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EPSRC Support by Research Area in Engineering Design

Research areas are used to describe EPSRC's portfolio of excellent long term research and high quality postgraduate training.

Grants are classified using one or more research areas. All the grants listed below have some relevance to this research area. The value of the investment is the total awarded by EPSRC and does not reflect the proportion assigned to this research area.

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Grant TitlePrincipal
Investigator		OrganisationDepartmentTotal Grant
Value (£)
21st Century Prototyping: Improving product prototyping through the integration of physical and digital workflowSnider, Dr CUniversity of BristolMechanical Engineering 344,003
A hybrid precision manufacturing platform for next-generation of nanoscale productsLuo, Professor XUniversity of StrathclydeDesign Manufacture and Engineering Man 766,513
A Multiscale Digital Twin-Driven Smart Manufacturing System for High Value-Added ProductsLuo, Professor XUniversity of StrathclydeDesign Manufacture and Engineering Man 2,805,908
ADOPT - Advancing optimisation technologies through international collaborationChachuat, Professor BImperial College LondonChemical Engineering 1,344,649
AFM-based nano-machining: developing and validating a novel modelling approach for effective process implementation in nanotechnology applicationsBrousseau, Professor EBCardiff UniversitySch of Engineering 692,656
AIM3: Additive and intelligent manufacturing of multi-functional membranesTokay, Dr BUniversity of NottinghamFaculty of Engineering 1,008,679
Brush seal Resistance to Inlet Swirl and Transient Loading Effects (BRISTLE)Pekris, Dr MJUniversity of SurreyMechanical Engineering Sciences 335,363
Centre of Excellence for Hybrid Thermal Propulsion SystemsDavy, Dr MUniversity of OxfordEngineering Science 4,793,982
Circular Economy for Small Medical DevicesRahimifard, Professor SLoughborough UniversityWolfson Sch of Mech, Elec & Manufac Eng 1,546,200
Closed Loop Digitalised Data Analytics and Analysis Platform (DAAP) for Intelligent Design and Manufacturing of Power Electronic ModulesStoyanov, Dr SUniversity of GreenwichMathematical Sciences, FACH 321,061
Closed Loop Digitalised Data Analytics and Analysis Platform (DAAP) for Intelligent Design and Manufacturing of Power Electronic ModulesShen, Professor YUniversity of LiverpoolElectrical Engineering and Electronics 137,864
Closed Loop Digitalised Data Analytics and Analysis Platform (DAAP) for Intelligent Design and Manufacturing of Power Electronic ModulesHu, Dr YKings College LondonEngineering 158,561
CMMI-EPSRC - Right First Time Manufacture of Pharmaceuticals (RiFTMaP)Litster, Professor JDUniversity of SheffieldChemical & Biological Engineering 1,543,633
Connected Everything II: Accelerating Digital Manufacturing Research Collaboration and InnovationSharples, Professor SUniversity of NottinghamFaculty of Engineering 1,415,659
Design and direct metal laser sintering of replacement heart valvesBressloff, Professor NWUniversity of LeedsMechanical Engineering 73,608
Design and green manufacturing of functional nanomaterialsPatwardhan, Professor SVUniversity of SheffieldChemical & Biological Engineering 1,011,132
Development and Demonstration of an Effective Optimisation Approach for Large-scale Chemical Production SchedulingLI, Dr JUniversity of Manchester, TheChem Eng and Analytical Science 245,055
DEVELOPMENT OF A MACHINE LEARNING-ASSISTED DIGITAL TWIN PLATFORM FOR REAL-TIME OPTIMISATION OF REACTION SYSTEMS UNDER UNCERTAINTYGalvanin, Dr FUCLChemical Engineering 714,355
Digital Circular Electrochemical Economy (DCEE)Shah, Professor NImperial College LondonChemical Engineering 964,621
Digital Twinning NetworkPlus: DTNet+Wagg, Professor DJThe Alan Turing InstituteResearch 3,214,307
Diode-pumped Ti:sapphire lasers: a manufacturable platform for precision photonicsKemp, Professor AJUniversity of StrathclydeInst of Photonics 935,452
Elastic Manufacturing systems - a platform for dynamic, resilient and cost-effective manufacturing servicesRatchev, Professor SMUniversity of NottinghamFaculty of Engineering 2,803,659
Enabling Next Generation Additive ManufacturingHague, Professor RJUniversity of NottinghamFaculty of Engineering 5,852,466
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Propulsion and PowerPullan, Professor GUniversity of CambridgeEngineering 7,701,928
ESTEEM: Energy efficient and Safe out-of-oven manufacTuring for compositE materials with intEgrated MultifunctionalitiesZhang, Dr HQueen Mary University of LondonSchool of Engineering & Materials Scienc 395,947
Fast, efficient and reliable: digital qualification of ultrasonic inspection for safety-critical componentsHuthwaite, Dr PImperial College LondonMechanical Engineering 1,008,847
Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing HubJewell, Professor GUniversity of SheffieldElectronic and Electrical Engineering 10,735,962
Greener Aviation with Advanced Propulsion Systems (GAAPS)Filippone, Professor AUniversity of Manchester, TheMechanical Aerospace and Civil Eng 1,750,240
Inline virtual qualification from 3D X-ray imaging for high-value manufacturingEvans, Dr LSwansea UniversityCollege of Engineering 1,025,110
Machining metre-sized gratings with nanometre accuracyBuscher, Professor DFUniversity of CambridgePhysics 758,973
Made Smarter Innovation - Research Centre for Connected FactoriesRatchev, Professor SMUniversity of NottinghamFaculty of Engineering 5,091,837
Made Smarter Innovation - Research Centre for Smart, Collaborative Industrial RoboticsLohse, Professor NLoughborough UniversityWolfson Sch of Mech, Elec & Manufac Eng 4,821,585
Micro-scale Co-generation Near-isothermal-Adiabatic Compressed Air Energy StorageMahmoudi Larimi, Dr YUniversity of Manchester, TheMechanical Aerospace and Civil Eng 1,901,456
Multi-scale, circular economic potential of non-residential building stockDensley Tingley, Dr DUniversity of SheffieldCivil and Structural Engineering 381,024
Nanostar Sieving for Oligonucleotides Manufacture (NanoSieveOligo)Livingston, Professor AQueen Mary University of LondonSchool of Engineering & Materials Scienc 486,259
Nature-inspired bio-Syngas Technologies for Olefins SynthesisMaterazzi, Dr MUCLChemical Engineering 1,168,549
New Wire Additive Manufacturing (NEWAM)Williams, Professor SWCranfield UniversitySch of Aerospace, Transport & Manufact 5,886,209
Powders by design for additive manufacture through multi-scale simulationsHaeri, Dr SUniversity of EdinburghSch of Engineering 370,418
Prosperity Partnership Call 3 Strategic Students-Eli Lilly and Imperial College LondonAdjiman, Professor CSImperial College LondonChemical Engineering 673,593
Prosperity Partnership Call 3 Strategic Students-JLR and University of OxfordDavy, Dr MUniversity of OxfordEngineering Science 93,937
Re-Imagining Engineering Design: Growing Radical Cyber-Physical-Socio PhenotypesPrice, Professor MQueen's University of BelfastSch Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 7,355,902
Responsive Manufacturing: Maximising Value Through LifeNewnes, Professor LBUniversity of BathMechanical Engineering 523,467
Rotational Vibration Assisted Increment Sheet Forming by Novel Tooling (RV-ISF)Long, Professor HUniversity of SheffieldMechanical Engineering 1,016,188
STOP fibrous microplastic pollution from textiles by elucidating fibre damage and manufacturing novel textilesTausif, Dr MUniversity of LeedsSch of Design 624,583
STOP fibrous microplastic pollution from textiles by elucidating fibre damage and manufacturing novel textilesYang, Dr DUniversity of EdinburghSch of Engineering 25,678
The Centre in Advanced Fluid Engineering for Digital Manufacturing (CAFE4DM)Hardacre, Professor CUniversity of Manchester, TheChem Eng and Analytical Science 3,097,928
The UK Catalysis Hub - 'Science': 2 Catalysis at the Water-Energy NexusHardacre, Professor CUniversity of Manchester, TheChem Eng and Analytical Science 4,010,674
Transforming synthetic drug manufacturing: novel processes, methods and toolsAdjiman, Professor CSImperial College LondonChemical Engineering 4,182,441
UK FIRES: Locating Resource Efficiency at the heart of Future Industrial Strategy in the UKAllwood, Professor JMUniversity of CambridgeEngineering 5,176,328
UKRI Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Centre for Technology Metals (TechMet)Wall, Professor FUniversity of ExeterCamborne School of Mines 4,436,180
UKRI National Interdisciplinary Circular Economy HubCharnley, Professor FUniversity of ExeterScience, Innov, Tech & Entrepreneurship 3,673,166
UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Node in Governance and RegulationRamamoorthy, Professor SUniversity of EdinburghSch of Informatics 2,671,812
Ultrasonically enabled supportless 3D printing (Sonobeamer)Neale, Dr SLUniversity of GlasgowSchool of Engineering 1,015,143
Vera: A new paradigm to enable efficient design of VERy large Aircraft structures - the key for innovative aircraft design conceptsPinho, Professor STImperial College LondonAeronautics 1,825,217

Total Number of Grants: 54
Total Value of Grants: £116,915,967

The grant value may include the cost of access to facilities (these funds are not awarded to the grant holding organisation).