Engineering: our research impact

The School has created robust pathways that utilise our facilities and capitalise on mechanisms for knowledge transfer to build partnerships with industry and to achieve impact from our research.

Key strategic relationships have led to commercialisation and industrially funded research, with impact that is manifest in multiple formats including licensing of Intellectual Property, formation of spin-out companies, direct co-development work with industry partners and through consultancy.

In REF 2021, 94.4% of our impact was recognised as 'world leading' or 'internationally excellent'. 

 

Gyroplane: Dropped/stepped keel introduced as a result of the University of Glasgow recommendations to CAA, adopted in BCAR Section T. The dropped keel enables the propeller to remain low, maintaining stability. (Image courtesy of RotorSport UK Ltd)
Gyroplane: Dropped/stepped keel introduced as a result of the University of Glasgow recommendations to CAA, adopted in BCAR Section T. The dropped keel enables the propeller to remain low, maintaining stability. (Image courtesy of RotorSport UK Ltd)

New gyroplane design standards improve flight safety

Tue, 03 Dec 2013 11:40:00 GMT

As a direct result of our research, there have been no deaths in a gyroplane accident in the UK since 2009. Previously, gyroplanes (also known as autogyros) had a questionable safety record

Gene Sequencing on Silicon: the Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine

Tue, 03 Dec 2013 11:42:00 GMT

The development of microelectronic sensor arrays for biological applications, pioneered at the University of Glasgow, is central to a unique gene sequencing system developed by Ion Torrent.

Lateral grating on the side wall of a QCL.
Lateral grating on the side wall of a QCL.

Novel Quantum Cascade Laser technology

Tue, 03 Dec 2013 11:44:00 GMT

Novel Quantum Cascade Laser technology leads to new products, processes and market opportunities

Modern global telecom systems powered by our technology

Tue, 03 Dec 2013 11:43:00 GMT

Today’s global telecom systems are powered by technology developed at the University of Glasgow.

Illustration of band-structure and layer structure of a non-processed (left) vs. a QWI processed quantum well (right)
Illustration of band-structure and layer structure of a non-processed (left) vs. a QWI processed quantum well (right)

Novel laser products open up new markets for spin-out company Intense

Tue, 03 Dec 2013 11:46:00 GMT

High-power lasers developed at the University of Glasgow now lie at the heart of state-of-the-art technologies in the commercial printing, medical and defence markets.

the CellOPTIQ instrument
the CellOPTIQ instrument

Lab-on-a-chip technologies deliver diagnostic tools for infection and disease

Tue, 03 Dec 2013 11:50:00 GMT

Fifteen years of research in advanced Lab-on-a-Chip technologies at the University of Glasgow has led to three spin-out companies: Mode-Dx, Clyde Biosciences and SAW-Dx.

Demonstration of Functional Electronic Stimulation (FES) cycling
Demonstration of Functional Electronic Stimulation (FES) cycling

Rehabilitation engineering innovations

Tue, 03 Dec 2013 11:56:00 GMT

Improving the quality of life for patients with spinal cord injuries

GSS Simulation
GSS Simulation

Unique simulation software tools for the global semiconductor industry

Tue, 03 Dec 2013 11:48:00 GMT

The development of unique computer simulation tools has profoundly influenced the design and manufacture of silicon chips fuelling the $300 billion per year semiconductor industry.