Programme
The Engineering Doctorate programme trains individuals who can not only innovate, but also implement that innovation. We refer to students on the programme as Research Engineers (RE). The four-year research programme leads to an EngD which is equivalent in research standing to a PhD. The EngD has additional the objective of training REs who can apply their research in innovative industries.
The programme combines taught course work in technical and business topics with a significant industry-focused research project, in collaboration with a sponsoring partner. REs split their time between the sponsoring organisation and UCL.
The EngD is open to graduates in any branch of architecture and engineering (or other relevant discipline), provided that they are articultate, well qualified and highly motivated.
The programme supports REs in a studentship mode, but it also supports current employees from industrial organisations seeking to enhance their R&D capabilities. This offers companies, including small, medium and large enterprises, a way to further research and development, while retaining highly sought after staff who wish to continue ther professional development.
The EngD Centre is embedded into a large and flourishing programme of doctoral research characterised by much existing interdepartmental collaboration and cross fertilisation, together with a close collaboration with industry over many years.
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Centre Vision
The vision of the EngD VEIV is to become a world-leading centre for the training of engineers who can exploit graphics & imaging technologies. We aim to create a cohort of engineers who have a broad experience of the fields which develop or exploit graphics and imaging technologies; as well as having made a novel contribution to a specific field through their doctorate. Graphics & imaging technologies have very significant impact across a range of disciplines and there are a number of core skills, such as design process, programming or modelling, and critical evaluation, that all engineers will either have to employ, or work closely with people who employ. A centre is thus needed to provide a way of introducing REs to different ways of thinking and to foster a community where ideas from different fields can cross-fertilise. It also provides critical mass for the required specialist core skills training.
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The Engineering Doctorate Centre in Virtual Environments, Imaging and Visualisation (EngD VEIV), was founded in 2001 following a successful bid to an EPSRC call for new EngD centres. Our EngD programme addresses the cross-disciplinary field of visual engineering. The current EngD VEIV programme has been very successful in generating brand recognition with industrial partners and in supporting a cohort amongst Research Engineers (REs) as our students are known. It has been recognised by the EPSRC as a centre of excellence in technology transfer, evidenced through its selection by the EPSRC for presentation to the International Review of Information & Communication Technologies in 2006. It was described as an excellent centre in the EPSRC’s 2007 review of the existing EngD Centres.
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