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industrial engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 463 industrial engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Fully Funded PhD Positions in Renewable Energy Systems, Climate Modeling & Carbon Neutrality

Are you passionate about accelerating the global transition to renewable energy systems, improving climate predictions, and designing science-driven pathways to a net-zero world?. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  India PhD Programme
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Near-wall domain decomposition for turbulence modelling based on RANS-LES

For many years, the resolution of the near-wall turbulent layer is a hot topic in fluid dynamics. Near-wall turbulence modelling is a computationally expensive problem. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Utyuzhnikov
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Indoor plant effects on aerosol behaviour and exposure in residential environments

Applications are invited for a 4 year PhD studentship starting in Autumn 2026 as part of the EPSRC CDT in Aerosol Science. Project description. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof P Kumar, Prof CP Pfrang, Dr T Blanusa, Mr B. M. McCallan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Life Cycle Assessment of Alkaline Waste Treatment Pathways for Sustainable Cementitious Materials

The cement and concrete industry accounts for approximately 7% of global CO₂ emissions, driven by limestone calcination and energy-intensive clinker production. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof C Unluer
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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Complex Robotic Ultrasonic Inspection Methods

  Research Group: SEARCH
Rolls-Royce is exploring the implementation of robotics within manufacturing. One of the areas of robotic implementation lies within NDE. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Loukas, Prof C Macleod
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Financial Modelling and Economic Assessment of Emerging Low-Carbon Industrial Systems

This project focuses on developing financial and economic modelling frameworks to evaluate emerging low-carbon energy systems in industrial applications. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof C Chong
 31 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Data-driven Approaches to Viscoelastic Flow Control

Many liquids in industry and biology are viscoelastic (like paints, blood, saliva, and DNA suspensions among many others), displaying a mixture of both viscous and elastic properties. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Beneitez, Dr J King
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Organic Synthesis and Catalysis

Nucleophilic aromatic substitution is one of the most fundamentally important class of reactions in organic chemistry. Indeed, these reactions are used every day to synthesise new pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, materials and more. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M James
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Machine Learning Driven Corrosion Modelling in Bio Feedstock Refining

  Research Group: School of Mechanical Engineering
The global shift toward renewable bio based fuels is creating exciting new scientific and engineering challenges. Compared with traditional crude oil, bio feedstocks behave very differently during processing, sometimes causing much faster corrosion of refinery equipment. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof R Barker, Prof H Thompson, Dr J Owen
 26 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Advanced Materials Processing for Disposal Mixed Oxide Nuclear Wasteforms

  Research Group: Nuclear Materials
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has established the Plutonium Ceramics Academic Hub (PuMaS) at the Universities of Manchester and Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Harrison, Prof J Turner
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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EPSRC - Cryogenic Fuel Pump Motors for Aerospace

The project is an exciting opportunity to undertake industrially linked research in partnership with Rolls-Royce (RR) at the. RR University Technology Centre (UTC) in Electrical Systems at the University of Manchester. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Durovic
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Advancing the frontier of robotic metal additive manufacturing through mechanistic AI

Robotic metal additive manufacturing offers transformative potential for flexible, large-scale, and high-value metal production. However, its broader industrial adoption is limited by complex process dynamics, limited process understanding, and the lack of reliable control strategies. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Huang
 10 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Developing sustainable supplies of lithium-6 and lithium-7 for the nuclear sector

Future decades are likely to see greatly increased demand for lithium-6 and lithium-7 for use in nuclear fusion blankets and for pressurised water reactor coolant systems, respectively, but current supply of these isotopes is limited. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr L Stamford, Dr K George
 30 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Design of Multifunctional Coated Silicate Particles for Thermal Energy Storage and Environmental Remediation

Particle-based systems have recently attracted significant interest for thermal energy storage due to their simplicity, low cost, and technical advantages over alternative technologies. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof MS Sedighi
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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EPSRC DLA (Industrial Competition): Hydrogen Released from Nuclear Waste and its Consequence of Small Scale Explosion

  Research Group: School of Mechanical Engineering
This PhD project tackles a major safety issue in nuclear decommissioning. hydrogen explosions. When nuclear waste breaks down, it produces hydrogen gas. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Yang, Prof T Hunter
 15 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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