Model-Based Systems Engineering
Increasing UK capability and capacity in the sustainable and inclusive design and integration of complex technical systems.
The adoption of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is revolutionising industries that manage large, complex systems.
However, further research is required to implement MBSE approaches in increasingly multifaceted problem contexts, and in a wider variety of industrial sectors.
Furthermore, there is a critical shortage of specialised high-level skills required to spearhead organisational adoption of MBSE.
Along with many advanced economies, the UK currently faces a significant deficit of Systems Engineers across industrial sectors. As socio-technical systems grow more interconnected and complex, Systems Engineering competencies are becoming increasingly critical.
Our industrial and public sponsors of this Centre for Doctoral Training have highlighted the challenges in recruiting these skills and the urgency of addressing this significant and widening skills gap.
We take a consortium-based approach through which partners benefit from cross-sector knowledge exchange and through which we collaboratively create a cohort of Systems Engineering leaders to network across industrial domains with the ability to lead future advancement of digital and model-based engineering.
Our doctoral graduates will possess both the holistic thinking abilities to approach complex problems systemically and the engineering prowess to systematically formulate solutions to the problems of today and the complex - as yet unimagined - challenges of the future. To support their research, we plan to offer an enhanced stipend.
