Brunel University project takes on the universe
The School of Engineering and Design at Brunel University in West London is one of the largest, and most successful, engineering and design schools in the UK.
With extensive links with industry and incredible facilities (including a state –of-the-art flight simulator and advanced visualisation and multimedia equipment), it provides undergraduate and postgraduate students with the practical design and engineering skills they need to solve the problems of the 21st century.
Two Brunel academics recently saw their work launched into space. Dr David Smith and PhD student Jason Gow were involved in the development of the Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) lunar science instrument. It was launched on India’s first unmanned Moon mission on October 22nd this year.
The instrument will record X-ray fluorescence spectra from the surface of the moon, and will help solve the mystery of the Moon’s evolution and the way Earth, Mars, Venus and Mercury developed within the Earth-Moon system.
It is the first time the UK and India have worked together in space science. But it’s just one of many successful postgraduate research projects for Brunel University, which is named after the famous Victorian engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Hamid Zolfagharinia is a recent Biomedical Engineering graduate. He found the wide range of subjects in his chosen specialisation helped him stand out as a job candidate once he graduated. “At interview, I was asked about all different fields of biomedical engineering, including medical imaging, signal processing, biofluid mechanics… It was then I realized I had made the right choice to come to Brunel to study the MSc in Biomedical Engineering!”
Contact Brunel to find out more about the wide range of engineering and design subjects.
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Posted by: Albertus Widyanto | December 06, 2008 at 05:07 PM
UK and India have worked together in space science. But it’s just one of many successful postgraduate research projects for Brunel University, which is named after the famous Victorian engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Posted by: Links of London | May 26, 2011 at 04:27 PM
The instrument will record X-ray fluorescence spectra from the surface of the moon, and will help solve the mystery of the Moon’s evolution and the way Earth, Mars, Venus and Mercury developed within the Earth-Moon system.
Posted by: Links of London | May 26, 2011 at 04:27 PM