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   Some of the research topics may be of interest to this news group.   
      
   Research Studentships in Engineering Systems   
    GBP 12600 p.a. for up to three years   
      
   Cranfield University is the well-established academic provider to the   
   Ministry of Defence at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom at   
   Shrivenham. Engineering Systems Department (ESD) within the Defence   
   College of Management and Technology (DCMT) delivers education,   
   research and consultancy in technology to the MoD and a much wider   
   community of defence and security professionals in the UK and   
   overseas. A number of studentships are available in ESD to support the   
   Department's strategic research interests. These studentships are   
   initially for one year leading to the award of an MSc by research with   
   the possibility of extension to three years and the award of a PhD.   
   The Department has successfully supervised students in a broad   
   spectrum of defence-related topics and its component groups and   
   centres are keen to further develop their expertise in the following   
   areas:   
   Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation Group:   
   .	The application of Artificial Intelligence to predict and enhance   
   the mobility of ground based vehicles   
   .	Automatic Differentiation in R and/or Matlab   
   Future Combat Systems Group:   
   .	Parasitic losses within geared transmissions   
   .	Explosively formed gears   
   .	Scale model validation of vehicle performance   
   .	Tracked vehicle handling and stability, with control via the   
   transmission system   
   .	Handling of off-road hybrid/conventional wheeled vehicles   
   .	Crash avoidance for road vehicles   
   .	Driver command and feedback for drive-by-wire vehicles   
   .	Adaptive/active suspension control with terrain preview for tracked   
   and wheeled vehicles   
   .	Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) prognostics   
   Centre for Human Systems:   
   .	Technology and Military Culture   
   .	Technology Education for the Military   
   .	Military Cross-Cultural Understanding   
   .	Specification of human reliability as part of a system's   
   specifications   
   Impact and Armour Group:   
   .	Trauma biomechanics of protective clothing   
   .	Impact response of materials and structures including armour systems   
   Operational Analysis, Modelling and Simulation Group:   
   .	Probabilistic decision support within the framework of probabilistic   
   graphical models   
   .	Agent-based models for conflict and peace-keeping scenarios   
   .	Defence logistics modelling involving supply and repair chain   
   modelling and simulation   
   .	Synthetic environments role in modelling Network Enabled Capability   
   (NEC) including behaviour representation in computer generated forces   
   Centre for Systems Engineering:   
   .	The application of Systems Architecting techniques to military   
   capability   
   .	The characteristics of obsolescence in complex systems and   
   minimisation of its impact   
   Weapons Systems and Engineering Dynamics Group:   
   .	Fragmentation modelling   
   .	Weapon assessment modelling   
   .	The effect of mine blast on a vehicle structure and its occupants   
   .	Lethality modelling of small arms   
   .	Small arms reliability growth   
   .	Dynamics of the man/small arm interface   
   .	Non-linear Dynamics   
   .	Multi-body dynamics modelling   
      
   For an initial inquiry, please send your CV together with area of your   
   research interest to   
   Dr PD Smith (p.d.smith@cranfield.ac.uk) or   
   Dr KR McNaught (k.r.mcnaught@cranfield.ac.uk),   
   Directors of Research, ESD, Cranfield University, DCMT, Defence   
   Academy, Shrivenham, SN6 8LA, UK.   
      
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