DRY CONTROL

The Centre for Electronic Product Engineering (CEPE) was established to provide support for enterprise, exploiting electronic technologies in both products and processes. It was awarded the status of ‘Centre of Expertise’ by the WDA in 1994, and appointed as ‘Centre of Excellence’ in 2001. CEPE supports industrial clients in Wales and elsewhere in the fields of microelectronics, electronic product engineering, information technology and related fields.

The services provided by CEPE include expert advice, feasibility studies, technology transfer, design reviews, product and process development, training and contract research.

CEPE places special emphasis on its role as a technology transfer centre to stimulate the use of microelectronics technologies and facilitate their transfer to industry, especially small companies. To fulfil this mission, CEPE actively contributes to regional programmes, national initiatives and European projects. It is widely recognised as a major driver of UK and EC microelectronics technology transfer programmes, which makes it ideally placed to locate funding sources for industrial collaboration.

The Advanced Control and Network Topology (AC&NT) Research Unit specialises in advanced control theory, technology and applications. The unit is engaged in fundamental theoretical research as well as industrial applications, covering the themes of networked control systems, fuel cell modelling and control, nonlinear identification and control, and multiobjective optimal control.