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。与今天的系统相比，下一代这样的系统将更加无处不在、更加互联、更加量身定制和更加异质。设计这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部门。基于模型的产品线工程是克服这类系统复杂性的关键技术，它允许虚拟样机和从公共平台衍生这类系统。*我们在这项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合作伙伴关系，设计了一项培训计划，该计划将开创这项技术背后的研究，并使HQP具备设计下一代网络物理系统所需的知识和技能。该计划将通过创新、国际化和与行业相关的培训模式引领HQP，该模式整合了软件、计算机、机电和系统工程等核心课程；由一流研究人员和行业专家组成的多学科团队的指导；参与世界级研究；基于实践性演示的培训；以及量身定做的行业实习。精英实习生将获得两个应用领域的专业和技术知识，这两个领域是加拿大高科技领先的关键：汽车和航空航天系统。

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.