NSERC CREATE in Product-Line Engineering for Cyber-physical Systems

网络物理系统正在渗透到我们生活的方方面面，并将改变我们与物理世界互动的方式。这些系统将使自动驾驶汽车、更安全、更清洁的飞机、智能可再生能源系统、智能家居和新型医疗设备成为可能。下一代这样的系统将比今天的系统更加无处不在、互联互通、定制化和异构化。设计此类系统的能力对加拿大的技术领先地位和国际竞争力至关重要，包括汽车、航空航天、可再生能源和资源勘探领域。基于模型的产品线工程是克服此类系统复杂性的一项关键技术，它允许从公共平台上对此类系统进行虚拟原型设计和派生。我们已经在这一关键技术领域与加拿大领先的汽车、航空航天和软件公司建立了世界上最重要的研究人员之间的合作伙伴关系，以设计一个培训计划，该计划将开拓这项技术背后的研究，并为HQP提供设计下一代网络物理系统所需的知识和技能。该计划将引领HQP通过一个创新的、国际化的和与工业相关的培训模式，该模式整合了软件、计算机、机电和系统工程的核心课程；由领先的研究人员和行业专家组成的多学科团队提供指导；参与世界级的研究；实践示范培训；量身定制的工业实习。精英学员将在汽车和航空航天系统这两个对加拿大高科技领导地位至关重要的应用领域获得专业的专业和技术知识。

Cyber-physical systems are penetrating every aspect of our lives and will transform how we interact with the physical world. These systems will enable self-driving cars, safer and cleaner airplanes, smart renewable energy systems, intelligent homes, and new types of medical devices. The next generation of such systems will be even more ubiquitous, interconnected, tailored, and heterogeneous than today's systems. The ability to engineer such systems is critical to Canada's technological leadership and international competitiveness, including automotive, aerospace, renewable energy, and resource-exploration sectors. Model-based product-line engineering is a key technology to conquer the complexities of such systems by allowing virtual prototyping and derivation of such systems from common platforms.We have formed a partnership between world's foremost researchers in this key technology and leading Canadian automotive, aerospace, and software companies to design a training program that will pioneer the research behind this technology and prepare HQP with the knowledge and skills necessary to engineer the next generation of cyber-physical systems. This program will lead HQP through an innovative, international and industrially-relevant training model, which integrates core courses in software, computer, mechatronic, and systems engineering; mentoring by a multi-disciplinary team of leading researchers and industry experts; participation in world-class research; hands-on demonstrator-based training; and tailored industrial internships. Elite trainees will gain specialized professional and technical knowledge in the two application areas that are key to Canada's high-tech leadership: automotive and aerospace systems.