- The University of Sheffield has been awarded a share of the UK's biggest-ever investment in engineering doctoral skills to train the next generation of engineers, highly skilled in digital manufacturing
- Digital technologies are recognised as a key productivity enabler, but significant challenges are preventing them being fully integrated into UK manufacturing and economy
- A new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) at Sheffield will work closely with industry to produce engineers highly skilled in areas of industrial need
- Sheffield is also partnering in nine new CDTs addressing key challenges in areas of national importance, including energy, infrastructure, materials, manufacturing assembly and machining, medicines and semiconductors
Engineers with high quality skills in digital manufacturing - key to boosting UK productivity - are set to be trained by the University of Sheffield.
As part of the UK's biggest-ever investment in engineering and physical sciences doctoral skills, totalling more than £1 billion, announced by Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan, the University of Sheffield has been awarded funding to establish a new Centre for Doctoral Training, which will help students develop skills that are crucial for the future of UK manufacturing.
It will be led by Sheffield's Faculty of Engineering, already home to one of the largest cohorts of undergraduate engineering and computer science students in the UK. Also working alongside the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), a network of world-leading research and innovation centres that works with advanced manufacturing companies throughout the UK and around the globe. The new CDT will produce the next generation of engineers with the digital skills needed to boost UK manufacturing.
