes, accompanied by 59 taught … [more]

Department launches MBA in Technology Exploitation and Management

The Department has become the first Materials Department in the UK to launch an MBA degree. The new programme is a specialist MBA in Technology Exploitation and Management and has been developed from the continuing MSc programme with the same name launched last year. The objective of the programme is … [more]

ECCMR Conference is a Great Success

The rubber group at QMUL, hosted this year's major global conference on the constituative modelling of rubber. The event was attended by about 140 delegates from 30 different countries around the world. The conference brought together specialists in constitutive modelling, researchers in materials science, software development engineers and practitioners of finite element … [more]

Amanda and Ian Get Married

Amanda and Ian are currently studying for PhD degrees in the Department of Materials. They were undergraduates in the department and have been going out since practically day one! Many of their student friends, and Cath and Sandra travelled up to Kendal, to be present on their fantastic wedding day. … [more]

The Annual Cricket Match

Staff and post-graduate students play a game of cricket at the QMUL grounds in Chislehurst.

Dr Jawwad Darr's New Family

Dr Jawwad A. Darr [EPSRC fellow and lecturer in the department] and his wife Naila, annouce the birth of their twin girls born 13th November 2002. The recent photo shows Jawwad and Naila with their daughters Elsa Xena Darr and Hannah Zara Darr (aged 8 months) [more]

The EPSRC awards Queen Mary a Platform Grant for Powder-based Processing Research

Professors Mohan Edirisinghe, Xiao Guo and Julian Evans, of the Department of Materials, have been awarded a Platform Grant worth £429000 to carry out innovative research on Powder-based Processing and Modelling at the Centre for Materials Research in Queen Mary. This is the first EPSRC Platform grant awarded to Queen Mary … [more]

Staff enjoy a day watching the cricket at The Oval - Pakistan v England