EPSRC Star Academic Proposal

建立新的研究能力，以解决国家战略目标，支持电力工程和能源等优先领域的学科健康。这种新的能力将用于开展研究和支持英国工业创新的增长。这是一个需要大量投资以提供足够的广度和深度以增加预期研究影响的项目，因此联盟合作伙伴（除EPSRC外）包括Rolls-Royce，ScottishPower，National Grid和Strathclyde University。拟议的投资承认，英国高等教育机构专门从事电力工程的学术人员严重减少。人们还认识到，为了保持和发展电力研究能力，有必要采取联合HEI，行业和政府的方法来投资和承诺在这一领域。支持研究中心，使其拥有必要的临界数量，以开展基础、战略和应用研究，被视为一项战略要务。英国工业和社会将大大受益于一个可持续的，积极的，国际领先的电力工程和能源系统研究基地。除了电力研究基地的侵蚀，有一个严重的减少，在本科生和研究生的人口，新的，积极的学术人员可以帮助解决（cf。最近的IEE审查和随后建立的电力学院）。值得注意的是，这些原则也完全符合EPSRC科学和创新奖计划中出现的后续目标。因此，拟议的方案，包括主要的工业资金，提供了额外的价值和范围，以补充第一轮EPSRC科学和创新奖。每个工业合作伙伴的资金承诺沿着直接斯特拉斯克莱德承诺，将在研究范围、规模和临界质量方面为拟议的EPSRC星星投资提供显著的附加值。

To build new research capability in order to address nationally strategic objectives for the support of health of discipline in priority areass such as electrical power engineering and energy. Such new capacity would be intended to undertake research and support the growth of UK industry innovation. This is a project that requires major investments to provide adequate breadth and depth in order to increase prospective research impacts, therefore consortium partners (apart from EPSRC) include Rolls-Royce, ScottishPower, National Grid and Strathclyde University. The proposed investment acknowledges that there has been a serious reduction of academic staff specialising in electrical power engineering in UK-HEIs. It is also recognised that, in order to retain and develop electrical power research capability, there is a need to take a joint HEI, industry & government approach to investment and commitment in this area. The support of research centres with the necessary critical mass to undertake basic, strategic and applied research is seen as a strategic imperative. UK industry and society will benefit greatly from a sustainable, active, internationally leading research base in electrical power engineering and energy systems. In addition to the erosion of the electrical power research base, there is a serious reduction in the undergraduate and postgraduate populations that new, active academic staff could help to address (c.f. recent IEE review and subsequent establishment of the Power Academy). It is important to note that these principles are also entirely consistent with subsequent objectives that have emerged in the EPSRC Science and Innovation Awards scheme. As such, the proposed programme, incorporating major industrial funding, provides additional value and scope to complement the first round EPSRC Science and Innovation Awards. The funding commitment from each of the industrial partners along with direct Strathclyde commitments will provide significant added value to the proposed EPSRC Star investments in terms of research scope, scale and critical mass.