Attached to the PEMC Laboratory are mechanical workshops, open-planned postgraduate offices and a recreation area. The Group has two further experimental laboratories housing small research and undergraduate projects in the area of power electronics and control.
There has been a recent expansion of facilities for multi-disciplinary aerospace work, with new 300m2 Electrical Technologies in Aerospace laboratories, equipped with customised aircraft power supplies, power quality measurement equipment, high speed test rigs, a 50m3 Faraday cage for EMC testing and a new NDE facility. Another dedicated laboratory houses state of the art environmental testing chambers, which is used in the project Equipment for Physics-of-Failure and Reliability Research in Electronics (funded by EPSRC).
Finally the Group has its own computer room, housing the latest PCs providing a high-powered computational facility for simulation studies. Software includes SABER, P-Spice, the Matlab-Simulink library and toolboxes and MAGNET and SLIM.
The Department has access to excellent library and electronic resources for postgraduate work in the field.
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Engineering Graduate Centre provides an excellent opportunity for postgraduate students to make new friends and participate in social events, as well as to find industrial placements and take advantage of a full range of professional skills advice and workshops.