EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies for a Healthy and Sustainable Future

我们建议在我们目前的CDT（EPSRC传感器技术和应用CDT，见http://cdt.sensors.cam.ac.uk）的基础上建立EPSRC传感器技术博士培训中心，以实现健康和可持续的未来（传感器CDT）。投标福尔斯正好符合EPSRC的战略优先主题，即传感、成像和分析的新科学和技术。 传感器市场已经为英国经济贡献了每年60亿英镑的出口，支撑了73000个就业岗位和估计为1200亿英镑的市场（来源：KTN英国）。预计这一领域将出现重大增长，但与此同时，在招聘具有必要技能和领导素质的合格候选人以满足英国工业的需求并推动可持续创新方面存在越来越大的问题。我们为高质量的研究生创建了一个综合课程，将传感视为一门学科，并提供传感器技术的全面培训，从传感的基础科学，传感数据的联网和解释，到最终用户应用。 在新的，进化的CDT，我们将为我们的CDT学生提供培训的主题是直接相关的可持续发展和健康的未来社会，同时保留一个重点，提供价值的英国经济和学术界。该计划为期4年，具有很强的跨学科性，侧重于可持续发展目标，并强调负责任的创新培训。后者的一个例子是我们的目标是“民主化传感器技术”：我们的学生将学习如何在研究过程中与公众互动，如何在公共辩论中发挥有价值的作用，以及如何创新有益于社会的技术。技术方面将在课程的定制培训计划中教授，包括讲座，实践，实验室轮换，行业借调和关键基础技术的技能培训。为了支持这一努力，我们为CDT创建了专用的，最先进的基础设施，包括实验室，办公室，教学和社交空间，我们连接到参与部门和合作伙伴行业的世界领先的基础设施。 该计划旨在在CDT群体内部和跨CDT群体（横向和纵向整合）创建强大的身份，通过我们独特的传感器团队挑战和每月传感器咖啡馆等活动，最大限度地提高同行学习和领导力培训的机会，来自学术界，工业界，政府机构和公众的代表参加。我们将创造一个多元化和包容性的氛围，让学生感到自信，并有权提供不同的意见和经验，并最大限度地发挥创造力和创新。我们已经吸引了大量的兴趣和支持（>£ 2.5米）从既定的工业合作伙伴，但我们的新方案强调参与也与英国初创企业和中小企业，谁是在当前的经济环境中特别脆弱，谁表示需要研究人员与技能的广度和深度的CDT提供（见支持信）。我们招募来自不同学科的优秀获奖学生，培训计划将15个部门的90多名PI和40个行业合作伙伴联系起来，共同致力于通过新颖的传感器技术满足未来的社会需求。技术开发人员将通过与中间件专家的联系受益（如传感器分布和联网、数据处理）和应用专家（如生命科学家、大气科学家等）且反之亦然。CDT的这种综合性将激发创新，改变许多科学和工业学科的能力。

We propose to build the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies for a Healthy and Sustainable Future (Sensor CDT) on the foundations we have established with our current CDT (EPSRC CDT for Sensor Technologies and Applications, see http://cdt.sensors.cam.ac.uk). The bid falls squarely into EPSRC's strategic priority theme of New Science and Technology for Sensing, Imaging and Analysis. The sensor market already contributes an annual £6bn in exports to the UK economy, underpinning 73000 jobs and markets estimated at £120bn (source: KTN UK). Major growth is expected in this sector but at the same time there is a growing problem in recruiting suitably qualified candidates with the necessary breadth of skills and leadership qualities to address identified needs from UK industry and to drive sustainable innovation. We have created an integrated programme for high quality research students that treats sensing as an academic discipline in its own right and provides comprehensive training in sensor technologies all the way from the fundamental science of sensing, the networking and interpretation of sensory data, to end user application. In the new, evolved CDT, we will provide training for our CDT students on themes that are of direct relevance to a sustainable and healthy future society, whilst retaining a focus that delivers value to the UK economy and academia. The 4-year programme is strongly cross disciplinary and focuses on sustainable development goals and emphasises training in Responsible Innovation. One example of the latter is our objective to 'democratise sensor technologies': Our students will learn how to engage with the public during research, how to play a valuable part in public debate, and how to innovate technology that benefits society. Technical aspects will be taught in a bespoke training programme for the course, that includes lectures, practicals, lab rotations, industry secondments, and skills training on key underpinning technologies. To support this effort, we have created dedicated, state-of-the-art infrastructure for the CDT that includes laboratory, office, teaching, and social spaces, and we connect to the world leading infrastructure available in the participating departments and partner industries. The programme is designed to create strong identities both within and across CDT cohorts (horizontal and vertical integration) to maximise opportunities for peer-to-peer learning and leadership training through activities such as our unique sensor team challenges and the monthly Sensor Cafés, attended by representatives from academia, industry, government agencies, and the public. We will create a diverse and inclusive atmosphere where students feel confident and empowered to offer different opinions and experiences and which maximises creativity and innovation. We have attracted substantial interest and support (>£2.5M) from established industrial partners, but our new programme emphasises engagement also with UK start-ups and SMEs, who are particularly vulnerable in the current economic climate and who have expressed a need for researchers with the breadth and depth of skills the CDT provides (see letters of support). We recruit outstanding, prizewinning students from a diverse range of disciplines and the training programme connects more than 90 PIs across 15 departments and 40 industrial partners working together to address future societal needs with novel sensor technologies.Technology developers will benefit through connection with experts in middleware (e.g. sensor distribution and networking, data processing) and applications experts (e.g. life scientists, atmospheric scientists, etc.) and vice versa. This integrative character of the CDT will inspire innovations that transform capability in many disciplines of science and industries.