29 November: fyi -- phd funding, UK

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Four PhD Studentships in School of Computing, Engineering & Technology
University of Sunderland

The School of Computing, Engineering & Technology draws together the
disciplines of Computing, Mathematical Sciences, Engineering and
Technology. The school has a strong and growing research profile with
6 EPSRC and more than 10 EU-funded projects and over 100 registered
research students. As a result of its success the School is looking to
recruit 4 students, to take up 4, three year, full-time, PhD
studentships from around 22nd January 2001. There is one studentship in the
area of
Total Productive Maintenance, one studentship in Medical Informatics and
there are two further studentships in the areas of: smart sensors for
distributed control systems, video surveillance, subspace identification
models, advanced databases, web metrics and object orientated testing,
neural modelling of language and information retrieval.

One Studentship in Total Productive Maintenance
A student is required to undertake research in total productive
maintenance in the north-east of England. The student will develop a
audit methodology to determine the extent of TPM implementation in a
range of companies and suggest factors which appear likely to
influence the success of TPM in companies. Please inspect the web site
http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/postgrad/projects.html for further
details of this research project.

One Studentship in Medical Informatics
A student is required to develop novel data mining techniques in the
context of medical information systems. Sponsored by the National
Health Service, and supervised jointly by the University of Sunderland
and Sunderland Royal Infirmary, you will apply novel computational
techniques to improved audit and analysis of information relating to
diabetic, trauma and other health issues. Please inspect the web site
http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/postgrad/projects.html for further
details of this research project.

Two General Studentships in Computing, Engineering & Technology
Applicants should inspect the web site
http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/postgrad/projects.html for details of
the research projects against which we are seeking applications for
these studentships.

Applicants will have at least a first class or good second
class honours degree in a relevant area and at least IELTS6/TOEFL550
English language profficiency scores, if they are not first language
English speakers. For informal discussions in advance of submitting an
application, applicants may get in touch with the staff whose name
appears on the website against each project. Informal enquiries about
any of these studentships may be made to Dr. Chris. Bowerman (Principal
Lecturer in
Research Student Management) Tel (0191) 5153629, email
chris.bowerman@sunderland.ac.uk.

The award for each studentship covers fees and a bursary of £6800 per
annum for a maximum of three years.

If you have the knowledge and abilities to match our requirements then
please submit your full CV with a letter of application quoting "CET
Studentships" to Valerie Cornell, Informatics Centre, School of
Computing, Engineering & Technology, St Peter's Way, Sunderland, Tyne
& Wear, SR6 0DD.



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