Sensors Focus Workshop Buchanan Arms, Drymen 15-16 September 2011

Sensors Focus Workshop

Buchanan Arms, Drymen15-16 September 2011

The College structure allows us to:

grow our multidisciplinary research programmes thereby enabling us to play a larger role in tackling societal challenges,

offer a wider range of choice to undergraduates while delivering a smaller number of courses,

provide new vocational PGT programmes on topics of high demand,

develop an increased number of effective partnerships with leading international institutions.

About the College - 1

Research funding circa £35 million per annum provides unique facilities that also support our postgraduate researchers

~270 academic staff, ~70 research fellows, ~120 research associates, and ~80 research assistants

~4250 FTE undergraduate students

~600 PhD students

>300 postgraduate taught Masters students

Four of the UK’s top ten Research Units in the RAE 2008 – Computing Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, and Psychology

About the College - 2

Addressing major societal challenges

As well as being a major player in single discipline science and engineering, the College embraces major societal challenges faced worldwide and engages in multidisciplinary research. Included are:

Digital economy

Energy & sustainability

Environment

Healthcare technology

Infrastructure & transport

Materials

Nanotechnology

Sensors and intelligent imaging

Sustainable high value manufacturing

Systems & synthetic biology

Underpinning capabilities

www.glasgow.ac.uk/colleges/scienceengineering/research/

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The University invests directly in equipment, infrastructure and people in areas of high priority.

Recent examples include:

Solar fuels (Cronin, Cogdell) - £4M (RAs, cohort students, equipment)

James Watt Nanofabrication Centre (Paul, Cumming, Cooper, Thayne, Weaver and many others) – equipment >£1M in the last year

Kelvin Nanocharacterisation Centre (Loos, Stamps) – equipment >£2M in the last year – strong relation to SUPA

Electronic device materials (Asenov) - £0.3M – new computer cluster

Investment strategy

There may be new opportunities arising shortly.

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Major grant holders have strategic links with industry including leading multinational players. Typically the University is involved with ~500 industrial projects pa with a value of ~£12M.

Our Innovation Network (now in its 3rd year) has played a leading role.

599 companies received support, 69 new jobs have been created, 22 new companies formed, >£2M increase in company turnover, >£1M increase in investment in knowledge & innovation by companies, 11 new patents filed, 13 licensing deals have been agreed.

We have developed an innovative knowledge transfer scheme – EasyAccess IP – that is increasing our connectivity, especially with UK SMEs. It is characterised by simplicity in the form of a 1 page licence. The IP Office has awarded the University funding to develop the scheme further.

The University is co-leading a Horizons-funded initiative, the Scottish Sensor Systems Centre (S3C).

Impact and knowledge exchange

Thursday, 15th September

1230 Arrival1245 Networking Lunch1330 Welcome, Presentations & Questions

Scene setting - John ChapmanSensor activity at Glasgow - David CummingIntroduction to TICs - Duncan Bremner

1430 Breakout Session 11600 Coffee/tea1630 Breakout Session 2

Close of Day 1 1930 Dinner - joined by ‘critical friends’

Timetable for day 1

Aims of Day 1

•Familiarising ourselves with the work and expertise of colleagues involved in various aspects of sensor research and development;•Identifying GU research groups with significant activity that we have not captured;

•Capturing information on our major strengths, weaknesses and unique selling points;•Identifying our ‘user’ communities and what we think they want from us;•Identifying the most effective ways of increasing our capabilities;•Identifying the most appropriate internal organisational structure;•Establishing whether we have the right ingredients to be major players in a TIC bid.

Aims of the Workshop - 1

Tim SummerFreescale

Jan ReidScottish Enterprise

Chris CromackIBM

Gil McInnesCambridge Silicon Radio

John Roulston

Critical friends

Friday, 16th September

0900 Welcome & Presentation; questions from ‘critical friends’; Glasgow sensor activity: present and future - John Chapman

0930 Breakout for consideration of feedback and case enhancement1015 Coffee/tea1030 Feedback, wrap up and next steps1145 Close of day 2

Timetable for day 2

Aims of Day 2

• Obtaining feedback on the plans developed during Day 1 with particular emphasis on:

- our strengths, weaknesses, unique selling points and ideas for filling gaps in our capabilities,

- identification of external threats,- our perceptions of what are user communities want and the ways we

propose to increase the effectiveness of our interactions with them,- how we might grow our user communities;

• Ascertaining our plausibility (technical expertise, critical mass, etc) for playing a major supporting role in a TIC bid and what was needed for significant improvement;

• Identifying the next steps forward and an appropriate timetable.

Aims of the Workshop - 2