Industrial Doctorate Centre: Sustainability for Engineering and Energy Systems

工业博士中心：工程和能源系统的可持续性

• 批准号: EP/G037612/1
• 负责人: Lucia Elghali
• 金额: $ 770.24万
• 依托单位: University of Surrey
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Training Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2009 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FG037612%2F1
• 关键词: Industrial; Doctorate; Centre; Sustainability; Engineering

The current EngD Centre in Environmental Technology started in 1993 and was described in EPSRC's Review of the EngD Scheme in January 2007 as ...an excellent EngD Centre that should act as an exemplar to others . The new EngD Centre will build on this success with a related and expanded remit: to prepare engineers and scientists to meet the growing challenges in developing the UK towards sustainability in engineering and energy systems. The 5A rated (RAE 2001) Centre for Environmental Strategy (CES) is a unique, multidisciplinary research centre and alone in having the breadth and depth of expertise required to lead the new EngD Centre, with project and supervisory support from leading research groups across all Faculties at the University of Surrey. The success of the current EngD Centre has attracted an international reputation. Delegates from the US, Portugal, Switzerland and Sweden have attended EngD conferences in the past, to observe how the programme functions and the professional standards reached. The Surrey EngD Management Executive Committee are currently advising the MIT-Portugal programme (an initiative to involve MIT in refreshing post-graduate engineering education throughout Portugal) on how an industrially-based doctoral programme modelled on the current Surrey EngD could be introduced in Portugal.Demand across industrial, business and policy sectors for highly skilled personnel to address this transdisciplinary, internationally-important agenda is growing rapidly and major skills shortages have been identified. Our approach is to selectively recruit and develop graduates with excellent technical skills and with the breadth and flexibility to understand the complex environmental, economic and social dimensions of sustainability and to develop them to become effective agents of change in the transition to a sustainable economy. The EPSRC Review also recognised that a key strength in the current EngD is the high demand and repeat business from sponsoring companies : we have worked with 57 sponsoring organisations since 1993, with 30% returning to sponsor subsequent projects. Building on our experience in attracting, working with and retaining business, policy and industrial sponsors who are familiar with the Surrey EngD approach, we seek to augment the proposed intake of 50 EPSRC sponsored Research Engineers (REs) over five years, with a further 10 REs supported from University resources (an investment of 1M).The new Centre will retain the mission and approach of Surrey's existing EngD: taking a systems perspective and developing the professional graduates needed to drive and support progress towards sustainable delivery of goods and services. The demand for such trained personnel is illustrated by the increasing requirement for engineers and scientists to demonstrate competence in engineering for sustainability to achieve chartered status and throughout their continuing professional development. Increasing interest in carbon labelling and the requirement, shortly to be announced by the Carbon Trust, for accreditation in validating life cycle GHG emission calculations will increase further the demand for skilled professionals in this area. The key development for the new Centre is explicit recognition of the priorities for low carbon and sustainable energy operations and investments; our response is to develop and expand clusters of projects to meet the needs of our sponsor companies and the UK economy as a whole.End-user interest in sustainability and low carbon and energy systems is growing strongly, driven by multiple business and policy concerns. A continued and enlarged EngD Centre will allow us to go on working with companies, industrial sectors and policy makers to train the next generation of sustainability practitioners and leaders to respond to the challenge of creating and embedding sustainable practices across the UK.

目前的环境技术工程发展中心始建于1993年，并在2007年1月EPSRC对工程技术发展计划的审查中被描述为……一个优秀的工程技术发展中心，应该成为其他人的榜样。新的EngD中心将在这一成功的基础上，通过相关和扩大的职权范围：为工程师和科学家做好准备，以应对英国在工程和能源系统方面实现可持续发展的日益严峻的挑战。被评为5A级(RAE 2001)的环境战略中心(CES)是一个独特的、多学科的研究中心，拥有领导新的EngD中心所需的专业知识的广度和深度，并得到萨里大学所有院系的领先研究小组的项目和监督支持。目前的EngD中心的成功已经吸引了国际声誉。来自美国、葡萄牙、瑞士和瑞典的代表过去曾参加EngD会议，以观察该计划的运作情况和达到的专业标准。萨里工程学院管理执行委员会目前正在为麻省理工学院-葡萄牙项目(一项让麻省理工学院参与葡萄牙各地更新研究生工程教育的倡议)提供建议，建议如何在葡萄牙引入以工业为基础的博士课程，模仿目前的萨里工程学院。工业、商业和政策部门对高技能人才的需求正在迅速增长，以应对这一跨学科、具有国际重要性的议程，并已发现主要的技能短缺。我们的方法是有选择地招聘和培养具有出色技术技能、广度和灵活性的毕业生，以了解可持续发展的复杂环境、经济和社会层面，并培养他们成为向可持续经济过渡的有效变革推动者。EPSRC审查还认识到，目前的EngD的一个主要优势是赞助公司的高需求和重复业务：自1993年以来，我们已与57个赞助机构合作，其中30%返回赞助后续项目。基于我们在吸引、合作和留住熟悉萨里恩德方法的商业、政策和工业赞助商方面的经验，我们寻求在五年内增加50名EPSRC赞助的研究工程师(RE)的拟议招生，另外10名研究工程师(RE)由大学资源支持(投资100万英镑)。新中心将保留萨里现有EngD的使命和方法：从系统的角度出发，培养所需的专业毕业生，以推动和支持可持续提供商品和服务的进展。对这种训练有素的人员的需求体现在对工程师和科学家越来越多的要求，要求他们在工程和可持续发展方面表现出能力，以实现特许地位，并在其整个持续专业发展过程中发挥作用。人们对碳标签的兴趣与日俱增，碳信托不久将宣布认证生命周期温室气体排放计算的认证要求，这将进一步增加对这一领域熟练专业人员的需求。新中心的关键发展是明确认识到低碳和可持续能源运营和投资的优先事项；我们的回应是开发和扩大项目集群，以满足我们赞助公司和英国整体经济的需求。在多种商业和政策关切的推动下，最终用户对可持续发展和低碳和能源系统的兴趣正在强烈增长。继续扩大的EngD中心将使我们能够继续与公司、工业部门和政策制定者合作，培训下一代可持续发展实践者和领导者，以应对在英国各地创建和嵌入可持续实践的挑战。