Product Innovation Centre (PIC)

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The vision of the Product Innovation Centre (PIC) is to drive innovative thinking and solutions through an interdisciplinary product design and engineering team to address global challenges. Through collaborations with industry, government and charitable partners, centre members provide world class research and industrial solutions which inform the centre’s academic excellence, teaching and supervision of PhD researchers.

PIC is an innovation hub that works with colleagues across the university to deliver true multi-disciplinary research outcomes that make a positive impact on people’s lifestyles, society and industry.

Research disciplines are:

• Design and Manufacturing: CAD, 3D Printing, Design Engineering, Sustainable Product Development, Mechatronics, Fabrication.
• Condition Monitoring: Air Pollution, Building Performance, Condition-Based-Maintenance, Manufacturing Systems, Artificial Intelligence Applications, Image and Signal Processing.
• Medical Design: Health and Wellbeing and Medical Technologies.
• People Centred Design: Assisted Living, Design for Behaviour Change, Road Safety.
• Sustainability: Circular Economy, Consumption, Energy, Fast fashion, Social and Environmental LCA (Lifecycle Analysis), Lighting, Longer Lasting Products.

The group, through the email contact below is happy to receive email enquiries from prospective students and researchers wishing to undertake research in the aforementioned areas, as well as those mentioned under individual research staff.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

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Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham