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Dr Carmen Torres-Sanchez Deputy Director

What is Embedded Intelligence?

• Integration of intelligence into products, processes and

services

• So they work better
• To increase productivity, efficiency and connectivity
• Underpinned by diverse areas of expertise
• Engineering
• Information Management
• Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology
• Design and Manufacture
• Computer Science
• We have students from a wide range of backgrounds working

together

• Find out more in Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_intelligence

The EPSRC CDT in Embedded Intelligence

• Collaboration between Loughborough University

and Heriot Watt University

• 8 x schools, 45 supervisors
• Loughborough (lead)

– Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering – Design School – Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering – Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering – Centre for Information Management – School of Science

• Heriot-Watt

– Engineering and Physical Sciences – Mathematical & Computer Science

• 30+ industrial, research and learning partners

Edinburgh Loughborough London

The CDT Approach

• 4 year PhD programme
• Scholarship for UK and EU candidates
• Stipend: £17k (€23.3k) tax free (£23k/€31.5k

equivalent)

• Fees: Completely paid
• Integrates technical and personal development

training (Institute of Leadership & Management)

• Students are part of a cohort
• Peer to peer learning and support
• Multidisciplinary working

Our ‘T shaped’ Graduates

CDT-EI Graduate

PhD Research Technical Content The ‘Transition Zone’

• Focused technical depth

and expertise from PhD research

• Exceedingly competent

and conversant across the multiple disciplines that encompass EI

Our ‘T shaped’ Graduates

• Training will deliver effective members of

multidisciplinary teams, naturally collaborative and…

• Capable, comfortable and confident with:
• Leading multidisciplinary teams
• Negotiating and managing commercial and technical relationships

with clients

• Understanding of value of their intellectual capital and routes to

exploitation

• and, shall value and utilise their extensive network of peers and

collaborators and alumni.

Research in Embedded Intelligence

• This Centre address the challenges posed by technical needs

ranging from

• the design stage
• through manufacturing of embedded or on-bedded devices
• to software behind data collection
• as well as integrative technologies
• to finally the requirements from end-users
• Five Challenge areas form the technical

content

• Sixth area (Application Engineering)

serves as challenge convergence activity

• Applications to dictate the technology solution sets.
• Determine solution spaces for: sensor modalities;

communications; power; processors;

• Multi-variable design trade-off techniques (cost,

quality, time and effectiveness);

• Design of standard platforms of hardware and

software on an open-research basis

• Physical partitioning of functionality onto

components / chipsets

• Packaging for cost, size and compatibility;
• Assembly methodologies.
• Reliability and resilience
• Wafer level packaging
• Packaging materials
• Semantically model

relationships;

• Diagnostic and prognostics;
• Information infrastructures;
• Reliable, resilient integration;
• Layered ontologies, mapping

data

• Compatible source-target

semantics

• Semi-automated linking
• Bayesian networks
• Process consolidation
• Cradle-to-cradle:

remanufacturing, recycling and re-use

• Biomimetics and biomorphism,

mechanobiological fabrication

• EI in processes for Industry 4.0

features

• On-demand lifecycle service systems
• Specification, design and creation of

service system: (Foundations; Composition; Management and Monitoring; Design and Development)

• Service and lifecycle requirements

to support integration and co-

• peration of components and

services.

• Optimisation of the services for

efficiency across the lifecycle.

Cohort 1: September 2014

Find out more: www.cdt-ei.com/about/cohort-directory

Institution Name PhD Project Co-Sponsor Heriot-Watt Adrian Ayastuy- Rodriguez Smart Sensors for Detection of Lack of Appetite in Cattle Moredun Heriot-Watt Samantha Gunn Microwave Sensors for the Quality Control of Food Products Macphie Loughborough Arturo Martinez- Insua Rodriguez Real Time Monitoring of Oil Based Lubricants for Performance Characterisation capricorn Automotive Loughborough Dimitrios Pantazis M2M Wireless Intelligence HSSMI Loughborough Joe Holt Design and Manufacture of Functionally- tailored Multimaterial Structures with Embedded Intelligence FAR Composites UK Loughborough Pawel Ladosz Support Autonomous Operation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems with Computer Vision BAE/DSTL Loughborough Craig Fisher Embedded Intelligence in Data Visualisation LSC Loughborough Ian Park Coherent Measurement of Surface Geometry

• n a Large Scale

Taylor Hobson Loughborough Michael Johnson User Experience of Driving for the Future BMW Loughborough Mohamed Alrefaie Deploying Future Materials for Responsive Car Interiors BMW

The 4 Year Programme

• The “Transition” Zone: non-

technical training to facilitate the transition into the centre and the exit as an employable high value graduate

• Cohort-forming and personal

research roadmapping: with a “Foresight” module (specialist seminars) and a Reading Club

• Industry-led projects and on-

demand industry training packages: group and individual projects with our core industry partners and personalised on- the-floor training activities

• Technical Foundation: core and

elective modules to make a cohort conversant on all aspects

• f embedded intelligence

Year 1 Introduction to centre and ‘Transition School’

Semester 1

Heriot-Watt

3 x core modules Group project 1

Semester 2

Loughborough

3 x core modules Group project 2 Individual project PhD proposal

Semester 3

University or company

3 x core modules Group project 2 Individual project PhD proposal

Leadership Enterprise and entrepreneurship Personal business model Foresight seminars and reading club Annual appraisal

Year 2

Semester 1-3 Host University and Sponsor Company PhD research 3 optional modules Annual appraisal

Year 3

Semester 1-3 Host University and Sponsor Company PhD research Annual appraisal

Year 4

Semester 1-3 Host University and Sponsor Company PhD research Viva

Careers, employability

The PhD Research

• PhD research starts on day 1
• Year 1: PhD topic is refined in

collaboration with Industry co- sponsor and academic supervisory team

• Years 2 to 4: PhD research in

progress with regular contact with Industry co-sponsor and academic supervisory team

• Student works at University

and/or company PhD

HOW TO APPLY Interested?...

How to Apply

• Applications welcome to specific projects or

general applications

• For general applications, your PhD project will be

allocated during the interview process

• List of projects currently recruiting on website
• www.cdt-ei.com/apply-now
• Apply via Loughborough Online Portal
• www.lboro.ac.uk/study/apply/research/

How to Apply

Step 1. Personal Details Step 2. Contact Details Step 3. Programme Type: ‘Research Programme’ Step 4. Programme Name: ‘CDT Embedded Intelligence MME (full time)’

How to Apply

• Select CDT-EI MME

here

• and from drop-down

list here

• Details of your

research interests or project reference can be entered here

Required Documents

• 2 references
• CV for industry co-sponsors to review
• Example of written work in English
• Exam transcripts
• Personal statement
• More Information about the application

process here:

http://www.cdt-ei.com/applying-to-loughborough- university

English Language Requirements

• Previous study in UK for at least 1 year OR
• Test taken within the last 2 years

More Information about English language minimum scores: www.lboro.ac.uk/international/englang/

Qualification Minimum Score/Grade UCLES Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) C UCLES Certificate in Advanced English (CAE) B Cambridge English Language syllabus 1119 C GCSE English Language or O Level C International GCSE English (IGCSE) / Level 2 Certificate in English as a First Language C IELTS Academic Test (some Schools /Departments have higher requirements)

• verall 6.5 with not less than 6.0 in the individual

Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking tests International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB): English Standard Level (SL) 4

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