A research studentship is available from October 2005 to work on a3-year, EPSRC-funded, cross-disciplinary project on the design of highperformance marine craft from a human factors perspective. The projectis in partnership with Ship Science (School of Engineering Sciences)and University College Chichester. The ISVR is undertaking all thesignal processing aspects of the project which involves measurement andprocessing of marine craft motion and vibration and also humanperformance measurement and analysis during high speed sea trials inboth calm and adverse weather conditions. Experimental testing,simulation studies and theoretical modelling will also be undertaken. APostdoctoral Research Fellow is working on the overall aspects of theproject and the research student will develop multivariable signalprocessing techniques to relate changes in biomedical signals to theperformance of high speed marine craft.

The RNLI is actively involved in the project, together with industry and end-users.
Skills required are the ability to work across subject boundaries,a core strength in signal processing and/or pattern recognitionalgorithms and the desire to work within a team.

The project will begin on 1 October 2005 and it is anticipatedthat the research student will begin as close to that date as possible.

For further information please contact:

Robert Allen
Professor of Biodynamics & Control
Institute of Sound & Vibration Research
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ
Hampshire, England
Tel: +44(0)23 8059 3746
Fax: +44(0)23 8059 3190
Email: ra@soton.ac.uk

To be returned no later than 01 Nov 2005. Please quote our reference number 05R0187