Working with industry
We work closely with a range of partners to ensure that our research and teaching meet the needs of industry.
Our long-standing and excellent reputation allows us to develop strong links with industry and create partnerships for research collaboration.
You can get involved by becoming a research partner, joining the Industrial Advisory Board (IAB), or volunteering at one of our events.
Industrial Advisory Board
The Industrial Advisory Board advises the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering to ensure students are graduating with the latest knowledge and skills needed by employers and advise on where it can help develop research to be used in industry.
External members
| Name | Company |
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| Ian Gardner (IAB Chair) | IBM |
| David Harra | Airbus |
| Cansu Kandemir | AMRC |
| James Moore | AMRC |
| Grace Lim | AMRC |
| Denzil Lawrence | Boeing |
| Stephen Bird | Caterpillar |
| Mark Haigh | Inspec Solutions |
| Iain Wallace | ITP Aero |
| Will Stuart | Jaguar Land Rover |
| Coorous Mohtadi | MathWorks |
| Martina Sciola | MathWorks |
| Mike Croucher | MathWorks |
| Alex Roberts | Mclaren |
| Nick Warrington | PA Consulting |
| Matthew Moton | QinetiQ |
| Paul Karam | Quanser |
| Andrew Atkins | Ricardo plc |
| Derek Wall | Rolls-Royce |
| David Moss | Siemens |
| Ian Donald | Siemens |
| Tarun Singhal | Sopra Steria |
| Paul Wheway | Thales UK |
| Alejandra Matamoros | The MTC |
| Adam Heenan | ZF Conekt |
- Industrial Advisory Board members (Internal)
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Dr Jonathan Aitken Senior University Teacher in Robotics Dr Tara Baldacchino Senior University Teacher Christina Wilson Departmental Administration Manager Professor George Panoutsos Head of Department Rebecca Fieldsend PA to Head of Department Dr Roderich Gross Director of Learning and Teaching Professor Keith Jackson Professor in Enterprise & Entrepreneurship Dr Payam Soulataintork Senior University Teacher in Industrial Automation
Valuable research contracts
In the last five years we have secured 131 researched grants worth over £19m, which our academic staff, research staff and PhD students have worked with industrial and academic partners to accomplish.
Research knowledge and transfer
We have extensive experience of working with companies of all sizes from micro-SMEs through to large multinationals. In all cases we harness our state-of-the-art expertise, technology, and insight to help you gain the competitive edge. We aim to establish long-term strategic partnerships allowing us to benefit all parts of your business from research and design and manufacturing through to talent acquisition.
We have extensive experience of attracting funding from a broad range of sources including Research Councils UK (RCUK), the European Commission, Innovate UK, and national charities. Alternatively, collaborations can be partly-or wholly-funded by industry.
Student projects and placements
The department runs a year in industry option on all of our undergraduate courses in which students normally spend their penultimate year putting their skills into practice within an industrial context.
We also offer industry placements to our MSc Advanced Control and Systems Engineering students, which means they receive all of the academic advantages of our one-year standard MSc with the added benefit of an industry placement.
These both provide excellent opportunities to access a pool of highly talented and enthusiastic undergraduate and MSc students.
You also have the opportunity to part or fully-fund a PhD student to work on longer-term, innovation challenges based on your company’s needs.