EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment: Resilience in a Changing World (FIBE2)

我们的基础设施对国家的经济繁荣和一个稳定而又充满活力的文明社会的繁荣至关重要。它的相互联系的部分-能源，交通，水，卫生和通信网络提供服务和市场准入，并支撑日常生活的安全-不仅必须负担得起和可靠，而且还必须能够抵御诸如技术不确定性，环境原因，经济和政治变化以及在日益不确定的世界中展开的人口和社会变化等威胁。FIBE2 CDT将通过创建一个鼓舞人心的博士培训计划，为来自不同学术和社会背景的人才群体进行世界级、尖端和行业相关的研究，从而引领基础设施弹性方法的范式转变。我们的目标是培养未来的基础设施专业人员，配备多功能和跨学科的技能，以应对最复杂的新挑战，利用现有基础设施的全部价值，并有效地为英国更好的基础设施决策做出贡献。该计划的技术重点将利用先进基础设施材料、重新思考设计与施工、数字化土木工程、全寿命性能、建筑环境和全球挑战方面的高水平互联研究主题，以及新兴技术、从数据到知识的性能、跨规模研究、风险和不确定性方面的高水平横切主题。在FIBE2 CDT中，我们进行了彻底的反思，为弹性基础设施中的跨学科和相互关联的挑战提供创新。我们的1+3硕士/博士项目提出了一种新的基础设施研究方法，来自不同学科的学生主动建立新的培训和研究合作。FIBE2的灵感来自于3D“T”形工程师的范例，体现了知识的深度和广度的结合，并通过我们围绕跨学科培训和研究的新思维得到了增强。高级基础设施工程概念将相互联系，并与在定制核心和选修模块中支撑它们的详细技术基础相关。基于群体的学习将在更广泛的道德、负责任的创新和教育与创新背景下，跨越更广泛的环境、社会、经济、商业和政策问题。这些深度和广度的元素交织在一起，通过基于问题的挑战，使用大规模的跨学科基础设施项目。个别学生的计划将被精心制定，以协调博士研究的特殊性与对威胁和机遇的广泛理解的需要。培养具有强大的个人、技术和专业弹性属性的弹性FIBE2 CDT学生是FIBE2培训和研究方法不可或缺的一部分。FIBE2博士项目将以剑桥大学在与基础设施和韧性相关的各个领域的国际领先研究、投资和资金为基础。我们的主要战略举措包括来自EPSRC和工业界的6000万英镑资金。我们与UKCRIC、CDBB、艾伦图灵和亨利罗伊斯研究所的合作，以及我们世界级的研究生培训项目，为拟议的CDT提供了一个鼓舞人心的环境。FIBE2愿景是与我们来自所有基础设施部门的27个战略行业合作伙伴和全球9个国际学术中心合作伙伴共同创建的，他们已承诺超过1200万英镑。我们将共同努力实现FIBE2 CDT的目标，并为学生的体验增添新的维度。FIBE2的持久影响将体现在我们的学生身上，他们将成为榜样，激励未来几代基础设施工程师，并在英国基础设施面临的所有技术和社会挑战中引领行业。

Our infrastructure is central to the economic prosperity of the nation and to the flourishing of a stable, yet dynamic, civil society. Its interconnected strands - the energy, transportation, water, sanitation and communication networks that provide access to services and markets and which underpin the securities of daily life - must be not only affordable and reliable but also resilient against threats such as technological uncertainty, environmental causes, economic and political change, and demographic and societal change unfolding in an increasingly uncertain world.FIBE2 CDT will lead a paradigm shift in the approach to infrastructure resilience through the creation of an inspirational doctoral training programme for talented cohorts from diverse academic and social backgrounds to conduct world-class, cutting-edge and industry-relevant research. Our goal is to develop the infrastructure professionals of the future, equipped with a versatile and cross-disciplinary skillset to meet the most complex emerging challenges, harness the full value of existing infrastructure and contribute effectively to better infrastructure decision-making in the UK. The programme's technical focus will exploit high-level interconnected research themes in advanced infrastructure materials, rethinking design & construction, digitised civil engineering, whole-life performance, built environment and global challenges, along high-level crosscutting themes in emerging technologies, performance to data to knowledge, research across scales, and risk and uncertainty. In FIBE2 CDT we offer a radical rethink to deliver innovation for the cross-disciplinary and interconnected challenges in resilient infrastructure. Our 1+3 MRes/PhD programme proposes a new approach to infrastructure research where students from different disciplines proactively forge new training and research collaborations. FIBE2 is inspired by the paradigm of a 3D 'T' shaped engineer embodying a combination of depth and breadth of knowledge, augmented by our new thinking around cross-disciplinary training and research. High level Infrastructure Engineering concepts will be interlinked and related to the detailed technical fundamentals that underpin them in bespoke core and elective modules. Cohort-based learning will bridge across the wider environmental, societal, economic, business and policy issues within the even broader context of ethics, responsible innovation and ED&I. These depth and breadth elements are interwoven and brought together through problem-based challenges using large-scale cross-disciplinary infrastructure projects. Individual student plans will be carefully crafted to harmonise the specificity of PhD research with the need for expansive understanding of threats and opportunities. The development of Resilient FIBE2 CDT students with strong personal, technical and professional resilience attributes is integral to the FIBE2 approach to training and research.The FIBE2 PhD projects will build upon Cambridge's internationally leading research, investment and funding in the diverse areas related to infrastructure and resilience. Our major strategic initiatives include >£60M funding from EPSRC and industry. Our engagements in UKCRIC, CDBB, Alan Turing and Henry Royce Institutes and our world class graduate training programmes provide an inspirational environment for the proposed CDT.The FIBE2 vision has been co-created with our 27 strategic industry partners from across all infrastructure sectors and nine international academic centre partners across the world, who have pledged over £12M. We will work together to deliver the FIBE2 CDT objectives and add new dimensions to our students' experience.The lasting impact of FIBE2 will be embodied in our students acting as role models to inspire future generations of infrastructure engineers and rising to lead the profession through all the technological and societal challenges facing UK infrastructure.