Internationalisation Feature

Published: 31 March 2022

Internationalisation Feature including News from Glasgow College UESTC

Glasgow College UESTC

Further Investment in L&T Resources for Glasgow College UESTC

With the ongoing pandemic situation and associated travel and visa restrictions continuing to prevent staff travel to Chengdu for face-to-face teaching to date in AY2021/22, it has been agreed that a significant amount of funding, totalling £252,102, will be reinvested towards the enhancement of research-led teaching facilities and initiatives of Glasgow College UESTC following from previous investment last academic year.

This funding will be used towards improvements to the new teaching space for use by Glasgow College UESTC students to optimise remote delivery of teaching and improve the student experience, as well as continuous investments in laboratory resources associated with current and emerging areas of study in electronics and electrical engineering, which will enhance the quality of our educational provision for years to come. This will enable our students to have hands on experience in the chosen engineering fields of study, with the investments focussing particularly on Robotics, Quantum Engineering and High-Performance Computing.

Dr Kelum Gamage Elected as a Principal Fellow of the Advance HE (PFHEA)

Congratulations to Dr Kelum Gamage, Co-Director of Glasgow College UESTC Centre for Educational Development & Innovation, on his selection as a Principal Fellow of the Advance HE (PFHEA). Dr Gamage is the first academic from the College of Science & Engineering to be elected a Principal Fellow and joins 1,500 others (out of 150,000 fellows) around the world.

Dr Gamage said: “I am delighted to have been selected as a Principal Fellow of the Advance HE. It is a real honour and I’m keen to support and mentor others to work towards any level of the Fellow scheme”.

Future RAN: Diversifying the 5G Supply Chain Competition Winners

Congratulations to Prof Muhammad Imran, who, with the support of Dr Yusuf Sambo, Dr Oluwakayode Onireti and Dr Shuja Ansari, has secured a prestigious funding award totalling £4,732.473 from the UK Government's Department of Digital Culture Media and Sports (DCMS) for the project CoMP-O-RAN (Coordinated Multipoint Open Radio Access Network) in partnership with Dense Air Limited, Airspan Communications Limited, Blu Wireless Technology Limited, Radisys UK Limited.

Coordinated Multipoint Open Radio Access Network (CoMP-O-RAN) will revolutionize the performance and cost of densified 5G New Radio (NR) outdoor small cell clusters. The integration of standard Open Radio Access Network technology with Wave transport systems enables the deployment of disaggregated multi-transmission and reception multi-node 5G NR without the need for excessive fibre which drives down capital-intensive deployment costs.  Read more


In this edition:

Welcome from Professor Muffy Calder

Staff Communications

Research, Impact & Knowledge Exchange

Awards and Prizes

Learning & Teaching Feature

Graduate School News

News Roundup across the College

Future Events

First published: 31 March 2022