Recognition for a masters project using sensors to find defects in buried pipes
A paper written by MSc student engineer Bahareh Zaghari at the Electro-Mechanical Engineering Group into new ways of checking gas pipes for defects that may result in leaks has been judged the best submitted by a student at a major international conference.
She won a prize at the 19th Automation and Computing event at Brunel University and her work has been published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Judges also invited the postgraduate to submit her research for publication in a leading academic journal.
For her dissertation, Bahareh investigated how sensors placed on underground gas supply pipes could be used to give early warning of any defects during the project with Scotia Gas. Her work was supervised by Dr Mohamed Torbati and Professor Victor Humphrey at Southampton.
She has now embarked on a PhD at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) examining how vibration can be used in energy harvesting from buildings and bridges