{"id":160,"date":"2011-06-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.eda.kent.ac.uk\/news-ext\/2011\/06\/23\/joint-winner-of-the-university-of-kent-business-academic-collaboration-of-the-year-2011-award\/"},"modified":"2011-06-23T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T00:00:00","slug":"joint-winner-of-the-university-of-kent-business-academic-collaboration-of-the-year-2011-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2011\/06\/23\/joint-winner-of-the-university-of-kent-business-academic-collaboration-of-the-year-2011-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Winner of the University of Kent Business : Academic Collaboration of the Year 2011 Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>John Batchelor and Winston Waller from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts (EDA) have won the University of Kent Business : Academic Collaboration of the Year 2011 Award for their collaborative project with Martec Ltd, Whitstable, Kent,  to develop a pin-less connector.<br \/>\n Martec specialise in the design and manufacture of hermetically sealed electrical connectors for hostile environments.  They approached EDA for assistance having seen reports of the School\u2019s Antenna research.  A bid for a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) was successful, and Michael Wisdom, who had worked previously in EDA, started on the project in March 2009.  After two years a successful outcome was achieved \u2013 a working prototype was produced and Michael joined the Company to progress the new device into production and develop new products using the technology.   In addition to successfully implementing a pin-less connector, the project also generated a raft of new applications using this technology, providing Martec with opportunities for future development and expansion.<br \/>\nThe award was shared with a project from the Computing Laboratory.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Batchelor and Winston Waller from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts (EDA) have won the University of Kent Business : Academic Collaboration of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2011\/06\/23\/joint-winner-of-the-university-of-kent-business-academic-collaboration-of-the-year-2011-award\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}