The School of Engineering undertakes research in a broad range of fundamental and applied engineering topics in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical & Electronic, chemical and petroleum Engineering, aligning with the University’s Aberdeen 2040 vision themes including Energy Transition, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence etc. The School maintains close links with both local industry, international companies, research and technology councils. Representatives from local industry guide the strategic direction of the School in both undergraduate and postgraduate matters.
Research collaboration ranges from consultancy by individual staff, through jointly funded applied research projects, to significant research projects funded by industry. Industrial collaboration features in many Government-funded, EC-funded and other international projects. Many applied research projects are wholly funded by Industry, often directly focused on industry needs, and the strategic areas of national importance.
- Motive Offshore Ltd (KTP/Innovate UK: Dr Andrew Starkey (PI), Marcus Campbell Bannerman): Development of new software and digitally enabled processes to deliver company-wide digitalisation". £205,204 3/04/2024-2/04/2026
- Test Incorporated Ltd (KTP/Innovate UK: Dr Andrew Starkey (PI) and Sumeet Aphale). Creation of an automated object recognition, speech to text recognition platform through a study on Machine learning, Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence. £134,920, 10/11/2023-9/11/2025
- Claxton Engineering and NDC (KTP/Innovate UK: Jeff Gomes (PI), Marcus Bannerman, and Richard Neilson): Development, Deployment and Commercialisation of Laser Cutting a virtual underwater laser cutting tool for oil and gas decommissioning applications. £105,078, 03/2023-06/2025
- Gall Thomson Environmental Limited (KTP/Innovate UK: Lateef Akanji (PI), Jeff Gomez): Development of a new Marine Breakaway Coupling to attain a zero-spill fluid discharge to the environment during tanker breakout. £122,045, 02/05/2024 start (ongoing)
- Net Zero Technology Centre (SPARK 2178 with 3 industry partners, Prashant Jadhawar (PI)): Underground Storage of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide (UHCDS) in the UKCS near‐abandonment depleted oil and gas reservoirs and Aquifers. £189,000, 07/2022 to 08/2024.
- Net Zero Technology Centre (SPARK 2182 with 4 industry partners, Prashant Jadhawar (PI)): Repurposing of the pipeline infrastructure for Hydrogen, CO2, Natural Gas (NG) and gas blends transportation in UKCS (including Digital Twins). £109,305, 01/2023 to 12/2024.
- Global Design Innovation Ltd (Innovate UK: Marcus Campbell Bannerman (PI), Andrew Starkey): project prototyped tools capable of carrying out this analysis of Scans Across Time: Updating and Rescanning assets with Novel methods (SATURN). £37k, 15/12/22 → 31/03/23
- Aubin Limited (KTP/Innovate UK, SFC: Richard Neilson): Development of the engineering application knowledge to deploy the patented 'DeepBuoy' pumpable buoyancy technology. £97,648, 15/07/2015 to 28/02/2018.
- Optima Asset Maintenance Solutions Limited (KTP/Innovate UK: Srinivas Sriramula (PI)) Development of a data library and service tool for physical asset reliability optimisation in the oil, gas and petrochemical industry. £119,770 1, 25/02/2019 to 15/05/2022
- Motive Offshore Group Limited (KTP/Innovate UK, SFC: Andrew Starkey (PI)). To integrate technologies into marine back deck equipment, to collect and analyse utility data, applying optimisation and data science methodologies. £115,779, 21/05/2020 to 20/09/2022.
- Global Design Innovation Ltd (KTP/Innovate UK and SFC: Marcus Campbell Bannerman (PI), Andrew Starkey): Development of automated tools for ANALYSIS OF LASER SCANS OF OFFSHORE ASSETS. Marcus Campbell Bannerman (PI), Andrew Starkey. £250K, 8/03/21 → 7/09/23. led to the spinout of https://www.advancedmodeller.com/.
Additional areas where we collaborate with industry includes: