News & Events

Industry Collaborations Showcased - The Sixth Sense, Advanced Sensor Technology

Heriot-Watt's 2012 Industry Day proved to be a huge success, with representatives from academia, industry and research centres coming from across the UK and beyond to discuss the future of advanced sensor technology.

The event, held at the Edinburgh Conference Centre on the 9th February, showcased Heriot-Watt's ambitious commitment to collaborate with industry in research and knowledge transfer. By bringing together delegates and speakers from a range of sectors – which this year included biomedical, defence, geophysical and petroleum, amongst others – the event highlighted the huge success we have so far had in developing new technologies, creating spin-out companies and increasing the placement opportunities available to our students.

More information can be found on the Heriot-Watt news site.

TSB Catapult Award Comes to Scotland

Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills - Vince Cable - announced today the award of the TSB UK Catapult in Offshore Renewable Energy to the consortium led by the "Scottish Partnership" in collaboration with the Carbon Trust and NaREC alongside a major industrial grouping.

This should mean £50M core funding from TSB over the first 5 years to accelerate the successful introduction and deployment of innovative off-shore wind, wave and tidal devices & technologies.

The Energy Technology Partnership (ETP) has been accepted as the lead academic grouping that will also provide coordinated access to the wider UK renewable energy community. The Catapult HQ will ultimately be in the Industry Engagement Building on ITREZ (International Technology and Renewable Energy Zone) in Glasgow, with an operations satellite office at NaREC in Blyth, NE England to coordinate test and demonstration.

More information can be found on the ETP website.

Prof. Patrick Corbett now on Sabbatical in Rio de Janeiro!

Patrick will be BG Group Visiting Professor in Petroleum Geoengineering at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and be helping the institute develop its research programme in carbonate reservoirs. He will be based in Rio for a two year period. During this period, Patrick will also be working closely with BG Group colleagues to develop plans for a BG Group Global Research Centre in Carbonates to be built next door to UFRJ. Patrick will be involved in existing and new research projects as well as helping develop a new MSc course in Carbonate Reservoir Geology.

Patrick will also be looking for opportunities to promote the Energy Academy and the Energy Technology Partnership as part of the "Science without Borders" programme, especially where companies, Universities and students are interested in pursuing exchanges in Scotland in all branches of the energy sector. In this way he'll be assisting Brazilian Government and BG Group develop their ambitions for the country. Anyone with interests in Brazil should contact Patrick at patrick.corbett@pet.hw.ac.uk

Report available: European Workshop - Smart Grids: Policy, Regulatory and Social Aspects of Smart Grids and Applications

The report from the recent European Workshop is available here. (Note, you will need to be a member of the EG&S KTN group to read the report).