Employability
Students who graduate from this course will have the multi-disciplinary skills to both contribute to and manage teams responsible for the design and
integration of these advanced devices and systems into state-of- the-art products.
David Lindley Principle Safety Consultant
Safety Critical Solutions Ltd
made aware of research training opportunities offered by the department, faculty and university and encouraged to dedicate at least two weeks to this training during your enrolment. All research students have regular supervision and industry based students will be encouraged to visit the department to integrate with engineering’s academic culture through attendance at, or presenting to seminar groups. You will be required to produce interim reports and a final project dissertation, which is a substantial document describing the research you have undertaken.
RESEARCH AREAS
Nuclear Engineering Nuclear Engineering research at Lancaster began with studies into the radiation tolerance of electronic systems used in medical radiotherapy. This led to work in the development of instrumentation for radiation detection, principally neutrons, and the design and development of a digital portable neutron spectrometer, research that has also been applied to homeland security applications. A research programme designed and built a cosmic neutron spectrometer, in collaboration with the Department of Environmental Science. Over the last few years the research focus has taken in the challenge posed by cleaning up the nuclear legacy on the Sellafield site, supported by several research awards from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). A recent award of a chair by the Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust has further enhanced research in this area, resulting in the developing of three new nuclear- related research themes within the Department: Materials Characterisation & Analysis (focusing on novel sensor transduction and analyte separation methods); Waste Remediation & Decontamination (concentrating on (i) understanding the underlying chemical reactions and mechanisms associated with the contamination of surfaces with radioactive materials; and (ii) its corrosive removal); and the study of actinide chemistry (focussed on applications of novel process chemistries to support new nuclear build and the current Fuel Cycle Business, but also with applications in Spent Fuel Management and Isotope Measurement & Analysis).
Nuclear research includes High-Power Microwave Engineering where Lancaster has an international reputation for its research. This has been recognised by its membership
“The Safety Engineering MSc program is well-suited to the working professional who finds them self balancing a number of important priorities - while remaining committed to personal and professional development. The faculty works closely with students to assist in the balance of these objectives while maintaining a focus on a quality education.”
“I have excellent memories from my MSc experience at Lancaster University. Not that the programme was easy, but because it challenged me to grow! The programme was primarily designed to benefit the students and to take full advantage of both the “team approach” and individual development philosophies.”
“The MSc course is well-designed and delivered with great verve and intelligence, I would recommend it to both new and seasoned safety engineering professions.”
of the prestigious Faraday Partnership in High Power Radio- Frequency (RF) Engineering. It is a founder member of the Cockcroft Institute: The National Centre for Research in Accelerator Science and Technology.
A major part of the group’s work is concerned with the development of computer programs for modelling the electron optics and electron-wave interactions in microwave tubes for communications, particle accelerators and industrial heating. Computational and experimental studies are in progress on radiofrequency vacuum breakdown (multipactor) which can be a cause of problems in high power RF systems. The group has an interest in RF systems for particle accelerators and is working on aspects of the international linear collider.
Control The Group is well known for its research on the design of advanced Proportional-Integral-Plus (PIP) control systems, which can be interpreted as a logical extension of conventional industrial controllers, but with inherent model- based predictive control action. A particularly innovative development concerns the use of state dependent parameter
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