Small items of research equipment at Brunel University.

这项提议是在布鲁内尔大学建立一套金属制造领域的小型研究设备。金属制造业是英国最重要的制造业之一，每年对英国经济的价值估计为170亿GB。该项目是由来自两个部门的六名早期职业讲师提出的，其中五人在受聘的头三年内。它的目的是通过建立一整套研究设备，显著提高研究产出和影响的广度和深度，以(I)培养下一代高技能研究人员；(Ii)发展跨学科和行业合作，提供影响；以及(Iii)提高布鲁内尔在国际舞台上的研究形象。怀着雄心壮志，并进一步推进布鲁内尔这一研究工作领域的研究和开发，该大学最近投资250万英磅用于大规模最先进的设施。这些设备包括高压压铸、透射电子显微镜、感应炉)、光学发射光谱以及各种先进的表征工具。这项投资为布鲁内尔冶金及相关工程和物理科学研究的增长提供了一个核心基础设施平台。拟议的小型研究设备补充了大学的投资，并进一步增强了研究能力。新设备套件主要旨在支持早期职业研究人员(ECR)的研究活动，如新任命的讲师、博士后研究助理以及博士和硕士学生。该大学的两个系已经确定了金属制造所需的协同领域，这属于EPSRC的制造未来主题，并确定了5个新的关键研究领域。EPSRC的这项投资将使ECR受益，因为他们建立了自己的独立研究计划，提高了研究成果的深度，并增强了就业能力。除了购买新的现成设备外，我们还将通过以下方式为所请求的资金增加价值：组装内部仪器；对从行业采购的二手设备进行现代化改造，以适应实验室规模的实验；基于灵活和模块化的系统进行采购，这些系统可以随着新的研究计划的上线而升级或增强；以及利用Access Brunel大学的研究发展基金，该基金为受聘前3年的讲师提供研究泵准备。新设备将通过允许进行性能测量来促进Brunel各部门之间的更广泛合作，从而弥合材料开发和最终工程应用之间的差距。将为布鲁内尔大学和其他国家大学所有系的所有ECR提供更广泛地使用这一设备的经费。

This proposal is to establish a suite of small items of research equipment at Brunel University in the area of metals manufacturing. The metals manufacturing sector is one of the most important UK manufacturing sectors and is worth an estimated £17 billion per year to the country's economy. The project is proposed by six early career lecturers, from two departments, five of whom are within the first three years of their appointment. It is aimed at significantly enhancing the breadth and depth of research output and the delivery of impact through establishing a comprehensive suite of research equipment, to (i) produce next generation of highly skilled researchers; (ii) develop interdisciplinary and industrial collaboration and delivery of impact; and (iii) enhance Brunel's research profile on the international stage.With great ambition and to further advance the research and development in this area of research work at Brunel, the University has recently invested £2.5 million on large scale state-of-the-art facilities. These include high pressure die casting, transmission electron microscopy, induction furnaces), optical emission spectroscopy, and various advanced characterisation tools. This investment has provided a core infrastructural platform for growth in metallurgical and associated engineering and physical sciences research at Brunel. The proposed small items of research equipment complement the university's investment and further enhance the research capabilities. The new equipment suite is primarily aimed at supporting the research activities of early career researchers (ECRs) such as newly appointed lecturers, postdoctoral research assistants, and PhD and MSc students. Two departments within the university have identified areas of synergy necessary for metals manufacturing which falls within the EPSRC's manufacturing the future theme and 5 new critical research areas identified. This investment from EPSRC will benefit the ECRs by establishing their own independent research programs, improve the depth of their research output, and enhanced employability.In addition to purchasing new off-the shelf equipment we will add value to the requested funds by: assembling in-house instrumentation; modernising used equipment procured from industry to suit lab scale experiments; make purchases based on flexible and modular systems that could be upgraded or enhanced as new research programmes come online; and leverage access Brunel University's Research Development Fund which offers research pump priming for lecturers in their first 3 years of appointment. The new equipment will promote broader collaboration between departments at Brunel by allowing property measurements to be made that bridge the gap between materials development and final application in engineering. There will be provision made for wider access to this equipment for all ECRs from all departments at Brunel and other national universities.