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Engineering Development Trust/Industrial Cadets webinar – Supporting Outreach and Employability

Find out more about the Engineering Development Trust (EDT) & Industrial Cadets team in this interactive webinar

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Published: February 9th, 2022
Posted in Resources


Transforming Foundation Industries Future Leaders, Sustainability and Circular Economy Webinar: Metals sector

Date: 05/04/2022 14:00 Register to attend Michael Kenyon is a Research Scientist at Innoval.Michael will provide an overview of the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions associated with the global aluminium industry. He will then explore the solutionsrequired to achieve the targets set out in the 2015 Paris agreement and more recent sustainability conferences such as COP26.Michael […]

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Published: February 8th, 2022
Posted in Events


Transforming Foundation Industries Future Leaders, Sustainability and Circular Economy Webinar: Metals sector

Date: 08/03/2022 14:00 GMT Register to attend Dr Lucy Smith is a Principal Researcher for the Circular Economy Group at the Materials Processing Institute, where she leads on projects relating to resourceefficiency, sustainability, and material recovery from waste. She is a member of the recently formed Transforming Industries Future Leaders Group and representsthe Institute at […]

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Published: February 8th, 2022
Posted in Events


Transforming Foundation Industries Future Leaders, Sustainability and Circular Economy Webinar: Chemicals Sector

Date: Feb 8, 2022 02:00 PM London Register to attend Hallam Wheatley will provide an industry overview provided by the Chemicals Industry Association on sustainability commitments, as well as providing a SABICexample of Circular economy within industry.Having successfully completed his A-levels in 2011, Hallam chose to follow an apprenticeship in Advance Laboratory Techniques where he […]

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Published: February 8th, 2022
Posted in Events


Ground is broken at £45m future glass centre on historic site

Local leaders joined UKRI and BEIS on 4 February 2022 to mark the ground-breaking of the new Glass Futures Centre of Excellence in St Helens.

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Published: February 8th, 2022
Posted in News


Future Leaders Blog – Foundation Industries: Catalyst for change

Kyra Campbell discusses the crucial role of foundation industries in reducing our carbon footprint.

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Published: February 8th, 2022
Posted in News


Glass Futures: UK-India lab-to-lab collaboration

2nd March 2022, 09:00-14:00 Glass Futures, through collaborative engagements with respective and relevant stakeholders within the glass industry and its supply chain, and its UKRI government funded UK-India Lab-to-Lab Collaborative Project, have captured some of the high-level, broad-based sustainability challenges that the glass industry faces across the entire end-to-end process. In the pursuit to meet […]

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Published: February 7th, 2022
Posted in Events


Decarbonisation for the Steel Industry

NISCO UK Research Centre, School of Engineering, University of Leicester 9th February 2022, 10:30-12:30 The decarbonisation of the steel industry has been driven in recent years by climate change targets and legislation on carbon (C) tax such as the C trading credits scheme in the European Union (EU) and other continents. The global steel industry […]

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Published: February 7th, 2022
Posted in Events


Robocasting ectropy stabilised ultra-high temperature ceramic composites for hypersonic applications

Location: Imperial College London Applications accepted all year round Contact: Dr Luc Vandeperre About the Project Hypersonic flight (>Mach 4) requires materials that can withstand high temperatures (>2000 °C) in harsh, oxidative, environments for a range of components. The list of materials that can withstand such temperatures is extremely short and therefore there has been intensive […]

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Published: February 2nd, 2022
Posted in PhD opportunities


Interface phase transitions and degradation of Pb-free ferroelectric ceramics

Location: University of Canterbury Applications accepted all year round Contact: Assoc Prof Catherine Bishop About the Project Overview The aging and fatigue (degradation) of oxide ferroelectric materials in service is not understood at a fundamental defect level. In these materials, the thermodynamic state of interfaces such as grain boundaries has not been explored to the […]

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Published: February 2nd, 2022
Posted in PhD opportunities


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