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Each year the Department of Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management runs a number of industry projects for our senior undergraduate and postgraduate students.  Working in teams, they address topics relating to some aspect of product development, manufacturing process or operations management as set by a client organisation. The students work in teams of 4 or 5 from October until April/May and are expected to carry out between 100 and 300 hours of work each. By the end of the project, a report and presentation is delivered to the client company which is expected to be of significant strategic benefit.

The purpose of the class is to give the students experience of working with industry, teamworking and project management. The client is expected to meet with the students several times during the course of the project to support their activities. While we ask participating companies to cover travel costs for students, there are no charges as such for the project. Depending on the scope and content of the project there is also the possibility to carry out the project by an individual student (rather than a group) as part of their individual final year project.

We find these projects to be a huge benefit for both the students and the client organisation. We would therefore encourage you to contact us (details below) to let us know if you would be interested in participating in these project. Once you contact us we will send you further information to get the projects started.

Please see this flyer for further information.

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Industrial Project Coordinators

Showcase 2010 Open Invitation

16-19 June

The Lighthouse

Gallery 5

10 am - 5 pm

11 Mitchell Lane

Glasgow G1 3NU

The picture shows the construction of a new research centre (at Inchinnan near Glasgow Airport) called the Advance Forming Research Centre (AFRC) which will investigate metal forming technologies (like forging and sheet pressing).

The project, which has received around £16m, from government and industry will provide a world class facility for manufacturing research.

Eventually the building will have a staff of around 50 people, the first 20 have already been recruited and are currently “living” in DMEM’s Leonardo research suite.

The project’s industrial supporters are already working with the department in areas beyond the AFRC such as PDP and final year projects. Soon we expect to see a steady stream of PhD and KTP opportunities associated with the centre.

More details are: http://www.strath.ac.uk/afrc/

Last week the team of Anup Karath Nair (MSc Global Innovation Management, 1st year) and Ewald Maas (on exchange in DMEM from Twente University) were runners up in the UK finals of the Tata Crucible Campus Quiz. They were narrowly beaten by the University of Oxford (the reigning champs), but as runners up were well rewarded with £2,000 and the opportunity to take part in the International finals in India in January.

Tata Crucible - ‘The Campus Quiz’ seeks to bring together the sharpest young minds in UK to take on the heat of an exciting business quiz. It is a team based contest with 2 participants per team (from same college/university). The Quiz made its debut in the UK for the first time in 2008 and the 2nd edition was held on 22nd November 2009 with its share of thrills and suspense for the student community there.

The University of Oxford and The University of Strathclyde qualify for the grand International Final which would be a face-off between the top 2 teams from UK, Singapore and India.