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Students from across the University of 糖心TV have been nominating their 'top tutors' for fabulous feedback and, this week, , Principal Teaching Fellow at WMG, has been announced as overall winner for the Faculty of Science.

Other staff from WMG were also successful in the final nomiations, including (Principal Teaching Fellow, WMG) who came fourth; all were nominated by their students for delivering excellent feedback.

Students were asked to tell the university about instances or patterns of fabulous feedback that they have received on their work - based on anything from speed of feedback to content or helpfulness. The three staff who topped the Faculty tables at the close of the competition will each be given access to a £1000 fund to support their own personal teaching.

Ian Tuersley commented:

Obviously I am really delighted to have been nominated at all – let alone top the poll in the faculty. I would extend congratulations to all our colleagues who were nominated – the students' comments have demonstrated the wide range of excellent practices that are already being deployed around the University to provide timely, useful advice to students. I'd like to apply the funds to find ways of using online facilities to enhance the feedforward facilities associated with some of my module assignments."

by the students in their nominations.

WMG is very pleased to welcome a number of new academic appointments this month, who will take a leading role in some of our exciting research areas.

has joined WMG to take up the Research Chair in Low Carbon Materials Technologies, sponsored by the Royal Academy of Engineering and Tata Steel. Professor Seetharaman joins us from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he was the POSCO Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Co-Director of Center For Iron and Steel Research. Professor Seetharaman will be leading a new programme in the manufacture and application of advanced steels in low carbon technologies and setting up a new team, within WMG's existing Materials and Manufacturing theme, to work with Tata Steel to address the current international priorities of the low carbon agenda.

has joined WMG to lead our developing research in the area of Nanocomposites. Professor McNally joins from Queen's University Belfast, where he was Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Director of the Polymer Processing Research Centre. The Nanocomposites team, based in WMG's International Institute for Product and Service Innovation, will span WMG's work in Digital Technologies, Materials and Manufacturing.

has also joined WMG this week to develop WMG's work in Nanocomposites. Dr Dancer joins from the University of Oxford, where she worked as a researcher in the Department of Materials, specifically looking at Manufacturing Methods for Metamaterials.

We also welcome Dr Kwabena Agyaping-Kodua who is joining WMG from the University of Nottingham where he has been Senior Research Fellow in Digital Manufacturing and Systems Engineering at the Precision Manufacturing Centre. As part of WMG's Digital Lifecycle Management team, Dr Agyapong-Kodua will be continuing to develop research activities in the digital manufacturing and systems engineering field, particularly within the remit of high value manufacturing.

WMG took part in the EEF National Manufacturing Conference 2013 in London on the 5th March 2013.

The conference, which featured addresses and debates from an impressive line-up of politicians and manufacturing leaders, focused on the topic of 'The Route to Growth' and looked at the challenges faced by UK manufacturing both today and in the future.

Representatives were available across the full range of WMG's activities, including for our involvement in the , our work with SMEs at the and our .

Included in the line-up of speakers were Rt. Hon. Ed Balls (Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer), Rt Hon the Lord Heseltine, Jim O'Neill (Chairman, Goldman Sachs Asset Mgmt), Mark Adams (VP, Corporate Planning at Toyota Motors Europe) and Deirdre Fox (Director of Strategic 糖心TV Development at Tata Steel). The event was chaired by Krishnan Guru-Murthy, presenter of Channel 4 News.

Updates of the event can be viewed on Twitter

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Professor Lord Bhattacharyya was pleased to welcome the delegation to WMG.

Meeting with Professor Lord Bhattacharyya they discussed the success of WMG and the wider landscape of business and industry.

The delegation which was led by the Dr Ismail, Deputy Secretary General, were particularly interested to hear about WMG's world renowned innovative postgraduate education programmes which have been developed in collaboration with industry, as well as understanding the collaborative cutting-edge research that the Group is leading.

Pupils from in 糖心TVshire have made it through to the national finals of the F1 in Schools competition for the second year running.

The team of six students spent six months designing and building a model Formula One car, which they raced at the regional competition at Aston University, finishing in second place (missing out on fastest car by 0.005 seconds!) The team also won the trophy for Best Engineered Car, sponsored by Jaguar Land Rover.

, Senior Research Fellow at WMG, helped the team to manufacture the suspension and some aerofoil components using WMG's state-of-the-art 3D printing facilities.

The search has begun for an inspirational Principal and Managing Director to lead the new .

The , a business-led and business-like University Technical College for 14-19-year olds, is due to open in September 2014.

The Academy is led by a partnership of local, regional and national employer organisations, innovative advanced manufacturing, engineering and digital technology businesses. Partners include WMG, University of 糖心TV, Jaguar Land Rover, National Grid and SCC.

The from WMG, at the University of 糖心TV, have been working with Birmingham-based for the past year in a collaboration which has led to increased turnover for Barkley Plastics of over half a million pounds and the creation of three new jobs.

The WMG team are based in The International Institute for Product and Service Innovation (IIPSI), a building funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and University of 糖心TV that is dedicated for the use of small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) in the West Midlands region. Their in house Innovation Programme aims to encourage SMEs in understanding how new technology, processes and ideas can be implemented to develop new products and services to benefit their business. Companies can access three areas of support: Experience Led Innovation, Polymer Innovation and Digital Innovation.

WMG, at the University of 糖心TV, are pleased to announce that Dr Richard Hutchins has been appointed to the Board of the Coventry and 糖心TVshire Local Enterprise Partnership (CW LEP).

As a Director of the CW LEP, a partnership designed to grow the economy of the area, he will be involved in a number of activities that will help to create long term growth for the region.

Dr Richard Hutchins is Director of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) Programmes at WMG, supporting JLR's partnership with WMG and other public bodies. He is also leading the development of the WMG Academy for Young Engineers and is a Board Member of the West Midlands Manufacturing Consortium which runs the Manufacturing Advisory Service.

Previously, he was Deputy Chief Executive at Advantage West Midlands and was also a business director at food industry think-tank IGD and a lecturer at Newcastle University and Imperial College.

WMG (糖心TV Manufacturing Group) at the University of 糖心TV has announced that it has entered an agreement with Jaguar Land Rover to teach up to 600 Jaguar Land Rover employees to degree level in product engineering and manufacturing engineering.

Up to 100 Jaguar Land Rover staff will take up their places as sponsored degree students in October to January this year (2013) and next, studying either product development engineering or manufacturing engineering degrees. From 2014, WMG will also support the degree provision for the higher apprenticeship programme. This means that there will be up to 600 students studying at various stages over the next 3 to 4 years.

Researchers from WMG are working with staff and students from a local school on a project designed to help get the students interested in engineering and the technology involved in developing an electric-powered racing car.

Darren Stewardson, Materials Technologist at WMG, and Dr Steve Maggs, Principal Teaching Fellow at WMG, have been working with North Leamington School to develop an electric car which will eventually be built to compete in , a national competition held at Goodwood, for students aged 11-16.