EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems

高级汽车推进系统的CDT将培养出将使推进系统过渡到更可持续的未来所需的许多技术学科和技能的毕业生。通过为我们的毕业生创造一个环境，让他们研究新的推进系统和他们所处的更广泛的背景，我们将形成个人，他们将领导实现个人移动性转变所需的科学、技术和行为变化。在这个对英国工业战略至关重要的领域，CDT将成为国际领先的跨学科博士培训中心。我们将培养一支84名高素质的研究领军人才队伍，为学术界和英国汽车业增值。CDT的成功有三个关键方面--首先，将从各种学士学位中招聘不同范围的毕业生。将招聘工程(机械、电气、化学)、科学(物理、化学、数学、生物)、管理和社会科学的毕业生，并将其介绍到汽车推进部门。由此产生的技能组合将允许进行变革性研究。其次，对这一群体的培训，加上强大的团队工作氛围，将为毕业生为行业做出有效贡献做好准备。这将需要对该行业目前和未来使用的方法(技术和商业)进行培训。我们还需要毕业生具有高度发展的人际交往能力，并在有效的团队合作方面经验丰富。了解员工和公司是如何工作的，与了解技术一样重要。在技术方面，对技术前景以及大局和毕业生自身专业知识之间的关系的广泛的系统层面的理解是至关重要的。我们设计了一个课程，丰富学生在这些关键领域的知识和经验。第三，所有这些特质的基础将是毕业生的研究技能，这些技能是通过在新的GB 6000万先进汽车推进系统研究所(IAAPS)内进行密集研究项目而获得的，该研究所从一开始就旨在提供一个丰富的合作环境，并为英国经济增值。IAAPS将配备世界领先的实验设施，专为未来的动力总成系统而设计，并为工业界和学术界提供专用空间，以便在CDT的生命周期内进行价值超过1亿GB的研究。该群体将对这一知识发展作出贡献并从中受益，提供在整个系统层面进行研究的机会。这将解决我们这个时代最紧迫的挑战之一--努力提供工业化和新兴经济体所需的真正可持续、负担得起、联网的零排放交通工具。为了实现这些好处，我们申请资助40个学生名额和提供世界级培训环境的基础设施。该大学将通过资助另外20个学生奖学金和使用研究设施来加强这一点，总价值为500万英镑。来自行业合作伙伴的现金和实物捐助总额为450万GB，将改善学生体验，提供9个全额资助的博士学位和30个半资助的学位。学生承担的研究将由我们的行业合作伙伴共同创建和监督。CDT的人员和研究成果将直接被这些行业合作伙伴采用，以产生持久的现实世界影响。

The CDT in Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems will produce the graduates who will bring together the many technical disciplines and skills needed to allow propulsion systems to transition to a more sustainable future.By creating an environment for our graduates to research new propulsion systems and the wider context within which they sit, we will form the individuals who will lead the scientific, technological, and behavioural changes required to effect the transformation of personal mobility. The CDT will become an internationally leading centre for interdisciplinary doctoral training in this critical field for UK industrial strategy. We will train a cohort of 84 high quality research leaders, adding value to academia and the UK automotive industry. There are three key aspects to the success of the CDT - First, a diverse range of graduates will be recruited from across the range of first degrees. Graduates in engineering (mechanical, electrical, chemical), sciences (physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology), management and social sciences will be recruited and introduced to the automotive propulsion sector. The resulting skills mix will allow transformational research to be conducted. Second, the training given to this cohort, re-enforced by a strong group working ethos, will prepare the graduates to make an effective contribution to the industry. This will require training in the current and future methods (technical and commercial) used by the industry. We also need the graduates to have highly developed interpersonal skills and to be experienced in effective group working. Understanding how people and companies work is just as important as an understanding the technology. On the technology side, a broad system level understanding of the technology landscape and the relationship between the big picture and the graduate's own expertise is essential. We have designed a programme that enriches the student's knowledge and experience in these key areas.Third, underpinning all of these attributes will be the graduate's research skills, acquired through the undertaking of an intensive research project within the new £60 million Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS), designed from the outset to provide a rich collaborative environment and add value to the UK economy. IAAPS will be equipped with world leading experimental facilities designed for future powertrain systems and provides dedicated space for industry and academia to collaborate to deliver research valued at over £100 million during the lifetime of the CDT. The cohort will contribute to and benefit from this knowledge development, providing opportunities to conduct research at a whole system level. This will address one of the most pressing challenges of our age - the struggle to provide truly sustainable, affordable, connected, zero emissions transport needed by both industrialised and emerging economies.To enable these benefits we request funding for 40 studentships and the infrastructure to provide a world class training environment. The university will enhance this through the funding of an additional 20 studentships and access to research facilities, together valued at £5 million. Cash and in-kind contributions from industrial partners valued at a total of £4.5 million will enhance the student experience, providing 9 fully funded PhD places and 30 half funded places. The research undertaken by the students will be co-created and supervised by our industrial partners. The people and research outputs that from the CDT will be adopted directly by these industrial partners to generate lasting real world impact.