Deploying the Next Generation of Landing Gear for Energy Efficient Aircraft at Centennial College

航空航天工业对加拿大至关重要。2015年，它为经济贡献了超过21.1万个增值就业岗位。加拿大航空制造业的研发密集度是制造业平均水平的5倍以上。在全球范围内，40%的商业客机使用安大略省制造的起落架。即便如此，该行业仍面临挑战，包括：(A)开发创新技术；(B)克服技术采用的障碍；(C)培训劳动力以支持增长。为了帮助安大略省的航空航天行业，我们建议的研究计划使用行业主导的供应链模式来开发下一代起落架技术，重点是主要在加拿大制造的喷气式飞机。庞巴迪航空航天公司、赛峰着陆系统公司和较低级别的中小型公司将共同创新，以减少技术采用的障碍。他们拥有符合全球法规并将随后的技术商业化的经验、专业知识、设施、关系和认证。在省级和联邦政府的支持下，我们学院还在多伦多的唐斯维尤公园(Downsview Park)建造了一个7000万美元的航空航天园区，这里曾是德哈维兰的工厂。该校区于2018年秋季开业，将使我们航空和航空航天培训计划目前的能力增加两倍，以应对行业劳动力的增长和预期的退休。我们的研究计划将为500多名学生提供直接的体验式学习。数十名面临障碍的第一代学习者和学生将获得新技能，成为高素质的专业人员，为在创新密集型行业的高质量、先进制造业职业生涯做好准备。它将创建唯一可公开访问的起落架创新实验室，这对加拿大来说是一个竞争优势。通过将电气化、轻量化和附加制造结合在一起，下一代起落架将减少碳足迹。我们的建议与政府、行业和大学的优先事项相交。它利用现有的投资和我们有影响力的记录来加速行业主导的创新，同时造福社会和我们的星球。

The aerospace industry is vital to Canada. It contributed more than 211,000 value-added jobs to the economy in2015. Canadian aerospace manufacturing was over 5X as R&D-intensive as the manufacturing sector average.Worldwide, 40% of all commercial airliners deploy landing gears made in Ontario. Even so, the industry faceschallenges including: (a) developing innovative technologies; (b) overcoming barriers to technology uptake;and (c) training the workforce to support growth. To help Ontario's aerospace industry, our proposed researchprogram uses an industry-led supply chain model to develop next generation landing gear technologies focusedon jets primarily made in Canada. Bombardier Aerospace, Safran Landing Systems, and lower tiersmall/medium-sized firms will co-innovate to reduce barriers to technology uptake. They have the experience,expertise, facilities, relationships, and certifications to meet regulations globally and commercialize ensuingtechnology. Backed by provincial and federal governments, our College is also building a $70M aerospacecampus at Toronto's Downsview Park, the former de Havilland factory. When open in Fall 2018, this campuswill triple the current capacity of our aviation and aerospace training programs to address industry workforcegrowth and anticipated retirements. Our research program will provide direct experiential learning to more than500 students. Dozens of first-generation learners and students facing barriers will acquire new skills to becomehighly qualified professionals ready for high quality, advanced manufacturing careers in aninnovation-intensive industry. It will create the only publicly-accessible Landing Gear Innovation Laboratory, acompetitive advantage to Canada. By incorporating electrification, light-weighting, and additivemanufacturing, the next generation landing gear will reduce carbon footprints. Our proposal intersects withgovernment, industry, and college priorities. It leverages existing investments and our impactful record toaccelerate industry-led innovation while benefiting society and our planet.