Graduation 2019
What a great afternoon we all had on Monday 19th July at our students’ graduation at the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea. Here are some pictures of the day.
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Congratulations Archie and Arya on PhD vivas!
Massive congratulations to School of Applied Computing students Arya Sedigh (left) and Archie Watt who have successfully defended their PhD thesis in the last couple of weeks. A PhD is a very long undertaking and both are pleased (and relieved) to have been successful with only minor corrections. Well done to both and also to their supervisory team 🙂
Faculty Lunchtime Research Seminar (November 2018)
In today’s Faculty Lunchtime Research Seminar, Mr Kelvin Lake from the School of Engineering told us about his research into the design of composites. This was applied in particular to the design of snowboards and kiteboards. For more detail, please see Moodle. Thank you very much to Kelvin for sharing his research with us and our best wishes for your PhD viva coming up in 2019.
Evacuation of wheelchair users in emergency situations
We are pleased to tell you that we have brought our emergency evacuation equipment with us to the UWTSD SA1 Waterfront campus. The “stair crawler” is designed to evacuate wheelchair users in case of emergency. This is particularly important when the wheelchair user cannot be carried down the stairs – due to the chair being a life-support system in itself – and, of course, to preserve dignity.
One of our lecturers, Dr Tim Bashford, learned how it felt to be ‘evacuated’ today while training staff to use the equipment.
Here is the stair crawler (kept on charge when not in use):
…and the stair crawler in action:
Faculty Lunchtime Research Seminar (October 2018)
We have brought our popular Faculty Lunchtime Research Seminars with us to the SA1 campus. These seminars are to help share research happening in the Faculty, and hopefully encourage future collaborations. All are welcome, from inside or outside the Faculty, staff or student.
This month, Professor Kelvin Donne told us about his research which has included the following:
- Ballistics impact of projectiles onto automotive glass.
- Computational modelling of light-tissue interaction.
- Non-destructive testing of composite materials
- Usability analysis in product engineering research
Here’s Kelvin in action:
If you missed the talk, and would like to catch up with what Kelvin said, the video is available on Moodle. If you cannot see “Faculty Lunchtime Research Seminars” on Moodle, comment below and Gaynor will add you.
2nd in the UK!
We are delighted to have been ranked second in the UK for “student satisfaction in teaching quality in Computer Science” and also second in the UK for “satisfaction with the student experience in Computer Science”
Congratulations to our staff and thank you to our students for their support!
New academic year 2018/9
A warm welcome to all our new students who arrived on campus for the first time yesterday, and a warm welcome back to our continuing students who will be back later this week.
The SA1 Waterfront campus is new to all of us this year, so we are spending our induction week giving tours of the campus to help student find their way around our new home.
We also went bowling with our new students to help them to get to know each other.
New campus in SA1
We have been very busy all summer moving to our new campus in SA1! The new teaching building, known as the IQ building, is currently being prepared for the new academic year which commences on Monday 24th September 2018.
Opposite the main teaching area is the new library, known as The Forum. Here is a picture from inside The Forum, facing the main IQ building.
Quite a change from our old campus at Mount Pleasant! Looking forward to seeing students, staff and alumni there very soon.
Faculty Lunchtime Research Seminar – February 2018
Our monthly Faculty Lunchtime Research Seminar took place today. Michael Dacey of the School of Applied Computing gave a fascinating talk on his research into the teaching of programming. This included a consideration of working memory, pattern learning and other issues. Also, Mr Ewan Hoyle from the School of Engineering gave us a talk on ultrasonic imaging.
Two very good talks, and here are some photos of Mike and Ewan in action:
Slides and a video of the talks will be available on Moodle shortly.
More Girls Into IT
We’ve been hosting another Girls Into It event to give teenage girls a taste of Computing as a possible career. Yesterday, pupils from Ysgol Maes Y Gwendraeth built and programmed robots, and learned about cybersecurity. Lovely to meet you all and to see you embracing Computing so enthusiastically! 🙂
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