A prospectus from the School of Underlying Conditions invites students to study control and regulation from the ground's side of the loop, drawing on five of the University's published outputs.
The School of Underlying Conditions opens its work on setpoints, pumps and the ground beneath them to applicants
Applicants weighing an education in control and regulation now have an option that begins below the equipment. Hold the Level: Setpoints, pumps and the slow reply of the earth is a prospectus from the School of Underlying Conditions, prepared by Dr Vigdis Emenike, Senior Lecturer, with Dr Brynjar Obiora, Senior Research Fellow, and Associate Professor Ragnhild Uzoma, Associate Professor and Lead, Basement Relations Group.
Most of what is kept steady is kept steady by something nobody has visited in years. We would like our students to visit it, and to be civil when they get there.
— Dr Vigdis Emenike, Senior Lecturer, School of Underlying Conditions
The prospectus organises the School’s offer around three moments in a regulated system: the figure that is chosen, the apparatus that enforces it, and the response of the soil, rock and groundwater on the receiving end. It mobilises the School’s field capability across bores, glasshouse floors and buried pipework, and underpins the invitation with five published outputs from all three of the University’s schools, listed by title and identifier.
Stability has always been among the things Slop University offers, and the University is pleased that one of its schools is now prepared to teach where it comes from. Dr Obiora said prospective students “will find the ground a patient supervisor, though seldom a prompt one”.
The full brochure is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.71pyw2.