News and events
December 2012
The Second Joint International Workshop on Applied Radio Systems Research and Smart Wireless Communications (ARSR/SWICOM 2013) co-organised by University of Bedfordshire and University of Manchester will take place at the University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK.
December 2012
Congratuilations to Mr. Mohammadreza Sadeghi, a 2nd Year PhD student in the School working with Prof M. Missous, who has won the EPSRC UK ICT Pioneers 2012 prize in the category of “Connected World”.
November 2012
Arago Technology Ltd was presented with the Power & Energy Award at the IET Innovation awards ceremony, which was held last Thursday at The Brewery, London.
November 2012
Ofgem has approved £45.5 million for five innovative projects which aim to help make the electricity distribution network smarter and meet the challenges of moving to a low carbon economy.
nitiative Clean Sky GrantNovember 2012
Ofgem has approved £45.5 million for five innovative projects which aim to help make the electricity distribution network smarter and meet the challenges of moving to a low carbon economy.
November 2012
The University of Manchester took delivery of over 80 precision components, suitable for small servo systems, as part of the Maxon Motor UK student programme.
October 2012
The group was Power Conversion having a summer outing. The views, the company, no work for a day… nobody minded the rain. No injuries, no-one lost, the trip was a success!
October 2012
The Electrical Energy and Power System Group in the School is proud to organize from the 5th to the 7th of November 2012 the course "Smart Cities: planning and operation of future urban energy systems" within the EES-UETP partnership.
June 2012
Congratulations to Mrs Atia Adrees who won the Best Student Paper Award for her paper at the 12th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS) 2012, held in Istanbul, Turkey.
May 2012
The vast majority of the millions of microwave ovens thrown away every year could be easily fixed and reused, according to University of Manchester research.
Our student is one of the finalists at The Low Carbon Undergraduate of the Year Award
April 2012
Congratulations to our second year student, Mahmoud Mahfouz, in reaching the finals of The Low Carbon Undergraduate of the Year Award sponsored by EDF Energy. Undergraduate of the Year is a national competition culminating in a prestigious award ceremony held at Canary Wharf, the award being presented by Michael Portillo.
Prof Barry Lennox has been appointed as the Nuclear Engineering Decommissioning Research Director
April 2012
Congratulations to Professor Barry Lennox in his new role as the Nuclear Engineering Decommissioning (NED) Research Director for the Dalton Cumbrian Facility and Dalton Nuclear Institute.
March 2012
The University of Manchester is a core partner in a new project called Growing Autonomous System Mission Management Applications (GAMMA). GAMMA is an £8.8M project on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Autonomous Systems which has been 50% funded by the Regional Growth Fund, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, UK and the remaining 50% funded by the consortium partners.
March 2012
Post Doctoral Student Dr Laith Rashid from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering won the EAWE Excellent Young Wind Doctor Award last year for his research into the effects of wind turbines on radars.
March 2012
The Electrical Energy and Power Systems Group (EEPS) has made three new lectureship appointments to help support the energy research theme in the School and Faculty of EPS.
Professor Jovica Milanovic has been appointed IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
March 2012
Congratulations to Professor Jovica Milanovic who has been appointed IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. The IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Program provides lectures worldwide to present topics of current interest for chapter meetings. The lecturers are well-known engineers who have been working in the selected areas for long time. This program brings experts otherwise not available to the chapters, and enhances technical activities.
March 2012
The School hosted an IEEE Power and Energy Society international conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies – Europe 2011 at Manchester Central. With delegate numbers of over 500, this was probably the largest and most successful electrical power systems conference ever held in the UK.
February 2012
EEE Manchester is now in a unique position to offer its students on the Advanced Control and Systems Engineering MSc course, a LabVIEW training course that is fully accredited by National Instruments.
February 2012
Congratulations to Prof Patrick Gaydecki who was successful in winning a Teaching Excellence Award (2011-12) in what was a highly competitive field. Patrick’s commitment and contribution to Teaching and Learning in the School and beyond has been described as inspiring to students and staff alike.
January 2012
The LabVIEW Academy will place EEE in a unique position to offer its students courses that are accredited by National Instruments.
January 2011
UMIP has assisted Dr Roelof van Silfhout from the School to license his X-ray Beam Positioning Monitor (BMP) technology which provides detailed diagnostics of the impinging beam during measurements using highly focused beams. The BPM is the only technology of its kind in the world.
January 2012
The challenges facing the education sector in Africa, and Zambia in particular, are many and varied. They span all aspects of education from pre-school, primary and secondary school through to vocational as well as higher education.
December 2011
Congratulations to Professor Wuqiang Yang who has been elected a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to Electrical Capacitance Tomography.
20 December 2011
The North of England has the opportunity to become one of the world’s leading nuclear manufacturing hubs, creating many thousands of new jobs and generating substantial economic growth for the UK, according to a University of Manchester report.
December 2011
The University of Manchester is leading a £2.7m research project to create a key component in reducing jet engine emissions.
1 December 2011
On Wednesday the 30th of November the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering held its 4th Post Graduate Research (PGR) conference.
12th November 2011
IEEE SENSORS 2011 was organised to provide a common forum for research scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research findings ideas, developments and applications in the area of sensors and sensing technology. The School had a strong presence this year.
8th November 2011
The Control Systems Group has recently made two new lectureship appointments to help support the application of control in two strategic research themes of the School and Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences.
28 Oct 2011
The School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester held a Careers Fair on Wednesday 26 October
25 Oct 2011
The annual Power Academy Awareness event was held in the School to promote the Power Academy scholarship opportunity to our home and EU students.
10 Oct 2011
European Microwave Week continues its series of successful events, with its 14th at Manchester Central, Manchester.
01 Sept 2011 Manchester research student Simon Watson has been awarded a £10,000 prestigious national engineering prize by the IET towards his work developing ‘talking’ underwater robots.
01 Aug 2011
The School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester is holding a Careers Fair on Wednesday 26 October from 11 am until 4 pm.
20 July 2011
IST 2012 will be held in Manchester on the 16-17 July 2012
14 July 2011
Professor Missous, from the School of EEE, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)
13 July 2011
The School has continued its great run on winning awards over the past few months...
26 June 2011
Postgraduate students from Manchester have been honoured with prestigious scholarships from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
15th June 2011
The e-Agri Landscaping workshop aims to help co-create an EU-wide vision for how the revolution in “e-” technologies can fundamentally address the future global challenges to Sustainable Agriculture and Food Awareness.
25th May 2011
The EEPS Group in collaboration with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI, USA) organised in 9-10 May a Workshop on "Distribution Network Modelling for the Smart Grid"
9th May 2011
Arago, a spin out company from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering have been named the most promising spin out company in the country.
May 2011
If you are looking for a full-time graduate position starting summer/autumn 2011, this is the fair for you! Over 160 exhibitors usually attend from a wide range of sectors, hopefully providing something of interest for students of all degree disciplines
16th March 2011
The 2nd IEEE PES International Conference and Exhibition on “Innovative Smart Grid Technologies – Europe” is sponsored by the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) and hosted by the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of The University of Manchester.
10th March 2011
In the first initiative of its kind, Thought For Food will challenge 60 students at 12 of Europe's leading universities to tackle the world's food issues in innovative ways.
3rd March 2011
Congratulations to Geoff Rubner who has won the 2011 Teaching Excellence Award.
December 2010
Manchester Airport and the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering are working together to deploy a newly developed prototype shoe scanner for a live trial.
26th November 2010
Barry Lennox received the IET Measurement in Action award for the Acoustek(R) pipeline monitoring project.
November 2010
Arago Technology, a spin-out company from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering has been named as one of the Top 10 UK Innovation companies.
10th November 2010
The C18 laboratory used for Undergraduate teaching was officially opened by Dave Wilson, from National Instruments.
November 2010
Arago, who are working with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering have began work installing test equipment at a high altitude site in Scotland.
October 2010
Professor Zhipeng Wu has invented a portable scanner based on radio frequency technology, which is able to show in a second the presence of tumours.
October 2010
Professors Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov have been awarded the Nobel prize in Physics. The prize winners have been working with academics in the School on the development of their new material graphene.
October 2010
Danielle George has been shortlisted for the Science and Technology Woman of the Future Award.
October 2010
Five members of staff in the school have been shortlisted for a total of EIGHT awards for the final of the IET's Innovation Awards
October 2010
Peter Green has been shortlisted for the Engineering Subject Centre Teaching Awards 2011.
26th October 2010
A multimedia presentation, including stunning video effects, multi-channel surround-sound audio and audience participation of the power of digital signal processing and the fundamental meaning of information as a description of the universe itself.
98% student satisfaction for our courses.
Find out more about the 2010 NSS results.
June 2010
Arago Technology, a spin-out company started by professors Ian Cotton and Simon Rowland from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, was awarded the Existing Performance Improvement prize at the Energy Innovation Awards ceremony.
May 2010
The School takes reaching quality very seriously and we are pleased that the University has recognised our commitment with the number of awards.
April 2010
Imagine a cheap, reliable mobile phone you could fold into your back pocket, a TV that just rolled up for storage or electronic paper. These are just some of the products that are being made possible by Professor Aimin Song with EPSRC support. Song, from the University of Manchester, is at the forefront of printed or plastic electronics research – a global growth industry, which has an estimated $30bn market by 2015.
March 2010
Perceptive Engineering began life in a Manchester University engineering lab and was founded by Professors Sandoz and Lennox, from the University of Manchester, and Mr Lovett from Invensys in 2002. The purpose of the company was to exploit the process control research undertaken by Sandoz and Lennox in both continuous and batch processing. Seven years later it is working for multinationals such as Pfizer, Abbott Laboratories and United Utilities with turnover of £1m. The company featured in a recent Financial Times article as an exemplar of technology transfer from university to industry.
Feb 2010
Members of EEESoc and staff participated in a paintballing event on Saturday 13th February 2010 in north Manchester. The event has proven to be a good team building exercise and participation from members of staff helped with the target practice.
BP & UoM Formula Student: An exciting future for engineering students
Feb 2010
We are happy to announce BP as a key industrial partner for the School's involvement in Formula Student. BP have agreed to provide financial support for the ManXE zero emissions racing car. This vehicle will provide motivating undergraduate projects for our students in a promising and highly publicised topic - lower emissions cars. Further information on the ManXE and Formula Student team will be added to the team's website (formulastudent.manchester.ac.uk) as progress of the car continues.
Jan 2010
Congratulations to Peter R Green, who was one of the candidates for this year Teaching Excellence Awards. The award focus on achievement in relation to teaching over recent years and involve a grant for recipients to further develop their teaching or their career.
Dec 2009
Congratulations to Mr Faisal Amir, who has been awarded IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) 2009 PhD student fellowship for the demonstration of significant ability to perform independent research in the field of Electron Devices. The award plaque was presented by EDS president, Cor Claeys in the 2009 IEDM, during plenary session on 7th December 2009 at the Hilton Baltimore, MD, USA.
Dec 2009
The 1994 Group and the Russell Group of universities have launched a groundbreaking £1,000 scholarship for students who wish to study science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects.
New Fellow in the School
Congratulations to Professor JV Milanovic who has been elected a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to power system dynamics and power quality at November 2009 meeting of the IEEE Board of Directors.
Power Quality Issues in Contemporary and Future Power Networks - training course
Start date: January 25-27, 2010, Course Leader: Prof JV Milanovic
This three-day course will present an overview of major Power Quality issues facing modern industry, electrical power utilities and generation companies operating in the environment where increased portion of the electricity is
generated by renewable energy sources connected to low(er) voltage distribution networks.
15 Dec 2009
The company, which is the brainchild of Prof Tony Peyton in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), has developed an innovative new approach to managing large scale, wide structured cabling systems. MTI has made a £500,000 investment deigned to accelerate the delivery of its proposition to market.
08 Dec 2009
Congratulations to Rebecca Robinson, winner of the Women into Science, Engineering and Construction (WISE) Overall Excellence Award, 2009. Rebecca received the top prize at the prestigious evening awards ceremony at the Royal Academy of Engineering, on Thursday 12 November, where Princess Anne was the awarding dignitary.
Congratulations to Professor Anthony Peyton, whose research on Advanced Microstructure Analysis using Induction Spectoscopy (AMAIS) has been nominated for the Engineer Awards 2009. Professor Peyton is the Principle Investigator in a consortium that comprises the University of Manchester, the University of Birmingham, the steel producer, Corus UK, and technology provider Organised Technology Ltd.
Congratulations to Professor Wuqiang Yang, who has been shortlisted as a finalist for the IET Innovation Awards 2009. This is in recognition for his research into "Imaging Pharmaceutical Fluidised Beds for Drying, Granulation and Coating by Electrical Capacitance Tomography".
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the iCub will not be appearing at the Manchester Science Festival on 24 and 25 October after all. The iCub is able to catch balls, crawl and even play the drums. Dr Martin Brown (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) and a post-graduate student in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Computational and Dynamical Analysis (CICADA) are currently working on making the robot walk and eventually run.
12 Oct 2009
Researchers in the Electrical Energy and Power Systems (EEPS) Group are working on an intelligent monitoring system that can detect potentially serious problems with the electricity network at an early stage.
05 Oct 2009
A new electrical research centre that will help the development of green technology has been launched at The University of Manchester. Investment in the new centre is part of National Grid's annual funding to The University of over £1 million.
New grant application approved for Silicon emission technologies based on nanocrystals for the period of Oct 2009 - Sep 2013 in the school. Congratulations to Matthew Halsall, Max Migliorato, Bruce Hamilton and Ushi Bangert from School of Materials as well as national and internation partners.
Congratulations to Timothy Yorke, who was shortlisted for the 2009 SET Awards (Science, Engineering & Technology Student of the Year) and Britain's most important awards for science and engineering undergraduates. Timothy is one of our First Class Honours graduates and a project prize recipient for his third year project entitled “Facial Recognition Using Neural Networks”.
The price of fresh food in shops and supermarkets could be reduced if innovative work at The University of Manchester to develop intelligent low-cost sensors is successful. Scientists and engineers at The Syngenta Sensors University Innovation Centre are working on technology that will allow more scientific ‘best before’ dates to be set by food producers and retailers.
A new tool developed by scientists at The University of Manchester will allow farmers to see under the soil to check how efficiently crop roots are using water and nutrients. The research could have a strong impact on food security – the subject of today’s announcement by the Government that it is consulting on how it can ensure that the UK's food supply remains safe for future generations.
2009 EEIM award winner
July 2009
Congratulations to the winner, Mr Jie Dai our PhD Student from EEPS Research group, who received the prestigious John Neal award by European Electrical Insulation Manufacturers (EEIM).
Paul Strzelecki has been appointed Honorary Visiting Professor at The University of Manchester, at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Paul will have an enterprise focus to his role. This will include assisting the School with industrial contacts, helping researchers identify and commercialise intellectual property, through spin-out companies and licensing, and lecturing students in enterprise subjects relating to the electronics industry.
Congratulatiions to Professor Hugh McCann who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
10th February 2009, 6pm, Lecture Theatre C9, Renold Building Sackville Street, Manchester, M1 3BB.
Power in the economy – affordable engineering and technology solutions.
The UK energy system is under increasing pressure and requires substantial upgrading and replacement to tackle the combined challenges of climate change (principally Carbon Dioxide emissions), energy affordability and security of supply.
The Sir Williams Siemens Medal Day
January 2009
Congratulations to Stylianos-Alexios Tsekenis on being awarded the 2008 Sir William Siemens Medal winner. The medal is awarded annually by Siemens UK plc to outstanding students from 16 top Universities in the United Kingdom. The medal ceremony for this prestigious award took place at the Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester. Alex receiving his medal from Andreas Goss, Chief Executive, Siemens plc.
29 January 2009
Top scientist Professor John Beddington has looked at research designed to reduce the millions of tonnes of food that are wasted on the journey from ‘farm to fork’, during a visit to the University of Manchester.
Growth of Nitride, Dilute Nitride and Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors by Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) and Plasma-assisted MBE - External Speaker Event
23rd April 2009
External speaker weekly event will run from 14:00 – 15:00 in H11, Renold Building.
The speaker this week will be Professor Tom Foxon from the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham. The host for the event is Dr Max Migliorato.
EngD Conference - "Engineering for Manufacture"
10th September 2008, Renold Building C-floor foyer and Lecture Theatre C2
Participating companies: Airbus UK Ltd, Alcoa Flat Rolled Products Ltd, Arup and Partners, Arjo Wiggins Fine Papers Ltd, BP Alternative Energy, Clancy Consulting Ltd, Croda Chemicals Ltd, Dow Corning Ltd, GlaxoSmithKline plc, Hyde Group Engineering Ltd, INEOS Chlor Ltd, Innospec Ltd, Luxfer Gas Cylinders Ltd, Magnesium Elektron Ltd, Messier-Dowty Ltd, TWI Ltd, Xaar plc.
31st January - 1st February 2008
This workshop will run for two days, with the objective of bringing together UK and international leading experts in the field of theory of group IV, III-V and II-VI semiconductors.
January 2008
A researcher in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) is helping the University forge closer links with one of America’s top universities after receiving an award from The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE).