Partnership encourages PhDs with real commercial value
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Electronics design consultancy Triteq has teamed up with Cranfield University to find a suitable candidate for a PhD opportunity that could encourage the development of innovative new technologies for real commercial applications.
Working with Cranfield's UPS2 Group (the UK's Integrated Knowledge Centre in Ultra Precision and Structured Surfaces), the partnership has been created to ensure that new technologies for biomedical devices are developed with true business potential.
Cranfield is currently inviting applications for a PhD studentship in 'ultra precision and micro-manufacturing for biomedical devices'. Starting in March 2010, the PhD aims to investigate the use of microreplication technologies for the fabrication of challenging biomedical polymer products.
The project will involve conceptual design, design for manufacture and metrology, moulds manufacturing using micro fabrication facilities, as well as polymer parts manufacturing using micro-injection moulding facilities.
As the PhD will address real commercial issues, another component of the studentship will be to understand all the regulatory issues covering the biomedical devices.
Andrew Larkins, operations director at Triteq, said: "With the combination of Triteq's exceptional track record for medical product innovation and Cranfield's reputation for outstanding research, this partnership should provide the ideal formula for business wise R&D. Indeed, the precision manufacturing techniques being developed at Cranfield will enable Triteq's clients to manufacture innovative biomedical products of the future."
Further information about the PhD and an application form is available here.
