Cranfield University was awarded £487,139 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) to deliver a programme of work until 31 March 2020. IAA activities must exploit the existing research knowledge gained on an EPSRC-funded project.
Cranfield is using this EPSRC IAA funding to accelerate the impact derived from its EPSRC sponsored research and training portfolio through a number of routes including:
- Support for activities that will lead to the commercialisation of outputs developed within EPSRC funded research;
- Support for secondments into or from organisations to develop end uses for EPSRC-funded research outputs.
Academics who are committed to developing the impact and commercial potential of EPSRC-funded research outputs are encouraged to submit project proposals for IAA funding.
If you believe your business would benefit from EPSRC IAA funding, please contact us to discuss your requirements.
Current projects
Cranfield University was awarded £487,139 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) to deliver a programme of work until 31 March 2020:
| Project Holder | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Marco Cecotti | Unmanned Auto-Return Urban Driving for Small Electronic Vehicles |
| Jane Hodgkinson | Optical sensing of atmospheric gasses on airborne platforms |
| Ralph Tatam | Volume flow measurement for microfluidic applications using a single access port |
| Stephen James | Fibre Optic Shape Sensing: A Disruptive Technology |
| Nazmiye Ozkan | Using machine learning to infer individual loads from aggregate data |
| Alison Parker | Optimising the hydrogeological performance of sand dams |
| Francis Hassard | The effect of coagulant dosing on the performance of quadruple media filters for full scale tertiary wastewater treatment |
| Sameer Rahatekar | Structure and Properties Relation Studies for Hair Follicles and Bleached Hair |
| Zhaorong Huang | Oxidation Resistant Copper-Nickel Nanowires for Transparent Conductive Electrodes |
| Sameer Rahatekar | High Performance Fibre Reinforced Composites for a New Generation of Rope/Chain tying Device for Defense and Construction Applications |
| Marc Pidou | Technical validation of an immobilised microalgae reactor |
Previous projects
In the previous round, which ran through 31st March 2017, the following projects were awarded funding:
| Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Stefano Longo | Optimal thermal management of electric truck batteries |
| Duncan Hodges | Using SuperIdentities for GDPR |
| Monica Rivas Casado | Drones for rapid emergency response: automating the algorithms for catastrophe situation reporting and damage assessment |
| Daniel Auger | Commercial deployment of model and estimator calibration techniques for lithium-sulfur battery management algorithms |
| Ron Corstanje | Informatics tools for infrastructure planning |
| David Cullen | Tissue disaggregation system for rapid biomarker diagnosis |
| Stephen Hallett | Future-proofing the Cranfield Natural Perils Directory (NPD): Incorporating UKCP09 data into soil-related geohazard models |
| Guy Kirk | Measuring the isotope composition of trace gas emissions from environmental systems |
| Stefano Longo | Reconfigurable test rig for electric vehicle powertrain optimization |
| Patrick Luk | High Fidelity Motor Modelling Tool for EV Traction Drives |
| Ewan McAdam | Carbon Stabilisation Reactor (CSR) |
| Ewan McAdam | Reflected Light Fluorescence Direct Visual Observation (RLF-DVO) |
| Keith Rogers | Digital Device Scanner Proof of Concept |
| Keith Rogers | Miniaturisation of Focal Construct Technology |
| Paul Comely | WatchItMade – Parts 1&2 |
| Piotr Sydor | No Fault Found (NFF) impact avoidance benchmarking tool for Jaguar Land Rover |
| Ralph Tatam | Novel optical optimisation for robotic manufacturing |
| Ralph Tatam | Range Resolved Interferometry |
| Efstathios Valenis | HiL Implementation and Refinement of Active Chassis Control Systems for HyBrid Electric Vehicles |
| Stewart Williams | Wire and arc additive manufacture (WAAM) process into Delcam CAM software |
| Qi Zhang | Next generation Lithium batteries |
| Rade Vignjevic | Cavitation Device |
| Steve Hallett | Understanding resilience and interdependence of UK and rail infrastructure |
| Selim Cellek/ Monir Moniruzzaman |
Volume sensor for urinary incontinence |
| Paul Jeffrey | Risk management for integrated utility services |
| Ruben Sakrabani | Exploiting sewage-derived phosphorus |
| Jane Hodgkinson | Hollow waveguide gas cells for headspace gas spectroscopy |
| Nabil Aouf | Real Time Infrared based Mosaicking for Autonomous Ground Vehicles |
| Jane Hodgkinson | Wavelength control of laser diodes for high resolution spectroscopy |
| Paul Colegrove | Wire + Arc Additive Manufacture Flexible Manufacturing System and Software |
| Shailendra Vyakarnam | Cranfield Venture Programme |
| Michael Pryce | Cranfield/DSTL Costing Future Complex and Novel Projects |
| David MacManus | Propulsion system integration |
| Jane Hodgkinson | Novel approaches to optical gas detection for environmental measurements in challenging locations |
| Keith Rogers | Enhanced Focal Construct Technology for Aviation Security Markets |
| Ashutosh Tiwari | Self-healing technologies for mechanical and electrical systems |
| Ralph Tatam | Custom fibre optic bundles for optical inspection of quasi-cylindrical ducts |
