Budget
£1.8 million
Project status
In progress
Duration
1 Dec 2017 to 31 Aug 2023
£1.8 million
In progress
1 Dec 2017 to 31 Aug 2023
Our TREND (TRansdisciplinary ENgineering Design) research group is a five-year project funded under the EPSRC theme, Manufacturing the Future.
With the £1.8m grant, we aim to fundamentally change how 21st century products are designed. We'll provide design engineers with a toolkit of models and processes to support the rapid uptake of emerging technologies and enhancement of current technologies. Its use will span manufacturing sectors and their constituent disciplines such as:
Including tools, technologies and processes, the toolkit will be data driven so that it can continue to evolve. Our ultimate ambition is to design and validate a transdisciplinary engineering (TE) index. The index will allow industry to access their current TE state and the required level of disciplinarity. Through this toolkit, they will then be able to focus on moving towards transdisciplinary engineering.
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Academic and industrial partners we work with on this project.
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