William Ferguson: new representative for 3rd years on the XM2 Student Advisory Group

Anja Roeding CMRI News
Figure 1: 3rd year PGR William Ferguson

William Ferguson has taken on the role as representative of the CDT in Metamaterials 3rd year PGRs alongside Julia de Pineda Gutierrez.

William is taking over from Pablo Martinz Pancorbo who has been on SAG since he started in the CDT more than two years ago. We would like to thank Pablo for his long-standing committment of time and energy to represent his peers and help shape the CDT as part of the Student Advisory Group (SAG).

SAG consists of normally two members of each cohort (list below) who represent the student body at meetings with the Management and Oversight Boards. They help to implement new ideas that benefit the overall experience of their peers, to offer different perspectives, and to ensure the PGRs’ opinions are heard.

William’s current research focusses on new ways to increase the power output of tensile vibration energy harvesters, using auxetic structures to give an additional lateral strain component to the piezoelectric element from the same axial strain input. The aim is to improve the power output from low input tensile strains (100-500 με at frequencies of 1-20 Hz) sufficiently to make them an attractive environment for energy harvesting, and to open up the potential of structural health monitoring using wireless sensor nodes in these locations. This would make it possible to repair damage to the building or vehicle before it becomes too dangerous or expensive. He is supervised by Profs Meiling Zhu, Ken Evans and Chris Smith.

Figure 2: CDT in Metamaterials Student Advisory Group (SAG) 2018-19

 

 

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