Overview
In collaboration with Culham Centre for Fusion Energy and the Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield
Applications are invited for a PhD Industrial CASE studentship funded jointly by the EPSRC and Culham Centre for Fusion Energy. The studentship fully covers University tuition fees and provides a tax-free bursary of up to £17,430 per annum.
Project:
Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) is at the forefront of fusion research with its exciting potential as a long term environmentally friendly energy source for future generations as well as its wide-ranging science. CCFE is home to the Mega Ampère Spherical Tokamak (MAST), a world class fusion research facility and flagship of the UK fusion programme, as well as the Joint European Torus (JET), the world's largest Tokamak, which is operated by CCFE on behalf of the European fusion community. Funding is now available for a major upgrade of the MAST experiment, allowing it to run much longer pulses at higher power levels. Since a typical fusion plasma is at a temperature of about 23,000,000 degrees C, it can only be contained by magnetic fields that keep the plasma away from physical surfaces, i.e. the plasma is held in a 'magnetic bottle'. This creates a challenge for the control system of being able to simultaneously maintain the plasma shape and position whilst interfering with the 'Super-X Divertor' to mitigate the heat load. The PhD student will work in this area both at the University of Kent and the Culham Centre for Fusion. A more detailed description of the project is available at http://www.eda.kent.ac.uk/school/news_article.aspx?aid=793
The Control Team within the Instrumentation, Control and Embedded Systems Research Group at the University of Kent has an international reputation in the design of nonlinear control and monitoring systems for a range of industrial applications.
Financial Support
This studentship is funded by EPSRC and CCFE. UK students (including non-UK EU nationals who have been continuously resident in the UK for at least the preceding three years) will receive tuition fees and a stipend of up to £17,430 per annum (including the industrial contribution) for the 3.5-year duration of the project. The position is available from October 2010.
Application Requirements
• Applicants should have a good honours degree (either first class or upper second class) or hold an MSc in a relevant Engineering or Physical Science discipline.
• For general admission information, please email Helen Winder, Postgraduate Admissions support on eda-admissions-pg@kent.ac.uk; for informal inquires, interested applicants are also encouraged to contact Professor Sarah Spurgeon (email: S.K.Spurgeon@kent.ac.uk).
• For a direct link to the application form please visit http://records.kent.ac.uk/external/admissions/pg_application.php
• and select PhD in Electronic Engineering from the drop down menu, stating in you application that you wish to work in the area of Fusion Control.
Closing Date for applications: 16 April 2010.
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this opportunity
In collaboration with Culham Centre for Fusion Energy and the Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield
Applications are invited for a PhD Industrial CASE studentship funded jointly by the EPSRC and Culham Centre for Fusion Energy. The studentship fully covers University tuition fees and provides a tax-free bursary of up to £17,430 per annum.
Project:
Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) is at the forefront of fusion research with its exciting potential as a long term environmentally friendly energy source for future generations as well as its wide-ranging science. CCFE is home to the Mega Ampère Spherical Tokamak (MAST), a world class fusion research facility and flagship of the UK fusion programme, as well as the Joint European Torus (JET), the world's largest Tokamak, which is operated by CCFE on behalf of the European fusion community. Funding is now available for a major upgrade of the MAST experiment, allowing it to run much longer pulses at higher power levels. Since a typical fusion plasma is at a temperature of about 23,000,000 degrees C, it can only be contained by magnetic fields that keep the plasma away from physical surfaces, i.e. the plasma is held in a 'magnetic bottle'. This creates a challenge for the control system of being able to simultaneously maintain the plasma shape and position whilst interfering with the 'Super-X Divertor' to mitigate the heat load. The PhD student will work in this area both at the University of Kent and the Culham Centre for Fusion. A more detailed description of the project is available at http://www.eda.kent.ac.uk/school/news_article.aspx?aid=793
The Control Team within the Instrumentation, Control and Embedded Systems Research Group at the University of Kent has an international reputation in the design of nonlinear control and monitoring systems for a range of industrial applications.
Financial Support
This studentship is funded by EPSRC and CCFE. UK students (including non-UK EU nationals who have been continuously resident in the UK for at least the preceding three years) will receive tuition fees and a stipend of up to £17,430 per annum (including the industrial contribution) for the 3.5-year duration of the project. The position is available from October 2010.
Application Requirements
• Applicants should have a good honours degree (either first class or upper second class) or hold an MSc in a relevant Engineering or Physical Science discipline.
• For general admission information, please email Helen Winder, Postgraduate Admissions support on eda-admissions-pg@kent.ac.uk; for informal inquires, interested applicants are also encouraged to contact Professor Sarah Spurgeon (email: S.K.Spurgeon@kent.ac.uk).
• For a direct link to the application form please visit http://records.kent.ac.uk/external/admissions/pg_application.php
• and select PhD in Electronic Engineering from the drop down menu, stating in you application that you wish to work in the area of Fusion Control.
Closing Date for applications: 16 April 2010.
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this opportunity
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