The first tranche of students into a new industrial doctorate centre focusing on offshore renewable energy engineering started in January.
Five students from a variety of engineering backgrounds have joined the Industrial Doctorate Centre in Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE) course, based out of Edinburgh.
The students include a naval architect, a marine engineer and a mechanical engineer. Some already have experience in the offshore energy sector.
Professor David Ingram, programme director, said they would all be involved in research programmes sponsored by a variety of companies from the sector, including Edinburgh-based Aquamarine Power, Narec at Blyth, Rolls Royce, the Energy Technologies Institute and EDF and E.on and would spend their summers working with the firms.
“Students will undertake industrially-based research projects hosted by the company,” said Prof Ingram. “Overall the students will work with the companies for three and half years on their research project, which is good for the companies and good for the student working for them.”
IDCORE is a partnership between the Universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde and Exeter together with the Scottish Association for Marine Science and HR-Wallingford.
It is aiming to attract EngD students into learning, in partnership with industry, which will help research outcomes that could accelerate the deployment of offshore wind, wave and tidal-current technologies.
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