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Visiting Professors' Schemes
This industry into academia
technology transfer initiative is based on the
experience-led education concept, whereby senior
industrial engineers are appointed as Visiting
Professors at specific universities to enrich the
engineering undergraduate curriculum with the latest
industrial technology and practices to enhance the
quality and capabilities of UK engineering
graduates.
Seven schemes have been run to
date, all of which have focused on promoting a
particular aspect of engineering design, the
fundamental discipline which underpins the wealth
creating potential of all engineering innovations,
these are:
Visiting Professors' Schemes Events
The Academy holds regular
workshops and conferences for those participating in its VP
schemes. The purpose is to publicly engage both VPs
and their academic contacts for a variety of
purposes such as debating issues that might impinge
on the schemes or where they can add value to the
formulation of policy or the outcome of a specific
Academy project.
The Sustainable Development VP
scheme held separate
annual events from 2000 - 2005. These can be accessed here.
Visiting Professors' Publications
The Academy has published six
reports to date to support these schemes, the most
recent in April 2012. Educating engineers to drive
the innovation economy makes the case that
innovation should not be regarded as an
extra-curricular activity, but instead become a
major part of the curriculum equipping students with
the knowhow and mind-set to deliver step changes in
addressing the grand challenges that humankind faces
in the 21st century.
In January 2010 we published
Engineering a low carbon built environment, which
introduced the discipline of Building Engineering
Physics and the pivotal role it has in reducing
carbon emissions to achieve the proposed carbon
neutral position for buildings by 2020 and the more
challenging 2050 targets.
In June 2007 we published
Creating Systems that Work. This lays down six
simple principles covering the design of any
integrated system. It is intended as a guide for
educators, students and practising engineers, and
sets out to demystify the design of complex
projects.
In September 2005 we issued twelve principles
for Sustainable Development
to guide practising engineers, illustrated by seven
wide ranging case studies.
In February 2005 a separate report summarised lessons learned from 12 years experience
of the VP scheme and contains case studies from ten
universities.
An earlier publication is an
exposition on "Principles of Engineering Design"
illustrated by four case studies.
Poster Competition
Between 2005 and 2008 the Academy
ran
a national student design competition to support the
work of its Visiting Professors and promote the
concept and benefits of such competitions in UK
universities. Click the links below
to view the winning posters.
Scheme manager: Dr Mark Bambury
[E-mail Dr Mark Bambury]
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