Business sponsored Master's by Research with Delkia

Entry requirements

Applicants should have at least a 2:1 in a Bachelors degree awarded from Engineering, Physics or a Materials Science related field.

Months of entry

October

Course content

Get paid to do a Masters with the Centre for Global Eco-Innovation at Lancaster University and Delkia Ltd

Details:

• Get paid £16,000 tax-free
• Have your tuition fees reduced. Your partner company pays £2,200 towards your fees, meaning students eligible for home fees pay only £2,300. International students will need to pay the remaining £20,050.
• Be part of the multi award winning Centre for Global Eco-Innovation within a cohort of talented graduates working on exciting business-led R&D.
• The Centre is based at Lancaster University, so you will gain your Masters from a Top Ten University, recognised as The Sunday Times University of the Year 2018 and International University of the Year 2020.
• Finish in a strong position to enter a competitive job market in the UK and overseas or progress on to further study.

The Challenge

Development of a new integrated technology panel for use on or with maritime and aviation platforms that harnesses electrical energy through differential temperature.

The imperative to either save energy or generate it from sources that have minimal environmental impact now dominates the research and innovation field across numerous commercial sectors. Alternative options such as hydrogen, solar power and wind power are currently attracting great interest however, there are many other sources of energy that have the potential to be scavenged and converted into electrical energy to complement battery-based systems.

This 1 year Masters by Research project offers a unique opportunity to develop a new type of innovative energy harnessing and recovery system for implementation into multiple sectors including marine and Aerospace exploring the application of the Peltier effect to exploit temperature gradients between the internal and external environment. The project aims to advance the field of Smart Peltier panels for these sectors.

The objective of this project is to demonstrate, through a single scalable panel, the feasibility of constructing a strucutre that effectively functions as a component of a pressure vessel that can generate significant power from temperature gradients between the external and internal environment. The research will explore adaptability to ensure that panels will self-configure within the network and deliver relative to the wider network performance and condition. Adaptability within manufacture will also be explored to ensure a seamless transition between applications with differing structural specifications. Of importance will be to deliver a scalable demonstrator that features all necessary electronics, sensors and both structural and power interfaces that could be transferred into production.

Enterprise and Collaborative Partners

Delkia is a specialist Systems Integrator operating throughout the UK and internationally for highly regulated sectors including nuclear and defence. Their offer includes digital engineering, engineering design, systems consultancy, systems integration, build-to-print, control panel build, and complex control systems support.

This Masters by Research project will be supervised by Professor Andrew Richardson and Dr David Chenler from the Lancaster University Engineering Department.

Start: October 2021

Deadline: Midnight Sunday 29th August 2021

For details on the application process and to apply click here

Information for international students

For information on home/international fee eligibility please see the university fee status webpage

Fees and funding

This project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund and is subject to funding confirmation.