The NSIRC Research and Innovation Conference 2021 is taking place virtually, via Zoom, over two days from 8th to 9th September 2021. It will include presentations from over 40 industrial PhD students and candidates, across many technical subjects including advanced additive manufacturing and digital manufacturing, machine learning, friction stir welding and arc welding, non-metallics and composites, coatings, corrosion, fatigue, failure prevention, net-zero, numerical modelling and many more.

This year, for the first time, the conference will also include TWI’s Core Research Programme (CRP), and shine the spotlight on some of its activities, alongside the usual coverage of NSIRC and its students’ achievements in the past year.

Building on the success of NSIRC 2020 LIVE, this year’s event is also in an online format, so that NSIRC / TWI students, partners and associates can join together for the conference, no matter where they are in the world currently.

NSIRC was established in 2012, by founding partners Lloyd’s Register Foundation and TWI, as a postgraduate education and research centre to train over 500 postgraduate qualified engineers and employ 61 professionals in its first ten years, and advance fundamental research with real world applications in industry.

The CRP invests half of TWI’s Industrial Membership subscriptions to develop new technology capabilities for industrial application in 3-5 years’ ; It comprises a rolling programme of 30-40 projects, with 10-15 new projects starting every year, some of which provide opportunities for NSIRC students to work on them.

This year’s CRP showcase will demonstrate the breadth of research that TWI conducts at low TRLs, and the link between NSIRC’s PhD Programme and the CRP. It will include a number of project presentations looking at industry pull, benefits to TWI Industrial Members and how the CRP builds upon or underpins other TWI technical work.

Now in its penultimate year, NSIRC continues to flourish and is on track to achieve its ten year  objectives. This conference will demonstrate some of the ways in which NSIRC is making a positive impact on industry and society.

Free to attend - pre-registration required.