Two University departments have been awarded Knowledge Transfer Account awards.
Professor Chris Budd from the Department of Mathematics, has been awarded a KT Fellowship to spend one day per month for five months at the Met Office to oversee the transfer and embedding of adaptive numerical code into their software. He has also been awarded a KT Fellowship for PhD student Emily Walsh to spend three months working with the Met Office working on the integration of this code, which she developed during her PhD. It is anticipated that this code should enable the Met Office to more accurately predict storm events.
Also, Professors Chris McMahon and Steve Culley from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, have been awarded a Partnership Development Award for six months. The funding supports a KT Fellow to work at Babcock Marine to help them to extract knowledge from the data they hold. The aim is to assist them review their maintenance planning.
Chris Rowley, Head of Information & Knowledge Management, Babcock International said: “Babcock are using this as an opportunity to test the methodologies being developed by the University of Bath and to apply them in a practical situation that provides real business benefit.”
Dr Denise Cooke, KTA Project Manager, added: “These projects are great examples of how the KTA is supporting collaborative relationships with external organisations.”
Further details: Dr Denise Cooke, KTA Project Manager, d.cooke@bath.ac.uk, ext 3622