Who are we?
The European Engineering Consultancy established in 2016 is a specialist engineering company providing bespoke advanced electronic solutions with a strong emphasis on Radio Frequency products, particularly within the space industry. We provide affordable access and a route to world-class electronic design, RF simulation and mechanical engineering services to companies of all sizes in any sector of the industry. We have 900 square feet of premises with an ISO Class 7 cleanroom and an ISO Class 8 Test and Measurement Laboratory. The European Engineering Consultancy has undertaken several large complex projects. The project scales have varied from those taking just a few hours to complex long-term design, simulation or full product development engagements.
We are proudly supported by the UK Space Agency. We have recently been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to provide the GNSS payload for Lunar Pathfinder – this will be the first GPS position fix outside of earths orbit. Another example of a recent project that we have just completed and was delivered to a happy customer was the design of a broad Ka-Band 5G analogue beam forming network supporting multiple beams and a high number of antenna nodes. We went from concept, design, test and delivery in just 4 months. We can do the same for you.
All images on our website are examples of our own work and are not stock images.
What do we do?
We design, build and sell our own customised products. We can design, build and supply you high performance bespoke electronic hardware. We specialise in high frequency microwave designs and can package the hardware in professional machined enclosures as required by the customer. Our products have flown on space missions, been used for military purposes or have been operated within in a commercial environment. We can design and qualify products for space use, whether it be performing radiation assessment, environmental test campaigns, quality control and provide all the required documentation. We can also help you with your own design and provide consultancy to get you where you need to be faster than you would do alone. We also supply consultancy and hardware to non space markets such as military, civil and commercial. Come and speak to us!
Our niche is in the design of complex RF hardware from DC to around 30 GHz. We have a lot of experience of what is possible and what boundaries can be pushed whilst maintaining performance and reliability. We really can deliver cutting edge designs that have been optimised for smallest size, lowest weight and best performance. See our website pages for current products, details of our technical capability or get in touch to work with us on a project. We can always customise a current product and deliver it to suit your needs or design you a completely new one. If your hardware is for use in space we can also offer qualification and radiation evaluation services.
We can design using exotic materials and complex mixed material PCB layer stacks. We design, simulate and print novel RF structures that always result in something customers do not believe is possible. We have known working designs of sub components that we can pull from to speed up delivery, we make use of Filters, Couplers, Splitters, Phase Adjusters, LNAs, Power Amplifiers, Mixers, Phase Locked Loops and a whole host of digital control and power electronics to bring together complete working radio solutions. We have a get it right first time approach to RF hardware and always go the extra mile with customers to deliver a fully complete and working product. We have the ability to design and measure antennas, RF hardware and provide calibrated measurements. Come and Speak to us!
We have a huge amount of experience in the design of antennas. We understand the exact trade-offs which need to be made and can build antennas tailored for most application requirements. Just recently we provided a phased array antenna panel and it performed exactly right first time. We can deliver all sorts of antennas, patch elements, 3D structures and and arrays of printed antenna structures.
All electronics generally requires software to control it. We use and can supply Labview, Matlab, Embedded Software and various interfaces to allow control of hardware. We are specialists in automated test and can generate you bespoke automated test software which will control and test your systems. We make use of scripting to generate large test routines that can characterise equipment over temperature, time or any other physical parameter. Get in touch to talk about what we can do for you!
EECL In the Press !
Digikey Journal – EECL and Newbury Electronics Press Release
Case Study 1 – Space Demonstration Ka-Band Beam Former
An example of a recent project that we have just carried out was the design of a broad Ka-Band 5G analogue beam forming network supporting multiple beams and a high number of antenna nodes. We went from concept, design and test in just 4 months. We managed to combine complex PCB layer stacks using exotic materials with novel RF printed structures to result in something the customers did not believe was possible. An antenna array was additionally designed and performed exceptionally when tested in an anechoic chamber. The design was a prototype but consideration that it could used in space was taken and it is probable that a larger scale design will be flown on a real mission. We are already working on a 500-element antenna version!
Case Study 2 – 5G Metamaterial Antenna
EECL has just delivered a world first to the University of Surrey which was the manufacture of a large 5G metamaterial intelligent surface (2 meters across) for the reflection and control of 5G beams. The creation of such a large structure is incredibly difficult, but EECL has the capability and experience to deliver such a prototype and we took the proposed design from concept to realisation in just 5 weeks. The delivered antennas contain thousands of surface mount components and large dielectric panels stitched together using exotic materials – all mounted on a custom built demonstration rig. The delivered design worked perfectly for the University of Surrey.
The result of EECLs manufacturing work can be seen in this video:
Our Customers
We have been fortunate to have acquired some excellent and prestigious customers and continue to work with these clients. We are actively looking for new projects and customers and would only be too pleased to discuss a collaboration. Some of our current customers are:
- European Space Agency + UK Space Agency
- Teledyne Defence & Space
- Oneweb Satellites
- Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL).
- University of Surrey
- Airbus
- Syderal SA
- Cellmetric
- Converge
- Swissto12
- Arralis