Electronic Precinct - February 1999

Award winning Liverpool

The University of Liverpool has received almost £2M from the Joint Research Equipment Initiative (JREI) to fund £4M's worth of state of the art research equipment. This success places the University in sixth position nationally for total value of rewards received.

Departments benefitting from the successful bidding are: Physics, Earth Sciences, Materials Science & Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry and Biological Sciences.

The Liverpool awards are:

£775k towards the development of a new method of manufacturing telecommunication electronic components (Dr P Chalker, Materials Science and Engineering, and Surface Technology Systems Ltd, Newport).

£275k towards the development of a new super computer in association with the North West Electronics Industry (Dr T Bowcock, Physics, and Information Technology Systems, Manchester).

£221k towards the development of systems to monitor organic compounds in the marine environment (Dr G Wolff, Earth Sciences, in association with Micromas Ltd, Manchester, and G H Geochemical Services of Wirral).

£150k towards the purchase of new equipment for analysis at the microscopic level of the structure of rock (Dr D J Prior, Earth Sciences, in association with Camscan Analytical Ltd).

£64k towards the development of Intelligent Monitoring using rapid image capture and telematics (Professor G R Jones, Dr J W Spencer, Mr D R Turner, Dr P C Russell, Electrical Engineering and Electronics, and Dr D F Yates, Computer Science).

£61k for a new instument for thermoelastic stress analysis. (Dr J M Barton, Mechanical Engineering).

£22k towards improving the understanding of explosion loading on structures, plant and equipment with small scale experiments. (Dr G K Schleyer and Professor N Jones, Engineering).

£36k towards automotive powertrain dynamometer; modelling of engine-transmission interaction for fuelling-emissions control. (Dr A T Shenton, Mechanical Engineering).

£39k towards a Compact Raman Spectrometer for in-situ characterisation of CBE deposited III-V materials (Dr P R Chalker, Dr T J Bullough, Mr T B F Joyce, Materials Science and Engineering.

£111k towards in situ FTIR/Raman and thermal analysis intrumentation for on-line catalyst characterisation during catalytic tests. (Professor E G J Derouane and Professor I V Kozhevnikov, Chemistry).

£111k towards pulse shape analysis to improved the performance of semiconductor radiation detectors. (Dr P J Nolan and Dr R D Page, Physics).

£71k towards an automated low light microscopy system for calcium and gene expression imaging. (Dr M White, Biological Sciences).