UTC & key academic partnerships

The majority of the research carried out in the UTC network is at Doctorate level, with over 400 doctoral research projects underway at any one time.   

Here is a list of our key academic partnerships:

UTCs

University	Country	Subject area
Birmingham*	UK	Materials
Bristol	UK	Composites
Cambridge*	UK	Materials
Cambridge	UK	University Gas Turbine Partnership
Chalmers	Sweden	Hydrodynamics
Cottbus	Germany	Multidisciplinary Process Integration
Cranfield	UK	Performance
Darmstadt	Germany	Combustion & Turbine Aerothermal Interactions
Dresden	Germany	Lightweight Structures & Materials
Genoa	Italy	Fuel Cell Systems
Karlsruhe	Germany	Cooling & Secondary Flow
Imperial College	UK	Vibration
Imperial College	UK	Nuclear Engineering
Loughborough	UK	Combustion System Aerothermal Processes
Manchester	UK	Electrical Systems for Extreme Environments
Manchester	UK	Nuclear Engineering
Nottingham	UK	Gas Turbine Transmission Systems
Nottingham	UK	Manufacturing Technology
Oxford	UK	Heat Transfer & Aerodynamics
Oxford	UK	Solid Mechanics
Pusan	Korea	Thermal Management
Purdue	USA	High Mach Propulsion
Sheffield	UK	Advanced Electrical Systems & Drives
Sheffield	UK	Controls & Systems Engineering
Southampton	UK	Computational Engineering
Southampton	UK	Noise
Strathclyde	UK	Electrical Power Systems
Surrey	UK	Thermo-fluid Systems
Swansea*	UK	Materials
Trondheim	Norway	Performance in a Seaway

* Birmingham, Cambridge and Swansea Materials Departments together make up the University Technology Partnership.

Research centres and other Academic Institutes with strong Rolls-Royce links

Research centres

Institute	Country	Subject area
A*Star	Singapore	Advanced manufacturing, power systems and other
DLR	Germany	Combustion, Noise & Aerothermal Methods
Fraunhofer/ RWTH Aachen	Germany	Rotatives repair
Georgia Tech	USA	Multi-disciplinary design optimisation / systems analysis
KAUST	Saudi Arabia	Founder member of the Industrial Collaboration Programme
NTU (Nanyang)	Singapore	Electrical systems and data management
University of Illinois	USA	High power computing & supersonic applications
Iowa State	USA	NDE
NIMS	Japan	Aerospace Materials
Virginia Tech	USA	CCAPS: Power Electronics, flow control, man tech
UVA (Virginia)	USA	CCAPS: Materials & corrosion, coatings, combustion modeling, man tech
Xi’an	China	Heat Transfer & Aerodynamics