2014 Postgraduate Conference

We would like to thank all of the academic staff, industry, other guests and particularly the presenting students for a very successful Postgraduate Conference. The day was filled with fantastic presentations from all of the research higher degree students within the department and from all specialised disciplines, and it’s safe to say that everyone got something out of the day. We would also like to thank our special guest speaker Emeritus Professor Len Stevens for a great opening talk on innovative engineering that was insightful and inspiring.v

In the middle of the conference day, we had a Discussion Forum with the topic “Facing the Future: Our research in the Service of Society”. GIES would like to thank Assoc. Prof. Geoff Sutherland, Dr Kein Gan, and Dr Hamed Olfat for their participation on the panel. Prior to the panel discussion, a short video about the research in our department was broadcasted to highlight our current research challenges and opportunities. Everyone at the conference was overwhelmed at the quality and professionalism of the video. We would like to thank the team for putting together the video: Olga Mikhaylova, Hamzeh Zarei, Camila Alvarez, Farzad A. Alamdara and Aiswarya K. Poovakka. The Forum has become a good tradition which adds value to our conferences, and we hope, we will see more interesting discussions at the next year conference.

We would also like to thank again a number of people who have all contributed in some way for putting together such a big event, namely Jenny Smith, Pauline Woolcock, Chris Charman, Assoc. Prof. Nelson Lam and Rose Macey.

GIES 2014