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SPOT NEWS
EDT Sponsors Inaugural
Telecommunications Conference in Malaysia
The School of Engineering,
Design and Technology is the main sponsor of the Advanced Technologies
in Telecommunications and Control Engineering (ATTCE2006)
conference, which has been organised as part of INTI College’s 20th
Anniversary celebrations. Prof. Ray Sheriff will be a keynote speaker at
the event and three of the MSCRC’s researchers will be presenting their
papers, following an internal competition.
MSCRC Represented at
Leading International Gathering
With sponsorship from the Royal Society, Professor Peter Excell was able to
attend the 28th General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science,
held in New Delhi in October 2005. This was the first time that this had
been held in India and only the second time in the developing world. Over
1400 people attended and the huge number of papers meant that many
parallel sessions were held..
The meeting included two lectures by the President of India (Professor Abdul
Kalam), who is a physicist with an understanding of Radio Science. These
lectures addressed highly relevant points, including a visionary plan to
give the majority of India's population access to the Internet via
low-cost Multiple Access Wireless Communications.
Interdisciplinary Research Networks
Professor Peter Excell and the Mobile Content Research Group have been fortunate
to be included in two of the innovative interdisciplinary
research networks funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, under a scheme entitled
'Design for the 21st Century'. One network is the 'Emotional Wardrobe'
project, led by Central St. Martin's School of Art & Design, University
of the Arts London, which is examining intelligence in garments; the
other is entitled 'Strategies for Non-place', led by the University of
Edinburgh. This is focusing on new forms of personal navigation in
relatively anonymous 'information spaces'.
Presentation at Conference in
Glasgow
In early September 2005, Professor Peter Excell was an invited speaker and
session chairman at the Annual Meeting of the Institute of Physics and
Engineering in Medicine, held at Glasgow University. He presented a paper
on ongoing work at Bradford in developing electromagnetic models of
clusters of biological cells, as part of wider work studying possible interactions
of electromagnetic waves with the human body. This work is being
undertaken in collaboration with Dr Raed Abd-Alhameed.
Commercial Research Study
Professor Peter Excell and Dr Raed Abd-Alhameed recently undertook a commercial
study of methods to minimise the effect of low-rise housing developments
on a nearby test range for satellite antennas. The design criteria for
such antennas are now extremely constrained, requiring the signals transmitted
in unwanted directions to be no more than one ten-millionth of those in
the wanted direction, and this poses great difficulties for test range
design, potentially sterilising large tracts of land. The specialist
skills of the group in antenna design and measurements were applied to
try to find realistic compromises.
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