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4M/ICOMM2015 Feedback Survey

4M2020 Logo Did you attend 4M/ICOMM2015? We greatly value your thoughts on how the conference went and would appreciate you taking a couple of minutes to complete a short feedback survey on how you think the conference went. This will help us to organise future conferences

Give us your feedback in this short survey Here

4M 2016 Announcement

4M2020 Logo On behalf of the 4M Association, we are pleased to announce that the next 4M Conference in partnership with IWMF will be held during September 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark. For more information about the conference, contact Lisa Jones, Secretariat of 4M Association.

4M/ICOMM2015 Awards

4M2020 Logo Best Paper Award: “Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Dielectric Conductivity on Characteristics of Micro-EDM Process” Soham S. Mujumdar, Shiv G. Kapoor and Davide Curreli (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) READ MORE

The Elena Ulieru Innovation Award was given to Miss Rossella Surace for her excellent presentation at conference of the paper entitled : "Design and fabrication of a polymeric micro-filter" READ MORE

DTU Summer School 2015 - Micro mechanical systems design and manufacturing

4M2020 Logo 22nd June - 3rd July 2015 For the 9th consecutive year, DTU is organising the PhD Summer School on "Micro Mechanical Systems Design and Manufacturing". The Summer School, supported by 4M is scheduled to run for two weeks. 4M are offering six sponsored places for PhD students. Read More

4M 2020 Questionnaire

![questionnaire image] (/images/questionaire.jpg) 4M2020 will be supporting new collaborations to develop the supply chains for the products identified Here

On behalf of the 4M2020 project we ask you to complete this Questionnaire indicating your interest in developing the supply chains for the large scale manufacture for any of the below items.

PhD Researcher on Surface Engineering

![questionnaire image] (/images/phd.jpg) (FP7 People -Marie Curie Action -STEEP Project) The job offer is focused on the development of a laser machining (LM) path simulator, implementation and demonstration, considering different laser sources and materials. This Beam Path Simulator (BPS) will be validated in industrial environment. The candidate will coordinate and optimize the models previously developed by different ESRs during the first stage of the STEEP project. Based on this results and on the previous expertise developed at IK4 – TEKNIKER in terms of laser machining, the project aims to understand and model accurately and efficiently how surface condition, material peculiarities, laser characteristics and processing parameters affect the footprint in laser machining - Read More

MICRO-NANO Moulding : Technologies and Applications

![moulding image] (/images/moulding.jpg) 4th MicroNano Moulding ATV-SEMAPP Seminar, June 18th, 2015

The seminar takes place at:Hotel Scandic Odense, Hvidkærsvej 25 5250 Odense.

More information available here

MRes/PhD in Ultra Precision Engineering at Cranfield University

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The EPSRC Centre in Ultra Precision are recruiting postgraduate research scientists and engineers for its 4 year MRes/PhD in Ultra Precision Engineering at Cranfield University. We have fully funded studentships available with a tax free stipend of up to £20,000 per annum commencing October 2015. We welcome applicants from any field of science or engineering who have obtained a first or upper second class honours degree Full EPSRC funding with additional payments from industrial sponsors taking the tax free stipend up to a possible £20,000 per annum during the PhD phase Funding is available for UK students and EU students who have studied for three years full time in the UK Self-funded overseas/non-EU applicants are welcome to apply for the MRes/PhD programme but are not eligible for funding from the Centre for Doctoral Training in Ultra Precision.

More information available here

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