Research, teaching and knowledge exchange will all benefit from SBS's Management Science department's involvement in a major new research centre in intelligent asset management supporting the UK's offshore wind industry. The Centre for Intelligent Asset Management (CIAM) is a partnership between the University and SgurrEnergy, a renewable energy consultancy, part of Wood Group, and will develop innovative techniques that aim to improve the availability of offshore wind farms and reduce the need for expensive reactive offshore maintenance.
The multi-disciplinary partnership involves academics from the University's departments of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Management Science, and Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management. The new partnership will work alongside the Centre for Advanced Condition Monitoring (CACM) and the University's Wind Energy Systems Centre Doctoral Training which is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to provide high level training to PhD students to help address the skill shortage in the renewables sector. Involvement in CIAM will complement related EPSRC research on Modelling Uncertainties in Off-Shore Wind Farm Availability already underway in Management Science.
The Department of Management Science is a centre for world-class research, innovation and education in modelling; with a strong focus on risk and reliability modelling involving academics Professor Tim Bedford, Professor John Quigley, Dr Matthew Revie, Dr Athena Zitrou and Professor Lesley Walls. The University of Strathclyde is the major UK academic institution working on a wide range of quantitative risk analysis methodologies. Three researchers have been appointed to each of the three university departments involved in the CIAM project. Management Science welcomes Dr Maria Segovia Garcia who will be focusing on reliability and maintainability modelling.
Dr Revie said, "CIAM demonstrates the interdisciplinary work that Strathclyde is renowned for - drawing upon expertise across faculties. The research carried out by CIAM will further enhance Strathclyde's reputation for excellence in engineering, renewable energies and risk modelling."
"For the department, working closely with industry like this has huge benefits in ensuring our research and teaching remain relevant."