EPSRC and NERC Centre for Doctoral Training in Offshore Wind Energy and the Environment

迫切需要训练有素的未来英国领导人在快速增长的海上风电（OSW）能源部门，其技能跨越工程和环境科学的界限。这里提出的Aura CDT通过学术合作伙伴关系以及与关键现实挑战的行业知识的联系，将海上风电（OSW）工程和环境方面的世界领先的专业知识和设施结合起来。CDT将建立一个独特的博士队列计划，该计划将在英国主要学术机构和全球主要行业参与者之间建立跨学科合作，并将提供一个针对行业需求的综合研究计划，最大限度地提高整个OSW行业的工业和学术影响力。最重要的OSW产业集群沿着英格兰东北部的海岸，以亨伯河口为中心，也是Aura的基地。亨伯"能源河口"位于英国目前正在开发的所有OSW项目的约90%的中心。最近的估计表明，要实现国家能源目标，开发商需要在亨伯100公里范围内安装价值1200亿英镑的> 4,000台海上风力涡轮机。地理位置，加上现有的基础设施，导致OSW行业在亨伯投资的变革规模。这包括：（1）西门子和总部基地在格林波特船体的OSW涡轮机叶片制造厂和物流中心投资3.15亿英镑，直接创造1,000多个就业机会;（2）格里姆斯比基础设施投资4000万英镑，这是亨伯60亿英镑持续投资的一部分，支持Orsted、Eon、Centrica、Siemens-Gamesa和MHI Vestas;（3）4.5亿英镑的Able Marine Energy Park，一个专注于OSW运营和维护的定制港口设施;以及（4）本地和区域供应链公司的显着增长。Aura集群（www.example.com）拥有提供OSW研究和创新多学科CDT所需的临界质量，并有效地培训未来的OSW部门领导者。它由船体大学牵头，与达勒姆、纽卡斯尔和谢菲尔德大学合作。Aura已经在学术界和工业界之间建立了重要的合作关系（例如Siemens-Gamesa Renewable Energy和Orsted）。核心成员还包括海上可再生能源弹射器（OREC）和国家海洋学中心（NOC），这两个机构分别是直接支持OSW部门创新和开发新型海洋环境技术和科学的英国政府机构。Aura CDT将培养未来的领导者，这些领导者具有跨越工程（EPSRC）和环境（NERC）科学的迫切需要的技能，其研究在解决OSW的主要挑战方面发挥着关键作用。我们的愿景是确保英国利用海上风能的世界领先地位。CDT将涉及5个年度队列，至少14名学生，由EPSRC/NERC和船体，达勒姆，纽卡斯尔和谢菲尔德大学的支持，并由行业。在第一年，CDT为来自不同背景的学生提供了在OSW和环境中学习的一致基础，之后他们将获得船体PG大学风能文凭。该船体PG文凭包括6 x 20学分模块。在第一年，第一学期，三个核心模块，改编自当前的船体硕士课程，并由合作伙伴机构的学者支持，将涵盖：i）介绍OSW，与行业客座讲座; ii）核心技能模块，在数据分析和可视化;和iii）一个行业导向的小组研究项目，利用资源和监督员在灵气合作伙伴机构和行业合作伙伴。在第一年，第二学期，Aura学生将通过从> 24个相关船体硕士课程中选择的3个模块进一步专注于OSW。在船体的第一年将在第2 - 4年通过在合作机构之一的研究博士学位，以及一系列持续的队列发展和培训。

There is a compelling need for well-trained future UK leaders in, the rapidly growing, Offshore Wind (OSW) Energy sector, whose skills extend across boundaries of engineering and environmental sciences. The Aura CDT proposed here unites world-leading expertise and facilities in offshore wind (OSW) engineering and the environment via academic partnerships and links to industry knowledge of key real-world challenges. The CDT will build a unique PhD cohort programme that forges interdisciplinary collaboration between key UK academic institutions, and the major global industry players and will deliver an integrated research programme, tailored to the industry need, that maximises industrial and academic impact across the OSW sector. The most significant OSW industry cluster operates along the coast of north-east England, centred on the Humber Estuary, where Aura is based. The Humber 'Energy Estuary' is located at the centre of ~90% of all UK OSW projects currently in development. Recent estimates suggest that to meet national energy targets, developers need >4,000 offshore wind turbines, worth £120 billion, within 100 km of the Humber. Location, combined with existing infrastructure, has led the OSW industry to invest in the Humber at a transformative scale. This includes: (1) £315M investment by Siemens and ABP in an OSW turbine blade manufacturing plant, and logistics hub, at Greenport Hull, creating over 1,000 direct jobs; (2) £40M in infrastructure in Grimsby, part of a £6BN ongoing investment in the Humber, supporting Orsted, Eon, Centrica, Siemens-Gamesa and MHI Vestas; (3) The £450M Able Marine Energy Park, a bespoke port facility focused on the operations and maintenance of OSW; and (4) Significant growth in local and regional supply chain companies. The Aura cluster (www.aurawindenergy.com) has the critical mass needed to deliver a multidisciplinary CDT on OSW research and innovation, and train future OSW sector leaders effectively. It is led by the University of Hull, in collaboration with the Universities of Durham, Newcastle and Sheffield. Aura has already forged major collaborations between academia and industry (e.g. Siemens-Gamesa Renewable Energy and Orsted). Core members also include the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (OREC) and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), who respectively are the UK government bodies that directly support innovation in the OSW sector and the development of novel marine environment technology and science. The Aura CDT will develop future leaders with urgently needed skills that span Engineering (EPSRC) and Environmental (NERC) Sciences, whose research plays a key role in solving major OSW challenges. Our vision is to ensure the UK capitalises on a world-leading position in offshore wind energy. The CDT will involve 5 annual cohorts of at least 14 students, supported by EPSRC/NERC and the Universities of Hull, Durham, Newcastle and Sheffield, and by industry. In Year 1, the CDT provides students, recruited from disparate backgrounds, with a consistent foundation of learning in OSW and the Environment, after which they will be awarded a University of Hull PG Diploma in Wind Energy. The Hull PG Diploma consists of 6 x 20 credit modules. In Year 1, Trimester 1, three core modules, adapted from current Hull MSc courses and supported by academics across the partner-institutes, will cover: i) an introduction to OSW, with industry guest lectures; ii) a core skills module, in data analysis and visualization; and iii) an industry-directed group research project that utilises resources and supervisors across the Aura partner institutes and industry partners. In Year 1, Trimester 2, Aura students will specialise further in OSW via 3 modules chosen from >24 relevant Hull MSc level courses. This first year at Hull will be followed in Years 2-4 by a PhD by research at one of the partner institutions, together with a range of continued cohort development and training.