EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Innovative Metal Processing IMPaCT

EPSRC 创新金属加工博士培训中心 IMPACT

• 批准号: EP/L016206/1
• 金额: $ 408.49万
• 依托单位: University of Leicester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Training Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2014 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FL016206%2F1
• 关键词: EPSRC; Centre; Doctoral; Training; Innovative

Metal processing is a vital component of manufacturing. Manufacturing is the third largest sector in the UK economy and in 2010 manufacturing in the United Kingdom accounted for 8.2% of the workforce and 12% (£150 billion in gross value added) of the country's national output. However, manufacturing's share of nominal GDP has fallen from over 22 per cent in 1990 and there is a clear trend in low value, high volume manufacturing moving to developing countries while in the UK the higher technology areas generate the better gross value added returns. The future growth of the sector is dependent on its ability to design and make the high value products. In large part, it is the high quality knowledge base and skilled technical workforce that make for a successful transformation from a resource and labour-intensive to a knowledge-intensive sector and ensure that high technology metal industries flourish in the UK. An important aspect of supporting high-value manufacturing in the UK is the PhD training of young researchers. However, it has been pointed out by many companies in the UK that the lack of well-trained materials engineers remains a concern for high value manufacturing industry. Indeed, in 2013 the UK Border Agency identified "metallurgist" as one of the 10 most wanted job titles in the Codes of Practice for Skilled workers.In this proposal, the Universities of Leicester, Birmingham and Nottingham seek funding to establish an EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Innovative Metal Processing (CIMP) with substantial support from industrial partners. Over the lifetime of the CIMP we will train over 87 PhD researchers with the combination of experimental, analytical, computational, technology management and transferable skills that are needed to build industrial innovation. The Centre will recruit students from different disciplines and provide them with coherent knowledge of a range of metal processing technologies and develop their expertise in solving challenging and industrially relevant problems so that they can be deployed by industry and become future leaders. The overall emphasis of the CDT's training programme will be on producing well-rounded leaders of the future, combining critical expertise in their discipline areas with a well-honed professional acumen, culminating in the ability to explore the wider context of their work and its potential impact, communicate their research to a range of different audiences, understand the commercial world and the applications of research, and work effectively with a range of partners both within and outside the academic community.The main research aims are: (1) to provide a deep understanding of the physical phenomena during metal processing, (2) to develop analytical and computational models for metal processing, (3) to design and optimise reliable manufacturing processes to accelerate product development and (4) to design new processes for novel materials.CIMP will build on the relationships the universities already have with our industrial partners and augment those relationships over the longer term by building a shared vision of researcher and continuing professional training and developing a deeper understanding of the challenges that drive innovation and impact in metal processing. Our marketing and recruiting activities will promote the profile of the metal processing industry in the UK and help attract a talented workforce. Our Summer School will also have an outreach activity "targeting" secondary school students to engage them in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects and especially to inspire women and girls to pursue (STEM) as pathways to exciting and fulfilling careers.

金属加工是制造的重要组成部分。制造业是英国经济中的第三大行业，2010年在英国制造业占该国全国产出的劳动力的8.2％，总计12％（1,500亿英镑的总价值）。但是，制造业在名义GDP中的份额已从1990年的22％下降，低价值，大量制造业趋向于发展中国家，而在英国，高级技术领域却产生了更好的增值增值回报。该行业的未来增长取决于其设计和制造高价值产品的能力。在很大程度上，是高质量的知识库和熟练的技术劳动力，从而成功地从资源和劳动密集型到知识密集型领域进行了成功的转变，并确保了英国高科技的金属工业蓬勃发展。在英国支持高价值制造业的一个重要方面是年轻研究人员的博士学位培训。但是，英国许多公司指出，缺乏训练有素的材料工程师仍然是高价值制造业的关注点。的确，在2013年，英国边境机构将“冶金学”确定为熟练工人实践守则中的10个最想要的职位头衔之一。在这项提案中，莱斯特大学，伯明翰大学和诺丁汉大学在Innovative Metal Processing（CIMP）（CIMP）（CIMP）的EPSRC培训中心寻求资金，并提供了来自工业党的实质性支持的资金。在CIMP的一生中，我们将通过实验，分析，计算，技术管理和可转让技能的结合来培训87多名博士学位研究人员，这些技能是建立工业创新所需的。该中心将招募来自不同学科的学生，并为他们提供一系列金属加工技术的连贯知识，并在解决挑战和与工业相关的问题方面发展专业知识，以便他们可以由行业部署并成为未来的领导者。 CDT培训计划的总体重点将放在生产良好的未来领导者上，将其纪律领域的批判专业知识与良好的专业敏锐的敏锐度相结合，最终导致其工作及其潜在影响的更广泛背景的能力，探索其潜在影响，将他们的研究与不同的受众群体和研究范围内的研究范围探索，并在范围内进行了研究，并在范围内与范围内的范围内的范围，既有范围又有范围的范围，并且范围是范围内的范围。为：（1）为金属加工的分析和计算模型提供深入了解金属加工的分析和计算模型，（3）以设计和优化可靠的制造过程，以加速产品开发以及（4）为新型材料设计新的过程，CIMP将在与我们的工业伙伴关系和增强的关系中建立培训的关系，并建立了与我们的工业伙伴关系的发展，并建立了一项洞察力，并建立了这些与工业伙伴的关系，并建立了与之建立的关系，并建立了与这些关系的发展，并建立了与之建立的关系，并建立了与我们的工业伙伴关系，并建立了与之建立的关系。推动创新和影响金属加工的挑战。我们的营销和招聘活动将促进英国金属加工业的形象，并帮助吸引有才华的劳动力。我们的暑期学校还将举办“针对”中学生的外展活动，以使他们参与科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学科，尤其是激励妇女和女孩追求（STEM），以作为令人兴奋和充实的职业的途径。