Manufacturing and Materials
Micro-factories: are they the future of manufacturing?
Developing economies have the prize consumers: new wealth and hunger to catch-up with developed world lifestyles. And even more significantly, at the bottom of the pyramid are estimated to be 4 billion people on low ...
Use versus ownership: sustainability and smart manufacturing
Predictions for the future of manufacturing tend to focus on fast, adaptable networked systems and customised delivery. But that’s still taking the availability of resources as a given. Ideally, and alongside the high-tech advances, we ...
From the group project to my thesis – the final few months of my Cranfield MSc…
It's hard to appreciate what makes Cranfield different before you come here but the combination of academia and industry, of postgraduate and PhD students, in a really multicultural environment does actually set it apart from ...
Budgeting for university – how I funded my course and living expenses for the year
"I've been accepted!" After the initial excitement of earning a place on the Advanced Materials MSc course at Cranfield began to settle down, I started to feel anxious about how I would deal with funding and living expenses for the ...
Interview with Lord Kings Norton Medal winner 2016 – Thomas Kissinger, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Thomas Kissinger, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cranfield University Interferometric Signal Processing PhD, 2015 About you What were you doing before you started your course at Cranfield? I worked in the optical metrology industry for two to three ...
Coming to Cranfield as a couple – would we be able to live together?
I had been living with my boyfriend for 2 years in France when I decided to move abroad for my master's degree. What would happen to my relationship if I move? That was the question on my mind ...