AEngD is launched

The inaugural meeting of the AEngD steering committee, held on 17 November 2010, laid out ambitious aims to support the UK engineering research community.

(18 November 2010) On 17th November the Steering Committee for the Association of Engineering Doctorates (AEngD), held its inaugural meeting. This national Association establishes a community of Engineering Doctorate providers (initially the 19 EPSRC-funded Industrial Doctorate Centres, IDCs) with aims:

• to promote interdisciplinary collaboration
• to communicate excellence and innovation
• to give leadership to the EngD brand
• to uphold best practices across IDCs, and
• to support knowledge transfer.

 
The Committee, chaired by Prof. Patrick Godfrey, one of three EPSRC industrial advocates and director of the IDC in Systems (Bristol and Bath), identified the AEngD's immediate key objectives:

• to build and promote the EngD brand – across industry, academia, professional institutions and among prospective Research Engineers
• to promote EngD programmes.

The launch of the AEngD will be marked in 2012 with a two-day Conference for research engineers across all IDCs, prominent EngD alumni, and UK industry and academic leaders.

Steering Group members are:

• Patrick Godfrey (Chair - Bristol)
• Chris France (Industrial Advocate - Surrey)
• William Powrie (Industrial Advocate - Southampton)
• James Fleming (EPSRC)
• Jo Ennis (Newcastle)
• Nora de Leeuw (UCL)
• Jenny Berger (Reading)
• Steven Yeomans (Loughborough)
• Oksana Kasuytich (Secretary – Bristol)
• Paul Jeffrey (Cranfield)
• Lucia Elghali (Surrey)
• Andrew Clarke (Manchester)
• Noelle Hartley (Surrey), and
• Andrew Harvey (Edinburgh)