Enhancing UK Engineering Skills to Drive the Low Carbon Economy

交通运输领域正在经历一个根本性的转变，从依赖化石燃料到越来越多地采用动力传动系统电气化。运输电气化（eMobility）为大幅减少碳排放提供了机会，也为英国成为许多先进基础技术的世界领先者提供了巨大的机会。支持电动汽车的许多关键基础技术与车辆上的电能存储及其有效转换为可用于驱动高性能电动汽车的形式有关。电动机.电动汽车的成功采用还取决于同等能力的全国性充电基础设施，这些基础设施可以在家中、工作场所或高速公路服务站为车辆有效充电。大功率直流充电器需要类似类型的先进电力电子设备，将交流电源转换为汽车电池充电所需的直流输出。英国在该行业处于世界领先地位的关键是确保我们拥有一支在电子电源转换和能源管理领域高度熟练的员工队伍。该项目将为希望提高电力电子技术的英国公司员工提供免费和高度集中的在线技术培训。特别是，该项目旨在最大限度地利用员工的时间来提高技能，同时他们需要留在家里管理新冠肺炎大流行。培训材料将由行业和学术界的专家编写和在线提供，并将结合联合收割机世界一流的高性能功率半导体器件技术信息（宽带隙器件）具有高频磁性的先进设计技术，控制和数字系统设计。该项目还将成为技术培训方面更大规模长期举措的催化剂，为公司提供论坛，以确保其工程团队始终保持最新状态最先进的工程技术

The world of transport is going through a fundamental shift from dependence on fossil fuels to increasing adoption of power train electrification. Electrification of transport (eMobility) offers opportunities for a significant reduction in carbon emissions as well as a huge opportunity for the UK to become a world leading player in many of the advanced underpinning technologies.Many of the key underpinning technologies which support eMobility relate to the storage of electrical energy on the vehicle and its efficient conversion into a form which can be used to drive the high performance electrical motors. Successful adoption of eMobility also depends on equally capable nationwide charging infrastructure which can efficiently charge vehicles at home, workplaces or at motorway service stations. High power DC chargers require similar types of advanced power electronics to convert the AC mains supply into a DC output required to charge the vehicle battery.Key to the UK being a world player in this industry is ensuring we have a workforce which is highly skilled in the areas of electronic power conversion and energy management. This project will provide free and highly focused online technical training to employees of UK companies who wish to up-skill in power electronics. In particular, this project is aimed at maximising the use of time for employees to up-skill whilst they are required to remain at home for management of the Covid 19 pandemic.The training material will be prepared and delivered online by experts in industry and academia and will combine world class technical information on new high performance power semiconductor devices (wide bandgap devices) with advanced design techniques in high frequency magnetics, control and digital system design.This project will also be the catalyst to a much larger longer term initiative in technical training to provide companies a forum to ensure their engineering teams are always up to date with the very latest in advanced engineering.