STEM Engineering and Innovation

Previous Studentship Projects

2020 studentship projects

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• Plastics in the Air: Quantifying sources and sinks with novel detection methods
• Predicting and mapping the fate of microplastics in the ocean
• Carbon dioxide capture using algal hydrogels
• Medical applications of silicon nanoparticles
• The effect of silicone molecular architecture on adhesion, tribology, and lithography
• The strategies and practices of long-life products in circular economies
• Data-driven Residual Stress Mapping Tool using Artificial Intelligence
• Fatigue Life Enhancement through Residual Stress Management in Offshore Monopiles
• Micro-Contour Residual Stress Measurement Technology
• The Effect of Plastic Collapse on the Results of a Creep Rupture Test
• Design and validation of 3D printed aperiodic cellular structures
• Low cost coating of 2D functional nanomaterials for steel

2021 studentship projects

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• Medical applications of silicon nanoparticles
• The effect of silicone molecular architecture on adhesion, tribology, and lithography
• The strategies and practices of long-life products in circular economies
• Data-driven residual stress mapping tool using artificial intelligence
• Micro-contour residual stress measurement technology
• Advanced functional materials for synthesising photocatalytic solar fuel
• Structural integrity assessment of offshore monopiles
• The effect of plastic collapse on the results of a creep rupture test
• Design and validation of 3D printed aperiodic cellular structures

2022 studentship projects

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• Towards the co-production of groundwater flood resilience with GRACE
• A New Approach for Near Surface Residual Stress Measurement using Digital Image Correlation (DIC)
• Ferroelectric Material for Brain Inspired Computing
• Governing in the Anthropocene: Co-designing learning systems for managing water catchments
• Micro-Contour Residual Stress Measurement Technology
• Plastic Vectors in the Air
• Urban Greening for Heat-Resilient Neighbourhoods

2023 studentship projects

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• A New Approach for Mapping of Residual Stress in Complex Structures
• Advanced Functional Materials as Electrodes in Water-in-Salt Electrolytes (WISE) for Aqueous Rechargeable Batteries
• Design for access and mobility in the public realm
• Development of wearable nanobiosensors for health and space applications
• Enabling and Co-designing Retrofit
• Exploring Biochar Production in Applied Smouldering Systems
• Ferroelectric Material for Brain Inspired Computing
• Increasing the life of clothes
• Melting, Processing, and Solidification of Lunar Regolith
• Plastic Vectors in the Air
• Regenerative Design for Place Resilience
• Risk governance for decommissioning of nuclear sites
• Tree greenhouse gas emissions in response to stress and environmental change
• Photoactive Functional Materials for Antipathogenic and Antifouling Applications

2024 studentship projects

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• Aperiodic honeycombs for morphing wing applications
• Application of innovative aperiodic metamaterials to reimagine podiatric orthotics
• Community-academic co-design partnerships in the built environment models and routes to sustained engagement and impact
• Control and communication in connected autonomous vehicles
• Design anthropology and speculative prototyping of environmental sensing
• Designing and planning for urban artificial intelligences and robotics
• Extra-terrestrial applications of aperiodic porous structures
• Inclusive design with children with spoken language difficulties
• Numerical modelling of key dynamics in applied smouldering waste-to-energy systems
• Sustainable power generation using a hydroelectric siphon
• Tree greenhouse gas emissions in response to stress and environmental change