Wessex Institute of Technology
The Wessex Institute of Technology (usually referred to as just Wessex Institute or WIT) is an educational institute offering higher degrees validated by the University of Wales,[1] located at Ashurst Lodge in the New Forest National Park, in the south of England.
The overall aim of Wessex Institute is to develop a series of knowledge transfer mechanisms, particularly directed towards the exchange of information between academics and professional users within industry.
This is achieved through a range of activities organised by staff of the Institute and its associate companies. A large network of contacts and links have been established with many organisations throughout the world.
Core activities
- Graduate Programmes at Doctoral and Master level, many in collaboration with other academic institutions throughout the world.
- Specialist Research within the areas of Damage Mechanics, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Industrial Research and Information Communications Technology.
- International Conference Programme which is constantly expanding in both size and scope.
- Publishing Arm: The Institute has a publishing arm which produces numerous scientific books, monographs and edited works as well as the proceedings from the Institute’s conference programme.
Graduate programmes
Several International Master Programmes are available covering areas such as Information and Communications Engineering, Environmental Modelling and Computer Aided Engineering.
Major research divisions
- The Damage Mechanics Division is involved in the development of complex computational methods, including boundary element techniques for stress analysis problems.
- The Environmental Fluid Mechanics Division is dedicated to the modelling of environmental and fluid dynamics phenomena including applications of high performance computing to the solution of problems in science and engineering.
- The Industrial Research Division concentrates on solving problems of importance to industry and demonstrates the significance that Wessex Institute attaches to producing practical research. The division also carries out an intensive programme to train professional engineers in the latest techniques for advanced engineering design.
- The Information and Communications Engineering Division is concerned with a variety of areas of research related to the latest developments including Management Information Systems, Data Mining and Web-based technologies. The division has links with many countries and collaborates in the organisation of joint research and training programmes at postgraduate level.
Recent research achievements and activities
- The current research programmes at the Institute continue to be supported by the EU, NATO, industry and other prestigious organizations.
- The International Master Programme on Information Systems. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, which is supported by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office attracted students from the Ukraine. A number of students who have completed their Master degree are now registered on full-time PhD programmes at this Institute.
- The International Master Programme in Environmental Electromagnetic Compatibility organised by the Wessex Institute and administered by the British Council supported a number of Croatian students. Some are currently registered on the PhD programme at WIT.
- The Prigogine Medal, in memory of the late Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has been awarded annually since 2004 in collaboration with the University of Siena.[2]
International conference programme
Wessex Institute organises an extensive annual meetings programme, including short courses, seminars and conferences. Short courses usually take place at Ashurst Lodge, whilst about 25 international seminars and conferences are held in many different locations around the world in association with other organisations and universities. Originally focused on physical sciences and engineering, the range of topics covered by the meetings has expanded to cover a wide variety of fields ranging from ecology to finance. Proceedings are published in book format and online through the Transactions of the Wessex Institute of Technology with over 20,000 papers available.
Notable contributions include papers promoting intelligent design creationism from Dominic Hassler, Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Oral Roberts University ("The Coherence of an Engineered World"),[3] and a joint paper by Scott A. Minnich and Stephen C. Meyer reiterating claims disputing evolution of the bacterial flagellum.[4]
See also
References
This article includes material duplicated from the official website of Wessex Institute of Technology, released under GNU Free Documentation License.
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