• Paloma Rodriguez

  • Theme:Propulsion Electrification
  • Project:Structural batteries mechanical resilience: Investigation and quantification of multiphysics coupling phenomena present in a novel structural battery architecture.
  • Supervisor:Alex Lunt
  • Industry Partner: GKN
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Bio

Paloma recently graduated from the University of Bath in 2020 with a first-class MEng (hons) in Mechanical Engineering. As part of her degree, she undertook a year-long placement at JCB, which consisted of three distinct four-month placements in different company departments. This allowed her to gain a broad insight into manufacturing, design techniques and processes required for large scale production. During her degree, she also became involved with Bath’s ICE Formula Student Team, Team Bath Racing, by helping with composite part manufacturing in her first year. In her third year, Paloma designed various chassis components, including roll-over and crash protection and chassis aerodynamic optimisation. In her final year, Paloma was elected Chassis lead for the 2020 season, with her final year project focusing on composite manufacture and optimisation of insert design and location strategy in composite sandwich panels.

Name Description Date
AAPS ITT2

AAPS ITT2 took place in collaboration with external partners from Horiba Mira virtually. Academics, students and industry representatives work collaboratively in groups throughout the week to describe and formulate real-life industrial problems into research proposals. During the ITT Students gained research distillation, presentation and group working skills.

01/06/2020
- 05/06/2020
Stanford Composites Design Workshop XXI

Attended the online Composites Design Workshop XXI, a certified live training course at Stanford University by Steve Tsai and associates. This workshop covers a wide range of advancements in the field of composite research, including a new invariant-based approach for the design and testing of composite materials. As part of the course, we were introduced to Tsai’s modulus and double-double laminates, and a range of new tools specific to this approach to composite layup. This workshop was extremely useful for both introducing us to carbon fibre composites and for getting us up to speed with some cutting-edge developments.

19/07/2021
- 23/07/2021
AAPS ITT3

AAPS ITT3 took place in collaboration with external partners from Horiba Mira virtually, on the theme of Cybersecurity in the Automotive Industry. Academics, students and industry representatives work collaboratively in groups throughout the week to describe and formulate real-life industrial problems into research proposals. During the ITT Students gained research distillation, presentation and group working skills.

18/01/2021
- 22/01/2021
RRI Training - Cohort 2

Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is an important part of the AAPS CDT’s training programme, so each student undertakes an introduction into RRI to be able to understand and explain the concept of RRI, the importance of RRI and to illustrate how RRI principles can be implemented.

11/05/2021
AAPS ITT4

AAPS ITT4 took place in collaboration with external partners from National Express. Academics, students and industry representatives work collaboratively in groups throughout the week to describe and formulate real-life industrial problems into research proposals. During the ITT Students gained research distillation, presentation and group working skills.

07/06/2021
- 11/06/2021
Summer Masterclass - LCA

AAPS CDT Students attended a summer masterclass on the topic of LCA, where they gained an overview of sustainability and learn the theory of LCA (attributional, consequential, use in existing and emerging technology/materials) and looked into different case studies.

06/07/2021
- 14/07/2021
Summer Masterclass - Low Carbon Fuels

AAPS CDT Students attended a summer masterclass on the theme Low Carbon Fuels, where they learnt about the chemistry behind conventional fuels and what they actually are, what each family of components do and used this as a platform to overview the main routes to future renewable transport fuels. This masterclass also gave an introduction to Hydrogen.

26/07/2021
Summer Masterclass - Gas Purification

AAPS CDT Students attended a summer masterclass on the theme Gas Purification where they learnt about different technologies for air cleaning, reduction of emissions and treatment of exhaust gas and gained an understanding in the differences between new and traditional technologies in terms of emissions.

29/07/2021
Peer Mentor Training - Cohort 2

Each student is assigned a peer mentor when they join the programme, and then subsequently become a peer mentor to the following intake of students. Peer mentoring training is delivered by the Student Union to provide students with key insights on how to be a good mentor such as being a good active listener and a set of psychological models that can be used to encourage reflective discussions.

11/08/2021
WECA Local Mobility Planning Workshop

This workshop, hosted by WECA (West of England Combined Authority), provided an opportunity to work with a local authority and to discuss solutions and improvements to the surrounding mobility and transportation infrastructure while utilising the CDTs multidisciplinary pool of knowledge. This session gave an oversight to WECA's Future Transport Zone (FTZ).

02/05/2021
Ambassador Role

Currently an ambassador for the University of Bath Department of Mechanical Engineering, representing and promoting the University at a range of events for prospective undergraduate students.

09/09/2021
- 30/09/2022
AAPS ITT5

AAPS ITT5 took place in collaboration with external partners from Lotus Engineering in the centre of Bath. Academics, students and industry representatives work collaboratively in groups throughout the week to describe and formulate real-life industrial problems into research proposals. During the ITT Students gained research distillation, presentation and group working skills.

17/01/2022
- 21/01/2022
Public Engagement training 2022

Training session for engaging with the public with Science made simple

26/04/2022
- 31/05/2022
Lego Serious Play

Pandek ran training on how to effective communicate your PhD.

13/10/2022

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