Our staff have expertise across many areas of engineering and many have applied this knowledge to commercial consultancy, testing, analysis, research and design with businesses in the UK and overseas.
Our internationally excellent research means we have the very latest knowledge that your business and staff can benefit from.
Many organisations require one-off engineering consultancy assistance with specific problems they have. Our academic staff, many of which have experience of working in industry, are able to carry out design, development and analysis to meet customer needs.
Consultancy expertise includes
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Aeronautics and space
Areas of consultancy:
- Aerodynamics
- Aeroelasticity
- Aerospace materials
- Aircraft design and systems
- Airframe structures
- CFD
- Control systems
- Embedded systems and avionics
- Flight mechanics
- Fluid systems
- Non-linear dynamics
- Numerical methods
- Propulsion systems
- Rocketry and fuel cell technology
- UAV expertise
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Automotive, mechanical and mechatronics
Areas of consultancy:
- Automotive Design
- Combustion and advanced engine design
- Composite material analysis and testing
- Computation structural analysis and fluid dynamics
- Electric vehicles
- Energy harvesting and storage
- Engine testing and mapping
- Finite Element Analysis
- Fuel cell technology
- Internal combustion engines
- Impact and Crashworthiness
- Mechanical Design, CAD/CAM and CATIA
- Thermodynamics
- Turbochargers and gas turbines
- Vehicle Dynamics
- Vibration measurement
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Manufacturing, Materials and Biomedical
Areas of consultancy:
- Logistics
- Manufacturing and quality systems
- Materials microstructural and failure analysis
- Materials testing and analysis
- Natural fibre composites
- Operations management
- Project management
- Reliability engineering
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Electronics, Communication and Electrical
Areas of consultancy:
- 3D Face Recognition and multi-modal biometrics
- 3D Reconstruction
- Access networks
- ANPR and standards
- Augmented and Virtual Reality
- Biomedical
- Biometric Fusion
- Cloud and web services
- Computer vision,
- Convergence of wireless and optical
- Digital systems
- distributed systems and networks and network security
- DSP, FPGA, embedded systems
- Electronic circuits
- Embedded systems and sensor integration
- Intelligent systems
- Language identification
- LTE and wireless networks
- machine learning,
- machine to machine communications
- Mobile and Teleoperated Robotics
- Mobile communications
- Motion control
- Motion Tracking and Capture
- Optical networks
- Passive Optical Networks (PONs), Next Generation PONs, XGPON MAC Protocols, LTE/PON Convergence
- PLC
- Power electronics and control
- Radio over fibres
- Real time System-on-Chip
- RF and microwave systems
- Signal processing
- Smart grids
- soft computing including fuzzy, neural and genetic algorithmic
- Speaker verification/Identification
- Telemedicine and 3D Endoscopy
