Sensors Focus Workshop Buchanan Arms, Drymen 15-16 September 2011

1. Sensors Focus Workshop Buchanan Arms, Drymen 15-16 September 2011

2. About the College - 1 • The College structure allows us to: • grow our multidisciplinary research programmes thereby enabling us to play a larger role in tackling societal challenges, • offer a wider range of choice to undergraduates while delivering a smaller number of courses, • provide new vocational PGT programmes on topics of high demand, • develop an increased number of effective partnerships with leading international institutions.

3. About the College - 2 • Research funding circa £35 million per annum provides unique facilities that also support our postgraduate researchers • ~270 academic staff, ~70 research fellows, ~120 research associates, and ~80 research assistants • ~4250 FTE undergraduate students • ~600 PhD students • >300 postgraduate taught Masters students • Four of the UK’s top ten Research Units in the RAE 2008 – Computing Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, and Psychology

4. Addressing major societal challenges • As well as being a major player in single discipline science and engineering, the College embraces major societal challenges faced worldwide and engages in multidisciplinary research. Included are: • Digital economy • Energy & sustainability • Environment • Healthcare technology • Infrastructure & transport • Materials • Nanotechnology • Sensors and intelligent imaging • Sustainable high value manufacturing • Systems & synthetic biology • Underpinning capabilities www.glasgow.ac.uk/colleges/scienceengineering/research/

5. Recruiting excellence Investment strategy There may be new opportunities arising shortly. The University invests directly in equipment, infrastructure and people in areas of high priority. Recent examples include: • Solar fuels (Cronin, Cogdell) - £4M (RAs, cohort students, equipment) • James Watt Nanofabrication Centre (Paul, Cumming, Cooper, Thayne, Weaver and many others) – equipment >£1M in the last year • Kelvin Nanocharacterisation Centre (Loos, Stamps) – equipment >£2M in the last year – strong relation to SUPA • Electronic device materials (Asenov) - £0.3M – new computer cluster

6. Recruiting excellence Impact and knowledge exchange Major grant holders have strategic links with industry including leading multinational players. Typically the University is involved with ~500 industrial projects pa with a value of ~£12M. Our Innovation Network (now in its 3rd year) has played a leading role. • 599 companies received support, 69 new jobs have been created, 22 new companies formed, >£2M increase in company turnover, >£1M increase in investment in knowledge & innovation by companies, 11 new patents filed, 13 licensing deals have been agreed. We have developed an innovative knowledge transfer scheme – EasyAccess IP – that is increasing our connectivity, especially with UK SMEs. It is characterised by simplicity in the form of a 1 page licence. The IP Office has awarded the University funding to develop the scheme further. The University is co-leading a Horizons-funded initiative, the Scottish Sensor Systems Centre (S3C).

7. Timetable for day 1 • Thursday, 15th September • 1230 Arrival • 1245 Networking Lunch • 1330 Welcome, Presentations & Questions • Scene setting - John Chapman • Sensor activity at Glasgow - David Cumming • Introduction to TICs - Duncan Bremner • 1430 Breakout Session 1 • 1600 Coffee/tea • 1630 Breakout Session 2 • Close of Day 1 • 1930 Dinner - joined by ‘critical friends’

8. Aims of the Workshop - 1 • Aims of Day 1 • Familiarising ourselves with the work and expertise of colleagues involved in various aspects of sensor research and development; • Identifying GU research groups with significant activity that we have not captured; • Capturing information on our major strengths, weaknesses and unique selling points; • Identifying our ‘user’ communities and what we think they want from us; • Identifying the most effective ways of increasing our capabilities; • Identifying the most appropriate internal organisational structure; • Establishing whether we have the right ingredients to be major players in a TIC bid.

9. Critical friends • Tim Summer • Freescale • Jan Reid • Scottish Enterprise • Chris Cromack • IBM • Gil McInnes • Cambridge Silicon Radio • John Roulston

10. Timetable for day 2 • Friday, 16th September • 0900 Welcome & Presentation; questions from ‘critical friends’; • Glasgow sensor activity: present and future - John Chapman • 0930 Breakout for consideration of feedback and case enhancement • 1015 Coffee/tea • 1030 Feedback, wrap up and next steps • 1145 Close of day 2

11. Aims of the Workshop - 2 • Aims of Day 2 • Obtaining feedback on the plans developed during Day 1 with particular emphasis on: • our strengths, weaknesses, unique selling points and ideas for filling gaps in our capabilities, • identification of external threats, • our perceptions of what are user communities want and the ways we propose to increase the effectiveness of our interactions with them, • how we might grow our user communities; • Ascertaining our plausibility (technical expertise, critical mass, etc) for playing a major supporting role in a TIC bid and what was needed for significant improvement; • Identifying the next steps forward and an appropriate timetable.