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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 ...
Academic provision is delivered through partnering agreements with Cranfield University and King's College London. [7] Directors General: 2002–2005: Sir Roger Jackling [8] 2005–2008: Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely, late Scots Guards [9] 2008–2011: Lieutenant General Andrew Graham, late Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders [10]
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.
Since 2016 FAAM has been co-located in a new dedicated building with a new department of Atmospheric Informatics of Cranfield University, and its involvement with Cranfield is becoming closer. From 2008 - 2014 FAAM was headed by Dr. Guy Gratton, an aeronautical engineer; it is now headed by Mr Alan Woolley, an instrumentation scientist.
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]
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.
Cranfield also conducted research on behalf of the CAA after the Manchester Air Disaster to assess why so many passengers were unable to make it to the emergency exits safely. This research prompted changes to cabin layouts in the UK, including making overwing exits more accessible in an emergency by improving seat layout, forcing the ...