New jet engine coatings developed by Cranfield reduce fuel consumption by over 1%. This can save up to £3.4 billion over the engine lifetime! Just one of the results Cranfield research has delivered to industry. This slide pack shows a few of projects currently underway at Cranfield...

1. Sir Peter Gregson, CEO & Vice-Chancellor
An introduction for Alex
Chapman
www.cranfield.a

2. Welcome to
Cranfield
We are an exclusively postgraduate
university that is a global leader for
education and transformational research in
technology and management.
We provide:
• Influence and impact
• Premier learning
• Transformational research.

3. Influence and impact
Aerospace:
Defence and security: Environment:
Leadership and management: Manufacturing:
we host the UK Aerospace Technology Institute and
have strategic partnerships with Airbus, BAE
Systems, Boeing and Rolls-Royce
we are the world’s largest provider of defence
education
working with all UK water utility companies and
advising major government departments
working with governments and global corporates
to develop high performance leaders
hosting the annual National Manufacturing Debate.
We work with 750+ businesses
and governments around the
world

4. Global reach

5. Graduate programmes:
• MBA (full-time and part-time)
• Extensive MSc portfolio
Research:
• Specialist Research
Centres
• PhD and DBA
programmes
Executive Education
and Professional
Development:
• Customised Development
• Open Programmes and
Conferences
To transform
people and
organisations
integrating
Our Model
Generating, integrating, customising learning;
transforming knowledge… into understanding… into
action

6. A Premier learning experience
for professionals
• Study part-time
• Come from outside of the
UK (110+ countries)
1st • Customised Executive Education
• Engineering and Technology
postgraduates
• Aerospace Masters scholarships.
10
TOP • Flagship MBA ranked Top 10 in UK,
Top 20 in Europe
Top 40 in the world
• Our learners:
• 4,430 Postgraduate
760 Doctoral
20,000 CPD
• Postgraduate Loan Scheme – an
affordable route to postgraduate study
in UK
• We are among 1% of business schools
globally with Triple Accreditation.
50%of learners
• Cranfield Alumni –
a powerful
professional
network of
55,000+.

7. Transformational research
in technology and management meeting the needs of
business, government and wider society
Top 4 for engineering research income –
with Imperial College, University of Sheffield and
University of Cambridge
Mechanical Engineering
Ranked Top 10 UK
Top 100 in World
Three times winner of the prestigious
Queen’s Anniversary Prize.
Large-scale facilities
Many unique to the UK or the world,
including:
• FIA approved Crash Impact Centre
• Water science pilot-plant hall
• EPSRC Centres for Innovative
Manufacturing in Ultra Precision
and Through-life Engineering
Services
• Off-road dynamics facilities.

8. Distinctive strengths
• Aerospace
• Agri-food
• Automotive
• Defence and Security
• Energy
• Environment
• Management
• Manufacturing

9. 60 years at the
forefront of the UK’s
aerospace capability
World’s first ‘flapless’ vehicle
• Funded by BAE Systems and EPSRC the project developed the world’s first vehicle
representative of a full-size vehicle to achieve controlled roll manoeuvres without
using any moving control surfaces (flapless control)
• The ‘Demon’ was designed, manufactured, assembled, ground tested and
successfully flown twice at Cranfield.
Aerospace

10. Agri-food
Reducing waste in the Fresh Produce Supply Chain
• Our scientific research on ethylene supplemented storage in conjunction with
Johnson Matthey and It’sFresh! has led to the development of the e+TM Ethylene
Remover
• The technology extends the storage life of fresh produce by up to six weeks,
reduces in-store waste and positively impacts upon the UK’s self-sufficiency in the
supply of fresh produce. It is being used by major supermarkets in the UK including
Waitrose and Tesco
Advancing our
understanding of
agricultural systems
and supply chains

11. Automotive
Working at the forefront
of sustainable
automotive
technologies
Research to reduce impact
• Cranfield Impact Centre (CIC) conducts leading research using physical
impact testing and computer modelling, in vehicle crashworthiness and
occupant simulation
• CIC is the leading global test centre for Formula 1.

12. Defence and Security
Committed to protecting civil
society
• Through our educational partnership with the UK Government’s
Defence Academy we are developing serving officers around the globe
• Our research also contributes to the protection and safety of civil
uniformed services through the development of personal protection
such as stab-resistant body armour.
Partner to the UK’s
Military of Defence
(MOD)

13. Energy
Overcoming the
complex challenges
facing the energy
Sector
• Cranfield is playing a major role in NOVA (Novel Offshore Vertical Axis)
• We are building a full scale 5MW novel offshore vertical axis wind turbine which
will be installed by 2015
• This represents a breakthrough in the availability of offshore and wind energy.
A radical offshore wind energy
project

14. Environment
An integrated precision farming
service
• Cranfield are working on project ‘FarmingTruth’ - a precision agriculture
service that combines high resolution soil information with satellite-derived
crop information
• The service will identify recommended models and techniques to allow
growers to increase yield for the same field area at a reduced cost.
Contributing to the
‘green economy’ for
over 20 years

15. Management
Flexible working for all
• Our research has shown that contrary to preconceptions, flexible working
arrangements for employees do not adversely affect an organisations
performance, and can generate positive benefits
• Findings led to the UK government extending the legal rights of parents of children up
to 16 years of age to request flexible working arrangements, affecting 4.5 million
people
• In 2012 the government announced plans to extend this right to all UK employees in
2014. Findings are also influencing international policy debates and developments.
A world leader in
management education
for 40 years

16. Manufacturing
Thermal barrier coatings: improving the performance of Rolls-
Royce aero-engines
• Cranfield has developed new low thermal conductivity barrier coatings that have
improved the thermal efficiency in gas turbines
• The new coatings reduce specific fuel consumption by over 1% and saves operators
£3.4 billion over the engine lifetime
• Commercial variants are used on the Trent 1000, used to power Airbus 380 and the
Trent XWB, the new engine to power the Boeing Dreamliner aircraft.
Developing novel
technologies and
processes

17. Working with Cranfield
“Our partnership with Cranfield provides a powerful and unique way to tap into
a knowledge base that gives our company an edge.”
Professor John Casey, Unilever Research and Development,
Vice-President (Biological Sciences)
Strategic
Transactional
• Shared strategy and route maps
• Enabling agreement
• Key account management
• Joint research programmes
• Consultancy
• Access to education
• Short term projects
Cranfield Aerospace
Cranfield Aerospace Ltd

18. Contact us
Sir Peter Gregson
CEO & Vice-Chancellor
vc@cranfield.ac.uk
+44 (0)1234 754014
www.cranfield.ac.
uk