EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Civil Engineering

EPSRC 可持续土木工程博士培训中心

• 批准号: EP/L016826/1
• 金额: $ 497.27万
• 依托单位: Imperial College London
• 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%2FL016826%2F1
• 关键词: EPSRC; Centre; Doctoral; Training; Sustainable

This proposal concerns the creation of an internationally leading Centre for doctoral training in sustainable civil engineering. The widest possible definition of sustainability is adopted, with the Centre covering the effective whole life design and performance of major civil engineering infrastructure. This includes the re-appraisal and re-use of existing infrastructure and the opportunities afforded by multiple-use. This sector is widely reported to face major problems recruiting the type, quality and number of people required. The Centre will address the key challenges of fit for purpose, economic viability, environmental impact, resilience, infrastructure inter-dependence, durability as well as the impacts of changes in population, urbanisation, available natural resources, technology and societal expectations. This requires a broad-based approach to research training, effectively integrated across the wide range of disciplines presently encompassed within the civil engineering profession. Very few academic institutions are capable of providing in-depth training across this range of subjects. However, the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Imperial College, recently (QS 2013) ranked number one in the world against its competitor departments, is uniquely placed within the UK to achieve exactly this.The Centre will recruit high quality, ambitious engineers. The doctoral training will combine intellectual challenge, technical content and rigor, with focused involvement in the practically important problems presently faced by the civil engineering profession. Advice and guidance from a high-level and broadly-based industrial advisory panel will be important in achieving the latter. Most importantly, the CDT will equip students with an appreciation of the wider context in which their research work is undertaken. The proposed programme is clearly designed to be PhD-PLUS; where the PLUS relates to a clear understanding of the breath of the problem within which their specific research sits, with a strong emphasis on sustainability. This latter component will include the industrial perspective, the societal need, the long term sustainability of the work and its immediate impact. The proposed CDT will make a difference by producing high quality civil engineers who understand global sustainability issues, in the widest possible context, and who have the skills and vision to eventually lead major infrastructure development projects or research programmes.Training will combine intensive taught training modules, group working around Grand Challenge projects in collaboration with industry and high quality research training. Project-based multi-disciplinary collaborative working will be at the core of the CDT training experience, modelling the way leading companies explore design options involving mixed disciplinary teams working together on ambitious projects. Working on a real-world problem, the students will have to interact extensively with others to understand the problem in detail, to develop holistic potential solutions, to assess these solutions and to identify the uncertainties and questions that can only be answered through further research. They will develop skills associated with coping with complexity, being able to make value-based decisions and being confident with interdisciplinary working. They will also be heavily involved in identifying and defining the research problem within the wider multi-faceted project and so will gain a much broader perspective of how specific research developing responsible innovation fits within a large civil engineering project. Overall, this approach is much more likely to develop the additional skills required by industry compared to conventional doctoral civil engineering training.

该提案涉及创建一个国际领先的可持续土木工程博士培训中心。采用了最广泛的可持续性定义，该中心涵盖了主要土木工程基础设施的有效整体设计和性能。这包括对现有基础架构的重新估计和重复使用以及多用途提供的机会。据报道，该行业面临着招募所需人员类型，质量和人数的主要问题。该中心将解决适合目的，经济可行性，环境影响，弹性，基础设施相互依存，耐用性以及人口变化，城市化，可用自然资源，技术和社会期望的影响的主要挑战。这需要一种基于广泛的研究培训的方法，并有效地融合了目前涵盖土木工程专业的广泛学科。很少有学术机构能够在这一范围内提供深入的培训。但是，最近（QS 2013）（QS 2013）对其竞争对手部门排名第一的帝国学院的民事和环境工程系，是在英国范围内独特的，以实现这一目标。该中心将招募高质量的高质量，雄心勃勃的工程师。博士培训将结合智力挑战，技术内容和严谨性，并重点参与土木工程专业目前面临的实际重要问题。高级和广泛的工业咨询小组的建议和指导对于实现后者至关重要。最重要的是，CDT将使学生对进行研究工作的更广泛背景。拟议的计划显然是设计为博士学位。加号与对其特定研究所在的问题的呼吸有清晰的理解，并强调了可持续性。后一个组成部分将包括工业视角，社会需求，工作的长期可持续性及其直接影响。拟议的CDT将通过在最广泛的背景下培养了解全球可持续性问题的高质量土木工程师，并具有最终领导主要的基础设施发展项目或研究计划的技能和愿景。培训将结合强化教学的培训模块，与行业合作和高质量的研究培训围绕大型挑战项目的小组结合。基于项目的多学科合作工作将是CDT培训经验的核心，对领先公司的方式进行建模，探索涉及混合纪律团队的设计选项，涉及雄心勃勃的项目。解决现实世界中的问题，学生将不得不与他人进行广泛的互动，以详细了解该问题，以开发整体潜在的解决方案，评估这些解决方案并确定只能通过进一步研究来回答的不确定性和问题。他们将发展与应对复杂性相关的技能，能够做出基于价值的决策并对跨学科的工作充满信心。他们还将大量参与确定和定义更广泛的多方面项目中的研究问题，因此将对特定的研究如何在一个大型土木工程项目中发展为特定的研究如何获得更广泛的看法。总体而言，与传统的博士土木工程培训相比，这种方法更有可能发展行业所需的额外技能。