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WMG was, last week, pleased to welcome to campus the first cohort of participants on the executive education programme from Inner Mongolia University (IMU) in China.

The group of 26 senior executive participants from IMU attended the Innovation and Leadership course which was led by Professor Sujit Banerji and delivered by Dr Jay Bal and Dr Xiao Ma. The executive training programme is a key result from a which was signed in 2012 by Professor Sujit Banerji, Executive Director of Postgraduate Programmes, and Professor XiaoChuan Guo, Dean of IMU.

The successful collaboration has been a result of International Partnership Fund (IPF) funding for development of partnerships between leading institutes around the world. WMG has established a relationship to foster collaboration with the School of Economics and Management at IMU, the leading university in the region.

Two researchers from WMG's research group have won the Best Paper Award at the 2014 held in Toulouse, France (June 18-20, 2014).

The team won the award for the paper: Franciosa, P., Das, A., Ceglarek, D., Bolognese, L., Marine, C., Mistry, A., 2014, "Design Synthesis Methodology for Dimensional Management of Assembly Process with Compliant Non-Ideal Parts."

The conference is organized jointly by AIP - PRIMECA (Ateliers Inter-établissements de Productique - Pôles de Ressources Informatiques pour la MECAnique), France; ADM (Associazione Nazionale Disegno di Macchine), Italy; and INGEGRAF (Asociación Española de Ingeniería Gráfica) from Spain. A total of 95 papers were presented during the conference.

Dr. Pasquale Franciosa is a Senior Research Fellow within the Digital Lifecycle Management team, and Abhishek Das is a doctoral student supervised by . The paper is also co-authored along with colleagues from WMG's industrial partners: Charles Marine (STADCO), Luca Bolognese (COMAU) and Anil Mistry (Jaguar Land Rover).

Monday 23rd June 2014 is National Women in Engineering Day. The aim of the day is to raise the profile and celebrate the achievements of women in engineering, and encourage more girls to consider engineering as a career.

National Women in Engineering Day is the inaugural event organised by the Women’s Engineering Society to celebrate their 95th anniversary as a charity supporting women in engineering. It has been recognised that a skills gap in engineering is looming, and one way of addressing this is to get more girls to consider engineering as a realistic career option for them. This will have the dual benefit of creating more diversity in the engineering sector (where fewer than 10% of the workforce is women), and creating a bigger talent pool of future engineers from which to recruit.

To support National Women in Engineering Day, WMG could think of no better way of celebrating the achievements of women in engineering then by taking some time to look at the fascinating career stories from some of our own staff and students. We have asked some of our colleagues to tell us about their career paths and what they love most about engineering. The responses clearly show very different reasons and interests which led people towards engineering and the range of very different areas that engineers can pursue. What many of those profiled have in common are the reasons that they developed their enthusiasm for engineering – love of being creative in problem solving, understanding how things work and how we can make them better, and that amazing moment when you see the results of your work making a difference.

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Thursday evening saw the eagerly anticipated unveiling of this year’s Warwick Racing Formula Student car at the team’s launch event at WMG. They will compete in the IMech Formula Student competition at Silverstone in July.

The team gave presentations on both the technical aspects of the car, and their activities over the last year, including a successful journey to the other side of the world to compete alongside Monash University in the Formula SAE-Australasia competition in Melbourne last December.

The evening culminated in the unveiling of the new car, a series of photo opportunities for the visitors and the fielding of a range of technical questions by the team. The Warwick Racing team would particularly like to thank The School of Engineering, WMG, The WMG centre High Value Manufacturing Catapult, and the Innovative Manufacturing Global Research Priority for their support in hosting the event, and for their contributions to the team over the course of the year.

A team of Engineering Doctorate students from WMG were runners-up in the grand final of the Engineering Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (Engineering YES) in Birmingham on 18 June.

The competition is for UK-based postgraduate students and post-doctoral researchers to present a business plan for an imaginary startup company to a group of investors and industry experts. Participants learn the techniques of how to go about planning a new business venture, and meet local entrepreneurs and business leaders who have done it for real, before presenting their business plans to the panel.

Congratulations to Simon Brook, Thomas Bruen, Matthew Byrne, James Hooper and Richard Woodward, who were awarded first prize for their 'lift/elevator pitch' in the three-day West Midlands heat last month, where they were also joint winners of the Peer Review Prize and runners up overall, winning £500.

At the grand final, they placed second out of eight teams drawn from heats from across the country, receiving another £500.

Today, WMG was pleased to welcome Jonathan Browning, Chairman of Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership, and Councillor Ann Lucas, Leader of Coventry City Council.
 
Meeting with Professor Lord Bhattacharyya, the visitors were interested to understand the breadth of research undertaken by WMG, how the Group develops partnerships with industry and the significant economic benefits of such partnerships. They were also keen to understand how WMG has developed its education programmes including initiatives such as the WMG Academy for Young Engineers and the new Advanced Engineering Programme which sees WMG offering education in the range from 14 year olds to doctorate.

Dr Tina Barnes, Principal Teaching Fellow at WMG, has been re-elected to the Executive Committee of the (UKCGE).

UKCGE was founded in 1994 and is the leading independent representative body for Postgraduate Education in the UK. Its mission is to be the authoritative voice for postgraduate education in the UK, providing high quality leadership and support to members in order to promote a strong and sustainable postgraduate education sector.

The Council’s activities are managed by the Executive Committee which consists of 12 elected individuals who are responsible for the overall management and control of UKCGE. All Executive Committee members are elected for a three year term and support the Council on a voluntary basis.

Dr Barnes was appointed UKCGE Honorary Secretary in May, 2011. She co-organises and contributes to a UKCGE Working Group on the Student Experience, has authored three UKCGE publications, and co-organises events on topical issues in postgraduate education. She represents UKCGE on the HEFCE-funded Research Information and Digital Literacies Coalition (RIDLs) and the EThOS Advisory Board (Electronic Theses Online Service). She also served as a member of the Steering Committee for the Professional Doctorates Special Interest Group (SIG), representing both Warwick and UKCGE, from July 2010 until September 2012.

One of the first students to join the WMG Academy for Young Engineers laid a final brick yesterday as part of the topping out ceremony for the new building.

Emily Rooney, who will join the Academy in Year 12, took part in the special ceremony to mark another milestone in construction.

The first cohort of Year 10 and Year 12 students will come through the doors in September. They will spend their induction week exploring the engineering and manufacturing facilities on offer at the 神马福利影片, before starting classes in the new building on Mitchell Avenue.

WMG has secured the 100th job in the region since the launch of a dedicated innovation support programme for businesses in our International Institute for Product and Service Innovation in September 2012. Alongside this, we have created another 45 jobs and helped establish 7 new businesses.

helps West Midlands SMEs solve specific manufacturing, product development and business process challenges that they may have. It also offers a range of interactive workshops; collaborative networking events and specialist internships, helping SMEs embed the skills and processes they need to innovate and to grow their businesses.

The 100th job was secured at Coventry based Region Services Limited (RSL) market leaders in developing and supplying public information systems, such as interactive terminals, broadcast screens and smart ticketing machines.

WMG was pleased to host a visit this week from Amanda Brooks, Director of Innovation for the Knowledge and Innovation Group at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Ms Brooks met with Professor Lord Bhattacharyya and also took the opportunity meet with the Director of the , Professor Sudhesh Kumar, before touring some of WMG's new research facilities including the and the brand new  

Ms Brooks was also interested to learn more about WMG's expertise in automotive composites research and product evaluation technology.