CDT PhD studentships
Four-year PhD in Materials Engineering with Enhanced Scholarship – Ten awards available
The CDT in Advanced Metallic Systems is a partnership between Sheffield and Manchester Universities, established in 2009 with a £6.3M investment from the EPSRC, aimed at filling a UK skills gap in Materials Engineering.
Advanced metallic materials are of critical importance to all industrial sectors, including automotive, aerospace and power generation. Higher temperature, higher strength and lower density materials need to be developed and processed, formed, joined, and protected, for ever more demanding applications, in hostile environments, and to allow industry to adapt to a low carbon economy.
You could be working on a PhD projects ranging from, protection systems for off-shore wind farms, joining magnesium alloy to composites for light weight car bodies, surface engineering titanium medical implants, to higher temperature turbochargers; with companies like Rolls Royce, Airbus, Jaguar – Land Rover, Serco Assurance, TIMET, to name but a few.
The CDT offers a new direction for PhD study, with an exciting and interdisciplinary approach to postgraduate research training, combining a foundation year, reinforcing core skills in metallurgy, with a three year Doctoral level thesis project. This is supplemented by training in professional skills and project placements in industry or research institutes in the UK and overseas.
Sheffield and Manchester constitute the largest concentration of metals research activity and teaching experience in the UK - with some 26 academic specialists and a combined active research portfolio of £25M.
Fifteen studentship awards are available in 2011.Degree Type
4 year PhD
Eligibility
We welcome applications from graduates who have, or expect to obtain, a first class, or upper second, honours, or masters level degree, in; engineering, physics, chemistry, or earth sciences.
Funding
Fifteen EPSRC-funded awards providing home fees and a tax-free stipend of £13,590 (in 2010/2011) enhanced in the first year to £15,590 pa (in 2010/2011)are available. In years two to four it is expected that students will be sponsored by industry, with the stipend supplemented by £3000 pa.
Start Date
Anytime
Application Deadline
October 2011
Reference
PhD/DTC/09/PBP/01
Supervisor Contact Details
For further information about the project, please contact:
Professor Phil Prangell (Manchester)
Email: Philip.prangnell@manchester.ac.uk
Tel: +44(0) 161 306 3610
Dr Claire Hinchliffe, CDT Project Manager
Email: c.e.hinchliffe@shef.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)114 222 5478
Admissions Contact
Postgraduate Team, School of Materials
Email: pg-materials@manchester.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)161 306 4824
How to Apply
You can apply for postgraduate opportunities online quoting the project reference number.