Trevor Toman is Head of Metrology at Coventry University and has over 40 years experience working extensively in calibration and measurement within the manufacturing industry. From early beginnings with PSA Peugeot Citroën UK, Trevor’s expertise is now sought by global heavyweights including Rolls-Royce, Ford, BMW and Airbus.
The United Kingdom Trade and Investment (UKTI)’s most recent – and biggest – trade mission to Iraq saw Coventry University take the stage in sharing its computer simulation expertise.
The trade mission is part of a series of events designed to expand and grow the UK’s trade with the oil-rich nation. The University was in good company, with 52 senior business executives and British higher education institutes. They were joined by more than 100 of their Iraqi counterparts.
Experts from academia, government and industry came together in January 2014 to discuss the future of UK railway safety. The event was hosted by Coventry University’s KEEP SAFE project, which is taking a closer look at how the UK Rail sector uses data for design and operational safety.
The selective event brought together senior and technical safety engineers from Network Rail, Transport for London, London Underground, Yeltech Ltd., Office of Rail Regulation, Rail Safety and Standards Board, TRE Rail, and TIBCO.
Cyber terrorism, cyber attack, security breach; all phrases that have different meanings to different people.
For many business owners and managers, particularly those who hold a significant amount of commercial, personal and state sensitive information and those who play a critical role in any supply chain, getting to grips with the amount of information coming from the press, government, regulatory bodies and vendor sponsored publications can be an immense challenge.
“With an ever-increasing reliance on smartphones and mobile devices to store personal and commercial information, the need for an efficient and reliable data recovery solution is of high importance”.
Enigma Recovery is a small company that specialises in developing effective data recovery software for use with a range of devices, including iOS & Android devices and SD Cards, a subject which is gaining an increasing level of attention by areas such as business security and fraud.
Professor Don Harris will be giving one of the keynote addresses at the First South African Symposium on Aviation Human Factors in Johannesburg, 28-30 January.
Don’s address will be entitled ‘Promoting distributed cognition on the flight deck’ in which he will describe new concepts for integrating flight deck design with Crew Resource Management activities to provide a more holistic approach to promoting safety and efficiency.
Dr. Siraj Ahmed Shaikh is a Reader in Cyber Security in the Faculty of Engineering and Computing at Coventry University. He leads the Digital Security and Forensics (SaFe) Group. Siraj has been involved in researching large-scale distributed secure systems for over thirteen years.
As the automotive industry moves towards autonomous safety systems – enabling a car’s breaking system to react to safety threats without human involvement – Coventry University’s researchers are questioning whether current crash test dummies are up to the challenge of modelling safety requirements for the future.
Academics at Coventry University have uncovered complex social networks within age-old Icelandic sagas, which challenge the stereotypical image of Vikings as unworldly, violent savages.
The Applied Mathematics Research Centre (AMRC) at Coventry University, UK, is proud to announce a Workshop “Networking Transportation Networkers”, taking place Wednesday, September 25th – Thursday, September 26th, 2013.