Forging the Future with the White Heat of the Past? Legacies of ‘the Tech’, and the Making of the Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, 1966–74

The paper describes the development and introduction of a monitored professional development (MPD) programme for research engineers on the Engineering Doctorate Programme in Manchester (UK) in parallel with a revised graduate personal development programme (GPDP) applicable to and useful for all research students at UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology). The GPDP provides support and guidance in the key skills areas integrated with students own research activities, their individual departmental requirements and the facilities offered by the national Research Councils who fund much of this research. It similarly assists students to identify the educational and training requirements for Chartered Engineer status recently introduced in the UK. From the early nineties UMIST has run a graduate support programme for its range of science, engineering and management postgraduate students (over 1400 in total) using centrally-provided, optional, large group lectures and individual support from a student's own departmental supervisor. While this programme had shown a range of benefits, further advantages were possible by revising the course structure to use a small group approach and by linking activities in all three years of a PhD students study programme. Also the opportunity to redesign the course has allowed better integration of centrally provided course material with departmentally organised support activities. Similarly, the EngD programme, which has been in existence since 1992, has provided more extensive personal and professional skills training to a smaller cohort of researchers. Experience from and the synergies between the two programmes have enabled UMIST staff to develop a range of course modules that provide a sound foundation for all technological disciplines and which can be extended to suit a broad spectrum of institutional requirements. (6 pages)

Robert Neville Haszeldine was particularly associated with fluorine chemistry. He did outstanding synthetic work on inorganic and organic fluorocarbon derivatives, including fluoroalkyl Grignard and lithium reagents; fluoroalkyl derivatives of mercury, phosphorus, nitrogen and sulphur; fluoroalkyl silicones; fluoro-olefins; and hexafluorobenzene, pentafluoropyridine and their derivatives. He also made major contributions to the study of free-radical addition reactions and developed new routes to carbenes. He discovered a new class of polymers by copolymerizing a nitroso-compound with an olefin or fluoro-olefin to give the –N–O–C–C– repeating unit. His research revealed a mastery of modern ideas on the mechanism of organic and inorganic reactions coupled with outstanding experimental skill and originality. His work yielded over 500 publications, plus more than 150 patents concerning industrial applications of fluorocarbons, and he was awarded several medals. As head of chemistry at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) he developed a world-class fluorine research group and oversaw a new building for the department, which became one of the largest in the UK. Later, as principal of UMIST, he instigated academic developments just before the government severely cut university funding and imposed full-cost fees for overseas students, drastically reducing UMIST's income. His crisis plan for budget cuts proved divisive, and he took early retirement, citing intolerable financial pressures on UMIST. Initially, he continued with consultancy; later, he became deeply involved with his local community, and created a garden that received local and national recognition, including a plant variety named after him.

This issue of the Aeronautical Journal celebrates the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Honours Degree Course in Aeronautical Engineering at the Victoria University of Manchester. The following article therefore describes the aeronautical research and teaching activities of that university up to its recent amalgamation with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) to form the present-day University of Manchester. This juncture provides a further justification for recording the Victoria University’s achievements.Both the Victoria University and UMIST had their roots in the nineteenth century although, apart from the relatively brief period of the First World War, neither of them was particularly involved in aeronautics until after the Second World War. However, as Sections 6.0-10.0 seek to demonstrate, thereafter the Victoria University’s involvement became considerable. The preceding Sections describe the origins of the Victoria University and UMIST and, in the case of the former institution, the subsequent activities of its staff and graduates in engineering and mathematics which, although not always specifically aeronautical in content, nonetheless had a profound influence on the development of the aeronautical sciences.

Chapter 14 - Fluoropolymers, stable nitroxides and perfluoroalkylation

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JCMS: Journal of Common Market StudiesVolume 14, Issue 1 p. 69-80 Free Access THE EUROPEAN STUDIES MOVEMENT: WHAT'S IN A NAME? Alan S. Milward, Alan S. Milward University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)Search for more papers by this author Alan S. Milward, Alan S. Milward University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)Search for more papers by this author First published: September 1975 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5965.1975.tb00738.xCitations: 2AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume14, Issue1September 1975Pages 69-80 RelatedInformation

HIV MedicineVolume 4, Issue 3 p. 195-234 Free Access Ninth annual conference of the British HIV Association (BHIVA), 25-26 April 2003, University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Manchester, UK First published: 15 July 2003 https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1468-1293.2003.00162.xCitations: 1AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume4, Issue3July 2003Pages 195-234 RelatedInformation

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This study presents a simulator to obtain numerical solution of convection-diffusion equation. It includes explicit, fully implicit and semi-implicit time discretization techniques. Although the explicit method is efficient for some simple conduction problems, it needs stability criteria. Otherwise, it is unstable especially for high Courant number and large time step size. When using the explicit method, the time step size is chosen with care to get well-posed numerical solution. This requirement sets a serious constraint for the explicit method because choosing small time step size causes the simulation time to become quite long. Even though the implicit method is stable for large time step size and high Courant number, it leads to numerical dispersion like the explicit method. On the other hand, second-order accurate semi-implicit method significantly reduces numerical dispersion. In addition to time discretization techniques, this simulator contains several space discretization methods such as first-order upstream and UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) techniques. The proposed numerical simulator is suitable for easily using the different combinations of time and space discretization methods. Secondly, this study is to propose the use of semi-implicit time discretization technique with UMIST space discretization method to minimize numerical dispersion and suppress unphysical oscillation. In spite of the fact that the UMIST method suppresses unphysical oscillation, it causes a small and undesired oscillation at flood front for very large Courant number. Third objective of this study is to propose minor modification on the UMIST method to eliminate this unphysical oscillation.

Ivo M. Raimundo Jr. holds a degree in chemistry (1983), a master’s degree in chemistry (1989), and a doctorate in analytical chemistry (1995), all from the Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas (IQ-Unicamp), Brazil. He carried out postdoctoral studies at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Manchester, England (1997/98), and the University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA (2017). He is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Analytical Chemistry at IQ - Unicamp. He was Associate Director (2006–2009) and Director (2009–2015) of the Pluridisciplinary Center for Chemical, Biological and Agricultural Research (CPQBA) at Unicamp, Secretary of the Brazilian Chemical Society, Campinas Regional (2020-2022) and is currently its treasurer. He has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society since 2019. Prof. Raimundo Jr has experience in instrumentation and automation in analytical chemistry, working mainly in the following areas: optical (nano)sensors, microfabrication of analytical systems, and laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS).

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ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVNoteNEXTSynthesis and Aqueous Solution Characterization of Catalytically Active Block Copolymers Containing ImidazoleMartin R. Simmons and Costas S. PatrickiosView Author Information Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), P.O. Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD U.K. Cite this: Macromolecules 1998, 31, 25, 9075–9077Publication Date (Web):November 25, 1998Publication History Received5 March 1998Revised28 August 1998Published online25 November 1998Published inissue 1 December 1998https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ma980351mhttps://doi.org/10.1021/ma980351mbrief-reportACS PublicationsCopyright © 1998 American Chemical SocietyRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views855Altmetric-Citations49LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose SUBJECTS:Copolymers,Homopolymers,Imidazoles,Organic compounds,Polymers Get e-Alerts

The use of a face as a biometric to identify a person in order to keep the system safe from an unauthorized person has advantages over other biometric characteristics. The face as a biometric has more structure and a wider area than other biometrics, while can be retrieved in a non-invasive manner. We proposed a cloud-based architecture for face identification with deep learning using convolutional neural network. Face identification in this study used a cloud-based engine with four stages, namely face detection with histogram of oriented gradients (HOG), image enhancement, feature extraction using convolutional neural network, and classification using k-nearest neighbor (KNN), SVM, as well as random forest algorithm. This study conducted a classification experiment with cloud-based architecture using three different datasets, namely Faces94, Faces96 and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) face dataset. The results from this study are with the proposed cloud-based architecture, the best accuracy is obtained by KNN algorithm with an accuracy of 99% on Faces94 dataset, 99% accuracy on Faces96 dataset, 97% on UMIST face dataset, and performance of the three algorithms decreased in UMIST face dataset with facial variations from various angles from left to right profile.

Modelling molecular structures