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Cranfield University is an English University based on three campuses at Shrivenham, in Oxfordshire, and Cranfield and Silsoe in Bedfordshire, and at a college based in Berkshire. It is principally an institution for postgraduate study.
The college was granted formal recognition by London University, enabling its students to be examined for the award of degrees. The college also provided for postgraduate studies in such specialist areas as Guided Weapons Systems and Nuclear Science and Technology, and was allowed to develop as a centre for research as well as teaching. [ 4 ]
Cranfield University is a postgraduate-only public research university in the United Kingdom that specialises in science, engineering, design, technology and management. Cranfield was founded as the College of Aeronautics ( CoA ) in 1946.
The Cranfield experiments were a series of experimental studies in information retrieval conducted by Cyril W. Cleverdon at the College of Aeronautics, today known as Cranfield University, in the 1960s to evaluate the efficiency of indexing systems. [1] [2] [3] The experiments were broken into two main phases, neither of which was computerized ...
Dame Karen Margaret Holford (born 1962) [2] is a Welsh-domiciled engineer, professor of mechanical engineering and vice-chancellor and chief executive of Cranfield University. She was formerly deputy vice-chancellor at Cardiff University . [ 3 ]
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1969: Cranfield was awarded its Royal Charter giving it university status and the power to confer degrees under the new name of Cranfield Institute of Technology. [7] [8] 1993: Cranfield Institute of Technology changed its name to Cranfield University. [8] 2001: Cranfield SoM gained Triple accreditation, one of the first few to do so in the UK.
The Cranfield Institute for Safety, Risk, and Reliability, commonly referred as The Cranfield Institute, is a part of Cranfield University in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England, UK. It is primarily a teaching and research facility, but also offers safety-related consultancy to businesses.