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Royal Academy of Engineering Award
The Royal Academy of Engineering has recently agreed to fund Industrial Secondment Awards to Professor Marc Desmulliez of EECE. The highly competitive Industrial Secondment Award aims to provide academic members of staff a significant industrial experience within a company. The funding by the Academy must be used to recruit a staff that will cover the teaching load of the academic during his secondment.
Professor Desmulliez will spend six months at SSTRIC Ltd, a Company specialised in silicon micromachining at Edinburgh. The Company is within the University of Edinburgh and provides state of the art silicon-based microsystem fabrication facilities. Marc will use his experience in 3D manufacturing to manufacture prototypes from companies which are customers of SSTRIC. He will use his experience to provide new course materials for an undergraduate module in Microsystems manufacturing and the MREs in Microsystems Engineering.
Bursary Award for Heriot-Watt EECE Student
Alex Hay an electrical engineering student at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh has been awarded a Mott MacDonald Charitable Trust Bursary of £1500 to provide financial support during his final year of study for his M.Eng. degree. Alex is seen being congratulated by Peter Black, the Managing Director of Mott MacDonald’s Global Transmission and Distribution Division after a recent staff briefing in Glasgow. Alex from Montrose in Angus hopes to join Mott MacDonald’s power systems analysis team post graduation in Summer 2011.
Mott MacDonald is a global engineering consultancy company with 14,000+ staff working from more than 200 offices in 140 countries world wide. The Transmission and Distribution Division has offices in the UK in Brighton, Glasgow and York, with offices overseas in the USA, Holland, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, India, China and South Africa.
Most Cited Paper in Journal "Graphical Models" - Award to Dr Belyaev
Alex Belyaev, Reader in Signal and Image Processing in EECE produced the top-cited article in the International Journal Graphical Models. The award covers the period 2005-10. The joint publication with Y.Ohtake and H-P. Seidel is titled "3-D scattered data interpolation and approximation with multilevel compactly supported RBFs".
Best Paper Award at IEEE Globecom 2010
Dr Cheng-Xiang Wang, Reader in Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, will receive a “Best Paper Award" in IEEE Global Communications Conference 2010 (Globecom'10) in Miami, Dec. 2010. Globecom is the IEEE flagship conference in Telecommunications. Out of 3688 paper submissions 11 papers were selected for the best paper awards (top 0.3%).
Dr Wang's method can greatly improve the prediction accuracy and represents a very promising solution to wireless network management problem. The paper, “A New Hybrid Network Traffic Prediction Method”, proposes a new network traffic prediction method combining the covariation orthogonal prediction criterion and the idea of artificial neural network prediction to predict the bursty and self-similar wireless network traffic.
The paper is joint work with the research group of the visiting professor Xiaohu Ge from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, as part of the outcomes of the UK-China Science Bridges Project: R&D on (B)4G Wireless Mobile Communications.
