Annual Report 2016/17
Welcome from the Directors Welcome to the 2017 Annual Report from the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Embedded Intelligence. The 2016/17 academic year started with us welcoming our largest cohort intake to date, including students from the School of Science at Loughborough University. This has grown our consortium of industrial co-sponsors and brought in complimentary expertise strengthening the multidisciplinary nature of our research. We were delighted to receive the positive feedback from EPSRC on our mid-term report, scoring a ‘good without interview’, which was the highest possible. In the past year many of our researchers have taken the opportunity to travel and participate in secondments, summer schools and presenting their work at conferences. We have featured some of these activities in this report in addition to the highlights of our Centres activity such as Robots at the Movies night and Summer School held in conjunction with the EPSRC Digital Economy CDT Network. We want to thank all of our students, supervisors, staff and industrial sponsors for the on-going growth and success of our CDT and look forward to working together this coming year.
Prof Paul Conway Director
Dr Carmen Torres-Sanchez Co-Director
Dr Keith Brown Co-Director
Dr David Flynn Co-Director
Contents Welcome …………………………………………….. 1 Our story so far …………………………………………….. 3 This year at a glance …………………………………………….. 5 Cohort 3 hall of fame …………………………………………….. 7 Induction week report …………………………………………….. 9 Group Project Case Study …………………………………………….. 10 Colloquium and EI Seminar …………………………………………….. 11 Conference reports …………………………………………….. 12 UK Robotics Week …………………………………………….. 17 Summer School …………………………………………….. 18 PhD Spotlight …………………………………………….. 21 ILM Qualifications …………………………………………….. 23 Looking to 2018 …………………………………………….. 24 Collaborate with us …………………………………………….. 25
Our Story so Far….. CDT-EI Launched on 1st April 2014
Additional funding from Universities and Industry totalling £13.3 M
40+
38%
National and International companies sponsoring research
SMEs in our Industrial consortium
£3.5 M From the UK’s largest investment in postgraduate research training in engineering, ICT and physical sciences
To train highly employable graduates in our technical themes and commercial awareness to face the challenges of 21st century industry
48% Students with prior Industrial experience
74% Students with a 1st Class honours degree
Sectors we work with
Transport Systems and Vehicles
Communications
Construction
Healthcare
Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology
Information Technology
Aerospace Defence and Marine
Food and Drink
Electronics
Manufacturing
Chemicals
Energy
EI requires the use of sensors, communications and processing that are embedded into the product, process or service in order to meet specific objectives. As such, the embodiment of EI depends on a multidisciplinary approach for successful implementation
Jan ❖ Orientation Day Dec ❖ ILM Innovation and Change Module
Foresight Seminar Series ❖ Gordon Burrows, SPEN ❖ John Perry, Denchi Power ❖ Tom Pickering, INEOS
Sept ❖ Welcome Cohort 3 ❖ Transition week at The Burn ❖ ILM workshop
Nov ❖ Colloquium ❖ Site visits
The year at a Glance Foresight Seminar Series ❖ Martin Croft, Dynamic Flow Technologies ❖ Steve Lockwood, IBM ❖ Dr Heinz Lugo, Loughborough University ❖ Prof Ray Dawson, Loughborough University ❖ Prof Martin Goosey, MTG Associates ❖ Chloe Agg, Cundall ❖ Dr Pedro Ferreira, Loughborough University
Apr ❖ Coaching for Leadership Course
Mar ❖ ILM Enterprise Awareness Module
May ❖ Managing industrial stakeholders course Jun ❖ UK Robotics Week
Jul ❖ Summer School in association with DEN
Aug ❖ Era of EI Seminar
Introducing Cohort 3 Chris Miles
Christos Kouppas
Darius Roman
Co-sponsor Solvay
Co-sponsor Motion Robotics Ltd
Co-sponsor Baker Hughes
Real Time Data Monitoring for Flame Retardant Detection on Textiles
Bi-Pedal Robots whose limbs can be moved at high speed designed with Motion Robotics Flexmotor actuator
Joel Earps
Jorge Garcia Armenta
Co-sponsor Ford
Co-sponsor NPL and Epigem
The Design of an adaptive, personalised and integrated next generation ebike
Synthetic Aperture Interferometry
Robin Hamer
Ross Dickie
Co-sponsor EDF
Co-sponsor Mactaggart Scott
Safety II in the Nuclear Industry
Fusion Prognostics for Predicting the Remaining Useful Life of Maritime Assets
Modelling of critical assets and Fusion Prognostics for Predicting the Remaining Useful Life of the Drill String Lorenzo Stilo Co-sponsor Ford Development of a new generation eBike
Wen Gu Co-sponsor DETC Distributed hybrid vehicle embedded controller
Introducing Cohort 3 David Spendlove
Gergely Hantos
Co-sponsor Rolls Royce
Co-sponsor Cirrus Logic
MBSE with formally specified QoS attributes in Embedded Real-time Systems
Embedded Intelligence for Self-Test of a MEMS microphone
Marcus Pollard
Matthew Hammond
Co-sponsor Izon Science
Co-sponsor EffecTech Ltd
Responsive Porous Materials for detection of analytes
Improving methods and efficiency for the production, use and measurement of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
Youssef Hamid
Zhao Gao
Co-sponsor GE Druck
Co-sponsor Arm
Embedded & Intelligent Pressure Sensing Applications
Content Aware, Environmentally Adaptive, Intelligent, Ultra High Definition Video Creation from High Definition Video
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The Focus
Grounding: building strategies, roles, resilience and confidence as an academic and business professional Working with others: the art of collaboration and communication skills within academic and industrial teams
Managing stakeholders: communicating and responding to all those who have a stake in students’ doctorates and future careers Connecting to a purpose: building a strong brand and mission to take you through the rough and smooth over the next 4 years
Transition Week at The Burn September 2016
Group Project Showcase
The Project HARTING Ltd is the UK subsidiary of the German parent company manufacturing connectivity and networks products and integrating them into total solutions that address the application needs of a range of key industrial markets e.g. Automation, Machinery & Robotics, Transportation and Energy.
HARTING envisages making Industry 4.0 more accessible to small medium enterprises (SMEs) and as SMEs make up 99% of all business in the UK, there is clearly a gap in the market waiting to be developed. This could be achieved by an easily configurable, flexible system which is cost effective, quick and simple to set up and tailor to each individual business’s needs compared to the current specialised systems. In 2015 HARTING launched an innovative new product – “MICA” (Modular Industrial Computing Architecture) open-source edge computing device. HARTING asked the CDT-EI to investigate the potential applications of their MICA product from a technical and usability standpoint.
The Challenge Over the course of four months the group carried out experimental work to assess the usability of the system provided by HARTING, and conducted an in-depth literature review in order to identify a number of new application areas for MICA. One application area was selected to take forward and the team conducted a comprehensive feasibility study, which included a market review and further experimental work.
Industrial Partner HARTING Ltd CDT-EI Expertise Wen Gu Robin Hamer Marcus Pollard Gajarajan Sivayogan
The Outcome The team provided HARTING with recommendations to improve the user experience of the MICA system and conducted a feasibility study for the incorporation of an Urban Traffic Management System (UTMS). This would aim to automatically and autonomously relieve congestion and use the Internet of Things (IoT) to create a smart road network. Since the project concluded HARTING have advanced the application ideas proposed by the students and will be publicising them in the near future.
“We were very impressed with the standard and scope of the work produced. The team have demonstrated understanding by suggesting pertinent and novel ideas. We were particularly impressed with the students approach to problem solving” Gavin Stoppel, HARTING Ltd
Industry site visits and Colloquium We would like to thank ST Microelectronics and Cirrus Logic for inviting us to their facilities in Edinburgh. Following the tours and presentations, representatives from companies then attended our first Colloquium, which was hosted by HeriotWatt University. The Colloquium allowed attendees to hear from our students about their PhD research and the day concluded with a poster session showcasing the group project work our researchers conduct during the first year of study. Martin Goosey (Advisory Board Chair) chaired the presentations and we were delighted to have Alun Morgan, the current Chairperson of EIPC, deliver the keynote address. Alun's presentation focussed on the automotive industry and the development of electronics past, present and future. Attended by CDT-EI researchers, academics and representatives from our industrial partners the day successfully provided an opportunity for attendees to hear about the research being conducted in our Centre and to make new contacts.
Embedded Intelligence supporting resilient and sustainable systems, organisations, networks and societies The sell-out seminar, with attendees from industry, academia, government and funding agencies, focused on three primary themes of embedded intelligence; Supporting Critical Infrastructure, Advanced Products and Systems, and People. CDT-EI Director, Dr David Flynn chaired the event and emphasised that "Embedded Intelligence is all about putting people first. Furthermore, the time has come for a transformative change to how we support access to education and wealth creation. With the examples given today, it’s clear we have the ability to up-skill communities that need our support the most, and to embed innovation within communities where wealth creation and education can have the biggest impact. With sectors vulnerable to the advances in robotics and automation we have a responsibility as a community of industrialists, academics and government representatives to support our society for the challenges we know that we will face."
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Experiences in South Korea From January to March 2017 Cohort 1 researcher Pawel Ladosz worked at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea. The opportunity came about as one of his PhD supervisors relocated to UNIST and proposed that Pawel join his new research group and continue the collaborative work and relationship that had been established at Loughborough. During his 3 month research placement Pawel was able to continue his PhD work with added bonus of access to new state of the art facilities and new expertise.
Visit cdt-ei.com for full articles European Space Agency (ESA) Academy Cohort 3 researcher Darius Roman was been selected as one of 44 engineers to attend the Concurrent Engineering Workshop at the European Space Agency (ESA) Academy Training and Learning Centre in Redu, Belgium. The goal of the workshop was to create a subsystem concept in order to later achieve an already identified mission concept using concurrent engineering strategies. Concurrent engineering is a modern approach to design, where different design stages run simultaneously decreasing product development time and time to market, reducing costs as well as improving productivity. The method heavily relies on communicating interdependencies between subsystems, hence solutions in one area can impact the design in another. As part of his PhD research Darius aims to identify interdependencies between subsystems through the fusion of data models and physics based models, hence the interest in concurrent engineering design. By understanding the design process, better prognostics capabilities can be incorporated within the system in order to predict the reaming useful life. His current research is applied to Oil and Gas drilling equipment, but similarities of the two industries such as their operation in harsh and inaccessible environments on tight budgets as well as expected level of functionality for extended periods of time implies that both industries can potentially benefit from enhanced prognostics capabilities.
Living Machines Conference 2017 The 6th international conference biomimetic and biohybrid systems, called 'Living Machines', was held this year at Stanford University in California. Christos Kouppas (cohort 3) and Ruben Kruiper (cohort 2) attended to present their work on bio-inspired robotics and computer-aided biomimetics respectively. The conference started with several workshops on the 25th of July, addressing topics such as unmanned aerial vehicles and simulating evolution-and-development mechanisms. The conference was held over 3 days and finished with several lab-visits at the University of California, Berkeley. During the conference Christos presented work on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in a 20 minutes oral presentation. Christos had create a novel sensor for airflow around UAVs and he designed a feedforward-feedback controller to demonstrate the performance capabilities of the sensor. The full paper can be found on ResearchGate. Ruben presented a poster on Computer-Aided Biomimetics - the use of computational tools in support of bio-inspired design. Such tools aim to support the identification and selection of biological information that is relevant to an engineering problem, as well as helping to understand and transfer biological information to an engineering context. The paper and poster can be found on ResearchGate.
European Safety & Reliability Conference (ESREL) The European Safety & Reliability Conference took place in June 2017 in PortoroĹž, Slovenia. This conference focusses on a wide variety of topics related to safety and reliability. In its 27th iteration this conference attracted many academic and industry delegates from around the world, including numerous delegates from outside the European Union. The conference was attended by Darius Roman and Ross Dickie from Cohort 3 who presented their paper entitled “A Review of the Role of Prognostics in Predicting the Remaining Useful Life of Assets". This is a paper which highlights case studies from their field of Prognostics and Health Management and illustrates the distinctions between data-driven and model-based prognostics and discusses the blending of these approaches through so-called fusion prognostic methods. Their work uses the case studies to highlight features of these distinct prognostic methods. The work was presented in the afternoon of the first day of the conference as the first presentation in the afternoon parallel session “Prognostics & Health Management 2", as a review paper this provided a good framing and context for the work subsequent presentations within the session.
14th International Conference on Manufacturing Research Cohort 1 researchers Dimitris Pantazis and Adrian Ayastuy Rodriguez attended the 14th International Conference on Manufacturing Research where they had the opportunity to present their paper entitled “An application of autoregressive hidden Markov models for identifying machine operations”. The paper introduces a novel application area for a well-proven machine learning algorithm, aiming at intelligent monitoring of energy consumption of production machines. The proposed method will facilitate the rescheduling of production operations with reduced energy waste and can result in significant electricity cost savings for the industry. This work is part of a bigger picture project undertaken by the Intelligent Systems research group, following the European Union 2020 directives to improve the energy efficiency by 20% and reduce greenhouse gases by the same percentage, compared to the 1990 levels. The group also participated with two more papers in the conference, outlining their work on component traceability under the aspect of the upcoming Industrie 4.0. Our researchers’ work was presented under the thematic area of advanced manufacturing technology, while researchers from leading universities and research institutes from all over the country presented advances in a range of topics such as additive manufacturing, product design and manufacturing materials. Being UK’s main manufacturing research conference for over 30 years, ICMR 2016 was a great opportunity for networking and forming of cross-disciplinary collaborations.
6th World Tribology Conference & International Conference for Advance Vehicle Powertrains Cohort 2 researchers Jamal Umer and Gajarajan Sivayogan were invited to present their research at the 6th World Tribology Conference (WTC) in Beijing. Jamal, presented his work on the friction optimization in internal combustion engines and Gajarajan, presented his work on hypoid gears. The Automotive industry are highly keen on this as it can aid in reducing NVH issues, increase durability and ultimately increase efficiency. Following WTC, Gajarajan travelled to the International Conference for Advance Vehicle Powertrains (ICAVP) held in Hangzhou, China where he presented his collaborated work on Lubricated Loaded Tooth Contact Analysis (LLTCA).
Women in Machine Learning RE.WORK, a strong advocate for supporting female entrepreneurs and women working towards advancing technology and science, organised an evening dinner event of discussions and networking around the progress and application of machine intelligence within healthcare. Cohort 3 researcher Zhao Gao (left in picture) was honoured to be one of the 50 attendees given the chance to openly discuss emerging and advancing techniques with leading academics, industry experts and entrepreneurs. Speakers gave insightful presentations about the new trends and ideas around the Machine Learning in health including Dr Kathy Goetz, IBM Watson Health, on “The future of Healthcare is cognitive.” Dr Alice Gao, Deep Genomics, shared her work about “developing a scalable workflow for training molecular phenotype models.” and Dr Razia Ahamed, Google DeepMind, gave a speech about “Getting support for new ways of delivering healthcare.”
Connected & Autonomous Vehicle Hackathon Organised by the Transport Systems Catapult (TSC) IMCreate 2017 Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) Hackathon brought together data scientists, coders, business thinker, designer and engineers to create the future of mobility. Each team had 26 hours to tackle one of the five challenges before presenting at to a panel of judges and the other competitors. Cohort 2 researcher Rhys Comissiong formed team ROSteK with his PhD supervisor, Dr Thomas Steffen, and colleagues from De Montfort University and University of Northampton. They took on the challenge of building a CAV simulation and were provided with data, equipment (including a driving simulator and an Omnideck virtual reality simulator) and expert mentoring. Efforts of working continuously through the night were rewarded as the team were declared winners of the weekend and invited to present their idea at the showcase finale at the London Transport Museum.
Women ‘s Engineering Society (WES) ‘Men as Allies Award’ 2017 We are delighted to congratulate Loughborough University academic and CDT-EI supervisor, Dr Will Whittow, on wining the inaugural Men As Allies Award at The Women's Engineering Society (WES) Awards 2017. The award, which was new for 2017, seeks to celebrate a male engineer or professional male working within the sector who has gone above and beyond the call of duty to support female colleagues, and address the gender imbalance within engineering and applied sciences. On receiving the award Will has said "I'm genuinely honoured to win this inaugural award. There are many amazing people who work tirelessly to promote STEM and Women in Engineering. We need to work together to change public perceptions. Engineering is millions of well paid jobs and covers incredibly diverse topics demonstrated by the PhD opportunities at Lboro! We need diversity of people to continue to innovate. My 1st PhD student won the Sir Robert Martin Prize for the Best Loughborough Student. If she can do it so can you."
Inaugural LSU Postgrad Awards In June, Loughborough’s Student’s Union (LSU) hosted the first Postgraduate Awards evening. The event celebrated the achievements and successes that contribute to the postgraduate experience and included awards for the postgraduate event of the year, contribution to knowledge, and supervisory team of the year. Nominations were put forward by postgraduate research students and we are delighted that our Centre Manager, Dr Donna Palmer, was not only nominated for “Contribution to Student Development” she also won! #keepcalmaskdonna
“I am really flattered the researchers took the time to nominate me for a postgrad award. I love being a part of the CDT-EI and playing my part in their PhD journeys”
Live recording Robots at the movies by Alan Seaman available on request Search CDT-EI on YouTube to hear BBC Radio interviews about this event
UK Robotics Week took place from 24 to 30th June Nationwide programme of events and activities for all CDT-EI celebrated by holding a public lecture by film expert and stand-up comedian Alan Seaman
“Robots At The Movies: The portrayal of robots and androids in contemporary films�
Search CDT-EI on YouTube to watch #SSEI17 film
Hosted by Loughborough University London
We were delighted to host the Digital Economy’s 2017 Summer School at our London Campus in July. The theme for this year was “Innovation insights for the digital workforce of tomorrow” and held over three days, focused on three stages of project interaction starting with learn with seminars, do with workshops and practise with practical’s (details on the next page). Around 75 students from a wide variety of the DEN CDTs attended including, My Life in Data (Horizon), Cloud Computing, Digital Civics, Intelligent Games & Game Intelligence, Media and Arts Technology, Web Science and HighWire as well as having representation from Cyber Security at Royal Holloway. It was great to see everyone instantly getting along and really immersing themselves in their sessions. There was such a variety going on from panels, speed networking, playing with Lego (we promise there were learning outcomes from this!), producing films, improving their social media presence, practising their elevator pitch and creating posters. Everyone definitely left the Summer School with new knowledge and a new skill. The “Aligning skills to jobs for the digital future of the knowledge society” Plenary session saw the audience discuss with panellists about the challenges ahead for Higher Education graduates and for companies who seek their talents to maintain a competitive edge in the global markets. Chaired by Dr Steven Barr (The Manufacturer) the panel had representative from academia, industry and Research Councils UK. With the Olympic Park at our fingertips, some of the students and staff took advantage of our location and were brave enough to slide down the ArcelorMittal Orbit (we can highly recommend it!). Evening events had great views of London skyline, inventions of new drinks, ping-pong tournaments and great entertainment.
Day 1: LEARN
Robots For All: First hands-on experience with simple Lego® Robots
Lego®, cybersecurity and other animals
Computational Thinking
Day 2: Do
Using film to tell the story of your research: best practice for creating professional video content
The Beautiful Science of Data Visualisation
Build to understand
Day 3: PRACTISE
Elevator pitch your PhD in One Minute
Making an impact with posters
Using Social Media as a PhD Researcher: How to present your academic self online
We would like to thank the EPSRC Digital Economy CDT Network for their support and guidance, Loughborough London for letting us takeover their space and all our panellists, guests and attendees for making it such a memorable and fun Summer School. You can view the tweets from the Summer School using #SSEI17. Our friends at Tableu (who ran a workshop on “The beautiful science of data visualisation”) have prepared a data analysis on the event’s hashtag, which can be by clicking the image on the right.
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PhD Spotlight Adrián Ayastuy Rodriguez
Adrián joined the CDT in Embedded Intelligence at Heriot-Watt University in 2014 after completing a BEng in Industrial Engineering from the University of Seville. During his BEng he specialised in automation and robotics, and electronics. In his first year of the CDT-EI programme Adrián spent time at both partner institutions completing group projects for Siemens and Diamond Microwave and attending training courses including advanced packaging and integration, bioinspired computing, embedded software development and sensors and actuators. What is the aim of your research? “I am looking to create new tools and systems for monitoring health in the livestock industry. One of the main areas of interest for my co-sponsor is rumination and feeding patterns. They are a good indication of animal health so I have been looking at how these could be monitored in order to detect, and even predict, when an animal is going to get a disease. This would allow farmers to manage the health of their livestock more efficiency by informing them which animal needs treatment and when they must be treated. As well as improving animal welfare, it would have the wider impact of reducing costs caused by unexpected and infectious diseases. In the farm industry small companies started with the idea of monitoring livestock, large companies have since invested because they see the value in it and farmers are adopting new technology for farms. In general, I believe we will see a trend in all different industries (some quicker than others) towards monitoring, embedded decisions outside of the human loop.” What are you enjoying most about your PhD? “It is nice to see things working! I enjoy the process of developing the parts, having the theoretical plan and see the reward when you put all the pieces together e.g. animal data, sensors, algorithm….and they actually work as a whole and you can see how it can be improved.”
Working with Industry and Farmers “My co-sponsor, Moredun Research Institute, have been very helpful and involved in the project. They work with animals on a daily basis and research new drugs and diseases so they have excellent facilities and resources for testing my algorithm. I can compare data gathered from animals with or without disease as well as looking at data gathered throughout the infection cycle. They are continually gathering data from animals so I am able to collect the data and save it to be analysed at a later date. During the first few months of my PhD I organised a workshop with my supervisor and co-sponsor. The workshop was attended by farmers across Scotland and allowed me to find out what they are currently doing to monitor sheep’s health, what they thought was important to monitor to know when an animal is going to get a disease (what they first look for) and what they would like to have in a tool. Now that I am entering my final year I will organise another workshop to assess how what I have developed can be commercially put into practice. Most of the time I am based at the University working on the electronics and machine learning but I visit Moredun for meetings or to conduct experimental work. They have many other PhD students and arrange conferences and seminars for the students they sponsor.”
What has surprised you most about your research? “In my experimental work, I feel my failure rate is quite high, probably about 40%. Things happen and you do not know why; the battery or SD card loses data, power lose, connection loss, camera stops recording etc…. There are a lot of things that you have to take into account and sometimes experiments are not repeatable so you need to be persistent to keep trying to get the data. I have also learnt that as an engineer, you make a lot of assumptions about the industry or sector. In a farm environment most especially, working with animals, it is very difficult and you can get a surprise every time you try something. When you design a prototype you aim to make it robust and it fails because of something stupid. For example, in the beginning I attached a sensor to a collar with duct tape and found within two hours sensor on the floor because the animal did not like it. Another example is that when the animals drink the collar will go underwater so I needed to design a waterproof enclosure for electronics. After many trials of my ‘over engineered’ solutions, the simplest solution was the best.” Secondment Work “Last year I took a 3-month secondment to work with a US start-up company who wanted to develop sensors for disposable nappies. It was a challenging project not only because of the technological needs but also because the costs of the final product have to be very low, only 1 or 2 cent per sensor. There are lots companies interested in this area but current solutions are bulky and not disposable. Our design was completely inside nappy, disposable and cheaper. The parent would have a smart phone app to get the information from the sensors to inform of baby’s health. I enjoyed the piece of research and being exposed to a different engineering application area; another one I did not consider when starting PhD or engineering career. “
What are your plans for your final year? I expect to finish the experimental work in 3 months and then start to collate my research into my thesis chapters. One of the diseases Moredun are interested in is sheep scab, which is caused by a mite. I have conducted experiments to show how it can be detected by monitoring movement of the animal with accelerometers embedded on a collar worn by the sheep. I want to repeat these experiments as found it quite interesting. The change in the behaviour of the animal was so drastic. At the moment, I am gathering information with a microphone application to understand the digestive and feeding patterns. I have tested my algorithm with theoretical data, generated with mathematical models and it was what I expected. The next step is to test it with real data. Another area I would like to explore is adapting satellite tracking techniques to locate animals in the field using Bluetooth. I have tried different ways of locating animals in the field based on Bluetooth but it is difficult to do it. I have several ideas of how to get more precise location data but one option will be more costly. The costs and possibility of mass manufacture has always been a consideration for my research. I have tried to use known and available technology e.g. accelerometer, microprocessor, microphone similar to those in smart phones. I do not design things because they are cool or the state of the art, I consider how practical the solution is for the end use application.
A Novel Approach to Personal and Professional Development Unique to CDT-EI is the ‘Transition Zone Training’ programme, which has been independently accredited by the ILM, Europe’s foremost leadership and management training awarding body. The programme complements the technical skills acquired during the PhD and all CDT-EI students study for the Level 3 Award and Certificate in Leadership and Management, with the option to continue this up to Level 5. The Transition Zone programme aims to nurture the students’ professional skills through three core disciplines: - Leadership - Enterprise and entrepreneurship - Personal business model and career development This facilitates the move into PhD research and subsequent exit as an employable graduate with a broad set of professional skills.
Congratulations to those who have passed assignments David Czerski Gajarajan Sivayogan Jamal Umer Joe Holt Mohamed Taher Alrefaie Michael Johnson Pawel Ladosz Ruben Kruiper Tobias Reichold And our Centre Manager Donna Palmer
Looking Ahead to 2017/18 Sept ❖ Cohort 4 commence studies ❖ Transition week at The Burn ❖ ILM workshop
Sept 2017
Oct to Dec ❖ Cohort 4 undertake 1st group projects and taught modules
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Apr and May Transition Zone sessions ❖ How to use coaching for performance ❖ Working with industry partners
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Dec 2017 and Jan 2018 ❖ ILM modules ❖ Transition Zone session refreshing topics covered at The Burn as well as introduction of new topics for personal and professional development
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Feb to Apr ❖ Foresight Seminar Series ❖ Cohort 4 undertake 2nd group projects and taught modules
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Feb 2018
Annual Foresight Lecture Sept 2018 ❖ Cohort 5 commence studies
Summer School 2018
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All of our PhD projects are co-sponsored by industry. The programme includes studentcentric training supporting research and personal development, as well as industryinformed training and seminars.
The Programme
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4-year Industry co-sponsored PhD
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Tax-free enhanced stipend
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Full UK tuition fees covered
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Personal training allowance of ÂŁ10,000
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Student-centric, industry-informed training and seminars
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Industrial group projects supporting technical training in early years
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Accredited training with Institute of Leadership Management (ILM)
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Annual cohort activities and opportunities to attend international conferences
The CDT-EI programme is industry-driven and we work with a wide range of national and international companies. Through a wealth of technical, industrial and leadership training, we believe our PhD graduates will become the skilled professionals that you are seeking to take your organisation to the next level of competitiveness and innovation. Visit our website for more information about who already know us and are working with us: www.cdt-ei.com
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General Enquiries We are always looking to engage with industry. Please contact Dr Donna Palmer, our Centre Manager, to discuss partnership opportunities.
Dr Donna Palmer, CDT-EI Centre Manager 01509 227688
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