Small items of research equipment at the University of Strathclyde

像斯特拉斯克莱德这样的大学的研究重点越来越多地与满足社会在能源、健康、制造业、环境以及先进科学和工程等关键领域的需求相一致。除了为这些领域的重大挑战提供创新的解决方案外，大学还负责培养早期职业研究人员（ecr）的技能和经验，从博士生到新的学术和研究人员，以确保我们未来的研究领导者拥有知识和能力，尽可能有效地为我们的社会及其公民的福祉做出贡献。在履行这些义务的过程中，为ecr提供的设备基础必须适合任务并具有最高质量，这一点至关重要，特别是在科学和工程领域。大型且往往昂贵的仪器设备的可用性对于确保英国大学的研究处于世界领先地位至关重要。为了补充这些先进的实验设施，提高小型设备的数量和质量可以对生产力以及研究产出的质量和数量产生重大影响。此外，它还有助于促进研究成果在工业和社会中的早期影响。斯特拉斯克莱德大学已经确定，在能源、医疗保健技术、制造业、环境可持续性、信息和通信技术（ICT）、物理科学和工程等一系列主题的项目中，额外的小型设备资源将对ecr产生重大好处。该设备将加强对国家重要课题博士生的培养，扩大我们研究人员研究成果的范围，并加速新学术人员的进步和他们成为未来最高质量研究领导者的能力。我们确定的设备项目将提高我们的能力，并为一系列项目的研究成果做出重大贡献。例如，在制造业，纳米材料技术的研究和与两个医疗保健领域相关的分析将通过消除访问设备的延迟和扩大ecr可以进行的操作范围而发生转变。这将为纳米结构材料的建模、开发、制造和应用、碳捕获、环境修复和可持续化学原料带来好处，并提高医疗设备和假肢制造的能力，以及为小型专业生物和医疗材料制造开发微流体和芯片实验室技术的能力。在环境工程方面，新设备项目将扩展环境监测和控制关键方面的研究，包括用于碳捕获和核废料处理的地面孔径密封，岩石和土壤渗透性监测和控制，以及用于净化有机物种的新的土地/水修复技术的开发。在工程资产管理方面，拟议的设备将为ecr研究燃烧和排放诊断以及燃气轮机发动机和发电设备的效率改进提供新的机会。这一主题的好处也将实现为食品和饮料以及制药行业开发成像技术的ecr。这些只是一些研究领域的例子，这些研究领域将受益于Strathclyde增强的设备资源。在能源、信息通信技术、激光和医疗保健技术领域也将取得类似的效益和进步。

The focus of research in universities such as Strathclyde is increasingly aligned with meeting the needs of society in key areas such as energy, health, manufacturing, the environment, and advanced science and engineering. In addition to helping produce innovative solutions to major challenges in these areas, universities are charged with developing the skills and experiences of early career researchers (ECRs), from PhD students to new academic and research staff, to ensure that our future research leaders have the knowledge and abilities to contribute as effectively as possible to the well-being of our society and its citizens. In meeting these obligations, it is essential, especially in science and engineering, that the equipment base available to our ECRs is appropriate to the task and is of the highest quality. The availability of large and often expensive instrument facilities is crucial to ensuring that research in UK universities is world leading. To complement these advanced experimental facilities, improvements in the number and quality of small items of equipment can have a major impact on productivity, and the quality and quantity of research outputs. In addition, it can help to promote the early impact of research outputs in industry and society. The University of Strathclyde has identified where additional small equipment resource would have a major benefit to ECRs working on projects in a range of topics under the general themes of energy, healthcare technologies, manufacturing, environmental sustainability, information and communication technologies (ICT), physical science and engineering. The equipment will enhance the training of PhD students in topics of national importance, extend the scope of the research achievements of our Research staff, and accelerate the progress of new Academic staff and their ability to become future research leaders of the highest quality. The items of equipment that we have identified will improve our capabilities and make significant contributions to research outputs in a range of projects. For example, in Manufacturing, research into techniques in nano materials and analysis associated with two areas of healthcare, will be transformed by removing delays in accessing equipment and extending the range of operations that can be conducted by ECRs. This will bring benefits to the modelling, development, manufacture and application of nano-structured materials, for carbon capture, environmental remediation, and sustainable chemical feedstocks, and provide enhanced capability in medical device and prosthetics manufacture, and in the development of micro-fluidic and lab-on-a-chip techniques for small scale specialist bio and medical materials manufacture. In Environmental Engineering, the new items of equipment will extend research on crucial aspects of environmental monitoring and control, including ground aperture sealing for carbon capture and nuclear waste disposal, rock and soil permeability monitoring and control, and the development of new land/water remediation techniques for cleansing of organic species. In Engineering Asset Management, the proposed equipment will open new opportunities for the ECRs researching combustion and emission diagnostics and efficiency improvements in gas turbine engines and power generating equipment. Benefits in this theme will also be realised for ECRs developing imaging technologies for the food and drink, and pharmaceuticals industries. These are just some examples of the areas of research that will benefit from the enhanced equipment resource at Strathclyde. Similar benefits and advances will be achieved in the fields of Energy, ICT, Lasers and HealthCare Technologies.