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UK: Research Studentships in Engineering Systems, Defence College of Management and Technology (DCMT), Cranfield University

Engineering Systems Department has several vacancies for a Research Studentships in a number research topics.
Research Studentships in Engineering Systems £12600 p.a. for up to three years

Cranfield University is the well-established academic provider to the Ministry of Defence at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom at Shrivenham. Engineering Systems Department (ESD) within the Defence College of Management and Technology (DCMT) delivers education, research and consultancy in technology to the MoD and a much wider community of defence and security professionals in the UK and overseas. A number of studentships are available in ESD to support the Department’s strategic research interests. These studentships are initially for one year leading to the award of an MSc by research with the possibility of extension to three years and the award of a PhD. The Department has successfully supervised students in a broad spectrum of defence-related topics and its component groups and centres are keen to further develop their expertise in the following areas:

Some of the topics of interest to this group are:

* Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation Group:
o The application of Artificial Intelligence to predict and enhance the mobility of ground based vehicles
o Automatic Differentiation in R and/or Matlab

* Future Combat Systems Group:
o Parasitic losses within geared transmissions
o Scale model validation of vehicle performance
o Tracked vehicle handling and stability, with control via the transmission system
o Handling of off-road hybrid/conventional wheeled vehicles
o Crash avoidance for road vehicles
o Driver command and feedback for drive-by-wire vehicles
o Adaptive/active suspension control with terrain preview for tracked and wheeled vehicles
o Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) prognostics

* Impact and Armour Group:
o Trauma biomechanics of protective clothing
o Impact response of materials and structures including armour systems

For complete list of topics and for further information, please visit:
http://www.dcmt.cranfield.ac.uk/esd/researchstudentships

For an initial inquiry, please send your CV together with area of your research interest to:

Dr PD Smith (p.d.smith[ at ]cranfield.ac.uk) or
Dr KR McNaught (k.r.mcnaught[ at ]cranfield.ac.uk),
Directors of Research, ESD, Cranfield University, DCMT, Defence
Academy, Shrivenham, SN6 8LA, UK.
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