Outstanding Past Bright Future

 Third Generation University  Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching  Individual and Corporate Research  Direct Action to stimulate sustainable socio economic wellbeing.

Outstanding Past Bright Future

 14 Faculties that cover most disciplines – Centers and Institutes that combine research and inter-disciplinarity.

 Undergraduate programmes now number some 700.

 Postgraduate Masters Programmes on the increase with programmes jointly hosted with a number of EU and American Universities.

 Postgraduate Ph.D. Studies on the increase require some 50 Ph.D. graduates per year.

 Laboratories upgraded but still need to do more on this front.

 Corporate research has just started to make inroads.

    Knowledge Transfer Office up and running.

Entrepreneurship and Business Incubation Centre inaugurated.

Joint initiative with University of Oxford to implement entrepreneurship programmes at a number of levels including Masters.

Business incubation of projects seen to have business potential.

 Research Community to provide for the business of today but more importantly that of the Future.

 Examples – Digital Games – Creative Industry Molecular Medicine – Health MEMS – Manufacturing Industry Web Security – ICT Climate Adaptation Sustainable Living

   46 projects that total some Euro 10 million Per capita number among top 10 Per income per capita also among top 10.

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MEMS Devices designed at UoM

Animations of the designed MEMS Accelerometers

   3-axis accelerometers and inertial sensors Microphones High performance tunable passive devices for mw applications 15

LAB4MEMS ENIAC JU Project 2013 - 2016 UoM is mainly involved in 2 work-packages : WP2: • Design of test structures for the characterisation of Anisotropic Magnetoresistive (AMR) films for MEMS 3-D compass devices.

• Design of piezo-actuated MEMS capacitor for RF coupling application.

• Design of a piezo-actuated resonator for RF application.

WP4: Modelling of the curing effects of epoxy compound on silicon substrates: this work is related to the modelling of 3-D packaging on the silicon devices and includes modelling of the visco-elastic properties, glass transition temperature and TCE mismatch and shrinkage.

INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTRONOMY (ISSA)

Contribution to the Square Kilometre Array has been funded through FP-6 and FP 7 Programmes.

Contribution to the Cluster of Research Infrastructures in Physics (CRISP – funded through FP-7) Work Package Leader for developing common software platforms for the use in large Particle Physics experiments (CERN, XFEL and DESY).

Work Package Leader in the “Intelligent Fast Interconnected and Efficient Devices for Frontier Exploitation in Research and Industry" which is sponsored through a MARIE-CURIE FP7 Initial Training Network (ITN).

Research in Aeronautics

 Since 2003 activity has grown today to address multiple research programmes, focussing on European Research (FP6/7) and National Funding (R&I) • European Research Projects: Flysafe, Odicis, Alicia, Across, Clean Sky • National Research Projects: Touch Flight, Clean Flight, Clean Flight 2 • Developed strong multi-disciplinary skills: * Operational Safety * Operational Efficiency * Cockpit HMI design * Optimisation studies * Safety-critical Surveillance * Air Traffic Management * Flight Guidance, Navigation and Control * Safety Assessment • 10 external contracts worth €3.5 Million • 68 academic papers, 4 patents, 87 research contract documents • 5 National/International Awards and Nominations since 2010 • Hosted 13 international events, bringing European industry to Malta • Contributed to international strategic documents (ACARE, RTCA/Eurocae, etc)

Thank You.