England is the hub for considerable research in the preparation of cricket pitches, and some outstanding research has recently been conducted by Cranfield University working with the ECB and the Institute of Groundsmanship (IOG).
He then obtained his masters in aerodynamics and flight at Cranfield University in the UK.
He received a knighthood in 2001 for services to local government in Derbyshire followed by Honorary Doctorates from Sheffield Hallam University in 2002, Cranfield University in 2005 and Derby University in 2006.
Increasing the availability of reports in the collection forms part of research being done by the MAGiC Project at Cranfield University.
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The Cranfield School of Engineering is one of the schools of Cranfield University, an English University located on the Cranfield campuses in Bedfordshire.
Being a part of the TIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) network, the school has exchange program with many universities accross the world, among them TU Munchen (Germany), Cranfield University (UK), Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Penn State (USA), University of Sao Paolo (Brasil), University of Waterloo (Canada) or Keio University (Japan).
Other famous partner universities offering exchange program include University of Bologna (Italy), Cranfield University (UK), National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan), Sogang University (South Korea), Vellore Institute of Technology (India), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Hong Kong), University of California, Davis (USA).
Roxbee Cox, Baron Kings Norton, Chancellor from 1969-97 of Cranfield University, and aeronautical engineer, being Managing Director from 1944-6 of Power Jets, and Director from 1946-8 of the National Gas Turbine Establishment
The group offered the Sigma up to further development by other parties, selecting a proposal by David Marsden a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Alberta (on sabbatical at Cranfield Institute of Technology and a glider pilot holding records with his own glider designs such as the Marsden Gemini).
The Riversimple Urban Car was designed and developed in the United Kingdom by teams at Cranfield and Oxford Universities.
Although he never attended university, Brown received honorary degrees from Brunel University (DTech, 1966), Southern Illinois University (Doctor of Laws, 1967) and Cranfield University (DSc, 1972).
Fully successful students graduate from Cranfield University, Cranfield Defence and Security (CDS), formerly the Defence College of Management and Technology, based at Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, during the July following the course.